In reply to Big Eye (msg # 43):

Welcome Big Eye and our new BoS member!

Looks up, up, up, at Big Eye.

Beep Bop Boop - "You are big !"

In reply to Xan (msg # 50):

No offense Xan, but I am gonna be hiding behind him. It's just easier.

:P

Okay, so that's one vote for starting already knowing each other... more votes, please...

Big Eye will need to be familiar with at least one other character to start, otherwise it would take far to long for him to figure out what needs to happen for the action of the story to work well.

That's 2 votes for "know each other already," and a logical reason, too...

More votes, please...

I was honestly kinda hoping for us starting with meeting each other. Mostly because Renata's still very much at the start of her quest and it not being very long since she's left her Vault.

And welcome, fellow human!

Beep Bop Boop - "That makes sense !"

Hello all! I'm looking forward to jumping on this crazy train we're about to ride on!

As far as my vote is concerned for "knowing" or "not knowing" each other, could there be a middle ground maybe? Maybe my character has run across Big Eye and/or Xan, and we all know each other,  and maybe Telric and Renata bumped into each other shortly after Renata left her vault, or something? Just an idea to help muddy the waters. But then there'd just be two groups of us that have to then get together.

Just an idea (we could work the groups out differently to, this was just one thought). If that's too weird or whatever, then let's just say we all know each other!

That middle ground idea sounds good to me!

As for the crazy train, I'm just hoping we have enough rails to keep from crashing. :)

So:
1 "whatever you guys want"
2 "let's know each other already"
1 "let's not know each other already"
1 "Let's have SOME of us know each other already"

SO... how do y'all feel about that last one? What if TWO of you know each other already and THREE of you know each other already, and now the 2 and the 3 meet for the first time to become 5?

Is that... okay? Any objections?

(If so, who knows whom?

Or do you want my suggestions?)

Beep Bop Boop - "No objections, that is fine with me."

I don't really have any particular preferences as to which people I might already know. I would like to hear your suggestions, GM! In addition to that, I don't have any objections to the group distribution as drawn up by Torbald.

I don't think having the two oddballs paired would help enough to be worth the comedy, so I should either be paired with someone other than Xan, or in the group of three.

Beep Bop Boop - "Oddball !?!"

What about, perhaps, the Ogre and the Ghoul already knowing each other...?

If that's not comfortable for some reason, then perhaps add Torbald ("Tor" to his friends) to those two, making them the trio...?

I think you want the humans in separate groups.  Then put the most vault styled 'others' with the vault human and the more wilderness styled 'others' with that human.  Some of that will depend on what kind of vault it is, and what each character is like, but I doubt Big Eye is from anywhere near an open vault.

In reply to The GM (msg # 64):

I am assuming even Ogres have problems with the curse, correct? So even beings as physically powerful as they are still 'living things' when it comes to negative energy zones?

As opposed to me, who risks going feral if I spend too long in such places. However, I have the advantage of being able to sense things and areas high in negative energy.

In that case, I could insure Big Eye gets access to quality food and not stumble into high curse areas. At the same time, he could make sure intelligent beings don't decide to kill me out of hand just because I am ghoulish. Animals tend to avoid me because I am not good eating.

Plus, he can carry a lot of goodies! Making when we load up and head back to the settlement for trading we can make a serious profit.

70-30 even spilt, Big Eye. Did I say 70-30? I meant 60-40! Yes, that's what I meant...

:P

hehehe

I am fine with whoever.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:41, Wed 17 Nov 2021.

Probably best to just tell him it is a 50/50 split and play games with the math, it isn't as if he can count high enough to tell the difference anyways.

Actually, they're okay with it except in certain extra-extreme circumstances. They probably shouldn't just stand around in a ground zero spot where a curse-cask broke open, but there are all KINDS of OTHER reasons that THAT's true...


Okay so what are we doing?

Big Eye and Telric and Tor

and then

Renata Medb and Xan ?

Or something else?

I am ok with that or even being found in the ruins somewhere.

That pairing though is fine by me and makes sense.

In reply to The GM (msg # 68):

Well, we could do Big Eye and Telric coming from the wasteland with some cargo into a settlement.

At the same time, we have Tor(or Renanta) coming into the same settlement after searching some ruins and accidentally activating Xan, who now follows him(or her) around due to lack of primary user.

Renanta(or Tor), fresh from her vault(Or his BoS camp), bumps into the two groups even as she(or he) was given a map of where the closest settlement was.

In effect, we have some of the group knowing each other even as we do a 1st meeting of the whole party at the same time.
This message was last edited by the player at 20:09, Wed 17 Nov 2021.

The pairings make sense to me! I feel like it might make more sense for Renata to happen upon Xan while still disoriented post Vault and post respawn as opposed to meeting and joining up with Big and Telric. Renata would probably not have the sense of mind to handle more than one person.

So uh, I'm confused. What will the final set-up be as far as who already knows whom the second the game starts? Explain it to me like I'm just little dazed, please...

In reply to The GM (msg # 72):

Big Eye and me coming in from wasteland to whatever starting settlement you want us at.

Roughly at the same time, Renata on her quest for a water purification device, stumbles across an invactive Xan and wakes her up. Xan's programming links her to the first human she comes across, so she follows Renata. Renata heads to same settlement the other players are going to.

Tor leaves the BoS camp on his own and heads for the same settlement. I am not sure of his backstory, but I am assume he is on a BoS mission.

All three groups(BE & TT, R & X, and solo T) get the settlement at roughly the same time, each group meeting the other for the 1st time.
This message was last edited by the player at 21:32, Wed 17 Nov 2021.