Mid-Range Game 56: Day of Reckoning

[Ashbringer he/him]

*Salutes*

I’ll try not to go too wild. Well, on this. I’m pretty sure I can detect an overcommitting Kasimir. And I have some other tricks I want to try too besides being the Chill Khaos department chair.

[MintSilverTea]

i'll join... even though the last game I joined was a disaster. Meet Zehpyr, the bard who sings songs and is generally easygoing.

[StrikerEZ he/him]

5 minutes ago, MintSilverTea said:

i'll join... even though the last game I joined was a disaster. Meet Zehpyr, the bard who sings songs and is generally easygoing.

Welcome to the game! What game did you last play? I don't think I've seen you before. And I doubt it was a disaster.

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

It was my game, and the disaster was mostly my fault. 

[JNV]

Hi! This game seems pretty cool! I'd like to sign up. I'll be Eiro, a kid who runs up to strangers and gives them flowers.

[Amanuensis he/him]

I'll sign up as Blink, a ten-year-old Epic who can only be perceived while he can see you, named for the way he pops in and out of reality every time he flutters his eyes. Sometimes when he falls asleep, Blink wakes up in random places around the world. He's very shy and hasn't found a way back home in years.

Much like Kas, I'm aiming for a chill game, so none of my usual giant posts or anything more than minimal analysis. I'll be moving back to the U.S. in the next week or two so my activity may be low or sporadic during the transition. When I can be around, I'm mostly hoping to vibe with casual RP and friendly banter. 

Edited February 5, 2022 by Amanuensis

[Ashbringer he/him]

There’s a joke about chilling in Antarctica that I don’t think’s been made yet but I’m too busy to find it.

[Kasimir he/him]

1 hour ago, Amanuensis said:

I'll sign up as Blink, a ten-year-old Epic who can only be perceived while he can see you, named for the way he pops in and out of reality every time he flutters his eyes. Sometimes when he falls asleep, Blink wakes up in random places around the world. He's very shy and hasn't found a way back home in years.

Much like Kas, I'm aiming for a chill game, so none of my usual giant posts or anything more than minimal analysis. I'll be moving back to the U.S. in the next week or two so my activity may be low or sporadic during the transition. When I can be around, I'm mostly hoping to vibe with casual RP and friendly banter. 

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[Elandera she/her]

Hello everyone!

Just stopping by to introduce myself as the IM this game. Don't forget that if you have concerns, problems, want to vent, or just want to share funny memes, I'll be around. Feel free to PM me or ping me if you see a problem coming up. I will try to keep a close eye on things, but likely won't be able to read through every post.

In case I happen to do any RP, I'll be Nightowl, an epic with the ability to fly and go invisible in darkness. 

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Don't mind me. I'm just a regular old player, being involved in the game...

 

[Ashbringer he/him]

RP characters? What are those?

I guess I should do something. I’ll be Olsen, aka the Weatherman; an older gentleman who acts as a stakeout man for the Reckoners and has a strong resistance to the cold. Not quite Antarctica-cold, but a lot of cold.

And sleep.

That too.

[Kasimir he/him]

2 hours ago, Elandera said:

Don't mind me. I'm just a regular old player, being involved in the game...

:pensive:

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34 minutes ago, Ashbringer said:

And sleep.

He has a strong resistance to sleep?

I like this guy :eyes:

He is my kind of bro :eyes:

Edited February 6, 2022 by Kasimir

[StrikerEZ he/him]

5 hours ago, Ashbringer said:

And sleep.

I feel this.

[Kasimir he/him]

Alright, with apologies to @|TJ|, swapping my character out for one that I might be able to keep up RP for. Nothing against Kam, but he's actually a Wookie explorer I ran in a Star Wars OT campaign with the serial numbers filed off, and I'm not sure I'm feeling Kam enough to run him again. Besides, it's a decent name, I'll probably save it for some other future character just in case

Switching up for Mordred Kasjek, a grizzled investigator with a dark past, and the only surviving member of the Sarajevo Reckoner cell.

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“Full moon is falling through the sky.
Cranes fly through clouds.
Wolves howl. I cannot find rest
Because I am powerless
To amend a broken world."

—Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay

The news was all over the radio, even as this morning's presenter read news of the devastation that had struck Cape Horn.

Mordred listened to that crackling transmission over a half-congealed cup of coffee; one that was far too thick and tasted of damnation. Shouldn't have left it for so long, but he'd been studying the board again, trying to draw connections between each bright blue pin. It was the Sidorov case—being a Reckoner never paid the bills, but at least it'd been months since he was last in the red.

Balog had run the Sarajevan cell on a shoe-string. Mordred had yet to figure out how he'd done it.

But we were younger then, weren't we? He found himself thinking, even as his fingers traced the scars on the battered kitchen table. We thought we could change the world. We thought we could set them all free.

The numbers should have been appalling, but the wintry chill of the morning had seeped into Mordred's mind and he took them in with glacial calm. What was another tragedy in an ocean of so many?

It was what came from living in a broken world, a world that had been driven to the edge of endurance, even before Calamity. Even before the Epics had begun to appear: men and women with powers that no person should have been entrusted with, powers to destroy and to kill and to wreak devastation.

The real question was: which Epic was involved? And what had they done?

His phone vibrated. Not the one he used everyday; this was the burner.

Mordred's concern levels increased as he pulled it out of his coat pocket.

There was a series of coordinates and a time.

HERON, it was signed. He knew the cell. Alex, wasn't it? He hadn't worked too closely with them. This was bound to be interesting.

The Reckoners were calling again.

And as he had done for the better part of his life, Mordred would answer.

Edited to bring you a meme:

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Edited February 7, 2022 by Kasimir

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

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I would like to join

 

[Mat he/him]

Just now, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said:

 

You don't need to put OOC talk in spoiler boxes in SE  Welcome!

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

Just now, Matrim's Dice said:

You don't need to put OOC talk in spoiler boxes in SE  Welcome!

thanks for the welcome, my character will be named Endrik.

[Orlok Tsubodai]

I’ll sign up as Locke.

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

35 minutes ago, Orlok Tsubodai said:

I’ll sign up as Locke.

Lamora?

[Mat he/him]

37 minutes ago, The Unknown Aon said:

Lamora?

Tekiel.

[Szeth Pancakes he/they]

59 minutes ago, Matrim's Dice said:

Tekiel.

Kodok

[Kasimir he/him]

9 minutes ago, Szeth_Pancakes said:

Kodok

Whoa whoa whoa that's extreme  

[Szeth Pancakes he/they]

30 minutes ago, Kasimir said:

Whoa whoa whoa that's extreme  

how

[Kasimir he/him]

8 hours ago, Szeth_Pancakes said:

how

Weird thing about coming from my part of the world is that people sometimes say things that are swears here but not in the US/UK/EU and I'm dead certain it's not a swear for you guys so while it did confuse me, I cracked the joke it's extreme and moved on

Edited February 8, 2022 by Kasimir
justification

[Szeth Pancakes he/they]

Just now, Kasimir said:

Weird thing about coming from my part of the world is that people sometimes say things that are swears here but not in the US/UK/EU and I'm dead certain it's not a swear for you guys so while it did confuse me, I cracked the joke it's extreme and moved on

oh

Locke Kodok is someone else’s rp character over in Zvso

[Kasimir he/him]

7 hours ago, Szeth_Pancakes said:

oh

Locke Kodok is someone else’s rp character over in Zvso

Alles klar