Kiss of Darkness: OOC: Part 1--A Hint of Shadow

[Bront]

Nobility is, religion is a CC (i'll mark it).

 

[Nonlethal Force]

NOTE:

Due to Thanksgiving, my posting will be a bit disrupted. I'll likely not post from Wednesday morning to Friday evening (USA EST).

But I'll be back!

 

[Nonlethal Force]

Back ... although it appears the game did not miss my presence.

 

[Bront]

I've been gone for almost a week, and may be gone longer

 

[Nonlethal Force]

Okay ... maybe this is just me or maybe its been a while since this post moved forward ...

But I don't seem to be connecting with this game and what's going on. Can someone explain to me in plain english what the princess is suggesting? Because from the original post it sounded like the princess was giving two choices:

1. Val does the right thing and give a report but as the princess, thus covering the princesses' butt and allowing her to shirk her duties yet get all the credit.

2. They avoid the whole responsible thing and start running through the worst part of town playing a game of hide and seek with each other.

Personally, I don't see what's much to respect about her, to be honest. I'm sure I've misread something. That seems to be happening a lot to me lately. But in case my posts seem odd I just wanted it clear how I read the earlier posts. I've reread them all a dozen times (literally) and I keep coming back to those conclusions. So can someone in plain OOC english explain to me what is really going on?

 

[Rystil Arden]

Okay ... maybe this is just me or maybe its been a while since this post moved forward ...

But I don't seem to be connecting with this game and what's going on. Can someone explain to me in plain english what the princess is suggesting? Because from the original post it sounded like the princess was giving two choices:

1. Val does the right thing and give a report but as the princess, thus covering the princesses' butt and allowing her to shirk her duties yet get all the credit.

2. They avoid the whole responsible thing and start running through the worst part of town playing a game of hide and seek with each other.

Personally, I don't see what's much to respect about her, to be honest. I'm sure I've misread something. That seems to be happening a lot to me lately. But in case my posts seem odd I just wanted it clear how I read the earlier posts. I've reread them all a dozen times (literally) and I keep coming back to those conclusions. So can someone in plain OOC english explain to me what is really going on?

She's suggesting that either Val pretend to be Elenia and go turn herself in, at which point the rest of the party and Elenia go somewhere and talk about what happened, or else Val stays with the group and they all go to the bad part of town and dodge around to try to avoid the guards while Val reports to Elenia.

The fundamental disconnect is probably that Val and Elenia have a shared understanding of what's going on that Rhaka doesn't share yet--Elenia just escaped the palace again and they're going to chase after her. Elenia likes to leave the palace whenever possible to mingle with the commonfolk and help those in need, but she isn't allowed to leave the palace

 

[unleashed]

Damn, I'd just finished typing up an explanation myself... beaten again. I guess it's best to get it from the author when possible anyway, though mine was pretty much the same... well without the last paragraph of course, because I'm not privy to that information.

 

[Bront]

Backgrounds strike again!

It's your character who's in the dark, so you being in the dark too isn't too far off

 

[unleashed]

Actually it's me who's in the dark, from a background perspective at least, as I don't recall/didn't read Valerie's background (probably the first option, but I can't be sure). Though the second paragraph Rystil wrote was what I assumed after reading the IC post anyway.

 

[Nonlethal Force]

Okay ... so I'm gonna ask.

With Keia's absence still looming large and Bront's post in the TtT forum about needing a leave of absence ...

Were does this game stand? I know what it is like to have to shoulder the burden of multiple party NPCs ... and while it can be okay if the characters are introduced into the game as NPCs, it's also not always the best when the NPCs are former PCs.