A Merc's Life [OOC 01]

[Scott DeWar]

I know there was nothing for you to respond to, it was for scotley to respond to and as you have just oh so delicately put it, Keeland's 'handler' is AWIL (Absent With Leave). very frustrateing I have to admitt.

 

[Scotley]

I am back and will have Keeland respond to what ever it was if it isn't too late...*darts off to the IC thread*

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

Hello? Anyone there? Hello? Hmmm.

 

[Leif]

OOC: Houwlou is here, Bossman!

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

So, no one you've interviewed claims to have seen the fire started. Most of them are suspicious of Dashki, the expert on Gnolls hired by Almah - but this could be justified, or it could be a result of him not being very likeable in general and having a crush bordering on obsession with the Lady Almah.

What's next? More interviews? An accusation? Other investigation?

 

[renau1g]

Hmmm.....

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On a personal note, I've never been very good with investigatory-type adventures. Not sure why, but I just kinda suck at them. Not an excuse, just letting you know. I don't want hand-holding.
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[Leif]

Well, Houwlou's plan for the investigation pretty much panned out, so he's fresh out of ideas. Maybe he can come up with something after a bit, but for right now, he's basically at a total loss. He wanted Dashki to be the villain, but wound up wanting to go out drinking and womanizing with him. Is there something that we've forgotten to check on, guys? Or have we hit a brick wall?

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

Investigation is even more difficult in PbP, in some ways - sometimes it's long enough between posts, or a bit of information gets missed in reading a post, I guess.

I try to do recaps and summaries fairly frequently both as prods and as pointers.

This part of the adventure is actually fairly minor, but I like it primarily because it keeps the adventure from being simply one combat strung into the next. Also, the APs (from what I've read so far) build one thing onto the next, rumors and 'chance encounters' from earlier adventures become important in later ones.

To keep player enjoyment at a maximum and to keep things moving I'll let y'all tell me when you're ready to give up on a particular point and I'll give it to you - just let me know when you feel like you've given it your best effort and you're totally stymied and I'll move it along. I'll post a spoiler in the OOC (like the one here) and let you decide who reads it, then you can slant your role play towards it. Just do me a favor and try to work it into the story so it's not completely jarring .

[sblock=Investigating the Fire Spoiler Alert!]The obvious choice is the one the writers had in mind - take Dashki to Almah and accuse him.[/sblock]

 

[Leif]

[sblock=Investigating the Fire Spoiler Alert!]The obvious choice is the one the writers had in mind - take Dashki to Almah and accuse him.[/sblock]

Somebody besides Houwlou needs to do this, because he's already kinda started to make friends with the guy. Not to worry, if someone mentions to Houlwou that they still think Daski is responsible, he'll go along, he just doesn't want to be the one to accuse the guy.

 

[Scott DeWar]

huh. I gots an idea. lets start by having every one meet in the boss' tent and discuss what we have heard.