[LFG / LFP] Looking for GUMSHOE games/players, Night's Black Agents, Esoterrorists, Trail of Cthulhu, to GM or play, UK/EU

I'm looking to play Trail of Cthulhu and other GUMSHOE games online, especially Night's Black Agents and Esoterrorists. Eager to play but happy to GM. I'm stuck in Budapest right now, so prefer UK/EU timezones, but could try working with US.

I'd like to give GUMSHOE a go as well as a player. (I am already GMing as much as I currently have the capacity to.) The best time for me would be Sat EU early-ish evening time.

I would be interested in Gumshoe as well I am in the UK. 

Sounds good - and I'm happy to work with a small group if it comes to that. What's everyone's game preference? I'm partial to Esoterrorists with a strong dash of NBA, but happy to go with mainstream Trail of Cthulhu. 

I am a little burnt out on the Mythos, tbh. I'd prefer Esoterrorists as well. Or, I dunno, Ashen Stars or Timewatch or something.

My preference would be Trail of Cthulhu or at stretch Esoterrorists

I'll plump for Esoterrorists with a very loose/open framework for weird/supernatural menaces and the campaign background. (I hit Mythos burnout too, which is why I want to try something different.) I'm thinking of UK/global campaign setting, with a strong conspiracy element, but no Elder Gods. Player-character backgrounds (whether or not still active) could fall into the following broad groups - though go ahead and argue your own if you have a strong preference, or want something more exotic: Domestic police/security (Met, Special Branch, MI5, GCHQ, etc) International security (Interpol, MI6, NATO Joint Intelligence, etc) Freelancer/burned ex-operative/underworld (ex-spy, criminal, etc) Investigative professional/asset/friendly (journalist, scientist, forensic specialist, etc) When is a good time to play? I'm pretty open, so go ahead and let me know.

Have you settled on a day, time and frequency?

Let me know what days and times work for you all, and I'll see what fits. As said, I'm pretty open, but I don't expect everyone else to be.

Megazver mentioned Saturday but for me  that would depend on time and/or frequency I may have something else on Sat.at 4:00pm

I could do Mon-Thu evenings. Might actually be even better.

I could do Thursday

Thursday evening sounds like a go then, for around 2 hours - what's a good kickoff time? 8pm UK time? And everyone happy to work on here? I can also do Skype or Hangouts. 

I'm in Eastern Europe, so that's rather late for me. Two hours earlier (8PM GMT+3) is as late as I can go, start-wise. In terms of audio, Roll20 audio has functioned pretty dismally in the games I've been in that tried using it. I'd suggest Discord, it's powerful, it works well and (almost) everyone's already using it. Also, now that we more or less agreed on the system and the time, perhaps we should create a recruitment post in the LFG directory with a week or two of time before the first session to put this in front of more eyes of prospective players? And maybe crosspost it to Reddit's /r/lfg?

With only 3 people using the Roll20 should be ok although anytime I have attempted to use it with people in Eastern Europe it has failed. I would prefer Skype because discord decides to freeze  my PC every 30 minutes or so.

I propose 7pm UK to start - exceptionally, 6.30pm. Any earlier seems pushing it. For initial setup I'll use Roll20, and if we have functional issues on the day, we can switch to Skype. (I'm not used to Discord either.)&nbsp; I'm uploading an Excel spreadsheet for character creation there. You get 24 build points to divide between all Investigative Abilities, and 65 points to divide between all General Abilities, with 1 free point each in Stability, Health and Network. (Network is a more limited version of the same General Ability in NBA.) Those 3 are capped at 12 points. Career Investigative Abilities get you 2 points for each build point spent. You can choose a career type with Abilities list from the Ordo Veritatis Recruitment Handbook, for free here:&nbsp; <a href="http://site.pelgranepress.com/index.php/free-esoterrorists-downloads/" rel="nofollow">http://site.pelgranepress.com/index.php/free-esoterrorists-downloads/</a>. &nbsp;- or just ask me if you want a career that's not on the list. Anything else, just ask!

Do we want to maybe try to get one more person? I think the group dynamics would work better and I believe the build point total would change. (Also, I kinda need a week to read up on the rules.)

Definitely would like to get one more - now posted an LFG recruitment post, so we'll see what comes up. If you need to take a week before kickoff, that's fine.