That's all fine. I never expected my contacts to have the answers.
I just expected the contacts to be able to point in a general direction, which then points in another direction, which then leads to a clue, and then circle back around when more information is known.
For example, after the Fool's GUild was implicated, I would have expected to be able to go back to Palm and ask questions about the new guild member, if any of the other girls might have given him a session, or something. But that got shot down when I floated it, so it felt like anything I tried was shot down other than randomly asking people I have no contact or connection to, or going gang busters fully assaulting the Fool's Guild, which seems like a good way to get Vimes hunting us and Ventari to disavow us.
The only problem I have with the Fool's Guild right now is that we're reduced to attacking it openly, and Risbeth wouldn't do that without exhausting everything else. It's basically opening war on iffy information from a disembodied voice. Vimes would throw us under the jail and throw away the key.
Now Risbeth and Tanz can just shrug it off for the next 50 years, no big deal.
Everyone else though...
We're going to go there and just ask some questions, no need for Raul to even open his muzzle if things go smoothly.
Raul is a bounty hunter who's used to dealing with people who talk with their fists. Let him make all the calls and we probably will end up in a cell haha.
Everyone was talking about going in and attacking people and busting heads, so I assumed that was the plan.
That was Raul's preferred method, in his experience that gets answers faster. As a player I suggest you convince him otherwise.
Ok,
Will do after the GM posts a response to Risbeth's inquiries? Or should I delete that post and just go to the Guild?
Risbeth is simply fed up with the situation, as it's eating into her massage and bath time. Plus, she was willing to give the Fool's Guild the benefit of the doubt before they all pulled a fast fade on sight. If they had nothing to do with it, they'd have not done a fast fade.
So, now it's time to get medieval on their sorry arse's.
Raul, your problem is, you were counting on a vampire to be your conscience. That's like counting on a fox to guard your chickens.
Hey, if you're taking off the leash prepare I have no problems. There's going to be some sad clowns tonight.
NoooooOOOOOO!
Risbeth assumes this was not how the GM saw this going down?
Hehe, neutral characters handling things.
Yeah Raul really doesn't care about little prank traps like pies or grease, but once Tanz got an arrow in him it was no more Mr.Nice Guy.
Really funny, hopefully they will react this time.
Travelling a few days, sporadic
It's so much easier to simply talk people to death when you don't actually have to breath. Or sleep. Or eat.
Note: Trops is hiding and waiting untile either there is a good response from Whiteface or every leaves.
Honestly, with this many bodies piled together there would probably be enough gore that at least one drop of blood would hit your ashes. More symbolic than anything.
I figured that. Just commenting to show she's not a moron. :)
And by the way, tying her up is the worst thing to do. Raul and Tanz have managed to stumble on the one thing she can't stand, being restrained physically. And Igorina is loyal to her. Unless somoene stops and releases her, or Trops cuts her ropes or something, Igorina is going to throw an alchemist's fire right on the barrels, knowing her mistress will survive it. I'm seriously trying to avoid a PVP TPK by warning you OOC.
Moron would probably be the last word Raul would use to describe Risbeth. There are plenty of other things he could say that would make her glare, but insulting her intelligence is not anywhere on the list. Especially since hers is nearly double Rauls.
He just realizes the emotion of it all is getting to you and wants to make you calm down before you blow up something important. Like a legitimate guild, Raul, yourself, etc lol
*Shrugs* He said if you calmed down he would release you. You seem to respond to everything with a threat. Raul doesn't respond well to threats.
Yes but we all have certain things we can't stand. Tanz's is to have unicycle's crushed and burned, for whatever reason. Risbeth could do 100 years in a jail cell standing on her head, as long as she wasn't chained to the walls or something. The one thing she never did as a seamstress was bondage (at least, not where she was tied up).
Tanz's is to have unicycle's crushed and burned, for whatever reason.
I'm still dying over that.
You don't expect rational calmness from someone who is already FREAKING OUT. It's not going to happen. Can't get someone to act calm when they're going into a nervous breakdown over restrained by tying them up.
And Igorina did ask Raul to release her or run so she wouldn't have to kill him...
Oh I agree, but you also don't release a trigger happy bomb maker who is threatening to blow everything up. Just not good for your health.
Perhaps it would have been better to just knock you out. I'll remember that for next time :D
You know, playing one-ups manship is kind of a douchy thing. First off, there's 4 barrels of powder on a wheelbarrow, so kicking them over just sends four barrels smashing into the street, probably cracking them open. Plus posing that totally ignores me trying to give someone else the chance to defuse the situation. Should I just have posed Igorina throwing the Alchemist's fire into the barrels and given you no chance to respond?
I feel like i'm on a playground where someone keeps saying 'no you didn't hit me, I totally wore bullet proof shorts this morning, oh yeah, I used a missile, it exploded, well I wore my explosion proof pants too'.
In future, rather than trying to give people the chance to intervene and defuse situations, apparently I should just pose what happens to my best benefit and to hell with anyone else's posing apparently.
*Shrugs* Sorry for playing a character who doesn't do things the nice way. I agree, Raul's a dick. No reason to take it out on the player.
If you think it's good for the campaign then go ahead, blow up the gunpowder and TPK us. Maybe it will clear your head.
I mean the part about 'I knock them over and roll them away' being a bit douchy OOC.
I don't WANT to blow everyone up. But by the same token, I can't continue playing her if you tie her up for however long because she will literally NEVER trust you all again. It's like taking a claustrophobic and shutting them in a coffin 'until they calm down' and then putting them in a straight jacket until they calm down and expecting them to ever work with you again.
I'm trying really really hard OOC to say 'HANG ON PLEASE DON'T FORCE ME TO BLOW THINGS UP OR QUIT THE GAME OVER THIS' and all I get in character is 'haha, I knock things over to counter your leverage to get loose'.
Raul is not aware of your fear or being tied up. Also he said he would let you go if you just calmed down. It was a simple as saying "Ok, I'm calm." Instead of screaming about killing us all.
And yeah, Raul is being a complete dick. He would rather strongarm things than defuse them. Threatening him doesn't make him back down, it only riles him up.
I'm signing off for the night. Early classes. Night all.
That's insane Raul, people who are in full blown panic over a phobia do not just calm down if you promise to take the spider off their face and say 'Ok, I'm calm'.
Well, hopefully Tanz or Tropz will defuse Raul, or else it was a nice game while it lasted.
*sigh*
I agree. Raul doesn't.
I agree that you are in panic mode and tying you up isn't helping. But I don't think you understand who needs to be defused right now. If the police arrest a man making a bomb threat, they don't release him because "I don't like the handcuffs." They say "tough, should have thought of that before making a bomb threat."
I don't think I've ever tried to keep somebody from making a TPK and been called the bad guy.
Risbeth was not bomb happy until she got restrained. The whole lighting the fuse was to force the Fool into talking. But now.. she's not thinking rationally. I'm sorry, but I can't suddenly make her rational. Whatever you want me to do. I can quit playing, but suddenly having her go rational makes no sense, and Igorina would do whatever she's told, Igor's always do. So the fact everyone is dogpiling and tying her up is simply an unwinnable situation. Releasing her (since you know, she has no way to blow anyone up without the powder, which she didn't have until everyone got back together) is about the only thing I can think of to salvage the situation. If Raul had simply taken the powder away and told Tanz to drop her, that would have defused the situation. Now it's pretty much completely out of control.
I am not calling you a bad guy, I'm tellin you that I've asked and begged out of character for you not to keep pushing, and your response is 'Hey it is my character' and that's fine, if it's your character to keep pushing and pushing until things explode, then that's where we'll end up. *shrug*
I mean you just admitted you're not thinking rationally, which is just proving my point.
And I repeat, Raul is not aware of your fear of being tied up. He thinks you're just irrational since you're frustrated.
Well, she did almost start a fight with the Watch over them wanting to put cuffs on her, if you remember back.
Thought it was her getting angry about the reasons they were getting arrested.
This is the way things are for now. Maybe in a bit you can tell Raul about your phobia instead of screaming about killing him. Unless Tanz or Trops disagrees, we're going to calmly tote you back to your house and sit you down.
You don't understand, there won't be any going back to the house unless it get's defused. Igorina is pulling a flask of fire now, and it'll soon be hitting the rest of those four barrels. BOOM.
TPK I guess than. Let's wait to see what the others post.
Or we could always just run from the barrels.
Not if you're pinning her and tying her up, hard to do that while running. Plus, if you run, she'd just throw the fire on Tanz. She's not worried about hurting her boss. And both Tanz and Risbeth have gunpowder on them that'll go boom in a fire.
Hopefully Tanz and Tropz can salvage the situation, cause we've basically totally hosed the game up between us.
Well if you think that's in the best interest of a fun game then blow us up.
Gee thanks, I love how you have nothing to do with this situation.
Heh, those bills still crack me up. Especially how the lisp carries over to her writing.
*bow*
Trying to find something to do, will write soon.