Behind the Curtain - OOC (full)

[Velmont]

My job in Burkina Faso is finally finished, but I am not coming back home yet. I'll take advantage of the fact I am here to visit. I am leaving tommorow morning (5am GMT). I will try to go in Cyber cafe at least twice a week, to give some news and post, but it won't be always possible.

During the next two months, I'll be travelling in Benin (2 weeks), Mali (3 weeks), France (1 week) and Belgium (2 weeks) to finally come back by the 27 of April. During that time, I may fall silent for a whole week, mainly in the desert of Mali: Dogon Country and Timbouktou, where both place I may spend around 6 days.

As this game as slowed down a bit, I may be able to keep up, but Rybaer, you can also NPC Lawrence to speed thing up, I have no problem with that either. I will leave you some tips on how Lawrence should be played everytime I'm posting in case I fell silent for the next days.

If you have problem with it, just tell it.

 

[Rybaer]

That's fine. Hope you have fun with all that traveling.

Yeah, my ability to keep up with this game has slowed to more of a weekly pace. I'd like to get back to bi-weekly, but we'll see. I'll NPC Lawrence as needed to keep up at least weekly.

 

[Rybaer]

Does anyone know if Radiant is still around? Looks like he hasn't been online for about a week and a half. Did I miss a "I'm gonna be gone for a while" post?

I know I've been a little slow posting, but I'm kinda hoping to get everyone posts before moving too far...especially when our little lightning bug might become very important to the health of the rest of the group.

 

[Keia]

Radiant's been a little sporatic for about six to eight weeks now. I need Radian't character in my game, I've focused an encounter with Radiant and it kinda has to be resolved before anything else happens.

Don't have an explanation, but I'm sure Radiant will be back . . . . I'm hoping at least!

Keia

 

[Radiant]

sorry guys. Me's here. Got a ton of problems, none of which would have mattered but my pc broke down at the same time. Thought it was a virus but after two weeks I finaly realized it the mainboard, hat to get a new one, ..blablabla... . Sorry, next time I see that I get online someplace else to notify you guys.

 

[Rybaer]

Not a problem. Good to see ya back.

 

[Rybaer]

Just some out of character thoughts and updates for ya.

First off, this second episode is more or less done. A few things happened such that the finale of the story wasn't quite the energetic climax I'd intended...but I guess that just happens sometimes. But in the end, you guys "won." Paul's death at the end was not intended as a point of failure or frustration for you, but rather as a segue/intro into the next (bigger) storyline.

Once this is completely wrapped up (and I may take some license to speed that along), I'm planning on moving into a few more personal and individual stories for a short time.

As I did between parts 1 and 2, I'm offering everyone the chance to write up a different character if you're so inclined. I'm happy with the ones you're playing, but I have no problems changing things up.

I've also been reading up on M&M 2nd ed. and I really like what I see with that. I think the release is still a few months out, but I may consider having y'all redo your characters in that system if everyone is planning to get the book. We can deal with that when the time comes.

Any suggestions or comments, as always, are welcome.

 

[Velmont]

I want to tell it is a nice job you are doing with that game. I start to like hating Arty For that episode, there is one thing that I wanted to do, but that can be done in the epilogue, it is the main reason why Lawrence has gone there in the first time, find his father and see if he is safe. For the next episode, it will be Lawrence all the way.

M&M 2nd edition? Now, I didn't know it was on the way... let's me check the M&M website... skills 1 for 4... wow, it is even higher than any thing I have seen. Finally, we will see skilled heroes without the super-stats need. Other things I have read will make some of the things more cleared, and also, it will allow more flexibiity. As M&M is a system me and my friends like a lot, it is sure I'll have the book some time after it has been released.

 

[Rybaer]

Yeah, I hadn't heard about it either until just a week ago or so. I was checking the M&M site for the first time in a couple months and was kinda surprised by it. Everything I've read in the previews and on the message boards has me interested, though. Looks like a lot of things have been simplified and/or cleaned up.

 

[Radiant]

I would write a long post on how great a job your doing but I just got home from the U2 Open Air in Zurich and I'm dead tired so I will just hope you know that you do.
And yep I plan to buy the MM 2ed so I don't have a problem with switching to the system. If you're stuck for ideas with the current characters I'll try to come up with a new one in the next one or two days.