OOC chat thread (Participants only pls)

[LynMars]

I do have to wonder what Gray's IC response is going to be, as well, especially after Landon starts 'splainin' some stuff...It'll be interesting, to say the least...

[Wired*Nun]

Sounds like an episode of "I Love Landon."

(Strong Cuban accent...) Oh Lannnndonnnn! Jou got some 'splainin to do, Landon!

[TreyKincaide]

Explaining stuff? Ugh. Yeah. That's the ticket.

[chalice]

She's maaaad, remember. You can tell her anything you like:tsk:

[TreyKincaide]

Thanks for reminding me of goal number 3 on my list of important things that Landon wants to do eventually list

[TreyKincaide]

Description editted!

[Wired*Nun]

They're baaaacck! Round 2!

[TreyKincaide]

Fight!

Also put my description in my signature for ease.

I'll be on for another 40 minutes or so until Lici gets outa class. Then it's off to find food before going home.

[TreyKincaide]

Nothing like a good old fashioned misunderstood hero fight for introduction.

[Wired*Nun]

I am also wallowing in the irony of the Amberites erasing a Pattern while...well, you'll see.

[chalice]

I do have to wonder what Gray's IC response is going to be, as well, especially after Landon starts 'splainin' some stuff...It'll be interesting, to say the least...
IC...oh, just possibly, just something like 'I kept telling people he was my brother, but they just thought I was mad and paid no heed'.

OOC reaction: probably unrepeatable in a public forum.

[Shutter]

IC...oh, just possibly, just something like 'I kept telling people he was my brother, but they just thought I was mad and paid no heed'.
Hey, Roland listened. He's got Landon jotted down mentaly as Eric's son...Just hasn't mattered to him at all yet...also, he hasn't really revisited these facts since it became clear that Gray is nuts....

[Wired*Nun]

I'm going to bed, all. See you tomorrow. Hope you enjoyed the opening scene so far.

[TreyKincaide]

Landon just didn't want to believe it. The reality/lie that you're presented is always easier than accepting the truth.

[chalice]

Hey, Roland listened. He's got Landon jotted down mentaly as Eric's son...Just hasn't mattered to him at all yet...also, he hasn't really revisited these facts since it became clear that Gray is nuts....
Yeah, it's good to pay no attention to mad people...'cos it's not like Brand ever caused any trouble, right?

[TreyKincaide]

No. Not at all. I have to ask about:

OOC reaction: probably unrepeatable in a public forum.

PM me if something's up.

[chalice]

Done

[TreyKincaide]

Well, I'm off for food. I don't know if I'm going to be on again tonight. Later.

[Thanos]

Gray is not mad, crazy or unstable. She has a huge passion for life, love, and likes to let people know it. I am waiting for some unfortunate soul to tell her she is crazy in front of Heldrik. He has some particularly creative versions of hell waiting for them the next time they shadow shift ;-)

[LynMars]

Problem with that, Thanos, is she's usually the one who brings it up...

[Thanos]

But thats her option ;-)

Just Heldrik being a little protective.....

[chalice]

Problem with that, Thanos, is she's usually the one who brings it up...
Worry not. Problem going away soon. Probably.

[Pygysys]

Sprog does mean kids, get, descendants... etc. :)

I know we Aussies use it, but I do forget that not all 'terms' are used the same way if at all in all 3 countries we hail from. If nothing else, it will broaden our vocabulary by a word or two once in a while. :)

[LynMars]

Least we all speak some form of English as a main language, I think (unless I'm wrong about some of you silly people); I know some folks on IRC who find it amusing that not only have they learned English well, they have forgotten some of the lesser used words and phrases in their native language, and they tend to type to their local friends as if typing to their English-speaking buddies. No worries about that here, so far, it seems.

[chalice]

Have had to edit Canadian-French in my time - American-English holds no fears!

[Thanos]

Heya Chalice,

It is my pleasure to call you a goober and to delete all those PM's you have had stored for months ;-). You have no room for me to send you a reply to your last.

[chalice]

Damn, Sorry. Terrible hoarder, me. So sad, deleting people'sl little voices.

But I will be strong, and do so.

[chalice]

Gray is not mad, crazy or unstable.
She is, you know. Mad as a week next Wednesday.:mad:

[Thanos]

LOL, not that Heldrik will hear of it except from her.

Its like point at a kid without legs and say, "Ha you can't walk". If he makes fun of himself and does wheelies with his wheelchair thats cool.

[chalice]

Actually, I think everyone puts up heroically with Gray. She drives me nuts.

[LynMars]

But one also doesn't try to entirely pretend the difference doesn't exist at all; that strikes me as almost as bad, as some see not acknowledging it as they are not acknowledged. A careful balance, to be sure, and one of those lines in life easily blurred and mishandled. :)

[chalice]

Raevyn has said the most helpful thing yet to Gray on the subject - IE, 'it's part of you now; learn how to make it work for you'.

[LynMars]

Rae just tries to be all friendly and helpful...though occasionally it backfires...

[Thanos]

Must trade Rae for Landon ;-)

[TreyKincaide]

Hey now. I'm beginning to feel like a baseball card here.

[Thanos]

Hrmm....now if that happens and Arrotel and Kat swap, then Heldrik will be in the presence of some of the greatest works of art that have even been known in all of shadow and creation.

[Thanos]

I am off for a bit, must go get brothers birthday present and spend a bit of time at the gym working off the icecream sandwich I had today....

[LynMars]

Must trade Rae for Landon ;-)
Hrm...Dunno...Josh wouldn't let Raevyn go alone (I as her player think I see what's going on there; Rae...will maybe eventually get it:roll: ), and she sees Kat and Roland as kinda like older siblings by now. She'd be all lost without them.

'Sides, Landon isn't part of that group anymore, so you can't use him for a trade!:fun:

[Pygysys]

And besides, Kat wouldn't let Rae go that easily. There are still many more lessons to be had!

[LynMars]

Yep, gotta get her butt kicked a few more times...And if Heldrik offered to help her with that, she'd be scared he'd break her or somethin'...Not to mention her embarassment over it, anyway; it took a lot out of her just to ask Kat!

[TreyKincaide]

Ugh. I hate waking up at 3:30 in the morning coughing. Damn sinus problems. Sleeping on the couch tonight so I don't further disturb Lici. Ugh.

[Tamarind]

Yeah, colds and sinus problems are no fun - hope you feel better soon

[TreyKincaide]

Yeah I do too; it's cold out here in the living room.

[Wired*Nun]

Nyquil fits the bill for me when that happens.

Sorry if I'm not postig much, don't mean to tease, but I'm at work, too, things are happening, as well as some GM comms stuff that is taking more time than actual game-GMing.

[chalice]

Hrmm....now if that happens and Arrotel and Kat swap, then Heldrik will be in the presence of some of the greatest works of art that have even been known in all of shadow and creation.
Hey! I like Arrotel. Don't want him to go!

[TreyKincaide]

If I can't get back to sleep here in the near future, it's no class for Trey tomorrow.

[chalice]

Nyquil fits the bill for me when that happens.

Southern Comfort, lemon juice, honey and hot lemonade. Trust me, it's marvelous for a bad throat. The hot lemonade is very important - never been able to work out why, but it's much 'soothing-er' than hot water.

[TreyKincaide]

I'll have to try that sometime. My problem is a runny nose that's making me cough. My throat feels fine. Well, it seems to have calmed down a bit. Going to try to go back to bed.

[chalice]

Tam! Clear some PM space, will ya?

[Tamarind]

Tam! Clear some PM space, will ya?
Oops! Space duly cleared - you'd think with the posts about this I'd have thought to check, but no... :∙

[LynMars]

I've gotten in the habit of clearing mine when it gets around 30 or so, or when there's a lull in messaging. It's real easy to hit that 70 mark, with everything counting against it...

[Tamarind]

I've gotten in the habit of clearing mine when it gets around 30 or so, or when there's a lull in messaging. It's real easy to hit that 70 mark, with everything counting against it...
'Tis indeed. I'll just have to pay more attention to the numbers I guess. And try and stop hoarding ;)

[LynMars]

Not hoarding can be hard, especially when any sort of pertinent info has been secretly shared between characters; or currently undisclosed descriptions for cards, or web links/info between players has been passed back and forth. There is an option to download PMs as various kinds of files; I found it just as easy to make a Wordpad document where any info I want to keep gets copy-pasted on so I can keep the PM box clear. Should do it for me...And it's work time. Back in a bit.

[TreyKincaide]

Currently working on a resume and cover letter to submit to White Wolf. I'm not holding my breath, but damn it'd be cool.

[TreyKincaide]

If anyone would do me the favor of taking a look at it and provide a critique I'd be much appreciative. Send me a PM if you would help me out.

[Shutter]

Ooh! Pick me! Pick me!

[TreyKincaide]

Mind if I send you an email with the resume attached?

[Shutter]

Fire away. It's conorb@u.washington.edu

[TreyKincaide]

Righto. Here's the description of the job opening

http://www.white-wolf.com/index.php?articleid=68

[TreyKincaide]

Okay sent. Lemme know whatcha think.

[TreyKincaide]

Thanks everyone who helped. Can't say that enough.

[Thanos]

Thats a Sweet opening if it wasn't in Atlanta ;-)

Sorry, hot and muggy /= Thanos. I can take hot or muggy, just not both.

[TreyKincaide]

You're right. My dream job. Well, for better or worse it's submitted. 2 hours on a resume and 4 hours on a cover letter later I'm going to cross my fingers but not hold my breath. Wish me luck.

[TreyKincaide]

I can deal with the heat and humity. I'm a skinny rail of a man that can't deal with the cold.

[chalice]

Good luck Trey. Working for games companies definitely isn't all fun, but I don't regret the time I spent at TSR and WotC. Met some wonderful people. Would have been happy to look over the resume, but sadly wasn't about for the message - fingers crossed for you!

[Wired*Nun]

I wouldn't take that job, but that's just me. You will be universally hated by the players, who are on the whole a whiney, demanding bunch. Present company excepted, of course.

[TreyKincaide]

Well, you have to start somewhere.

[chalice]

I wouldn't take that job, but that's just me. You will be universally hated by the players, who are on the whole a whiney, demanding bunch. Present company excepted, of course.
I have taken that job int he past - this is almost exactly what I used to do for WotC. Everyone didn't hate me! But they did drive me insaaaaane.

(Hey - how did you think I got to be such an expert in being whiny and demanding, anyway?)

[TreyKincaide]

I don't mind being insane from time to time. Flying around the country and going to cons for free seems to be a fair trade.

[Wired*Nun]

Tam, check your GM comms for the latest.

[Shutter]

Good luck Trey.

[chalice]

I don't mind being insane from time to time. Flying around the country and going to cons for free seems to be a fair trade.
It won't be so bad for you. You probably won't have to get special convention T-shirts made emblasoned with the slogan 'the answer to your question is not tattooed across my breasts. Try talking to my face...':tsk:

[TreyKincaide]

I can definately see where that would become an annoyance.

[Wired*Nun]

Well, chalice, you just have to dress more modestly. :x-eyed: Those youngsters are human, after all.

[wonderingsoul]

?

[chalice]

:x-eyed: Those youngsters are human, after all.
Says you.

[wonderingsoul]

Well, chalice, you just have to dress more modestly. :x-eyed: Those youngsters are human, after all.

:\ what the hey are you talkin about?:cat:

[Wired*Nun]

Yes, wonderingsoul, your post was posted. We welcome you to the forum, and are happy to hear your comments, but please, as a visitor (not a player in the game), use the visitor's thread. Thanks!

-Dave, the GM

[wonderingsoul]

im not human! preferably i eat those things.

[wonderingsoul]

uhmm? where is the visitors threed? cuz i cant find it!

[Thanos]

Dave. For some ladies, its not a matter of how modest that are as there is no way to hide their assets. However, I notice that wearing black turtle neck long sleeve shirts/sweaters can be somewhat helpful.

;-)

[Wired*Nun]

Go up to the top, and click on "My enemies have sweet voices" which is the overall place from which you can see all the forums in this particular game. You will see some subforums, and a lot of private locked forums for individual players where the GM (me) and players do private business. Under that you will see the main game threads, the most inportant ones stickied at the top. One of those stickied, probably the fifth one down, is the visitors thread.

[Wired*Nun]

There are always ways to cover your assets. That's if one genuinely wants them not to be looked at. :yum:

[Wired*Nun]

I wonder if wonderingsoul has any idea of where he was or what was going on?

[TreyKincaide]

I somehow doubt it. Although, I empathize. I hate coming in during the middle of a conversation.

[Wired*Nun]

I was trying to finalize something with Tam then he had to go. I need to do that before I we go further with Landon and Rebis.

[TreyKincaide]

That's cool. Take your time. I'm in no rush. Right now, I'm trying to occupy myself while Lici's at class and I'm home alone. Trying to figure out what I want to do for my Friday night.

[Tamarind]

Chalice and I are sharing the connection - I'm mostly cooking at the mo but can be called to post on demand :smiling:

[chalice]

But we do (as of yesterday) have broadband at long last! So will be working on a way to be online simultaeneously over the weekend...

[Wired*Nun]

If you both have XP, there is a way to do it. Find the nearest geek and go to town.

[chalice]

Tam just claimed he was 'the nearest geek'...

[chalice]

Tam just claimed he was 'the nearest geek'...
..and is now appealling to my cats in a bid to claim he did not say that...

[Wired*Nun]

We (Beth + my kids) got a kitty. Her name is Josie. Here's a link.

http://www.stephanie.ourwebfactory.com/

Josie is the kitty. Stephanie is the young lady. Just in case you couldn't all figure that out.

[Wired*Nun]

With that Heldrik motions for Asmundson to do whatever it is he is about.

This is too vague - please tell me what that means? Do you want him to try to conatct Nightmare, wait for Arrotel to try to Walk it, or what?

[Wired*Nun]

I'm out for the time being, gonna call home then go to bed.

Presume Kat can work out with the mercs, pump them for info, and go in all public spaces of the Keep, including in and out of the Keep without restriction.

Nite all.

[chalice]

http://www.stephanie.ourwebfactory.com/


KITTY!!!!!!!!

[LynMars]

Cute Kitty! Gonna make me want one again...

I leave for two hours, after a day of no activity, and look what happens! Ah well, such is life...And chalice, do I ever commiserate on that "My eyes are up here" thing...so I learned to take advantage of silly gamer boys, who are then terribly disappointed when they realize I'm with that tall, skinny fellow over there...

[Pygysys]

I'm out for the time being, gonna call home then go to bed.

Presume Kat can work out with the mercs, pump them for info, and go in all public spaces of the Keep, including in and out of the Keep without restriction.

Nite all.
Okay will do so after the Orphans and Kat have a few games of cards to just relax and chill out for a bit before they mingle. :)

Nice kitty cat.

Only one of our three took an instant disliking to crutches. The two males keep needing to be nudged out of the way by the things. Mind you, not any of them have purred next to my leg yet and I've tempted them with cushions, attention and bikkies. You'd think they'd want to help, little ungrateful non-paying their own way freeloaders. ;)

[Shutter]

What's a "bikkie?"

A word of warning, sunday night my posting will drop to a very slim window each night, at best. I'll be in California for a conference (geek-fest) all week...right when it's getting interesting too....:(

[chalice]

What's a "bikkie?"
biscuit

[chalice]

This is too vague - please tell me what that means? Do you want him to try to conatct Nightmare, wait for Arrotel to try to Walk it, or what?I think we want him to try to contact Nightmare, but should wait for Ice to post - not sure whether he wishes to initiate or not.

(though Arrotel said the following the previous night:

"Yes, I too would like to meet her. ... I am also still interested in walking the maze, although consulting with your patron first seems prudent.")

[Tamarind]

Only one of our three took an instant disliking to crutches. The two males keep needing to be nudged out of the way by the things. Mind you, not any of them have purred next to my leg yet and I've tempted them with cushions, attention and bikkies. You'd think they'd want to help, little ungrateful non-paying their own way freeloaders. ;)
Here's a purr for you :cat:

[LynMars]

Awww...

yeah, I wanna kitty again now, even though I'm kinda allergic...darnit...

[Wired*Nun]

I may be more or less taking a day off from the game, I need some decompression time, and I need to be having fun when I'm doing it. There's nothing more to it than that, never fear. I think a couple beers and a movie or two are in order.

I may decide differently later on today, but I wanted to give everyone a heads-up and not worried that something more serious was going on, if you didn't see me post.

[Tamarind]

Beer good! If you have access to it I'd recommend Van Helsing for a movie...excellent fun ;)

[chalice]

Morning Dave - have a good relaxing time!

[Shutter]

Thanks the the heads up Dave. Enjoy the time to yourself!

[LynMars]

Have a good time, Dave; breaks are good sometimes.:P I liked Van Helsing, for what it was, and thought it fun, even if no one else here thinks it a good movie and were terribly disappointed with it. Ah well.

:x-eyed: I've just spent lots of time going through old threads and mashing all the Maze/Siodmak/Fount/Trump info our group's had direct experience with into one wordpad file, mostly from my character's p.o.v.--though I did include lots of Roland's library research and his conversations with Flora, for the basic Amber info provided and since it was all dug up specifically for our group's mission, and some other tidbits here and there Rae needs to keep track of and recall. Amazing what little details and thought tangents you can forget when it's been over three months IRL, compared to the timeframe our characters have experienced; I think for Rae, it's only been about 6 days since she first talked to Vinta Bayle, a little longer or shorter for some folks cause of Shadow and when they became involved.

And it still feels like we're moving at a faster pace than I'm used to in this medium; the events in Shutter's RP, for example, are all the same day, and that's been running since February.:roll:

[Shutter]

And it still feels like we're moving at a faster pace than I'm used to in this medium; the events in Shutter's RP, for example, are all the same day, and that's been running since February.http://www.online-roleplaying.com/forums/images/smilies/smiley%20-%20cheeky.gif
A day? Heh. Been barely half an hour.

[LynMars]

Nah, we hit the half hour mark when the pictures developed, after I joined up. ;) It's been about 45 minutes!

[Wired*Nun]

Back on, rested well, thanks! Let's get this party going.

[LynMars]

WHOO, Party!

*does a little dance, just cuz*

[Wired*Nun]

Why is it that every power I encounter, besides Pattern, has some seemingly easy method of reaching out and touching someone almost anywhere out in shadow?
What other Powers has Heldrik encountered besides Maze? :roll: Trump IS the Pattern-based power that does this. When did Heldrik ever encounter Logrus? :worry: Why does he think it would be "easy?" :O Why is Heldrik suddenly becoming a whiner? :fun: Lol :tsk:

[Tamarind]

If you both have XP, there is a way to do it. Find the nearest geek and go to town.
Tada! Successfully persuaded the two machines to share the internet connection nicely AND the firewall to let them both through. Whahey!

Now our cats can type posts twice as often - will have to find a way to secure the e-bay and tesco sites before they start ordering tuna and kitty bics en masse ;)

[chalice]

That's My Little Geek ;)

[LynMars]

Yay! Yeah, I'm glad I have my own Geek; makes life very simple.:fun:

[Pygysys]

I swear if cats had opposable thumbs it would be the end of the world as we know it. Why order tuna when they can order salmon? ;)

[chalice]

Have posted version 2 of 'Moment in Time' in the Fiction thread. I've tried to expland it to include more background on the weir without making it too clunky in the process. Suggestions welcomed!

[Thanos]

What other Powers has Heldrik encountered besides Maze? :roll: Trump IS the Pattern-based power that does this. When did Heldrik ever encounter Logrus? :worry: Why does he think it would be "easy?" :O Why is Heldrik suddenly becoming a whiner? :fun: Lol :tsk:

Trump and Maze are the only other powers. Trump can be based off of Maze as well so it seems to be just another power that requires some power source or base. Maze has rovers. And yes Heldrik is mentally bitching because he spend a couple of the hours the previous night looking for their quiry in a tiring way without success (not that he didn't spend some more hours looking into the storybook shadows after that, making him more tired). Top that off with the first real relaxing he has done in years and the mental attitude is ripe for a little whine.
Unless Heldrik stopped being something like a human, it would be natural to wish that things were easier. Complaining about it openly to the others would be borish, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't think it.

[Wired*Nun]

Oh, I know, I'm just giving you crap, man, it's all in fun.

Chalice, the story is very good. I would still like to see a bigger story, but I'm just greedy that way.

[samirah]

Hello everyone. Hi Dave.

[chalice]

Hullo, Beth:)

[Tamarind]

Hi Beth!

[Wired*Nun]

Beth couldn't get her old "Beth" account to work, so she made this new one. Hi Beth! I love you!

[samirah]

I love you too, Dave! :∙

[Wired*Nun]

Beth, you won't be able to get in to the private forums until the forum gods give you permission, so if you want to get back into the locked forums, you will have to sign back in as wired*nun. If you forgot the password, I just e-mailed it to you in Yahoo.

[LynMars]

*waves to Beth* Hullo!

[samirah]

Hi LynMars!

[samirah]

Dave, I'm still signed in as you in another window, so I 'm still posting on the Beth and Dave thread that way.

[Wired*Nun]

Okies.

[chalice]

Say, LynMars...Beth needs an avatar!

[samirah]

Cool! Can I really have one? Can I, can I, huh, huh?:D

[chalice]

Lyn is the Goddess of Avatars. You have to sacrifice to her....

[samirah]

Uh, oh! What kind of sacrifice must I make?:nervous:

[chalice]

Well, cookies always work for me, but as for Avatar-czarina...dunno.

A description would be a good beginning...she enjoys torementing our poor, helpless decscriptions....

[chalice]

Ooh - food! Gotta go, guys!

[samirah]

Hmmmmm:worry:

[Wired*Nun]

Lyn, go here http://www.online-roleplaying.com/forums/showpost.php?p=78498&postcount=867

for her picture.

[samirah]

Bonsoir, everyone!:tired:

[LynMars]

CT has all ready made the changes for Beth, I see....

I'm partial to chocolate, ice cream, or some combination thereof, btw. ;)

[Wired*Nun]

How can you tell that he made changes?

[Wired*Nun]

nm, I see.

[LynMars]

I noticed he posted a reply already, is all. Quick response today...

[Wired*Nun]

Waiting on Rebis, I want him to get a chance to do something. It's midnight here, too, so I'll be going soon. Night all!

[LynMars]

Look in the Contributions forum before you go, and tell me what you think...

[Thanos]

Beth should make an account called HAL...... ;-)

I would love to see
HAL says, "I love you Dave."

;-)

[Shutter]

Hello again Beth, thanks for letting us borrow your husband:)

I'm in Berkeley now, so on very infrequent internet connectivity. I'll see if I can coax Roland into saying something before I go pass out.

[Wired*Nun]

Hey, stupid question or maybe stupid GM, if I lock a thread, you guys can still see it, right? I thought locking it just made it so you can't post anything new - it doesn't stop you from viewing it does it?

[samirah]

No, just stupid GMW (Game Master's Wife). I just made an assumption without trying to read the threads that were locked. :∙ Never mind.

[chalice]

Ooh, I like what Lyn did for Beth's avatar. :nod:

[Wired*Nun]

Can someone tell Beth how to load the avatar? I can't even remember myself.

[Pygysys]

Okay that was weird, just got my inbox flooded with notifications from the game for posts that were posted a while back. Hmm... and here I was thinking we had a sudden flurry of 'extra' activity. Silly mailbox. ;)

[Tamarind]

Can someone tell Beth how to load the avatar? I can't even remember myself.No problem :smiling:

Beth - if you go to the "User CP" link (in orange nr the top right of the window), then choose "Edit Avatar" from the orange menu options on the left. This will take you to a window with some much less artistic piccies on it - scroll down to the bottom and paste http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/LynMars/avatar%20images/Samirah2.png

into the "Enter Avatar URL" box (easiest way is prob. to right click on the orange link in this post, choose "Copy Shortcut" - then you can just paste into the box), then click the "Save Changes" button - should then be done :cool:

And if it doesn't work post to let me know...I'll be on for a while yet :)

[LynMars]

Alternatively, right clicking on the image and choosing "Save picture as" to save it to your computer. Then going into the User CP, there's an option in the Avatar list to upload an image from your computer, that way if anything for some odd reason happens to my photobucket account, you'll still have the pic.

:)

[samirah]

Where is it s'il vous plait?

[samirah]

Okay.

[Tamarind]

A Good Point (TM) - listen to the Goddess of Avatars ;)

Really like the Samirah avatar, and the new Rae and Landon ones too btw

[Tamarind]

Success I see :P

[samirah]

Yes! Thank you so much LynMars for the Avatar! I love it!:smiling:

[Icebird]

Well, my action's posted in GM comms thread. Now I guess we wait for and Thanos Dave... This is exactly what Arrotel's been sugesting we do all along

[chalice]

Mm, been looking forward to a gentle, fluffy chat with Siodmak myself...or soemthing like that;)

[Icebird]

Well, I'm off to my first day of school after a three week break. Yay, new classes! Yay new (and some the same) teachers!

[chalice]

Have fun, Ice:D

[LynMars]

Whoo, school!

Blargh. I'm not sure Rae would really talk this much, and in this manner; especially not with Roland in the room; he's more the up front leader type, and should be the one doing most of the talking. But with Shutter off and having sporadic net connections at the moment, and Kat elsewhere in the Keep, I'm really not seeing many options to keep things moving.:\

Here's hoping Rae doesn't screw this up too badly...Or that her player doesn't, either...

[Wired*Nun]

Well, maybe she is drawing confidence from Josh's and Roland's support, as she seems to be on a roll, or establishing a rapport, or something. Dunstan obviously has parent and sibling issues. Remember the episode of the old Star Trek called "Charlie?" About the baby Q or whatever he was.

[LynMars]

Trelane...Yeah...There is kind of a similarity there...

And would it really be Amber if there weren't some familial issues?:fun:

[LynMars]

Cause I went through all that recently looking for plot points...I'm pretty sure only Landon was given a copy of Elress' trump. I could be wrong.

Does seem kinda funny that grabbed one person, knocked the other away...Though she didn't really seem captive, now did she? hrm...

[Thanos]

It was a combo of a punch and a big bird with claws and a beak full of screaching love flying at her. :-)

[LynMars]

ewww....:?

(not really confused; just seemed the most appropriate face at the time...)

[chalice]

Cause I went through all that recently looking for plot points...I'm pretty sure only Landon was given a copy of Elress' trump. I could be wrong.
I think this too. Gray and I, though, didn't know if Landon had given it to one of the others at a later point - if it had been done 'off-camera', for example.

[LynMars]

Don't think so, though I didn't go through you guys' first thread; I went through mainly what Raevyn saw first-hand, the exception being Roland's research into family. Which reminds me, questions for Dave:

Was Rinaldo being left off the list of known family intentional? I wouldn't think so...

And, it's mentioned in Roland's research that Martin had been told of Cassandra by Deirdre, but noone had ever met her, or knew what she looked like. Later, however, She's included in the list of Trumps Flora gives Roland. Intentional for later plot point, or typo?

[Thanos]

Heldrik does not have a Trump for Flora or any Elder or even for Amber for that matter. Only has trumps for some of his cousin and not Elriss.

ewwww...good questions.

[chalice]

yeah - I was a bit surprised that Heldrik wasn't supplied with a means of contacting Amber when he reported Landon missing, as it would have been abundantly clear that without Landon our group was utterly cut off - making the 'bring Siodmak back to Amber' instruction just a tad difficult to carry out. Guessing Flora was too angry and distracted to think of it.


But Arrotel can reach Benedict for us (we hope), and thanks to Raevyn, Josh and Asmundsen, at least some of us can contact one another now...which is a way better situation than we were in before.

Re Elress - it seemed likely to Gray that she might have given a Trump of herself to Siodmak if they were in cahoots (oooh, I love that phrase) or that he might have made a sketch or Trump of her for himself...so worth searching.

[LynMars]

A Sketch made of her by Siodmak, unless he's learned Artistry, would be useless after moving through Shadow, unless you can convince him to re-imbue it. hrm, yeah, you guys are kinda lacking in the contact department, though I'd think Arrotell would have some standard cards on him, at least...

Still wondering about above questions...

[Wired*Nun]

Was Rinaldo being left off the list of known family intentional? I wouldn't think so...

And, it's mentioned in Roland's research that Martin had been told of Cassandra by Deirdre, but noone had ever met her, or knew what she looked like. Later, however, She's included in the list of Trumps Flora gives Roland. Intentional for later plot point, or typo?

Probably just my mistakes.

yeah - I was a bit surprised that Heldrik wasn't supplied with a means of contacting Amber when he reported Landon missing, as it would have been abundantly clear that without Landon our group was utterly cut off - making the 'bring Siodmak back to Amber' instruction just a tad difficult to carry out. Guessing Flora was too angry and distracted to think of it.

Maybe the Elders sometimes treat the kids as grownups - if they don't ask for something, it could be an insult to tell them they might need it, hey? It also puts the onus on the player to play well...of course, Heldrik's refusal to have a Trump made of him runs counter to this as well...

[LynMars]

Probably just my mistakes.
"Probably"?:paranoid: Okay; just checking.:)

Maybe the Elders sometimes treat the kids as grownups - if they don't ask for something, it could be an insult to tell them they might need it, hey? It also puts the onus on the player to play well...of course, Heldrik's refusal to have a Trump made of him runs counter to this as well...True; Heldrik's rather paranoid about trumps so far; with what he's seen, it's little wonder...Roland had to ask for the expansive listing he received.

[Thanos]

Every week or so we have gamed so far, Trump has been used as a means of screwing somebody over and Heldrik has witnessed it (Jiakim, Landon, Siodmak). Who in their right mind wants to have that kind of personal ticking time bomb around waiting to go off? If somebody strapped a shotgun to your head and anybody could pull the trigger, you would make darn sure it wasn't loaded.

Trump = Ammo.
Badguys = Shotgun.
Trump + Badguys = no brains.

Since we all know there are badguys out there, the only way to have some brains is to not have trumps of yourself. Very logical, very tactical.

[chalice]

Probably just my mistakes.



Maybe the Elders sometimes treat the kids as grownups - if they don't ask for something, it could be an insult to tell them they might need it, hey? It also puts the onus on the player to play well...of course, Heldrik's refusal to have a Trump made of him runs counter to this as well...
Not that Flora knew about that...as far as we know.

[gentle rebuke] Don't think it's fair to say Thanos wasn't 'playing well', - he'd been waiting to have that conversation for a long time and then had to have it in 'near summary mode' due to time constraints. An awful lot more detail would have been gone into had we gone to Amber to report as we originally intended, I suspect...

Anyway, it will be nice to show we can manage without help from Aunty Flora or any of the others:yum:

[LynMars]

hrm...feel like I need to not give more away, but I'm drawing a blank on what questions to ask, or at least how to phrase things...

[Wired*Nun]

Since we all know there are badguys out there, the only way to have some brains is to not have trumps of yourself. Very logical, very tactical

Sure, but it just runs counter to chalice's point about being contactable. You can't have it both ways.

[gentle rebuke] Don't think it's fair to say Thanos wasn't 'playing well', -

I didn't, those were two separate statements, neither of which was accusatory. Is Gray bleeding over to chalice today? ;)

[Thanos]

Heh, I didn't take it as such ;-). Just a casual inquiry as to perhaps some of the reasons behind Heldrik’s decision. LynMars hit it on the head while I was typing ;-)

[Wired*Nun]

Well, sorry but, your inference was not my intended implication. Apologies to anyone who thought so. I just meant that there is an element of "oops!" in RPG. This is exactly why, for example, Rebis lost his best friend Drax in the recent confrontation - and he said so! "I forgot" something. Oops! My point, or my 'dull,' perhaps because it was apparently not a sharp point, is that there are several possibilities, ranging from IC to OOC reasons.

[LynMars]

Just a note: Heldrik should have a copy of Arrotel's Trump now as well, shouldn't he? No need to tax Asmundson more, if he does...

[Wired*Nun]

Too late!

[Thanos]

Yeah, he should....and if Asmundson doesn't answer he would use that of course.....but Arrotel has another job as it were ;-)

[Wired*Nun]

Nite all, bedtime for Dave-o.

[LynMars]

night! I'll try to think of ways to formulate more, or wait for Shutter...maybe...

[Thanos]

Arg..... I really get annoyed at the timing of my calls when I am trying to post ;-)

[Tamarind]

Mmm. Me too. Guess that's why they call it Bad Stuff :paranoid:

[chalice]

Mmm. Me too. Guess that's why they call it Bad Stuff :paranoid:I never take Bad Stuff for my face-to-face characters, but it always seems to adopt them anyway...sigh. Well, OK, so Taranis had Bad Stuff after that Blood Curse she forgot the details of, but other than that I've never deliberately taken Bad Stuff.

[LynMars]

Bad Stuff can be a good thing, and a lot of fun for some characters. One of my players tried to avoid it, but when she finally got it, had a blast; she really likes the darker, grittier side of things. Her stories are generally about the dirty, dark, grimy things, places, and people. So Bad Stuff suited her. It suited another char, too, but that might have had to do with his IC girlfriend doing terrible things, on top of the fact that he was one of those who accumulated things and Powers and it just kinda drove him mad after awhile...

I do Zero Stuff characters a lot; Karina was at Zero, as were more recent characters in the FtF I'm in now...Rae's a little different, though. I generally like Zero cause it seems just right to build a character that way, and I can lean one way or the other, deciding on a course eventually. Some characters end up Bad Stuff, some Good.

[Thanos]

The last time a character of mine had bad stuff he was stuck down in the depths of the Abyss with Brand playing with his mind (along with 2 other characters that had badstuff). Course he used a fake artifact called the Eye of the Unicorn to get us there and it sucked good stuff in the amount of 25 points from you in order to attune to it, which we all stupidly did.....what sucked for me was I had just 'bought' first in Warfare and spend all but 10 of my advancement points to do it (costs 25 above and beyond having 1.5) so I was 15 in the hole....

First and last time badstuff and a character of mine coinside.

[Icebird]

Well, I'm new to this, so I haven't had much chance to experiment, but Arrotel is defiantly a GOOD Stuff character. You could tell, couldn't you?:P

[LynMars]

Defiantly? I thought he was a prankster, but not quite that rebellious! :fun:

[Tamarind]

Well, I'm new to this, so I haven't had much chance to experiment, but Arrotel is defiantly a GOOD Stuff character. You could tell, couldn't you?:P
Oh yes - anyone who can get away with crank trump calls to Benedict has to have good stuff :roll:

[Wired*Nun]

Hmmm...I'm starting to see some lights coming on. That's gratifying. After all, wouldn't want to make it too easy.

[Wired*Nun]

Lyn, better edit your post...sorry...

[LynMars]

was just gonna ask that...

[Wired*Nun]

We can wait for Roland's post next, see how he reacts...

[Wired*Nun]

then it is in or near the Keep of the Four Worlds as that is the center of the constructs

Is Heldrik intending to speak falsely here? If not, I need to clarify, the Keep was not at the center, but at a point equidistant on an imaginary circle from the other two Mazes. That is, run a circle through the first two and then make a triangle out of the third, on that circle.

[Wired*Nun]

I'm headed for 'home', see ya all tomorrow!

[Thanos]

Ah....yes, that is not what I had a mental picture of. Was looking at 2 points like the top of an X and then the far left of a Y axis. Draw the lines together in the middle and you get an area where the central one should be if there were others on the outside that had not been found. Will get the post altered.



Done.

[LynMars]

Okay...Edited again, now that I have more than two minutes to do so...That should work...

[Tamarind]

Chalice asked me to let you all know that she's not ignoring the game but she can't get online at the mo 'cos our home internet connection is down :cry:

Hopefully we'll be able to get it sorted out this evening...

[Wired*Nun]

no worries. wierd day today in Baghdad anyway.

[Wired*Nun]

Time to go. Later, kiddles!

[Shutter]

Poor Gray...don't reckon that will be too fun of a read for her.

[Thanos]

Gone for half an hour at lunch.... :-)

[Shutter]

In OOC space Roland's player smacks himself in the forehead for having forgotten to tell Dunstan about the Siodmak Asmundson business.

[chalice]

Poor Gray...don't reckon that will be too fun of a read for her.
no...but the truth is probably better than some of the things she has been imagining....probably:paranoid:

[Wired*Nun]

I'm out soon, if anyone wants to get a response before I go to bed, please post in the next 5.

[LynMars]

In OOC space Roland's player smacks himself in the forehead for having forgotten to tell Dunstan about the Siodmak Asmundson business.
:) S'okay; I was getting to it.:worry: Little bit for a little bit here...New info would be handy, but looks like time difference and the Keep's defenses will keep that from happening for awhile. Ah well. I think I have enough to go off of...I hope...So long as I can keep his interest going so he doesn't realize what Roland's doing in the basement, anyway...

[Shutter]

So long as I can keep his interest going so he doesn't realize what Roland's doing in the basement, anyway...

Don't look at me! It was Lester's fault...

[Pygysys]

Can't take Roland any where, can we? :P

[LynMars]

Nope; gotta keep our eyes on that boy every minute!:fun:

[Shutter]

It's the rat's fault! The rat, I tell you!

[LynMars]

I think he planned this, personally...What do you think?;)

[Pygysys]

You could be onto something there... Of course he could just enjoy spending time in dark, enclosed spaces with furry little animals... Poor Lester.

[LynMars]

oh, now that's just mean!:fun:

[Shutter]

Ewwww....Not even sure what's being implicated, but I know I don't like it.

[Thanos]

I refuse to comment on that.

[the below are guesses, pure and simple, but entertaining]
However, I am waiting with much anticipation for Shutter to find the Keep Maze, with Jasra at its center more than wide awake and grinning maliciously at him. From the goo around the Maze will erupt a Snake headed Horse that charges Roland who slices it with Smoke as it splashed with primal energies taking him into a state of total bliss. He will awaken from it underneath Jasra as she laughingly tells him that the seed of Amber will once again be hers to control.

[Pygysys]

You know... I think Roland was safer with Lester after reading Thanos' take on things. :P

[Icebird]

Fortunatly, we will try to contact the nightmare at that moment, and in her distraction with Roland, get through. Hehe.

But seriously, I think we should contact her ASAP, and try to judge for ourselves.

[Thanos]

All depends on how much good stuff or bad stuff he might have on him ;-).

I had a player take 5 badstuff early in the game (10 badstuff generally gets characters killed in my games). She hated Gerard as a player....so who goes after her character trying to have a relationship....Gerard of course. Being a Sorcerer and Shape Changer she could get away from him in interesting ways, which always proved entertaining for the entire group to watch her squirm. In the end he got half his brothers, all of his sisters, and a few player characters to set the stage for him to purpose. His engagement ring was a Spikard!

I left at that point and would not talk to her about her character until she said yes or no. It was days before she said answered, but she did say yes. I found out later that she asked every player in the game (some 11 other people) what she should do and was amazed that all of them said something like, "DUH, the guy is likely the best lay you could ever get, take the damn ring." The wedding pretty much culminated the end of the game that year so it was fitting to end on a high, yet low dirty no good GM note.

[Icebird]

Talk about evil GMs... I've done evil stuff to my players, but never that twistedly coldhearted. I'll have to find a like to a list that I enjoy- how to be an evil overlord (215 tips).

[LynMars]

:x-eyed: Thanos, you are a terrible, terrible man...a much needed laugh for me right now, though...

Got a phone call a bit ago from my brother. Now, he's been an idiot lately; that's a different rant I can't get into now...But anyway...My uncle is in the hospital, and may not make it the night. Jonny said Appendix at first, but when he said it was maybe half rotted away and vital to his continued existence, he realized he meant the wrong organ. Supposedly, it's his pancreas. Our parents took off for the hospital, so they weren't around to confirm.

Jimmy's 12 years younger than my Dad, one of those unexpected kids. He almost died the day he was born, and almost like clockwork for the last 40-odd years he's almost died any number of times; food or blood poisoning, too many car crashes to count, broken bones, concussions, hordes of bees/wasps, etc...You name it, Jim likely had it happen. So right now, I'm praying, talking to friends, and giving him 50/50, cause he's come close before.

He's the uncle that introduced me to the scifi/fantasy genre, and encouraged my writing when I was very young; he was the one who got stuck watching my cousins and me when we were very small and visiting Nanna and Pap-Pap. Pap died when I was 11; my Great-Grandparents are gone, and Nanna died about 2 years ago. My Dad is flipping right now, according to Jonny.

So if I drop off or become very sporadic in the next few days, It's cuz I have to go to Pennsylvania...:depry:

[Shutter]

I refuse to comment on that.

[the below are guesses, pure and simple, but entertaining]
However, I am waiting with much anticipation for Shutter to find the Keep Maze, with Jasra at its center more than wide awake and grinning maliciously at him. From the goo around the Maze will erupt a Snake headed Horse that charges Roland who slices it with Smoke as it splashed with primal energies taking him into a state of total bliss. He will awaken from it underneath Jasra as she laughingly tells him that the seed of Amber will once again be hers to control.


Damn...Now there's an idea...I'd be surprised though...doesn't seem like Dave's style...for which I'm thankful. I get enough sex thrown in my face by pop culture, really don't need it in excess here too.

[Icebird]

http://www.eviloverlord.com/index.html
There is is- 235 or so things to keep in mind if you ever try to take over the universe. Warning- don't go there unless you want to spend a few hours reading all of them. I gurantee you'll want to, or your money back. Wait, you didn't give me any money? My point exactly.

I'm sorry about your brother- I hope he makes it this time too.

[Shutter]

Shit...I'm really sorry to hear that. You've got my best wishes that his, Karmic sturdiness for lack of a better term, holds out. People are resilient creatures.

[Thanos]

Damn...Now there's an idea...I'd be surprised though...doesn't seem like Dave's style...for which I'm thankful. I get enough sex thrown in my face by pop culture, really don't need it in excess here too.

Luke and Merlin were both part of a breeding program, as it were, by ladies of Chaos. Was trying to think along those lines....

[Pygysys]

Best wishes and thoughts to you and your Uncle. He sounds like one tough customer.

[Thanos]

#147 :-)
I will classify my lieutenants in three categories: untrusted, trusted, and completely trusted. Promotion to the third category will be awarded posthumously.

[LynMars]

Thanks for the support, gang. It's appreciated.

I read all those the other day. The Overlord list is awesome.

[Icebird]

Yes, 147 is my favorite one too. In a few weeks after everyone has had a chance to look at these and laugh themselves out, remind me to post the Evil DM list.

[LynMars]

Well, update from my sister, who's a nurse, so it's much more coherent:

Over the weekend, Uncle Jim (who is only 37, by the way) was very very ill. Vomiting, fever, faint, the works. Tuesday night, Aunt Barb (he lives with his sister and her family; these are Dad's siblings) called an ambulance. His heartrate was 150, blood pressure 80 over pulse. They got him to Hershey Med and had to put him on a respirator, cuz he stopped breathing, but he vomited again as they put the tubes down; apparently, it was in his lungs, leading them to fear pneumonia as a secondary...His Pancreas has failed for some reason, and it's looking like kidneys, too.

Dad and Aunt are staying at hospital, other Aunt is driving up from GA tomorrow. he's in ICU, can't get stabilized, and is never alone. They Don't Know what's wrong; they can't figure out what's causing this sudden failure. He's brushed Death a few times, but this...

Thanks for the support so far, gang.

[chalice]

Thinking of you and yours, Lyn. Big e-hug.

[Wired*Nun]

Wow, go to bed early one night...

Lyn, I'll pass this on to Beth and she will pass it on to others to be in their thoughts and prayers.

On a game note, ask Loric sometime about seduction by Flora. At least, that's who he thought it was. Damn shapechangers. Or actually, IC, probably don't, unless you want an invitation to a duel.

[Pygysys]

What a way to begin a conversation with an apparent brother: 'So... how about Flora?' Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

[LynMars]

Think you ought to stay away from that topic, Pygysys...Let's stick to teasing Roland for now. More fun, less slicing... ;)

Thanks, Dave. No word yet...

[chalice]

Blimey, is everyone else in this game but me in some other game together? And is it possible to Visit and spectate?:P

[Pygysys]

Nah, I'm only in this game and an email game that a friend is running for myself and my housemates.

Loric I believe is an NPC in this game who is Benedict's son... I think...

Anyway it's more fun teasing Roland. :)

[chalice]

Nah, I'm only in this game and an email game that a friend is running for myself and my housemates.
My other email game seems to have sunk into a perpetual coma:depry: And just as little Challis was about to find out what the word 'Abhomination' meant, too.

Poor Roland...LOL

[Pygysys]

Anyway I'm off to bed, first day back at uni tomorrow morning since the chipped ankle. I'm chipped, not broken. ;)

Back online in about 7 hours to post before lectures, etc. if needed.

Night all and my thoughts are with you Lyn.

[chalice]

Hope the first day back goes well!

[Shutter]

Hope the new day brings good news Lyn.

[LynMars]

They figured out what's caused it; apparently he's one of those rare people with an odd condition where Tums he was taking for heart burn reacted badly and shut down his pancreas, or something. The specialist he initially saw thought it was a gas bubble and sent him home. Now his liver and lungs are failing. Chances are not at all good; very few miraculous cases have pulled this condition, but he's got 14 IVs in him and lots of meds, to where they know he's not in pain, or likely to remember anything if he does somehow manage to survive.

[Shutter]

Damn...I'm sorry to hear that Lyn. At least he's not suffering at the moment. My thoughts are with you.

[Wired*Nun]

Sorry to hear about the prognosis.

We are under mortar attack. Pretty surreal, eh? I'm sitting in a hardened building listening to the bombs fall - and you all are reading this in NRT. No worries, it's safe, these are small ones. Gotta go, boss wants me.

[LynMars]

oh my...stay safe, Chief...

[Shutter]

Indeed....No getting mortared.

By the way, what's "NRT" ?