[Closed] The Psionicle

[GnomeWorks]

Recruiting for the Psionicle is now over.

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Hello!

If you've read the Psionicle game, and you're interested in getting in on it, this may be your lucky day.

I'm looking for one or two people that are dedicated to their PbPs. I would ask that all applicants have moderate experience (6-12 months) in PbP, and can post once every couple days, at minimum.

I also ask that anyone in the Coldlands War game not sign up.

This recruiting is not on a FCFS basis. I will determine who gets in by maturity, experience, and dedication. Do note that, while those sound like high expectations, I'm actually a lot less strict than I sound. Just remember that posting your interest here will not necessarily get you into the game.

This recruiting thread will close in one week (on Sunday, November 14th).

A quick note about my DMing style - the world is alive. Every action you take has an effect on the world. All choices that are presented to you are, in fact, choices - I will not railroad you into anything. NPCs will react to you as you act towards them, and everyone in the world has their own agenda, personality, and ways of thinking. Every action has a reaction. Think of the world as though it were alive, and you'll do well.

 

[Ferrix]

Bummer... since I'm in the Coldlands War game... oh well.

 

[GnomeWorks]

If it turns out you're the only one interested, Ferrix, I might lift that restriction... the only reason I don't want to mix players is because the two groups might meet up at some point, and I wanted to avoid confusion.

But I don't really know how likely that is, since the two groups are on two different continents.

 

[Eluvan]

Oh, I am SO interested in this. Of course, I'm not sure I meet your criterion of '6-12 months PbP experience'. I've been following PbP for a couple of years and have been directly involved in it for a few months now - but not here. On another site, one on the EzBoard network. It does, however, have very strict moderation and I have had to meet their standards for a while now, so I feel like I really do know my way around PbP gaming. I'm also a very freqent poster - I usually check the boards four or five times a day (yeah, I know, I have no life).

At any rate, I'd really love to get in on this game. I haven't followed the whole thread, but I'd read up on it if I was going to join. So what do you think? If you want an idea of how I roleplay, you could take a look at this thread on the aforementioned EzBoard, which I'm currently playing in.

 

[GnomeWorks]

Eluvan - as I mentioned, I post criteria like that to give people a general feel for what I'm looking for, but I don't know how strictly I'll adhere to them.

I just took a look at the link provided and... wow. That's a lot of detail there. I'm impressed.

If you'd like to take a look at the Psionicle, you can take a look at the threads linked to in my sig. We're currently on the 12th thread, and we should probably change over to a 13th pretty soon.

 

[Eluvan]

Cool. I'll take a look tomorrow - for tonight my time is monopolised by finishing my Ceramic DM entry.

 

[Xael]

Well, I havent' really read the Psionicle, but I've heard of it and I'm interested. I should meet that Pbp time preqruisite, and I can post (about) every day if I have something to post.

But I seriously doubt that I can match that amount of detail (and volume of text) in Eluvan's link. Whoa.

 

[Creamsteak]

I'm kinda popping in without authority from Gnomeworks, but what I think the group really needs is someone who (even when there's not a great deal to be said) gives the thread a good bump and moves the game forward one step every day. Descriptions and lots of content are good, but what they really need is a bumper (gives the thread a little bump every day) and a bouncer (someone to bounce an idea off, and put new ideas in).

Those two traits would go a long way to get the game moving at a steady pace again.

 

[Thanee]

A dozen IC threads are a bit much to read through. *blink*

Couldn't you (or anyone) give a short (just two or three sentences) summary of what is going on there roughly?

Also, which characters are around still, from the last pages of the IC it looks like only two (maybe three) are really posting, Syld, Ruth and maybe Jansson. Also Animus seems to be there, but currently not involved in the IC (hence the lack of posting there, I guess).

Found this, so far.

Osius, Syld, Jansson, Animus, Ruth. The names of those hunting for the pieces of a powerful artifact that will save psionics and prevent those who practice the arts of the mind from certain destruction. But in the distant dark, their enemies plot against them... Jirlai, Ratheqar, and the woman in black still lurk in the world, though where, none can say. Though they have enemies, they also have allies... Shardorn, the goblin cleric of Rashida who has been with them through several of their trials, and the unusual Kloranth, a user of psionics found at the library. Their adventures have ranged from delving into the caverns of Thri-Kreen, to exploring an ancient library far distant from the city of Garanasseur... and certainly stranger places await them on their journey.

Their quest is daunting, their enemies many... but still they continue...

Do you still use 3.0 rules there? At least the psionic characters look like it in the RG, tho the OOC seems to hint, they are just about being upgraded to 3.5.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Dalamar]

The original characters were in a town attacked by (IIRC) thri-kreen, fled to another town and at some point came across the Staff of Ancient Penumbra (or whatever the name of the illithid staff artifact is), decided they needed to bring together the rest of the pieces of the Psionicle, the artifact representing the power of psionics in the world (similar artifacts for arcane magic and technology already exist). They head out with flying carriages provided by a friendly council, but get attacked by a half-illithid(s) on the way and crashland.
The continue their journey with a broken carriage and come across yuan-ti, who posses one of the fragments of the Psionicle. A techie who has been accompanying them turns out to be a traitor. After negotiations, the yuan-ti high priestess agrees to give the artifact to the party and there's a fight with Jirlai in which two of the characters die, but one is brought back by the high priestess (other doesn't wish to return). The party returns to the council, who have found the location of another part, deep within 'kreen territory.
The party investigates the thri-kreen tunnels, runs into associates of Jirlai's who they defeat, recovers the part after a confrontation with Jirlai, and returns to the council again. A friendly goblin cleric who's been traveling with the characters tells of a library in a faraway locale that might contain another piece, and the party sets out to recover it. After opening a tricky door, the party fights against Jirlai and Ratheqar with some success, but some of them are heavily wounded, and one is MIA (player left, IIRC).
And that's about where the current thread begins, I think.

I might have the order of the 'kreen tunnels and the 'ti forest wrong, but I think that's about the basics of it all.