And so we set the scene

Well, now I’ve reconstructed and pushed forward towards my goal. I actually had to speed up things a notch compared to the previous plan but this was the only way to make it work. I don’t know about you but I feel like we’re on track again. But maybe it was only me and my good mood.

Well, let me explain some things. The setting I’ve set for you is a harsher one when your safe haven no longer is so safe. I also have pressed you into a corner where you’ll need to fight to survive. Taraien is a harsh country but with a lot of money and the safe haven you’ve had this far it’s not that harsh. Not really, now the reality begins. And just to make things more interesting for everyone I have put a monsoon over the country so the Shikár too have something dangerous and strange.

But actually I didn’t create this just to make a balanced setting. My real goal is to put you in the swell of an epic event, most likely one of the first epic event where you aren’t in the middle of it. This will probably hasten up the play-speed. And then I mean that the pauses between sessions will be shorter and you won’t be able to heal and recover as good and fast.

My goal right now IS to make things go forward and to have some more flow and speed in the story. You can, if you wish, find out what is happening or just go with the flow of the events. However, the thing we have in front of us now is to give your character their depths and reality. Thus understanding the environment as well as your characters.

What I repeated quite some times earlier is the respect and the function of a society. I know it’s kind of pushing role-playing quite far but I think that you should have some more empathy in the world. Many times you act in ways which might seem logical but if you think from the viewpoint of society and humanity it isn’t that logical. A society works because of people respect things and understand things in a certain way. When you act you need to respect and act things as your character would, this is why many of your characters tend to be… wrong, or act wrong.

Before Ankan often made these kinds of mistakes, and Foppa too by thinking too much and in a too modern way when you reason. Now, strangely enough, Ankan has been the one actually understanding this, or at least playing it out, the best. Well, it is still early in the game actually but I still see the tendencies to neglect the culture and even the characters own culture for both Foppa and PB. I cannot really say for Daniel since he is too new a player yet for me to fully decide what he does or not.

Anyway stabilization is the goal now; if necessary I will decrease my requirements and take it down a notch or two. Just to make it work and be fun I might simplify everything instead. Even so I have good hopes for the future after today. If Foppa is better on Saturday it might go pretty well. I only hope for my good mood to be left until then too.

One bad news though is that I’m not sure if I’ll be able to play X-files tomorrow. Not that I don’t want too, I really do want to do it, and I might actually be able to pull it off anyway. But I haven’t finished the scenario. It still has a LOT of holes in it and I don’t know if I can improvise something like an X-Files scenario and make it good. That is pretty hard since it requires quite a lot of details which needs to be right or it won’t really work…

Well, if worst come to worst I will postpone it or maybe make something other up. We’ll see tomorrow in the morning because now I really need to sleep.

Best regards,
Herid Fel