Jig

Wolf Manor

At least one of the Wolfs is my favourite character to play (ever) so far.

Wolf Manor

Motion carried

When we get there, you will get a veeeeeery brief tour and you (the player) will receive a really shitty plan of the Manor I'm currently knocking up.

Wolf Manor

Once Call's post is up, I'm gonna butt right in with the plotbump.

When we reach the Manor, there'll be plenty of free time, but, thankfully, more to do. At that point it will be easier for you to peel off into smaller groups and do some lots of lovely character-establishing collabs, or explore, or both if the mood takes you.

Originally, I was going to update the character tab with details about all of the currently available rooms so you can explore as you please, but what I'm now tempted to do is to have you guys individually decide where (if anywhere) your character is going to go, to tell me, and then I'll send you details about it, so you can describe it through your character's own eyes in the IC. At that point, I would, yes, upload all my notes for that room onto the Character Tab for ease of access.

Does anybody have any strong feelings about the above thoughts? It's mostly just a stylistic thing, because anything important in any of the rooms will be made apparent.

Wolf Manor

I'm afraid so. I could theoretically bodge it so that Call's character arrives later so you could get moving sooner but... neh.

Wolf Manor

Yes

I mean, uh, spoilers.

Call is joining us

Whoop-de-whoop. What this does mean is that we have at least until his first post before I can hit you all with Jig's patented plot-stick of love (so it's probably just as well we're skipping through the rest of the journey).

Wolf Manor

I never actually signed up for any kinda contest. Wonder maybe if they were just givin' these out to whoever...”

Jonas

Good god, it already sounds as though something dastardly is going on.

Wolf Manor

Expophobics, I expect.

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Aw darn. Good thing for me there's translations out there.

@AuntFlavia

If I had a German transcript, I wouldn't have a problem reading it. It's partly the fact it's sung in a particular way that's distracting, with an accent that I find difficult. For example, the singer pronounces 'ich' (I) as 'ish', when I pronounce it in a way that I can't spell phonetically in English because we just don't have that sound: I kinda stick my tongue against the roof of my mouth so it's just touching my top teeth and hiss (kinda like a cat hisses, but at the front of the mouth rather than the back). Little things like that cause me to misunderstand words and lose meaning.

The worst is my Dutch. I learned off a Fleming (a Dutch-speaking Belgian), whose accent is very clean, precise and clear. When I hear actual Dutch people speak, it sounds like they're gargling lighter fuel rather than saying actual words.

Motion Carried

Car ride will henceforth be skipped. I'll give Call until I'm sick of waiting to get back to us, and then let me know when you want to move on. Beware, the following Expo-post will have a huuuuuuge amount of expo in it.

Wolf Manor

The stylisation and general batshittery of it makes it largely incomprehensible to me, I'm afraid. I can pick out bits that I'm like, "I do understand it, yet it's still nonsense" while the rest of it is "I can't".

Wolf Manor

1) I speak French and German (and Dutch). There'll probably be throwaway snippets of German in there, which I'll translate if I do. Mostly I expect it will be "X & Y say something in German". It's a good way of having plot stuff in there without spoiling anything (#cheating) like that, because you can't Google Translate it. Apart from anything else, I'm not confident that I can write according to the region. When I met some Bavarians, and I was like "Oh, you're German" they basically took it as an insult. Bavaria considers itself very separate.

2) Thou shalt only get Jiggy with it on Jig's terms

3) I only have so much waiting for Cops in me. If I don't hear back fairly shortly, we're just going to carry on without him.

4) You can try flirting with Félix, I guess. ;)

5) At this point, it's a combination of waiting to hear back from Cops, and waiting till you're done with this section before we progress. After this section, the journey to the manor really will be more of the same unguided interaction, so don't be scared of saying you do/n't want it if you'd rather/not skip it.

6) I had completely forgotten that I included the party popper, but very glad you guys picked up on it.

7) Genuinely debating whether Lederhosen are a thing. They won't be a big thing, though, because ew.

8) When we reach the Manor, because I am a busy bee, I'm going to upload room informations as the rooms become available to your characters. If you want to access a room that doesn't have information yet, PM me, and I will upload it specially so you can access that environment.