OOC-Chapter 6-Dead by Dawn-General Discussion

Darkness now shrouds the zombie-infested land. At Warren Air Force Base, various survivors and USAF personnel try to hold out against the hordes, but will internal division tear them apart? In western Nebraska, most of the captive women have found their freedom thanks to the rangers' intervention, but two of their captors have gotten away with one of them as a hostage. Can they escape from a new horror and find a way to rescue her? And in Omaha, though the zombies are no longer a threat, danger still abounds. A large group of survivors has holed up in a school, but a band of violent juvenile delinquents, a drug-dealing gang, and others may prove a greater peril than the dead. Who will suvive the night, and who will never see the sun rise again?

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This is the thread where we'll post anything that's completely Out Of Character, whether it's game-related questions that can be asked in public or simply out-of-game chatting. Anything that involves your characters' secrets or any information that you'd rather not share with everyone can be sent to me in a PM - or better still in a spoiler button with your character's name showing. You can also include OOC comments or questions in your In Character posts - just use the spoiler or spoiler-button tags. You'll see how to do it in the instructions in the Rules and Guidelines thread or when you see me use it in the IC threads. You would do this if you want to say or ask something about what's going on in that particular thread.

Remember that if you're playing in this game, you are only allowed to read the threads that have your characters in them, and only the portions of those threads posted while your characters are present. The title of each IC post will indicate which characters are involved, and the Current Location thread also has this information along with a thread history (complete with hyperlinks to the exact post where each character enters each thread), but you can ask here if you're uncertain which thread you're supposed to be in. When characters move between threads, I'll indicate which new threads they go to and post links in their old threads that you can follow.

The IC threads will probably start appearing tonight or tomorrow, and I'll add more throughout the following week. I'll start with Sword, then put up new threads for Gold, and finally get Omaha started. Once you see a thread with one of your characters in it, you can go ahead and read it, and then make a post when you're ready. Generally, you can only perform one major action between my major updates (participating in a combat round, moving from one location to another, and so on). However, you are usually free to carry out conversations with each other's characters and with NPCs that span multiple posts if I haven't done a major update yet. I will sometimes do minor updates where I show the results of one or more characters' rolls or have an NPC respond or react to something your character says or does. Characters who haven't acted yet can still do so, but if you've already acted you should only do simple actions like speaking until a major update is posted. If you're in the middle of combat your characters won't have time to go on chatting all day, of course. I'll let you know if you're in a non-combat situation where you have little time to speak.

Please remember that you are required to post between major updates. If you do not post, I will not know that you do not intend to and will end up waiting, which will slow the game down for everyone. I will not wait forever, though. If you neglect to post, I will go ahead anyway and assume your character does nothing - which under the wrong circumstances can be lethal! If you don't want to do anything, you still need to make a post describing your inaction. This is usually not the wisest course of action. Time is a very limited and valuable resource, and you should take full advantage of it.
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Hey all, good luck with the next chapter.
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Yes, good luck, everyone. You're going to need it! :twisted:

Sword is now up and running for Chapter 6, so you can go ahead and post there if you have a character in that section. Gold and Omaha will be coming later this week, but Gold will probably have to wait until Thursday at the soonest.
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Thanks! I still need the following skill XP checks made for other players' characters:

GOLD
Captain Claire Kelleher

SWORD
Dan Aldrich

OMAHA
Jerry Law
Declan McLeod
Michiko Watanabe
John Lake
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As far as I can tell in the John Lake thread, he succeeded in making one skill check and that was for Spot hidden

Skill check for Spot hidden (70%) (1d100=55) = skill check failed
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Thanks for posting the roll! Yes, that's right. The Chapter 5 Locations and Weapons thread has a list of checked skills for all characters, and the Chapter 5 OOC thread has a list of which skills all PCs have checked (and their current levels) a couple of pages before the end.
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Gold is now set up and undeway. You can go ahead and post for your characters in the appropriate IC threads now. I'm hoping to get Omaha started Saturday.
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All sections of Chapter 6 are now officially open, and all Chapter 5 threads are locked. I've added posts to the end of the Chapter 5 threads to let you know where your characters should go, and there are also hyperlinks in the Chapter 6 Locations post next to each character's name.

Tomorrow I'll make skill XP checks for all PCs who haven't yet done them, and I'll also make Gretchen Ehrlich available to all players at that point, not just new ones.
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Detective Gretchen Ehrlich in Omaha is now available to whoever wants her and has a slot open - first come, first served.

Here are the rest of the skill XP checks for the PCs whose players neglected to roll them:

Captain Claire Kelleher (11/11 HP, San 42, indefinitely insane):
Persuade (40) did not increase
Psychology (45) increased by 1 to 46
Listen (50) did not increase
Spot Hidden (45) did not increase
Handgun (55) increased by 6 to 61
Psychoanalysis (36) increased by 3 to 39

Dan Aldrich (13/13 HP, San 37):
Spot Hidden (50) did not increase
Listen (40) increased by 4 to 44
Rifle (55) increased by 10 to 65
Handgun (45) increased by 6 to 51
Track (60) increased by 9 to 69
Climb (60) did not increase
Throw (25) increased by 3 to 28
Jump (25) did not increase
Mechanical Repair (60) increased by 10 to 70

Jerry Law (15/15 HP, San 58):
Small Club (70) increased by 5 to 75
Listen (25) increased by 7 to 32
Spot Hidden (65) did not increase

Declan McLeod (14/14 HP, San 55):
Listen (65) did not increase
Electrical Repair (75) increased by 4 to 79

Michiko Watanabe (10/10 HP, San 70):
Psychology (15) did not increase
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Some of you aren't posting for all of your characters. What's puzzling is that some players have posted for one character but not others. Check the cast list at the top of the character sheets thread to remind yourself who you're playing in case you've forgotten about a character between chapters.
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Oops, that's my case! :oops:
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Thanks for posting! Also, don't forget to post for Agnes in Ash - there's a big Sanity roll for everyone there.
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By the way, I'm out this weekend for a boardgame convention. I'm taking my son, I hope he enjoy it.
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Thanks for letting me know, and have fun!
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I'd like to update Gold tomorrow night. So far nobody has posted for two of the new characters in Gold, though. They're in the thread called Valkyrie, which is at the very bottom. Both of their players have posted for other characters, but not for these. There are other characters in Gold that are still awaiting updates as well (not to mention Omaha, but that will probably have to wait until Saturday).
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Hey Handy... wasn't really in the market for more games, but if you need someone to take over one of those new characters for a spell, let me know.
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No, that's okay. Their players haven't abandoned the game, they've just neglected to post for some of their characters. I'll go ahead and NPC them for now until they start posting for them. If you want an available new character you're free to take and/or create one or more (the only new pregen available is Gretchen, though she's also in Omaha), but you don't have to if you don't want.

I'll wait until Saturday to update both Gold and Omaha, but no longer than that. Everyone please check the cast list at the top of the character creation thread even if you think you've posted for all of your characters. You may have forgotten someone.
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Nah, Omaha's pretty boring... or it seems that way to the mild-mannered janitor. ;) No offense.
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None taken. You may come to miss boredom... :twisted:
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