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[Taricus]

Ah well, HOPEFULLY Haika saved everything, otherwise I might've lost a few bits of key information...

[Grek]

Hey, Weird? Is there any way I can get you to reconsider the size of the familiar death penalty? As it stands, if I don't manage to revive Frankie this turn (and I only have about a 50/50 shot of doing that), then I'm going to be taking a -25 the next time we get a forum turn. With a penalty that large, I'm never going to succeed, so I may as well just roll up a new character.

[Weirdsound]

There are other ways to get familiars or learn manipulation. The character can leave Frankie behind and move on. Might even trigger some character development. In that vein perhaps you should propose an alternate action or set of actions in case you fail to get in contact with Frankie.

[Grek]

Current plan for what to do if I can't contact Frankie would be, "Try Condense Soul". Now that it's not 3:00 AM, a few other ideas occur to me for what to do next turn if that fails as well. Admittedly, they mostly consist of "Go to Dis and try to find a friendly manipulator." and "Ask Kestrel if he can get Sabnach on the phone." and stuff like that, but it's better than the blank I was drawing last night.

[Dwarmin]

@Grek: I like the character development that might come out of it. If Ariel feels anything for anyone, it would be for Frankie. Her care-or lack thereof-of whats happening so soon after her Ghostening will be a major effect on her character, IMO.

I think it could mean her undead state might not be so emotionless as first thought. Which of course, would be interesting to ponder.

[Criptfeind]

On the other hand I feel that major character development should not be forced. Honestly for something this big I feel WS should have talked with Grek first.

[Grek]

@Dwarmin: Really, there's two ways this could go. Either Ariel successfully revives Frankie, all is forgiven, and she becomes even more insufferably self-confident in her own powers, OR she fails and suddenly realizes that she's betrayed her faith, made deals with demons to become a witch, strangled the family pet, effectively commited suicide and then finally murdered her life-long best friend all in the reckless pursuit of magical power. At which point she freaks out and does something crazy to try and make it all right again. Note that neither of those are "Ariel gives up on Frankie.", since that's just not something she'd do. She cares more about that cat than she does about just about anything.

@Criptfeind: Eh, I'm fine with tragedy happening. Even unexpectedly. It keeps things interesting.

[Dwarmin]

@Cript: By it's very nature, character development cannot move forward without tragedy. But it's own nature, Tragedy doesn't come when you expect it too.

[Criptfeind]

Except this is a game. (also I disagree with tragedy is needed.)

[Weirdsound]

Except this is a game. (also I disagree with tragedy is needed.)

Despite what my spelling would sometimes have you believe, I was at one point a creative writing major. I am a storyteller at heart, and good stories are not all flowers and sunshine beginning through end. Sometimes the dice give us the chance to deconstruct a character and rebuild it to make the story as a whole better.

This isn't a tragedy in the greek sense, but as you may have noticed I'm willing to have very bad things happen to the characters in this game.

If at any point any of you feel I am crossing a line and taking my torment of your character too far, by all means call me out on it. I'm still improving.

[Weirdsound]

Alright. I'm rolling the turn now.

What job do you all want to do tomorrow?

[Taricus]

Hitlist 1 if possible.

[Dwarmin]

Concur. go Hitlist 1!

[Grek]

Finish the last two guys on the hitlist.

[Haika]

If I'm needed for pog work tonight, need a list of maps and npcs I need to make. Don't need the full write up, but a list of stuff to get would be helpful. I saved an auto save after a crash last time, but will likely be afk for quite a bit if we play tonight.