Storyteller Expectations

Hello,
Welcome to Emerald City Nights. As an online Chronicle, I want to make things very clear; real life comes first. I am a retired U.S. Air Force veteran and my current job at Boeing requires me to work full time, Monday through Friday for eight hours a day. I have a wife and four fucking kids that all don't care one bit that I have taken this endeavor to tell you fine people a story about Vampires. What this means is my time is precious and often monopolized by my Wife and her interests for me to take care of the family first. However! I am excited to begin this journey with all of you and am ready to start the Chronicle.

This is as much hobby for me as it is for you, and I am not perfect. I'll make bad calls, get mechanics confused between past editions or other Chronicle's house rules I have played in. The one thing that I ask is for you to please be patient with me. If you think a call I made is inappropriate or I might have misinterpreted the mechanics, lets talk about it away from the scene. This book isn't known for being clear or concise half the time.

My expectations for this online Chronicle is that the Players will push the majority of the story for me. Through the cunning use of monthly Downtime Action Requests, I can push the story from behind the scenes. Getting these answers to you in a timely fashion will be the priority so you can in turn put them out in the setting and share them with the rest of the community. I want the focus to be on the Players and their characters. Downtime Action Requests are meant to be motivations and actions that don't take the spotlight. The focus should be your interactions between other Players and their Characters.

With that in mind, I will be running storyteller scenes whenever I feel like it and scene Requests are perfectly acceptable. If I am needed for someone's assassination or a quick call on something important to you; send me a Discord Private Message if the answer can wait or tag me on Discord with "@storyteller" if you need an answer quickly. If I can answer, I or my Storytellers will do so at our earliest convenience.

I put this out there because I know Online Chronicles can be rough for not only scheduling, but regular scenes and even appearances. I will be determined to conduct XP Requests on the 1st and 15th of every month. (A lot of times these happen faster..) I will answer Downtime Action Requests as they come in when possible, but no later than a month from when they were posted first.

I appreciate the interest in our Jyhad by Night series of Vampire Chronicles, and look forward to seeing you in the game!