OOC chat thread (Participants only pls)

[TreyKincaide]

*Does a happy dance* I just found out a rpg company named Mongoose put out a d20 game based on The Lone Wolf choose your own adventure like books that I treasured in my youth. That's so awesome. I'm usually not quite a fanboy (except about Amber). This is the first time something I'm looking forward to something made into d20.

[Wired*Nun]

Never heard of those. What's the genre?

[LynMars]

Lone Wolf were fantasy choose-your-adventures, but you had an actual character sheet that you retained through and advanced through each book (well, barring that you didn't die. But then you can just go back, like a save point, and try again). Premise, from what I recall, was a character raised by a martial order that's destroyed except for the character, and the adventures you go on after that, including surviving your home's destruction and eventually avenging it, and finding out all sorts of spiffy things about the mysterious past of your character. I think you could be either magic-weilder or fighter type...only went through a couple of books a former roomie had.

[TreyKincaide]

The sight is www.mongoosepublishing.com. They have a lot of information about the series and the genre as well as book previews. The main character in the books was a Kai Lord. The have the class previewed and from what I remember it looks dead on.

[Wired*Nun]

without his knowledge...

hahahahahhhahahahaaa

[TreyKincaide]

Actually, this part made me laugh.

...not here...not nowI wonder if an oppurtunity arose in the future, how that'd go.

((I'm not picking on you Shutter. The sneaky thoughts genuinely amused me as you were implying that you'd be more than happy to in the future.))

[LynMars]

Be nice, Dave. ;)

[Wired*Nun]

That was only meant to imply that there is no way anything within a quarter mile combat-related is without his knowledge when Bleys is armed and ready for combat. :evil:

[LynMars]

Figured...now I'm going to go back to trying to figure out what to post in the much more peaceful Japanese gardens. No beatings here...

[Shutter]

hahahahahhhahahahaaa
More a "without being courteous about it."

[Wired*Nun]

Sorry, man, didn't mean to offend you, it was just a joke. My apologies.

[Wired*Nun]

Lyn, posted the Josh line, did you have a response? Or you waiting for time to pass?

[Shutter]

Ah, the lack of tone in posting....nope, wasn't offended:) Just clarifying that Roland is naive, but not that naive.

Not offended at all.

[Wired*Nun]

hmmm...I'm not getting it...I took "without being courteous about it" as referring to me posting "hahahahahha"

[LynMars]

Lyn, posted the Josh line, did you have a response? Or you waiting for time to pass?
More like, my brain can't come up with anything to reply to it. I keep going back and looking, and just...nada. Maybe just have time pass; I'm really just not able to formulate anything creative for some stupid reason...:disa.ed: Must be worn out from last night...rough game for me.

[Wired*Nun]

Sok, just checking. No need to force anything.

[Wired*Nun]

Hmmm, writing while visualizing is hard!

[Shutter]

hmmm...I'm not getting it...I took "without being courteous about it" as referring to me posting "hahahahahha"
No, that was more what Roland meant when he pondered not attacking Bleys without his knowledge....Sure the man probably would know, but it's not very polite to act on that assumption....Not referring to the laughter:)

Am I being clear yet?...having an off day perhaps.

Nicely done with the fight scenes by the way. I like them.

[Wired*Nun]

thanks, yes, I get it. :∙

[Wired*Nun]

Taking an early night. A shame when so many are on, but I am really tired, had kind of a tearful going-away for some good friends today and I'm wrung out. Nite all.

[TreyKincaide]

G'night =)

[Pygysys]

Night Dave. I really enjoyed reading the fight scenes and am glad you're writing them so I don't have to embarrass myself. :)

[LynMars]

yes; I'm not nearly as good with scenes like that myself; I'm impressed.

And I'm still thinking, but if I haven't come up with anything by the time you come back on, Dave, just go ahead and move me forward. I think my muse has taken a vacation lately...

[Shutter]

Rest well Dave. Good writing today.

[Wired*Nun]

Thanks all, and good morning. You all have been doing a good job as well.

[Thanos]

Good to see you back Chalice. Hope everything went well :-)

[chalice]

Good to see you back Chalice. Hope everything went well :-)

As well as could be expected, considering that my family makes la famille Barimen look like The Waltons...good wine, though :)

I see Gray has been...entertaining...in my absence...

[LynMars]

"Entertaining" is one word for it... :)

Frustrating a certain Trump Artist is another. Why do I feel that Raevyn would have to talk to Grey for a bit longer than usual in order to get enough of her psyche down to make an effective card? And would she want to after that? ;)

[chalice]

Actually, after that dazzling display, I can't think of any reason at all why Raevyn or anyone else would want to waste any of their precious time on Gray...except if either (A) they were just really nice or (B) had thought about just how useful she could be if properly 'handled'...

[Wired*Nun]

Considering Landon's thoughts, does anyone blame Dunstan for strongarming recalcitrant youngers?

[chalice]

I don't believe this.

My character is being psychoanalysed by an Irish Wolfhound. Worryingly well :nod:

[Wired*Nun]

Hey, dogs are smarter than you think. Except one of mine, she's as dumb as dirt. Hey, I should post their pictures. Lesseee....


Kira is on the left. Chloe is the smart one on the right.

[LynMars]

aawww, puppies! :)

[Shutter]

Yep, those are cute little creatures....I searched my work computer for a picture of our cat, but I don't have one. She is however, adorable, small, and tailless. The tail was amputated for some reason shortly before we adopted her, so for the first several weeks she was still regaining a sense of balance. She would occasionaly fall over while walking, it was pathetic and cute at the same time...Now all she has is a little one inch nub, which she wags when she's happy. It grosses most people out at first, but they quickly come to realize that it's adorable...

[Wired*Nun]

Don't they call that manx? Or is that a real breed that has no tail? I could probably look it up on the net but I'm too damn lazy.

aawww, puppies!

Not exactly wolfhounds.

[Shutter]

I think Manx is a breed. Bobbie had her tail injured when she was about a year old, badly enough that it had to be amputated.

[LynMars]

my parents have dachshunds. 3 of them. Crazy little things, and viscious; originally bred to hunt badgers in their dens, my parents' dogs tend to chase just about anything and everything, and are too smart sometimes for their own good. Other times they seem like the dumbest little buggers...

[chalice]

Beltaine, Hecate, Oliver and 'Wulf...

[Wired*Nun]

Nice, I really like Beowulf there. I like those markings.

[chalice]

'Wulf is part Bengal. Shouts a lot.

[Wired*Nun]

I like talkers, too. I had a friend with a similarly marked male named Imp. He was the biggest talker. As soon as you said anything he would start making that "row-row" thing that cats do - but he wouldn't quit. He wanted to join the conversation. We had to put him in another room to be able to chat. Our pekes do that sometimes too, that talky growl that seems like they are trying to say something.

[Shutter]

At night once we've gone to bed Bobbie starts howling trying to figure out where we are...Every night. If we ignore her she wanders through the apartment howling until she finds us, then she'll hop onto the bed and get comfortable. If we call out, or make some noise, she comes running into the bedroom and joins us. You'd think she'd pick up on the pattern, but no. Not the brightest cat in the world.

[LynMars]

our old roomimates have 3 cats, all female. When one goes into heat, she yowls constantly, loudly. She generally gets locked in the bathroom at night during those times, else she sits outside a bedroom door and screams through the night.

The other one just likes to wake up Daddy an hour and half before his alarm goes off by standing next to his ear and "mrow"ing

The 3rd one we finally got mostly past her evil stage, where she visciously rent anyone who came withing paw's reach.

[Wired*Nun]

back in a while, watching a movie with my wife.

[Wired*Nun]

pygysys, more or less waiting for Roland to catch up the timeline. As you said, Kat has reading to do, TGBOA I presume, rather than the other one.

[Pygysys]

Yep, the TGBOA is the one. She's just going to be sitting on her bed or at a desk and reading that sucker and taking notes. :)

If needed, I'll be back in 2 hours from the time of this post. I'm off to my morning lecture.

Adorable pets all. I'll have to post mine eventually. :)

[Shutter]

Heh, slowpoke Roland. But there's just so much interesting stuff to do in Amber :)

[Wired*Nun]

Nite all.

[LynMars]

night Dave; see you tomorrow. :)

[Shutter]

Later on Dave.

[Thanos]

Dave,

I just wanted to say thank you for the gaming experience so far. You work pretty hard to keep all of this going and keeping us interested.

If everybody will give me a little license here....go check all of the rest of the forums on this site....note how many say that there have been posts Today, Yesterday, or some Date.














Hope you got my point that we have a great GM.
Dave KICKS A$$!

[Shutter]

It's also worth noting that no other GM has a forum with this many posts. None. We've been here for a month, I could be mistaken, but I think these forums as a whole have been here a good deal longer....Even if you take into account the fact that some of that is duplicate postage due to Dave backing up the OOC forum, we're still easily in the top ten.

Good job everyone.

...and this had to be the forum I'm trying to archive...yeesh.

[LynMars]

You brought this on yourself, Shutter. ;)

and yeah...I've noticed when I jump on from school, going through the main site...ours is usually easy to find. I think it's cuz we have no lives. Well, I don't.

[Pygysys]

Lives? What are they? The stuffing between playing? Oh that's right, school, jobs and partners. I wondered what they were there for... ;)

[Wired*Nun]

Thanks for the kudos. My problem (FTF) is normally getting the players to make the effort I do. In this game, that problem doesn't seem to exist, thanks to you all for that. If I devoted this much energy to my job, I'd be a General by now. RL just ain't this much fun.

[Wired*Nun]

I won't be on again til ten or eleven hours from now, got a FTF game tonite. Please carry yourselves as far forward as you can or would like to, drop me notes in GM comms about anything you will be doing specific and confidential.

[chalice]

Have fun, Dave!

[LynMars]

looking back over some of the threads...yeah, we're up there; we only beat some because of the backed-up OOC thread, but still, there aren't that many active forums that beat us for number of posts, and we've only been here since July. I think they have a place to archive old games that have ended; if we can find them, we can see what they look like, how big they got and about how long they took.

[Thanos]

Nothing game related, just a little ditty.


Life is just one big sham.
When your toe you slam,
It turns red like a cooked ham,
Who really gives a Damn?

Go to jail don’t pass go,
Time is going just so slow
Finding out your girls a hoe
And you’re the last to know

Doesn’t life just suck?
Like a kick from a buck.
You have run out of luck.
You just don’t give a ____!

[chalice]

My, that was cheery. You OK, Thanos?

[chalice]

It's no good. The first day back at work after my holiday has thoroughly wiped me out. Going to fade...catch you all tomorrow. :sleep:

[TreyKincaide]

Later chalice. G'night.

[Wired*Nun]

How did someone know that the OOC thread (as opposed to something else) had been backed up?

[TreyKincaide]

Hey Dave, how was the FTF (not sure what that stands for) game go?

[Pygysys]

Night Chalice and FTF is 'face to face' aka a tabletop game unless I'm mistaken.

[TreyKincaide]

Ah....I see. Kinda brain dead. Didn't have the best day and purposely not thinking, I guess.

[Pygysys]

Hope you have a better one today ... er tomorrow. :)

[Wired*Nun]

Correct. Blood of Heros, '50s superhero stuff. I did well. I'm playing a walk-thru-walls type 5'0" 92-pound half-Japanese anti-Heroic OSS agent trying desperately to live down the shame of...well, being Nisei in a bigoted America. Vapor (superhero handle) was blackmailed by a mentalist supervillain into trying to steal a bound-demon amulet out of its safe box. The guy blackmailing her was mentally "riding along," and when she went to grab the thing, she found herself in with the demon. The guy mentally with her got to be in there as well...stuck...he tried to trade her to the demon for his freedom. Thinking quickly, she reasoned that just because her body was imprisoned and mind coerced, in this little slice of Hell, they were both equally physical in an illusory sort of way (she was hoping for different rules to apply in this pocket shadow, so to speak) so she karate-chopped the guy in the throat. Here's where diced games can be fun, she rolled super-well and knocked him clean out, and said, "Same deal, different victim, see?" The demon took the deal. Hahahahah. It's good to play an anti-hero. The piece of his mind the demon still has, has him seeing visions of hell and torture, as well as psychosomatically burning his hands to a crisp.

I'm a baaaad girl.

I'm working on Roland's research stuff, offline in a word processor, not sure if I will finish tonight. Better to be good than fast, in this case.

[Thanos]

This is not ment to be mean in any way shape or form to anybody......

Chalice,

"Today has just been peachy keen. [sarcasm drips from the statement]"

Ie, that means that today was rather rough on poor little Thanos :-(

[Wired*Nun]

Chalice,

Today has just been peachy keen. [sarcasm drips from the statement]
I hope this wasn't meant as mean as it sounds...

[Shutter]

How did someone know that the OOC thread (as opposed to something else) had been backed up?
Well, it was the only one you explicitly mentioned, and it's freaking huge so we thought it might disappear leading to a reason to back it up.

[TreyKincaide]

I hope so. Need to start looking for a new job. Fun stuff.

[Wired*Nun]

Oh, ok, shows how alert I am. Was wondering if someone could see my private forum or something.

I'm off, tired. Thanks all, sorry today was thin.

By the way (whistling sound of incoming bombshell) looks like I am going to the desert for 3 months. 90% certain right now, shouldn't be dangerous duty (any more than anyone down there), I should have access to internet (hey, I'm in the Air Force) but who knows how often or for how long. That means that, sometime before September ends, we might be on slow-time for a bit, or even on hiatus. I hope everyone can handle that, if it happens.

Cheers! Nite all.

[Shutter]

Wait, you mean I'll be returning to the real world?

...damn.

[Thanos]

I am half thinking of starting a Vampire or Amber game on this site if I can find some players. No advertising yet though as I am not sure I can commit to something serious like that right now.

[LynMars]

Well, it is the Air Force....so...

*tries not to hyperventilate at the thought of this dying prematurely*

;)

[Icebird]

Just reminded me of something I've wanted to know for a while- what does everyone here think of Bush/America/The war on terror?

[Shutter]

No no no.....Veto. I veto this line of discussion.

No I don't have veto power....

Doesn't matter....please, please please, leave the whole thing out of this and away from here.

[Shutter]

Do it in pms if you really want, no sweat, just please do not make/let me read about what you all think on this matter or any related politics/religion/etc topic.

[Thanos]

I am with Shutter on this one.....I have seen political/religious discussions completely color or rip apart a good game.

If you want to talk to me about it, you know my email address. No need to bring the real world into a game :-)

[LynMars]

It's not a terrible thing to be curious about such matters, and want to know others opinions on it...But most RP communities I've seen do keep politics and religion to private discussions or in specific forums. Such topics tend to engender a lot of passion and no small amount of venom from opposing viewpoints. Feel free to PM any of us, just be prepared...

In lighter news, a friend introduced me to an Italian band called 'Nightwish'; cross Evanescence and Rammstein, and there you go...Good Stuff, I highly suggest it. I have a weird taste in music...country, pop, rock, classical, goth/industrial, little techno, next to no rap...I guess I can be called eclectic...

[Thanos]

LynMars, you sound like me in your tastes but I do like Metal (goth/industrial might not be the same). When I tell people I like Metalica and Garth Brooks in the same sentence, they tend to cock their head and look at me funny ;-)

[Wired*Nun]

Sorry, definitely didn't mean to start any rows. Just letting you all know the facts. I also agree, no political discussions please.

Hey I like Metallica (not Metalica, though) and Al Stewart and George Winton all in the same sentence. Most of us get more eclectic as we move beyond the peer-pressure stage. I just tell people I like what I like.

[LynMars]

I'll probably be able to post as usual today between classes, but later this afternoon I have the last session of the oddball DnD game I've been in for awhile; the concluding epic battle of good vs evil to save all of creation! Fun fun fun...So if the action in our thread gets moved ahead, go ahead and kick Rae to wherever she needs to go, or I can catch up, since what she's been doing is pretty time consuming anyway. :)

[chalice]

Hm, music. Given that this game title came from a song, I looked for songs to inspire character creation - ended up drawn to Charlotte Sometimes (The Cure), and 'Hello' (Evanescence). Result - Gray.

Anyone else associate particular songs with their characters? (We could put them all together and have a campaign soundtrack...) :fun:

[Shutter]

I feel like I jinxed us by mentioning the high volume of posting....oops:nervous:

[Wired*Nun]

It's confirmed, I'll be heading downrange around the 18th or so. After that, I'll have to see. It all depends on where they send me. Some places have permanent internet connections on the work desks; some have them only in public cyber-spots where you have to sign up a half hour at a time. Some have nothing at all, but I suspect I will have some access, just depends on how much. Let's hope for the first setup.

So stick with me people, I will appreciate this game not only for itself but as a relief of either 1) boredom or 2) stress, depending on what my job will be. No word yet on that.

[Wired*Nun]

Landon and Gray can arrive any time.

[Shutter]

How about a phonograph? Crank powered...Could one listen to music in Amber on that?

[chalice]

So stick with me people, I will appreciate this game not only for itself but as a relief of either 1) boredom or 2) stress, depending on what my job will be. No word yet on that.
We'll be here, whichever. Right, folks?

[Icebird]

Absolutly.

[Wired*Nun]

How about a phonograph? Crank powered...Could one listen to music in Amber on that?
Yep, true. Or magical...
We'll be here, whichever. Right, folks?
Thanks! Thank God for the internet.

[Thanos]

Staying the Course is certainly something I am willing to do in such fine company as is present :-)

[Pygysys]

I'm with everyone else. Won't be able to rid me from this game anytime soon, slow posting or not. :)

[Wired*Nun]

Thank you all.

[Shutter]

Shoot Dave, like there was any doubt. 'Course we're sticking with it.

[Wired*Nun]

Bedtime. Sorry about the cliffhanger at Fern Hollow.

[Thanos]

Waiting on Trey to make the first move anyways.... if we are going through, going to hammer him mentally, whatever ;-)

[Wired*Nun]

nite all. early night tonight.

[Thanos]

Good night.....heh, I always miss him by minutes when I get online and start reading stuff.

[Thanos]

Love your post Icebird, absolutely fantabulous!

[Icebird]

I assume you mean to "Yes." one?
I like it too- it's just so thought provoking and fabulous.
Anyways, there's no time in game to ask about trying that trumping stunt, but it seems that he needed to be disarmed soon. I asked Dave, and he said 'maybe' (suprise) momentum carries over between trumps. Hope so...

[Wired*Nun]

Anyone know when we can expect Thanos on?

[chalice]

Anyone know when we can expect Thanos on?
Usually not until early evening UK time.

[Thanos]

RIght now.....:-)

[chalice]

Hurray!

[chalice]

Dave, not to hassle, but can I get a response to some of the stuff in my GM Comms thread before anything kicks off?

[Thanos]

Darn in, he is gone.... I will hop in the shower and check back to see if he came back.....sorry for sleeping in today, I am usually online a half hour earlier.

[chalice]

Back in 30 minutes. (it's 15.55 here right now).

[Thanos]

I am off to work, but I will get online shortly if I can :-)

Yesterday was very busy and today is right before a 3 day weekend so I will likely also be busy. I have left stuff in my GM COMMS for Dave.

[chalice]

I keep missing everybody. Going to try signing on at 30 min intervals - on the hour and the half hour - to see if I can catch the group together...

[Beth]

Hey, this is (my wife) Beth's login, I am setting up for her. Anyone want to make her an avatar? Something like Dana Delaney, red hair. Thanks. It's so that when (if) I am on here from Iraq, she can follow along. -The Nun

[Shutter]

I should know who Dana Delaney is, shouldn't I?

Also, I'm a bit worried that Roland is monopolizing the dinner thread, and that he's not doing a whole hell of a lot...so, let me know if I'm being a pain.

[Wired*Nun]

I will try to get her to pull out a picture she likes, maybe one of me too. Though, maybe I should just stay like my avatar, he's much younger...

As far as monopolizing, just say "we chat like this till dinner then..." or whatever.

[Shutter]

I'm also enjoying your(Flora's) impromptu tutorial on Amber region metaphysics though. Interesting to know how the universe that Roland lives in works.

[Thanos]

I just enjoy Flora ;-)
When I ran a game in college I had a very cute young lady from the Drama department playing Flora as an NPC. I was told that she played the part to the fullest extent and the guy that she was assigned to keep an eye on was exceptionally happy with is 'roleplaying experience'. Highly entertaining situations were always going on in that game. I even got the girl that would NEVER marry to get married to Gerard no less.....course it took a spikard as a wedding ring to get it done, but oh that was much fun!

[Wired*Nun]

Here's us, for your viewing pleasure. Like my painted face? It was the fun fest.

[Shutter]

Did Raevyn or Flora just get kissed on the...cheek?

[Wired*Nun]

Flora. sorry. I'll edit.

[Thanos]

Well done, well done. The Landon Party pulled their asses out of the fire. Now lets see if we can get the info we need ;-)

[Pygysys]

Have I mentioned how grateful I am that Kat's having a nice, quiet evening compared to Landon's mob? :P Only 372 pages to go... or thereabouts.

[Wired*Nun]

nite, all.

[Thanos]

nite Dave, good gaming!!!!

I have Monday Off and I can think of nothing better but to RP with you guys!
That or go watch HERO ;-)

[TreyKincaide]

G'night all.

[Shutter]

Fiancee just took me to see "Hero" for Conorday.
Very cool movie.

[Pygysys]

What's 'Hero'? Haven't heard anything about it here in Oz yet. We're usually 3-6 months behind the US in regards to movie release dates.

[Shutter]

Jet Li movie, came out a couple years ago in China I think, just hit the states. Awesome movie...great fight scenes, great story, excellent acting, visualy stunning....I loved it.

[LynMars]

Drat all! I was going to kick Shutter when he came in here! Something about needing, oh, I dunno, maybe a GM post in that other forum? Maybe? Please?

...okay, yes, I admit it; I just want to move things forward to try and kick Trevor's butt...won't happen, but, y'know...that much closer to killing that darned orc...

And happy Conor Day. Didn't know we were supposed to be celebrating. ;)

[Shutter]

There...I keep getting the feeling I'm forgetting things or people in that thread.

And thanks, it has indeed been an excellent ConorDay:)

[LynMars]

I think it just needs to get people's attention more, but bumping too often can get tedious; people were either doing the same action or unconscious anyway. I tend to shove mine ahead if it's been about a week since anyone updated; I try to send pms reminding them, and if they still don't reply, they get automoved. that tends to get player attention too.

[LynMars]

Isn't Florimel leading Roland back to her office, since Landon's "in the field"?

[Thanos]

I am going to be off for a while, now and for the next 5-6 hours. Going to the gym, get glasses fixed, watch a movie (HERO), etc.

Feel free to have Heldrik participate in the language learning conversation. He will also help Landon with goodcop badcop should the need arrise.

[chalice]

I think we should turn Joakim into a woman, then threaten to send him home. That should persuade him to talk :nod:

[Wired*Nun]

Isn't Florimel leading Roland back to her office, since Landon's "in the field"?
This is what happens when both names have "land" in them and share 5 of 6 letters. Argh.

[LynMars]

We've been out all afternoon with some friends; Trey's taking someone to Abilene this afternoon, won't be back for awhile; then he may go out and see "Hero" with his best bud while we have our girl's night, since there's no party tonight (you have no idea the confusion as to whether or not there was one; what you get for scheduling a party without consulting the house owner's schedule).

[Wired*Nun]

Hey, no problem. We have the rest of our lives to play this game, lol.

[Thanos]

WOOOT
I found that that its not legal in NV to make glasses without a script that is less than 1 year old. I can understand if its medication, but glasses I mean damn, my eyes haven't changed in almost a decade :-P

Anyways, I have an appointment tomorrow and then get glasses, then I can be online....1.5 hours earlier than now, 2100 GMT. The rest of the night I will be in and out.....movie, Bible study, dinner, etc.

[chalice]

Red tape, it's sooooo pretty. Poor you. Have fun in the cellars....

[Pygysys]

I've noticed a common theme for a few of our characters: We don't have time to mourn.

Funny how being Amberites, none of us have looked to skip outside the boundaries and deal with that little issue. :)

[Shutter]

But then you'd have to actualy face your feelings...and that just doesn't sound like fun at all.

[Pygysys]

Also very true and no, I can't imagine it would be. I think Kat would rather another fencing lesson from Bleys than to face her feelings at the moment.

[Wired*Nun]

Nite all, manana.

[Shutter]

Sleep now.
Poor Roland might be way smarter than his player.

[Pygysys]

G'night Shutter. :)

[chalice]

But then you'd have to actualy face your feelings...and that just doesn't sound like fun at all.
Especially when you don't know what your shapeshifting will do to you if you let your emotions have free rein...:paranoid:

[Thanos]

Theres a reason that Heldrik spent time wondering shadow somewhat aimlessly for a few years......realizing that you just lost your dad, but gained a family can be unsettling.

[TreyKincaide]

Later all. I'm off for a bit. That bit might stretch into tomorrow. Dunno yet. I want to go see Hero tonight. Depends on what people are doing and stuff.

[Thanos]

I am off to church now, will be back in 3 hours after lunch to post again if I can. Then an eye check up and possibly new glasses.
THEN, at around 4:30 PST I will be here, till about 7:00, then I go to ST my two friends as 100 year old Sidreal Exalted trying to stop a time hopping Solar ;-), which happens to have been an old character of mine from the game we call "The Abortion Campaign". It was VERY bad and having their new characters kill off the characters from the other one feels very good for all :-)

[Wired*Nun]

I am sure Thanos understood that. I don't. No, don't try to explain, I'll take it on faith.

[chalice]

I think I'd rather just not understand :worry:

[Wired*Nun]

This is what happens when you post a lot in a hurry...but who am I to tell him how to run Landon? Makes for interesting interpersonals anyway.

[LynMars]

out with Trey for a bit...back later...

[Wired*Nun]

OKie, have fun you two, don't do anything we wouldn't. Hm, that may not be effective...

[LynMars]

:paranoid: us? misbehave? Dave, I have NO idea what you're talking about...

:fun:

[chalice]

Did you go see HERO? Was it good?

[LynMars]

not yet; we went to lunch with some friends and discussed a face-to-face 7th Sea game I may run...I love swashbuckling adventure! But not the d20 line of that name. It's 7th Sea roll-and-keep system, darnit!

[Wired*Nun]

nite all.

[chalice]

Sweet dreams, Dave!


Calling it a day myself, soon :tired:

[Thanos]

I am off to never never land, its 3am here and I am fading. Good night.

[TreyKincaide]

Don't mean to hold things up all. I'm in the middle of a really looonggg post.

[Wired*Nun]

He must be doing it offline.

[LynMars]

...funny, I can see his screen and it has him on the page...weird...

Edit: Now it shows him back online. Definately Funky.

Edit 2: I think I'm waiting on the others in mine, since the last question was posed pretty much directly to Roland.

[Wired*Nun]

Dave just caught something...edited...misinterpreted or not, it's real Josh.

[TreyKincaide]

There done. I'm off to soak my fingers in warm water to get the feeling back in them. =)

[chalice]

There done. I'm off to soak my fingers in warm water to get the feeling back in them. =)
Or you could get one of those hand massages from Josh...

[Wired*Nun]

I don't think he was intending to give one to anyone but Raevyn...

[TreyKincaide]

Maybe I could persuade Lici to do it.

Owww...I'm done for awhile I think. This is painful. lol

[Wired*Nun]

I'll be going soon, for about 28 hours. I may or may not get internet access, but when I log off next, presume I won't be on for a while, and go on with things as far as you can yourselves. Josh will do anything reasonable up to and including departing Amber in some rational manner. Ditto for Asmundson and the Orphans. Feel free to do basic things with them, rather than holding things up. If I come back to find any PCs in bed with anyone else, imma wonder about you people...but hey, if it fits...

[LynMars]

If I were playing Karina, or someone like her, you may have to worry, "Dad", but Rae's a good little girl. So's her player. Yep. Pure as the fresh driven slush, that's me...

Trey, Shutter, you be quiet...I hear you laughing...

[Wired*Nun]

The poker players eye each other nervously....who will make the first play....

[TreyKincaide]

Dun. Dun. Dunnnnn.......

I'd rather be the house. It always wins eventually. Or if you're me in RL at the casinos within the first 5 minutes of being there. =)

fresh driven slush, that's me...

I'll not comment. =P

...I hear you laughing...

You should I'm in the same room at the moment. LOL

[chalice]

Yeah...but I can hear you laughing too. And I'm right over here :smiling:

[TreyKincaide]

My voice must carry farther than I thought. My bad. LOL

[Wired*Nun]

OK, that's it, see ya, I'll try to find internet access.

[chalice]

Bleurrrgh - seem to have picked up some icky bug or other at work - going to take my temperature, aches, self-pity, cats and a hot-water bottle off to bed early. :(

[Trey - thanks for the epic post - beautifully done - it's given everyone lots to think about, I bet!]

See you guys tomorrow.

[LynMars]

hope you feel better soon, chalice. :(

[Wired*Nun]

Sorry to hear of the icky-bug. I have made it to the internet direct from Spangdahlem, Germany. Woohoo!

[LynMars]

yay! No evil french keyboards there, I see. ;)

[Wired*Nun]

True. Only, I can only be on for a half hour then have to go to the bottom of the list.

[Shutter]

Well, I think that finds our thread at the stables, waiting on Josh and ready to roll....Pygysys, LynMars, is that how you read it too?

[LynMars]

I think so, but Dave also said to go ahead and move out to Shadow...except I think we're going somewhere Josh suggested, so yeah, waiting on him, I guess...Unless we go to Avalon long enough to pick up Rae's horse, but that'd be silly. So Just waiting on Dave.

[LynMars]

Thanos, may want to disable smilies in your post; the icons are rather distracting in Heldrik's inner monologue there. :)

[Thanos]

It happens whenever you say S*H*I*T....... ;-)

How do you turn off the 'smiles'?


EDIT - Fixed, thanks for the instruction.

[LynMars]

Not if you click on the box that says "Disable smilies in text" Below the "Submit Reply" or "Save Changes" button in the regular reply box, not the Quick Reply.

[Thanos]

I did a move on the post as both Arrotel and Gray had things to say first..... :-) Hope that helps Shutter when he puts it all together ;-)

[Shutter]

Yep Thanos, it will....though, I gotta say, I dread compiliing that thread. It's huge, and you all use a lot of thinking....bah, but it'll be cool to have it compiled:)

[LynMars]

The italics disappeared! ahhh! People have been having a hard enough time seperating thoughts and speech! LOL

[Thanos]

Fixed, thanks.....even if speech is in " " :-)

[Wired*Nun]

Look, I'm an effigy...ready to be burned, I suppose...

[Thanos]

LOL,

I just crested at 500 posts.....I was Spawned by Kyuss because of it... wonder if that is a curse or a boon?

[Wired*Nun]

Informal poll; we could conceivably do advancement about now. I would take into account when everyone started and their game time of play. Obviously the "older" players would get a decent amount while the newer players not so much, but then everyone would be on an even footing, and the soon-to-be new character would start out about evenses. Everyone post their opinion please.

[Wired*Nun]

Wow, that's fastest response ever - I only asked for Tamarind's forum like an hour ago. The forum gods must like me today! Chalice, tell him to send me that test email so I can send back the comments.

[Thanos]

Informal Poll:
I trust your judgement to be fair when it comes to how much effort people have put into things. However you want to do advancement is fine with me.

[Wired*Nun]

Chalice: NM, he already did. Tell him to check his e-mail.

Thanos: I'd like to know whether you want your points now or later please, given that you for example will only get a few.

[Thanos]

Now would be fine then. Get everybody on the same schedule I guess.

[LynMars]

Now works I guess; Trey and I are for it, if you want to go ahead.

[Wired*Nun]

If you are for it, go ahead and update/post your wish lists in your GM comms. This way if that's what we do, it will be all ready.

[Wired*Nun]

Going off soon for the nite.

[Icebird]

Sounds fine to me- I'll do that now.

[Thanos]

Welcome Tamarind!

Hope you enjoy, I certainly am!

[Shutter]

Welcome to the show Tamarind.

Dave: Advancement right now is fine with me. I'll post my preferences when I get them straightened out:)

[Pygysys]

Welcome to our little Amberverse Tamarind. It's a whole lot of fun!

Dave: I'm with the majority, advancement now is cool. Will post my preferences once I figure out what they are. :)

[LynMars]

prefs posted for me; don't know about trey yet. Welcome, Tamarind!

[Tamarind]

Many thanks for the welcome all, I've really enjoyed reading the stories that have developed so far and am definitely looking forward to playing - and graduating from "Unanimated Corpse" too :)

[LynMars]

hmmm...

*wonders what Rebis looks like so she can start cranking out a card. Still have a bit too much free time*:x-eyed:

[Wired*Nun]

I have no idea. Character concept so far has been all about story, no physical description. Male. That's it. I'm gonna hazard a guess and say slim and fair-haired...but that's not at all certain...

[chalice]

Will poke Tamarind and get him to post a description.:P

[Tamarind]

Oww! :P

Ok, ok here it is - I was just working on it honest...

"Rebis is of slight build and stands a little under six feet high. He appears young, perhaps no more than twenty. His complexion is very pale, his lips seeming almost bloodless. Light brown hair falls over his face, partly obscuring pale gray-violet eyes and fine, almost beautful features as he regards the observer with an expression of innocent curiousity, but gazing into those eyes hints at something deeper.

He tends to dress simply in dark greys, the only real colour provided by the myriad facets of an iridescent cloak clasp catching the light as he moves."

[Wired*Nun]

Size? Also, please post a complete description in the character descriptions thread.

[Wired*Nun]

I'm not done with everyone's advancement, BBL.

[LynMars]

More than enough for me to work with; woo! *proceeds to run toward Shinmugen site where all the sprites are*

[LynMars]

*Points to the Contributions forum, does a little dance*

Hope that works for ya, Tam!

[Shutter]

Nice work on that avatar.

Does anyone recall what time of the day Pygysys usualy comes on?
I'd like to hold off on posting until she gets to reply...

[Thanos]

I think it will be about an hour from now.

[Pygysys]

Thanos was right only today I slept in, had a late night last night.

I'm off to a lecture now but will be back about 2 hours from the time this was posted. Only got the one lecture this morning.

Anyway got to catch you online Shutter, so I can discuss my evil plan with you. ;)

[Shutter]

An evil plan? What fun...:evil:

[Wired*Nun]

I'm here whenever someone needs me, prompt me in OOC or comms if I'm needed for some reason.

[LynMars]

Anyway got to catch you online Shutter, so I can discuss my evil plan with you. ;)
I'm scared... :paranoid:

[Wired*Nun]

Nite all. Onward and upward!

[Shutter]

Night Dave. Hopefully roland and Kat will spar soon if you're interested in writing it up...but since I'm thinking they plan to have at it for at least a good hour or so, that might be a bit much:)

[LynMars]

Night, Dave! I replied to Concept and Comms, in case you didn't see and wanted to look; nothing major. And I'll have yet another card done in...less than five minutes, since I can't think of any other tweaking I can really do to it.

[Pygysys]

Oh yes, it is so evil and cunning too... And I jest. :P

If it comes about though, it should prove ... entertaining if nothing else.

[Shutter]

Apologies for the lameness of my last post, but it's late, and I'm tired. G'night all. Pygysys, feel free to maneuver Roland into some sparring, or conversation, whatever you like...if sparring we can do some bidding when I get back online in...8 hours.

[Pygysys]

It's okay Shutter, cause I'm doing the same right now. Been entertaining friends and playing the shonkiest game of Trivial Pursuit in the history of ... well, Trivial Pursuit!

Looking forward to the bidding when we're both online next. It'll be fun to see just matched our PC's are or are not. ;)

[Wired*Nun]

Translate "shonkiest" for us yanks, will you?

[Shutter]

Wow, our GM is a ragewind....I don't know what that is but it's pretty damned cool sounding.

[Tamarind]

Nor do I but it looks pretty scary from down here :paranoid:

*Tiny Skeleton looks up nervously from its lowly vantage point*

[Shutter]

Fear not tiny skeleton. You'll be looking for brains to eat in no time. :)

[LynMars]

Isn't it? Ragewind sounds cool...

So Roland and Josh get to spar first? This should be interesting...And I am working on trying to make the hair in that newest card shorter...it's looking okay so far, but I won't be able to mess more with it until I get home this afternoon.

I was going to say something else, but don't remember. And um, Shutter, may want to proof read your IC post there...last sentence some words got jumbled a bit...

[Shutter]

What? Substantial doesn't have an "r" in it?
;)

[LynMars]

I don't think so... :)

[Wired*Nun]

I'm off to Spang again right now. I should be there in 3-4 hours, insh'allah, and will try to use the public machines again. See you all there, virtually speaking.

[Shutter]

You're off to where? Darned American geography education...

[Shutter]

And behold, Shutter pokes his head a couple inches out of his shell to post a short story.

[chalice]

Mmm, liked the story.

Deserting you all early again tonight, I'm afraid - ickyness still much in evidence:cry:

[Shutter]

Thanks Chalice...Hope you feel better soon...

[Wired*Nun]

Spangdahlem, like a couple nights ago. An Air Force base in northern Germany, which provides support to all us Air Force types who don't live and work on American bases in the area (I am a NATO guy right now.) I have to re-qual on my personal weapons, since I haven't fired a round in years.

[Wired*Nun]

Darn, now we're waiting on Kat. Well, I'm off to bed, don't want to shoot anyone I'm not supposed to tomorrow due to lack of sleep.

[Thanos]

I did a slight edit to that post to correct some spelling/grammer mistakes. Sorry about that. :-( I always end up hurrying at the end of the day to get suff in before the ST goes to bed, but never make it. Heh....

[Thanos]

I like your post Icebird! Snowball fights are FUN!

[Icebird]

I know they are- no pattern powers allowed!

[LynMars]

then no trump stuff! or sorcery or shapeshifting! you guys gotta just hit each other!

Bout time y'all had some fun...

;)

[Tamarind]

Indeed, a clean snowball fight please people!

Though I'm not sure using Telloth as a forward observer is really in keeping with that ideal - but it's definitely fun :smiling:

[Shutter]

I just re-learned that trying to write three lines of a sword fight is very hard. Dave, I'm thoroughly impressed by the work you've done so far for our sparring matches. Thanks for the effort!

Edit: Holy Crap, I'm a spectre!

[Tamarind]

Very much enjoyed your story Roland, thanks for sharing it with us.

[Pygysys]

For the Yanks: Shonkiest as in dodgiest? As in there's just something not right about that, there's got to be a whole lot of underhanded stuff going on but I'm not sure where...

[Shutter]

If you were in NewYork you might be allowed to say "hinky" and mean that...I think...or is that just on tv?

[LynMars]

See, that I understand... :)

[Thanos]

And I am still sitting here confused....? :-P

[Shutter]

Sketchy? Questionable? Unsavory?....things like that.