Suggestions, Comments

[Vardaen]

So I was chatting with Tet and he commented on how he doesn't like the dungeon crawl sort of stuff in the CE game. I wanted to see what you other guys thought of things so far. I know it can get slightly repetative with the "I follow Ryoko to the next room".

So I might suggest you spruce up your RP with party chatter, investigative RP along the way, and generally try and add something more to the 'follow' RP.

For my part I have been doing groups of rooms at a time, instead of you got to room 1, look around, then room 2, look around, etc, as you've probably noticed.

To help keep us moving, once a direction is picked by one party member and someone moves that way I'll move us forward. I won't wait for all three of you to say "I go left" if anyone of you does that's good enough for me.

[jigglypuff69]

Sounds great to me! And the animated weapons are brilliant. Makes me think of playing Magic and the Artifact card that was a Dancing Sword or something. Or even some weird wall o' blades or something! I love em', they just hurt...

[Phlale]

I think the dancing weapons will spark some kind of discussion. It'll be interesting what kind of conclusions our characters come to about them.

[Vardaen]

Great.

My real concern here is the 'dungeon crawl' environment itself. The content of the kyuden is fun and the history behind it I think is cool which will come out as you continue to explore.

Tet was uninterested in the exploring aspect of it and I was curious if you guys were as well.

[Phlale]

I'm good with the exploration, the only possible issue would be if it felt forced. Currently, there's only three ways we could go (left, right, or upstairs), so maybe it's a little narrow, but I don't think that there's been enough of that to create any kind of problems.

I'm loving the history (I think I've figured out where we are and what's going on) and am looking forward to it being revealed, though I expect you're going to throw us a curve ball of some sort. That's one of the attractions of Rokugan for me, the deep history and how it's always right around the corner if you want to look for it.

[Vardaen]

It may be slightly narrow in scope, one reason is to prevent us from crawling through the area taking up too many months.

I'd love to hear what you think is going on, ICly or OOCly.

[jigglypuff69]

We talked already, and discovered that my suspicions were right! Awesome! This side adventure will be huge for the Nightingale and helping them along with their endevours. I like the way this is all going and certainly goes along with Ryoko's love of getting into trouble and testing his skills...

[Vardaen]

I wanted to mention that if anyone wanted to take Allies Advantage, now would be a fine time (Nightingale, or Niban, etc). I will charge you normal cost (not double like it mentions for post char gen).

[Vardaen]

Just incase someone is interested:

Allies: Niban/Nightingale
Influence: 1 Minor (Ronin Village)
Devotion: 1, 2, or 4 Depending on how much you spend, but he will go up to a 4 espcially since you are Nighitngale now basically.

[Vardaen]

Hmmm, reconsidering really, you problably should have this for free. Atleast Influence 1, Devotion 1 for free, just as members, so if you want it higher, you'll have to buy it.