[OverdrivePrime]

Feel free to conduct your out of character activities here.
I'll do my best to answer your questions and comments as quickly as possible.

This is also a good thread to comment on the misfortune of your fellow players and to crack wise with various wit and banter.

This post has been edited by Saphi Yago: 13 April 2006 - 12:48 AM

[Barak]

Weeeeeeeeeeeee!

Poor ST.

[Lokan]

My fellow players will receive some misfortune if they do not make with the hurry, and the creation, and the ready to play... :angry:

Ok, I feel better, thanks :D

Take your time... really.

[Nyoibo]

Skill sheet shall be done today, today is a day of RP dinishing.

[Barak]

Hehe. Is it me, or is ST the only character to satrt out in Kentucky?

ODP must really have it in for him.

[OverdrivePrime]

Yep. I'm well known to be a spiteful bastard. Seriously, did you see how bad he punked me in the Deathmatch Jr? :)

[Second Talon]

Pfft.. At least it wasn't somewhere crappy, like Pennsylvania... or Wisconsin.. or.. Canada.

[Nyoibo]

Bah, at least you're all on the same continent.

[chai-ta]

hey I got a pretty good chance of being on the same continent as you. I've been to Europe and Asia within the last month.

I only store my stuff in CA.

--
ODP, forgot to ask. as we are playing ourselves as characters - how much of our real life are we including? I've noticed a statement about kids, and I might include a g/f, but vaguely remember that real people don't get included into the game (especially with Immortal) or are we cool because Jed isn't around...

This post has been edited by chai-ta: 20 March 2006 - 06:44 PM

[Nyoibo]

You're hitting Australia?

[Barak]

Dude, he's hitting hit like he's her pimp, and she's his hoe.

[OverdrivePrime]

Chai - include as much of your real life details as you're comfortable with. Please no phone numbers and addresses, but if you want to say that you kiss your girlfriend goodnight and drive off in you V-Dub while bobbin' your head to some old school Ice Cube, that's totally cool.

I am most certainly not going to go the Jed route and use anyone's friends and family against them. Yeah, it makes for a grittier and more realistic story, but it's just kind of emotionally torturing, and I don't think it makes for a fun game for everyone involved. As such, I'll be attempting to extricate your characters from your real lives as quickly and efficiently as possible.

[Druid Scion]

Excellent.

Question - was all the jibba-jabba on the radio supposed to mean anything? If it was, was it supposed to make sense to us? 'Cause I didn't understand JACK.

[Nyoibo]

OverdrivePrime, on Mar 22 2006, 01:31 AM, said:

I am most certainly not going to go the Jed route and use anyone's friends and family against them. Yeah, it makes for a grittier and more realistic story, but it's just kind of emotionally torturing, and I don't think it makes for a fun game for everyone involved.

I'd just do in game what I'd do in real life, much violence and screamingly painful deaths that take many hours, I don't take kindly to people messing with my family.


I was thinking of putting in descriptions of stuff like clothing and car, but is that getting to analy precise?



Oh yeah, ODP, I might be in a bit of a different situation to other people, I live on 40 acres in a rural area, might make things a bit different for me than others.

Just thought I'd let you know.

[OverdrivePrime]

Druid Scion, on Mar 21 2006, 10:24 AM, said:

Question - was all the jibba-jabba on the radio supposed to mean anything? If it was, was it supposed to make sense to us? 'Cause I didn't understand JACK.

Weeks from now, the gibberish on the radio might make some sense. Right now if it made sense to you I'd be a little worried. Your character is probably more than a little confused by it.

Nyoibo, on Mar 21 2006, 10:31 AM, said:

I was thinking of putting in descriptions of stuff like clothing and car, but is that getting to analy precise?

I certainly won't be offended if you want to go that route. I'll fully support whatever you want to do to help paint a more clear picture. It's not necessary, but it does help set the scene.

Oh yeah, is Kass a male or female?

[Nyoibo]

Kass is female in fact this is Kass

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b266/Nyoibo/IMGP0131.jpg

I'll be wearing what I usually wear, which is black jeans steel toed boots and full length black leather coat.

And yess, my Bokken does actually live in my car, it's useful in road rage situations. :P

Strangely enough, I've actually done exactly what I'm doing now before.

This post has been edited by Nyoibo: 21 March 2006 - 10:44 AM

[OverdrivePrime]

Nice! Kass is one pretty dog.

This has happened before? I hope the similarities end soon, or I'm going to start to worry about you, Nyoibo! :P

[Nyoibo]

I came out of a shop once and there was a guy hanging around my car, Kass was barking at him, when he realised I was going towards him he legged it, then I di just what I'm doing now, put the shopping in the car and followed him around the corner with a bokken under my coat.

At the moment my car actually has at least 4 weapons in it and a chain mail shirt. :P

[OverdrivePrime]

Remind me to steal your car if if I'm ever in your neighborhood. So long as you and Kass aren't in it, anyway. :P


Oh yeah, Nyoibo - do you live alone, or is there anyone else on your massive plantation?

[Barak]

At the moment, I'm still taking things slow, not really making any assumptions (IE I didn't decide who was already in line to pay, for example, out of the people you had in there). If ya want me to make some at times, let me know.

Since you asked Nyoibo.. I have three kids living with me (17 14 and 10), a wife, a dog and two cats. I've set it up so that only the animals were home for your ease, since it avoids you having to RP real people you don't know, but I wouldn't really get emotional about my family dying in a RP game, so feel free if you want to to have me come home to a texas massacre scene.

[OverdrivePrime]

Many thanks for the free reign, Barak!

[Second Talon]

*nod* Yeah, as I said to ODP in an e-mail.. though I do have a girlfriend and a roomate/tenant, it'd probably be easiest if I just pretend they don't exist...

I mean, let's not get started on the other crap I'd have to deal with, family, property and the like.

[Barak]

While my actions may seem suicidal, I do have my reasons..

[OverdrivePrime]

I'm sure you do. Now I hope you can wait until I get home for me to roll some dice!

[Barak]

Either that, or, if you want, I could hook you up with a decent on-line dice roller.

invisiblecastle.com is what I use.

[Tannim]

<prepares to chain whip Kid D if he doesn't get on the stick soon>

[OverdrivePrime]

Thanks! I'll have to check 'em out. I've got one that I use at work on lunch break, but it says "DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS DICE ROLLER" in huge letters, so I'm a bit self conscious about it. Regardless, I need to double-read the combat and surprise rules before I do anything. I've got some stuff to resolve for both you and DS right now.

[Barak]

Fair enough.. Invisiblecastle doesn't look overly conspicuous to me, after checking 'em out.

Edit: also, I like 'em because you can input pretty much anything you want. From a simple "1d20" to.. Well to anything, really.

This post has been edited by Barak: 21 March 2006 - 01:25 PM

[Druid Scion]

The d20 Hypertext SRD has a nifty little dicer.

And about now is where I'm gripping the wheel, muttering, "ohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuck."

This post has been edited by Druid Scion: 21 March 2006 - 01:30 PM

[Second Talon]

Heh.. ODP actually got it spot on..

More or less three houses down from mine, there's a dude who has parties once every two, three weeks.. in the meantime, he seems to always have people over.

So, really, odd vans parked in the driveway is.. a completely normal occurance.

As is me forgetting things in the car, like the reason for me leaving the house in the first place.

[Kishi]

ODP, is it be too late to get in on this? Reading the prologue to Day 1 rekindled my interest and burnt away my mighty laziness. Okay, enough with the fire metaphor. But I'd like to join in, if you've no objections.

[OverdrivePrime]

Yeah, please join!

Check out the "Last Steps for Character Creation" threat in the PBP request forum for the bulk of information that you'll need. Also, please e-mail me your survey results from the initial "Who Wants to Live Forever" Thread. PM me if you need help figuring out what the hell I'm talking about.

[Kishi]

Cool. I'll work on all that during my shift tonight.

[Nyoibo]

Oh yeah, I live with my mum ODP, there's also another dog and 2 cats at home, as well as 8 horses.

There's also the tenants in the main house on the property too.

This post has been edited by Nyoibo: 21 March 2006 - 05:12 PM

[chai-ta]

OverdrivePrime, on Mar 21 2006, 09:01 AM, said:

drive off in you V-Dub while bobbin' your head to some old school Ice Cube, that's totally cool.

not that it matters much, but I've upgraded to an Acura TL.

[Barak]

About the dice thing, if you really don't like the idea of having a dice roller site up..

You said the game only uses a d20 and a d6, right? Just generate a long list of both at home, and print it out, then when you need a roll, go down the list, marking 'em off.

Or just always use the same roll, for the day. That'd make for a weird game though "Oh shit guys, it's 'everyone miss' day!"

That's kinda funny. I went down the list of players to see who I think I'd recognize, and here's what I got.

For sure: ST
Probably: Lance and Elliot, with Nyoibo a bit lower
Big maybe: Seph, Hans a tad higher

Everybody else? Not so much.

This post has been edited by Barak: 22 March 2006 - 10:02 AM

[Second Talon]

Hmm.. interesting..

Assuming I was looking for them, I'd likely recognize

Nyoibo, Benevolance

Possibly CV, Barak, Elliot, DS, and Seph.

Sarabeth, KidD, and ED... not so much, but maybe.

And I have no idea what Lokan or Chai-Ta look like.. and while I've seen pictures of Hans, I doubt I'd recognize him simply because my mental picture of him looks absolutely nothing like his actual appearance.

[Barak]

Well it's easy to recognize you, you look like a white outline of a man shooting himself in the head.

[Second Talon]

Sho'nuff

Either that, or a Cossak ranting about Tony Danza.

[OverdrivePrime]

For those of you who are being followed or surveiled by vans, they look like this, but with differing paint jobs.

[KidDoppler]

Those are called "child molester vans" in my lexicon.

[Lokan]

I hate those vans :angry:

[Barak]

I don't mind the vans. I hate the fuckers that were inside.

[Nyoibo]

No surveilance over here uses vans like that.

[Second Talon]

They don't really use those here anymore either.. too obvious.

Besides, nowadays.. a laptop and an ear is really all you need.

[OverdrivePrime]

Sorry for the slow and few updates today. An idea hit me like a two year old fruitcake and now I'm doing some research.

Oh yeah, and working. <_<

[Second Talon]

No worries.


*wonders if the bulbous guns are lethal*

[Barak]

I sure hope not, 'cause I'm pretty sure I'm gonna get shot at some point. Damn, you get one polite dude, I get three crazy bastards.

[Nyoibo]

OverdrivePrime, on Mar 24 2006, 06:10 AM, said:

Sorry for the slow and few updates today. An idea hit me like a two year old fruitcake and now I'm doing some research.

Oh yeah, and working. <_<

That's ok, so long as you get my update donw I'm easy to keep. :P

[Second Talon]

Barak gets three crazies. I get Mr. Polite-yet-menacing (And why the fuck isn't my asshole wearing a suit?). Nyo gets followed. Lokan gets a car bomb. DS outruns a guy and he gets flattened. Lance gets.. well, nothing yet, but likely followed. KidD gets followed home, ED gets followed, chai-tai gets followed...

And Seph gets a goddamn Pirate Sword! A $2.99 Pirate Sword at that!

This post has been edited by Second Talon: 23 March 2006 - 04:13 PM

[Druid Scion]

I got In'n'Out, and I must say, there are times when I would value that above any Pirate Sword, even at $2.99.

[Tannim]

KidDoppler, on Mar 22 2006, 01:31 PM, said:

Those are called "child molester vans" in my lexicon.

Wasn't the Weathervan like that?

Before you began driving the Weathermansedan?

[OverdrivePrime]

Seph's sword looks something like this: except that that the metal is a sort of blue-black and the grip is black leather with silver wire wrapping. Also, there's a black gemstone in the hilt.

[Second Talon]

So, is this when I talk about my new character concept?

[Barak]

Second Talon, on Mar 24 2006, 01:41 PM, said:

So, is this when I talk about my new character concept?

Man, if the answer to your question is yes, then, if you want, we can be brothers or something in our new concepts, 'cause I'm dead too.

[Saphi Yago]

I like how this is turning out.

[Second Talon]

Assuming I didn't fuck it up, this is my house.

As in, the arrow pointy thing should be on the southern corner of my house.

So, that might help the map make more sense.

[Saphi Yago]

You live on a Culdesac? Loser.

[Second Talon]

Not just a culdesac, but a culdesac IN a culdesac!

...

*cries*

[Barak]

That's cool. I tried to supply ODP with a similar map for me yesterday, but Google didn't have a stallite map close-in enough to be helpful.

[Lokan]

Barak, on Mar 23 2006, 01:56 PM, said:

I sure hope not, 'cause I'm pretty sure I'm gonna get shot at some point. Damn, you get one polite dude, I get three crazy bastards.

That's cause you are more badass than the rest, you can handle it. -_-
Now I on the other hand must be even more badass as they just try to blow me up immediately. :(

[OverdrivePrime]

Nah, dood, they're just afraid of having to deal with the short, blonde, weapon of mass destruction that lives with you. ;)

And if you think the exploding van was bad, I'm sorry for what's coming shortly. :(

[Lokan]

OverdrivePrime, on Mar 24 2006, 04:17 PM, said:

Nah, dood, they're just afraid of having to deal with the short, blonde, weapon of mass destruction that lives with you. ;)

And if you think the exploding van was bad, I'm sorry for what's coming shortly. :(

I'm excited to find out what happens! :clap:

This post has been edited by Lokan: 24 March 2006 - 04:44 PM

[Nyoibo]

So how come I didn't find a kickass weapon for $2.95 at the supermarket?

[Second Talon]

Because .. wait, don't you guys normally have kick ass weapons for as little as $2.95 down there? To help fend off the various poisonous critters?

Australia - Land of the world's poisonous snakes.. but it's okay, the spiders have eaten most of them..

[Benevolance]

But the giant rabid venemous ridgeback mongoose keeps the spiders in check.

[Second Talon]

And the deadly Montaba Virus, a virus so nasty it's often found mugging people for spare change to feed it's crack addiction, keeps the mongoose in line.

And the circle is complete.

[Aoibheal]

Wow ODP this game is looking awesome, I'm not even in it and I can't wait for more to happen.

[OverdrivePrime]

Thanks Aoibheal! :D

Nyoibo, on Mar 24 2006, 08:02 PM, said:

So how come I didn't find a kickass weapon for $2.95 at the supermarket?

Maybe you did. Check the price on that bean dip you bought! ;)

[Lokan]

Does that mean the paint roller I bought is über?

[Barak]

Man, the more I look at other people's threads, the mor eI think I got screwed.


ST gets -one- guy, and -then- he gets help.

Lance get some fucktards from the 70's who wanna harvest his liver.

Seph gets a sword.

Everybody else gets gunshy stalkers.

I get three crazies.

[Kishi]

It's all about threat priority. You're obviously the most dangerous, so you get a heavier response.

As such, when ODP starts mine, I expect to get a strongly worded postcard.

[Second Talon]

Hang on, Barak.. I think my position just got shittier than yours. I mean, you aren't about to be eating by a possibly bulletproof beast thing called.... The Dark

Ooooo! Spooky!!

...

Yeah.. so, Barak.. about that idea of the Black/Asian Brother duo....

[Barak]

Dude, the dark, whatever the fuck it is, seems to be attacking the people who were trying to abduct you.

[OverdrivePrime]

Kishi, on Mar 27 2006, 02:19 PM, said:

It's all about threat priority. You're obviously the most dangerous, so you get a heavier response.

As such, when ODP starts mine, I expect to get a strongly worded postcard.

I'd still watch out, Kishi. Those edges can be sharp!

And shit, ST's got a crossbow. He's got this shit handled.

[Tannim]

When I start playing, I expect to have to contend with being rubbed all over with an Alyson Hanigan. It's going to be tough, but I've got the stamina.

This post has been edited by Tannim: 27 March 2006 - 02:55 PM

[Second Talon]

That is true.. my hand crossbow is locked and loaded, and I got 12 extra bolts, and it only takes me about.. 5 seconds to reload.

[Benevolance]

Yeah, somehow I think I was volunteered for the 'alien autopsy' gig.

[OverdrivePrime]

Oh, come now... you need to be dead for there to be an autopsy.


Usually. :P

[Nyoibo]

So, it's vivisection for Lance?

[OverdrivePrime]

I'm sure I wouldn't describe it if it comes to that. Oh wait, five years ago, I ran an Immortal game where I did just that to three of my players. So, no guarantees! :ninja:

[Nyoibo]

Well I'm just wondering what I'll find outside, the horses don't usually act up like that unless there's a predator in the paddock.

[Nyoibo]

Oh yeah, ODP, the horses are out in a paddock.

This one actually.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b266/Nyoibo/IMGP0051.jpg

[OverdrivePrime]

Ah, snazzy. I'll quick edit.

[Second Talon]

ODP, my pistol crossbow will sink about 200-250 pages into a phone book.. but it's still not likely to be a lethal shot, unless I get damned lucky.

Dude's gonna have problems talking, though.

[Saphi Yago]

See, my luck's changing. I gotta take out a couple motherfuckers.

[Fugu]

This game looks fucking awesome. I want in! (If it's not too late and there's room.) I'll look at the threads you told Kishi to check.

EDIT: I don't know though. You have a lot of people and are already taking on a lot more than you expected when you suggested the game. Maybe the four that haven't replied yet are dropping out and I can take one of them's place?

This post has been edited by Fugu: 28 March 2006 - 08:02 PM

[OverdrivePrime]

Fugu, you're quite welcome to join. Obviously, as more people join, it'll take me a little longer to get everyone updated, but I think so long as I update at least every two days, people won't get too uppity.

[Tannim]

<gets uppity>

[Fugu]

OK, I sent the questionnaire, abilities, and skills.

[Nyoibo]

Well, now I'm just getting confused, but it's got to the physical violence stage, so at least I know what I'm doing here.

[Benevolance]

I don't want to get in the van, but I'm naturally inclined to be obedient of authority - especially when authority has guns pointed at me. I don't know what to do. :(

ODP - Just so I've got this right...the two guys are on either side of me with guns out? And they're standing 10 feet back? And the woman in the van has a gun out and trained on me as well.

So I'm sorta in the middle of a triangle of suckiness with three guns pointed at me, right?

Is there any way that I could swing one of the van doors shut as I climbed in, to give me some cover from the guys behind me, and then charge the driver and clock her with a good right hook? Preferrably without getting shot?

These guys probably know more martial arts than I do, too. I'm used to sparring in a 12 x 12 open ring. :(

BTW - how busy is it around right now. Are there people wandering about their business nearby?

[OverdrivePrime]

You've got the scene just about right. You could indeed swing one of the doors shut as you get into the van. You might even be able to grab one of the steel cases in the van to use as a shield between yourself and the driver. It'd take a lot of luck, but you just might be able to pull such a maneuver off.


As for passers by, there are indeed a few people who occasionally drive by, and slow the hell down. It's not at all busy this time of day, but there's about two cars a minute who drive by. If you hazard a glance, it looks like anyone who sees your predicament rapidly tries to dial on their cell phones and then keeps driving.

[Nyoibo]

Ok, I'll ask it in here, because the shoutbox is becoming too crowded. :blink:

Is the Emu guy still there or has he legged it? Because Emu legs break even easier that human legs.

[OverdrivePrime]

He's still there - he hasn't gotten a chance to really run yet. He's about 4 or 5 meters away from you. Unfortunately, you're still *mostly* levitating, so you can barely make any forward progress at all. It's like you've got floaties on and are trying to walk in a swimming pool when your toes just barely touch the bottom.

[Nyoibo]

Damn, if only I had another knife or two to throw. :(

[KidDoppler]

Or heavier feet.

[OverdrivePrime]

There might be a way for you to break free of whatever he's using to levitate you...

... *read's Nyoibo's response*

Ah, there you go! :)

[Nyoibo]

Woo hoo, well I sent the reply to your PM, so hopefully I'ma bustin' out of this hold soon. :D

[Lokan]

At least none of you have been hit with a shotgun slug :(

Ok, it was kinda a stupid move. I just can't stand still while someone is getting killed.