Vampire: the Masquerade - New York by Night OOC Thread
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Ashrem Bayle
Explorer
Yea. Spend the Willpower. I definatly need this one to work.
Catulle
Hero
All done as requested.
To un-obfuscate the text in the music room a little, Caitlyn was paraphrasing R.L. Stevenson's The Unfathomble Sea (as well as starting off with Stevenson's own 'quotation' of Horace from the Roman Odes (Odes III, I)) in Kit's last post and Carrick quoted J. Masefield's Sea Fever in response.
I still have no idea what the (I assume to be) Vietnamese translates as.
Regards,
Barry
To un-obfuscate the text in the music room a little, Caitlyn was paraphrasing R.L. Stevenson's The Unfathomble Sea (as well as starting off with Stevenson's own 'quotation' of Horace from the Roman Odes (Odes III, I)) in Kit's last post and Carrick quoted J. Masefield's Sea Fever in response.
I still have no idea what the (I assume to be) Vietnamese translates as.
Regards,
Barry
KitanaVorr
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tsk tsk tsk!
You miss that she also paraphrased part of the Virginibus Puerisque essay, after the Unfathomable Sea with great wryness intact and intended completely.
And that was actually Chinese not Vietnamese. Vietnamese is very difficult to do on enworld without access to something to give it the proper accents so I might not be using it too often.
(ok now I'm definitely being pedantic - a fie on your house McIvor!)
EDIT: You can of course always sign onto MSN and attempt to kick my derriere for being so cheeky
You miss that she also paraphrased part of the Virginibus Puerisque essay, after the Unfathomable Sea with great wryness intact and intended completely.
And that was actually Chinese not Vietnamese. Vietnamese is very difficult to do on enworld without access to something to give it the proper accents so I might not be using it too often.
(ok now I'm definitely being pedantic - a fie on your house McIvor!)
EDIT: You can of course always sign onto MSN and attempt to kick my derriere for being so cheeky
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reapersaurus
Explorer
Help!
Catulle, I don't want to ask on the IC thread (don't want to intrude on the wonderful sense of dread that's going on in the graveyard), but from your post, it specifically states that Max sees the feral's face melt.
Does Nik see it that way?
Either way, I'm planning on having Nik grab the thing, ask Gabe to Dominate it to sleep (even if it's 'melted' and 'dead'), and bring it back to Estevez to see what info they can extract from it.
And does Nikolai's Occult 4 and 1 in Occult Library and Ancient Texts 3 translate into me being able to have Nik identify vampire powers when they are used?
If there's one vamp character who would have a vested interest in knowing vampire powers (kinda like having a book that details the powers the different clans use), it'd be Nikolai.
He would have made it a point to catalogue every rumor, every known account, every conversation with humans and vampires that dealt with what powers vampires can bring to bear over the years.
In fact... how much of vampire powers are commmon knowledge within the Camarilla?
And how much knowledge of secretive powers could Nikolai have found out, from his intense interest in them, either from vampires he would have manipulated/subterfuged into talking about their powers, or from info he got from his Tremere Elders, freely given from Nik's frequent questioning about them?
Catulle, I don't want to ask on the IC thread (don't want to intrude on the wonderful sense of dread that's going on in the graveyard), but from your post, it specifically states that Max sees the feral's face melt.
Does Nik see it that way?
Either way, I'm planning on having Nik grab the thing, ask Gabe to Dominate it to sleep (even if it's 'melted' and 'dead'), and bring it back to Estevez to see what info they can extract from it.
And does Nikolai's Occult 4 and 1 in Occult Library and Ancient Texts 3 translate into me being able to have Nik identify vampire powers when they are used?
If there's one vamp character who would have a vested interest in knowing vampire powers (kinda like having a book that details the powers the different clans use), it'd be Nikolai.
He would have made it a point to catalogue every rumor, every known account, every conversation with humans and vampires that dealt with what powers vampires can bring to bear over the years.
In fact... how much of vampire powers are commmon knowledge within the Camarilla?
And how much knowledge of secretive powers could Nikolai have found out, from his intense interest in them, either from vampires he would have manipulated/subterfuged into talking about their powers, or from info he got from his Tremere Elders, freely given from Nik's frequent questioning about them?
KitanaVorr
First Post
John Masefield's Sea Fever, A Wanderer's Song
Well what I've been doing is after recognizing the quote that Barry posted, I paraphrase something else from the same writing and then paraphrase something from another writing by the same author to let him know I recognized it.
Sometimes I quote someone else at the end of it and Barry returns the favor. A harmless word game.
I hope this disclosure thing isn't going to become a trend as I do have alot of fun guessing what is a quote, where it came from and working a good response back into the story. Of course, every poem I choose to quote from has a significance to the scene which makes it fun for me as well.
Well what I've been doing is after recognizing the quote that Barry posted, I paraphrase something else from the same writing and then paraphrase something from another writing by the same author to let him know I recognized it.
Sometimes I quote someone else at the end of it and Barry returns the favor. A harmless word game.
I hope this disclosure thing isn't going to become a trend as I do have alot of fun guessing what is a quote, where it came from and working a good response back into the story. Of course, every poem I choose to quote from has a significance to the scene which makes it fun for me as well.
reapersaurus
Explorer
Hey, knock yourselves out.KitanaVorr said:
Just realize that it decreases the amount of interest in your posts for other players.
Simple reason : the more often the reader has to 'turn off' (their interest due to not digesting what's written), the more likely they are to not read subsequent posts.
My approach is that if I'm going to bring my RL knowledge into a game, it has to be a very good fit for the character.
But you guys seem to be having fun with it, so obviously doowhatchyalike.
Catulle
Hero
Reaper -
As I saw it, Nikolai was a little distracted working his thaumaturgy and fighting down a frenzy to be attentive to the immediate scene (that magic being the present focus of his vengeful flaw as well). Though it would be pushing it for him to miss it entirely... I'd have thought he'd pick up about the point of the 'death-rattle' - maybe that breaks him out of the trance (still scrapping with his beast, mind). Sound reasonable to you?
Vis a vis intimate knowledge of vampiric powers... leave it with me, I'll work out something as a rule of thumb and post on this one tonight (I should have seen that question coming a while back, too).
Regards,
Barry
As I saw it, Nikolai was a little distracted working his thaumaturgy and fighting down a frenzy to be attentive to the immediate scene (that magic being the present focus of his vengeful flaw as well). Though it would be pushing it for him to miss it entirely... I'd have thought he'd pick up about the point of the 'death-rattle' - maybe that breaks him out of the trance (still scrapping with his beast, mind). Sound reasonable to you?
Vis a vis intimate knowledge of vampiric powers... leave it with me, I'll work out something as a rule of thumb and post on this one tonight (I should have seen that question coming a while back, too).
This, I think, is a credo to live by.reapersaurus said:
Regards,
Barry
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Tory Adore
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Vych says, "that's what Jemal gets for looking good enough to eat."Jemal said:Quit waving that steak in front of Jemal, he's running out of drool.
Seriously, though, awesome posting and nice pics for visualization, too.
I'm happy you like the pictures and the posting.
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Catulle
Hero
Well, I find myself apologising again about the slow turnaround in the full knowledge that this weeekend is going to see me out of action for most of the time. I'll try to do a response tomorrow from work (sssh!) to anything you get up to between now and then.
Insofar as powers go, I'll try a roll-based mechanism if in doubt; 6 plus power level, -2 difficulty for an in-clan, +2 for a discipline outside the 'base nine' off int/occult. Some, of course, will be pretty obvious and well-known outside of this context (Form of the Beast, for example). Do people think that would work, be useful, or what?
On the other hand, it's xp time again... everybody gets one with the bonus going to Gabriel, Max and Nikolai as they get their hands dirty in the graveyard. If you want to spend anything, get in touch with me.
Regards,
Barry
Insofar as powers go, I'll try a roll-based mechanism if in doubt; 6 plus power level, -2 difficulty for an in-clan, +2 for a discipline outside the 'base nine' off int/occult. Some, of course, will be pretty obvious and well-known outside of this context (Form of the Beast, for example). Do people think that would work, be useful, or what?
On the other hand, it's xp time again... everybody gets one with the bonus going to Gabriel, Max and Nikolai as they get their hands dirty in the graveyard. If you want to spend anything, get in touch with me.
Regards,
Barry
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