Murder! Murder!

Game Master Vagabonds.

And here's where we talk about the muderin and bloodshed and sadness and such.

Hellooooo, happy to be here!

Greetings! :)

So, since we have the party picked out now, would it be a good time tonight talk about content preferences? Things like gore and sex can upset some players, so I wanted to get everyone's opinions about these, as well as anything else that can upset players.

Personally, sex and gore don't bother me. The Paizo boards will be on the tame side of places I have PBP'd, I expect. While I don't expect anything graphic sexually, we are chasing a serial killer. GM, what level of gore did you anticipate in this campaign? Are crime scenes ghastly nightmares that we will CSI through? Will it be more tame?

And on the subject of sex, I was expecting a party of males and females, but I am not opposed to any female-female romance. My character is currently attracted to one male, but love can bloom on the battlefield crime scene.

What is everyone else's feelings on the subject? And sorry if I am being blunt about something you are sensitive to. I want to clear the air now so nobody quits later.

I'm totally fine with (and encourage!) gore and sex.

I've had a few characters whose romantic/sexual sides I've been interested in exploring, but having other players who are interested in it is not always easy, so I haven't actually been able to do that before. So I could potentially be into that.

LOL ... I can imagine Vir, Einar, and Norman reading with interest as our discussion takes this turn. (C'mon, you guys know you're lurking!)

As for my character, Izzy will probably rebuff any romantic advances, but I have no problem with others RPing such relationships. (I would be uncomfortable if anything sexual was actually forced on Izzy directly, though.)

In terms of gore, I don't mind grizzly crime scene descriptions, although, again, I suppose I'd rather it not be Izzy's intestines getting described in great detail. :)

Well, I won't have any problems it looks like. Qat? GM? Any comments? Did I scare you off?

Reporting as requested. Thanks for including me.

I've no issues with content except that if there is sex and/or gore, it should proportional to and appropriate for an entertaining long-term adventure narrative. As with good literature, less is usually more when it comes to describing such things, since we all have good imaginations and can fill in the blanks.

I've already indicated that Qat was romantically involved with a female human, the one she is grieving, so that's obviously okay with me. Haven't determined her overall orientation for certain. I can leave that to the background, however, if it would upset anyone for that to be a front-center plot element.

Looking forward to getting started.

And sorry to be a little behind on noticing that the game had moved past the recruitment phase. I've not been checking the recruitment page much lately.

So what's next? I should be able to post every day although not always at the same time.

My schedule changes to night shift starting today, so my posts will mostly be in the morning (Eastern U.S. Time). Today I may not get a chance until late night.

It's been almost two weeks since the GM posted. How long before we file a missing GM report? I sent Vagabond a PM, hoping to elicit some response.

I checked Vagabond's various aliases and nothing has been posted since the end of March. He/she hasn't been posting that long, so perhaps he/she just realized how much work a campaign is, especially with every character and monster a potential gestalt. If so, he/she is just not being polite and letting us know.

The other possibility is serious calamity, making it impossible to post. In which case, we may never know.

Anyone care to run a campaign for these characters if the GM never returns or do we just retire undefeated?

Good idea. I'm still hoping this game will be a go.

I'm going to start thinking about plot ideas for this set-up and when I come up with something, if Vagabond hasn't resurfaced to advance this him/herself, I'll start a new thread for PBP and invite players with characters created to join if interested. I've not GMed PBP game yet, but I'm a participant in enough to have a good idea of what works. I've GMed a variety of campaigns in a variety of systems over the decades, so once I get some ideas, I'll let you all know.

If I do this, I'd like to run Qat as an NPC so she can take part in combat. I'll use her for advancing the plot if need be.

I do not plan on making every NPC a gestalt Bard type, partly because that will make it a lot more time consuming to create NPCs and partly because I don't think it necessary. The community will still have its tendency to break into song as in musicals, but I'm not sure I want to make that a central quality of every episode.

I'll probably extend the invitation to join to up to 5 or 6 players so some who did not make Vagabond's cut may get a second chance.

I'll post as I get ideas or make decisions, and if I decide not to go forward with this, I'll let you know here. I should have something to report by the end of this coming weekend.

In the meantime, if you'd be interested in participating, poast something here. Also if you're no longer interested in this idea, let me know.

I'd be game. :)

The same! :D

While mostly interest, I've been trying not to overbook myself gamewise too fast. I'm in 2 games, one at a multiple times a day pace, one 2-4 times a week pace, and the chef recruitment. (This is a major part of the reason I didn't volunteer myself) That said ... I put a lot of effort into Einar...

Mep!

To echo Einar, I have recently found myself a tiny bit strapped for time. However, I too like my character (and he certainly likes himself!) so I'll think of something to make things work!

Should it come to it, of course. With some luck, Vagabond checks back and starts this stuff in a not too distant future. (I must admit, I am a bit curious and looked forward to a nice little 'play' to read :D)

I too am tentative about the time commitment, so let's agree if/when we get started we won't be too impatient when it comes to posting.

I'm also not sure how far I want to try to run the campaign. My immediate interest would be to play out some scenes where people pursue clues, have some fights (not necessarily with the murderer), and after a while, solve the case (or die trying?).

I might stop at that point. It depends on lots of factors to be determined. It will be a learning experience, and hopefully lots of fun.

A suggestion, first off, is I did some idle Googling for Victorian London Maps a few weeks back, and found ... quite a wealth of maps available online of a variety of qualities and detailedness. I know it helps ME, when planning games, to start with some sort of map. If your creative style is similar, you might want to find one that suits your fancy, and decide where to drop the drum, etc.

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Sorry. As for the game, I'm good with no time pressure on the posting, and I'd be happy to play just a short adventure and see how it goes.

Have to ask Doctor Who what that says. (He speaks baby.)

Speaking of Doctor Who, would anyone mind if I eventually introduced something from the Doctor Who universe? I have toyed with a Doctor Who related campaign, so maybe you'll meet a woman who will introduce herself as "Good evening! I'm a lizard woman from the dawn of time and this is my wife."

Just an idea.

Actually, I've got a general plan of attack for working out a plot. I'm not going to invest to much time in maps of the larger city, more just different sections, using street level maps for encounters.

I am ok with this. As for maps, that's partly why I suggested google, maps already exist, might as well just grab one, and mark it up as, this is here, that is there, everyone gets killed here.

Unfortunately I haven't had time to get into Dr. Who, though, from what I hear, I'd love it.

So, I might not fully appreciate the references in game, but I wouldn't mind them a bit.

Unfortunately I haven't had time to get into Dr. Who, though, from what I hear, I'd love it.

So, I might not fully appreciate the references in game, but I wouldn't mind them a bit.

Ditto =)

The same. :D

Well, there's always the streaming video market when you all decide to discover the wonder that is Doctor Who. I'd recommend watching the first two seasons of the re-introduction of the series by the BBC back in 2005.

In later episodes, the Doctor establishes a presence in Victorian era London, with two aliens and a human woman forming the nucleus of a strange gang of three. The lizard woman (Madame Vastra) and her wife (Jenny) work as detectives. At one point, they share this exchange:

Madame Vastra: Send a telegram to Inspector Abberline of the Yard. Jack the Ripper has claimed his last victim.
Jenny: How did you find him?
Madame Vastra: Stringy, but tasty all the same. I shan't be needing dinner.

Anyway, back to the plotting.

Update: I've worked out the details of the murders, who committed them and other details, like the victims and the modus operandi. I'm working on some NPCs that may be involved. Once I have that, I'll write some newspaper accounts of the murders to date, so you'll have information to start investigating from. Still might be a week or two before I'm ready to roll.

Considering how complex this game has the probability of being, I certainly have no problem with you taking the time to work from scratch. Realistically, Bardic was working on the game for MONTHS before listing the recruitment. (I checked some of their posts at one point trying to get a gauge of what was going on and found a post about it trying to get ideas.)

Yup!

Okay! :)

It's an interesting project, so I'm having fun. I'm not planning on making every NPC a gestalt bard, so it will not be as complex as Vagabond seems to have had in mind. I'll be making a lot of stuff up as I go. The goal will be to create an interesting sandbox to play in for a while.

I've created a recruitment thread for my version of the Murder! Murder! campaign. Please post here (link) if you are still interested in playing your character created for this campaign in mine.

First priority to the following characters:

Izzy Carbuncle
Norman J. Smith
Einar Colby
Vir Invictus
Rae Keisinger
Lady Kelendia

Qat Tzgane will appear as an NPC.

I'm still a ways from starting, but I wanted to figure out how to get the main threads posted and get people dotted in. I'll be posting details, house rules, world background, and some details to get things started in the weeks to come. PM me if you have any problems finding the site. I'm not entirely sure I've set things up right and I'm still trying to figure out how to get the other parts of the game created.

*Cough* Link *Cough*

:)