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GM Pony
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No.188149
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Please keep out of character discussion contained to this thread. The previous one hit bump limit
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Anonymous
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>>189032
>You've been very good about implying it
I did not imply it. You inferred it.
>when they have guns
Skeletons can have guns too. Nothing special for characters of this level.
>The beginning?
Six years ago. That doesn't mean it's right for you to complain about how the other players have been operating since then.
Anonymous
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>>189033
>you inferred it
You couldn't have said it more plainly with a billboard, fuckoff
>ignore my firing squad
I will, after I ignore all the other sploits you decided you got because 'muh master'
Cry all you want but Brie is a well-aged cheese. And you are?
Anonymous
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No.189035
<Remember that double nat-20? When the griffon had a gun but Brie laughed and danced, and then planted throwing knives in their eyes?
<Remember - oh it was referenced - the Kerr and Wesley incident. I Forget the name of the politician, something liike 'Stromo'
<Were'nt (you) (in a different character) the one who set the warehouse of fire? Weren't we still frens then?
Anonymous
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>>189034
Idk what your point is now. I am satisfied with my character so far and I look forward to her progression, and I do not subscribe to your persistent yet futile attempts to inappropriately characterize my intentions.
Anonymous
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No.189037
>>189036
Okay, we're making progress!
Take your reception to my opinion and double it!
Cavaliere
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No.189038
189039
Sorry for not posting in here lately. I had totally forgotten this place exists. It would have saved us some arguing if I had participated more. The campaign thread felt dead but I see this place has been lively.

>>188885
I back this wholeheartedly.

>>188913
Good to know.

>>188923
Assuming each character is about 200 lbs (not counting gear), that's only seven characters. Enough for the party, but not for the entourage we've accumulated.

Let's not be nasty to each other though.
Anonymous
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No.189039
>>189038
Good of you to join us
Anonymous
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>>188996
Okay, I see. That makes sense.^^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aurTTwvwF0I
15:20

>current fight
Guys, let's not fight, then clear up with GM and the party whatever is putting the game on hold. Everything has been said before. Let's just move on. I'm back and want to play so, let's just do this.

What about this, in lol if you afk too much they will send you a message that reads like this, "Blah blah blah, you're afking causes isssues. Do you agree. Type I agree." Maybe, we can do something similar but you don't type, "I agree" though.

We all want to play. We don't really wanna fight. Let's calm down and focus on solving whatever issue there is that's putting the game's progression on hold. Let's keep the peace for the sake of the game. Is that not what you guys want?

Maybe this comes off as condescending, ignorant, and dismissive of whatever issue there is that's causing these problems, however I just want to try to salvage this game since I care about it. ^^
Anonymous
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>>189044
Thank you for the good spirits Sven, but currently the problem is that some players haven't been paying enough attention to know that their concerns have been already addressed, but are insisting that they be addressed.
It's otherwise an exercise in futility, and is a testament about how it's taken almost 6 months to advance the story by a single afternoon.
Anonymous
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No.189046
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>>189045
>the problem is that some players haven't been paying enough attention to know that their concerns have been already addressed, but are insisting that they be addressed.
What problem? Which players? What concerns addresses?
You are the only one who says this is a problem.
Anonymous
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No.189047
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>>189046
Cavaliere was objecting to a lack of decisive rendesvoux in spite of a specified rendesvoux. Silver has weird objections as well.
Anonymous
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No.189048
>>189047
Cavalier was objecting because he thought the airponies should take priority,given the hint that they might die if we delay our rescue, which is a valid assertion.
A Zoob of Dirt
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No.189049
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>>189001
What am I deciding? Do I want to know? Should I know? Anyone got a coin?
>>188998
Oh hey, this spell. I almost considered prepping it for "why not" reasons. But I still don't know what's going on.
Cavaliere
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>>189044
I will be honest, citing LoL is not a good example for negating drama. But this would help and I agree that we should work together.

>>189049
Welcome back! Do you want a rundown?
Posey
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No.189052
>>189049
You don't need to prep it. You can cast it spontaneously, just like a cure spell.

Please cast it to ask horse Jesus what we should do, what direction we should move in, and in what order.
Ask if we should get the Marines first or take on the Traveller first.
Posey
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No.189055
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>>189051
A rundown would be helpful for us all.
GM Pony
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>>188988
Dagon is the Babylonian fish god. Dagon is first referenced in the Lovecraft short story titled, well, Dagon, wherein a merchant mariner encounters a set of fish people worshipping at a stone altar with reliefs showing a figure that the protagonist later compares to the fish god "Dagon." The name "Dagon" is used again in Shadow Over Innsmouth wherein the inhabitants of Innsmouth worship at a modified Masonic temple belonging to "The Esoteric Order of Dagon," though this is not elaborated upon. It's pretty clear in both stories that "Dagon" refers to the elder god Cthulhu, and especially the worship of him by the Deep Ones.

What Posey said is... basically that. I kind of wanted to have Blackheel object to the characterization because posey seems very intent on demystifying and sucking the fun out of everything in the universe by trying to explain everything and put it into some kind of category, but... I didn't really feel like it.

>>188996
>Obyrith
I have no idea what that is

>>189003
Make an actually serious suggestion. I argued with a Scotsman over the weekend that school shootings are mostly acts by psychopaths seeking attention, so I think you can guess my position.

>>189012
>fuck whoever-whenever
Not everyone is a prude

>>189031
>The Dreads are barely stronger than skeletons, btw
This is bullshit and you know it

>Silver would probably destroy me
UwU

>>189044
Let me just finish that big post i started a month ago...

And also we may be able to put Dark Star and Virgin together finally
Cavaliere
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>>189051
>>189055
After rescuing the griffons, the party moved to the old village in the center of the island. On the way they encountered "petrushkas" or pony soldier puppets of the "Fellow Traveler" and some of its summons. We took the ponies there prisoner and rescued what was left of the holdouts in the old village. After some delays, we found an old airplane that crashed on the island some time ago, with an armed torpedo and machine guns that we decided to salvage. This airplane also housed a couple of the escapees from the Kostroma including a research assistant I think her name is Lightning Dust. Very close by is the most experienced group of escapees, led by Black Heel the ship's commissar.

Cavaliere and Brie have just finished acquiring the torpedo warhead and one machine gun. We've been deliberating on what exactly to do. I and Silver want to focus on rescuing the New Mareland sailors on the airship, our main objective, without bringing the communists or griffons there. Posey wants to reanimate a dead whale to help us on the quest, and is comfortable with the risk of going alone to make that trip. Brie is less willing to split the party, which is understandable because we were ambushed last time we split.
Anonymous
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No.189059
>>189056
At least YOU bought me dinner Xp
Anonymous
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No.189062
>>189056
It was a serious suggestion. Is that it then?
Brie
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Fucking IDs
>>189056
This is a VERY serious point.
What am I to do when you don't take my legitimate and VERY serious posts a non serious?
Are you deciding what I can an can't do in game? Do I have any agency beyond what you decide 'is serious'?
Anonymous
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Okay, I phrased that funny, but the point is plain; i have at regular interval made VERY serious declarations about what I wanted Brie to do and your response was dismissive and ambivalent.

What am I as a player to do when you as a GM are going to line-item veto anything I legitimately try to do because you decide what I posted 'isn't serious'? Have you ever asked for a clarification or an elaboration? Have you at ANY point sought: 'Hmmm, this player seems to be trying to do something, perhaps this is something I should integrate' before dismissing my genuine attempts to engage the story/plot that you have portrayed.

The fuck do you want? If there's a "right" way you "want" this game to be played, fucking say so, but don't act all upset and put-upon when you blatantly ignore a player for months and they get an attitude.
Posey
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>>189056
>posey seems very intent on demystifying and sucking the fun out of everything in the universe by trying to explain everything and put it into some kind of category,
That wasn't my intention at all.
Maybe Rosey Ring comes off that way because she is an occultist with great knowledge of magic and religion, despite not being a very spiritual pony herself. She thinks of mystic occultism as a path to power.
>I have no idea what that is
Obyrith are the elder race of demons: creatures of pure primordial madness. Unlike the Tan'ari, who were created from and relation to mortal sin and fear, the Obyrith are primordial demons far older than mortal life, and their chaos and evil is abstract as it is cosmically horrifying. They supposedly created the Abyss after invading the multiverse from an abstract world, possibly the far reaches of the far realm, and have an aberrant aesthetic.
Dragon in D&D is one of the original Obyrith lords, and acts as a wiseman and advisor to Demogorgon. He is an ancient and alien creature of the demonic seas in the abyss. He advised the aboleths on the method of turning humans into skum (fish people), much like he did in the lovecraft story, and he also taught Demogorgon the art of creating new monsters.

>This is bullshit and you know it
GM, if you do not want me to have the Dreads, you can just have them fly away: as soon as the Demon that creates them uses Animate Dead again, which it can do every day, the Dreads would become uncontrolled.
>UwU
OwO
>>189058
See, I was intent on going to find the airponies first, but then I felt that GM communicated really wanted us to go look for Blackheel, so we ended up doing that.
>I and Silver want to focus on rescuing the New Mareland sailors on the airship, our main objective, without bringing the communists or griffons there.
I agree, actually. I just thought we were being steered towards doing the Kostroma side quest with Blackheel.
>Posey wants to reanimate a dead whale to help us on the quest, and is comfortable with the risk of going alone to make that trip.
Posey only wants to use the whale bones as a weapon against the Traveller. If we are not fighting the Traveller, the whale bones are unnecessary.
>>189064
Your experience isn't only your own. Thing is, although players are supposed to have agency, the story doesn't move forward without the GM narrating it.
I have at several instances expressed intent to walk off in an particular direction, but I cannot arrive at that destination until the GM describes the scene.
GM Pony
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>>189063
>>189063
>>189064
I will respond and move the events forward when the group agrees to a course of action. I will not respond to declared actions that are wholly individual, and or stupid, or designed to derail everything. "My character walks away without any kind of communication device or regard for anyone else," or "my character places a gun to a different player character's head for no evident reason" are not actions that actually have any value moving the plot forward and are not going to be entertained by me, at least until everyone else agrees "Yes, let's do this"

Describe an action that makes more sense in context than R Kelly in that one episode of South Park, singing "I'mma pull out my gun, I'mma shoot some one"
Posey
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>>189066
Maybe we should have a formalized vote tally or delegate decisions to one character without discussion, in order to advance the story without taking weeks or months to decide.

I say we should just do whatever Silver says we should do next. We made him the decisionist at the beginning of the quest, iirc. Silver is wanting to find the airponies, right? Let's just do that.

Kira and Cavalier, please roll survival checks to help us track down the airponies so we can move the story forward.

I hold doubts that the world will actually end soon if we delay fighting the Traveller, so let's go for the airponies, since we don't get paid unless we find them.
For all we know, finding the airponies might even lead us to the Traveller anyway.
Posey
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I also proposed casting Path Of The Exalted, if Dust is interested in giving a way for the GM to point is to the most optimal path.
Anonymous
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No.189069
>>189067
>We made him the decisionist at the beginning of the quest
Shoal Waters insisted that we 'designate' a 'leader', and Silver was so designated, yes. Having said, on Brie's part that was just a "going along to go along" sort of "yes yes, stfu and tell us more" sort of gesture. Make no mistakes about where Brie's allegiances lie.
>>189068
This. I know SOME get all butt-bothered by the idea of railroading, but I'm ALL for it.
Cavaliere
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>>189064
Nobody blames you for being upset but GM Pony is also in a bind. If some of your actions are allowed to go through, especially the threats, this mission might become impossible and be thrown into chaos. Maybe that should be allowed to happen, but if it does our characters (and to some extent us as players) may blame Brie for that happening. Call it a sunk cost fallacy if you will, but with the cumulative amount of time we've put into this single quest it would be upsetting to lose it because one player wanted to reenact Dirty Harry. I hope after this Brie gets a quest where he can let his wilder side loose.

>>189065
>I agree, actually. I just thought we were being steered towards doing the Kostroma side quest with Blackheel.
>Posey only wants to use the whale bones as a weapon against the Traveller. If we are not fighting the Traveller, the whale bones are unnecessary.
I think this "side quest" has to come after we save what's left of the airponies. It would be a good way to cap off this island adventure at any rate. I think the whale bones would be helpful, just as the machine gun and bomb we've collected might be. Also, collecting the airponies would give us time to make a proper plan of attack on the Kostroma.

>>189067
>Kira and Cavalier, please roll survival checks to help us track down the airponies so we can move the story forward.
Okay
Posey
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>>189071 →
Let's just have Kira take 10 on her roll.
Anonymous
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>>189070
I mean, if my efforts are gonna be slept on, I guess itsbetter to know now than later
The Floof and The Noodle
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The post I made where Silver explained his plan was probably missed by at least a couple people here, so, it's probably worth explaining again:

We first go to the whale bones, where Posey can do her thing and raise the Bone Lurker. Then Posey, Garv, and the griffons will take one of our radios and the Bone Lurker to the plane and get it to carry the explosive and guns. The rest of us will make our way towards the airship. The plane group will rejoin us along our route to the airship since you'll be flying and be able to travel faster than us on hoof. Make sure to stick to the south side of the central hill to avoid the GRU that will be coming from the north.
Posey
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>>189085
Okay, fine. Let's do that. We'll do that.
Cavaliere
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>>189085
That sounds good, except the communists in the party should come with us and not to the airship. Also, when you blow up the equipment at the airship we might expect sudden company.
The Floof and The Noodle
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>>189089
Most of the commies can't fly, though. You all would also rejoin us before we got to the airship, anyways. The idea is to minimize the amount of time we take on our objectives while not taking unnecessary risks by fully splitting up.
Cavaliere
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>>189090
Let's not bring the communists to the highly classified airship we're supposed to destroy, for their sake as well as for the sake of the mission. As it is, if we bring them back to New Mareland they will probably be detained and released under close supervision only if they are lucky. If they see the airship and its technology they will probably be 'disappeared.'
Anonymous
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No.189092
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>>189089
This is a good point.
>>189090
Are the commies even coming with us? Blackheel did not agree to our proposal.
The Floof and The Noodle
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>>189091
They're sailors, soldiers, and scientists. None of them are aeronautical engineers, and they wouldn't even know that the airship has better propulsion technology than Stalliongrad does. And even if they did, they wouldn't have the ability to know why and how much less explain it to someone else.

All of this is besides the greater issue of what do they do if they don't come with us to the airship. The only other option would be them continuing on to the other group of commies at the modern village, and that risks them getting attacked without any of us to help.

>>189092
He said already that they're coming with us.
Posey
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No.189095
So, we know whAt we're doing? Let's do it.
Cavaliere
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>>189094
Very well. But expect them to ask questions, and the military back home to be less than gracious.
Anonymous
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No.189101
>>189096
If we change our minds we can just kill them
Posey
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No.189110
189137
Is Dust going to cast the Deus Ex Machina spell, or not? We need to come to a conclusion.
I don't care what we do next so long as we do something.
Anonymous
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>>189110
I would, but I don't think I'm gonna get anything useful from it. Brie stormed off and as far as I know he was the only one in disagreement. But I also don't know what's going on
Anonymous
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No.189138
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>>189137
Dude, just do it. There's far more to 'Brie storming off' (which he did, with cause, because y'all are fucking worthless) than just discontent with you idiots. I have a change in priorities and am confident I will have addressed them far before you idiots get your shit together and get to both the marines and the airship, let alone the Kostromo.

Now is not the time to be waifish
Posey
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No.189139
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>>189137
Considering the scene still hasn't moved, no decision has been made. Cast it.
Anonymous
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No.189140
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>>189139
This
>>189137
Surely I needn't remind you how infrequently he and I agree on things. This is a chance for GM to NON-railroading indicate what he would like to happen. You really should
Anonymous
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No.189141
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>>189137
>I don't think I'm gonna get anything useful from it
Casting Path Of The Exalted guarantees that the next decision we make is the best one with the best outcome. It is a spell so powerful that it has an abstinence component to keep it from being spammed constantly.
Anonymous
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>>189138
>>189139
>>189140
>>189141
Okay, I'll be blunt. I talked to GM cause I was gonna cast it and bost results in the same post. He ain't givin me shit. So I can blow a level 3 spell slot to be told it's our decision, or we can just go with whatever suicide ritual the group has come up with currently. Whatever delays my agony the most.
Anonymous
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No.189143
>>189142
Oh. Well, it still stands to reason that he may want you to commit to something - anything - before he gives you anything, (even hints and foreshadowing) but it could also be a dead end. A 3rd level spell slot seems a small price to pay to get a better idea of where GM's head is at, however distinct to Dust's magic.
No, not planning to make a habit of interjection, but don't kid yourself that I'm in the background
Posey
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No.189144
>>189142
>He ain't givin me shit.
As in, he's prohibiting the spell? Or just not giving the answer?
Well, that sucks.
>whatever suicide ritual the group has come up with currently. Whatever delays my agony the most.
Oh ffs

Let's just all go track the airponies. All of us together.
In fact, until otherwise decided, we can leave all plans to fight the Traveller on hold until after we find the airponies. I'm considering leaving it to the army to kill that thing.
Posey
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No.189145
189157
Think of it this way: we don't even really need to fight the Traveller, or at least not now.
If the Traveller enthralls all of the communists, it will either be destroyed by the GRU, or it will enthrall them too.
If it enthralls the GRU, it will likely go looking for more thralls. With no familiarity of this realm, it will likely draw from the memories of its thralls, which will lead it back to Stalliongrad.
Then the GRU will carry it back to Stalliongrad, and it will proceed to destroy their society and turn them all into its cattle, but that's not our problem.
The alien-controlled communists might become a threat to the world, but that's a problem for another level. We can exterminate the enthrall communists after we defeat Chrysalis or whatever.

Point being is that we don't need to worry about fighting it now. For all we care, we don't even really have to fight it, so the plan to recover the airponies should take absolute priority. No more dilly dallying. Let's just do what we came to do.