Shards of the Silve Flame -- OOC thread

[Anax]

I had been thinking about that, but figured few people use it. I may just leave off the color entirely. It's easier to type messages then, in any case.

 

[drothgery]

Just as an FYI as to the reason behind the slow start... after a bit of rereading the ECS and the adventure I was going to start you with, I decided that it wouldn't work out too well. So we're living entirely off of my creativity for a plot now (whether that's good or bad will be up to you).

 

[stonegod]

Tense Thing

My IC post tends to be in present test (Saalin does) something more than past since I think it better conveys what is going on. However, as this is my first PbP, I'm not sure how to communicate things that I would attempt to do but my have to change due to initiative, things in the room (maybey Saalin spots something in the room when he looks around?), etc. My post currently uses conditional present tense for that (Saalin would follow). Is that okay? What is the etiquette here?

 

[drothgery]

Write however you think works best for you and your character. I'm not going to sick the grammar police on anyone (unless they mangle the English language too badly).

However, I almost always write in past tense.

 

[Anax]

I started trying to write in past tense, but I think I'll have to switch to present. It seems more difficult to describe character actions in the past tense.

drothgery: What are our lodging arrangements while we are visiting? Are we staying in town? In guest rooms in this building? (Depending on the answer, I may or may not have certain items on my person.)

 

[drothgery]

drothgery: What are our lodging arrangements while we are visiting? Are we staying in town? In guest rooms in this building? (Depending on the answer, I may or may not have certain items on my person.)

While there is an inn in the village, you're staying at the manor unless your character made other arrangements on their own. Certainly Lord Alistair expected you to stay at his manor, and made arrangements based on that. There's certainly room at the manor; it was designed to have rather more family in residence than what's there at this time (just Lord Alistair, his wife, and their daughter) and have places for their guests as well.

 

[drothgery]

If you're wondering what's going on here ...

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Your host was the victim of a scry-buff-teleport attack. However, he spotted the censor and was able to make a few quick preparations (laying down a Silence, getting some alchemical items ready). Nonetheless, he knows quite well that anyone or anything that can teleport likely has him overmatched (Lord Alistair is an Aristocrat 2/Archivist 7, albeit with more personal funds than a standard 9th-level character), so his primary goal was to keep Kahlia (Aristocrat 1/Archivist 3) from coming to his rescure.
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[drothgery]

Just as an FYI - I usually run PBP combat by getting the actions from all the PCs, then rolling the dice and writing out an entire round. If a combat's pretty much finished and it's clear the PCs are going to win (the bad guys will go down in one or two standard attacks), I may play that out without asking for another round of actions.

Don't worry about submitting actions out of order; if someone with a higher initiative acts to make your proposed action impossible (or impractical), you'll have the oportunity to change things.

 

[drothgery]

FYI - I should write out the first round this evening; my tabletop game got moved to Thursdays for a while, so I'll be at home tonight.

 

[Anax]

Woo! Archivists are neat.

I’m unclear about what portion of the room is under the effect of silence—or even if it is still under effect, given that we seem to be able to hear Lord Alistair cast, Drue sing, and Kahlia provide her advice all at once. The presumed sorcerer didn’t attempt to cast any spells yet, but there are other reasons that might have happened.

I’m going to assume for now that Hariel has no solid idea about this, although she’s aware that there still might be an active silence effect in some portion of the room. (I considered taking some ranks in Spellcraft, but decided that Hariel hasn’t directly encountered spells or spell effects in her work often enough to warrant it. Besides, there are specialists at that sort of thing, and they’re much much better at it than she could quickly become. Being able to deal with the kinds of spells that blow up in your face was enough for most fieldwork.)