perrinmiller
Adventurer
Right now at son's baseball practice (on my iPhone). I will post later during my evening.
Jeesh BinderFred, you don't believe in posting lightly do ya.
It takes a significant amount of time just to read it, nevermind trying to understand the words Sloor is trying to say.
Nebten, I'm not angry about it, but your character has told mine to 'shut up, stop what you're doing and obey me or you can just leave'. Not once, but twice. Where was the team playing there? If, on the other hand, you mean team playing as in 'running around from battle to battle with no attempt to figure out why I'm doing it', then yes, I plead guilty to a total lack of that sort of thing. Perrin wanted a scene where we get to know each other better and I agree that the group doesn't know anything significant about each other at all at this point. This is what I'm delivering, if perhaps in too brutal a form (?).I'm trying to keep the "Jedi" cool, but Sloor appears to have a way to piss off everybody he comes in contact with. Not really the type of team player one finds or needs in this setting.
I dropped a hint there in his ranting: Sloor is pissed off that supposed rebels who consider the Empire a Very Bad Thing or, worse, are apparently out to help a complete stranger out of the goodness of their heart, don't consider the people of *his* home worth helping or saving, or even mentionning, really (wether he thinks his home *needs* saving is another matter entirely ). So Sloor, like a big cat, cares about known places, familiar people, established contacts and prepared fall back options. He's a scoundrely dwarven defender!Sloor is reminding me of Han Solo, grumbling and complaining a lot, but yet something keeps him hooked in and helping. We have to figure out what.
Nor was Sloor while stormtroopers or chevin bandits were shooting at them (as I recall he was shielding Mir and Maya with his own body and taking down the main boss, respectively). It was, as a matter of fact, Keyton who started that last combat with a monetary offer to Switch! (and was greatly admired by Sloor for it, granted ).Hans Solo didn't try to salvage guns or stormtrooper armor when he was trying to get off the Death Star.
Wasn't a criticism mate. Good luck, and hope you have time to play in your schedule.I'll actually be slowing down quite a bit about two weeks from now.
I did say it is colorful and amusing, so don't change it on my account, but if others aren't reading it carefully... However, if you use a strange slang, it might help if it's defined in a spoiler block to cut down on potential confusion.Is it really that hard? I'm just substituting "aw" for "oh" sounds and "an" for "on" sounds.... I don't really see how I could make it simpler at this point either.... Hm, I think a character in "A Simple Dungeoncrawl" was having a similar problem, now that I think about it. He decided to post his text in "clear" in an sblock at the bottom of his posts (more work for me but hey). Would that be acceptable?
This hasn't gone over well with Mack or me either, BTW. And now Mir has jumped on board, by essentially telling him to go his own way.Nebten, your character has told mine to 'shut up, stop what you're doing and obey me or you can just leave'. Not once, but twice. Where was the team playing there?
We still don't. And there were some valid points about things IC not making any sense and Sloor has pointed them out. Keyton and Mir have said a little about themselves, mostly what was obvious from their actions (helping Maya, no love for the empire, and can fight). Don't Mir or Keyton want to try to understand what or why Sloor is doing what he is doing instead of just chalking it up to greed? Mack doesn't necessarily see eye to eye with Sloor, but sees the advantages of his abilities and tried to explain his reasoning and interpretation, but well... Those comments appear to be lost in amongst the rest of the posts and forgotten. So now we are just going to sweep it under the rug to move on, or what?Perrin wanted a scene where we get to know each other better and I agree that the group doesn't know anything significant about each other at all at this point.
Both Keyton and Mir have essentially lied about their force powers by omission. Have you figured out how you're going to fix that? Mack and Sloor may not be happy once they learn the truth. But that's a scene for another time.It would no doubt help, a lot, if any of us *knew* Keyton was a Jedi and that some of his behavior can therefore be explained by perceiving things others can't.
Perrin said:Both Keyton and Mir have essentially lied about their force powers by omission. Have you figured out how you're going to fix that? Mack and Sloor may not be happy once they learn the truth. But that's a scene for another time.
Too bad she failed at her Negate Energy roll, *that* could have been hard to ignore. But I quite agree with the rest: just blurting it out is not a sane thing to do in this context. Some subtle hints and unconscious signs might get Keyton on the trail though, him being a more experienced force user and all. If all else fails, inadvertantly force chop Sloor's cerebelum next time he gets really "frustrating".yes Mir has omitted her force use. First off consider the times we, the characters, are living in. Jedi purge and all that. Second, we just met today. It is not something you go tell folk you do not fully know yet.
This being an action game though, I very much suspect that the short quiet times between battles ARE going to be the only character-building time we're going to get. Truth be told, it was perfectly in character for Sloor, but *I* wrote the "top of your list" remark with the fervent hope that he and Mir could get into a shouting match about it and that some things would come out in the open. She was the better woman on that one though -- serves me right.I would say Mir's just a little frustrated with Sloor right now. She's a calm and cool-headed person most of the time. So getting out of this task she may take the time get more personal with Mack and Sloor. Right now, there is a task and she's focused on that.