[D20 CoC] Beyond the Mountains of Madness Campaign - Recruiting Alternate Players

[jdeleski]

Round 3 Underway
CURRENT PLAYER'S TURN: Either Vittorio (who's been delaying) or Paco

1st) Martin - Failed to pin Lawrence
--->>> 2nd) Vittorio - Delaying in place
--->>> 3rd) Paco - Must pin Lawrence to attempt to take the gun
4th) Taokan -
5th) Guest - Readying a punch if Lawrence breaks free from the grapple.
6th) Starkweather -
7th) Lawrence -
8th) Jim Poole -


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Job (the tortured one).

 

[jdeleski]

Further thoughts about this topic:

If I had my preferences, I'd suggest that you always make an IC post of the actions that your character is taking based on what you see happening here in the OOC thread. You don't NEED to make an OOC post, I can later copy that information over into my round-by-round listing (as I did with Bobitron's round 2 action). This OOC round-by-round listing is helpful for sharing and discussing and coordinating the information that we'll describe in our IC thread, and you're free to join in this conversation as you please.

I will occasionally produce a summary IC posting of results (as I did with Martin's action) and will weave the wording of that post around what each of you provide in the IC thread.

The net outcome of this is that, Morpheus, you should copy Martin's last action into the IC thread.

I'd be perfectly happy if this OOC thread managed to get 2 combat rounds, or even 5 rounds, ahead of the IC thread. So I'd rather see everyone keep the combat moving forward by posting your character's actions whenever you get a few minutes to spare instead of waiting for the IC thread to catch up. When time becomes available, I'll add a post in the the IC thread that summarizes the action from the OOC thread, but if we always wait for the IC thread to keep up, then we'll delay our game by quite a bit.

I know that these two statements conflict.
1) We need to post in the IC thread, and don't necessarily need to put anything in the OOC thread.
2) I'd like to keep combat moving, even if temporarily everyone posts in OOC, then updates the IC thread later.

It's a balance we'll have to strike. If we move quickly through the combat, and don't update the IC thread, then either we'll slow down when we get to our writings, or we may find that the OOC and IC threads are so out of synch that it's difficult to eventually write our IC descriptions. I'll let you know if my head explodes if you do likewise. Otherwise I assume that we're doing OK.

Morpheus, if you were posting your IC actions here to give me a "heads up" on your character's plans, and planned to copy them over to the IC thread after I added my IC writings for Paco's joining your grapple, then that's a great way to keep things moving.

Thanks!
Job.

 

[Bobitron]

Vittorio ain't goin' no where unless he is threatened himself or it looks like things are going south to the point where our leader might get shot.

 

[jdeleski]

I know that you'll all get a kick out of this, but it's a little off topic.

In RL, I'm a project manager for a top 500 company. I've been invited to a Project Management Leadership workshop in Orlando Florida during the week of October 24th and I've just submitted a proposal for a Poster session (I prepare a presentation) as follows:

TITLE: Project Management Challenges for Admiral Byrd's 1929 Antarctic Expedition
ABSTRACT: Based on studies of Admiral Byrd's 1929 Antarctic Expedition, I will present an outline of the project management challenges for Admiral Byrd and how he overcame them. Included will be an outline of Finances, Communications, Critical Path, Issues, Risks, and Project Planning and Management.



I actually submitted a much more boring presentation too, but I'm willing to bet that they accept my Antarctic Expedition presentation!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Job (the tortured one).

 

[Morpheus]

Further thoughts about this topic:

I'd be perfectly happy if this OOC thread managed to get 2 combat rounds, or even 5 rounds, ahead of the IC thread. So I'd rather see everyone keep the combat moving forward by posting your character's actions whenever you get a few minutes to spare instead of waiting for the IC thread to catch up. When time becomes available, I'll add a post in the the IC thread that summarizes the action from the OOC thread, but if we always wait for the IC thread to keep up, then we'll delay our game by quite a bit.

I know that these two statements conflict.
1) We need to post in the IC thread, and don't necessarily need to put anything in the OOC thread.
2) I'd like to keep combat moving, even if temporarily everyone posts in OOC, then updates the IC thread later.

It's a balance we'll have to strike. If we move quickly through the combat, and don't update the IC thread, then either we'll slow down when we get to our writings, or we may find that the OOC and IC threads are so out of synch that it's difficult to eventually write our IC descriptions. I'll let you know if my head explodes if you do likewise. Otherwise I assume that we're doing OK.

Morpheus, if you were posting your IC actions here to give me a "heads up" on your character's plans, and planned to copy them over to the IC thread after I added my IC writings for Paco's joining your grapple, then that's a great way to keep things moving.

Thanks!
Job.

Um...yes...that's exactly what I had planned...

 

[Bobitron]

That's awesome, jdeleski!

 

[jdeleski]

Round 3 Continued

Round 3 Underway
CURRENT PLAYER'S TURN: Taokan and Jim Poole remaining

1st) Martin - Failed to pin Lawrence
2nd) Vittorio - Delaying in place
3rd) Paco - Failed to pin Lawrence
--->>> 4th) Taokan -
5th) Guest - Readying a punch if Lawrence breaks free from the grapple.
6th) Starkweather - Breaks free from the crowd, seeing Lawrence underneath Martin and Paco
7th) Lawrence - Breaks the grapple, gaining control of his arms and gun
--->>> 8th) Jim Poole -


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Job (the tortured one).

 

[jdeleski]

*laughs* These stories do take interesting twists.

I just thought that I'd mention that I intentionally left Lawrence's action in the "Lawrence Loses It" post open to interpretation, and we now have an interesting interpretation to work with! In actuality, I was leaving an opening for Paco or Martin to make one last attempt to stop Lawrence from pulling the trigger (I didn't actually describe the gun going off...), but surely it would've been difficult to stop him at that point.

Let's keep the cameras rolling!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Job (the tortured one).

 

[Taokan]

Ah come on, Shaman, you killed Lawrence! Now I feel bad for the poor guy... Hehe

 

[The Shaman]

Ah come on, Shaman, you killed Lawrence! Now I feel bad for the poor guy... Hehe

Oopsie.

I don't think I'll be putting "professional wrestler" on Paco's resume any time soon. :\