The Eye of Anubis: OOC Thread

[Nathan of the FoS]

"Smooth" is how socially skilled the person is, more or less. Can the PC talk her/his way out of trouble? Doe s/he always seem to know the right thing to say to people? Is s/he personable and charming? If the answer is "Yes", the person is Smooth, if No, Not Smooth.

"Shady" is how suspicious the person makes you. Does the person have a lot of secrets? Do you think s/he might have a criminal past, or a past that needs to be concealed for some other reason? Does the person's backstory fit the persona they put forward?

[NeoTiamat]

To choose an extreme example: Jervis.

Jervis is not smooth. He does not talk if he can help it, he is gruff, surly, and downright rude. Ergo, he has a negative Smooth value, and a pretty high negative smooth value at that.

Likewise, the mercenary refuses to talk about his past, and avoids people, hinting that he has secrets in his past. Therefore, a positive Shady value is hinted at.

This is mostly an OOC value, but without using any metagaming knowledge. I.e., Even if your character doesn't suspect anyone, you still can, but try not to use any information you might have about someone that your character wouldn't have. So you have the same observations, but can have different conclusions.

[lostboy]

oops sorry spell translataion got lost in the mapwork, I'll get on it soonish honestly....

[Kaitou Kage]

To add onto what Nathan's doing (because you can never have too much to do, right?), if you all could send me a PM, an IM, a message, a SOMETHING letting me know what you see your character's "theme color" as, I'd appreciate.

Just pick one color, two at most, that you feel represents your character, symbolically, physically, and/or thematically. I am not really concerned how you reach your conclusion, just that you do reach a conclusion and get back to me ASAP Thanks!

[Nathan of the FoS]

Obviously Charles and Otto have different aesthetic sensibilities.

[The Whistler]

Lamordian, dude! This is a guy who custom-forged a Bracer of Archery because the original design was "too ostentatious."

[NeoTiamat]

Alright, I'll be posting your arrival at the mine tomorrow morning.

If I may ask, why were you ready to kill Cevdet? I.e. What evidence do you have that he's the child-kidnapper? (He still might be, I'm just curious what the specific logic was behind the tenseness)

[The Whistler]

Otto's just jumpy enough to be angry at any Red Wizard that appears vaguely suspicious; Basler seems to have already acquitted himself, more or less, and all that repressed vengefulness has gotta go somewhere. Enter another mage with a much shiftier reputation, and boom.

[Kaitou Kage]

I have a suspicion Cevdet's a red herring. He's suspected because he's the only clear lead, but everything pointing to him is quite circumstantial...

[yalenusveler]

Because it is the nature of the PC to be paranoid to the point of nigh psychosis

[Rock of the Fraternity]

Paranoia is when you only think danger lurks around every corner. In Ravenloft, such beliefs aren't paranoia, they're just common sense ... ^^;

[NeoTiamat]

Paranoia is when you only think danger lurks around every corner. In Ravenloft, such beliefs aren't paranoia, they're just common sense ... ^^;

Yes... Lia's paranoia has worked wonders so far with regards to Marilena.... Basler.... Cevdet...

[The Whistler]

With regard to *actual* evidence, as opposed to paranoia... He's an illusionist, which means disguises; someone who looked like a Vistana led Kemal away despite us not having any reason to suspect the Vistani, there was a wolf who turned into a displacer beast, and so forth--a lot of suspicious things aren't looking like what they seem. A team of Red Wizards or Red Wizard lookalikes had to be involved at some point in the kidnapping process, vis a vis the botched recapturing of Kemal. And the mine mentioned in the prophecy (or so we think) is on Tarik's land...

[yalenusveler]

And again proven...it's only paranoia when you're wrong.

[Nathan of the FoS]

Man. Paranoid at all the wrong times. Not a winner!

Oh well. Our questions, at least, have been answered--[IRONY]Thank you, Vistana prophecy![/IRONY]--and once we get clear of this mess Cevdet Tarik is going to be mighty, mighty sorry.