Leif's DISCONTINUED GURPS Traveller Game OOC01

[Leif]

Sorry about that. I thought it had been nearly a week or so with no new posts. *shrug* I freely admit that I'm impatient. Want me to just eliminate my advance and roll the clock back to where it was? I can do that with a few keystrokes. (As long as nobody posts IC until we decide....)

 

[Leif]

IC post edited -- pretty much eliminated.

 

[Insight]

I started a new job last week and it may not provide me as much time as I used to have to post on these boards. I'm lucky in that this is the day before a company holiday, so most folks are already gone (mentally or otherwise). I don't know how often this will happen.

Chances are that I may need to drop out of this and all of my other PBP games. I'll have to take an assessment once my workload increases to a normal capacity and see how much free time I'm going to have.

 

[Shayuri]

Insight - Gah! ...that's all I got. Gah.

Leif - Thanks. I'm sorry if my tone seemed terse...and since no one else seems to mind leapfrogging forward over RP, I'm probably overreacting. I just like the moment when characters meet and have first impressions and talk to each other so it's jarring when a GM blips past those moments, especially without checking in to see if we're done.

 

[Leif]

Insight - Thanks for the heads-up. I hope it works out where you can stay with us! Think there's a chance that it might just take you a little while (few weeks, maybe?) to become accustomed to your new situation? If so, you'll be welcome back.

Shayuri - Not a problem. I was in too big a rush, obviously. I could have sworn that I had already given you guys several days for that sort of thing, but it seems I was mistaken.

 

[Leif]

Shayuri - And no apology is necessary. Sheesh, don't go getting all sweet and mushy on me! Who are you and what have you done with our Shayuri??

 

[Leif]

Scotley: Great 180-proof post!

 

[Leif]

Oh Zoe??

Zoe glanced at Spider. Technically she wasn't the one empowered to negotiate this stuff, though there was nothing official stopping her. It just wasn't tradition.

I'm just curious about the "tradition" you mentioned. I'm pitifully ignorant of any such traditions common to Traveller, or to ships in general, or to whatever source you're referring to. I'm guessing that this tradition places passengers and possibly crew relations within the ambit of ...... somebody? Is there an unstated assumption that Spider [as back-up pilot?] is second-in-command, or has there been an official declaration of such that I missed, or does the ship's gunner usually handle these things, or am I just totally off-base here? Although, thinking more about this now, other than Zoe, Spider is the best-suited, most skilled character as far as ship operations go, isn't he?

 

[Shayuri]

Hee, no no. I was just deciding that Zoe, as a matter of course, didn't usually handle customers or brokering or that kind of thing. There's no special reason she can't, or shouldn't...it's just not the way they've done things on the Zax before.

There's no larger significance though. It's just Zoe thinking, "Well, I don't usually handle this kind of thing, buuuuut..."

 

[Leif]

Hee, no no. I was just deciding that Zoe, as a matter of course, didn't usually handle customers or brokering or that kind of thing. There's no special reason she can't, or shouldn't...it's just not the way they've done things on the Zax before.

There's no larger significance though. It's just Zoe thinking, "Well, I don't usually handle this kind of thing, buuuuut..."

Ahh, ok. I think that makes me feel better about the whole thing. Maybe. Not that I felt that bad, anyway.