Knights of Arcadia Phalla Night GAME OVER: MAFIA VICTORY

OminousLozenge

How do you manage not to cover every piece of paper you get your hands on in doodles? My talent approaches zero and I scribble all over paper when I have idle time.

Munkus Beaver

Gonna have to extend the signups until Friday.
sigh

I think we only need 8 more people? I think? It's been a busy day. I can't believe it's been a week and this hasn't filled up! We're even missing some regulars like @Spoit I think.

And @Infidel ? You gotta sign up for a specific spot, baby!

Iron Weasel

Just assign him whichever name sounds most like an embarassing bodily function.

Erin The Red

Kidd Neystone?

Erin The Red

Pumpkin! WHERE is my antihistamine!?

Munkus Beaver

Iron Weasel wrote: »

Just assign him whichever name sounds most like an embarassing bodily function.

I knew I forgot to add Farts McKenzie to the playable character list.

Mikey CTS

OminousLozenge wrote: »

How do you manage not to cover every piece of paper you get your hands on in doodles? My talent approaches zero and I scribble all over paper when I have idle time.

Umm... Can we go back in time to when I didn't say that?

Larlar

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

Iron Weasel wrote: »

Just assign him whichever name sounds most like an embarassing bodily function.

I knew I forgot to add Farts McKenzie to the playable character list.

Don't forget about little Squick Squelcherton, either. He takes after both his parents, Philiplop and Smegmarion.

OminousLozenge

Do you mean Smegmarion the Shartomancer? Her talents are legendary!

Larlar

That's a woman you're talking about, for god's sake.

OminousLozenge

Uh, yeah, just like it says. Learn to read!

>.>

<.<

vertroue

Jerk whats wrong with women? Ahava needs to play. You can always find time to play Phalla.

Bucketman

I totally have a good idea for my character. The knights are knights of underland right? A's there has top be a reason they are not off doing knightly things? Yeah I got a good idea in mind

Munkus Beaver

The knights in the capital are there instead of the front line for reasons that I might as well get into right now.

facetious

Ha, I was already thinking I wanted to make my guy a servant of some sort, and then I saw he's a Shibbolyth.

Mikey CTS

There we go. Not too bad. I'll have to get a proper scan later.

Bucketman

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

The knights in the capital are there instead of the front line for reasons that I might as well get into right now.

Ohh please do! I'm exited to roleplay!

Retaba

I am the worst at roleplaying. :|

Erin The Red

We will train you, Pumpkin! Now, have you seen the venture boys? Have they wandered into THE SWAMP AGAIN?

I must go to them! Grab my cloak!

Retaba

TheRoadVirus wrote: »

We will train you, Pumpkin! Now, have you seen the venture boys? Have they wandered into THE SWAMP AGAIN?

I must go to them! Grab my cloak!

But if I do that and you're trying to move, you'll just choke and fall!

Erin The Red

Retaba wrote: »

TheRoadVirus wrote: »

We will train you, Pumpkin! Now, have you seen the venture boys? Have they wandered into THE SWAMP AGAIN?

I must go to them! Grab my cloak!

But if I do that and you're trying to move, you'll just choke and fall!

I... I meant go get it from the cloak hook on the wall. I'm not wearing my OUTSIDE cape INDOORS. I'm not a barbarian!

Retaba

TheRoadVirus wrote: »

Retaba wrote: »

TheRoadVirus wrote: »

We will train you, Pumpkin! Now, have you seen the venture boys? Have they wandered into THE SWAMP AGAIN?

I must go to them! Grab my cloak!

But if I do that and you're trying to move, you'll just choke and fall!

I... I meant go get it from the cloak hook on the wall. I'm not wearing my OUTSIDE cape INDOORS. I'm not a barbarian!

That is because you're not wearing anything! It was all a dream...

Assuran

TheRoadVirus wrote: »

Retaba wrote: »

TheRoadVirus wrote: »

We will train you, Pumpkin! Now, have you seen the venture boys? Have they wandered into THE SWAMP AGAIN?

I must go to them! Grab my cloak!

But if I do that and you're trying to move, you'll just choke and fall!

I... I meant go get it from the cloak hook on the wall. I'm not wearing my OUTSIDE cape INDOORS. I'm not a barbarian!

ME THINK ME JUST INSULTED.

SMUSH TIME?

SMUSH TIME!

Erin The Red

Assuran wrote: »

TheRoadVirus wrote: »

Retaba wrote: »

TheRoadVirus wrote: »

We will train you, Pumpkin! Now, have you seen the venture boys? Have they wandered into THE SWAMP AGAIN?

I must go to them! Grab my cloak!

But if I do that and you're trying to move, you'll just choke and fall!

I... I meant go get it from the cloak hook on the wall. I'm not wearing my OUTSIDE cape INDOORS. I'm not a barbarian!

ME THINK ME JUST INSULTED.

SMUSH TIME?

SMUSH TIME!

Ah! But do you THINK you were just insulted, or do you think you were JUST insulsted?

This is important! WE MUST KNOWWWW!

Zombie Hero

I feel like i should have a link to the dramatic music ready before reading each of TRV's posts.

OminousLozenge

Someone should try to follow all of his posts with "Dun Dun DUNNNN!"

Larlar

Retaba wrote: »

I am the worst at roleplaying. :|

Roleplaying doesn't require any skill. It just requires unconditional devotion and a lack of and/or ability to repress shame.

OminousLozenge

Larlar wrote: »

Retaba wrote: »

I am the worst at roleplaying. :|

Roleplaying doesn't require any skill. It just requires unconditional devotion and a lack of and/or ability to repress shame.

And the more people around you who are doing it, the less embarrassing it is (and consequently, the easier it is to do).

GrimmyTOA

OminousLozenge wrote: »

Larlar wrote: »

Retaba wrote: »

I am the worst at roleplaying. :|

Roleplaying doesn't require any skill. It just requires unconditional devotion and a lack of and/or ability to repress shame.

And the more people around you who are doing it, the less embarrassing it is (and consequently, the easier it is to do).

Wow. So this is how peer pressure feels from the other side.

OminousLozenge

Yeah, peer pressure isn't always negative. Psychologically speaking, our wiring as social mammals can be harnessed to accomplish positive results as well.

It's just usually given negative connotations because one's first exposure to the term "peer pressure" is usually some sort of anti-bullying or anti-drugs program in elementary school.

Cayrus

Is there room left?

Cayrus

If so, !Sign up 10. Gustav Rehnquist

Larlar

OminousLozenge wrote: »

Yeah, peer pressure isn't always negative. Psychologically speaking, our wiring as social mammals can be harnessed to accomplish positive results as well.

It's just usually given negative connotations because one's first exposure to the term "peer pressure" is usually some sort of anti-bullying or anti-drugs program in elementary school.

Now let's go celebrate this new knowledge by picking on kids who refuse to snort bath salts.

OminousLozenge

Larlar wrote: »

OminousLozenge wrote: »

Yeah, peer pressure isn't always negative. Psychologically speaking, our wiring as social mammals can be harnessed to accomplish positive results as well.

It's just usually given negative connotations because one's first exposure to the term "peer pressure" is usually some sort of anti-bullying or anti-drugs program in elementary school.

Now let's go celebrate this new knowledge by picking on kids who refuse to snort bath salts.

Mikey CTS

@TehSpectre

Gizzy

Did you guys ever role play way back in the day in AOL chatrooms in "Rhydin" ?

Retaba

No, but I did it when I was 11-12 on Battle.net


I was terrible.

BradicusMaximus

I got big into RP when I joined an rp guild in SWG pre-cu. Before then I was generally embarrassed to rp around people I didn't know.

Gizzy

My attempts .. at 15 yrs old .. was that I was a talking cat named Gizzy.

Fast forward 15 yrs later ... nothing has changed. LOL

Munkus Beaver

Bucketman wrote: »

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

The knights in the capital are there instead of the front line for reasons that I might as well get into right now.

Ohh please do! I'm exited to roleplay!

I doubt anyone pays as close attention to the detail in the [strike]three[/strike]two Knights of Arcadia game storyline, but if you did you might notice two things.

1. This takes game has the Acquaintance in it, so it must be after the events of the SE++ game.
2. During the SE++ game, Underlund was overrun by OSA and his demons. To wit:

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

He presents you with the dinner, a meat pie made from game the Acquaintance had acquired. He takes a bite out of an apple, and continues. "The rumors are true: a demon now sits on the Underlund throne. It is very dire I am afraid. Sorry, not a demon, no. The Demon King Osa."

The Acquaintance frowns and shakes his head. "The Underlund oligarchy sought power and were found wanting. And so goes the story of how a country was slaughtered and damned in a single night. But it's a story we all know, the wheel of fate turns the same now as it always had. Where steel, sword, and war were now is replaced by souls, runes, and rituals." He takes another bite from his apple. "A servant suffers his master's hubris, whether in plains of heather or in planes of Aether."

So how is this possible?

Did you notice how there are no aristocratic PCs from the Asphodel guild? Most were replaced by actual demons when they wagered the Underlund countryside for power. They had assumed that wagering their subjects would save them from a horrible fate if they lost The Game, but it simply ensured their own demise. The players were half aristocracy and half subjects who were aware of their masters' treachery. The Game was short, the Asphodel contingent lost.

Magic creates an illusion that the Underlund countryside is not a hellscape. It also protects the main trade routes to the capital and the capital itself from outright demonic incursion.

But now the surviving aristocracy has entered into a new contract, double or nothing, wagering the capital and all its riches against the Underlund countryside.

The Acquaintance is interfering somehow and, from his own sick humor, has manipulated the magic at work to ensure that no person responsible for creating the pact is actually playing The Game. They still suffer the consequences in the event of a loss, but they have no control over the outcome.