Sagiro's Story Hour Returns (new thread started on 5/18/08)

[Hammerhead]

Poor Dranko. Ironically though, he seems to be the only one in Het Branoi who is actually ENJOYING his experiences.

 

[Enkhidu]

Methinks Dranko has Horizon Walker in his level-up future.

 

[Piratecat]

Poor Dranko. Ironically though, he seems to be the only one in Het Branoi who is actually ENJOYING his experiences.

Oh, yeah. . . Dranko's having a blast. He's with his friends, and ANYWHERE is better than Tal Boring or Verdshane. He'd rather lick one of the cleaners* than go back to those hellholes.

Of course, in retrospect, he'd have to get his own world back before he COULD go back to Tal Boring or Verdshane. But you know what I mean. In comparison at least Limbo is exciting, and getting to bed down on the elemental plane of air is downright fun. Just think, when he's an old reprobate leering at serving girls in his palace, he can bore stuffy old nobles by launching into improbable stories about things they'll think never actually happened.**

* Not the janitor. The things that supposedly destroy the slices when someone closes up a portal, or so we've been told. Important distinction.

** For those of you who have read George MacDonald Fraser's novels, Dranko and Flashman have a lot in common in this regard.

 

[Fade]

If this is a Black Circle plot (which certainly doesn't seem impossible) we have to ask ourselves what it's a plot to do. They've already won, they don't need to bring the plains into alignment any more because they've always been on Charagan. Their available actions at the moment would seem to be defensive (foil the Company's plots) rather than proactive.

 

[Plane Sailing]

He'd rather lick one of the cleaners*

Analogous to the Langoliers?

 

[KidCthulhu]

If this is a Black Circle plot (which certainly doesn't seem impossible) we have to ask ourselves what it's a plot to do. They've already won, they don't need to bring the plains into alignment any more because they've always been on Charagan. Their available actions at the moment would seem to be defensive (foil the Company's plots) rather than proactive.

Actually, the Black Circle (at least in our "real world") haven't won. They were one of the two groups we shut down. The Sharshun are the ones who changed the time line around.

The Black Circle, however, are up to no good in Het Brunoi, I can assure you. I think the party's concern is that when all the clerics in the slices have lost access to their deities, you've got to wonder where these "divine messages" are coming from. It's not that we don't trust the Vree, we just don't trust their information source.

 

[el-remmen]

Personally, if i were playing in this game I would feel as trapped and frustrated as if I were playing in my own game

Travel between the slices just seems so harrowing and there are so many other possibilities and areas and to check out (or that I would want to check out) before risking the Machine - but the logistics of traveling here and there to do it just so weighty. . .

Good work, Sagiro! Way to make them sweat!

 

[Graywolf-ELM]

Analogous to the Langoliers?

That's what I imagined when they were mentioned.

GW

 

[Fimmtiu]

Analogous to the Langoliers?

Perhaps a better analogy might be to a celestial garbage-collection thread.

 

[Mishihari Lord]

juxtaposition

You know, it just occured to me that about a year (?) ago the Company essentialy switched roles with the Black Circle. The Circle was described as a group of mostly nice, polite, conscientious types who were working very had to bring about the end of the world. This also seems to describe the Company at present since the universe they're in will presumably end when they set things right.

Does this sound right or am I just imagining things?