Phoenix by Night (Chapter 2)

Trogers2 wrote:Might be an idea if you host a evening game for people who are in the same sort of time zone as you, i.e. Aero. I've noticed Aero is online late at night for me, which is actually morning for you shadow, other players like ICT for example (another group) are also in a similar time zone.

I am in time zone PST -8. And I am usually available starting from 11:00 pm, or 7:00 am GMT (slightly earlier or later). I don't expect anyone to wake up that early to throw a game for me
But thank you for the thought.

ive been at work 3 hours by then

yeah, that way more-or-less everyone will get some kind of game atleast. Another idea would be to hook some players up with ICT, they are "American" players so Morning for you is Morning/Afternoon for them, which is Evening for me. ICT are going through issues atm though, their main host "Matt" has given up on VTMR for a while, i hear Cara (another member) will begin to host soon, or maybe ^V^.

...If shadow is willing to, he could host some side games, you know i'll always be happy to start up a game. Just give me a shout if you see me online.

we'll talk about it on msn then

I'm happy to get as many people playing as possible

are you online now? i wanna talk to you about, and talk about how we are going to set up the next game

Taking off right now, be back later

Need a favor from Jan (or anyone else who can work embrace)

In that black triad map, the church has sun damage set inside it and around it, just need that removed.

Hope thats possible

Also, if Jan doesn't check this forum, can someone get a hold of him for me? would greatly appreciate

ShadowLance wrote:Need a favor from Jan (or anyone else who can work embrace)

In that black triad map, the church has sun damage set inside it and around it, just need that removed.

Hope thats possible

Also, if Jan doesn't check this forum, can someone get a hold of him for me? would greatly appreciate

Jan is currently taking a reak from vtmr, he'll be back in around a week or so. I'll pass on the message though.

in the WTD park there are som sun protection rings, might be an idea to use them for rp purposes.

Ahhhhh FFS

Okay, we'll use those

Now to remake the map lol

I got angry and closed without saving

thats not good

Still can't find sun resist shite, going to have to make my own or something

lookin for a bishop/archbishop who could employ my new templarcharacter Eric.

Heard David Compton were going to be the new Archbishop, so David, if you want a templar just let me know and i'll do my best to serve you

Okay, yeah I forgot to post, thanks for mentioning that christofer

Yes, the map is complete so I could use a roll call of all participating and which characters they intend to play.

Off the top of my head:

Agius: David Compton
Xtc: Nathan Walker
Isador: Lysander
Hydrogen: Eric
Tom: John
Doe: Fred

Players I haven't heard from:
Jan: Zack (Sounds like Jan is taking a break from vtmr)
Vampirella.Lover: Bryan (No word at all)
João: DarkMasta (No word)
Bukhar: Bukhar (No word, don't know who this is, he made a Camarilla character)
BracoJD: Michelle (No word, don't know who this is, Camarilla character...)
Chad Derby : Lithurian (Haven't heard from him for awhile)
Carpathian: Ash (No word from Carp in ages)
anruca: Phoenix (No word for a looong time)

Most of the players I haven't heard from I assume have quit vtmr (or more likely just my game), but any are welcome to join back in.

At the moment we're looking at:

Sabbat:
Agius: David Compton [ARCHBISHOP]
Xtc: Nathan Walker [?]
Isador: Lysander [BISHOP or DUCTUS]
Hydrogen: Eric [TEMPLAR]

Independents:
Tom: John [MERCENARY]
Doe: Fred

This leaves a significant amount of space for new Bishops. Which means ex-Reborn are going to have a lot of new politicians in the city to compete with. Will be interesting.

Also I want to expand the amount of skinpacks I use so people have more options. I added EOTW pack to the list as it's a great one:

http://paine.planetvampire.gamespy.com/vtmr/files/download/525/

If anyone would like to request a skinpack added just let me know. Everyone is welcome to change skins at any point, your character is of your own creation, not a particular in-game skin.

What happened?

shadow were waiting for people to come online, and nobody showed up

What, when??

Huh? shadow was waiting or you were?

shadow was waiting for gamers yesterday. he wasn't keen on hosting just for me, so i ended up playing with myself

Hydrogen wrote:so i ended up playing with myself

That didnt come out right

Hahaha, i never noticed he was online. Tonight we'll try and get the gang together

Torpor Rules
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-The first time you would normally drop into torpor, you are incapped instead, and can heal enough to wake up the following game.

-The second time you would normally drop into torpor, you are torpid until the next game AND someone feeds you blood to wake you up.

-The third time you would normally drop into torpor, I will determine how many games you have to sit out depending on your humanity.

-Hopefully there won't be a fourth time, but if so, normal torpor rules apply.

Final Death
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-The first time you would suffer final death from damage, you are torpored instead. There are exceptions to this:
---Any extreme amount of damage there's no way you could survive (ie falling off a skyscraper, diablerized, etc)
---If you're already incapped/torpid and someone is just finishing off your last HP with aggravated damage.

-The second time you would suffer final death from damage, you do.


Exceptions
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First off, I'll repost my original warning on the first chapter of Phoenix by Night:

It will be a SABBAT game, so your character may die. I will avoid this as much as possible but I won't sacrifice Sabbat realism. If anything, I'll send you a whisper telling you something is a bad idea (if your character's life is at stake), or rescue you in some way (if there was truly nothing you can do to help yourself). The longer you survive in the Sabbat, the less likely you are to die, so don't worry about me killing off the character you've devoted hours into. That doesn't mean I'll save you for doing something stupid though.

In other words, if I throw you at a bunch of elders, you're not going to get torpored or final death-ed. But remember to act realistically. Don't think just because I'm going to save you from dying you can just go full Rambo into every situation I throw at you. If you put YOURSELF in danger, there will be consequences.

If a Bishop is visiting and you decide to spit in their face or mock them, your chances of being saved by me diminish rapidly.

As well, I'm not likely to save you from another player unless you really didn't do anything to prompt it.

Basic rule is: There will be consequences to your choices

I'm just softening this from WoD rules a bit.

sounds good

What is the difference between Torpor and Torpid?
Does Torpid means you are out of the game session? And Torpor means you can watch but can't interact?

Naw no difference, just two different ways of saying it, depends on the context

Torpid is the correct way of saying torpored, which isnt a word.

Since I haven't been hosting as much, I'm wondering if we want to do a sort of "character roleplay" like is done already, but to work as "filler" between when I host.

For example:

[James will try to intimidate and bribe the local police into being allies with the pack]

or just holding conversations between players/npcs:

James says, "Hey Bob, how's that underground arena going?"

As short or as long as everyone likes..

I'll open a char RP thread for this.