Oy, discussion thread here fellas!
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Coool!
You do know each other. The details of that I'll just leave it up to you. I'll set up a scene tomorrow.
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Ok so Warren is a Psi slinger who can phase through objects (like Kitty Pride) He is happy to show off his gun slinging skills but keeps quiet about the phasing part until he is sure the people around him aren't going to sell him out. I am good with other player characters already knowing about the ghosting but Warren will have asked them to keep it on the downlow.
He has some hindrances that are noticeable if you spend any time with him. He is Heroic, Impulsive and Overconfident so I intend to play him as a risk taker which would be obvious to the other PCs. He has a code of ethics that is unique.
It is feasible that he met the other players while saving a family from a brigand attack or after throwing himself at some horrible supernatural menace. The usual stuff applies.
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Are, um, are we going to get any world-building here? Like,
How many cattle do we have? 2? 200?
Are they our cattle or someone else's? If someone else, who? How would we know them? How much are they paying us? How long do they think it will take? If us, how much are we expecting to get? And the other answers, like how long will it take?
Are there any threats in the area? Do we expect there to be any? Have we done this many times in the past? Or is this the first time?
You didn't call for any rolls. So we don't need a Notice check to detect threats, or a survival check to know how to wrangle cattle?
Are we alone or do we have help? (If you're going to eventually call for Survival rolls, then might could we aughta've hired some hands that have good Survival. That's not usually a big skill in RIFTS. Indeed, I don't even have survival.)
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Just as an aside, this seems an odd mission for a RIFTS setting. I'm actually in a SW Wild West game that is doing a cattle drive, and that seems more apropos. To go from a cattle drive to the Imperium attacking us with flying Dead Boys would be quite a jar in atmosphere...but I'm going to trust that this is the theme you wanted.
No, I'm still here.
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Hey EltonJ, I don't know if anyone told you this before, but when all the GM's posts are 2 sentences or less (especially in response to player posts that are several paragraphs long) it makes the GM look like they don't care about the game, and are not putting a lot of energy into it.
Often when work has people busy, they may put up the phoning-it-in posts that are just a few sentences, but these are usually punctuated by longer posts once the person has some free time.
So, are you just really busy at work that you can never post more than a few lines? If so, we can always wait until you have more time to devote to the game.
Jus' sayin'.
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I agree with Gauis. We all get that real life can interfere with a game but communication is key.
What we have so far:
Gauis set a scene in his first post, it is night time, he told a story around a camp fire, He worked on his mech, he went to sleep.
Ami joined that scene, sitting around the campfire enjoying the night.
Warren also joined the same scene swinging on a hammock, he listened to Gauis' story then when Gauis went to sleep, Warren started a conversation with Ami.
Then the ranch owner came out saying it was time for a cattle drive?
is it night? why are we driving cattle at night? in rifts that would be super dangerous no? is it day? I don't know.
I have the impression that the GM isn't reading what is happening and has no interest in running this game.
I have other games to play with people who actually want to be there so I am going to politely excuse myself.
I hope you have the best of luck moving forward.
Do we (all) want to continue with just 2 PC's? If everyone else does, I will too.