Thats fine GM, and no problem at all. RL comes 1st.
It was good while it lasted and thank you for running it for us.
See you in the next one :)
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Well to be fair, I never said "wandering around aimlessly" so addressing any points to something I did not say would be a little pointless. And I don't think we have, I think we have done well and done a lot, yes we split and that seemed to have caused problems. But the core of the party is in one place and doing things right now. What I did say, you agree with, is my point about pace. But I agree with your points as well. RL b4 VL. Rl always comes 1st. Still we a Lille pace would help I think we all agree on that. So that leaves my main point is its simple, A leg up, some clue to which of the multi-plotlines will give us focus and rope back in the players who split off. I posted what I posted because I feel now would be a perfect time to get us that line to follow and let us scup up with the other players in the process. I think what I am saying is, it feels like we are a little off track, and now would be a great time to get us back on it again. My first priority as a player is to have fun along 'with' others, GM included, I posted with that aim, to aid in that and get us talking, Which we are doing :)
She moves around the room, having the skills to ask a few things and the power to read the feelings of others as they respond.
Glad to hear Li'omrut!
I second that and as Li'Omrut >I understand that Isabela is... selling her body? For money?< GM shame on you, what kind of a Vampiress do you think Isabela is!! Not at all, you see a 7pp spend and false-sensory-input power [Touch and sight, means a punter to give the mental illusion of having the time of their lives in 5 mins. It's the you know what, without what no you. She just seeks out the rich and susceptible with empathy power and their imagination does the rest. If not its a slap on the face an "What kind of girl do you think I am"
Sorry to hear that Li'Omrut, hope all is well
She heads back to the others. "Well is nice and full now, this is what I suggest, Li'Omrut, there are a few down on their luck drunks down there, once could be an ex-servant to ask around while you get a few cheap drinks. some con-persons." She nods at the cat. "Tiame, while you have a look at the grifters and out and out criminals down there. You will know them when you spot them. I suggest you try and get pally with some, let them think your easy meat, while they brag about what they know." She puts her hands on her hips. "As for me, more than a few away from the wives merchants and good-time young lords with more money than sense. I think I'm working tonight. And who knows one of them may know something. So I will be using the room for a few hours." She heads for the door. :Show time!" And is gone back down the steps.
Isabela [Isy] came back looking satisfied and happy with herself.
She passed the bartender coming down as she went up. "Day-done-yet, she-an-odd-en-that-one, likes a bit of beast, if ya no-what I-mean. I'll be down later, say hello to the regulars." Then she up at the door. Knocking then enters. "Well my sweets, I'm all full up, and ready for a night out, o and I bright some for you" She placed a simple wood platter on the window cill, with two hot bird pies in on the bed, a simple ail jug and three wooden mugs with it. She pored out the ale. "It's not the best wine but the bartender said it's the best ale." After they had done she says. "Well now, let's be at it. If you two play the couple, I'll pay the working girl. Leave the room to me for a while, I may need it." She then heads down to the Bar with the empty jog and tray. She will spend some time looking to see who comes in.
Happy Yuletide holiday and new year.
Some dark back street:
The two men bard her way. She looked at them with pleading and o soo sweet eyes. "Dear sirs I have lost my way could yo..." She did not get to finish as one grabbed her and pushed her into an alleyway. A dead end with shoots from the houses where household waste was dumped. Not somewhere she would pick but, beggars can't be choosers. The one who had pushed her smiled, missing teeth, nice and o my gods the breath" She backed to the wall looking in fear of her life with just the right amount of bosom having. "Sirs what is the meaning of this?" And there was the lear, Old toothless sex drive had kicked in. "Keep a look out! And his companion a little rat of a man, who seemed to have a bad leg, hobbled to the just street and started lookout. Toothless moved to her and grabbed her dress, and was a little confused when his hands passed throw it. He was even more confused when her dagger entered his ribs and pushed up into his heart. It started to fribulated as he bleed inside.
"O no sir don't do.." Then in a deep voice "O sir your so big and strong" Now dead she shifted to feeding form, and lowered the body to the floor,
"You know when your mother told you that if you bad, a vampire would come and eat you up. Well, She was right, I'm here to collect on all the bad things you have done. Any last words?" She was using her empathy power to scare the life out of him and it was working well. "Or we can cut a deal. Your mine, but I may have use of you, And you could even earn some gold, not copper but real gold. What do you think of that Limpy?" It took a heartbeat for them man to realize his one chance out of this was to agree. His head shook yes. "Good, Now I want you to find out all you know about any servants who worked at..." After she had outlined what she needed, she pulled him up. Be here in 2 days and you will get five more of these. She gave him 5 gold coins. Now get lost. He had a bad leg but he could move when he wanted too. She looked at the dead body of toothless. "Wast no want not" A few hours later she was back at the gambling den come bordello.
GM can I run Isabela Lunch as a sideline, while the others get into back story? I will keep it simple, single post.
"O dear I am so lost!"
"Well while you wait, I need to go out, I'm hungry, so keep safe. I will be back later." Once out of sight she changes again,
Then heads to the darker more dangerous side streets.
"Well once this place gets more alive, we can head down and ask about."
I guess I disagree that what you do is in my purview (I think what you do is the only thing not in my purview), but I can see I haven't offered clear enough information yet. I'll be more thorough in the future. That's it in a nutshell GM, it's not telling us what to do, no one likes that, its more color and options in the setting etc.
Isabela, spend the time they have sleeping and thinking of where they could start to look in the undercity to find clues about the dead men.
Well the what we do is really your area here GM, as players not PCs we don't know whats/wheres of the undercity for us to find out. Our PCs do, and that is where you need to inform us players of what they know of your world. I hope that came over well :) Just saysing as players we dont have a clue where to start but our PCs would.
Yes but you will have to tell how we can find out about the dead man,
Me myself I think as we have already split as players doing that even more will break the same. So Isabela will wait for night and head out with Li'Omrut and Tiame.
"You know a simple 'Thank you' would be nice, and good luck with the whole 'Chip on shoulder' thing." She turns to Isabela "So, shall we head out and see if we can find one of the dead mans Servents?"
She picked a room and headed in, flipping the door sign.
"Think of this place as a kind of the gateway to the undercity, and while its day, we lay low, later when it's darker we play" She jumped back up again, "More life on that bed than in a zoo." She walked over and looked Li'Omrut up and down. "Humm let's see what we can do to make you less recognisable"
"Let's get the one with a window to the backstreet" And she heads off checking out the rooms that they can have.
"I did do a good job and you made good coin, and it's as the lady says, a place to stay" She hoped the mention of coin would work.
As they go close Isabela, checked she was unseen and then pulled the hood of her cloak over her head, a few moments later she pulled it back. She now looked like This "While we are in her call me 'Is' only, please. Rosalina owns this place and she knows me, we have a thing going so please don't upset her.
She gives Li'omrut her cloak. "Keep this on, and don't cause trouble, Angles you can fight. But you will get a poisoned blade in you if you step out of line in here." Then she walks over to Rosalina. "Rosalina!, you open for a gal and friends" She smiles at the woman.
She finds a nice man with a cart.
"Please come with me, O and bring your cart"
"Thought you might, I'll see what I can get" And she heads out.
Then she is just on the threshold, turns back and looks at the other two. "You know we could also use a hand cart, pop you in under a cloth and push you there, should I go out and find one?"
"Well then I will see you there, Mr Li'Omrut and I wish you the best of luck" She packs her things and heads out the door.
"well if you think your fine getting there" She tells him sweetly and outlines where it is across town.
"I know some that do it for the show, but yes it's a myth. We sleep in very fine beds most of us. You know I think we could get a barrel, and we could roll him there"
"What? No. I was just repeating back to you details that you just said." She pretends to write on her open hand. "Note to self, don't use sarcasm on Li'Omrut" Looking back up with that misgivis grin again, "I jest, but yes the undercity. And I know just the right house of disrepute, where you will blend right in. A Gambling den I have often been too, Thing is, it's on the other side of the city, so in a couple of days. A nice night run is in order" She refilled her glass. "In the meantime, I could go out and find Eliana, and see if she would be willing to meet us."
She nods at the Demon, "So you know the story of the wife as well then. Can you remember any other details?" She picks up her wine glass again. "As for walking about town to meet the others from last night. There was that bit of the plan about laying low and keeping away from the entire city baying for your horns was there not. Mind you in the undercity, they do not so care about who or what you are. So long as you have coin to hid with"
"It was some time ago now, but I think a well-to-do wife found out her husband was philandering and so she cut his heart out. Humans are so funny when it comes to Revenge. But I don't think this and that case are linked. The wife would be long dead by now." Then she askes her own question. "So this man was down on his luck, and stopped paying the servants. It could be fruitful to find those servants and ask them some questions. About the girl and such. I would suspect some could be found, say in the undercity reaches and inhabit slums. Darker realms I know well. And so many nice places to eat down there." She smiles a cheeky smile at the other two and her incisors just for that moment, a little too long.
"Hummm, there was this once case..."
She looks at the Demon over her Glass. "Yes I did, and I do, and in a city like this someone is always showing up dead. As for the dead man above, no far too gamey"
"Well now this is cute" She places the basket on the table. "The town is abuzz with the events yesterday. The fine Gent and the Grifin Captin have gone back to their respective homes by all accounts. No doubt to report." From the basket, she brings out a bottle of red wine.
Taking a seat she sips it, not drinking fast at all. "So the, we stay here for a few days. See how it blows over. There is food there to last you. I however may have to nip out for a bite to eat."
As she buys her food for them and heads back.
She looks for some eggs, a lofe of bread and some butter.
stood "Well when you put it like" Then headed out of out the house to get something.
Isabela looked for a nice bedroom, something private. closing the door she placed just above it. "Eyes open Hex, I need some rest" ::"Yes mam":: Came the response. Now being watched over, she undressed and sat on the simple bed. What a day Her cover was gone, and with it her house. Well, that was no great loss, she and moved many times, and with another look came another life. No regrets, no looking back. She had long since observed that once she changed her form she took on some of its mannerisms and manners, even thinking processes. The old one had been getting stale. She thought of the child now dead. She was mad at herself for not killing the monster doing this. But for now, it would not strike again for a while. She had to deal with the here and now. What a mess, a mad angle, and now she was running with a witch and a demon. She thought about just walking away, slipping into the night, and never looking back. It was tempting, but... arrr there is was again, fate, her faith in it and the fact that the events of the day, pointed so much to the hand of fate being in play. "Everything happened for a reason" It was faith the kept her going even in the darkest knights. She reached up and put her hand around the talisman her lover had given her. More worlds than stars He had said And in each one a version of you, an infinite number of selves. Each one walking its own path So on this one she was meant to be just where she was. This made up her mind to stay. "So then, let's see where this path takes me" She said to herself. Before laying back on bed, closing her eyes she dreamed of the day. ====== Morning, Dressed, clean and well kept she was late down to the others.
"So then, do you have a plan of what we shall do next?"
Just looking around she can deduce a few things,
Then thinking on the Organ-Killer
Last, of all she walks over to the Silver knife, picks it up and looks at it. Cloesr [ooc]Spell Craft
Very carful not to touch anything she walks around the room. Her eyes glow blue for a short while.
Then she stops and studied the body.
She smiles to herself as Li'Omrut moves past, stepping back to give him space as he barges into the room. She smiles a smile to herself and places her hand on her shoulder, her Crystal spider is in her palm. She had never even let it go. It moves to her breast and is once more just a brooch. She looks for a seat, taking it she sits Cross-legged and waits as the others look around.
"Doors, one each or would you, my fine Demon, care to take the front and protect us, poor weak ladies?" She grins and makes her way to the cracked open door. Popping her small Crystal spider inside to have a look-see.
"Lets see what Hex fines"
“Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.” very fitting I feel.
She picked up Hex and headed in. Being a vampire did have its advantages, one being very good eyesight in the dark. She looked around the central hallway, if there were steps leading up, she heads up.
"Humm A Vampire, A Witch, and A Demon walk into a house, I wonder who should be worried?" She smiles, this happy-go-lucky Blond seems a lot more light-hearted than the dark-haired manifestation of Isabela. "But it always pays to be safe, do you mind if a check it?" She lifts a small crystal spider from under her clothing. "Have a look see Hex" She places it by the base of the door. If it can it will try and get under.
"Well just like yourself, the locals did not take to me. So I thought it best to change lay low in a new form." She smiles at him. "Shall we go in, I don't know about you., but its been a long night"
She nods
And the matter is forgoten. They wait and after a while she spots the Demon. "Well, he is here at last, shall we go in?"
She strokes the hair when it falls back, and looks off thinking a moment. "You know it's been so long, that I forget." Her voice seems somewhat sad. "When the fangs show, that is I suppose is my true form now. Its the only one I can't get rid of." there is a deep loss there, then the moment is gone. "My kind tends to be so in love with themselves, that they forget to look at others. Whereas I like nothing better than to just sit and watch. I won't tell you the hours I have spent just talking about the weather or how fish has gone up in price. Watched a city lass walk in the park lost in lovers' dreams. OR worked with a maid scrubbing fools. Eaten fine foods with fat merchant waves complaining about servents' tardiness." She smiles now, happily remembering better times. "I have a gift you see for understanding others." Then she looks at Tiame.
You feel something press on your mind, like a breeze blowing across it.
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