Dungeon Keepers: TSW OOC Thread

He was following traces of magic from your rather impressive displays of power. The closer he got, the more clear the direction became, but one in bay bulls all he felt was the magic coming from the harbor and sea.

Blee!

Amaranth, hopefully within three more of my posts with Entilon he'll have taken the first of the villages that Ordine stumbled across. After that, I plan on fast-forwarding a few days. During that time, Entilon might allow his followers to get some rest, thoroughly search whatever buildings he doesn't totally raze, and maybe finish up pillaging the nearby farms before moving on to the second town.

I say this because I just now realized that all of our characters fell from the sky at roughly the same time, and very little time has passed with Entilon. So for the sake of not defying the Space-Time Continuum, please don't have Ordine or any of her minions find out anything about Entilon or any of his doings until I've gotten a little bit farther along with his plot.

Well, the sewers weren't very big, so Khazid'hea's logical leap has taken him directly into Davy Jones' Dungeon.

So, something happens with my character and the whole thread decides to go to sleep. :/

oh um

I got distracted by school

give me a day, and I'll post.

OK. Real life is a priority.

that priority IS temporarily subverted, however.

Now, I just have to work on setting up 5-10 maps for FO:E:PNP and prepare a set of NPCs and that sort of thing.

BLUH COMBAT AREA AND NON-HOSTILE NPCs WITH WHOM THE PCs HAVE HISTORY

WHY IS STARTING A CAMPAIGN SO HARD?

I would post except that I am so far behind on everything, I'm not sure whether or not any of the others' posts affect me, and if not, I still have to make a post that sums up everything during my absence. Obviously, that might not work out very well.

@Jester, just continue normally. Nobody has done anything which directly affects you or influences your area.

@cursivewrit, I suppose because it is a bit like writing a story but more complex since you have to cover every likely outcome and course of events.

[Pops in from no where because he reads everything]: That's actually the worst thing you can do. Nothing infuriates a PC more than knowing he is following a flowchart of outcomes. I would know, I normally am one. What you do is throw a framework together, and figure out how each NPC would likely act, then just let things happen.

'Course, I also personally find starting games to be easy, so Joural and I probably have different methods there too.

OK, specific interactions should be free-flowing. I was thinking more large-scale, in terms of the entire story/campaign/plot. Which, I suppose, wasn't exactly the context, so my bad.
Although, at the same time, if the interactions are important to the grand scheme of things you would probably want to be able to limit the outcomes in some way to be ones you can handle. Otherwise I imagine that might become troublesome.

In other news, the IC is still stagnating.

I'm with Ji, the problem is how many characters I need to come up with, in addition to putting together a challenge that they can both survive and realize they can't win, so as to force them from the vault.

I'm building essentially a throw away town, with a couple dozen PCs and a ton of desecrated corpses and such, and raiders that are invading.  I'm building characters to be ready for them to interact with them, but I know at most three are going to be seen, unless Woofie manages to take control of the directions they go(for instance, I think I'm gonna have about five officers barricaded into the armory, trying to defend it).

cursiveWrit wrote:

that priority IS temporarily subverted, however.

Now, I just have to work on setting up 5-10 maps for FO:E:PNP and prepare a set of NPCs and that sort of thing.

BLUH COMBAT AREA AND NON-HOSTILE NPCs WITH WHOM THE PCs HAVE HISTORY

WHY IS STARTING A CAMPAIGN SO HARD?

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Did I miss something?

Nothing happened pertaining to this RP. Unfortunately.

Oh, and I'm going away soon, so if I don't get a response by tomorrow I can't reply for another week.

So this really is dead, then?

I hope not, but it seems we are losing interest and activity to a lethal degree.

Hey BBeast, you still there?

Of course.

Well, I hate to lose hope but it looks like this RP is dead, and there aren't really any others on this forum that I'm interested in joining.  

I was planning on fading away shamefully but you guys really deserve straightforwardness. This is it: I, like I imagine a bunch of you, have lost interest in this. I know that it is my fault. It's already hard to play a role with such management demands, not to mention the endless rules and guidelines. I started us off too slowly, too handicapped, and too limited by what I though a while ago was a brilliant plot twist. The story got in the way of having any sort of fun, and that me down. I was never cut out for making and running things...I'm a follower by nature, you see, not a leader. Anyhoo, you all have been fantastic, and if a more worthy man wishes to make a better Dungeon Keepers with a fresh, vigorous start, I might try and redeem myself by making a humble contribution. I'm sorry, really.

Well, at least you told us. It was nice roleplaying with you. I hope to do it again some time. If I have time, that is.

Well, I wouldn't call myself more worthy than cav, but I might attempt to migrate DK once more to another forum. There just wasn't enough interest here. Maybe running a RP will push me to actually improve my writing and with some actual planning I think I could get a solid plot, so the idea is worth a shot. If I ever do get DK going somewhere else, I'll post a link here.

Until then, I'll hopefully see you guys around on here.

I personally think the human start twist was a good idea, although evidently many people don't share my enthusiasm in management and long-term plans. Perhaps making it easier to return to full Keeper-like power would help. Maybe fragments of the Iocinor, imbued with residual energy, were scattered around the world along with the Keepers. These fragments would contain enough power to restore a Keeper to their avatar, although their power would be that of a new Keeper. It would also allow further developments. What happens if humans get their hands on these fragments? Would it be possible to reconstruct the Iocinor if enough fragments were collected? Quite a fair bit of potential there.

Cav, what were your plans? You must have had plans.

My plans were that, after a few centuries of regaining lost power, the skies turn red and the Keepers find out that the Ripper has grown vast enough to threaten Earth. Faced with another apocalypse from which there is no escape, they can choose to try and destroy the Ripper by taking an uneasy alliance and facing it down together. I thought that the Four Horsemen would be scattered across the world, weak and not really interested in ending another, but they would ironically come together and spearhead the Keeper alliance to save the Earth.