The Eye of Anubis: OOC Thread

[NeoTiamat]

Very good to hear!

Also, in the interests of getting this Book wrapped up soon, I'm going to be posting as often as there's anything to react to rather than waiting for 5-7 posts as I have been before.

Hope everyone is having a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, or whatever you celebrate instead ('Everyone getting Very Drunk Day' amongst us Russians.)

[lostboy]

Hope everyone is having a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, or whatever you celebrate instead ('Everyone getting Very Drunk Day' amongst us Russians.)

Weird, thats what Ive been doing since December the 1st.....

[The Whistler]

Happy belated Hanukkah, everybody!

Knowledge: Nature check 18+3=21. That get me anything?

Edit: Whoops! NM; forgot you can't use that untrained and get anything bigger than 10--looks like I'm in Charles' boat here, Nathan. Anyways, I'll try to keep n00b mistakes to a minimum from here on out.

[NeoTiamat]

Hope everyone is having a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, or whatever you celebrate instead ('Everyone getting Very Drunk Day' amongst us Russians.)

Weird, thats what Ive been doing since December the 1st.....

Well, that does explain your posting...



No problem Whistler, I didn't catch it either.

[lostboy]

lostboy wrote:
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Hope everyone is having a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, or whatever you celebrate instead ('Everyone getting Very Drunk Day' amongst us Russians.)


Weird, thats what Ive been doing since December the 1st.....


Well, that does explain your posting...

Thanks for that!

[NeoTiamat]

I live to serve.

Alright, now everyone's together, you guys can chat/discuss/speculate for a couple of days, then I'll move the group to the Inn and we can end the Book.

Also:

Bonux XP Opportunity: Unskilled,, moreover. Basically I think someone ought to act as a 'secretary' of sorts and collect all the mysterious evidence you guys have found.

You'd post it in the Rules&XP&Cast thread, and it'd probably look something like this:

• -Illusion magic on Anubite's gear
  -Guy with sharp teeth and smoked glasses tries to bribe Allikhain and Ulsaon to steal Eye
  -Anubite's Ankh disappeared, Loup unable to track. Charles's dagger also missing.

I can't do it for reasons of possible bias (if I include something that is significant but you guys don't notice, that'd be a tipoff). Doesn't require any particular skills on your part, just paying attention, and will pay 500 XP per Book.

If more than one person is interested, I'll go by writing skill (best) and XP total (lowest).

Volunteers post here.

[Rock of the Fraternity]

Excuse me for putting in a little non sequitur, here -- HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYBODY!

[yalenusveler]

Horoshe novy Let/Happy new Year everyone!
Hopefully mine will improve quickly. I've been sparse posting due to mother's health issues. She has an unfortunate habit of thinking because she works in health care, she can ignore her own....thankfully, her and reason are getting re-acquainted, and my usual blather shall resume, perhaps tomorrow/today.

[Rock of the Fraternity]

I hope your mom feels better soon, then.

[DocBeard]

I'm sorry to hear about your mother, man. I hope she gets well soon.

Hey, um, DM? I know you wanted us to pick it up so we can get to the next book, but it feels a little like we're not letting the whole group pose in since the scene-switch to the outside with the professors. Do you want us to hold up, or keep going?

I only ask because we haven't really gotten a sense of the PCs as a seperate group, and I don't want to make that worse by rushing ahead of folks.

[The Whistler]

Same here.

Also, due to the trip I mentioned, I'm gonna have to bow out until January 14th either today or tomorrow, depending on computer access. If it comes up, just figure that Otto came down with the flu or something for the first part of the Expedition, or something similar.

[NeoTiamat]

I'm sorry to hear about your mother, man. I hope she gets well soon.

Hey, um, DM? I know you wanted us to pick it up so we can get to the next book, but it feels a little like we're not letting the whole group pose in since the scene-switch to the outside with the professors. Do you want us to hold up, or keep going?

I only ask because we haven't really gotten a sense of the PCs as a seperate group, and I don't want to make that worse by rushing ahead of folks.

I'm not quite sure what you mean, could you elaborate?

[DocBeard]

I'm not quite sure what you mean, could you elaborate?

Eh, nevermind, sorry. Should've thought it through more. I was just a little worried that I was moving too quickly and bogarting the fun, is all.

[NeoTiamat]

Ah, I understand now.

My personal philosophy, with regards to PbPs, (this is my fourth, so I hope I have *some* idea what I'm talking about), is that better too fast than too slow. Hustle-hustle-hustle, keep things moving, keep the action flowing, new revelations, new information, new scenes and new foes, hurry-hurry-hurry. Nothing kills a PbP as surely as slow or lax posting.

That's my view, so I'm trying very hard to keep things going at a good pace. PbPs are a naturally slow medium, so I try to counteract that.

However, I will open this up to the rest of you guys:

Are we moving too slow, too fast, just right?

[Rock of the Fraternity]

I'm okay with the current rate of posting, and would sometimes even like it to be a -little- faster.