Dromus (One) OOC Thread

[DemonWolfZero]

To clarify, can OOC discussions of IC clues be done in here in this format? (warning, read at your own risk until Kelleris responds to whether or not this is the right format):

Adinal (OOC [sblock]So Adinal knows that our 'Boogeyman' is in fact dressed in a manner similar to Dromus' local representation of the 'Death' figure. If he were hooded with skeletal fingers and carrying a scythe, that would be the equivalent to us in real life. But, this being Dromus, 'Death' here also has a little of the Far Realms associated with him.[/sblock]

Testing the waters here, I'm not sure if this discussion is actually OOC (i.e we're chatting about what's going on around our virtual table), or if this is to eventually be transformed in IC discussion we do later...or what?

I'm still a tad confused about this, as you might have guessed.

 

[Kelleris]

This will be like table talk, basically, or post-game chit-chat if that's how your group does it instead. I may make some or all of it "over the campfire" stuff later on, but otherwise just assume that this is the result of the average party Intelligence of 16.2 and average Wisdom of 12.4 at work. Plus, y'know, strange dreams, demonic whispers from the dark, sudden intuitive insight and memories of that day pappy told you to stay away from the blue fungus.

Everyone can go ahead and have a gander at the OOC stuff Adinal posted, especially since the always-convenient mind link means he could share it in-game whenever he felt like.

Demon, the format I was thinking of was more like Adinal to whatever people you wanted to have a look at the information, or maybe just your character name if you just want anyone who feels like it to take a look.

Makes sense?

 

[DemonWolfZero]

Okay, so here's my first real discussion post. Trying to be polite here, not sure if we're all okay with the "around the table" talking yet. So I'm gonna put it in spoilertext for now, I would appreciate if all those that are okay with table-talk please say so. If all are fine with it, I'm just gonna have my "to the whole table" messages out of spoilertext.

Adinal: [sblock]Okay, so under the tavern or wherever exactly this crawlspace is, Adinal has noticed that the material of the tavern wall is dripping into the muck. From previous experience with Kelleris' DMing and his infatuation with the Far Realms, I (Demon) have a feeling that our Boogeyman is atleast familiar with the Far Realms. Of course, the Far Realms can be blamed for a lot of things. The last time I dealt with them, it involved a giant incendiary fungus that turned into a carp when I killed it. Feiran met a 6-headed cockroach and gave it a tummy-rub till it told us what we wanted. Of course at the time she also had a gem shoved into her face and eyes in her palms. We have many reasons to not like the Far Realms.

So yeah, it's possible that he knew we were in the tavern by spying on us somehow through the walls, and that whatever he did has weakened the walls to a degree. Does anyone else have any evidence to support a Far Realms theory?[/sblock]

 

[Mad Hatter]

In the spirit of things...

Feiran
[sblock]Demon, that was Aris with the Shard of Sharuk that held the entrapped spirit or essence or whatever of the Uduvuum (sp?). That tummy rub lasted a few hundred years as well. Aris had eyes on his palms; do you know what kind of nightmares are generated when you see up close and personal a tummy rub like that? Alpha (the cockroach *wink wink*) liked white carnations; it helped his digestion. And I too believe this to be heavy far realms as well.

While Feiran was in the tavern, she noticed a worm thing on the table. And because I, Mad Hatter, enjoy experimentation almost as much as I enjoy critters, placed it into a scroll case I have and took a sample of the green grog. I told Adinal in game that I thought Narine had been infested with a parasite. There was this glowy, bulbous thing trying to penetrate her skull. It succeeded and she had a creepy far away look that. It would be this point in the horror movie that we'd hear ominous music and blatant foreshadowing. For those of you who don't know, two of my previous characters have been parasite infested so I was metagaming a little .[/sblock]

Demon
[sblock] I was doing a count with Kell some time ago over msn and came to the realization that there may or may not be at least 3 other versions of Feiran. Kell refuses to indulge my curiosity and simply tell me "Yes, there are" or "No, there aren't". Count with me, my friend, we have: Feiran with the orcs (You remember the orc leader that was half naked for our obligatory battle because we came in after an apparent orgy/drink fest?), Feiran with the parasite that she acquired at the Floppy Willy (Was that the name, Kell? I seem to remember the tavern's name to be something like that due to the endless jokes that are now crowding my head in remembrance.), and last but not least, Feiran with Chiald's spit where she met the half-elf stud. See? Four Feirans total. I find this to be all kinds of awesome. [/sblock]

 

[Kelleris]

Blargh. I'll wait for some direct questions and speculation before I interject, but I do want to point out that "Ilmordan'" (nice name, by the way) is considerably higher up on the scale-o-scary than children's fables. He's less of an under-the-closet figure than a symbol of something the average adult in Dromus takes quite seriously. You wouldn't really talk about him to children in that nannyish sort of way.

Or are you just dissin' my guy's street cred?

 

[Mad Hatter]

He's dissin' your guy's stret cred, Kell. You should do something drastic about that. Drastic and mean spirited.

 

[DemonWolfZero]

a)Your post didn't seem clear enough to me as to how scary Ilmordan is supposed to be.

and b)Adinal is completely non-superstitious to the point of being disgusted with the idea of people indulging in such urban legends as "Death himself walking the streets of Dromus". It really doesn't matter how serious other people take it, until he experiences it, he won't REALLY believe. He isn't afraid of Ilmordan (whether he IS the real thing or not) cuz he's too anal in that particular facet of his personality. Hell, it could be a Trait from Unearthed Arcana, "Non-superstitious - +4 to will saves against fear effects cuz you don't fear what may not be real."

I need sleep.

 

[Kelleris]

No biggy. It's not like I can expect adventurers to be sensibly frightened of anything, much less something like this. Especially since...

*cough*

Well, yeah.

 

[DemonWolfZero]

God I hate you.

 

[Kelleris]

Why? My diversive clue-type things? C'mon, ask me something, anything!

Remember, this is a putting-things-together kind of deal, so the description of Ilmordan is either just one thing or needs to be divided into a couple of smaller things before you can try to arrange it like a puzzle.