[Re-Recruiting!][OOC]Pickman's Model Revisited[CoC]

[bruin]

No, you can get by with Renard's list as enough information. Because the story holds Thurber's first experience with Pickman's ghouls, it might be worth looking at, as your characters might get creeped out by Thurber's account of things, but I'm assuming they'd dismiss it as Thurber's lunacy rather than a real threat. So there's no reason you need to read it to advance the story, but it might provide some topic for discussion amongst the group.

Hints: The newspaper article provides an additional clue to narrowing down your research into finding Pickman's place, and the diary provides you some alternate ways into the tunnel system if you can't find Pickman's place. The further away you enter, though, the more tunnel you have to traverse. The alternates are easier to research maybe but harder in terms of what you'll face. So I'm leaving this all pretty open-ended, with lots of paths you could take at this point.

 

[apocalypstick]

Apologies to all involved, but I'm going to drop from this game. Good luck!

 

[bruin]

Well, with two players already gone I guess we should stop to see what everyone wants to do.

I wanted to set up a lot of background to make the investigation phase interesting, but looking back I might have just been throwing too much stuff at you guys.

So we could open to recruit again, or if you'd rather just quit as well I'd understand.

Any suggestions you can give me about tempo and pacing would be helpful so I can iron out some of the mistakes I've been making so I can improve other games I might try to run.

 

[Dakkareth]

Oohhh ...


I'd be in favor of re-recruiting with options to continuing existant PCs or simply assuming, they'd been there all along ...

I definitely would like to continue

And I really appreciate the work you did for the background.

-Dakkareth

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

I'd like to continue on with this, it's a long time since I've done anything Cthulhu-related, and I like that you're running a good old-fashioned Lovecraft Country adventure. I feel about the same as Dakkareth as far as re-recruitment goes.

 

[bruin]

All right, good to hear you both want to keep going. I'd rather we keep the game progressing normally for the time being, and see what interest people have over the next two or three days.

I'd like to keep the two of you on the research trail, as it would probably take new players a bit too much time to get fully into the swing of things. Once you find a location that you can investigate fully, I might pause the game so any newcomers can finish creating characters or whatever they need to do to catch up.

New players can choose to play as Chris or John, or create their own character, and I'll figure out a way to insert them in the game.

 

[Dakkareth]

I'm going to post tomorrow. There's much I'd want to say and I'm tired ...

 

[bruin]

I won't be able to update until Tuesday, so go ahead and take your time. Mondays and Wednesdays are going to be fairly busy for me over the next few months, though I'll usually glance through the boards in the afternoons.

 

[Dakkareth]

I'm sorry to have dropped out of this game so without notice, but I found myself unable to procure enough motivization. It's simply, that with only two players remaining the drive is missing - it simply isn't the same.

I just hope, you won't see this as connected to your DMing skills, preparation, style or anything. These are very good and the preparation nothing short of astounding. The reason for this withdrawal is simply bad fortune. Should by some miracle of fate we get new players I would glady continue, but in this state ...

I'd like to thank you for the opportunity to play PbP for the first time and also CoC. It was great fun, while it lasted.

-Dakkareth