By the way, in the far future when we finish CoC, I would now be up for GMing something. A few of you mentioned fantasy, and I was thinking of running a Dark Fantasy Campaign using the Grim World Supplement for Dungeon World. It's a really nice supplement and I think it would be fun.

HystericaLaughter

Australia720 Posts

January 16 2014 01:25 GMT

#562

I was also going to volunteer to run something eventually, I wouldn't mind having a go at that.

CrazyF1r3f0x

United States2120 Posts

January 16 2014 15:52 GMT

#563

We could also do something sort of like Rollplay R&D, where we take turns GMing mini-campaigns for 4-8 sessions at a time, and maybe revisiting those campaigns that went really well.

HystericaLaughter

Australia720 Posts

January 17 2014 08:06 GMT

#564

Sounds awesome. Not worth worrying about for a couple of months at least though.

Xoronius

Germany6362 Posts

January 18 2014 20:03 GMT

#565

On January 15 2014 13:57 HystericaLaughter wrote:
Okay team meeting. Our investigation was stagnated and honestly pretty disastrous last session. I blame lack of planning. What are our next moves? We found a reasonable amount of information towards the end of last week. Where is Jack Fucking Brady? I don't think he is in Rangoon, that's a total lie.

Discuss.

I think we can rule out the possibility of him being in Rangoon not only as an assumption, but as a fact, since he left months ago according to the bartender, but was seen weeks ago with the flower girl/monks. Other than that, we should think about our main objective in China: Do we prioritize finding Brady or do we prioritize eliminating the cultist activities? In both ways, one thing could lead to another.

If we want to further investigate the cultist activities, we might want to revisit the warehouse at a time, noone is working there or further research about the Quin dynasty. Since Brady has researched the same thing, when he talked to the monks and since he is dodging people, that want to kill him for years now, it might lead him to find us. His research also means, that if we find him, we get aditional knowledge about the Quin dynasty as a bonus, so, with the expert on that dead, we might try to find him fast, since it seems to give a direct piece of information to eliminate cultist activity afterwards. Another thing to considerate with Brady is the following: Our average chracter survives around 1-3 months, until he gets killed or goes crazy. Brady is around for more than 3 years now, so he might have rolled his fair amout of sanity checks.

I would vote for finding Brady first, since we seem to have fresher leads on that end (for example the flower girl). IIRC we asked the bartender about Brady already, but I don´t remember whether or not we talked about Jackson Elias with him. We know that Elias was there at least and since he probably asked about Brady as well, that might be another option. Talking with him about the missing flower girl can´t hurt either (assuming, that he is no cultist).

While we do that, we can simultaniously search for random murders in the street to find out more about New China and we can search for that Boat, which seemingly is somehow relevant.

HystericaLaughter

Australia720 Posts

January 18 2014 20:29 GMT

#566

I believe one of our plans was the next time we witnessed a New China murder to was to follow them to their lair.

Xoronius

Germany6362 Posts

January 18 2014 20:46 GMT

#567

Are we planning to treat them as allies or enemies? A point for the allies would be, that we already are about to fight the triads, cultists and japanese agents. A point against it would be, that they are murdering seemingly random people on the streets.

Simberto

Germany11629 Posts

January 18 2014 21:47 GMT

#568

You asked McChum about Jackson Elias, he said he does not remember him. I'm not gonna comment on your strategytalk otherwise.

Murgel

Sweden175 Posts

January 19 2014 14:07 GMT

#569

I think the New China crew could be a bit tricky to befriend, since they are the ones that don't like foreigners, and they seem pretty damn extreme about it. The japanese could also be rough now, obviously, but those two are probably(?) on different sides, so maybe killing the japanese guy could help us befriend New China. I would love some sort of confirmation on that before we stick our neck out though. The japanese are foreign, but these agents with cyanide capsules? That makes me think they could be In China to cause this trouble and unrest, some spy movie-esque japanese supported rebellion. Or they could just be there to keep an eye on things. Maybe we can check newspapers/ask Simberto specifically if any japanese were among the murdered.

I think we keep prioritizing finding Brady. If we in any way find out what the cultists want in China, we should try to stop whatever that is and hopefully do a better job than we did in Egypt. If we fail at that, then we think about the eliminate option. I am however a lot more scared of them after Egypt. 1000 year old dudes with archon strength shields and tongue lashing cat demons, and this time we don't have a single shotgun.

HystericaLaughter

Australia720 Posts

January 19 2014 14:31 GMT

#570

Guys, I can't play today

. My computer broke at the worst possible time and getting it fixed at 1am really isn't an option. Have fun!

Murgel

Sweden175 Posts

January 19 2014 19:20 GMT

#571

Aw. You missed a pretty productive session. We found the boat from the picture. It's named the dark mistress and is owned by Huo Fong and captained by a mr Savujard. We hired a boat of our own and followed it, as it comes in about once a week, but it was unnaturally fast and got away as we hit open sea.

A flower girl told us "John Smith" spoke about and was involved with New China. He also spoke about death cults and such, in fear. The man was also a bit weird, worried and scared, but not "crazy eyed".

McChum told us where we could find a training facility for New China. We went there to befriend them, and they would let us join if we killed a corrupt business guy for them. So we did. I got hit in the face with the poker from the fire place, max damage of 10 with the damage bonus, but Khaled saved my life and Ivan carried me off. Lost two appearance, so I'm even uglier now, at 6.

We also all had a scary dream which pretty much told us Nyarlethotep is watching us, is everywhere, and is scary from what I could tell.

Murgel

Sweden175 Posts

January 24 2014 10:26 GMT

#572

I hope everyone is good to go this Sunday? Anyone want to discuss some plans? I think that helped us be productive the last time.

I guess we're pretty committed to going with New China now, as we killed their target. Hopefully we can ask them about "John Smith" at some point, and if we are able to convince them that Huo Fong is a corrupt businessman or dirty cultist worth killing that would be very good too. That one shipping company accused him of not paying taxes, but we'll probably have to take that with a grain of salt.

There's the unnaturally fast boat too. We could ask about her captain, mr Savujard somewhere. The only way of following the boat ourselves, that I can think of, would be by hiring a plane and a pilot.

Thoughts? What are some more things we should do?

Xoronius

Germany6362 Posts

January 24 2014 22:41 GMT

#573

I just found out, that our next session is at the same time, as the Handball European Championship Finals, which is quite unfortunate.

Anyway, I think we should finish our "quest" (and probably have a medium to huge discussion on morals with Jaleesha on the way) and then see, which new information we might be able to get by talking to the new china guys. Whatever we get might dictate out next action from there.

dismiss

United Kingdom3341 Posts

January 24 2014 23:02 GMT

#574

Just marry Jaleesha as well, all problems will be gone. Finn, plz. n_n