byCarmine

Whilst mostly we have had very very positive feed back about the ball, we have had one player approach us OOCly with some concerns, claiming ‘everyone’ felt this way.

So, in the event that ‘everyone’ does, I wanted to clarify a few things for you:

* The plague that many of you have, codely, it won’t kill you. We as staff wouldn’t do something like that.
* It is a plot that is playing out. Something for you to role-play around. Investigate. Research. Plan. Group together. There are ways to prevent the spreading of the plague already in game. Work together. Clues will be given out over time.
* A cure isn’t going to happen over night. This will likely extend a couple of weeks. If not longer.
* Much of what happened at the ball last night was spur of the moment, actions by a single player and not pre-determined by staff. In their place, you’d not have wanted us to step in and rip up a PC with NPCs, and so we gave them the same opportunity to do or die by player hands.
* Give us a little time to work things out, stuff happened last night that wasn’t expected. So now, we as staff need to work out our next move, and change our own plans to accommodate it.

Now that bit is over with. I want to thank ALL the staff for their hard work in bringing such an event together. It was a lot of fun (I even got a little chance to play myself) and probably of all the six or so that I’ve held, one of the ones I most enjoyed. I want to thank the players for getting into the spirit of things, turning up and roleplaying with us in this wonderful event. Thirty one people on! That is pretty amazing. One of the best turn outs I’ve seen.

Given the petitions and questions been raised OOCly, I thought it was necessary to do a bit of a post about the current IC situation.

Firstly, murders and deaths within Seahaven is not an uncommon thing.  People die of starvation all the time, or illness or really a large number of things. Finding a corpse in the slums would be more common than you might think. Recently the murders have increased. A little. Not significantly. But enough to draw a few raised eyebrows. But ICly, it wouldn’t be quite an ‘OMG the city is overrun with demons and Vek!’ situation. Vek have pretty much always existed in Seahaven, think of them like cockroaches and rats. They are always there, feeding off the city. Lately, some of the deaths have been a little more.. colourful.

Next. The Watch. Without the modern day forensics, they are limited to doing only a couple of things. Taking a report, sometimes doing a brief investigation and filing it. Unless the corpse is that of a Noble, the investigation is more commonly limited to ‘did anyone see anything?’ ‘No? Well, not much we can do.’

The Watch presence. Imagine, even now in the ‘modern’ world. If you had no cell phone/house phone, how hard would it be to get a police man to your home. How far would you have to walk to a station? How likely are you to run into one in your travels during your day? Now consider the fantasy world of Dark Isles. Watch numbers are considerably less. No modern methods of communication. Demons running rampant. Deaths amongst their own members high. They work hard. All of them. But they can only do so much and be in so many places.

From an IC/OOC perspective, how we see things as staff: The NPC/vNPC watch manage and look after the NPC/vNPC population of Seahaven. The PC watch manage and look after the PC population. For this reason alone, it is unlikely that a NPC/vNPC watch will get involve in a law breaking situation.

If you, as a player, would like to see more Watch managing the players, then join the ranks.