The Unhallowed Isle OOC

[Loyal Backstabber]

This is the OOC thread for the Unhallowed Isle game. Any issues between players, discussion of events, questions about the RP, or any such thing should be brought here.

To start off with: Here's an updated town map, with the locations of all NPCs. Nerre's house is still left unset for now.

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EDIT: Updated to include Gru-Baak's house.

[Borys]

How should our posts look like?
Can we do whatever we want?

[Loyal Backstabber]

Well, my narration is pretty much novel format, so that's what I recommend, but mostly it's up to you.

Until the plot picks up, there's a ton of freedom. You can do anything you want that your characters is physically capable of right now.

[Nerre]

I will try to do some forensic analysis of the corpse, being an academy guy after all.

[Loyal Backstabber]

So, I've been working on some terrain images and monster and PC graphics, and I decided I'd done enough that I should probably get some opinions. So I went ahead and made a nighttime battle against some undead with two randomly selected characters (Boro an Dietro). Thoughts?

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The lights show sight of the players, with any spots of vision based around light being colored as the light source. The circles of light around the PCs are to show what they have perfect sight of, the lights around the monsters are because their glowing eyes give away their position and show some of what's around them, and the thing around the cloaked figure marks it as hard to see precisely, but easy to pinpoint, as it as an aura around it but constant darkness beyond the aura.

And yes, I realize the graphics aren't perfect, but I'm not really that skilled at graphics design. I've never actually taken a course in it or anything, and so I only have the skills I learned on my own while messing around with GIMP.

Sometime later, I may put up a full list of images of known monsters and PCs, but for now, I'll leave it here.

[Borys]

Which of them are monsters, and which of them are players? It's hard to tell.

[Loyal Backstabber]

Hmm... That could be an issue. The solid yellow one with red eyes and a faint red glow, the green one with glowing yellow eyes, the teal and red one with yellow eyes, and the black area are monsters. The people at either corner are players.

I'll see if I can get a post up in the main thread soon. It may take me a few minutes, though.

[Dlover]

The image seems a bit small, even on my large monitor I need to basically eat the screen to make out the smaller details, and those details can be important in determining players from monsters. If the image could be scaled up, maybe 1.5x at least, it could be clearer, and it would be an acceptable loss of detail.

[Loyal Backstabber]

Okay, I'll see what I can do about that. I'll have a new post up soon.

[Quarg]

Can I have my character start out down on shipwreck beach looking for stuff to build a still out of???

[Loyal Backstabber]

Sure. That will work just fine.

EDIT: Here's what I came up with when I scaled a small image up as suggested. It's Nerre in the image, by the way. Thoughts?

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[Dlover]

Well, I can definitely see the details more easily than with the tiny image. I'd be good with that.

[Quarg]

OOC: Do the footsteps follow the beach or come from the jungle like Eric...

[Loyal Backstabber]

They follow the beach at first, then eventually disappear into the jungle.

EDIT TO PREVENT DOUBLE POST: Please keep strictly OOC comments in this thread if possible. Since Eric knows the layout better than the enemy, it seems that he's taking a route they don't know. There aren't many actual paths, as the island isn't very populous.

I'll have an IC post in a minute.

[Quarg]

Somehow I thought I put both OCC Posts over here...

[Theis2]

Sorry I think I might have to opt out of the game. I don't have the time I thought I had lately and I have a bit of trouble keeping up because of that. I hope it doesn't disrupt too much

[Loyal Backstabber]

Sorry I think I might have to opt out of the game. I don't have the time I thought I had lately and I have a bit of trouble keeping up because of that. I hope it doesn't disrupt too much

Is that saying you have to opt out, or might have to? I'm a bit unclear, as the sentence could be interpreted either way. If you do opt out either way, we can still keep your character available by having them just stay around the town, so if things start to clear up you can rejoin if you want.

I'm sorry to hear that there's been trouble either way. Still, if you do have to leave, it shouldn't cause too many problems, and it will certainly be possible to come back if you feel like it.

[Theis2]

Sorry about the unclarity, but I am quiting the the game for now. Hopefully I will be able to get some extra time available sooner or later though

[Loyal Backstabber]

Okay. That's too bad. I'll keep my fingers crossed, however.

[Orga the Strange]

Sorry for being so late with posting, my sleep schedule has been all messed up to the point where I'm waking up at 8PM nowadays. I'll try better to stay caught up.

Also, that sucks Theis, I hope you can rejoin us soon. :/

[Quarg]

Nerre, Orga, Broys

You do realize my last post was at you?

[Orga the Strange]

Oh, heh, didn't see that...

[Quarg]

Is the handgun a wheel lock, flint lock, matchlock or some strange kind of magic lock?

[Loyal Backstabber]

It's a flintlock, although it has been improved some by magic.

I'll get a post up soon.

[Quarg]

Is it just me or is Nerre completely ignoring my existence in this game?