Eh? What? ... Oh. heh, No. I was merely pointing back to my original post regarding the Fictions. Go ahead an post your fictions in a new thread.

I suggest all Fictions be titled as such. "Fic: Character Name: Title"

Yeah that works. Eventually though I may ask Chosen to create a couple of Sub-forums, one for fiction and the other for retired threads (I.e. all of Book 1)

Yes, I'm here! I'm staying around for this! =^_^=

OK No player losses, that's good. Everybody has a good chunk of Exp and there's possibility for a bit more from fictions. I'm going to take this week off and brainstorm for the next Book/chapter. At this time I'm going to put out mu usual request for feedback as well as to ask if there is anything you would like to see coming up either in general or for your character. I.e. If Raider is going to make it his mission to track down James or not, if Courier is going to try and open trade with K-bec, or anything like that. So feel free to tell me what you want, I'll do my best to work stuff in where I can.

In the mean time I may post a couple more times IC in the Chapter 4 as needed ( I owe Courier at least one more post as KB)

RE: K-bec
Excellent idea, especially with Adam and Buzz around. Does anyone other than Buzz speak French? And do we have any idea what K-bec has for trade?

RE: Courier
The other thing he'll do is offer the link to the new novas.

Calypso knows French and English. She's from up North, don'tcha know. Oh yah.

That reminds me ... old PCs, so Adam, Buzz, and Sebastian need to be taken as Allies if you guys want to continue using their skills/abilities. I may from time to time use them as NPCs but Adam will nto be providing continued warp support unless somebody buys him as an ally. This is especially true of Buzz because I do hope he'll be able to return to the game in the future, though from the sound of it that wasn't likely, unfortunately.

... Courier I'll try and remember to review the Allies entry tonight and get back to you regarding KB as well. Sorry about the delay

RE: Allies and Exp
Doug is the obvious one to pay for Adam; I'll hold back 6 exp for allies (so he could pay up to 3 dots for both Adam and KB).

I like Buzz, but as I'd really prefer to use a French-speaking PC rather than NPC, I'll leave him for someone else.

RE: French & Calypso
Excellent. Want to go with me and check out K-bec? I suspect KB will go with us but she's unlinkable right now.

Courier, you have a PM ...

... and yes I totally owe you a KB post ...

Sure, I guess. Calypso's actually from the Canadian northeast. Anything in particular you're looking to find?

IC and OOC, I don't know. What we know is that the (French speaking) city of K-bec built an airship. So obviously they have *something*.

The K-becers are isolationists, they tend to be arrogant. And their unwillingness to trade leads many to believe that their control extends far to the west into old Canada. How much of that is true is unknown. Of course this is in addition to any conclusions and assumptions that you made in the first couple of chapters.

I'll be starting Book 2 either this weekend or Monday.

Please have your experience expenditures to me by Monday.

EDIT: ... and yes the Title for B2C1 is just "More" ... <eg>

So is this k-bec thing going to be a joint story? Or part of the new chapter? Or a tail end of the old?

I am unsure! Also, confused.

Meep?

Umm Bradford here ...

I think Courier was thinking of a joint story. I'm not saying anything about the contents of "More" but the group will be together (at least nominally) at the start of the next story.

Since posting appears to have stopped in Chap 4 I'll be posting an Epilogue and locking the thread sometime soon.

I'm saying that someone just told Doug where there is a chicken that lays golden eggs, so he's likely to want a piece of that if he can get it.

Further, with the Squidward situation now might be a good time to take a trip out of town...

So a visit to K-bec is definately on the "list of things to do", and Calypso is the obvious person to ask to get involved.

So it's a plot hook more than anything. We don't need to pursue it but it's an option, and something I fully intend to bring up IC.

Sounds intriguing. She'd be up for a treasure hunt.

On a different subject, it's been a while of downtime, would/did Calypso and Seven want/accept a psi-link?

Possibly...how does it work, and is it reversible and if so, how?

It's like a telepathic cellphone - you can "talk" to the person you're connected to but only him or her, while they can be linked to others and act like a dispatcher, relaying stuff to everyone. Nobody hears your random thoughts.

OK B2C1 has been updated with actual in game text. I've set the scene for y'all and I'm going to give you a round or two of posting to converse and whatnot. It's been four months and it now early january. if you have fictions you're working on you can bring them up in here to tie them in or ... you know ... not.

Anyways enjoy I'll be back tomorrow with More...

Expendable has it right. It costs 5q to set up, but after that it can be broken by either party and it's free to set up again. It has a range of 1000km per (Q+D). It's listed in the abby errata, although where that is on this site I keep forgetting.

Technically it can be hacked by a for-real telepath (Squidward has done it), but that's really hard, if someone can do that then they can heck into your head more easily. Doug can't attack people through the link (and he has no other mental powers 'cept for p-shield), and while it's up it gives a +1 diff per extra person linked (i.e. +1) for mental attacks.

Given the insane range it's not good for location, all Doug can tell is if someone is in range which limits their location to North America. Switching from one person to another costs Doug an action, so out of combat it can be rotated without a problem (but in combat normally he doesn't bother).

So basically it's a quantum cell phone. If you don't like it, you can hang up and never pick it up again.

Sounds fine. She'd be fine with that.

I'll try it too. Just don't expect a lot of conversation from me.

Actually I've been thinking about that. I was worried that your flaw would be too easy to overcome via Courier's Q-phone but maybe you could take it one step further and unlike the others, who use the q-phone with words, maybe Seven can only, or chooses to, use the q-phone to share impressions, emotions, ideas, pictures, etc. Basically you could benifit from the q-phone while still playing through the "mute" flaw.

Just an idea

Another solution is that Seven can't send messages in Courier's presence. I.e. she could use it if it isn't a sub for speech, but she can't use it when it would be.

that's a good solution for balance, but it's kind of odd in terms of in-game experience. What about Courier's presence would inhibit it? I'm sure we could come up with something, but it seems to me that Dave's idea might be cooler from an RP perspective.

Seven's aberration might not -just- be that she's mute. She might be sort of pre-linguistic. The problem isn't with her mouth, it's with her brain. This would be limited to her ability to generate language, of course...she can understand what people are saying...but her own thoughts and experiences are never linguistically expressed, even on a purely internal basis. Therefore, even a direct mental link can't create words from her. There are no words; no possibility of words ever forming.

Dave? heh I'm not Dave I'm the Doctor ... and Andrew ... and Callum

Umm clarification for you all. The storm IS the same one. It has not been sitting over newborough since fall though, it still moves like a normal storm (mostly) it whacked Newborough in the fall as a powerfull hurricane. It is back now ~18 weeks later and as is the case of noreasters up my my neck of the woods it is sitting on the region and pooping snow on it. I had thought it would be understood that the storm had navigated around the northern hemisphere and was back for seconds but maybe I flubbed that. If not my bad again!

Oh and I think Lily is on the same page as me. Physical muteness could be a physical representation of an underlying language issue possibly nuerological in origin possibly psycological...

Well, I figured this was the same storm...I thought my dialogue reflected that...

Sorry about the Dave thing. I had just read his little shout thingy and my brain was contaminated! It's HIS fault! HIIIIISS!!

heh no worries. I just wanted to clarify on both points ...

She's always thinkin' of me... I'm flattered. <blushes>

That sums up it's strengths and weaknesses. It keeps the links ability to sidestep language, but also enforces the actual weakness.

This sounds really cool... but it's also a bigger handicap than just "mute". Being mute you can use sign language, or write words, or even play 20 questions. With this you pretty much can't.

How about something a hair less limited, you can use the link, but you can't even think about saying words because you're never been able to. I.e. if you think about writing something down, that counts as a "deeper" level of thought and it doesn't broadcast (or at least Seven doesn't know how to).

So you can't just think about writing something, you'd actually have to write it and then read it.

that's a good point there...very good point.

We should probably wait for Seven to ring in on this and see what she has to say.

No vocal cords or they don't work, so I've never been able to speak. But I've got some guestures I've been using as sign language.

I can read & write but I don't know how to make conversation Don wasn't much for it, at least with me. So if I use Courier or write on some paper, it's only going to be a word or two, mostly simple. It'll be rare I say anything longer than that.

*blue*; *No*; *hurt*; *snow*

OK, mental note to self, don't read Seven's fictions before a meal