She a member of PETA, by any chance?

Que?? what is PETA?

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. They are rather famous for their publicity stunts and whatnot. Among the spectrum of animal rights groups they are considered to be on the extreme end, at least in the view of the general public.

Back on (RP) topic, when shall we initiate the rogue ashlander raid? I would guess that Apelles, being the lookout and scout, would spy them first, no?

Oh...thanks Canis! Hmm rouge ashlanders.....I wonder who really notice them first??

Point taken, but Rianne and Dralas seem distracted while Apelles' job is to be on the alert for trouble.

This post has been edited by canis216: May 10 2009, 10:10 PM

I'm on it.

yes yes! of course Apelles will be the first to see them...but who knows what happens thereafter,..

Jack how far do you want me to push this with Haz, Rothan could back off now and mull on it but do nothing, or he could spread the suspicion or after the fight he could ask more (awkward) questions (like what's your name?). Any would work fine with the character, it depends on how you want to develop Haz.

And I'd say now is a prime moment for an ashlander attack.

Hmm, well I think it might be best if he goes to mulling things over for now. I mean, he could ask Haz for his name but I don't think that would accomplish much either way. Haz may not be the best sneaky terrorist around, I've noticed, but he does have a name he can use and as for background, he'll just say that he's from the mainland which is both true and not all that suspicious.

And I agree that we might want to get the Ashlanders over with. Speaking of which, how will the Ashlanders react? Will they be pacified by a good speech from Rianne/Dranas? Or will they be from the same tribe as Dranas and decide to kill everyone no matter what because Dranas shed the blood of his own kin and they're kinda pissed about that?

Just to be clear, Dralas is the ashlander, whilst Dranas is my smuggler. Could they be related to Dralas? I conceive of them as outcasts, but if they're raiding the dregs of a caravan then they are liable to be related to Dralas' Erabnimsun tribe, so I could see them recognizing him. As for the effect... I dunno. What say you, Dantrag? I'm thinking that there will be some violence but being raiders and not proper warriors I expect that being faced with anything more than token resistance would give them some pause.

Though we will only just count as token resistance. Appelles and Dralas are both competant fighters but not heavy warriors; otherwise they vary from knowing which end of a sword to hold to not much combat experience at all so if there's many it will be quite a fight.

Well, Dranas may be no warrior but he was a pirate. He can wield a sword reasonably well... but yes, point taken. It will be a hard fight.

oh dear, sounds like there'll be a lot of work for Rianne as well..hmm

Alright, looks like we have a consensus. I think they should be motivated more by ideological objections than I've been pretty busy, and will likely continue to be busy until Thrusday (it's finals week). I definitely won't finish it any later than Thursday.

Well, I can't see a group of rogue ashlanders consisting of more than 5 people or so, and I don't think any of the tribes would want to launch an attack on a caravan like this (even if it was just the stragglers). And our group has more fighter-types than we really counted earlier. We've got Apelles, Dralas, Dranas, Rothan (hand-to-hand), Haz (same), Rianne (depending on whether or not she decides to bring out her assassin side at this moment), and Erna (though CM hasn't posted in a bit). I think they'd all survive just fine.

As far as them recognizing Dralas, I'm fine with that, though I'd have to think of some kind of backstory for the encounter.

Gah, sorry, I'll go post up now.

Been busy over at the guild and on TESFU, I forgot about what was happening here.

Um...I thought I was going to start this - and I explained why I hadn't yet, but...okay.

This post has been edited by bbqplatypus: May 15 2009, 07:02 PM

On the other hand we had been discussing loading guars for the last page which isn't the most exciting bit of RP I've ever done. Something had to happen before the RP went stagnent again.

How many are there, I don't think more than five or six is going to be realistic given none of our characters will be any tougher than the ashlanders...

This post has been edited by Olen: May 15 2009, 07:43 PM

Sorry for any offense, but I missed that.

EDIT: if you're referring to the post you made about finals, it didn't really make sense to me. just bad communication, I guess. sorry about that.

This post has been edited by Dantrag: May 15 2009, 08:06 PM

Hey, it's alright. We got things going, that's what matters.