Discussion for Der Hafen

Of course.

 

Cool, thanks.

I have a question about undead. As I'm playing an acupucturist/herbalist/martial-artist I couldn't help but wonder about their muscles and nerves. Presumably blocking meridians won't paralyse them as it would with living humans, but could one target ligments and joints to disable their musculo-skeletal system or would their paranormal physiology just bully on through any injury at all, however precise it might be? For example, dislocating an elbow to paralyse the fingers of the hand... Would it work on undead?

I'm guessing that anything which affects blood-flow or nerves doesn't affect undead at all, while anything affecting the gross mechanics of their body affects them normally. So, a severed hand works normally, but not if all the fingers are dislocated.

Kergan the Terrible could hexperiment for us, sever some ligaments and see if the subject can still move.

 

Ugh, I don't know much about that stuff myself. If I told you that breaking an undeads arm even in several places wouldn't impede on its movement, would that then answer your question? Dislocating the elbow in order to paralyze the fingers probably wouldn't work.

Some of these things you can find out for yourselves in game.

 

Ugh, okay.
Neither magick nor martial arts can stop the undead.
I wonder about the mechanics though, and I'm sure the paranormal program the third reich ran would love the idea of the undead.
I think it will be an in-game goal to test undead tissue.

First test: An electrical current through the nerve-endings of a severed undead limb; will it contract the muscles? Can it interfere with the undead's will to control the limb? Hypothesis: No. But worth testing,

 

My character really wanted to ask that question to Ishmael (about the prisoners), but so that it seemed that it had no connection with her family. That's because she is rather very cautions to talk about these kinds of things with a total stranger.

Even more with those who are really make an effort to try to charm her. And in vain. Because of her strong personality. But I did not knew how I had to ask. Could you or someone give me a tip?

 

My advice is that the cat is out of the bag. You already mentioned it out of the blue after he asked Alex's agenda, and an N thousand-year-old sociopath will easily manipulate a 20 yo, no matter how strong her personality.

Besides, Ismael is played by the story-teller, if you have an OOC agenda, just OOC ask him.

 

Well. It is not that of a disaster (and I don't want to mess around too much with the recent posts) because I think that my character Alex thinks its very interesting that Ismael can connect these things together so very quickly. And they are both good in manipulating people.

Maybe a weird question,but what do you mean with OOC agenda?

PS: You are right, Ismael is played by the story teller indeed.

 

OOC = out of character, as in something YOU want to do, rather than Alex. For example, your OOC agenda may be "I want my character to team up with Ismael" or "I want my character to seem more subtle" while Alex's agenda is "I want to find my uncles."

And, no, it's no disaster at all, eventually the story will have to proceed and, ideally, all the player-characters will be in on it, so the sooner the better, I say, as long as it's not breaking character. All good.

Frankly, I can't even imagine an elderly Italian-Mexican being able to mask her intentions from a Malach. They're both very expressive, passionate cultures, and a young strong-willed woman of any culture would likely wear her heart on her sleeve for all to see, especially an ageless student of humanity like Ismael. Really, if I were you, I'd accept from the outset that Ismael is reading her like a book, and just go with the flow.

 

I would have read her like a book. She told Ismael that she was in Berlin on family business, and then directly proceeded with asking him such an odd question as "so, are they still bringing in prisoners to Berlin? Why, oh, no reason, I'm just interested in prisoners. Nothing to do with my family business at all, really".

Ismael doesn't know jack about your family yet, though. He probably thinks you're here to save some members of your family who happens to be jewish. That would've been MY first guess.

 

Yep, if she was trying to be inscrutable, she failed.

Hell, my character just paused his breathing for half a second and every malach in the place picked up on the signal.

 

Ytzk: You are right, the story has to proceed eventualy indeed.

I was wondering. Should she tell him now or later about her Other uncles? Because I want to proceed the story, but on the other side I don't want to make Ismael too easy to get it out from Alex.

Or should she not tell him, but perhaps a waiter (who does not know about discretion (sp?) and stuff) comes to her and said "Excuse me, you was requiring about those two people? Well, you are in luck, Hans saw them some weeks or days ago in the company of Nazi officers."

Or should I do this another way? Could someone give a tip?

 

You do it anyway you like.

 

Arthgon... The war is in its final stage. The Russians are invading Berlin. The city is a WARZONE. How would you be able to get hold of a hotel during all that chaos? It's ridiculous.

And stop quoting everything we write into your posts. You don't have to copy EXACTLY what we've written except for the dialogue.

If you're trolling my game, I must ask you to stop. If you're being ignorant, then please stop that as well.

 

Sorry, you are right about that hotel, and I have removed that post.

Now about that copying, it was not on purpose or trying to troll anything. I most have accidenly copy those parts as well, while I wanted to copy only the dialog. You see, I was using internet on my phone, and well, you can't copy and past right. Thank you for pointing this out. I shall not do that anymore. Sorry for this Wolfbane.

 

You haven't done it just once, you've been doing it in almost every post. Just stop it.

 

Doctor Chan. Hurr. More like

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Giving away the hot dickings.

 

That's hilarious! Prepare for the honour, prepare for the duty, prepare for the hot dickings.

 

Question:

There IS a main plot for our current game, but I'm wondering if you'd all rather wait until we're finished with the current issue. We could of course play the plotlines at the same time, but the question id if we want more focus on one before moving on to the next. I'm ok with any solution. Ideas and thoughts?

 

I really don't mind if we do play the plotlines at the same time. Perhaps this current issue could be a layer of the main plot?

 

I'm looking forward to the story, WB. I'd prefer the main plot to be dominant over, or at least concurrent with, any side-plots.

So far I've resisted googling Die Hafen to learn the last story you ran, so I'm agog for what happens next.