Pretty sure in my thread we were on the verge of determining whether Lucy gets captured.

Nope. Honestly, throwing you together would likely not hinder the plot in anyway. Max was more of the outsider who was working for the company itself. If he doesn't return then he will just be an NPC.

Katherine and Victor were the ones who had ties to everyone.

Lucy would've likely escaped in the next scene.

Lucy escapes, somehow so does Gabi and we find each other? And Georgia? (unless she DIDN'T escape?)

You think it's just the 3 of us active?

It is.

Everyone is at a part of their story when they escaped. Georgia was a little closer to the end but oh well. Not a big deal.

Happy to time skip if you feel it'll be helpful.

Chapter 1 is live. Feel free to post.

Origins are archived and free to viewing. Let me know if you can't see all three origins.

Lucy making me look bad with 65 IC posts to her origin thread!

... that's 65 total, between me + Max + the GM!  :)

Ah, I see. Yeah ok that balances the post count out a bit!

So um... the jarring transition was a little too jarring for Gabi to know what to do next! She feels like the up to now helpful text message is sending her somewhere she shouldn't be! And not telling her what she needs to do when she gets there.

I'm confused too - where has this guard come from? There was no-one there in the Origins thread.

I need to admit I'm a little confused too.  Lucy hasn't been getting any text messages?  Or has she?
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She has now. I forgot that you were running into a different issue but yes. After you escape Max. You find yourself receiving weird text messages. They essentially seem to weird you out but end up saving you before something happens. Example once you escape the text message warns you where Max and Allison are looking for you specifically giving you the ability to dodge them.

When you ask, the text message person gives no other details of who they are other than a point to meet which leads you to where you are now.

I am fine trusting the voice after it outed whatever was masquerading as Gabi's room mate. But ... what does it want her to do?

Sorry all, was stuck in a conference this week and couldn't get to RPoL. I'm still here if you'll have me.

... I'm going to wait to know what Max's status is here, before I post in the combined thread, since I feel like how he and Lucy left things between them in their thread would be an important plot detail.

Also, glad you're still with us Max!  :)

Yup for sure Max. I'll pm you the details and when and where you will show up.

So how are we going to say Lucy & Max's thread ended?  Lucy just managed to slip away into the night and they didn't see or hear from each other again after that?  How long ago would that have been?

Well you were one good roll from escaping so the idea would have been that the machine dies because it had a limited life span allowing you to phase out of the situation. With Max not knowing your current location and Allison being unable to stop you, it's a lost cause. So Max likely goes back knowing you exist but hasn't seen you since.

A few weeks in terms of the time that has pasted.

I confess I'm starting to feel a little skeptical about our prospects here.

Same. I sent Max a message and I haven't heard anything back from him. This might be a DOA point. I was really enjoying some of the plots.

We were ok going on without him once, are we not ok with that any more?

I'm good to press on.

As long as we have two I'll continue with that and assume that Max is once again a NPC.

Sorry all, had family in town during the Thanksgiving holidays. Normally things go dormant, so I hadn't been online to check things. Everyone has left the house now.

I am going to shut this game down. There's no point in continuing. I appreciate all the effort everyone put into it. Thank you for your time. Sorry it didn't work out.