[quote=@Heap241]
Would also like to say that you're one of the best if not THE best GM I've ever had to work with and I'm really looking forward to how things proceed.[/quote]
[s]You bet yer ass I am.[/s]

Honestly, in all seriousness, cheers for saying that -- I appreciate it. While it's true that I'm very passionate about the projects that I invest myself in (especially if I've connected them to GA, like this one), just knowing that you guys're enjoying this and excited about it makes all the work I put into it worthwhile.

I'd also like to partially credit Tsu for the conflict at the end of the chapter. While I was the one who decided to bring back the thugs from the opening of the chapter (I'd been looking for an excuse to use them again), Tsu was the one who initially suggested we give the collab some conflict, which got the ball rolling. I'd been wanting to have a 'villain' for chapter one pretty much the whole time (I had ideas like a small time mob boss, et cetera, which is what I somewhat used in this collab), but hadn't decided how to integrate them or who to throw them at (since not too many of the protagonists met up, it made it difficult to create the conflict I had in mind).

So yeah, while I did GM and orchestrate that conflict, Tsu motivated me to use it there in that specific collab. He suggested that there be some sort of drama in chapter one (apart from the psychological drama that Conrad got), and so I basically integrated something I wanted to do into that collab -- I'd been hoping to use a 'chapter one mob boss villain' for months now, like I said, because one of the reasons I allowed people to start role-playing even before getting to the estate was because I had some plot ideas - and subsequently some interesting revelations or hints - that could only be used during this phase, but not enough people got involved in the role-play yet to really make those ideas work, and I didn't want to make it obligatory since we were mostly just waiting for people to register. Even so, I did have the blueprints for some of that conflict in mind, which is why Leonard was attacked right from the start in his first post.

That's also the reason that collab became the closing post for the chapter, because otherwise I might've waited a bit longer until Leonard reached the escort point and then made the 'mob boss' attack [i]there[/i] instead, depending on how long it took Leonard and the others to arrive. That final scene with Leonard at the end of the first chapter is vaguely something I wanted to use this whole time, so Tsu's input is what made me decide to adapt the collab between us and Pudd into the final post of the chapter, since not enough people were really getting involved in the role-play yet for it to warrant my other ideas.

Anyway, yeah, glad to know you've enjoyed the role-play so far, and I'll be looking forward to your response. It shouldn't take too long for my collab with Phantom to get finished.