That's kind of how I was looking at it too. Thank you.
It makes sense to me anyhow.
Hey folks, just want to say I'm still here. Thought I posted yesterday, but apparently that was a fever dream or something. I've been traveling and my allergies are trying to murder me. If you can bot William for a day or two I will hopefully be back to normal.
Take care!
No worries William, we look forward to you getting on board soon!
Crap! Man I totally meant to help Scarlet with the diplomacy, instead, I completely blew it and went total mind blank! Man that's my bad.
He then attempts to calm the wounded man. "Look, guv, we're here to help you. We're going to need you to calm down, okay? Please at least try. I know you're scared and confused and everything else. Trust me, I know. But I'm going to pick you up and carry you to a safe place where we can get you some help, okay?"
Here's what I was suppose to throw in there:
....attempts to assist Scarlet in calming the wounded man... "Like the lady said, we're here to help."
And then blah blah blah and whatever after that. Apologies for that, Scarlet. Dang that irritates me to no end. Man it would've been so good too.
If you would, Raven, just use mine for an aid another. I totally meant to roll with that but I just... Ugh! Sooooo irritating. I swear I wear myself out sometimes. :P
I should hopefully be catching up tomorrow night . Currently recovering from a massive allergic reaction that left me looking like Will Smith in Hitch, but at least now I know what happens if I stay outside for more than 30 min.
Haha, no problem, Javell.
Oh no! As someone who's worked in the ER, we've seen plenty of that, William. I hope they've gotten the swelling to come down and no damage was really done long term.
Oof, sounds nasty. Take care of yourself.
My turn to say sorry for not posting yesterday, RL issues came up. But I'm here now.
I just wanted to mention that I hope people don't take offense to my posting again. I know we all have busy lives, and for some, your life is a bit more rigid than mine and posting can be hard. The short of it is, I am trying to produce a post a day at a minimum, as asked. As long as there is something for me to be responding to, I will be posting within that time frame. I mention this because I don't want to steal the limelight and apologize if it steps on anyone's shared light of what they are or were wanting to do or your plans for the scene GM.
Yeah, I’ve been wrestling a bit with how often to post as well. I can easily post 1-2 a day most days but I don’t want to get too far ahead of the GM or other players. I’m open to any guidance Raven wants to offer, but either way I’m sure we’ll find a balance eventually.
Please, no apologies at all for being active! My apologies are necessary, I had an HR incident arise Wednesday that took far more time that day and the next than anticipated. I got home last night intent on getting up the next post, and promptly fell asleep with my laptop and my dog atop me on the couch. Suffice to say, reviewing hours of security footage is draining on the mind. Additionally, as we are currently in Lady Grey's estate, it makes sense that you would have a bit more to contribute.
I am most excited to see the energy people are putting into their characters!
I am lurking every day, just trying to figure out if William has anything to contribute to the situation. I actually had him purposefully not become a doctor like his father; I am now quite annoyed I did that.
Suffice to say, reviewing hours of security footage is draining on the mind.
I feel your pain. I have been reviewing hours upon hours of political fact-checking webpages. I've been writing some 90+ pages of content for my dropshipping store, and on the side, I've been reading Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women (as it is relevant to Scarlet and I was curious what they were like having heard of them). I can crash unconscious at times too lol! It'd be even worse if I had a dog to get comfortable with!
And this dog is a a fluffy, lovable level 20 snuggler!
William no worries on not being a doctor, feel free to jump in as the scholar and investigator, or simply the concerned man caught up in the scenario. Now is the time to build rapport between the party. Hell, have him feel awkward in this mix of strange characters. Just dive in.
Oh man, I’ve been spending hours and hours going through video footage too... only I’m doing it to edit things together for work (which is not normally part of my job at all). I’m all too familiar with dozing off while trying to post also, lol.
Generally speaking, I think it’s ok for the GM to leave PCs to RP for a bit when we’re all in a safe place and not waiting on an NPC. My biggest concern in the present situation was just that I didn’t know how long it would take us to get to the manor and didn’t want to get too far into any RP that we shouldn’t have been there yet for.
Sorry, my only excuse is that I have spent this past few days with my boyfriend - the first time we've spent together since March due to lockdown.
I'm back at home now though (sob) so posting once again.
I won't generally be posting during work hours and evenings can get busy.
But I do endeavour to post daily in active games and usually manage it.
If for whatever reason I don't post in a given day, and that impedes the plot, our GM has my full permission to bot Peter to move things along.
Happy Father's Day to all of you who are dads!
:) I know it was prompted by wife, but it was pretty great when my 3yr old woke me up this morning with, "Good morning, daddy! Happy Father's Day! Can we go to church?"
Cherish those moments!
@William: HA! That's awesome.
And thanks, Scarlet!
That's lovely. :)
My kids are at that age where my wife prompted them to keep the shouting and arguing down so I could sleep in for father's day, lol.
Hope you all had a good one (whether as an honoree or honorer).
Happy belated Father's Day to all!
And according to both my wife and my staff, I count as we are less than a month to delivery date - so happy me! As for the day, it was crazy at the restaurant, complete with the HR drama of earlier this week taking another twist. Oh fun.
All the best!
Apparently missed the question from Jakob earlier. I'll try to work in an answer in my next post. Rushing of to my RL game so it may be tomorrow by the time I can post.
Hey no worries. I actually thought to myself before I submitted it: "Man, they may not catch this because it's kind of all over the place." Yeah that's my bad. I typically don't do that but it kind of just hit me so I rolled with it. If there's a next time I'll definitely remember to clean it up to where it's not such a big mess.
If there's a lot of text that salient questions might get lost in, it might be worth making a note for specifics in discussion.
Yeah that's a good point. I'll keep that in mind.
Trying to get invited to the case might be the only way to investigate openly, but I'm not even sure that's what we want? We could look around and make some polite inquiries without arousing much suspicion (or any scorn). And surely, by now, Scarlet knows how to disappear for a few hours without her mother/uncle having eyes on her if we need to do some sneaking around?
Here are my concerns about taking it public:
- any of us being invited to help at all is a huge (unlikely, imho) 'if'
- nobody will accept any supernatural explanations, but an explanation will be expected... we'll have to lie or falsify evidence to create opportunities to get into any place that we learn supernaturally we should check out, and any supernatural factors that we discover we'll have to lie about or falsify evidence over (and, frankly, I don't think we have the bluffing ability for that)
- maybe most importantly, everyone will know we're involved... meaning, best case scenario we become obvious targets (and can maybe, hopefully catch someone when they come to kill/silence one of us), or more likely that anyone we really need to find will know to avoid us
I could be wrong on any or all of that, but those are my thoughts? I meant them as OOC concerns, although I think John shares them to one extent or another (especially since he's already had to be somewhat misleading with a supernaturally obtained lead).
I think investigating closed rather than openly is the best route, but there needs to be an element of openness there, as it gives us the freedom to play our characters in a realm that is unfriendly (as you've witnessed with Scarlet's mother) to women behaving in manners inappropriate to their station. While yes, Scarlet has investigated in the past, it did land her in trouble and in the paper. She was fortunate that her name wasn't discredited. She instead, was heralded almost like a superhero among women and even men to a degree. She would not wish to sneak around and risk everything without a social escape. That is my concern.
At the same time, I recognize your points. That's why I'm trying to find a happy medium. If only there was a Pinkerton agency in Britain that one of us could already be a part of under the crown, and could indoctrinate the rest of us, then we could be undercover, but when our reputations are on the line, flash a badge? Would that be preferred?
Yes, I am inclined to agree with JBB. Publicity is not going to help us much, and it's far more likely that it will cause public pressure to solve the case, which will be done by arresting anyone likely who doesn't have an alibi.
I have posted a wordier version of this in-character.
Awesome. Seems I'm outvoted, which is cool with me. Scarlet may not like it haha, but that's all good. Hopefully she doens't get her reputation ruined by this!
Anyways, I'll post again a response saying what she thinks after the GM posts the doctor's exit and perhaps the results of Scarlet's knowledge roll.
I'm actually fine with a private investigation!
I am loving everyone's energy, please, keep it up!
A word on "the woman's role in Victorian England' vs a "modern approach". While the social structure of the era will exist in the game, it will moreso serve as a backdrop that sets atmosphere and expectation rather than a hard set of rules that significantly hampers two members of our party. Your characters are extraordinary people, and part of what goes along with that is the ability to defy the norms of society. Does that make sense, and if so, is that amenable to our female players?
That's kind of what I was reaching for with my appeal with the papers, was to defy that norm, but if that's your view as well, I guess however we proceed, it shouldn't limit the characters we have then and we can just go for it classic Pathfinder mystery style in any way we agree to IC.
Scarlet- fwiw, I think you did a good job setting yourself up to defy norms with your background. Aristocrats often had an odd quirk or a vice that was a well-known secret... yours is poking around places beneath your station when you’re concerned the common folk might be up to no good. After the story in the paper and, everyone knows it (and some probably even see it as a kind of noblis oblige- a responsibility of the noble to give commoners restraints against godless living even if they don’t understand they need it) so you poking around places again really shouldn’t change how people see/treat you much? Or, at least, that’s kind of how I saw it?
That seems reasonable to me.
Apologies. I'll post tomorrow.
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I am loving everyone's energy, please, keep it up!
A word on "the woman's role in Victorian England' vs a "modern approach". While the social structure of the era will exist in the game, it will moreso serve as a backdrop that sets atmosphere and expectation rather than a hard set of rules that significantly hampers two members of our party. Your characters are extraordinary people, and part of what goes along with that is the ability to defy the norms of society. Does that make sense, and if so, is that amenable to our female players?
That works for me. The Brits have always had this reputation for an inflexible class system, but in truth even in Victorian times there were a lot of (mainly upper-class) women doing a lot of things outside the "normal" boundaries. Florence Nightingale and Ada Lovelace spring to mind, as well as Mary Shelley (although she was socially marginalised to some extent). There were even Victorian female explorers and archaeologists.
You can get away with a lot if you're willing to have a reputaiton for being "eccentric."
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Happy Independence/Colonial Treason Day!
My apologies, it's been a rough couple of days. I will have a post up this evening.
Thanks for the update! I hope the next few days are better for you.
Yes, these are tough times for everyone. Take care of yourself.
Take care, all!
I do hope everything is alright. :)
Just a reminder for our GM.
Peter is more vulnerable to spells with the evil descriptor.
In case this is one.
Thank you for the reminder Peter. It is not a spell, and thus does not pertain.
Lucia, no worries, I have definitely had internet trouble in the past, it can be a royal pain.
I want to thank you all for your patience with me as we get this game up and running. I have definitely been posting at a slower pace than I would like, and certainly far slower than I requested of each of you in the recruitment thread. I fear my desire to allow everyone to post between my posts has then crossed with some RL complicating factors, which has then thrown timing and pace out the window. To that end, I will endeavor to get back to my goal of at least 1 post a day. I hope everyone is still on board. If you miss the gap between my posts, still feel free to include actions/reactions based on multiple, I will adjust what I can.
I want to close by saying I think we have a great cast of characters, and am excited to watch further as the group develops!
Just a reminder for our GM.
Peter is more vulnerable to spells with the evil descriptor.
Don't remind them of these things! GMs can kill players! :P
I want to close by saying I think we have a great cast of characters, and am excited to watch further as the group develops!
Aw, thanks! Me too! Seems like an interesting cast. I can't wait to get into the gritty secrets of our dark pasts