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I restored all your previously deleted posts in this thread. If you want to re-delete any or all of them, go for it.

@derp The changes to the color scheme

Happen to be WCAG AA compliant most of the time so congratulations on accidentally appeasing me

Hi everyone,

another year has passed and Firefly is indeed still flying. We’ve had some exciting adventures and have been able to hold on to a small but very steady and active playerbase.

However we are always keen to see new faces, so we wanted to push up our ad again and let you know we’re around. Whether you want to be a smuggler and spacer, a Fed making people’s lives a misery or a regular citizen of Persephone (or beyond), we’re presently looking for all sorts of new players who want to have fun in the beloved and not forgotten Verse of Firefly & Serenity, so come join us!

For those who couldn't make the opening event, don't feel like you missed your chance to jump in. It was lots of fun but super chaotic; amid the opening poses of survivors first washing ashore on the island, a lot will have been missed without the chance to reread the first scene. You can achieve the same sort of "introduce your character" moment (maybe better) by posting a vignette, like this one here. There are also many plausible reasons for why your character wasn't involved in the initial exploration, e.g. they may have been mistaken for a dead body or been recovering from shock/injuries.

We have a friendly community who'll happily drag in stragglers, and @crayon's an A+ GM. There are also a few roster characters still available and more on the way.

While full integration is still quite a bit away, we do have an integrated d10 roller (with explosions) now that works for both client side and the web portal!

From Monday, October 25th through Sunday, October 31st, HorrorMu* will be running a one-shot event called The Deadman's Party, open to anyone and everyone to come and try the game. Character creation guidelines for this event can be found at https://horrormu.com/forum/10/206. It takes less than 15 minutes to make a character, and you need only know what's in this ad and that post to make one.

Each RL day will be 3 IC hours, starting at 9am on October 31st, 1992. Set at the Eager Beaver lodge in Oregon, a Fraternity (Nu Mu Beta) and Sorority (Zeta Eta Pi) from OSU (go Beavers!) are throwing an epic Halloween event called The Deadman's Party, where everyone dresses up as their favorite dead person (historical or fictional). New player PCs will be Fraternity or Sorority members. This is NOT connected to or based on the HM 1.0 season Slasher! I'm just reusing the convenient setting.

That's it! If you want a week of horror movie fun for Halloween and feel like giving our game a try, you can find us at horrormu.com 4201.

Yyyyeah.

Writing an essay, sure, whatever. Seems a little much, but I can see it from the other angle laid out here and respect it.

Requiring not only an essay but specifically for it to occur on camera in a GM'd scene that said GM may or may not ever actually run and any particular player might not have a chance to participate in for any of a million reasons is just someone being a control freak, imho.

@three-eyed-crow said in Games:

@shaggy said in Games:

All the new games are Ares.
Am I the only one who just doesn't really care for Ares?

It's the easiest way to set up a game without a ton of coding ability. It's the same reason most Ares games default to FS3, because it's so well-supported and integrated with the portal compared to even the other plugins.

I'd love to see more variety but people have to make it, so!

ETA: Ares is very well-suited to me as a player in most ways and I like it/admire it a lot, but the reason you see so many new games using it in similar ways at the moment isn't some kind of mystery.

I wanted to use Arx-code because I would like to see more games using their pretty extensive systems. They put a lot of effort into the code. But, Arx-code was opted out because I couldn't figure out how to properly set anything up, couldn't find a coder to help me, and I was unwilling to demand my coder to do something that they felt was to much for them to do. I made it clear, or tried to, to them that I'm not concerned about quick or anything. I let my coder decide what they felt right about dealing in and decide what they felt was fitting for their time/interest/availability. I would rather my coder (or an of my staff types) mostly enjoying themselves over feeling like connecting as staff is a chore.

I guess that was my long winded way of saying I would like to see more variety too.

@mr-johnson This seems neat. I'd be tempted to risk the C&C to just make it an AU Matrix Mush, but I'm also not in the business of running games, so.

Back up , sorry for the long delay everyone.

I usually don't self plug again for some place I've opened, but this time I am shamelessly doing that.

Doing good, its a cozy little joint with 8 active players, about 10-12 player characters total. A few working through CG. Its the right size for me to throw down 1-2 staff scenes a week and keep things moving at a decent pace (not fast or rapid, if someone doesn't show up a few times a week or even daily, they're not being left behind).

We're getting through pre-season plans dealing with the appearance of magic in some humans along with the discover of goblins on earth. Folks are discovering their heritage a little (bloodline being part of the theme), developing their magic potential and such. Getting close to introducing the first serious threat to humanity.

Influences include Once Upon a Time and Trollhunters, more super hero adventurous like Trollhunters.

I discovered a closer theme in June after opening, a Turkish modern fantasy piece called The Protector that is really close to home. I'd recommend The Protector for anyone, season 2 isn't too good for overall story of the main arch but it really delves into a supporting character and is close to the life struggles of a WoD ghoul from my perspective (the guy that created the ghoul is constantly saying your mind and using his abilities to dominate them to do his bidding in a manner when she doesn't want to have anything to do with it, this characters struggle is the best part of season 2).

@sunny

It's a game concept that's been rattling around in my head for years, so, yeah, I'm a little excited I actually got to build it. I'm looking for players, but players will also be help, really. They'll be bringing the ideas to the table, after all. And I definitely assume that anyone who creates a species will subsequently be 'in charge' of that species and its development. I will also be happy to elevate players to Actual Staff with time and familiarity.

@runescryer I'm also playing at X-Men Divergence. Can't say enough how friendly and nice the folks are at that game. I love it.