Did I miss a post with XP allocation, or can we expect a PM?

I want to know what numbers I am working with as soon as possible. Preferrably before start of next chapter.

Also, would it be possible to get an unspent total? I want to double check my numbers.

XP post or PMs are forthcoming. I'll honor any expenditures put to before the deadline of March 20 at 12 noon EST as I said.

Greg - I'll try to give you a total but generally I trust the PCs do that on their char sheets.

Next chapter will go up after I get my PMs taken care of and will pick up on the third day with everybody back in the cavern meeting to discuss what they have found out and what to do next.

Please keep one things in mind as we move forward: This is as much a player driven game as a story driven game. I adapt around what you do and try to provide hooks where possible but I do my best not to railroad. Obviously I stumbled a bit last chapter but I blame myself for getting a little complacent as much as anything else. Long story short - it's what you all DO that drives the story along.

yeah - what he said

It's amazing how much you two think alike!

PMs all around - The exp alloted this time out is about standard per the last few chapters. I'm actually holding back about 5-7 exp from each of you since the downtime between chapters is ... negligable. As such after this chapter you will gain per normal and then another 5-7 on top (somewhere in the 15-20 range).

PMs to Gregory and Raider

Hopefully you guys don't mind cryptic writings

Also note I changed the title for Book 2 Chapter 1 - "More" had been intended as a placeholder and I kinda forgot to fix it. Thus I did it now before it was comepletely forgotten

I think it's much more fitting a title

Updated - the scene is set and the PMs have been sent out accordingly.

Well folks, it's that time again - fishing for complements ...

just kidding.

No it looks like another PC or two will be leaving us once again. I'm working with Lily to see what we can do about her issues with Caly and I have PMs to Seven's player to see what's up there. Being that her account hasn't been active for nearly a month I'm going to give her till the end of the week to reply to my PM inquiries. I would say expect to see Seven get written out and Caly will either be written out and replaced or undergo some in game change to help Lily get back into her groove.

Sad times, this game has at this point as many orphaned or removed PCs as active ones. Hopefully the rest of you are content!

... you may now resume heaping praise upon me!

+praises Dr. Bradford+

If you want we could connect Calys and Annas backgrounds. Maybe they're sisters and have been seperated at birth. I'm sure we can work something out, if ith helps Lily to get better in touch with Caly.

At this point, I'll probably be writing Calypso out.

The GM has been more than helpful and offered different solutions, so nothing falls on his shoulders. On an OOC level, I've never really been quite happy with her even at the best of times. Mechanically, conceptually...it's just never come together. Even when she had some spotlight time, I just couldn't really enjoy it. And her history and background...I didn't flesh them much to begin with, thinking it'd grow during the game. That's a risky way to play it...though sometimes fruitful...and in this case it didn't pay off.

Those issues could be solved, with a lot of work and some in-game events that in the end I felt would strain the game's narrative too much to be justifiable. I have what I think is a very good in-character reason for her to leave, as well as a character concept that will bind much more tightly with the rest of the group than Cal ever did, and with goals that are aligned with the party goals.

I apologize to anyone who has investment in Calypso, but I think it will be a lot better in the long run this way.

I can sympathize with that and there is no need to apologize imho.

If you want my offer still is up to hook your new character with mine. Its up to you

I'm still happy with it.

I am enjoying Greg, even if he has been difficult at times, to both write for and towards the party.

Well as you all know I have an open policy regarding criticism but I am glad that you are all having a good time - you've only scratched the surface of the truth thus far

I'm good with what has happened and where we are. Good ST'ing Dr.

I'm sorry about Cal but it happens.

That's my IC and OOC impression here as well.

I'm happy, too. Just wanted to state that Feeling very comfortable with you all.

Something I forgot to add ...

By this point everybody's PC has had the chance to see the new "star" in the sky.

I'll update the first post accordingly but I wanted to make it clear you have all seen that something new is visible in the night-time sky.

Question - this room had two tunnels leaving it, one to the surface and the other to the torture chamber. It had been mentioned in TT that you might wall that tunnel up but it wasn't mentioned in game. SHould I assume it has been walled up or collasped during the past week?

yes, Raider would have made sure that was done.

My understanding is that Anna would/will be a huge asset in this.

I just wanted to be 100%

This is not aberrant thinking. Note not all the aberrants are taint monkeys, some have very little taint (less than Anna, Raider, and Gregory). Aberrants in this game feel that they are superior to baselines and that humans are little more than breeding stock, slaves, and entertainment. A taint-less and 100% sane nova would be an aberrant simply by choosing to separate himself from baselines in this way.

The reverse is true as well. We have PCs with 4 and 5 taint but they are not aberrants because they do not subjugate and use baselines but strive to live and work among them.

Thats true I suppose. The only thing Anna wouldn't do is actively hurting someone. She is a pacifist and has combat paralysis (sp?)

You also have EA:Earth, correct? You can make a stone wall in the tunnel just by deciding to do so. You can build and reshape tunnels.

Yeah - that's my schtick, or how you call it?

I don't know whether you guys are ignoring the information Gregory is trying to relay, but he is on the verge of taking matters into his own hand. It almost seems as if you missed the post entirely. Calypso and Anna didn't miss it, because both commented on it.

I'm not sure I really understand it, then everyone else started talking about other things. Try explaining what you overheard IC and Raider will listen.

Doug can be dim and he's tired and his girlfriend is having problems. Now he's not even standing there.

At first I thought he meant that they were trying to do a burn, which we already knew.

But put another way, he knows of TWO SPECIFIC GUARDS who know what's going on.

Yeah, that was kinda the impression I got when I first read it too, which registered to me as being, ok, we already knew that. But like Courier said, there's more too it than that, and at the very least those two guards sound like they are worth chatting with.

hmm, lets assume for the moment that my post came in BEFORE Joani's cause I spent like way too long making that sound good to throw it out!

I agree

Another double post. I think I'd like to do the same thing, assume Doug spoke first.

sure - I could've sworn I updated the page just before I submitted my post... must've been a matter of seconds

I had the editor open for more than a minute so it's clearly my doing... although it's also a reflection of the nature of our medium.

bad medium! ... bad!

my moderator powers only alow me to edit and delet posts so I can't help by moving one above the other

We'll have to live with it I suppose

Acutally, what is past the torture chamber? I think I mentioned at one point that Raider planned to scout that out after everyone was down in the hideout. He would have done so during the 2 or three days we've been there.