Commenting in all of my games: my wife is going into labor so I will be intermittent for the next week or two.
Who is playing guys,
I think alesiter Vincent pai song and henric
Ok will try Pai Song
I'm here, just a pretty busy week ahead and family visiting.
Hope i can find some time to post, bot as needed.
She posted this recently. I'll bot if she doesn't reply in 24hrs.
Ynja has come back but she has no idea whose body she is in.
I think it would be fun to play that out in game.
Great to have the game going again. :)
Ynja dose not know whose body this was, sorry.
I'm going to let this conversation between the players and the interrogation play out for another day or two real time before I respond.
I think I'm waiting for several responses. Is there anything I need to reply to?
I think I have done my bit, waiting to see how the Players have thire PC respond
That's what I'm waiting for too.
who is the 'you' Pai Song is referring to when asking about detaining Ynja/Fumiko?
Are we down to just the three of us? GM what do you think to getting more in. I just have a feeling that Now would be a great time to get some locals into this,could be wrong and just a thought.
.... Maybe its the lack of sleep, but I have no idea what is going on at the moment. What just happened?
Ynja is in a new body, that of a well known NPC in Sandpoint.
She showed up to the interrogation of the sorceress, and explained she had somehow showed up in a new body. She also declared she was Ynja and took responsibility for the destruction of the ship/shrine.
Pai Song recognized who the body belonged to and demanded Ynja be arrested for stealing a corpse.
Realizing that Pai was serious, Ynja decided it was apparently a good idea to *lie* and claim she was actually the NPC, despite just telling all of she was in fact Ynja.
Aleister called her out on her BS, cuz while he might not pass her bluff check, she did just tell us she was Ynja.
The local sheriff also just showed up and wants to know what you're doing with the sorceress -- since a bunch of the player's standing over an overpowered, phlegmatic maiden looks kind of suspicious. Also the fact they're just standing around while everyone else is in motion... also suspicious.
also bluff doesn't oppose diplomacy
Seb, couple of questions that will inform my next post:
1) Did the sheriff here what Aleister said?/are there actually towns folk present?
2) Is the small child he saved still nearby? I've assumed he's basically next to/behind Aleister this whole time. He definitely wouldn't haven let the boy out of his sight.
Yes and yes
There's a ton of guns floating around. It's very steampunk/planetary adventure.
Because Aleister is also a tattooed unarmed warrior, and we haven't done much combat, I was thinking of switching things up in regards to classes, possibly based off of Ethan Chandler of Penny Dreadful. Thoughts or concerns?
That's fine with me -- I'll try to provide some more fluff later. The idea here is this something like the Dark Sun planet 65-66 million years ago, when it wasn't so terrible (it might also be an 'infinite earths' alternative plane, a simulation of the same planet, or something else, but I'm giving you the most common interpretation). There was a space age civilization with star wars type technology before the current world, which is basically Jules Verne steampunk/John Carter Mar planetary adventure. So there are guns and such, but also the remnants of super duper magic tech -- like Star Wars or Spelljammer or Starfinder or something similar.
Once Seb gives the go ahead to remake our PCs with the unified rules, and assuming the mandate to having to be a Words of Power caster is dropped,
I am probably going to switch around Aleister's classes, likely fairly significantly.
I'm waiting for some responses from the other thread before I give the final go ahead, but I think we're close. The Word Caster requirement will be dropped.
Ok the Lets try this again but with ALL the events in play. That was a little but to negative V Ynja I feel.
So
Ynja is in a new body, that of a well known NPC in Sandpoint.
*Which she did not know was a well known body, having found that in place of her normal body some mad lab types had done an experiment and put who in that body. She escaped from the lab and headed back to the others.
She showed up to the interrogation of the sorceress, and explained she had somehow showed up in a new body.
*She Explained that she had been taken into this body by 2 mad lab types and would gladly show the others where the lab was.
She also declared she was Ynja and took responsibility for the destruction of the ship/shrine.
*Nope, she said she had miscululated the explosive the bad guys where using as it was far stronger than she expected. She took responsibility for the miscululateon, not the fact a bunch of bad guys showed up with such an explosive. Not the same thing at all.
Pai Song recognized who the body belonged to and demanded Ynja be arrested for stealing a corpse.
* and Ignoring what Ynja had said about being kidnapped by mad lab types and just going with, dead that is not dead = bad. No matter that Ynja was innocent.
Realizing that Pai was serious, Ynja decided it was apparently a good idea to *lie* and claim she was actually the NPC, despite just telling all of she was in fact Ynja.
*She did not tell ALL just the the player PCs, use used telepathy on one, and Aleister has said no to mind sending. And lets not meta game here, I would expect your PCs have to act like she may be who she says she is, in BOTH instances, or at lease to thing there may be a chance she is who the local girl.
Aleister called her out on her BS, cuz while he might not pass her bluff check, she did just tell us she was Ynja.
*Which is fiar for him, but as posted Ynja was talking to the locals, not the strangers who had done all this. And she has only just started.
@GM Are the knights the same Knights from before? If so it would be good to know at this moment. It may change what Ynja dose next.
Here's the thing about lying, in real life or in fantasy play by post games:
Facts mess them up. In this post you clearly state you are looking to Aleister, Pai song and the others. You then go on to use normal speech for that entire post. I know it's normal speech because in your prior two posts where you spoke telepathically, ::"You spoke like this":: to indicate telepathy.
You then said 'My intention was to save people, but I miscalculated and that resulted in far worse destruction. Sorry about that'. That's admitting responsibility. Your intention, and the actions you took to carry them out, was what resulted in the explosion. Which you apologized for.
This entire post was also out loud, normal speech.
Never once did you say anything telepathically in this whole debacle. Not only that, but using capital letters on the internet has been a way of shouting/yelling since the internet began. Ya know, like the bulk of your last two posts.
Out of curiosity, what is your plan on classes?
Sorcerer, and unsure, possibly oracle, maybe cleric. Might keep monk.
Ok the Lets try this again but with ALL the events in play. That was a little but to negative V Ynja I feel.
So
Ynja is in a new body, that of a well known NPC in Sandpoint.
*Which she did not know was a well known body, having found that in place of her normal body some mad lab types had done an experiment and put who in that body. She escaped from the lab and headed back to the others.She showed up to the interrogation of the sorceress, and explained she had somehow showed up in a new body.
*She Explained that she had been taken into this body by 2 mad lab types and would gladly show the others where the lab was.She also declared she was Ynja and took responsibility for the destruction of the ship/shrine.
*Nope, she said she had miscululated the explosive the bad guys where using as it was far stronger than she expected. She took responsibility for the miscululateon, not the fact a bunch of bad guys showed up with such an explosive. Not the same thing at all.Pai Song recognized who the body belonged to and demanded Ynja be arrested for stealing a corpse.
* and Ignoring what Ynja had said about being kidnapped by mad lab types and just going with, dead that is not dead = bad. No matter that Ynja was innocent.Realizing that Pai was serious, Ynja decided it was apparently a good idea to *lie* and claim she was actually the NPC, despite just telling all of she was in fact Ynja.
*She did not tell ALL just the the player PCs, use used telepathy on one, and Aleister has said no to mind sending. And lets not meta game here, I would expect your PCs have to act like she may be who she says she is, in BOTH instances, or at lease to thing there may be a chance she is who the local girl.Aleister called her out on her BS, cuz while he might not pass her bluff check, she did just tell us she was Ynja.
*Which is fiar for him, but as posted Ynja was talking to the locals, not the strangers who had done all this. And she has only just started....
Maybe it would help if we knew what the IC goal of one party member trying to trick a bunch of townsfolk into arresting or attacking the rest of the party was... Because I at least have no idea where this could be going. If we knew the logic behind Ynja's actions they might make more sense.
Ok the Lets try this again but with ALL the events in play. That was a little but to negative V Ynja I feel.
So
Ynja is in a new body, that of a well known NPC in Sandpoint.
*Which she did not know was a well known body, having found that in place of her normal body some mad lab types had done an experiment and put who in that body. She escaped from the lab and headed back to the others.She showed up to the interrogation of the sorceress, and explained she had somehow showed up in a new body.
*She Explained that she had been taken into this body by 2 mad lab types and would gladly show the others where the lab was.She also declared she was Ynja and took responsibility for the destruction of the ship/shrine.
*Nope, she said she had miscululated the explosive the bad guys where using as it was far stronger than she expected. She took responsibility for the miscululateon, not the fact a bunch of bad guys showed up with such an explosive. Not the same thing at all.Pai Song recognized who the body belonged to and demanded Ynja be arrested for stealing a corpse.
* and Ignoring what Ynja had said about being kidnapped by mad lab types and just going with, dead that is not dead = bad. No matter that Ynja was innocent.Realizing that Pai was serious, Ynja decided it was apparently a good idea to *lie* and claim she was actually the NPC, despite just telling all of she was in fact Ynja.
*She did not tell ALL just the the player PCs, use used telepathy on one, and Aleister has said no to mind sending. And lets not meta game here, I would expect your PCs have to act like she may be who she says she is, in BOTH instances, or at lease to thing there may be a chance she is who the local girl.Aleister called her out on her BS, cuz while he might not pass her bluff check, she did just tell us she was Ynja.
*Which is fiar for him, but as posted Ynja was talking to the locals, not the strangers who had done all this. And she has only just started....
The knights are the same couple from the night before.
Can everyone give me a quick summary of their character's backgrounds again -- I have some idea of Aleister's background, but I'm not super clear on most of the others, and that would help develop some plot threads.
I think Ynja is like Shi'Vatha, beings of a higher nature with forms in this world. Her's moves from host to host, an Elan to Shi'Vatha's Edalon. Beings of energy that take limited carporal forms so as to effect the world.
Right now Ynja [PC] is a teenage girl with no weapons and just about the whole world out to get her. It must be christmas.
Vincent works as a performer at a traveling carnival. Like most, he has various duties including barker, fortune-teller, and acrobat.
Is he a Varisian (or some near equivalent?)
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@ Ynja, Can we take a step back for a moment? Your last couple posts have seemed aggressive / confrontational towards the rest of the party, and seem to work against a group dynamic or developing the story. We are all here to play a group game, and I don't think anyone here wants to shut down someone else's fun; but it also seems like we might be trying to play a different kind of game than you want to play right now.
I'd just like to touch base about what we are trying to do, and get everyone back on to the same page of a group dynamic so we can progress the story as a group and not fight in different directions.
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Sadly this seems to be true for some time now, and the last posts just feel like a rushed solo campaign playing against the party.
I mean, if that's supposed to be some alien tsundere character or something allright, but then i never saw something like that work out even remotely.
Henric Logos is right, it's a group game and effort, and if one strives forward to hijack the story, always getting a special treatment, take agency from the rest, that just doesn't function.
I'm going to have agree with my fellow PCs here. It's pretty messed up to try and have all of us arrested because you decided to show off your cool mythic HOPF and died when the GM specifically told you there was no reason to. Only to then come back in another body, which happens to that of an important NPC. Pai Song is acting exactly how a good character, who is more or less a paladin, should act when confronted with some sort of weird body snatcher.
Now, I get that you said this is all the result of a 'mad mages in lab somewhere', but that doesn't mean it's true, at least to our PCs. But, instead of trying to work all of that out, you decided the best thing you could do is fly into a panic(ha!) state, yelling and screaming that your fellow PCs are the bad guys.
How is that okay? This is literally how PVP starts. In fact, after you tried to kidnap Yoshii, the little boy whose life Aleister just saved, I was going to attack you to prevent you from taking him away. Thankfully, Seb was able to step in first.
I'm rolling with what's going on -- I'd like it if the present characters could reconcile somehow; the tension between the PCs is interesting up to a certain point from a role-playing perspective, but this seems to be headed for a very once-sided PvP, which isn't really what I had in mind.
@Pai Song -- what is your character background with the Kaijistu Clan and Sandpoint, does she know the other people in town?
Who knows other people in town -- we're about to get to a long stretch which will just be the PCs doing exploration, talking to people, trying to figure out what's going on, so these sort of details are suddenly going to become kind of important.
Ideas:
I think Pai Song, as a minstrel, probably has a pre-existing friendship with the schoomaster.
I think Ameiko is getting sweet on Vincent, based on their interactions up to this point -- I'll probably pursue that if Slyness is down with it.
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tension between PCs is all well and good. that said, i could see stuff like this definitely inhibiting recruitment. i've had my eye on this game for awhile, planning to join it since it was mentioned to me in the kobold group. but yeah i definitely can't get down with one person trying to write their own story at the expense of others
I hear ya guys, Ok, so to fix this and to get everyone back into a group.
I ask, what do you suggest I do so that we can reconcile this.
I will say in may defiance, wow look at the speed and number of posts. Come on now, you have to admit things are moving again.
So then what do you suggest I do, to get Ynja rehabilitated back into the group. I'm 100% sore that your collective creative minds can come up with something good and interesting.
I bind myself to what ever it is you come up with.
So then what shall it be :)
I've actually been working on fleshing out Aleister's background a bit more.
He was born on Azlant, shortly before Xin's exile. He was maybe a year old when his family joined the First Emperor in the founding of Thassilon. I'm thinking his parents were mid ranking clergy of Lissala, roughly equivalent to a bishop. They rose in power and influence, eventually founding their own temple.
Aleister grew up fully enmeshed in Lissala’s faith, and was basically an itinerant priest, wandering the lands of Thassilon. Due to his parents fame, influence and general neutrality, he was able to freely enter the domains of the various Runelords, though he steered well clear of them.
Some cool plot points I’m considering:
Aleister, having lived through the entirety of Thassilon, used to be a lot more powerful, but due to his stasis, he lost a ton of of that power.
He was childhood friends with Shorshen, before her rise to power. If I go with this, I will need to adjust Aleister’s age, as she was an adult when Xin left Azlant. Unsure if Seb wants to use the other Runelords at all, but it would be cool to have ties to the only one who undergoes a redemption arc.
I hear ya guys, Ok, so to fix this and to get everyone back into a group.
I ask, what do you suggest I do so that we can reconcile this.
I will say in may defiance, wow look at the speed and number of posts. Come on now, you have to admit things are moving again.
So then what do you suggest I do, to get Ynja rehabilitated back into the group. I'm 100% sore that your collective creative minds can come up with something good and interesting.
I bind myself to what ever it is you come up with.
So then what shall it be :)
I've actually been working on fleshing out Aleister's background a bit more.
He was born on Azlant, shortly before Xin's exile. He was maybe a year old when his family joined the First Emperor in the founding of Thassilon. I'm thinking his parents were mid ranking clergy of Lissala, roughly equivalent to a bishop. They rose in power and influence, eventually founding their own temple.
Aleister grew up fully enmeshed in Lissala’s faith, and was basically an itinerant priest, wandering the lands of Thassilon. Due to his parents fame, influence and general neutrality, he was able to freely enter the domains of the various Runelords, though he steered well clear of them.
Some cool plot points I’m considering:
Aleister, having lived through the entirety of Thassilon, used to be a lot more powerful, but due to his stasis, he lost a ton of of that power.
He was childhood friends with Shorshen, before her rise to power. If I go with this, I will need to adjust Aleister’s age, as she was an adult when Xin left Azlant. Unsure if Seb wants to use the other Runelords at all, but it would be cool to have ties to the only one who undergoes a redemption arc.
I'm still working on the exact fluff for everything, but I'm using the Varisian area and the Runelords in their entirety -- there was a similar cataclysm -- I forget what it was called in Mystara lore, that was the equivalent of Earthfall and destroyed Thassilon. Thassilon has connections to Alphatia.
Were you also okay with the idea that Ameiko has a crush on you and making that a plot point?