I live at the midpoint between Union City and Fremont. What kind of schedule are you all looking at?

Every other Sunday afternoon/evening would work fine for me. I prefer late-ish on weekdays, but I know that doesn't work with everyone's schedule and I can be flexible as needed. My place in San Jose isn't well set-up for gaming as of yet, so unfortunately I can't offer a space. Given the other interest in this thread is East Bay and Fremont, it might be more fair if I commuted, anyway. In terms of organizing around a GM... I suppose that depends on what people have in mind for the campaign/play-style. For my part, I've not played EP yet so there'll be some system learning involved. As a GM, I tend to run pretty loose, player-driven campaigns. If players' tastes trend towards more serious, heavier story settings, someone else would be a better fit. I am perfectly happy to run, but I wouldn't want to put together a game that doesn't fit the personalities in our potential group. As a player, I enjoy playing and adapting to (most) any style.

Agreed on Gatecrashing My schedule is looking increasingly like Tuesday nights will be the best time, other days now being taken up by other games. Monday nights might open up in a month, depending on various factors. Also, for GM duty, I call "not it!"

I'm still interested. Every other Sunday would still be ideal for me, though I may be able to make any (every other) Monday, Tuesday or Thursday work, as well.

Bleah. My car just threw me the 'check engine light' and I haven't got the funding to put it in the shop. That limits me to South bay or carpooling. I can bike/bus darned near anywhere. If we can arrange a location that I can reach, I'm good for Tuesday the 26th. I think there was a semi-affirmation of a gatecrashing run. Did we settle on a GM?

As the date approaches, we are in [i]definite[/i] need of a plan. [img=600x450]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Allied_Invasion... No, that probably won't do the trick. Location? Time? Bring pre-generated characters? If so, any particular things they should have/not have/be/not be? Does anyone have any particular 'roles' they wish to play?

And that's why I tried to start talking 'plan' a week ago. Well. Perhaps something'll pop up at the last minute. It's possible that operating under the assumption a time Tuesday evening will be announced, that you long-commuters might do well to schedule an if->then pick-up schedule and plan. Undiurnal stated earlier that his place wasn't set up for GMing, nor is mine, plus I have cats and a roomie sleeping on the couch currently so space is an issue for me. What's the current situation with Game Kastle's gaming room? Because that sounds like it is liable to be the best option.

Good to hear from you. I don't get any sort of alert from this site that a thread has been replied to. I just lurk on a regular basis and refresh threads/forums that I'm interested in. Fortunately this particular branch of the forum updates rarely, so it's quite obvious from the forum top-level when something has changed. I'm looking at what passes for GK's website and it doesn't seem to have been updated in quite a while, but the hours it lists only run 'til 9pm. Given that people are commuting from the frozen north, that doesn't seem terribly adequate. I'm not sure about coffee places in the immediate vicinity of GK, honestly. Of course, no matter where you are, there's always Denny's. <_< They run late to 'always on' and tend not to be pushy about people sitting around for hours at a time, though it's nice to be sure if your host/ess goes off shift that you get them their tip first. Some of them make large/late night groups 'pay at order' due to people sneaking out, but I don't particularly mind that...As long as they keep topping off my coffee.

Yeah, I've not run EP before, so it'll be a bit of learning-as-we-go. The way I'm trying to set things up, most any character idea should be possible to integrate. Gatecrashing is something which may happen later in the campaign rather than at the outset, though, so creating a super morph won't be necessary. More important will be a strong character concept and some level of backstory, so I can integrate those things in going forward.

7pm. Game Kastle. Rock on. I'll have to opt out of switching to Denny's after 9pm as I have to get ready for a work trip tomorrow, but two hours should be sufficient for Getting-To-Know-You and laying the ground work for the campaign. I'll be the guy in the Pillow Fight t-shirt with the EP hardcover. See ya'll there.

May run slightly late, had a flat tire and needed to patch it. Yeah, I'm on a bicycle.

Howdy, I just moved to Bay area. Is it possible to still join in this group?

What characters are already made? Is the game [edit]definitely[/edit] going to be some sort of gatecrashing?

Howdy. We haven't strictly settled on characters because both players in attendance at the last meet had multiple character concepts and weren't sure what would work best... Having created a few. { Okay, many. :) } I offered to 'bat cleanup' in case others had specific roles they wanted to fill, as I'm okay with just about anything. Some discussion was had in regard to campaign ideas, likes and dislikes. One thing which came up of significant mention was a dislike for egocast situations which greatly disadvantaged characters that had put considerable starting investment into a morph and which the player strongly identified with the morph as well as the ego. See also: "If I'd wanted to play a case morph with no support and no gear, I'd have rolled one." Some things I have floating around in my current closet full of unassigned characters: - Neo-Raven Ultimate Executive Security Specialist who has been psychosurgically altered to (1) avoid psychosurgery and (2) not cause unnecessary harm. (Really the only 'dedicated combat' character I've ever generated for EP.) - Dolphin bot-jammer rigged for vacuum work and situated on a walker exoskeleton. Because oghod. Dolphins. In. Space. - AGI Psychosurgeon/Interrogator who loiters in his pre-Fall commander's body and tends to think of it as a 'trophy'. Don't ask where his CO's original ego went. Characters I've statted but haven't really put together background notes for (if something here screams "I want to play [i]that[/i]!!!" at someone, just let me know and I'll toss you a copy of the excel spreadsheet and you can mutilate it how you like). - Hyperelite Socialite Fence/Middleman/Negotiator/Fixer type. Luna, high-end black-market traffic between street-level and corporate officers and management who Should Know Better. - Drifter Scum Deep-Space Salvage Operator. What it says on the tin. - Lost Brinker Singularity Seeker. Dangerous company. TITAN technology is an opportunity with risk, not a menace...Unless you're already extinct and don't know it. Most people are. - Re-Instantiated Barsoomian Anticorporate Activist. Not a bomb-thrower or a banner waver. Someone much more problematic. The sort of person who actually goes digging for dirt via surveillance and in person to prove what sort of shenanigans the corps are up to. - Martian Argonaut Zone Ranger. Because quarantining a TITAN in a pretty little map-grid doesn't make it go away. It just gives it time to build in isolation. Someone needs to keep track of these things and make sure they aren't getting worse. Which they almost certainly are. I've also statted up an OSC Jovian bot-tech/puppetmaster/jammer type but that might be difficult to fit into a group given Jovian intolerance and intolerance of Jovians.

I can get there. I'll some sort of scientist/mechanic character.

Have you room for one more? If so, can you give me an idea of what kind of character would be useful?

Sweet. I'll bring a character.

Currently inner. Could in future be outer or even through the gates. Also, nobody likes the Jovians.