[OOC] Night of the Hunt - a Bloodborne RP

[Dark Jack]

I actually considered continuing that post a little bit further, but I wanted to make sure that nothing unexpected happened with Adelicia before this moment, namely if she happened to be saying something/calling attention to herself somehow when Victor entered the clinic.

You can make a post if you want, or simply say so if all that is going to happen is "Adelicia followed Victor", though I would be interested in how closely she followed him. I can imagine her keeping very close ("he's the only thing keeping me alive") or staying at a distance ("he's half mad and clearly dangerous").

[Ashgan]

I think it's safe for you to continue your post a bit, would give me a bit more to work with - as it is, I think she would just follow him rather closely (she did hold out her hand, after all - though he predictably didn't lead her by it) and then ask him why he stopped at the door. I can flesh out the specifics thereof in my next post, but you can probably work with these assumptions.

[Ashgan]

Hey Jack, I have to wonder: did Victor visit the labyrinth, or is knowledge of what a Pthumerian is something common (at least to a hunter)? Correct me if my understanding of the lore is wrong, but I would imagine that the average Yharnamite has no idea about Pthumeru or possibly the labyrinth in general - and by that token I would also think that Adelicia would not be familiar with them? On the flipside I could see her knowing about the significance of bells in matters of the arcane.

[Dark Jack]

Victor hasn't been to the labyrinth, no, and Pthumeru isn't exactly common knowledge, but most Hunters of the Healing Church will heard of them regardless. I intended to eventually reveal this IC, but after the Night of the Blood Moon Pthumerians have started exiting the labyrinth and causing trouble in and around Yharnam. Victor hasn't seen any Pthumerians personally, but enough Hunters have talked about and described them for him to recognize the signs.

She most likely wouldn't know about Pthumeru (or Pthumerians), but I agree that she might know that some bells can be used for arcane purposes.

[DrabberRogue]

Sorry I dropped off the map again. I've been out of it for the past couple weeks... Anyways, finally got my post up!

[Habibi359]

Alright, I'll make a post by tomorrow (Sunday) evening.
Happy midsummer to you lot!

[Dark Jack]

All right, how about you, @Ashgan? The scenes are so interconnected by now that I sort of want to advance things with Victor at the same time as I do in the cot room. Does Adeline have anything to add to the situation, or is she just going to stare in horror at what is happening?

[Ashgan]

Yeah, sorry about that. I'll try to get something in but if you're pressed, you can assume that Adelicia will do no such thing as rushing into the clinic or anything. Most likely, she's going to take cover next to the door outside and wait for - something, I suppose. In that sense, you can work on collaborations with the others players having this course of action in mind. Violence isn't quite her domain, after all. (Not yet, anyway 0.0)

[Dark Jack]

Just a heads up, but if you don't post tomorrow, @Ashgan, I'll go by the assumption you suggested and write a post myself.

[Habibi359]

I'm quite busy this week but I'll do my best to throw a post on Thursday.

[Ashgan]

Sorry for letting you wait for a while and post multiple times in a row Jack. This last one helped give me something to work with. I realize in hindsight that I wrote Adelicia as a fairly passive character which really does not work in her writer's favor in scenes like these. But as the night goes on, I think I'll maneuver her into a slightly more proactive role.

[Habibi359]

To clarify @Ashgan, Marcus imagines things.

[Dark Jack]

@DrabberRogue?

[Dark Jack]

Insight gained: Unseen abductor

Adelicia, Victor

Out of nowhere, Adelicia and Victor witnessed their companion, Raine Provostus, being snatched off the ground by an invisible entity of sufficient brute strength to render the Hunter entirely helpless. While seemingly suspended mid-air, Raine vanished in an arcane burst.
They did not see the creature or have any idea what it was, but now suspect and fear just what it might be capable of.

Decided to start recording "insights" and linking them to the list of characters in the OP, both so I have some means of tracking how much insight a character might have and to have a reminder of what discoveries they have made.

[Ashgan]

Neat :D Gonna have to rack up that insight real high. 'licia can't fight but maybe she'll ding dong some bells for fun and profit in the future.

[Dark Jack]

It's not going to be the sole contributors to what I'll consider as the character's insight, obviously, but I figure it'll be helpful for keeping track nonetheless. Out of the currently introduced characters I'd count Victor as having the highest insight due to experience fighting beasts and his... less than stable emotional state (since madness will also contribute), and Adelicia as having the second highest from her studies with the Healing Church.

[Habibi359]

I'll make a post tomorrow evening. Wondering though, Marcus ripped Mad One's hand. Has it grown the hand back or is it crawling and attacking with an arm stump?

[Dark Jack]

He ripped its hand? Hmm?

(...)He felt great pain in his shoulder as the claw twitched again and dig deep in his shoulder.(...)

Habibi359

(...)By instinct alone, he gripped the hand.(...)

Habibi359

(...)He pushed with his both hands so that claw would release it’s grip(...)

Habibi359

It was likely that if this succeeded, Marcus would fall to his back and the creature’s claw would make deep, nasty marks to his right shoulder.

Habibi359

From what I can tell, those are the only mentions of the Mad One's hand in your post, and I didn't interpret any of them as Marcus "ripping" anything. Even looking back at previous posts I'm not sure how it would have lost a hand... Am I missing something?
But either way, if you want to we can say that Marcus snapped its wrist hard enough to actually break off its left hand when he escaped its grasp? If so its hand would indeed just grow back pretty much instantly and it would still end up assaulting him with both hands intact.

[Habibi359]

I misread the following part

Marcus successfully tore the monster's hand from his bloody shoulder while simultaneously launching himself several meters away.

And thought that Marcus actually ripped the hand off of the Mad One. Heh. Was wondering if Mad One was that fragile. Anyway, this answers my question.

[Dark Jack]

Okay, there's two things I'd like to bring up here for discussion, one short-term and one long term: the current IC situation with Arcturus and the general state of the RP.

For Arcturus, RPGuild reported that @DrabberRogue didn't even log in to the site in twelve days until a couple of days ago, at which point he did not contact me in any way regarding the RP, and he has not been on since. It hasn't been long enough that I'd presume that he's just gone (though it is long enough to make me worry), but Arcturus being "stuck" sort of makes progressing time consistently across all characters a bit awkward. In order to enable us to actually continue the RP with or without DrabberRogue and Arcturus, I propose one of three solutions:
DrabberRogue conveniently shows up and posts. This would be preferable, but not something I can make happen and at this point not exactly something I would count on.
I puppet Arcturus based on what I've seen him do until now, trying to keep specifics and inner workings vague or absent so that DrabberRogue can fill in to his preference when/if he returns. This will keep the scene moving about as it is now as much as possible.
Or I engage a deus ex machina and use my GM powers to interfere in the scene with an external actor, changing the circumstances so that DrabberRogue's posts aren't immediately needed for the story to progress.

For the RP in general, I can't help but notice that we've, eh... had an unusually high rate of players quitting. Everyone stated their own reasons, of course (though I can't help but wonder if the RP/I somehow cause people to leave), but it does leave us with an unfortunate reality: the RP only has three players left, of which DrabberRogue's presence is currently somewhat nebulous. Despite how early in the RP we are, do you think it would do us any good to try a recruitment effort to get more players?