The Eye of Anubis: OOC Thread

[Cronax]

Now that you've all found the real Mandisa, consider for a moment the implications of some of you choking down her rotten cooking earlier.

[Rock of the Fraternity]

Now that you've all found the real Mandisa, consider for a moment the implications of some of you choking down her rotten cooking earlier.

So I was right, the first mummy we met was the sausage ...

[Nathan of the FoS]

Now that you've all found the real Mandisa, consider for a moment the implications of some of you choking down her rotten cooking earlier.

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!

[Nathan of the FoS]

Aw, man, Vedarrak bit the dust? *snif* Well, I hope he got his licks in, anyway.

[Ornum]

Yeah, I've been a silent reader since this game started. I look forward to reading this every single day. I love the story, most of the NPC's (or hate them, as the case may be...Cavendish, I'm looking at you), and I really love the PC's. All that said, I really feel the need to comment.

This chapter is outstanding. I just got through reading the last round of posts and that, coupled with the cutscene with the professors that ends with the Cavendish reveal and Carter's response, is just...wow.

I *really* hate Cavendish (which is the sign of a great villain), and even now more than ever. Seriously, at the point that Sebastian recognized it was Cavendish, I actually wanted him to suddenly become a pile of ash. Or a pin cushion. Basically...dead. And I'm not even that big of a Sebastian fan.

Great work from everyone involved. Keep it up.

Now, all this just needs to be edited down and put in some sort of single point of view narrative.

[Gonzoron of the FoS]

Anyone want to fill a clueless bystander in on the Andre's-heart-in-a-box-kept-by-the-Falks storyline? Creepy as all heck, but how'd that happen????

[NeoTiamat]

Aw, man, Vedarrak bit the dust? *snif* Well, I hope he got his licks in, anyway.

What is it with my PCs and assumptions these days, geez.

Yeah, I've been a silent reader since this game started. I look forward to reading this every single day. I love the story, most of the NPC's (or hate them, as the case may be...Cavendish, I'm looking at you), and I really love the PC's. All that said, I really feel the need to comment.

This chapter is outstanding. I just got through reading the last round of posts and that, coupled with the cutscene with the professors that ends with the Cavendish reveal and Carter's response, is just...wow.

I *really* hate Cavendish (which is the sign of a great villain), and even now more than ever. Seriously, at the point that Sebastian recognized it was Cavendish, I actually wanted him to suddenly become a pile of ash. Or a pin cushion. Basically...dead. And I'm not even that big of a Sebastian fan.

Great work from everyone involved. Keep it up.

Now, all this just needs to be edited down and put in some sort of single point of view narrative.

Volunteering?

Much of the credit to this storyline has to go to Isabella, really. With the exception of the cutscene from Cavendish's perspective, she wrote all of them. Then rewrote them when the PCs mucked up our plans. Then rewrote them again. I think the last cutscene underwent some four or five variations (I lost count).

Of course, the best is yet to come. Now the PCs need to extract themselves and the NPCs from this mess.

Anyone want to fill a clueless bystander in on the Andre's-heart-in-a-box-kept-by-the-Falks storyline? Creepy as all heck, but how'd that happen????

Long story short, Andre is a member of the FoS, and so is Vedarrak. Save that Andre is by way of being an ex-member, though the rest of the FoS didn't know that yet.

After the PCs talked to Vedarrak the first time, the Kommandant kept Andre behind a bit and had another chat, from an FoS perspective. Long story short, though Andre put up a pretty good bluff, Vedarrak didn't reach his position by being trusting, so he utilized a little ritual provided by one of his higher-ups in the Fraternity of Shadows.

This replaced Andre's heart with a piece of stone, and stuck the heart into the box. Now.... what Isabella and I had expected was that Andre would tell the other PCs, and it would discourage any monkey business. Instead he kept mum.

Devereux, of course, immediately realized what was wrong, and so began the long "get the heart back" plan on the part of the professors and Remy.

....of course, once the ruthless but pragmatic Vedarrak was replaced with everyone's favorite shapeshifting sadist, the scheme went somewhat mushroom-cloud-shaped.

[Isabella]

Much of the credit to this storyline has to go to Isabella, really. With the exception of the cutscene from Cavendish's perspective, she wrote all of them.

With the also exception of the poem Marchand-Renier remembered, which was written by a better author than me.

[Isn't it just perfect for the Reniers, though?]

Then rewrote them when the PCs mucked up our plans. Then rewrote them again.

boy did I ever

[Rock of the Fraternity]

So, what do we do? Charge in with guns blazing or regroup, recharge and reconnoiter first?

[Kaitou Kage]

Just for future reference, everyone.

This is something I thought I'd mentioned but I might've let it slip through the cracks. Either way, this is something Kuzan would let you all know.

I have a million cure light wounds wands right now. Unless there's a pressing need for immediate healing right on the spot (like, say, a battle), I have more than enough healing power to bring people to full during a slow point.

You all can assume that you know this IC so I think you can prolly justify your characters saving whatever lay on hands type resources you have until a point where I can't get to the target :\ I already warned you guys that I am out of mass cures specifically so you wouldn't do something like this and I kept mentioning that I could heal people up for the same reason. If the upcoming battle gets rough, you just might be up a creek without a paddle.

That being said, everyone that took damage from the acid spray can consider themselves fully healed. There's been two hours or something so I think I have enough time to do that.

[DocBeard]

Seriously dude I'm not going to stand still for a round while my mentee is on the ground sobbing with her leg broken and her arms around a grave.

Let us borrow a few wands for splitting up or something, we'll fight defensively and be fine.

[NeoTiamat]

As a practical matter, if you guys wish to split up (I won't say if I think it's a good idea, but I think it'd be an interesting one), you have several NPCs to help out.

Edmund is a solid front-liner, Sarari can snipe against anything that isn't undead very nicely, and Dieter is a bit of a jack of all trades. Remy is a low-level Archivist, and Devereux.... is useless, but still. Currently, Mandisa is also pretty useless.

Also, Remy and Sarari are both pretty stealthy. Edmund and Dieter, not so much.

Menetnashte is also around. Make of this what you will.

[NeoTiamat]

Also, regarding Fatigue. Based on reading the Forced March rules, and based on the fact that you folks have been up for about 20 hours now, here's what's been decided.

We'll assume that there's been a certain amount of failing Con checks and taking of non-lethal damage, but Kage has agreed to spend some wand charges to remove that. Say... two charges per PC/NPC, working out to seven PCs and three NPCs, so twenty charges.

So basically, don't worry about Fatigue.

[Nathan of the FoS]

OK, so, Whistler, lostboy, Andre, the plan we are mulling is as follows:

Charles and Sarari go in search of Vedarrak. Everyone else proceeds to the main square to figure out a) if "Vedarrak", by which I mean, Cavendish, is there, and b) if the professors are there. If Cavendish is there impersonating V., then create a diversion while we do our best to produce the genuine Vedarrak, so the Falkovnians don't kill us. Nature of diversion to be determined later. We are awaiting another bat report, which should give us more information. No word yet on where the professors are or how/if they can be rescued by means other than a direct frontal assault.

Questions? Comments? Emendations?

[Rock of the Fraternity]

You forgot we'd like Otto to accompany Charles and Sarari; more trackers equals better chances at finding Vedarrak ... I hope.