OOC chat thread (Participants only pls)

[Pygysys]

But all in a good way. When a whole bunch of friends get together and play a game but everyone plays in a dubious manner and cheats if they can get away with it.

[Icebird]

Come on, someone throw a snowball back, and someone else join Arrotel in the fort, or he'll have to take you all on! Telloth isn't fragile- he hit the ground at a hundred MPH and shook it off- your snowballs can't hurt him. Maybe Gerard's snowballs, but not yours.
I just noticed- Arrotel hasn't yet filled anyone in on his past yet. He's not hiding anything, it's just that no-one has asked, and there never really was a good time to do so.

[Shutter]

Dave, as far as I can tell that last post of mine wrapped up the scene. Shall we move ourselves to dinner, or let Josh tell us it's time? Or will something unnexpected occur and we'll suddenly all be running for our lives?

[chalice]

I just noticed- Arrotel hasn't yet filled anyone in on his past yet. He's not hiding anything, it's just that no-one has asked, and there never really was a good time to do so.
Hey - you can tell us all after the snowball romp, over hot chocolate and marshmallows! :P

[Icebird]

That was my thought. I need to confer with Dave over exactly what the trump connection can do- It is very usefull, but I'm wondering whether Arrotel can speak through it, and can he pull other people with him in one direction or other.

[Icebird]

I'm debating- should Arrotel pull Benadict through (assuming he's not too busy). Sometimes it helps to have the universe's best snowball fighter for a father. :cool:

[LynMars]

I think that would count as an unfair advantage!LOL

[chalice]

Yeah. Wimp!

[chalice]

Character info for Gray expanded to include 'known forms' - with pics:nod:

[Wired*Nun]

I'm debating- should Arrotel pull Benadict through (assuming he's not too busy). Sometimes it helps to have the universe's best snowball fighter for a father. :cool:
You'd think you could spell your own dad's name! :roll:

Do please post public knowledge for Arrotel.

[Thanos]

Chalice I recognize the wolf pick from somewhere, I just can't place it. Where did you pull it from?

[Shutter]

I'll be gone for the next 24 hours or so.
Have a good weekend everyone:)

[chalice]

Chalice I recognize the wolf pick from somewhere, I just can't place it. Where did you pull it from?
It's from Wolf's Rain. (Anime.)

[Wired*Nun]

Back later!

[LynMars]

oy....went drinking last night...I don't normally drink as much as I did, and am paying for it today. Trey and I will eventually post something; he somehow managed to get up and go to lunch. I think I'll stick to toast and water for now. ugh...:tired:

[Wired*Nun]

You guys should really stop that. :tsk: I do it about once a year, if that. That's enough to remind me why not to do it. Tomato juice (well, V8 if you can get it) is really good, too, and remember, most of what you are feeling is dehydration and B vitamin depletion. Drink nonalcoholic things to recover. :KO:

Check my post in the fiction forum.

[LynMars]

See, I don't normally drink...at the most, sipping on one smirnoff for an entire evening...that's only the second time I've gotten really toasty, and this is the worst I've ever been...tomato soup sounds like a great idea though...

keen...Roger Zelazny stories....have to look more into it when I'm not doubled over...

[Icebird]

Standing up he stakes almost like Arthur to get Probably meant shakes. First time I've caught someone other than myself's spelling mistake before it was corrected.

If you want Arrotel to tell his history, someone had better prompt him. He'll never start talking about himself otherwise

[chalice]

If you want Arrotel to tell his history, someone had better prompt him. He'll never start talking about himself otherwiseOK - prompt duly supplied by Gray. Now tell!

[Wired*Nun]

BTW, anyone IC saying "Kat" instead of "Katarzyna" is more about my inability to type than it is about some kind of insult or demeaning diminutive. I've edited it, because it's not Josh, it's me.

[Wired*Nun]

The game is afoot...

[Thanos]

Yes, yes it is.

It is going to be a wild ride going forward I think.

[Wired*Nun]

off for a bit, BBL

[Shutter]

Somehow I think that Roland and his player just missed a reference that perhaps they should have understood...

[Wired*Nun]

just punch in the quote to an internet search...the implication is, before you kill, you are young, but nevermore after...

[LynMars]

Anybody else notice that when they hit 666 posts they become a Lucifer? Scary...

...And when you go to 667 you go back to being a Wraith? Now that's just...something...

[Thanos]

Erm.... I have just been mind frelled (and likely financially screwed) by a $1800 ticket I just got.

Heldrik will walk along and do his duty by Arrotel, which will likely mean he will insist on going with him anywhere and will search for him if he disappears.

Otherwise I think that I will be taking a 24 break as I am totally bonkers.

[Shutter]

$1800? My mind boggles at such a ticket, you have my sympathies Thanos. Hope that things work out ok for you.

[Shutter]

I'm sorry for not having the patience to go digging through all the archives right now...Did Raevyn ever tell everyone, including Roland, about the mysterious gentleman on the balconey before the assasination? I can't recall Roland ever hearing about it...So correct me if I'm wrong on that one.

[LynMars]

She mentioned it quickly right after Roland pulled her and unconscious Heldrik through the Trump, but it was right at the height of all that excitement, and she didn't say much. I haven't let it far from my mind, don't worry. :)

And sorry for lack of Trey posts this weekend; long, full couple of days. He'll likely get back on Monday morning again.

[Icebird]

Whaen did Heldrik get this duty to Arrotel? I never heard about it (or did, and quickly forgot).
Also, my sympathies for the ticket. What is it for, and how did it get that big?

[LynMars]

Not attempting a Trump; there wasn't any interaction for that. And funnily, I was intending to do something like this before Shutter even mentioned it; out of my head, you! :)

[Wired*Nun]

Looks like things will be moving slowly for the Agraynel party, et. al. Ice posts once or twice a day, Trey and Thanos are out for a day (what in the world gets one an $1800 ticket? In the US? Normally if the fine is that high it's not just a ticket...what's the story, morning glory? Drag racing? You have my sympathies...).

[Thanos]

If your insurance lapses, even for a day, your registration on your car is toasted immediatly. That happened today. When do I get pulled over, for no appearent reason, was not speeding or anything...but today. So 732 for no insurence. 1132 for not having a registered vehicle. I also hear that there is a $250 fine to reregister your vehicle, besides the normal $160+smog check to get it back into 'legal' condition. My brother had that happen to him last month.....vast left wing conspiracy I tell you!

I feel fleeced. However, I should have taken care of the insurence Sept 1st :-P. It just seems real strange that I got pulled over for nothing....just to get that kind of crap pulled on me.

EH! I will see what I can do. If the judge is a nice guy, yeah not likely, he will let me off with paying the $250 to get the vehicle reregistered. I am not sure if I can get the insurence part of it taken care of, but I am doubting it.

Just remember, Nevada may not have a state income tax, BUT its the rest of the things that pull you down.

[Wired*Nun]

Yeow. I'd try to get a better insurance company, one that gives you good reminders...then set it up to autopay from your bank account...

[LynMars]

*Hugs her USAA account* No problems here. They want to give me money now that my car's payed off.

That sucks, dude. I'm really sorry; you'll get it straightened out. Just showing up to court half the time helps--often the cops are too busy to make the dates, so whatever he claims to have pulled you over for might be dropped, at least. Just stay calm and rational. :)

[Pygysys]

Sympathies Thanos, I hope it turns out okay. I'm boggling that such a thing can even occur. We have fines/penalties and the like for such things here but I don't think they're that steep.

And for Icebird: If you want to know about Heldrik's duty, read up on the conversation between Heldrik and Kat in Amber. Arrotel doesn't know about it because he wasn't told about it. Heldrik's doing it as a favour to Kat.

[Shutter]

Lynmars: Out of my head, you!But it's all warm and squishy in here...

[chalice]

Bah! I get a rare afternoon off work, and what happens? Everyone in my thread either goes offline for a day or 'wants to be alone' :disa.ed:

Ah well, luckily I picked a wealth of sloes on the way home and can spend the time starting this year's sloe gin instead!

Commiserations, Thanos - what a nightmare! - hope things get sorted out for you.

[Shutter]

Hmmm.....

What's a sloe?

[chalice]

The berry of the Blackthorn (actually a kind of wild plum), that ripens around this time of year (after the first frost). A few months in gin with plenty of sugar, and it makes a gorgeous dark-crimson-y-purple liqueur. Mine is usually fit to drink around Christmas if I get it going now.The berry juice can also be used for a strong red dye, and (I understand) an ink.

[The berry is a wonderful blue-black colour - hence 'sloe-eyed' = 'dark-eyed']

[LynMars]

But it's all warm and squishy in here...
You know, I keep many other characters in my brain. Like Karina. You really wanna be in there with her? I don't think your fiance would forgive either of us...:paranoid: I mean, really; I have enough problems keeping Trey out; boy knows me too well.

[Wired*Nun]

That's a pretty comical mind-picture I have, Landon picking up this huge wolfhound with one hand like a puppy and carrying him to the top of the carriage. He could jump just fine, you know.

[Shutter]

LynMars: I have that problem with my fiancee too, I rarely need to actualy speak at home, she usualy knows what I'm going to say before I do. The huge downside of this is that when I try to talk to other people, I realize I'm not very good at it anymore. A little embarassing it is.

[Wired*Nun]

off for a bit...

[chalice]

That's a pretty comical mind-picture I have, Landon picking up this huge wolfhound with one hand like a puppy and carrying him to the top of the carriage.

Awwww...ickle Arfur:ditsy:

[Wired*Nun]

Lyn, feel free to jump in if you want. I'm just taking the opportunity while I have it.

[Shutter]

Oops. Simul-post.

Edit:And behold, the issue has been resolved.

[Tamarind]

Chalice is stuck waiting for a train at the mo so won't be able to post for an hour or two, meantime if the group goes through then Gray will go with them - sticking close to Heldrik for preference

[Shutter]

I've been poking my brain with a stick to try and remember who Tamarind is...You're a friend of Chalice's I take it?

[Tamarind]

I've been poking my brain with a stick to try and remember who Tamarind is...Does that help? :fun:

You're a friend of Chalice's I take it?Yes, we're partners - she introduced me to this rather fine game a while back and I've become completely hooked...

[Shutter]

Does that help? :fun:
More often than you might think. I usualy find that poking it, then dousing it with coffee is the best approach....speaking of coffee. <wanders of to start some Brew>

[Icebird]

Waiting for Landon to respond to the trump (one way or another)...

As for poking brains, Spectres ar incorprial- they don't have brains to poke!

[LynMars]

Trey's having a week; I'll try to get him to post a bit, but he's having a dry spell when it comes to posts lately. His brain needs a recharge; happens when your major deals with computer programming and you're looking for a new job.

[Shutter]

Jobs and computer programming....neither of them a concept that makes me happy. He has my sympathy.

Wait....I'm sitting here at work...on a computer...working on a program I wrote....damnit...

[Wired*Nun]

I'm out early tonite, all, they pumped me full of vaccines today, I don't feel all that well. Laterz.

[Tamarind]

Goodnight Dave - hope feel better soon

[Wired*Nun]

Sorry if I was stringing anyone on, I left the comp up when we went to church, then watched a Highlander episode...I'm back now tho.

[LynMars]

I likes Highlander...Methos is by far my favorite character. Watch Peter Wingfield's commentary sometime about the first episode he was ever in. It's rather amusing.

Now...How to reply to that last Josh post...besides the requisite blushing...

[Thanos]

Highlander RULES!
Methos RULES!

WOOOO WOOOO!

ok, ok, yes, I have the 4th and 5th seasons on Video and I am tempted to pick up the first 3 on DVD. Cool posters with the video's back in the day though!
The 4 Horsemen episodes were among the very best ;-)

[LynMars]

Season 1 on video, 2-3 on dvd; borrowed 4 from a freind; need more!

Still trying to think of a post...

[chalice]

Looks like our group is still stranded, so I'm calling it an early night :depry: :sleep: . See you guys tomorrow!

[Wired*Nun]

OK, nite all, I'm out too.

[Thanos]

Some background Trivia for Highlander.

Clan MacLaud (or the real life equivalent since there are plenty of different ways to spell the name) was one of the biggest clans in Scottland. One of the reasons it was able to keep dominance was due to several alliances that it had made. Once of which has bearing on this.

The castle on the shores of Locksheel (or however you spell the name of that lake) was owned by Clan MacLaud, but the people who lived there and defended it was a small allied clan named MacLennon. The reason I tell you this at all is that I am a descendent of Clan MacLennon and my father and I think that the movie should have been about Conner MacLennon since during that time period that clan lived and defended that castle ;-)

[Wired*Nun]

Well, someone decided to have a domestic disturbance in the house behind ours, so we had the fun of calling the police and now we're up again. Ah well, c'est la vie. At least SpongeBob is on.

[chalice]

Poor you - did you manage to get any sleep?

[Wired*Nun]

Naw. I'll get all the sleep I need when I'm dead.

[Wired*Nun]

I posted a new story: One Man, One Blade. Hope you like it.

[Shutter]

You have my sympathies on the neighbors there Dave. The house behind us used to have several late 20s single people living in it. All big partiers, all very loud. We thought the parties were bad. One night though one of the tenants there went fairly insane around 3am. She was in the back yard shrieking obscenities and slamming the back door repeatedly. Really colorfully disturbing obscenities, very loud door slamming. This went on for half an hour or so, then, two minutes before the cops drove past, she stopped. Twenty minutes later she was back at it...the scene repeated itself for the next couple of hours. We didn't sleep well that night...She's gone now though and we sleep quite well....Except for that stupid alarm that goes off in the room every morning...that always troubles my sleep:P

[Wired*Nun]

Heh. Sleep...

[Shutter]

So, when Dave copies over the OOC thread, do all of our post counts get surreptisiously boosted? Or have I really posted as much over here in a month or two as I have in a year in the other forum I play in? Yikes:o

[LynMars]

I know...it took me two years to get over a thousand posts on the Nice. Here, I'm more than halfway there in just 2 months.

Speaking of the Nice... *waves a spoon menacingly in Shutter's general direction*

[Wired*Nun]

Probably counts as well as posts, it doesn't differentiate between copies.

[Wired*Nun]

Just something that occurred to me, there's nothing wrong from my POV if you guys end up splitting up somehow differently than you are now. While Random formed up the teams, it's well understood around Amber that Family has a lot of discretion to do what they need to do, as long as it furthers the intent of the mission. If ICly you think someone would go off on his or her own, or two or three, whatever, it's fine. No pressure, just thought I'd correct anyone's misconception if they thought the GM wanted you all to stay in those groups. One of the beauties of Amber is that it's easy to coordinate disparate and separate groups, because of flexible time, Trumps, etc.

I'm flying out on Sunday afternoon, my time, to Naples for three days or so. Then on into the desert. So, plan for the 23rd or so to be the last semi-certain day that I will be able to get on. After that, if all goes well, there will be a couple of days break to get organized then I will locate some kind of internet access. Worst-case scenario, it might take me a week, and I might not be allowed enough time to post much. We shall have to see. Hopefully the worst that will happen is things slow down. If there is an option, I will volunteer for the night shift, as that's usually a great time to get on without distractions, at least, in exercises, which is the closest I have been until now to a war footing.

[LynMars]

Day after my birthday...Just be safe, Dave. We do okay moving conversation forward on our own often enough, at least; I'm sure we'll be able to entertain ourselves if you aren't around. :)

[Wired*Nun]

Day after my birthday...Just be safe, Dave. We do okay moving conversation forward on our own often enough, at least; I'm sure we'll be able to entertain ourselves if you aren't around. :)
Oh, that's heartening...:cry: waaah.

[Icebird]

Agreed- stay safe as best you can.
I'm going to be gone this weekend also.

[chalice]

You take care of yourself, Dave. Will be thinking of you while you're away.

[Wired*Nun]

Thanks. I'm really not worried, I think others are more worried that I am. I mean, really, these Belgian roads have taken me close to death many times, what're a few bullets and mortars?

[Shutter]

Heh, that's the attitude:) Good luck Dave, take care of yourself.

[Wired*Nun]

Thanks to all. Lets keep going, I have some exciting things in store for you all...

[LynMars]

Yay! Like, burning off Heldrik's foot, apparently? That's gonna leave a mark...

[Wired*Nun]

Hey, Amberites heal fast...

[Thanos]

So much for getting a look at one of them up close ;-)

[chalice]

Oh, I think you got a pretty close look...

[Thanos]

Heh, I mean with Pattern Sign ;-)

[Shutter]

Excitement? What? Damn....I was going to have Roland take up knitting...

[Wired*Nun]

I'm kinda waiting on the Roland party to finish breakfast and continue, are you waiting on pygysis?

[Thanos]

Dave,

I am going to ask you to edit your post to something like the following if you don't mind.
___________
Heldrik seems dazed, but shaking him brings him out of it pretty much. He looks right at Gray’s face with wide eyes and says,
"Holly, what doest thou……" and then notices the Maze and Asmondson and Arrotel coming his direction at a quick pace.

"Ahhhouch", he says and bends down to start pull his boot off, which takes a moment cause it’s a knee high. Off balance he lands on his butt, but does get his boot off quickly.

[Asmondson's spell stuff and the rest here]
At Asmondson's suggestion he gets the sword under control and keeps it from hurting anybody. "Heh, enchanted might describe it, yes."

[Wired*Nun]

Hey, I'd rather edit mine than you delete yours.

[Shutter]

Yes, I was...but I'm pretty sure we can deal with the handoff now, and finish breakfast in flashback?

Also worth noting, I'll be leaving in a couple of hours and won't be back for at least 48.

[Thanos]

Sorry.....I sometimes have issues at work that do not allow me to finish a thought before the enter button gets accidentally hit :-P.

[Wired*Nun]

Just make it the way you want it, thanos.

[Thanos]

It looks good now. Sorry, but I really had to get one part of that in there ;-)

[Thanos]

A question for everybody.

Trump Cell Phones.
Instead of a trump calling a person it calls an object and opens a connection to that object. The object would have to be magical and trump powered or something, but it could show a picture of the person calling and magicly vibrate or ring or whatever. No need to accept the call or block the call, just live with the ringing ;-).

Also keeps you from having to make direct psych contact of course.

[Wired*Nun]

Yes, but Trumps don''t convey sound. Heck, someone could always research it...

[Thanos]

Ok, second odd idea for the day…..last hour I had 3 calls, vs the previous hour where I had 14 :-P
This is from a previous set of posts about constructs and spikards…
Accepting that Dave says that Spikards power would have been destroyed when the Pattern was created, reshaping all of shadow. What if the Spikards were artifacts, not like Pattern Blades or Ghostwheel which are based on a power or two. What if they were just objects made of primal matter, like the place that Merlin ended up in Shadow Knights.
Being of primal material would allow them to survive shadow storms. However, that would of course not help with their sources of magic. My theory on this is that each Spikard has a near limitless ability to connect mysticly to power sources that are less than primal. Whether that is a lobotomized god or an artifact with racked spells out in shadow one just needs find such a thing and perform the right ritual to connect them and the Spikard allows access to it across shadows. This is like trump, but it is more primal and the Spikard can open and close the connections allowing limited contact.
Merlin said it was like a spell processor, I think, so some kind of limited personality and logic thinking process is likely engrained into it. Manipulation this personality could place a compulsion through its addictive power structure (ala Dara and Mondor).

Perhaps the Spikard is a trapped primal being, like a Unicorn, trying to influence people and beings into making a new primal power based on them? Funky huh! Dworkin figured out how to free one and now look what happened ;-)

[Wired*Nun]

Possible, but why nine? And there aren't referred to as being materially different - would they all be accessing the same power sources? I think Zelazny, when he wrote it, was fascinated by the emerging computing industry (Gohostweheel and the spikards are both kind of computers) and wanted to work some of it in.

[LynMars]

I think "The Salesman's Tale" placed the number at 13, and claimed Werewindle and Greyswandir were among their number. I don't like the spikards, personally; many of the concepts in Merlin's Chronicle I've seriously altered for my own campaigns. They work for a story where the writer controls everything; not often for a player group, but that's just me.

[LynMars]

Trey wanted me to let everyone know that with school and having to find a new job, not to mention he's been feeling under the weather lately, he won't be playing for awhile. Nothing major, and he may be back sometime, but right now, life's a little much for him right now. I've talked to Dave about it all ready at Trey's request (funny that you asked me about it the same day he asked me to drop you a note, actually). Hopefully he'll be back soon. Sorry for any inconvenience this causes.

[chalice]

Lyn, please give Trey my best wishes for things to improve soon. Life ambushes us all from time to time :cry:

[Wired*Nun]

I have a few hours then to think up some device to painlessly separate Landon from the rest. Back in a bit.

And yes, tell him, this too shall pass.

[Wired*Nun]

I am departing in about two hours, this will probably be my last post for a while. I may be able to do one more. If the Gray/Heldrik/Arrotel group wants to get with the other group to confer or something, Josh will let them in, that may soak up some RPing time. Otherwise I'm sure Arrotel has some trumps for Elders, at least Benedict's, can't remember if we said anything about that before.

Here's hoping it's not a 3-month break!

Take care all.

[Tamarind]

Take care all.
And you Dave :)

[chalice]

All the best, Dave. E-hugs, and all that. We'll be here whenever you can get in touch again.

[LynMars]

*Hugs Dave* Take care. See you, hopefully soon. :)

[Pygysys]

Be good and safe, Dave!

[chalice]

Be good and safe, Dave!
But if you can't manage both, opt for safe ;)

[Thanos]

->agrees with Chalice.

God Bless.

[Shutter]

Tell Trey to feel better. Hopefully he can come back soon, it'd be a shame to have another death to avenge:)

In other news, I'm back....Any sign of Dave yet? Or is he still en route?

...re-reads the previous posts...Ah...he just left. Take care Dave, hope to have you back soon.

[Thanos]

There are a couple of options here I guess. These are all ideas and suggestions for life without Dave being on very much, if at all (and hoping that our beloved GM makes it back 100%).

The Landon group is going to have to at least report in. I don't know what Trumps Arrotel has, but if he has some of Amber or any Elder known to be there, that is the best bet for our group. The second and third options involve Heldrik and some shadow pockets or Hellriding, neither is 100% safe, but viable options.

As I see it the Roland group is wanting to contact the Landon group, but they wont be able to get ahold of Landon. The only other person they should have a trump of perhaps is Arrotel, as both Heldrik and Gray had not had enough time for an imprint. I am not sure if Shutters character had enough time while Heldrik was strapped down. It doesn't matter much because Heldrik wont answer a trump call, which I have stated before OOCly. Thus that leaves Arrotel as the only option because I am very sure that nobody in the other group had enough time for a trump of Gray.

Erm...moving forward, without Dave, I think we can do the following and keep the game continuity well in hand:
1) Get the Landon group to Amber and reports and gets sent to Josh's shadow or have Arrotel get trumped and pull us through to Josh's shadown, where we can contact Flora and give her an update as to her son and what we have found out so far.
2) After that sit tight (ie talk amongst ourselves for a while) while the Elders digest this new news.
3) Landon's group got nowhere finding Siodmak IMO, but we did get some niffty cool special effects dealing with the Maze, broken trumps, etc. Going forward with both groups together might be an option. There will certainly be a lot of people to bounce things off of.

Other ideas, comments, suggestions, telling Thanos to go suck on a lemon?

[LynMars]

You did get somewhere in learning about Siodmak and some of the connections around him to the the bigger picture; just haven't had much opportunity to fully investigate many of those leads yet.

Roland does have a Sketch, at least, of Heldrik, but there are no Trumps of Gray at all; my character has tried, there wasn't enough time. So looks like if we try to contact Landon, and find him unavailable, it will likely cause alarm; we may assume the group is somewhere inaccessible, though I'd probably suggest trying one of the few other Trumps we have, in case the group has split or Landon is blocking for some reason; we were thinking of telling Arrotell directly of what we had found anyway.

Or you guys can roughly RP yourselves through going to Amber, reporting in, then trying to contact our group, which I don't know will work very well, considering how guarded Jorden is, though if we're planning on making a couple calls, Josh may have let the barriers down a little to faciliate that.

[chalice]

Or you guys can roughly RP yourselves through going to Amber, reporting in, then trying to contact our group, which I don't know will work very well, considering how guarded Jorden is, though if we're planning on making a couple calls, Josh may have let the barriers down a little to faciliate that.I assumed we would have to take a route similar to this - Dave specifically said 'Josh will let you in through Jorden's defences if contacted' - only trouble is I don't think anyone in our group has any way to contact anyone in the other group. (Like, Gray has trump of Eric - really useful :( - and Heldrik one of Landon. Dunno about Arrotel - assume he has more, and at least one of his dad - Ice?)

So I imagined we would likely hellride back to Amber courtesy of Heldrik (or Trump there if Arrotel has a means of doing so), and assume we report in and are then told to contact the other group for an info-sharing session (I figure someone in Amber could give us a Trump of Josh).

I think we did learn some useful things with regard to Siodmak - but that what we've learned re the Maze and the Chosen is more important. And we had some useful practice working together!

OOC I would like to see the whole group of players get together.

IC, Gray is more reluctant for both the going back to Amber and dealing with more cousins options - but that's 'cos she's (a) scared of Random and prefers to keep her distance and (b) has taken this long to relax even with just the small group she's with. She won't be hard to persuade, though.

[Shutter]

Ok, so I just managed to erase a brilliant post I had written. Now I'll summarize it.

1) I vote we give Dave a bit of time (several days) before we go doing much of anything other than talking to eachother in the threads.

2) Should we decide to move along a bit, merging the groups would have the (in my opinion) lowest probability of impacting the story Dave's got planned, and wouldn't rely on using (much) NPCs...there is the question of what to do with Asmundson...

3) Parties can be merged pretty easily when Roland's group contacts Heldrik. Unless he's got some seriously impressive tricks up his sleeve I am doubtful that he'd be able to block out all four of them at once pushing with concerted effort, as they may be inclined to do.

4) Should the parties merge we can easily while away a month or so chatting IC about options I guess....Eventualy we will have to contact the Pentagon to get Dave back, but that can wait I guess...

5) I really hope Dave comes back soon.

[chalice]

All good, sensible stuff. No need to rush into anything, certainly.

Asmundsen - well, I'd thought of bringing him along wherever.

[Shutter]

The thing with Asmundson and Josh though is that I'm not entirely convinced they aren't, well...ya know...really really evil and sneaky. So, to be on the safe side, I'd vote we try ever so hard not exceed what Dave encouraged us to do.

[chalice]

The thing with Asmundson and Josh though is that I'm not entirely convinced they aren't, well...ya know...really really evil and sneaky. So, to be on the safe side, I'd vote we try ever so hard not exceed what Dave encouraged us to do.
Oh, I'm not sure either. That's why I'd rather keep Challenger where I can see him:nod: Since you guys are stuck with Josh anyway...

And, naturally, I'm not sure any of you lot aren't really really sneaky and evil either:paranoid:

I think this is something that will have to be initially decided IC between Arrotel, Heldrik and Gray. Obviously if as a result of that we turn up on you guys' doorstep with Asmundsen, then you can make your feelings clear.

[IC, I can't see Gray wanting to leave Asmundsen behind when her group has just lost Landon and Arthur and when we believe Siodmak may have a grudge against him. I don't mind 'bending' her a bit to facilitate a group gathering, but I'm not going to wipe her motivations and loyalties (however misguided) completely. As far as she is concerned, she has Asmundsen to thank for being rescued from the tower rather than left there forever, so she feels protective of him, and in his debt. ]

[Wired*Nun]

Hi this is Beth, Dave got to Naples safely. Looks like there's plenty of internet in Iraq, so he should post some time next week.

[Shutter]

Thanks for keeping us updated Beth:) Glad to hear that Dave made it safely.

...Though I was about to dance around the lab with joy when I thought he'd posted again...d'oh.

[chalice]

Hiya Beth! Thanks for letting us know. Hope you're doing OK too


- chat anytime:nod:

[Thanos]

Glad to hear that Dave arrived :-) I wonder if they used Air Italia, which my understanding is there is some big political things going on with between Italy and EU.

Anyways, I will try and contain myself from moving to far forward then :-)

[chalice]

Glad to hear that Dave arrived :-) I wonder if they used Air Italia, which my understanding is there is some big political things going on with between Italy and EU.

Anyways, I will try and contain myself from moving to far forward then :-)
Heh. Some might say not moving too far forward isn't usually a problem for our team...:roll:

Try forbidding us to go round in circles and you might have problems...

[Thanos]

Icebird,

Good to see you on again :-)

It would be helpful next time you are online to initiate that trump call so there is no need for a hellride ;-)

[chalice]

Oooh - off to see Benedict. Scary!

[Icebird]

Debating... Debating...
Call under trump blackout and tell a knock-knock joke? Hehe.

Very much in charicter, but possibly fatal if Benedict doesn't reconize the voice quickly enough.

Ok, decided. Arrotel won't- maybe under other circumstances, but not with the recent dissappearance.

[LynMars]

Thank you, Beth; nice to know that so far, everything's going well. We all look forward to hearing from Dave again soon. :)

[chalice]

Debating... Debating...
Call under trump blackout and tell a knock-knock joke? Hehe.

Very much in charicter, but possibly fatal if Benedict doesn't reconize the voice quickly enough.

Ok, decided. Arrotel won't- maybe under other circumstances, but not with the recent dissappearance.
Awwww...maybe another time...as long as we get to watch:smiling:

[Icebird]

Well, he's done it before and survived- I specifically said so in the charicter description I sent to Dave. And yes, you can watch if he does.

[Shutter]

...er....What's a Trump blackout?

[Icebird]

When you call or recive, you can close your eyes so they can't see and think of nothing. All they get is a sense of blackness and anthing you say to them.

[Thanos]

Cool tricks that trump artists can do, SWEET!

DUDE

SWEET

DUDE!

SWEET!


hehe sorry....

[Thanos]

Dang. I just noticed we had 1 member on and 8 (EIGHT!) guests reading through things. That is the most I have ever seen!

Is that some kind of kudo's? ;-)

[LynMars]

Or else people just weren't logged in... :)

[Icebird]

I just have trump principles, no artistry. As for the guests, I'm always logged in when I come here. I'd say that means we're doing a good job with the story, to get so much interest.

[LynMars]

Depends if I'm at school or not, though I try to log in right away. But yeah, lots of guests in general onsite today.

[Thanos]

Hehe, feels like an eternity since Dave left.......

[LynMars]

He was supposed to have left Naples yesterday for the desert; here's hoping all's well. People can still post and do stuff, just no one has been lately. Ah well. :)

[Shutter]

I've tried to think of something to post a few times now...I just don't see a lot that doesn't require Dave to facilitate at this point. Aside from two NPCs who are pretty central to things we've got the primary means of inter-group communication cut off....

[Shutter]

Behold. I have posted....not that Heldrik's going to answer the call, but still....it's something...< shrug >

[Thanos]

He answered it in his own fashion and now we can have a group conference call as it were. I made a new thread to not mess over our individual group ones so Dave doesn't have to go making big changes. I don't know how to make a thread sticky, but it shouldn't matter much, since there are only 4 above it.

[LynMars]

Only Admin can sticky threads; I wouldn't worry about it too much. It should be fine.

Just remember that until Roland initiates open communication, Heldrik doesn't know who's calling him unless he's a T.A. himself.

[Shutter]

Very true....Fortunately Heldrik didn't give any indication that he knew who was calling I think....right?

..in any case...here goes a reply...

[Thanos]

Heh, I was assuming that he said something when he opened the call and displaying surprise, Heldrik expecting to get attached of course ;-P

[chalice]

Heh, I was assuming that he said something when he opened the call and displaying surprise, Heldrik expecting to get attached of course ;-P
Of course, since we're standing right next to Benedict when the Trump call arrives, I guess Heldrik might've felt more inclined to answer it and face a possible attack than usual ;)

[Wired*Nun]

I'm sorta back up, will be on a little in the coming couple days, then should have routine access most days. It will slow down over what we had going, some days may or may not get on at all, some days might have several hours. Don't have time right now to even read up on the situation. Do what makse sense for the next couple of RT days. back soonish.

Dave

[Tamarind]

Good to hear from you again Dave :)

[LynMars]

Yay, Dave! Good to see you made it in. Have fun with all that processing I remember oh-so-fondly (forms in triplicate!) and stay safe. We'll be looking in anticipation for each post from you. :)

[chalice]

So good to hear from you, Dave :P and to know all is well. Hug!

[chalice]

Have posted two short bits of Gray story in the Amber Fiction thread. They are very rough, and helpful comment is invited :nod:

[Wired*Nun]

Still swiping time on someome else's comp. Since those of higher rank than I am are frantically banging away, writing home and things, I can too, but it may end at any time. I am working on getting access to one of our mission's offices near where I live, so I can go in there in the evening, when most people are gone, and camp on a terminal.

[Wired*Nun]

I've tried to resolve what needs to be resolved and move things forward. Let me know what else we need to do to harmonize the story.

[Thanos]

I think that its up to Shutter as to if he wants to talk through the trump, bring the group over to Josh's shadow, etc. He will post I am sure ;-)

[chalice]

Yay! We all made it into the same room:smiling: Group hug...?

[LynMars]

Amberites and group hugs don't normally go well together. Look what it got Brand...

[Wired*Nun]

Hello all,

This is Beth again. Dave wanted me to let you know he's sick, but hopes to be back up and on the computer tomorrow.

[Tamarind]

Hope he feels better soon Beth - and thanks for letting us know

[Shutter]

Thanks Beth! Hope Dave gets healthy soon.

On a game related note: Rereading I see that Heldrik already told Roland how things stood, so not really any reason for Roland's question, or tense irritation...oops. I'll leave it at this point though rather than edit it out I think. Poor Roland, rendered irrational by a player who doesn't read closely enough.

[Thanos]

Thanos = Praying for Dave

I have been to Saudi (as a Civ) and I remember the horror of getting something like 15 shots before going over there. I wasn't the same for a couple of weeks and I was still in the states at that point. Going from a nice wet place in Euro to a dry as moon place like Saudi and Iraq is a nasty conversion.

[Icebird]

Same good hopes for Dave.
Someday I'd like to live in a wet place- don't be fooled by Denver's green lawns or swimming pools in the backyards- I live in a desert!
As for the in game summarizing, I missed it too, but see it now that I looked again.

[Thanos]

Hehehe, I posted a much expanded version now for everybodies benefit, at least from Heldrik's point of view.

[chalice]

Feel better soon, Dave :nod:

Advance notice: will be in Switzerland Thursday evening to Monday evening, so Gray will be pretty quiet during that time. May manage to locate an internet cafe (with or without strange keyboard...) to check in on you guys briefly, though.

[Pygysys]

Best wishes Dave, hope you recover quickly and feel better soon.

[Thanos]

I do not know if you wanted to correct your post Pygysys, but Heldrik does not limit the Maze/BP to mortals in his description. Conversely he says that they allow mortals to negotiate them suggesting that the Maze/BP are lesser powers to the Pattern at least and by extension the Logrus.
Well that is at least the point I was trying to get across. If I need to rewrite it, then I will. :-)

[Pygysys]

No need to rewrite, Thanos. I've editted the post. :)

[Wired*Nun]

Hi all, I am back after the usual stomach-flu/GI trots/Montezuma's revenge. Antibiotics and rest got me back on my feet. We are getting this internet thing under control. looks like my job might be pretty sweet all around. We shall see. It's mostly mentoring Iraqi military in western staff/command-and-control procedures, and I have my own desk and my own internet-capable comp. So, things should get back to something like normal soonish.

[chalice]

Hey - good to hear you are feellin' better.

Me, I'm sick - trying to kill off a throat virus with vitamins and liquids so that I can still head off with Tamarind to Basel tomorrow. :cry:

[Wired*Nun]

Try garlic. Lots of garlic.

[chalice]

Heh. Then I'll be healthy and immune to Swiss vampires:)

[Thanos]

I would suggest Las Vegas water if you were out here. Almost nobody drinks the tap water out here but me and kids to young to know better. Great source of calcium and tends to send throat problems back to the grave pretty quick.

hehe

[chalice]

Sounds more dangerous than the virus!

[Wired*Nun]

Hope you don't mind my machinegun posting, just trying to get caught up.

[Wired*Nun]

Also, may I suggest that this is the perfect time to change groupings if anyone wants to, though the 3xPC+1NPC per group seems to be a nice balance, allowing me the one NPC in each group, and 3 seems a good number to RP as if one is gone for a while the 2 can carry on a bit.

I think I have figured out how, where and when to get undisturbed comp time, so I hope we will be back to something like old habits before long, though probably less certain as before. My posts may or may not be as elaborate, as well, depending.

[chalice]

Looks as though a good time for Gray to sit for her Trump portrait might be while I am off in Switzerland (tomorrow-Monday) if that fits in with the flow of things?

Should the issue arise while I'm offline, Gray has no desire to change group, having taken quite some time and shared experience to feel comfortable with Heldrik and Arrotel, and more or less adopted them as replacement Pack. If those two split up, she'll stick with Heldrik unless he orders otherwise.

[Shutter]

In OOC-space I'd like to wave my hand in the air for a moment and ask a couple of questions about the most recent bit of dialogue.

1)Did Josh do anything Roland would see as "snapping" at Gray? I didn't take it that way, and before I post I'd like to know how Roland see it, did Gray attack unprovoked, or was Josh being an ass?

2)Did Josh insult Asmundson? I might have missed it, I haven't been as game focused lately. Fighting off a cold.

....yeah I think that's it.

[chalice]

Also in OOC-space, then: Gray may have fallen victim to transatlantic language differences. When I read 'X shoots back' I understand X to be responding sharply - in other words, being snappish. I would always read this as someone 'firing off' a response, usually with some overtone of hostility, and usually as part of (or the beginning of) an argument. Since Gray didn't seem to give Josh any reason to be sharp with her, she was puzzled and the tone stirred her up (she was already on edge).

Does 'shoots back' mean something more like 'jumps in' to you guys? It doesn't strike me as a term that can be used in a neutral way, meaning simply 'replies'....

If I have got Josh's tone wrong, I think we'll have to leave it as Gray flaring up over nothing - I don't want to have to edit back beyond Raevyn's response. Doesn't matter - she ain't exactly well-balanced right now :\

Re Asmundsen - Dave posted that Josh would 'advise against' giving any trumps of anyone to Asmundsen. Gray thinks it rude to say so openly 'this person is not to be trusted' when Asmundsen is a guest and has been vouched for by Heldrik. It verges on calling Heldrik's word into question.

[Shutter]

Yeah, I can definitely see why it could be read that way, but Josh is just such a mellow guy that I'm hesitant to believe that he was snapping at anyone...He didn't even snap at Kat and she was actively screwing with him.

[chalice]

Roland has encountered Josh for more than two minutes and so has more experience of him to judge by. Gray doesn't. She has no idea what kind of guy he is.

Tone aside, saying 'why don't you guys get your act together and do something' to three people who have had a fairly active few days, and just been pulled out of a very tense situation, in which they lost one companion and saw another injured, seems to be pushing it to me (not necessarily deliberately - maybe Josh is clueless?) Especially since Heldrik's group have been told nothing yet to suggest that the group Josh belongs to has 'done' any more than they have.

There are other buttons Josh pushed by accident in his comments about the Elders, but there's no way he is to blame for that; they come from background.

[chalice]

Oh boy! I'm a Wraith!

[Thanos]

Any questions with my post I will answer as soon as I can. I will be out at a 40 Days of Purpose small group meeting tonight for an indeterminable amount of time (starting at about 6 PM (Its 4PM now).

[Shutter]

Any questions with my post I will answer as soon as I can. I will be out at a 40 Days of Purpose small group meeting tonight for an indeterminable amount of time (starting at about 6 PM (Its 4PM now).
Not gone for 40 days though right? :)

[Thanos]

Hehe, Nope, its a Wednesday night small group for 6-7 weeks. Just wanted to give everybody a heads up :-)

[chalice]

I initially misread 'indeterminable' as 'interminable'...which sounded like a lot of meetings I've been in recently;)

[Wired*Nun]

In OOC-space I'd like to wave my hand in the air for a moment and ask a couple of questions about the most recent bit of dialogue.

1)Did Josh do anything Roland would see as "snapping" at Gray? I didn't take it that way, and before I post I'd like to know how Roland see it, did Gray attack unprovoked, or was Josh being an ass?

2)Did Josh insult Asmundson? I might have missed it, I haven't been as game focused lately. Fighting off a cold.

....yeah I think that's it.
1) not intentionally, but perceptions are funny things, one can take offense if one wants to.

2) Nope, not directly (nor indirectly as far as I can see) but, see 1) above.

[Wired*Nun]

Also in OOC-space, then: Gray may have fallen victim to transatlantic language differences. When I read 'X shoots back' I understand X to be responding sharply - in other words, being snappish. I would always read this as someone 'firing off' a response, usually with some overtone of hostility, and usually as part of (or the beginning of) an argument. Since Gray didn't seem to give Josh any reason to be sharp with her, she was puzzled and the tone stirred her up (she was already on edge).

Does 'shoots back' mean something more like 'jumps in' to you guys? It doesn't strike me as a term that can be used in a neutral way, meaning simply 'replies'....

If I have got Josh's tone wrong, I think we'll have to leave it as Gray flaring up over nothing - I don't want to have to edit back beyond Raevyn's response. Doesn't matter - she ain't exactly well-balanced right now :\

Re Asmundsen - Dave posted that Josh would 'advise against' giving any trumps of anyone to Asmundsen. Gray thinks it rude to say so openly 'this person is not to be trusted' when Asmundsen is a guest and has been vouched for by Heldrik. It verges on calling Heldrik's word into question.
I was meaning to convey "answers quickly" not "answers with hostility." Josh is hesitant and shy most times but can be kind of hyper and insensitive when he lets down his guard in a social situation- and so can come across as rude, which makes him even more shy when called on it...kind of a vicious cycle.

[chalice]

I was meaning to convey "answers quickly" not "answers with hostility." Josh is hesitant and shy most times but can be kind of hyper and insensitive when he lets down his guard in a social situation- and so can come across as rude, which makes him even more shy when called on it...kind of a vicious cycle.
Ah, I wondered. Let's just say he and Gray brought out the worst in each other then - Gray is also very shy, and often overdoes the agression when she speaks out about anything.

[chalice]

I'm off - be good while I'm gone;)

[LynMars]

Have a good time! We'll be looking forward to your return, to tell us all about it. :)

As for being good...Well, I dunno...Some of these guys get pretty crazy. :fun:

[chalice]

'Allo....see what Dave means about foreign kezboards. Ugh. Arrivede good and early and amnaged to see the Tutankhamon exhibitzion this morning. Thenonto theimportant things, like food, beer and shopping. All the best, chalice and tamarind

xxx

[Icebird]

Well, I'll be away this weekend, so feel free to have Arrotel act as needed. Seeing as my outing is with a religious organization, I'll not explain what it is about.

[Thanos]

LMAO

Have fun and be about the business you were put on earth for ;-)

[Wired*Nun]

:cry: Waah, slow day with so many people gone. Waah. :(

[Icebird]

I'm back, buit just waiting for others to return to the room- Arrotel has no inclination to do anything a particular right now.

[Shutter]

Sorry for the delay, I've been sick as a dog...a really sick dog.

[LynMars]

*pets poor, recovering Shutter* See, now I'm glad I didn't get out the silverware this time...On a side note, I think we were trying to keep the boys as unaware of the fencing practice as possible; Rae's a little embarrassed about it. Roland may have heard something, though; not like they're trying terribly hard to keep the "secret" quiet. Josh would likely find out quite easily, too.

Welcome back, Icebird! Hope you had a fun time! I miss going on weekend outings with my old youth group...ah well...now I shall go to check the thread.

[Thanos]

I had one of those weekends :-(
Its like a haze almost the whole thing, I don't know what happened to it :-( I remember Oreo milk shakes though.... but not when I had them....

anyways, I am going to go see if I posted something and what everybody else said.

[chalice]

Back now from a weekend of eating massively too much chocolate cake and wandering gently around Basel, which is a lovely place. Much refreshed, and ready to carry on:)

[Wired*Nun]

Tamarind going to post?

[chalice]

He will - I suspect he's been hit with an avalanche of 'the office sky fell in while you were away for a few days...'-type hassle, which may be keeping him from Things That Are More Fun. I'll give him a gentle nudge ;)

[chalice]

waaah! - lots of people on and active, but no one from my group :\ Have withdrawl symptoms!!!!

[Wired*Nun]

heh - I could puppet them up to the Studio if you want, or at least, Raevyn could comment what she feels and Gray could run there in concern. Still, it will take a couple of game hours for Asmundson to finish his Trump.

[Thanos]

Due to my own personal reasons, I have taken the day off from work....and will pretty much be sitting around my house trying to be bored out of my mind ;-)

If anybody would like to have a chat (IC or OOC) on AIM, IRC, or ICQ I will be around. I have often wondered if a 1:1 convo couldn't be done on an IM and then edited to look flow and look nice and popped into the forums.

[Wired*Nun]

Hey, keep posting here!

[Thanos]

**Posted while you posted, or so it seems**

Bluish 'tinge' yes. Looking through the blue pattern lense would be like looking through blue sunglasses, everything would take on a little bit or a lot of blue. Not necessarily a reflection on the energies that are being used by Asmondson, but being descriptive of perceptions I guess.

[Thanos]

Oh I will keep posting ;-)
I have IRC and ICQ going as well .... Hehe

[Wired*Nun]

Everyone's perceptions are different, I am sure. If that's the way Heldrik see it, that's cool.

Sounds like you are a communicatin' foo today. Hope everything is all right.

[Shutter]

[quote]Thanos:"I have often wondered if a 1:1 convo couldn't be done on an IM and then edited to look flow and look nice and popped into the forums."[quote]

LynMars and I have done this, works like a charm. Takes a bit of work to grow accustomed to the different timescales, but that may (probably) have only been a problem for me, who never does face to face roleplaying. I can't recall if we did it here, or only for another RP...in any case, yeah, it works very well.

[chalice]

Due to my own personal reasons, I have taken the day off from work....and will pretty much be sitting around my house trying to be bored out of my mind ;-)

If anybody would like to have a chat (IC or OOC) on AIM, IRC, or ICQ I will be around. I have often wondered if a 1:1 convo couldn't be done on an IM and then edited to look flow and look nice and popped into the forums.
Wot's an IM? And those other things?

[chalice]

Tam says 'no chance of posting before tonight, work nightmare, wants to flee back to Switzerland...'

[Icebird]

Completly off the subject of IMs, has anyone else here seen the TV show Babylon 5?

[chalice]

Completly off the subject of IMs, has anyone else here seen the TV show Babylon 5?
Yep!

[Thanos]

IM = Instant Message
IRC, ICQ, AIM etc are different methods of having a real time conversation (via text).

I have seen 98% of the BAB5 shows. My roommate has Seasons 1-4 on DVD

[Wired*Nun]

I have them all....well, at home anyway.

[Icebird]

I've been checking out the DVDs form the library- (in order) I've now watched seasons 5, 1, 2 and 3 over the last two weeks. That's an average of six episodes a day- probably not too good for me, but hey, it's fun. As my dad says, moderation in all things, including moderation.

[Wired*Nun]

Especially moderation! No wonder you haven't been on much here.

[Wired*Nun]

GTG, see everyone tomorrow.

[Icebird]

Hehe... I go to a year round school, and the schedual is very much to my liking. 9 weeks school, 3 weeks off, with an extra three off in the summer. Much more fun than 9 months school, three months off. I'm in a break right now, so my days are very free.

[Thanos]

WOW... they have those in Libraries?

Do they have Farscape? (I love Farscape and have all of the DVD's :-)

[Icebird]

Yes- I'm not as much into Farscape as B5, but they do have those there too. I have to put things on hold- all of the TV series on DVD are very well circulated.

[Thanos]

Wow..... that is very cool. :-)

I very much liked B5, but Farscape I love ;-)

[Icebird]

Have you ever heard of Crusade? I've heard that it was the sequal series to B5 adn that it sucked, but havn't ever seen an episode of it.

[Thanos]

No, but I did see some of the Ranger Wars or whatever is was called. Not so good. :-P

[Shutter]

Everyone always makes fun of me for liking Babylon 5 so much...Can't ever really figure out what their problem is...

[LynMars]

We had Trevor and Karina's Trump conversation for "Bending the Rules" in IRC. It did work rather well; a good way to get a fast conversation of short phrases that require answers done quickly. Rae and Roland's Trump conversation was done via PM here. :)

People make fun of you for liking B5? The fools! I like B5, and the comic series/graphic novels "Rising Stars" and "Midnight Nation", and J. Michael Strazcynski's (sp?) also doing one of the Spiderman series currently. Wargolem's (my old roomie, a guy from the GG forums) a huge JMS fan, and loves B5, to the point where he and I argue at times about B5 vs Deep Space 9, which I also liked.

Anywho, Thanos, I'll probably be hopping onto IRC about now-ish; I can usually be found there in the Gaming Guardian channels on sorcery.net. Nickname's Karina`, usually.

[chalice]

Mm, B5 and Farscape are both good...but I am a huge SG-1 junkie, really.

[chalice]

. Rae and Roland's Trump conversation was done via PM here.
Mm, only thing I don't like about PMs is the teeny word count allowed.

[Shutter]

Mm, only thing I don't like about PMs is the teeny word count allowed.
Really? Wow, I didn't even notice a wordcount limit....Perhaps I'm not verbose enough?

[chalice]

Really? Wow, I didn't even notice a wordcount limit....Perhaps I'm not verbose enough?
Heh - or maybe I messed up the tech. Or waffle too much:x I tried to use a PM to cover Gray's noticeable reactions during Landon's long speech and ended up cutting it to the bone.

[LynMars]

I haven't noticed a word limit in PM either; for quick lines back and forth while both players are on at the same time, it works well; huge speeches probably wouldn't, and those could probably be done in posts anyway--unless there's a reason they shouldn't be public, of course. :)

Never been a big fan of SG-1. Now "Highlander: the Series" is my addiction...I'm a Methos fan, myself.

[Shutter]

Mmmm....Highlander the series....twitch....

speak not of the movies....

[LynMars]

Movies? I am only aware of one, sir, that being the original one with Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery.

There is NO alien planet/time travel nonsense (depending on which version of that travesty you see), no weird magical hold-out Immortal, and Duncan certainly DID NOT do that to Conner. Nope. No Way. Nu-uh. (Not to mention Joe and Methos didn't get nearly enough screen time or explanation of their presence, and it blatantly contradicted several points from the series, and just all around sucked).

[Tamarind]

Highlander the series is definitely *most* fine - I liked the first film, and the recent one from the series was pretty fun too...and yes, I 'fess up to being a Methos fan too :)

[Shutter]

There may have been one film...It's possible. But, if there was such a film, be assured, he spelled his name Conor. The correct way to spell the name. heh....

Yes, Methos rocks. Man, I need to get that whole series on dvd...and Babylon 5...now, how to explain this to Alicia in a way that does not result in me being mocked...not that being mocked is bad, but it doesn't get me any dvds:)

[Tamarind]

[QUOTE=LynMars]Not to mention Joe and Methos didn't get nearly enough screen time QUOTE]

Indeed. But I still quite liked it - might be 'cos I was still in shock having inadvertently been ambushed by the beginning of the *deranged* alien-planet-time-travel-naff xsdc v s one though ;)

The extra characters in this post are courtesy of Oliver, our large ginger cat, who felt it was about time he made his presence felt on the keyboard :fun:

[LynMars]

heehee...My roommates' one year old, famously known as the Super Sneaky Ninja baby, likes to say hi to people in the chat, too, whenever she gets the chance. She knows certain keys do certain things. Most times, though, she just likes banging on the 'board and seeing what happens. :)

[Shutter]

I just had this vision of my physics advisor coming down into the lab and mashing onthe keyboard while I'm goofing off....heh. I kind of hope that doesn't happen :P

[chalice]

Okaaay - and I now have this mental vision of your physics advisor as a large ginger cat...:paranoid:

[Shutter]

Hmm....The image sort of fits I think...

On an unrelated note: This game (http://www.bridgebuilder-game.com/) rocks! ...it totaly appeals to the engineer within me.

[chalice]

Noooo...stop it! You're giving me flashbacks to editing G3 (board and strategy games mag).

[Thanos]

Highlander: The Series is a Family favorite at my fathers house. We have season 4&5 on tape as well as most of the good ones from season 1-3. I never got to see much in season 6 and I have been tempted to get it just to see what the show was like with a dead Ritchie, whom I have hated since the beginning of the show.

Now Methos, he's THE MAN ;-). I was so glad the actor got some work in a big film like X-Men 2 :-)

Now the real question that has to be on everybodies minds is, who was the best female companion out of the series. I ask, because it changed almost every season......btw, I dislike Amanda with great intensity:-P If I had been Duncan her head would have been mine shortly after we met no matter what skills she might in certain areas.

[chalice]

Missed out on Higlander - I know, I know, deprived home life - did anyone watch Firefly during its short run? I got very hooked on that!

Yawwwn...insomnia, just love it....:tired:

[LynMars]

saw some Firefly; it was there; didn't see enough to form an opinion. Was a Buffy fan myself; trainwreck value there.

Thanos, the 6th season is okay, but kinda there, and short; Adrian Paul was in an accident during filming, and they cut down the number of episodes. There's also a few he's not in at all; they were playing with possibilities for a spinoff. I think they should have gone with Methos Chronicles (they have a short cartoon online series with Peter Wingfield's voice) instead of an Amanda series. I liked her enough, but she didn't need her own show. We have season 1 on tape, 2&3 on dvd, and have borrowed 4&5 from a friend.

chalice, I'm waiting on Pygsys to post again before I do, especially since your last two posts were kinda out of sequence; I don't want it to get too confusing. :)

[chalice]

Lyn, no worries. Lots of my stuff ends up in odd sequence as I tend to respond to whoever is online at the same 'other side of world' time as me - otherwise I can fall behind a whole day. I have re-arranged my posts to (hopefully) make things a little smoother, but there just wasn't anything to be done about my needing to skip a couple of hours between Rae noticing the Trump energies and the tea party once Asmundsen finished drawing, while you and Pygysys were offline.

[Icebird]

Unrelated note- chalice; you need to delete some PMs. There is a storage limit of 70, and you are at that, so I can't respond. I'll just put the response here, but you might stilll want to clean it up.

Hi - how's the book coming along?It isn't really- I've been watching B5 and playing a computer game Stars! a lot. Pgs. 1-20 are typed and slightly edited for spelling and such, but still have a few points on which they clash with the rest of my writing.

[chalice]

Oops - messages duly deleted. I'm a dreadful hoarder!

[Shutter]

Weehee! I'm a Bodak...what the hell's a Bodak?

Edit:

...wait...deja vu...didn't Dave ask that when he became a Bodak?

And didn't I answer...huh...wonder how I found out what a Bodak was....

[Wired*Nun]

Deja vu, all over again.

[Icebird]

A Bodak is an undead thing that looks like one of those grey skinned aliens, but taller than a human. I play Dnd too- I know these things.

Whats "sotto voce" mean? I'm guessing it means quitely, but I'm not sure.

[Shutter]

For the sake of our eventual compiler, can we carry the OOC discussion (a relevant one) over here from the main thread?

I had thought Roland knew they'd told people in Amber, but Josh said they hadn't, and I (perhaps mistakenly) took that to indicate that I was remembering things incorrectly....An easy edit to make whatever we decide....in general here I think Chalice is on the mark.

[chalice]

For the sake of our eventual compiler, can we carry the OOC discussion (a relevant one) over here from the main thread?

I had thought Roland knew they'd told people in Amber, but Josh said they hadn't, and I (perhaps mistakenly) took that to indicate that I was remembering things incorrectly....An easy edit to make whatever we decide....in general here I think Chalice is on the mark.
It might be an easy fix to say Roland heard what Gray said (as she was speaking directly to him as he helped get a chair for Heldrik) but Josh didn't? Her voice is usually low-pitched, especially when meeting strangers.

Does that work?

[Wired*Nun]

OK, here's the understaning I have been going on, which I suggest we proceed with.

1) Benedict has been informed by Arrotel. Because Benedict offered further conversation or help but was declined, he figured the youngers had it under control, and were heading for Amber soon to give a report. He knows nothing about them going to Jorden of course, so he may or may not even have bothered to contact anyone in Amber yet. None of you can be sure right now.

2) You all couldn't have gone to Amber yet because Benedict's Trump was the closest anyone could get now that Landon was gone. Heldrik intended to hellride you all there, but got a Trump call before he started.

3) No one told Josh about anyone being informed. In fact, Heldrik specifically told him they hadn't been informed yet, and Heldrik wanted to do so soon, and Josh persuaded him to hold off a bit since time flow was so advantageous.

So, as of right now if this is acceptable to everyone, getting us all on the same page, we will proceed from here.