Deserted

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We are barely started.

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@TheMadAsshatter @SheriffLlama Whenever you guys are ready.

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You could work on a colab between Owen and Benji too. Just because he has a concussion doesn't mean he is totally unconscious, just that he won't be doing much.

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Just have her act like one of those bumpkins in a bar or something where the message she is trying to say is lost in the volumes of curses.

"Well bleepity bleep bleep bleepin bleeper bleep-bleep! This bleep bleeping bleep totally bleep bleep bleep bleepin bleep could you? I mean bleep, bleep bleep bleepin bleep bleep-bleeper bleepin bleeping bleeper, Benji!"

Everybody is like "Were you actually meaning to SAY something, because we knew you were mad just from the look on your face."

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Does SherriffLlama need to go first and the other 3 start a co-op post?

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I think Yaz should go bananas at being startled awake like that. Like, "Aaaa! Rend no!!!" Then punches through the wall, Benji opens the door wielding a sword thinking that Rend has come to finish the job so he is ready for a fight. There's more screaming. Owen comes to look in, but Benji thinks it's Rend behind him and suddenly swings at him. Owen busts out his well hidden but mad kung-fu skills and lays into Benji. Benji goes defensive and starts whaling on Owen to get him off. Yaz is still screaming this time trying to get them to stop, but Thalia only hears "No! Stop! Stop it!" Thalia gets her kickass on and races to help, only to see Yaz physically hauling Benji off of Owen and slamming him into a wall. Thinking this has something to do with the death pact earlier, she kicks the tech in the face. Yaz, gets pissed off, thinking that it was uncalled for in her attempt to break up a fight and goes retaliatory on Thalia. Owen, knowing Yaz's strength, tries to dissuaide her to get her to think more clearly, Yaz interprets this as an attack... as does Benji when he sees Thalia ganging up with Owen on his former would-be girlfriend. Then it turns into a free-for-all with everybody attacking everybody else.

Then a smash-cut, everybody is sitting in the kitchen bloodied, bruised, panting, and rather pissed off. Benji glares at the rest of the group, and heads for the door, "Like I said, don't wait up for Echo."

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You ever play the old Balder's Gate for Playstation? My roommate had it, and we played that game into the ground. We had a dwarf that was crap at everything but constitution that we used as a pack mule, then we had an elf with nothing but charisma in order to sell all of the crap we collected in the dungeon. Good times.

The best was when we kept loading a character, giving the other player the most super-duper item ever, then re-loading them and doing it again. We had an inventory FULL of these black obsidian swords that we then used to get more gold than the game engine allowed.

We also capped out our characters and found that if you jumped you could go just a TEENY TINY bit faster. Then we went through the game as far as we could without any armor or equipment. So for like 8 levels we were skipping (literally) around wearing just loin clothes and gauntlets and punching baddies to death. Good (and very stupid) times.

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@beyond visions I think everybody is waiting on you, since you kinda established that everybody is asleep. Are you wanting them to take the initiative and write being woken up and such?

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@beyond visionsAre we supposed to write how we are disrupted from our sleep?

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@beyond visions Well, if you are meaning that we are going to pull the plug with a pending "something's going to happen" I advise we wait at least until "Something IS happening" (like everybody is knocked out, or the ship is taken over, etc...) or "something HAS happened." (We are liberated by the Velbinians, or we make a daring escape, or there is an explosive drama that scatters the party.) That is a great place to pause or do a time-gap. However, with a pending something, it kills momentum because it pulls the plug before the rest of our gaming could compile into something.

So far as your Us vs. Them trouble. That can easily be changed by introducing interaction with pro-human factions, or showing some level of spectrum of confusion and opinion among the population. However currently, it feels polarized because it is polarized. From the PC perspective, there hasn't exactly been any reason for us to not think that. For instance, the language they will only use (but refuse to teach us), the fact we are gassed and imprisoned, the only contact has been with guards and robots (disposable people) and then the monarchy I sort of forced an Us vs. Them environment.

@beyond visions @atrophy @TheMadAsshatter @SheriffLlama I think we've got a pretty rare thing going here, folks. Why don't we just be a gaming group? Like, we don't have to play the same game or even have the same GM, but we are a group and we stick together. That way people can do finals, holidays, etc... and we know that they will be back, because, you know, they are part of the group.