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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dlsharrock" data-source="post: 4246296" data-attributes="member: 55833">Heh. The last post was from Lucean, Dire Lemming. Lucean- you don't need to post your character's entire history in the recruitment thread unless you really want everyone to know about it. If you're looking for comments/constructive advice that's fine, but I should add a note to the effect that this is all strictly out of character information, not stuff players should refer to in the game. Great stuff though, really detailed. If I have a suggestion it would be to have Charles removed from play and this be the reason for Philip leaving New Orleans. I don't really know why I prefer this to the existing scenario, I think maybe it's just a more compelling reason for him to leave. A way it could work out:Charles dies and as he's Philip's only adherent in this ultra-powerful family, apart from his sister in law, this kicks the safety chocks out from under Philip, leaving him vulnerable to those family perils you hinted at (and which, IMO, should be introduced in his background). The family hatch a plan to force him out of New Orleans, or possibly to discredit him as a true LeGraid (the circumstances surrounding his birth were foggy enough after all), but then horror of horrors, it turns out Charles has left a substantial sum of money to Philip and a fairly large chunk of family property. Now Philip is in real trouble. The family don't just want him out of New Orleans, they want him dead. One or two failed attempts on his life later, he flees New Orleans with his inheritance and seeks to establish himself elsewhere. Hoping to cut himself loose of the family wrath he gives up his stake on the family business, handing it to his sister in law. If this all goes, it could also be a valid reason for his leaving the country and joining the Red Cross. Turns out the family don't consider the return of his stakehold to be good enough, find him in New York and try to kill him again.  It's no longer about the money (as it so rarely is in these kinds of families), it's about the slight Charles has paid the true LeGraids by officially recognising Philip as rightful heir. His only choice now is to head for foreign climes.From a Keeper's point of view Charles is better dead than alive. If he remains active there's a chance Philip could use him in-game and that's one mighty powerful NPC right there. Better to remove Charles and leave the lesser power of Philip's sister in law. She can still pull strings perhaps, but on a different level.General note for all:Kouk, I'd like to comment on some of your character details and there's still some more OOC stuff to discuss. I'm still thinking on Arabella's psychic/magic points combo and Lucean is yet to post the finished background for his character. On top of all that, I have to go to bed <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Tommorrow I am undergoing some dental work which may put me out of action for the day (wisdom teeth out). I should be back on Wednesday to tie up lose ends and, I guess, play catch up on like 200 posts <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Seriously though, it's great to see some enthusiasm for the game and I'm really looking forward to starting the IC thread, just not today as originally planned.Apologies as I can tell everyone's revved to go, but here's a classic case of real life strikes again <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Witching Hour Bar description also to follow, and will feature in the first post of the IC game thread.</blockquote>

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