[Recruiting Alternates Only] 4F for Freedom!

[Mark Chance]

really liking the feel of the game more and more, just wish it moved quicker is all. (then again this is my first time playing, so I'm not used to the lag time - but I'm doing the same thing in the Secret War game I'm running... gotta reply sooner!!)

Lag time is always a problem with PbP games, especially when the GM finds out he's stuck in the middle of nowhere in the Pacific Northwest without internet access.

*grumble, grumble*



BTW, I think Sally's idea is a great one, and also a good use of the rules.

 

[Synchronicity]

I hope, Synchronicity, that you're okay with me playing around calling Paul - "BullsArt"... I TOTALLY know your real name, I'm just imagining that Sally has never heard that word before and is pronouncing it a little wrong.
Feel free to correct her anytime, I was more playing it for roleplay fun than anything.
-kev-

Hey, I have no problem with Sally's mispronunciation! I like roleplaying as much as the next guy, and it provides another little quirk for the game; I often find it's the little things you tend to remember. I really like your idea, too; I didn't want the plane to have to land either, but no easy way to avoid it sprang to mind. But now that's all sorted out, let's go crush some Japanazis!

Oh, also, I hope nobody minds Paul taking charge like he did. It *is* the sort of thing he'd do, and Leadership is top of my list of things to buy when I get some experience.. (He'd already have it, save he's been working alone up to this point, and hence I couldn't really justify it.)

 

[Synchronicity]

Oh, and as for Paul's opinions on people;

He considers Atlas to be the same kind of person as himself: a patriotic and committed man, trying to do what's best for his country. Kindred spirits, if you will. Sally reminds him of his super-smart kid sister, the apple of his family's eye, and so he's intending to look out for her, though he may come across as slightly condescending at times - she just seems so much younger than he does. (Paul's only 23, but hey..) As for Lily...Paul's a little bewildered by her. She's an attractive woman, but she appears 'fast' and extremly assertive compared to the women Paul's known up to the present; hence she tends to throw him off balance and confuse him somewhat. He's used to good old-fashioned girls, the ones who dress conservatively, are always soft-spoken, and enjoy cooking for their men! Lily doesn't seem to fit into that mold at all.

Ain't the 1940s a blast?

 

[Kevin Perrine]

Lag time is always a problem with PbP games, especially when the GM finds out he's stuck in the middle of nowhere in the Pacific Northwest without internet access.

*grumble, grumble*



BTW, I think Sally's idea is a great one, and also a good use of the rules.

glad you're cool with and like the idea Mark... had you thought of or planned for it? Maybe it's 'cause it's my character but I immediately thought of the solution....
I also thought it'd be cool to imagine, everyone hanging from her engines...

I kinda guessed about the lag time and that it'd come... just still not used to it. Where abouts are you in the PNW?
I'm in Bellevue, WA.

Hey, I have no problem with Sally's mispronunciation! I like roleplaying as much as the next guy, and it provides another little quirk for the game; I often find it's the little things you tend to remember.

Oh, also, I hope nobody minds Paul taking charge like he did.

glad you're cool with it - I didn't want you to think I was just dumb and annoying.
I was just trying to play up her young/innocent style...
I agree - it IS those little things people remember. I love nicknames and calling characters by real/code/nick names in games... we do it in real life but not many remember to do so in game, going for just the easiest one to say/remember or slipping and calling people by real name instead of charcter names.

I try to figure out what each character would call other characters by their personality then be consistent...


and on leadership.
I'm totally cool with a player taking charge as they would by personality in game. It also makes sense for the time period that the females won't be in charge..... but then it may come the time that one of the girls DOES step up.
I could see Sally learning from Paul and becoming a leader type someday.

Oh, and as for Paul's opinions on people;

Sally reminds him of his super-smart kid sister, the apple of his family's eye, and so he's intending to look out for her, though he may come across as slightly condescending at times - she just seems so much younger than he does. (Paul's only 23, but hey..)

Ain't the 1940s a blast?

I'm totally cool with playing toward this role-style.
I'm sorta using Paul as an extention of the family thing - which is why I keep mentioning Sally's brothers and dad, I want those things to be remembered for how/why she acts...
Condesending is fine - if it's in character...... and Sally's likely to take alot of it since she's used to it from her brothers. But then again if it gets to much for her (not me as a player though) she may explode on you, but that's about the time you can know that she thinks of you as a big brother - since she'd likely NOT let go like that on people she doesn't know.

and he is a touch older.
I wrote Sally as JUST having turned 18. and she's always been the youngest kid of her family - playing into that role.


this is good stuff.
I only wish it were around the table top, but this works for fun too.
-kev-

 

[Mark Chance]

I was visiting a sister-in-law, her husband, and twin sons about 10 or so miles outside of Yelm. All in all, the week was on the verge of being excrutiatingly dull, but I did get some reading done: the fascinating yet disturbing The Incorruptibles; an interesting book about the Jehovah's Witnesses with a very long title; The Beach House by James Patterson; and about half of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Land That Time Forgot trilogy. I also started a collection of essays regarding Humane Vitae, and the nonfiction Homicide (which inspired the short-lived TV series).

I also did some work on some M&M Superlink material I'm writing for Cracked Mirror Publishing. Very hush-hush at the moment.

 

[Thanee]

Heh. Anyone who would jump off a plane suspended by a pair of handheld propellers, which - according to the owner - cannot support the full weight, must be kinda insane.

That's truely heroic!

Bye
Thanee

 

[Velmont]

Not insane, just to air sick to think clearly...

 

[Thanee]

In THIS post, Gujin calls Elisa "Elisa Cameron". I actually only thought about the fact, that she doesn't even know her own name yet, sometimes after that and after getting back to rereading the posts (and removing any hints to her name from my own posts up to that part, since it seemed to fit better as long as she doesn't really know, altho it's more of a third person's view and the viewer has seen her before, of course ), I noticed that part again.

It'd probably be more fitting if he just said "Elisa", if she is where I think she is (LOL ).

Just a really minor issue, of course, but I'll tell you more about that via mail, why I think so, once I am at home. Much of that being based on pure speculation, of course.


BTW, is there a door or other exit in the room, or am I right, that Gujin entered through the wall?

Bye
Thanee

 

[Synchronicity]

Fortitude saves, you say? Haha!

On a more relevant note, do the big army coats count as the 'heavy clothing' mentioned under the cold/heat section, and provide the +4 to the saves? Or are they just not good enough for the circumstances? (I seem to be in an inquisitive mood today..)

 

[Kevin Perrine]

Fortitude saves, you say? Haha!

On a more relevant note, do the big army coats count as the 'heavy clothing' mentioned under the cold/heat section, and provide the +4 to the saves? Or are they just not good enough for the circumstances? (I seem to be in an inquisitive mood today..)

On that note - I just assumed we should make the rolls and post them for things like that... am I wrong? or were you making the rolls for us?
Just let me know.
Also - does armor help for the cold at all?
I don't think it says anything about it in the rules on natural weather... I'm assuming her armor is a combo of her flight jacket (leather and sheep wool) and the metals inside that control her flight/strength harness...
So I sdon't know if that coutns?

also - I didn't know how often you want me to have to check the "Malfunction" weakness of my wings but I gave you a first check, just in case.

thanks
-kev-
-kev-