Flamelord

The War of the Three

Upon rereading character sheets, it seems Tatiana already had a psychic ability meaning they've already been approved for Machina. If only I had done some light reading before hand I could have saved us like 4 minutes of discussion.

@Awesomoman64

Yeah. I'm working on an expanded list now that the GM's have basically approved her wish to jack that up to 11. Should be fun.

The War of the Three

Wait, we were supposed to acheive stuff in this RP? Have I been lied to this entire time? :O

The War of the Three

Why do all these Demons keep harping about honor? They're Demons.

@TheWindel

It's a convenient excuse. Like the Minbari harping on about honor before they go shoot disabled ships that don't pose a threat to them.

Deep Ground Online (Hiatus)

I'm sorry but that post is gonna come tomorrow. I have a half-day then so I'll have a better quality writing thing.

@Mega Birb

Well I'm certainly not going to force you. I'll just be over here, planning out a hostile takeover of the Blue Guild that will probably not come close to actually working. :P

God's Shattering [Concluded]

He could have had the heist planned out before he left on the Arcadia trip and just went to carry it out in a rush. Have supplies stashed elsewhere to carry out his plan.

@Lonewolf685

A tiny bit leery but I guess it works. There's just be a shorter gap for travel time and making sure that the shipment he's going for is actually happening/on time, in addition to getting his stuff.

@Flamelord

Do you need to have written out every part of his plan IC? You can't say he had this in mind all along? Maybe he took the Blue Relic in the first place for the sole purpose of having a tool for this heist.

@TheWindel

Well I think the recent events just confirmed that he won't be using the Blue Relic on the heist, but it's a nice thought regardless :P

God's Shattering [Concluded]

The understanding that there would have been a time skip for Alex to work things out came from two sources. The first was that due to the length of time that he had been away on his side trip with Tori (IC time, not OOC time, It was hardly a weekend jaunt), he would need to take stock of the city and actually locate something to go heist like the supply shipment that had been the initial target as we discussed.

The other source was the mere fact that even if he had had a target in mind on returning to the Capital, he hadn't had the time to plan anything because Zealot showed up almost immediately upon him getting back, So he'd need a bit to come up with an initial plan for how the heist would work, even if it fell apart later. After that, potentially collect some supplies, though that probably could have been cut out without any real problems.

Otherwise I guess there could have just been one big cut to the heist with all that offscreen, but it wouldn't exactly help the time issues involved.

God's Shattering [Concluded]

To be clear, I never brought it up to Windel because I have not had a problem with the time that it has taken to work through the Zealot scene. Sure, it wasn't blistering fast, but it seemed to be moving at a consistent pace in tandem with the rest of the RP at the time. I figured we would get through that, and then once the initial conflict was over there would be a time skip or two to set things up, and then we're in to arranging the heist. It's not like lengthy delays are particularly unusual in Windel's games, especially for people who are in scenes by themselves.

So if I seemed hostile in my response to your comment, I apologize. I was just genuinely confused as to why I was being given the burden of responsibility for the state of affairs.

However, while I was content with how things were proceeding, I never got an indication from the GM's that they were growing frustrated with how long it was taking to move along. I did not get a PM, and all the comments in the OOC were directed at individuals who had yet to post rather than me. At the very least if they did exist they weren't particularly direct, since I can't remember them.

At this point my main concern is that the plan which we had agreed on as to how we would ultimately proceed was changed in a fairly significant manner without my consent, input, or even just a bit of forewarning before doing so. If I had been approached with a message saying something like 'hey, we think this isn't working out, can we compromise?', I would have been happy to do so. Instead though, they went ahead with pushing their own agenda for how they believed things should progress. Which is all the more awkward considering how we ended the last serious argument with a conclusion that we should all try to communicate better.

I am more than willing to collab out an end to this scene or relaxing the posting limit or what have you to get this done, I merely wanted to voice my particular dissatisfaction with how events occurred.

God's Shattering [Concluded]

And to be fair, we have given Flame several months to get his heist mission into motion with only his interactions with Stark to show for it.

@Lonewolf685

I can't control how often Windel posts responses to me >_>

Wait, since when has Monkey been part of the heist plan? Her escaping should have no impact on Alex.

@TheWindel

Well, the heist plan doesn't specifically require Monkey, but she is with Alex at the moment, and it was my understanding that part of the reason Gecko had had her meet Alex was so she could be a part of it. Gecko can correct me on that though if I'm wrong.

God's Shattering [Concluded]

To be fair actually describing the barrier was probably a good idea, if only because certain individuals now trapped in said barrier probably would have tried to go over it or something with their 'manipulate air' tome.

As far as things go now, all the previous discussions we had had about the heist mission was with regards to using it as a mechanism to both influence the plot, and to use it to allow Alex to meet the group while re-establishing his credentials as a thief who does thief stuff (Since the last time he did that was at the beginning of the RP and he got caught). Given that I know from previous statements made that you guys want to move on to the climax of the RP and the ending, this relatively sudden move to link up Alex and Meihou with everyone else without warning seemed to contradict that and make it look like you guys just wanted to have them get together so you could go straight into the ending/final confrontation of the RP, where Alex's main value to the group would be 'has a Relic' as opposed to anything specific about his character.

I mean, I am curious to know how getting arrested would have let him link up with the group, but fortunately we have a relic so that isn't a problem.

God's Shattering [Concluded]

@Flamelord Ok, would you like to post before or after Monkey?

If I get to post first, I would like to transform my staff into an invisible crystal barrier right inside Farris', so that when she moves forward to put cuffs on us, she bounces off it like Monkey did off of hers.

@The 42nd Gecko

Well, I mean, you know what my plan is at this point. Considering the situation it's probably more viable, otherwise we'll just be stuck staring each other down until Stark pulls a Kool-Aid Man through the wall to gank us without effective resistance.