TORG Break

Story Break

Last week we came to the end of Act 4 in my Torg Eternity Game. This represents only 4 weeks, 1 month of gaming, and et it has taken me over 12 posts to get the story out. Personally, I think it has been going really well and the few die-hard fans who keep reading make it all worth it.

Celebration:

So today you’ve already noticed that there is no Act 5 post—not to worry you WILL have Act 5 starting next week. But today is a special day, today is the last day of my last classes for my Bachelors Degree! And as such I am away for the weekend and writing this somewhat in advance. This is also a natural rest point, as the heroes in my game have just done the impossible and are now taking a rest in an alien domed city. There are only a handful of games left before we take a break with the characters in the Living Land and start the story of another band of heroes in Aysle.

Things to Come; Aysle.

Part of my story is to run other adventures in the same timeline with the same players but different characters in different parts of the world. So while Sasha, Carlisle, and Kimiko run around the savage Living Lands and free slaves and fight cavemen. Ash, Ragnal, and David are on a mission in North Ireland trying to recon a massive Viking fleet. It will probably be a month or so before we get to the pause point in the Manhattan Knights and switch over to the Irish Knights.

Aysle is a land of rampant magic, locked in a late medieval period. It is as close as TORG gets to a normal D&D game as well… though I am running games during the period when the invasion is new and the Earth is still mixing and changing to the invaders world. Another interesting point with Aysle is that the our world is also changing the invading world so that the various myths and legends from Earth are integrating and changing around Aysle. (Funny thing… the books for Aysle are currently getting ready for Kickstarter and I never played the original version of the game from the 90s… so I have been making up things as I go. Such as Vikings as main force of the High Lords, having Fae and Sidhe change Ireland, having the Druids come back… all of these are things I wrote into my game and now have discovered that most of the ways I’ve been doing it is very similar to how Ulissies will be writing them into Torg.)

Questions:

So since we’re taking a break this week I had a few questions for my readers.

• How do you like the style of the posts?
• The mix up of telling the story, then zooming in to some dialogue, and occasionally putting mechanics and asides in [ ]. Do you like this?
• Would you prefer more immersive storytelling? (As in doing all of the dialogue and making the posts even longer?)
• Are the posts too long now or do you like them as is? (taking 3 weeks to run through a single Act of the game?)

Are there other questions I’m missing? I have talked with a handful of you readers on either Facebook or even in RL… most seem to like the pace I’m currently writing at but some have mentioned they want more details and play by play dialogue.

Where we’re Headed:

So I already told you that we have a second set of characters running around. Just to give you a heads up where I’m at in running the game… there are three more Acts of the Manhattan Knights to go thru (about 9 more weeks of posts at my current pace) and my Aysle game has just finished 8 Acts, several of them of much longer duration than the Living Land game (they took 2 game sessions to finish). So that is a minimum of 24 weeks of posts (probably much more). That means that I spend the rest of this year writing up these posts and only reach the point in my game up to April of this year. So content for a very long time. I would love to hear from some of you people.

Have a great Sunday and see you in the next post.