I am home!<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=217372.msg10684809#msg10684809">Quote from: Latooni Subota on 12-11-2014, 07:03:10</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Diving right into the action is fine by me. As for Mumble/whatever, I've never used it but I'm not a huge fan of chat programs since I have VERY VERY specific timeslots where I have free time at a computer I can post from. I'd need more details, but I'm tentatively leaning towards 'plz no'? In other news Big Hero 6 interrupted my workin' time, so I'll have to post the sheet tomorrow night after work. :x<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I can definitely understand your hesitancy about using Mumble.  What are your opinions on Muse's suggestion of providing me with your aim?<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=217372.msg10685500#msg10685500">Quote from: lockepick on 12-11-2014, 15:10:44</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Sorry I've been so quiet here! I am still very much interested. Let me see if I can catch up to all the comments... <br/><br/>Starting in the middle of the action works fine for me. The introduction paragraph that sets the first scene could easily give us a gist of the month or two we've been trapped, as well as this run. Frankly, I don't want to RP out when we first find out we're trapped -- because our reactions don't mean much. All our characters panic and try stupid stuff that we all know doesn't work. I'd rather start where we know the 'rules' of the game and we're not bumbling around. <br/><br/>I'm playing a dude, but a gay dude, because that's how I roll. <br/><br/>I'm happy to communicate in any sort of real-time method as needed: Steam, Skype, AIM, YIM, Gchat, or hell, you could text me. I can get Mumble, I just don't have it always on like I do the other slew of chat programs. I am against any sort of scheduled meeting though, or prolonged GROUP activity over Mumble/Skype -- not because I have any life to speak of, but because coordinating that will be a pain, and may take a while. Can I also suggest making a Chatzy room? A little more 'come as you go' and browser based so people can use it wherever. <br/><br/>@Reiji: Read Assassin's Creed carefully. The real downside of that Negative Quality (in my eyes) is that you have a 1 in 6 chance of there being a 'complication' that FORCES you to kill somebody even if you try not to, such as heart issues or overdose or not realizing your target was already injured or something -- and you lose Karma when it happens. Frankly, the fact that it bends reality to force you to do something terrible should be enough. If you're suggesting that 'Deckers don't fight, thus they don't kill' as a loophole -- You fight people all the time in the Matrix, and any of those 'complications' are even easier to justify when you're punching somebody in the brain... <br/><br/>As for making combat more streamlined -- I would suggest just having Dis make any contested rolls on our behalf. I suppose the main issue there is when somebody wants to spend Edge on a defensive roll. <br/><br/>Phew. :)<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>'That's how you roll,' I like that!  I actually laughed out loud while I was at lunch.  I got weird looks, but that's okay!<br/><br/>I had written this in the first of the advertisement thread.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">One day out of the week, will be dedicated to the main missions.  During this time, there will be one thread for the mechanics, and one for narrative.  That day will be determined once we've gotten our cast of players, and we can determine which day and time slot will be the most convenient.  The rest of the week other threads will be available for you guys to write out post's for personal interactions that are outside of the main missions.  If situations that require my attention(fights,dangerous situations) occur during this time, I'll be available for that.  But for the most part the system will be used the majority of time for the main missions.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>This doesn't really constitute a meet up, but it's a day you might want to keep open, because that'll be the only day out of the week that we'll be doing the main runs.  I haven't determined which day this will happen on, since I'll be asking everyone which days are better and which days are a no go.<br/><br/>I can change my mind about this, if the majority prefer I run this another way.  The farther I read in the book, the more I think I might not go this route, but again, if the majority prefer something a bit more lax, than I can accommodate that.<br/><br/>