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Tabula Rasa, I'm going to give 8-bit until Thursday, which will mark two weeks since he was last on the site. I don't want to NPC him since I already have Katsina, but nor do I want to recruit. I will likely ask if anyone is comfortable running two PCs at once, which might work for a game of five players but wouldn't work well for our game of two here. And I'd feel a little naked without a third, so let's find someone if 8-bit doesn't reemerge with a good story about how he got swept up in a torrid affair with Jessica Alba.
I am liking the dynamic of Stake being the leader/strategist, with Achak as the lieutenant and Sister Rebecca as the rookie. Hopefully we could maintain that, although it would probably require a more experienced player to step in as team leader. Poindexter's approach of specifically requesting an elven face-samurai might work well if someone doesn't want to step into a pre-made character. I'm never bothered by playing other people's PCs - I actually kind of like the challenge of playing characters I didn't cook up myself - but I've heard other people compare it to wearing someone else's underwear.
As for the latest IC post, I'm making a few assumptions about where we actually are. Stake lives in a Middle lifestyle condo. This translates to an A/B security zone (with B being more commercial). Two of the more likely candidates for this would be the Elven District (current day South Lake Union) or Capitol Hill. (
This map is good. You might have seen it posted under General Discussion on Sunday.) While it would certainly make sense for Stake to have a condo in the Elven District, I put him on Capitol Hill because rednblack's IC post said:
Hearing none, Stake sends the coordinates to Elijah from his comm, and the Bulldog does a 180 off Mercer and heads back east.
This actually demonstrates a good deal of familiarity with the local geography, as the Mercer Street exit (which is very near the 520 merge with I-5) does indeed exit to the west, and a 180 would take us east up to Capitol Hill. (Going straight on Mercer off the exit would put you immediately into the Elven District.)
Achak has a Low lifestyle but I had already been thinking about him living on Capitol Hill too, likely in a very small unit (~270 square feet) that would explain why he's in a Middle lifestyle neighborhood. Plus it seemed reasonable, even logical, that Achak and Stake would live fairly close to each other. Third, my wife and I might be moving to Capitol Hill this summer and I liked the symmetry.