The Convoy Discussion 1

[IHateMakingNames]

Edit - I'll give it two days (Busy Saturday so won't be able to post) for people to post their fight scene or three, since I know people love them. I'll probably throw in a post tomorrow regardless which just extends the scene.

[Julford Hajime]

Whoo fight scenes! If anybody wants to start a fight with me, I gave you an easy in. Hell, you don't even HAVE to be Bandit, Jasper doesn't care too much about particulars once a battle starts. He could have 'accidentally' rushed a fellow Convoy Guard!

[Astral Harmony]

I've got Jasper. Typing it up now.

[Julford Hajime]

Alright, sorry Inbred Chocobo, but Armoured Bishoujo here took the initiative in starting the fight before I could hop on and respon to your PM. Not that I have anything against three-way fights, but they tend to get very messy and if IHateMakingNames wants to keep this thing on a schedule it could be hard to get any decent fighting in.

That said, AB (And everyone else, really), should I respond now or wait for everyone else to post? I'll type up a PM response to your post for now, and I can just post it there or we can do some big conglomerate post or something.

[IHateMakingNames]

The schedule is just to get people to post. If everyone is enjoying themselves having some big fight or telling ghost stories around a camp fire, I don't care, the plot will wait.

[krogothwolf]

It's going to be a slaughter this battle isn't it?

[Julford Hajime]

I have no objection to murderizing everything :P

[Krylo]

Speaking of, what's the relative power level of PCs vs NPCs? Like, should we be tearing through them like wet paper, or should they be of similar strength to the PCs?

[IHateMakingNames]

You can be stronger than everyone. It's a ragtag group on both sides though, so each would have the wimps and badasses. Player discretion here.

I would prefer people don't just go around murdering though. Each side is about 40 people, relatively small scale.

[Julford Hajime]

Alright, since the thread doesn't look like it's gonna get many more posts before the next IHMN post, I'm just gonna post what I PM'd to Armoured Bishoujo earlier. AB can post their response there, since so far we hadn't gotten any farther than one post each via PM >.>

[Astral Harmony]

Yep. Paulleth is a bitch.

[Julford Hajime]

Yep. Paulleth is a bitch.

You know, I haven't actually seen your post yet. I don't know what to expect, but I'll edit it in here :ohdear:

EDIT: Eh, not that bad. I was expecting, like, rampagin' all over me and other PC next to me or something.

Also, TOTALLY stole my graverobbin' shtick I was gonna do :mad:

[Astral Harmony]

Still plenty of bodies and plenty of money. All Paulleth took were coins. You could just as easily stockpile the weapons, any possible jewelry (which I doubt there is any), and maybe even luck out and find an enchanted item. Bet those would sell for a good chunk.

[Julford Hajime]

Yeah, I'm just hitting personal belongings and whatnots in the little tents, avoiding the bodies altogether. Typing it up now.

EDIT: I apologize now for Jasper's thought process. :P

[krogothwolf]

Bah, so William suggests sticking together and its bad, but running after it in random chaso is good? Freakin greedy people :p

[Overcast]

Hey both Marcus and Andre both have a non greed related reason for wanting to get to that thing.

Sure one of them wants to dash off with the thing where the immoral mercenaries and criminals can't touch it and get it to a new mom and thus maintain a natural balance. The other wants to shake it from its mortal coil so it won't end up growing up to any particular destructive nature and serve another aid to the lower class.

[Dracorion]

And Frayson hates the damn thing but he won't accept that the job's botched already and wants to capture it and bring it back to Terrence!

And then kill Terrence.

[Overcast]

Yay for clashing ideologies. Here comes the three way swordfight.

[Dracorion]

Well, after he's killed Terrence he'd try to kill the dragon, of course.

I haven't decided if he's serious about that yet.

[krogothwolf]

I have to agree, as mercs it looks bad if we fail this job so we have to capture it and return it.

Though, he does harbor killing the idiot who thought transporting a Dragon with minimal guards a stupid thing to do so he could turn a blind eye to kill Terrence anyways, plus it wasn't part of his contract. his contract is to guard the cargo, not the moron who owns the cargo.

[Dracorion]

Sure. But the problem for Fray is that he's part of a prodigious mercenary group. It'd look bad if they killed their employers after a job is finished.

Even if the kill is entirely justified.

[krogothwolf]

We'll just a bandit killed him because the idiot tried to fight, plant some evidence and that sort of stuff. Who are they going to believe, the dead guy and the dead bandit who we killed to avenge the stupid employee, or the living guy from a well known merc group who never does things like that?

[Dracorion]

Nah, see, Frayson plans to get Terrence and the dragon safe and sound to wherever they were going. At which point he couldn't very well frame a bandit for it.

Though maybe Terrence "accidentally" gets mauled by his own dragon upon reaching the destination.

[krogothwolf]

We could push him into the dragon and see what happens

[IHateMakingNames]

Getting attacked by wolves and magical raccoon-cats with rocks. It's dark and in a forest, so everyone eventually gets taken down. Also story purposes. They're only aiming to subdue (PCs).

[Dracorion]

What, so the NPCs are all going to get dead?

... Will they at least get Von Terrence?

[IHateMakingNames]

Everyone is getting captured or killed. The latter is just NPCs, while the former has all the PCs and some NPCs.

[Dracorion]

Anyhow, I figure it's about time Frayson met some of the other PCs.

Who's up for a team up?

[IHateMakingNames]

You don't really need to team up. You're all getting captured, you'll be meeting them soon.

[Dracorion]

Yeah, but where's the fun if you can't show off as much as possible and give 'em all kinds of hell?

[krogothwolf]

Well, at least we can have fun writing how we get knocked the fuck out?

[IHateMakingNames]

The group is just PCs, Hohem, and Tobias.

You have all your gear, either on person or in the pile of gear.


Go capture a dragon, just start killing nature, run away, decide what to do.

[Dracorion]

I say we capture the dragon and then burn down the forest.

[krogothwolf]

I say we kill Von Terrence, and if he's dead, raise him and kill him ourselves.

[Dracorion]

No reason we can't do both.

Bonus points for poetic irony if we use the dragon to kill Von Terrence.

[krogothwolf]

I want to gut Tobias right now though. He's the closest one to blame for the Dragon, doesn't matter if he knew about it or not, he hired us and didn't tell us either. It's all on his shoulders now.

[IHateMakingNames]

Tobias is just a servant turned guard.

[Julford Hajime]

Sorry for the temporary disappearance; rough week. Will catch up on the RP and post something within the next 4-5 hours, hopefully.

EDIT: Okay, things actually got quite a bit worse on my end. Maybe tomorrow. If IHMN decides to continue the plot without me, I'll just do some sort of "Oh hey I was here all along... Yeah..." post or something >.>

[IHateMakingNames]

Edit - Well, half of the people want to kill the dragon while half want to capture it. I don't really have a story after the dragon for this, and splitting a group of seven, likely six, makes just two really small RPs, nor do I want to Dues Ex you all again to force you to work together more. So I'm thinking we cut this short with the resolution of the dragon hunt.

[krogothwolf]

Well, we all don't actually care if the dragon lives or dies, aside from Krylo's character. I'd hate to see something that could be fun called short just because of something silly as dragon killing/living.

[Astral Harmony]

I had it in my head that we were going to end up escorting the dragon pup back to its mother in a faraway land. That would've been a rather bizarre adventure.

[Krylo]

I figured on Marcus giving a rather moving speech on the deaths the dragon would cause if it was allowed to live, and then either an agreement on killing it or he'd be disabled by those who are against killing it.

[IHateMakingNames]

After reading back through the posts, I was actually wrong. I thought at least one person had decided to keep it alive, but it was actually the other way around and wanting to kill it. So turns out everyone wants to kill it or won't care (Except an NPC but fuck those guys).

And really it was more of an issue of keeping the PCs together. With my initial assumption there was no reason most of the PCs would stick together, and actually would turn to PvP (As krylo seemed to have planned too). Though as stated before, I was wrong on that. Plus some other stuff I don't need to go over.


Still, I actually like the idea of cutting it short, because let's be honest, this won't last very long. No RPs do and we only started with seven people as our decay buffer. Making it a short and sweet adventure, with everything so far then probably something after the dragon for the travel home, gives it a little conclusion over a dwindling death.

I'll put it to a vote. Finish after everyone gets home after (killing) the dragon, or go till we're done?

Christ I got ninja'd. It's late, what the fuck.

Edit - AB, that was the idea, with random magical shit bothering the PCs (Trolls capture a PC/the dragon, some spirit of the fish needs something and if you do it will transport you over the sea, etc) till we were basically done. Which is still the idea, but with a set ending instead of me dragging it on.

Though without the escorting because everyone wants to kill it (albeit secretly), Hohem isn't that strong, and I don't want to use the nature spirit to strong arm everyone again.

[Krylo]

Don't care either way. It'd be a new experience for me to see the actual end of an RP.

[Overcast]

We go till we're done of course. Andre would still very much like to see that dragon alive and escorted, bizarre adventure style, to its mother. The trouble was until very recently it was FAR easier to kill it than it was to capture it seeing as the monstrosity was certain to be rather good at killing him and he wasn't exactly an expert in catching such exotic things.

With the potion he will pretty much be set on it. No speech would really move him enough to get him not to save it now, and cutting something short just because we are pessimistic ninnies doesn't really appeal to me. Lets run this thing to a better end, or run it into the ground trying.

[IHateMakingNames]

Whatever happens, happens now. I also had plans for the buyer to show up, pissed after lack of delivery, with soldiers to fight and blah blah. Basically I've thought of various branches based on how things turn out, the example being for if it seemed like people wanted to fight more, also making everyone targets again so they work together and more blah blah. So preferably, ignore the whole issue I brought up and RP like I didn't talk about it.


However, I still want the vote on if I should make this short and sweet, or we keep going till it's played out.

Short and sweet means we're done at chapter 2 or 3, while played out means like 10 to 15 (Because if we got that far I would end it regardless).

Currently
1 for Long

1 for Doesn't-care

[Astral Harmony]

And if the dragon pup could be tamed, no doubt Paulleth would become woefully attached to it.

Paulleth: "Now that she's not trying to rip open my stomach and devour my intestines, she's sooooooo cute! I'm name her Fantoma and I'll play with her every day!"
Andre: "So we're killing the girl tonight."
Everyone Else: "Agreed."

I'll venture throughout the lands of your magical fantasy world till the ends of the earth, IHMN!

[Dracorion]

I'll venture throughout the lands of your magical fantasy world till the ends of the earth, IHMN!

Seconded.

[Inbred Chocobo]

I'm going to be one of those weird people that vote for the short and sweet, because I see IHMN's point about wanting to end it quickly, and that if we drag it on we all get stuck at a crucial point and it just kinda dies off.

[krogothwolf]

Could just plan each chapter as an "end" chapter could be just the job we signed up for and then see what happens after each chapter with how the interest goes?

[IHateMakingNames]

Seems we keep going.

Though, I'll wrap it up if I feel it's dying.


Also, stop going at the thing one-on-one. I've broken combat twice and talking is a free action, make a plan or something.

I want to point out that I felt bad brushing off all of Inbred's post, but explicitly stated the dragon was watching him, so it would react to the arrow. Drac was just being punished for jumping at the thing alone after it's been stated several times a baby dragon can still kill a man easily.

[Dracorion]

Oh yeah, definitely.

Frayson's going to be pissed at the others that he was going up against it alone, actually. He did say "cover me", after all.

[IHateMakingNames]

Maybe wait for confirmation.


I'll admit I forgot that line. However, you had the dragon attack your character twice; once in very close range as your attack followed the dragon's. So even if they were covering, they would have been doing a bad job since he was the main focus.

[Dracorion]

That's just more to blame on everyone else!

[IHateMakingNames]

I'll update either tonight or Sunday, depends on how things go on my end.

[Inbred Chocobo]

Don't worry about brushing off my posts. They are done from a far from reality spectrum so what is in those is not what is actually happening. I'm just having writing them.

[IHateMakingNames]

Well, a plan was made, and Overcasts guy can do the potion feeding. I don't really want to control PCs to write about how the dragon gets distracted by William, then Andre shoves a potion down it's throat while other people maybe do something. So those respective players should just post again with their plan working.