one of the other things I made sure to keep constantly mentioning in game was Maple's saddlebags. I think a few people got it, but it might have been better for me to have just pointed it out ooc - my reason for not doing so, was honestly because I joined the game late and you all had established so much already.... I didn't want to come in and be all "hey do it like this" ... but the entire point of her pack was to have an obvious and limited inventor system. Zam had been fairly consistent with the enemy descriptions leading up to when I joined the game - plus I had the benefit of reading everything you guys did before hand - so I came into the game knowing stuff you all had to learn in the moment. ...but like fighting Coin agents ... they were rarely described with more on them than their uniforms... so looting never really felt like a thing that would gain me much as a player.
I did have maple take one though lol so she did loot a little bit. XD but I think that could have just been me trying to have another "shape" she could have an excuse for doing at some point. lol. Plus given the setting... mlp:fim ... where very rarely do characters even have pockets, I was never really expecting Zam to be running loot tables in the background of encounters...
but yeah, beyond all that, I assumed given that IC we were basically working for the government both on the books and off the books... plus had access -via story reasons- to whatever magical items Zam could dream up for us that would either just be in the keep... or easily obtainable by either of the 2 mid-tier princesses - or as a personal favor to maple from the one good princess with just a quickly written note ... most of our item issues would be more of a "when to use what we have" question. Rather than a "we need to go kill rats for gold so we can stock up for potions" sort of thing.
Now all that being said, I wouldn't have been anywhere near drawing those conclusions without having the foreknowledge of the things everyone else had hindsight on.. and I'm sure it was the same way with the players who joined after me who learned from watching Maple mess up... I mean, nobody else ruined team meetings the way she did
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