[OOC] Night of the Hunt - a Bloodborne RP

[Dark Jack]

I imagine there's probably a couple of stops along the way before the Cathedral Ward (there's a very peculiar blue lantern in the next room that Victor can't see, for instance), but I could certainly have Victor start moving and strongly encourage the characters to follow. (I won't actually make your characters follow unless you expressly give me permission to do so, or if you go missing for an extended period of time and I have no believable way to detach the character. But I can give your characters a reason to move on.)

As for the barrels, there's no need for anyone to go and check, it's quite obvious even at a glance: they are still practically overflowing with weapons, although the options appear to be limited to mundane swords, axes (hatchets, more specifically) and spears.

[DrabberRogue]

Posted~!

Arcturus will want to do a full search of the reception before leaving, but I figure that could probably be glossed over in a GM post if y'all want to get a move on. It's about time we got out of this clinic anyways. xD

Arcturus will probably only care about useful items, information, or his contract if he finds any of those things while searching.

[rocketrobie2]

I'm down to give the reception a once over! I'll try to get a post up later today to help keep things moving.

[Dark Jack]

Status?

I would also ask to hear from Decimate, but it seems that it's been a few weeks since he has even logged in here, so I doubt it would do any good... I will puppet his character is necessary, at least for a little while.

[rocketrobie2]

Status is I forgot, really sorry about that. Been summer job searching and this just skipped my mind. I'll try to have something up later today!

EDIT: Not my longest or greatest but I got done what I wanted! Sorry again for the wait there.

[Dark Jack]

So, what's next? Anything else you guys want to post about in the back room, or should I assume that Ludolf and Arcturus accept the blood vials offered to them and progress to the reception?

[Dark Jack]

Yes? No? Maybe?

[rocketrobie2]

I’m about ready to move on, I’ll have Nigel pick up a weapon on the way out.

[Dark Jack]

I'm going to once more take absence of objection as permission and post to keep things moving.

If one of your characters is actually going to read the Messengers' letter, you can just say so here and I can tell you its contents rather than "waste" a back and forth in IC for them to get it.

EDIT: You know what, that's stupid. It's incredibly unlikely that none of the characters will read the note. I'll just put it in a Hider; if your character doesn't read the message and you want to preserve believable ignorance, don't open the Hider.

The Messengers' letter

Written in the same exquisite calligraphy as the other note:
"Hunters will always want blood, need blood.
From it comes your power, but to others it brings the scourge."

Below this is a second message, however, written in recognizably the same handwriting, but much more hurried and messily than the first couple of lines:
"Beware the blood saint. She is even more addictive."

[rocketrobie2]

Any objections to me going again? I'm ok waiting a bit so the game isn't just a back and forth but things are starting to get real good here so I'm excited.

[Dark Jack]

I'd say go ahead.

[DrabberRogue]

Apologies for my hiccup in activity, I was in a funk all last week. No drive to do much more than lay around and listen to Youtube.
I have returned, however, and plan to engage in posting! Gonna try for tomorrow.

Also I've a question. How're you gonna handle Adelica? She seems like she's still pretty important, but without Ashgan... Is she getting NPC'd for the time being?

[Dark Jack]

Due to how integral she currently is to Victor's motivations, and how important Victor is to the characters for the moment, with them essentially seeming to have pinned their hopes on him showing them the ropes, I don't think I have much choice but to puppet her for the time being. Luckily her entire character up until Ashgan disappeared was mostly "stand back and wait for everyone else to figure things out", and such a passive character will hopefully not be as jarring to have stay in the background and mostly act as baggage for Victor until he can unload her.
That should hopefully not be too long, either, since he (as stated in this post a while back) intends to drop her at the first even remotely safe place they get to. From there, assuming Ashgan doesn't return, she will simply act as a behind-the-scenes continuous supply of particularly potent blood.

[Dark Jack]

@DrabberRogue How is it going? Do you still intend to post, or have your plans changed since declaring that you would do so?

[rocketrobie2]

Just giving a bit of an update for myself, pardon my french here but it's hot as HELL where I live (at least relatively) and now that I'm back from a trip out of town all of my brain power is going towards keeping cool + some job interviews coming up. It's supposed to cool down (both in tempature and how busy I am) by the weekend.

[Dark Jack]

Mostly just giving the choice to leave room for Nigel's reaction to how the lantern feels and possibly change his mind, if he wants to. If he keeps staring into the lantern you can just tell me OOC, and I'll write up another post of what happens next.

[DrabberRogue]

Ah, sorry I poofed. I guess I was a little too optimistic about being ready to post again. I was also unable to get online for the past few days, so that's part of why I've been offline.

As of writing this I'm actually not sure I'm quite ready to make a post yet. I'm gonna keep the site open to make sure I don't vanish again though.

[Dark Jack]

I'm working under the assumption that you not telling me otherwise, as I requested in my previous post, means that you want to post IC again before I do anything else, @rocketrobie2. Am I right in this assumption, and if so, do you have some kind of loose ETA on said post?

[rocketrobie2]

I'm working under the assumption that you not telling me otherwise, as I requested in my previous post, means that you want to post IC again before I do anything else, @rocketrobie2. Am I right in this assumption, and if so, do you have some kind of loose ETA on said post?

@Dark Jack

I'm sorry too for going MIA. You'd assume right but I can't give your a time on that post. I think I might be going on a bit of a hiatus from the RPs for a bit. I've lost most of my jam for writing in general. I'm kosher with Nigel getting puppeted around until I come back (I do plan on coming back, I still love this game).

[bloonewb]

Hello, I'd like to ask if this rp is still open for new members.