Resurrection City

[JimAde]

Ok, Trevor is updated. He now has contacts and a list of his most important possessions. Basically, he's rich enough that he'll either already have or be easily able to buy any sort of "normal" thing. He doesn't have any weird esoteric skills that would require special equipment or resources (like an advanced library or anything like that) so I didn't list them. I'm assuming he has all the stuff a wealthy Victorian bachelor would have, like nice clothes, a wine cellar, a Victrola, etc. One thing we should probably flesh out a little is any employees we might care about. I know these people aren't under my control and don't even count as contacts, but they should at least get names and a personality trait or two. Do you want me to take care of that or will you do it?

 

[Karl Green]

I will have my contacts and basic history done today... as for equipment... well I am not sure if I am going to start with much... not a lot of can think of that a pastor would need... I can't see him as even owning a gun or anything, although I might have him carry brass knuckles or something from the "old days"

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

I know, I know, it's about time you're saying. I think we're about ready to begin. Tonight, I'll be looking once more over your guys, and trying to come up with the hook for your character. Then I'll post them over here, post the game thread and the beginning stuff, and then you guys'll be able to start posting! How we're handling horrific stuff, I'll let that go until we actually encounter any of that.

 

[JimAde]

I know, I know, it's about time you're saying. I think we're about ready to begin. Tonight, I'll be looking once more over your guys, and trying to come up with the hook for your character. Then I'll post them over here, post the game thread and the beginning stuff, and then you guys'll be able to start posting! How we're handling horrific stuff, I'll let that go until we actually encounter any of that.

W00t

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

OK, here, I thought on how the various characters have become connected with the first adventure. The first adventure will be centered around another of the lesser nobility, Lord Arthur Pellgraine. Here's how the guys come in.

Ferrix: Both Aiolos has met Lord Pellgraine before, at the British Museum's library.
JimAde: Baron Walsingham is a distant cousin of Lord Pellgraine, your grandmother having been the sister of Pellgraine's grandmother, Andrea.
Kajamba Lion: Inspector Diggory is contacted by an individual identifying himself only as Frater DEDI of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. You, of course, quickly identify the name of the most well-known occult society in London. And he seems to know quite a lot about you, as well...he asks for your aid "as a fellow son of Hibernia".
Karl Green: Pellgraine's estate is in Loughton, Essex, and since you left his church open, I've assumed Pastor Miller was assigned to St. Nicholas, Loughton where he would have encountered Arthur Pellgraine as a parishioner.

I've bumped it up just a few years - now it's Sunday, April 23rd, 1893. As for die rolls, since I've forgotten to say anything, I'll let you guys roll your own and basically depend on the trust system. Try to keep most OOC chatter to this thread, though a short comment or question at the bottom of your action will work, too.

Combat'll be handled like this - basically, I'll put up a little summary sheet thing. Everybody posts their action, I resolve the enemies' actions, after everyone goes I post another summary, modified with that round's actions. And so on until the fight's done. But I don't anticipate a whole lot of fighting, at least not yet.

Along the same lines, I'll be using a mostly story-driven XP system, like in Call of Cthulhu.

So now I'm going to go over and open up a Game thread, make one or two initial posts setting things up a bit more, and after that... the game's afoot, as they say!

(Yes, if you know who was in the Golden Dawn, you might figure out who DEDI is, but it's not really that important)

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

And it's posted!

 

[Karl Green]

Ah cool... although I'm going to be totally worthless in a fight

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Kajamba: feel free to post anything you want about the meeting between you and Arthur. I'm not sure what the guys on the train'll want to do.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

I'll post something this afternoon (lateish, 3:30/4ish or so). For now, it's off to work.

Best,
Nick

 

[JimAde]

Ah cool... although I'm going to be totally worthless in a fight

Join the club. But Trevor would say, "You have to out-think the opposition, old man!"