The Training Weekend - Part 1

[frax]

The weekend consisted of events which were engineered by the trainers to test us and some other events which were happening outside their control which it was down the group to fix. This ranged from people turning up to the site who had not reason (and possibly no clearence)to be their to a full on paranormal manifestation including hallucinations

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[chrisvenus]

I am now officially jealous. Maybe not of the night watch but in general that sounds very cool. :)

[frax]

The best stuff was that the refs made almost no calls and OOC annoucements. People were not told by refs "You receive a text on your mobile and this is what it says" - they actually received the texts and had to work stuff out on their own.

e.g. Alex really did find the blood by the fort, there were no refs there at the time telling him what he saw - it was all really there. We speculated it was blood and got the instructor to send it to the lab for analysis, we were told in-character what the results were when they came back.

So 24 hour time in was pretty much exclusively in-character with very little ref calls breaking the mood/tension. I think this partly worked because the players were:

a) very good role players;
b)great at improvising and running with ideas which were totally in theme; and
c) sensible people who didn't act like arses!.

[chrisvenus]

*nod* Yeah, I can see it not working at all with some people that I've RPed with in the past.

Once you're done with the IC side of things you'll have to let us know more about the IC side of things. I'm intrigued about the venue for this since it sounds like if it was somewhere good for IC training that it would be used for that OOC and thus be bloody expensive. Its always nice to keep mental track of these places that are good for RP events. :)

[frax]

I can tell you that now it was a scout camp in Croydon and the whole weekend cost £35 a head (including catering - we were fed all weekend and snacks, beer and soft drinks were also all provided!)

[bateleur]

1.13.5.14. Steve was our cryptographer and clearly recognised this as a simple number substitution code leaving the four letter word AMEN.

Four numbers separated by dots and his first thought wasn't "It's an IP address !" ?

Of course, I'll let him off for not realising that this is a Class A IP address. These are very unusual and only useful for stuuuupidly large networks. That's some major plot, that is !

[frax]

:)

[chrisvenus]

Well, to be fair that was my first thought as well. Doesn't mean I didn't clearly recognise it as a simple number substitution. Mainly because I decided that the numbers were all far too low to be likely to be an IP address.

And I didn't realise that you could identify what class an IP address was by the first digits. Google has of course now explained all to me. I always thought it was just determined by your subnet mask rather than necessarily by the first four bits.

Of course, your assumption that it being in a class A range means that the whole of the class A network is involved is erroneous. See flat.earth.li which is 82.25.73.121 and is a NTL cable modem address. :)

Sorry, felt a bit of geeky pedantry there. :)

[lathany]

and not at all cliquey!

Y'know, I'm sure you could make those words larger. And flashing.

:-)

[frax]

If it is a good point it is worth putting in bold :)

[ben_elzebub]

**Alex returned having found what looked like a ritual sacrifice sight.**

Purely in the interests of accuracy, I feel it necessary to point out that Alex actually walked straight through the ritual site without noticing it...then I pointed out the bloody handprints to him.

Just thought I'd add that...

[frax]

I didn't know that! Alex made out like he found it.