[Reminder]

You guys can assume the transaction with the mechanic is complete. I just need to know if it is coming out of your advance payment or someones personal funds.

For the other supplies you want, if you guys put together a list, since it seems like it is all basic stuff, you can handwave buying it.

[Crunch]

I don't have anything significant to add to the list beyond basic survival gear.

[Ren]

@Reminder: your last post suggested that I have a car, unfortunately I don’t. I assume I got a lift from someone and did the last part on foot. Hope someone from the team will give me a lift on the way home (not the whole way though).

[Reminder]

Yeah, I guess I musta thought you were the one with the bike.

[Csjarrat]

Take it out of the advance, we want plenty of food, water, insect repellent, cooking fuel, mosquito nets, Sun cream (lol), plenty of spare diesel for the cars/bikes, spare batteries, jump leads, flashlights.
Anything else I've forgotten?

[Reminder]

I'm assuming when you say you try listening to both conversations, the second one you are talking about is the 2 men talking with the bartender? The conversation (if there is one) of the two men and the woman is beyond your range of hearing anyway with only 1 hit.

[Reminder]

Cs you are trying to record the conversation happening at the bar?

[Csjarrat]

if possible, if not, then i'll set the filter to focus on only the frequencies of the conversation and try and listen once ive got my beer

[Ren]

Reminder, i wanted to ask what the patrons look like, what their garments and equipment suggests about their professions. Which of them look like a city person or a hunter, something along these lines. I'm also interested in what weapons they bear openly. Please describe me these.

[Reminder]

Reminder, i wanted to ask what the patrons look like, what their garments and equipment suggests about their professions. Which of them look like a city person or a hunter, something along these lines. I'm also interested in what weapons they bear openly. Please describe me these.

I'd normally make you roll, but honestly, I don't think the info is going to help you that much. It kind of follows what the mechanic told the other 2 with you about the place (this is a place where bushrunners tend to frequent, and given its location, isn't likely to get much in the way of foot traffic).


Everyone, including the bartender are attired in well worn gear, with leathers being prevalent. Everyone you can see, excluding the bartender and the group of 2 men and the woman are wearing obvious pistols and/or heavy knives (survival, combat, or whatever. They aren't pocketknives). That doesn't mean the others don't have weapons...just that they are not easily apparent. Even the nearly passed out fellow has a pistol slung to his hip.

You didn't ask, but all the vehicles in the lot would back up their visual appearances as well.

if possible, if not, then i'll set the filter to focus on only the frequencies of the conversation and try and listen once ive got my beer

That's fine for now then. If you want to try to understand any of it, you will need to make a roll.

Incidently, since I forgot to mention it, the group of 4 men are speaking English. The bartender and the 2 with him in Kiswahili.

[Ren]

I still thought it useful info, as a player, it meant that I can’t rule out anyone as a source of information, based solely on their appearance.

[Reminder]

If it's not clear, he's charging you for the information. I could have separated it out first, but I have the feeling most want to start advancing the storyline, and it is a fairly inconsequential bribe.

[Ren]

Yeah, and a fairly steep one, considering next to nothing he said was useful. But that's the way it goes.

[Reminder]

Someone in there may very well know something. It depends on what type of information you are looking for, and if you can convince them to trust you enough to part with it. His advice may be more helpful than you think it to be initially.

If you are looking for an exact deliniation on the map of a no-go line, one honestly doesn't exist. Borders outside many of the cities aren't clear in this part of the world.

Since I really don't know what information you guys are looking for, I'm not sure if you will be able to find it here or not. What are you trying to learn from these people?




Between the 3 of you there, you do have a few inroads I can potentially see, and maybe a few I don't, but what you want to do is entirely up to you. Everyone in the place honestly knows something; it is up to you who and how you choose to approach them. EDIT: Also, nearly unconscious may have been the wrong way to describe the man drinking alone. His actions are slowed and he is obviously quite drunk, but he is awake, just a long long way from sober.


What you know to this point: roughly where you are going, roughly where may have issues with running into the Maasai, how they are likely to react to anyone that isn't them (hostile), what types of wild creatures may exist in the area, and enough information to form a capable list of supplies you want to bring along.

[Ren]

@Reminder: I’m actually waiting for one of the taller tales they are telling to butt in, a little bit unbelieving. I can come up with something in IC if you want me to.