Spaceships, Sixguns, and Cylcopean Horrors IRC game

[Xathan]

Update: if power doesn't come back or bookstore wifi still fails to cooperate, I might have to miss this session. :(

[Steerpike]

Part II was a big success.  I'd still like to run a scenario with the other half of the crew - Father Blake (who Light Dragon has expressed an interest in), Doc Tenebrous, Ashley Crow, and Ramsay Olmstead.  Woul anyone else be up for playing that half of the scenario through (including the players from the first half)?

EDIT: I will have the logs up soon.

P.P.S. Was talking with the players and some problems with running a second half came up with regards to player motivation and certain inevitable conclusions - the first group apprehended N'Gai, so the second group wouldn't have a proper chance to.  They'd have their own adventure, but it would all feel a little foregone.  So instead of doing a second half, maybe we can just run a different, new scenario:

A Fistful of Tentacles

[ic=Briefing]After completing a small contract in the system of Zhuque on the edge of the Homunculus Nebula – the very fringes of settled space – you received a proposition from a man named Samuel Crofton, mayor of the nascent colony of Menhir on the rugged, recently settled planet Mandragora.  The settlement's cattle have been going missing and Crofton believes that rustlers are making off with them.  The local sheriff, Phillip Burke, took a party of armed men into the nearby wilderness, hoping to find the stolen cattle and capture the rustlers.  Only Burke returned, raving insensibly, slipping in and out of catatonia; the other men never emerged from the shadowy depths of the forest.

Crofton has contacted off-world law enforcement agencies requesting further investigation, but the response has been unenthusiastic, and by the time the interplanetary police send someone to look into things the town will have been bled dry.  Private security agencies are far too expensive for the town to afford.  In desperation Crofton has asked the crew of the Demoiselle d'Ys  to look into the matter, promising to pay them as much as he can scrape together.  With the money from James N'Gai's capture and other recent jobs beginning to dwindle, you have agreed to help the citizens of Menhir if you can.

You will receive your pay either upon return of the stolen cattle or if you arrest, kill, or otherwise dispatch the rustlers.  In addition, the families of the men who joined Sheriff Burke will pay a bonus for the return of their relatives – or, if they are dead, of their loved ones' bodies.[/ic]

[Xathan]

So...when we doing this next? >.>

[Steerpike]

It might be awhile, actually - lots of school stuff and other things keeping me busy. But I'll let everyone know.

[Steerpike]

Scenario is complete, or near to!  I have disturbed myself with some aspects of this one.  But it should be fun, I think, and still a rollicking, crazy adventure, not just a trip through the viler parts of my imagination.

After Dec. 2 my schedule is WIDE open, so pretty much anytime works for me except for weekends and Wednesdays from 12:30-3:30 (Cadaverous Earth game).  If next week is all-around better I could possibly work around that too.

If you'd like to play, sign up here with your character preference (returning players get first dibs on their characters) and your availability (if you don't mind, please convert to EST so that I don't go crazy trying to figure out a ton of timezones).

A list of characters is available on the first page of this thread.  Light Dragon has expressed an interest in Father Blake.  The other previously claimed characters are Captain Gideon, Sthena "Naughty Angel" Murdoch, Richard Xu, and Sakhr.

[LordVreeg]

Scenario is complete, or near to!  I have disturbed myself with some aspects of this one.  But it should be fun, I think, and still a rollicking, crazy adventure, not just a trip through the viler parts of my imagination.

This still sounds like a good time, btw.

[Ghostman]

I'm interested in playing again, but I don't feel any need to call dibs on Richard yet. I could certainly continue playing him, but I'm tempted to try some other character - Ramsay maybe, or perhaps even submit a novel PC.

[Steerpike]

Feel free to submit new PCs!

Ramsay might be more useful than Richard in this one if you feel you'd like a change - the scenario's basically a rural adventure, so there won't be as much technology to interact with.

[SabrWolf]

I'm interested in playing in this upcoming game. However, I don't want to lock off a character for others or say "I'm in" until there's a better idea of what day/time the game will be held on as I might be working on the day/night that works best for everyone else.

Sorry that's not too helpful, just wanted to let my interest be known.

[sparkletwist]

I will certainly make every effort to come back as Sthena!

[CoyoteCamouflage]

Nearly any time not Tuesday nights or Wednesday morning/afternoon can be made to work. I just need to know about it with a few days notice to clear up my schedule if there is a conflict.

[Xathan]

I suppose it should go without saying I want to play Gideon again. After Dec 5th is during my exam time, so my schedule become very erratic - I might not know when I'm free until I get closer to it. But will do everything I can to get myself back in, because last time was a blast and I want to do it again. :)

[Steerpike]

How would Thursday the 1st actually work for people?  Round 12 EST, or some other time that day?

[Ghostman]

Should be good for me.

[Steerpike]

Two announcements:

1) I'm looking at 1:30-2 PM EST for this Thursday as being a possible play-time.

2) An additional character (I'm thinking of Saffron/Yolanda/Bridgette from Firefly and Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop for her):

[ic]Sonam "Sonya" Choden

Though she does not look it, Sonam Choden – or "Sonya" as she prefers to call herself – is of pure tcho-tcho origin, able to trace her ancestry back to the original terrestrial tribes of Central Asia and, ultimately, to the primordial Miri-Nigri themselves.  Raised in a traditional tcho-tcho household, Sonya became disillusioned with her culture after her twin older brothers were killed in a turf-war between two rival Tongs in the Chauchatown of Moloch City.  She ran away from home, stowing away on a hyperfreighter heading to the frontier and becoming a pickpocket, burglar, and con artist, wandering from town to town, planet to planet, system to system.  She cut her nails and kept them well-pruned; she let her hair grow out of its original bowl cut and dyed it blonde; when she could afford to she had a chirurgeon replace her filed teeth with regular ones; she renounced worship of Chaugnar Faugn, Atlach-Nacha, the Twin Obscenities, and the other Great Old Ones revered by many of her people.  She ate synthetic human flesh coded with double alleles in the HMGA2 gene and suffered excruciating growing pains as her tcho-tcho metabolism assimilated the DNA and pushed her height from 4'3" to 5'1".  With agonizing slowness she transformed herself from a fanged pygmy into a still-petite but unremarkable young woman.  When a con required her to change herself further she would consume the appropriate genetic material, adopting a temporary visage to alter her genetic makeup.

Some years ago Captain Gideon was bringing Sonya in after the skilled thief stole an extremely valuable electromagnetic pulsed microwave weapon from a private collector.  On the way back to the ship the Captain was ambushed by a group of Ghoul thugs in the warrens of Nova Stygia.  Having disarmed Gideon, the Ghouls prepared to divest him of his valuable possessions: his weapons, clothes, money, skin, and vital organs.  Ignoring the handcuffed Sonya for the time being two of the slavering creatures approached while the third kept watch.  Though Gideon had handcuffed her with her hands behind her back, Sonya's tcho-tcho flexibility allowed her to easily reposition her arms round the front.  She crept up to the Ghoul standing guard, strangled him quietly using her chains as an improvised garrotte, picked up his weapon, and shot the remaining two Ghouls through the backs of their heads.  During this time Gideon reclaimed his own weapon; the two now faced a Mexican standoff.  Complimenting Sonya on her skills and thanking her for saving his life Gideon offered to tell the authorities she'd been killed during apprehension – if she joined his crew.  After a brief moment's hesitation Sonya accepted Gideon's proposal.

Since that day Sonya has been an on-again-off-again crewmember of the Demoiselle d'Ys.  She has her own hyperspace-capable ship, the Cacodaemon Class vessel Dream of Hyperborea, which she typically docks in one of the Demoiselle's spare shuttle bays while she is aboard.  Often she will come aboard the ship and work a few jobs while on the run from lawmen in another system (usually unbeknownst to Gideon), then leave once she grows bored.  Stealthy, nimble, and well-versed in the dynamics of the underworld, Sonya can be a valuable addition to the team.  She has an extensive array of criminal contacts and is a decent shot with the Morella Model 4 Pocket Pistol she always carries, though she prefers to dispatch foes quietly using knives and garrottes when she has to kill anyone, and further prefers to sneak past, trick, or otherwise disable enemies rather than killing them.[/ic]

EDIT: For players in the GMTish timezone, would 5pm EST (11 pm GMT) be too late to play?