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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 1982199" data-attributes="member: 7006">Tailspinner, if I might be so bold, I'd recommend that you KEEP posting things for your character to do.  The more pro-active you make Gretchen and the more things you have her do in your roleplays, the more DarkMaster will be able to give results of your actions, and the more likely you'll see something happen.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />So for instance, with Gretchen being with us in the sewers, you have dozens of people and items to interact off of.  So you can write posts about talking with other characters, speaking with the shop owners, searching for the valve cluster, sneaking and hiding amongst the shop stalls... anything like that.  The world is your oyster.  And if you do any of those things, DarkMaster will give you results of what you do and possibly drop hints and clues to lead you (and thus our group) in whole new directions.However, if your posts basically end up being just "I stand with the group and keep my eyes open for anything suspicious"... if there ISN'T anything suspicious at that point in time (based off of a poor Spot or Listen check he makes for you), then Gretchen ends up not doing anything and just stands there.  So like I said... if you pro-actively write things for your character to do, it makes DarkMaster have to roll all kinds of skill checks for Gretchen.  And the more skill checks you make DarkMaster roll for your character, the more often he has to create results when you roll well.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />  Then you'll really see Gretchen blossom.  After all, she's a rogue!  You can have all kinds of fun with stealing items, or initimidating or bluffing people, disabling the shop tents to create distractions, or any number of things.This is why I've had Pohl use the map to look for the cluster, used his Locate Object ability to look for the cluster, tried intimidating the goblin shopkeeper to lower his price for info, and now have gone chasing off after the shifter who was stalking us.  So what I've done is I'm giving DarkMaster all kinds of things to play off of and create results for (and one of these actions will hopefully lead us in the right direction).  So like I said at the top, KEEP POSTING OFTEN!  Give your character things to do!  You'll get all kinds of rewards for doing so!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />  Gretchen is a great character, and I'd love to see her start using her thieving abilities for gain (both for herself and the party).Hope this helps!  I look forward to seeing her really cut loose!</blockquote>

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