Werewolf: The Forsaken Interest Thread

[Shalimar]

I know you can jump around, but there are a number of level 1 techniques that are good. Besides, it is more expensive to buy gifts out of order isn't it? My plan was to use renown raises to get the higher rank gifts as opposed to buying the higer ranks outright.

Graf we need 3 totem points between Camera and Drake and you each get 3 points, so hopefully its not too much from either of you. I can maybe drop my barfly merit to pitch in another merit point into totem but I would like to avoid that if at all possible.

I went with crushing blow because a bear is a symbol of strength, but like I said, It was just my first thoughts on a totem spirit, and the Bear Totem example had pack Crushing Blow. We could really use anything that would fit in with Bear or as a protector. Warning Growl could also be a good fit. Another Rank of Brawl would do, but I think a gift is more personalized to the spirit. I'm good with the Brawl or Warning Growl though. That would pump Faith's brawl up to 4, and Piotr's up to 5 which would be very good and probably Ari's up to 5 as well.

 

[Graf]

Merit points are useful but Camera doesn't need them. I'll happily cover whatever Drake isn't.

I'd noticed Grizzly giving crushing blow.
I guess it's either a situation where nobody needs it (because we're all in combat forms) or everyone needs it because we're trying to be sneaky.

Why don't we go with Warning Growl?

It -is- more expensive to buy a gift when you've skipped a gift before it, but not as much as it would be to just buy all the gifts.
Since some of the gifts aren't very useful, and you can only do one thing a round, personally I'd rather not have them and have more xp to spend on stuff that is useful.

-but- that's not relivant really for us at this point anyway.

 

[Graf]

I could be wrong but is Faith short a speciality? She only seems to have three.

 

[Shalimar]

I could be wrong but is Faith short a speciality? She only seems to have three.

Faith does have 4 specialties, she just happens to have 2 specialties in empathy, 1 from regular specialties and 1 from her free werewolf specialty. Empathy (Emotions) and Empathy(Motives)

Merit points are useful but Camera doesn't need them. I'll happily cover whatever Drake isn't.

Coolies

Warning Growl works for me and it is appropriate for a bear trying to protect her cubs, she would try and warn things away before they threatened the cubs, then she would kill if that didn't work.

 

[DrZombie]

cool, blessed pack. I'm not sure about tribe. I can go either way : blood talon for he's a pissed off sob, Iron Master 'cause he's a city boy, Storm Lord 'cause he's a leader (yes he'll be going for alpha). Depends on the IC bits, I guess

 

[Shalimar]

Well, as Faith pointed out earlier she isn't likely to follow him if he goes around insulting people that are going out of their way to help the pack by doing things in their territory that they asked him not to do. Piotr and Faith did point it out to him IC, but that kinda got buried among all the other posts so it was easily overlooked.

Faith will also be going for Alpha from the standpoint that she doesn't trust him not to start a lot of uneccesary fights. Feel free to go Blood Talon or Stormlord since that wont really influence whether or not he is the alpha, I'd think the pack alpha would come out of RP over time. As an interesting side note the only tribe not already represented is Stormlord though you shouldn't feel constrained to that.

 

[Tokiwong]

This game is good.

 

[Shayuri]

<Tick> ...yes, it is good, chum.</Tick>

 

[Shalimar]

This is leading up to a fight fairly quickly as in my next post will be Faith going for Drake's throat for ignoring her concerns and then patronizing her while he did it. I would like to avoid that if possible. The tension is totally good, people just meeting each other shouldn't automatically see eye to eye. But I don't know how productive it is at the moment, especially since Drake doesn't have stats if we end up in a fight.

Its not neccessarily a bad thing if that is what Drake is aiming for I guess, I just wanted to let you know OOC what Faith's next move would likely be though Dr.Zombie in case that wasn't your intention. Same for Toki. I don't want you to change your post or anything, I just want us to be on the same page as to what is going to happen before something happens that is hard to take back IC.

 

[Graf]

Without commenting on where this particular scene, which I think is generally going well, should go I do think that one of the big things that separates Werewolf from other games is that Urthra fight fairly frequently amongst themselves.

I don’t think that an intra-party brawl need be the sort of game killer that it would be in, say, a normal DnD game.

Or to put it another way, Drake and Faith (as well as other members of the party, probably) are almost certainly going to fight, and, since they’re werewolves, instinctively see things as a dominance game and will heal back to full health in a couple of hours no matter what happens, some of those fights are going to be physical.

I get an unstructured-fight-club impression from the books. Especially, nWoD, since one of the chances from oWoD and nWoD was that Werewolves don’t do aggravated damage to each other with their claws.

But I could be reading too much into it, or we may just want to take a more limited interpretation of physical violence (i.e. it’s more highly ritualized, first blood type stuff) if people aren’t comfortable with intra-party claw-fests.

P.S. I am sorry that Camera is being so quiet. I’m just not sure he’d have much to say right now. He's not a talker.