Meta Thread (Clarion Quietus and Quietus Clarion)

[Luiniel Blades]

I'll be the first to admit I'm not as confident a GM as Doomed was. I don't want the group to grow too much larger than it already is, 9 is probably pushing it. But since the party is only at 7 that's okay for me. Have the player go ahead and post a character or talk to me about playing one that is currently inactive.

I have it on fairly good authority that Nefario's player is probably not returning. Eirik also remains open. I don't know yet about Mandag, though I heard that he was fairly busy even when Doomed was still running. I'll say if the interested player wants to take over him, it be with the caveat that the original player can make a claim for him.

[Dadalama]

I am Chris

I'm tall with facial hair straight out of the 90s. My favorite rpg is GURPS and my favorite doctor is the 7th. I'll probably be making a new character.

Also Neverfox invited me.

[Exile]

It's always good to know who to blame.

[Pheros]

As TB said, surreptitiously playing other characters seems quite fitting for the setting.  No problem from me.

[Luiniel Blades]

Alright then Dadalama, welcome to the game. Things won't be starting up right away so there's no immediate rush for your character to be made. That said, depending on what you had in mind you could be joining the game sooner rather than later. So when you have some time, why don't you post your idea here on the thread and we can brainstorm some ideas to help flesh out your character a little more. Of course I invite everyone to pitch in and help our new player fit in.

[Dadalama]

I'm not entirely sure just yet, I was thinking of going with an "agenty" rogue of some sort. Like an assassin against the shadow or something of the sort. I'll probably be human too.

[Luiniel Blades]

Okay Dadalama, I'm not entirely sure how familiar you are with building characters but here's some things to check out. This is a bit intensive at first but I'm sure you'll get the hang of it.

Basic Rules Changes
http://www.againsttheshadow.org/index.php?topic=1700.0

Major rules changes
http://www.againsttheshadow.org/index.php?topic=1703.0

Character Creation Thread
http://www.againsttheshadow.org/index.php?topic=1701.0

[Luiniel Blades]

Alright folks. I've talked the talk long enough. Now, without further delay, it's time to get this train moving again.

[neverfox]

FYI, I'm on vacation through Monday.

[Luiniel Blades]

Okay, thanks for the update.

In case Dunk or Ivy missed it, the Dorns are waiting on a reply from either of you.

[Luiniel Blades]

Alright then folks. The long awaited scouting mission to find out where the two Dornish boys went, is over. Time to finally check back in and get this show moving along.

[Exile]

Yay!  =)

[neverfox]

Arg, lost notifications too. I'm back and catching up.

[Luiniel Blades]

Neverfox, if you would like to contact your friend Dadalama and let him know he can start posting, that would be awesome.

[Luiniel Blades]

Ah right, something I realized I should have mentioned earlier for Timeon. As you are rather brilliantly minded even for a Sarcosan, you do receive a number of starting points which can be used for languages. For each point of a modifier you have you gain 2 points that you can spend on starting languages. With your 16 intelligence, this nets you 6 points.

As a Sarcosan, you start off automatically knowing Colonial and Erenalnder, as fluent languages. Bonus languages you could have learned include *Courtier, Halfling, Norther, Orcish, and Traders Tongue.
*As a note, Courtier is a far more difficult language to master and therefore cannot effectively be spoken until you have a basic level of understanding.

I note that you already have fluency and even literacy in Traders Tongue. Normally this is a difficult thing to learn save that you are a Speaker and have access to the spell comprehend language, so no problem there. This means you still have 2 points to put into the remaining languages above.

As a side note; I've always wondered why Speakers aren't better at mastering languages than other people are, given that half the idea is that they are a speaker. To that end I think I'm going to give you a bonus language slot that you can use any time you gain the Persuasive Speaker path ability. It's my own little tweak that I'll be adding to the Heroic Path that is otherwise a solid choice.

As a note, this is sort of supernatural effect that occurs once and can be used only in certain conditions. The Language you learn can be any one, including difficult to learn languages. You must hear the language being spoken at the time and must have comprehend languages active when you use it. Don't feel pressured to use it right away, but you may use it to gain fluency in any of the language listed above.

[Luiniel Blades]

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Hey Rash'Gar, thanks for being so very patient with this game so far. If you're still interested in continuing the game I have recently hit a stride of inspiration for how to continue the bad guys side of things. Basically once the good guys have moved on from the Dorn's camp I'll be ready to reintroduce the Quietus Clarion side again.

I also have an idea of where you could also join up with the resistance members if you're still interested. I do intend to try and move this game along at a clip that is going to be much quicker than Doomed probably would have ever been moving at, but even so that one's still a ways off for now.

[Jester]

Sounds fine. Looking forward to it.

[neverfox]

Does anyone recall where, in this haystack of threads, we might have posted our level-up rolls?

[Luiniel Blades]

Sorry, I've been going over the previous postings from time to time but I do not know where the level up rolls have gone. I feel like if you were to go back to the "dream like" story events that Doomed offered us extra V.P. to write up maybe you'd find them. But that was a while ago.

[neverfox]

I was just trying to check my numbers which, skill points aside, I'll just assume are correct. Not really worth the effort.

[Luiniel Blades]

... Uh hello? Anyone?

[Jester]

Present and accounted for sir

[neverfox]

I've been swamped. Slowly coming out of my hole.

[Luiniel Blades]

Oh Rash'Gar, there you are! I had actually continued the game on your side a while ago. I'd set up a possible encounter for you, but then you never responded... or maybe I didn't make it clear enough? I'd honestly thought you'd grown bored of waiting and had stopped visiting the site altogether. Um well yeah, now that I know you're still waiting, I can get back to posting for you.

Pheros, it's understandable. I would like to keep running the game, but now with the loss of Kjellan and everyone else... At least not until Rash'Gar can join you.

I'm think I'm going to try and open the game to recruitment again. Hopefully it will be able to be picked up again. If either of you know anyone who's looking for a pbp game, let them know.

[Jester]

Finally found all my Midnight material in my storage. Hope to start posting again shortly for Rash'Gar