Kushiel's Debut

[Sunny]

@Echx said:

(I play Reynard, and I'm about >< close to marching the country off to war. That'll be fun! No, really!)

So stupidly excited about this. But yeah, as Echx has outlined, there's a whole lot going on. While no, the monarchy is not likely to go anywhere, and no, it's not a crusader kings sort of game, there is a whole lot more that goes on beyond the marriage simulator. Mind, there's plenty of the marriage simulator sort of thing that goes on, as well as uh, frock drama I guess it's called? I enjoy that stuff too, mind, but squee war. From what I can tell this is not a game with a metaplot that has a huge end goal to it. There really aren't win conditions so much as 'hooray, this month I'm on top' -- if you successfully climb the ladder of power to the top, it changes to a game of defense.

[3543thrh67]

Okay! I am Corinne! Some of you have probably been talking to me so feel free to page with me and plot ideas for her. I am not familiar with Kushiel theme so help would be very welcome in plotting her concept.

[HelloRaptor]

I am not familiar with Kushiel theme so help would be very welcome in plotting her concept.

I can only assume it involves a lot of standing half naked with your back to other players.

[Rook]

with a flower tattoo proudly displayed?

[HelloRaptor]

@Rook
I thought those were just elaborate pictograms to convey their pricing plans.

[Rook]

Now that... is funny. Very clever. I'm a fan of the artwork, myself, but I'm biased.

[Arkandel]

@HelloRaptor said:

@Rook
I thought those were just elaborate pictograms to convey their pricing plans.

That's not a pricing plan, it's sponsorship branding. The advertisements on her back are less expensive than ones in more, shall we say, intimate areas.

[Misadventure]

Is their training to exclaim various products and services at the right time when work is in session? Has this thread gone far into Oglaf territory?

[Arkandel]

@Misadventure said:

Is ther training to exclaim various products and services at the right time when work is in session? Has this thread gone far into Oglaf territory?

Oglaf should be explored by more threads, not fewer.

(And yes, oh YES! Don't stop! that's almost as good as Mrs. Teahouse's baked pies, now available in three different flavors!)

[BetterJudgment]

What's Oglaf?

[thirty minutes later]

Oh.

[Misadventure]

You read that from the beginning, and don't miss the links to next page vs next comic.

[Sunny]

@HelloRaptor said:

I am not familiar with Kushiel theme so help would be very welcome in plotting her concept.

I can only assume it involves a lot of standing half naked with your back to other players.

Actually, it's kneeling with your back exposed. Get it right.

[Rook]

Yeah, Raptor!

[Cobalt]

I've recreated an old character. I'm looking for a few folks to play members of the Nantes family. Which is preeettty much clear right now. I'm playing Mylene Nantes, a priestess of Eisheth and healer.

[Arkandel]

The problem with playing on MU* derived from book series is that you must have read the series in question.

[Coin]

@Arkandel said:

The problem with playing on MU* derived from book series is that you must have read the series in question.

. . .

First of all: nope. Ask anyone who's played on any of these. Hell, in this very thread people are asserting that you don't really need to have read the Kushiel books to play on this game. I've been invited to Pern games and been told, 'You'll pick it up quick without reading the books!' and you can go to any random Comic Book MUX and find people who've never read a comic book of the characters they're portraying. They use their friends's opinions, wikipedia articles, other wiki articles, movies or cartoons about them, etc.

So no. Not really. Not even a little.

I mean, not to drag it back to nWoD, but how many people do you know that play nWoD without actually reading the damn book even a little? Hint: way more than you think.

[Arkandel]

@Coin said:

I mean, not to drag it back to nWoD, but how many people do you know that play nWoD without actually reading the damn book even a little? Hint: way more than you think.

Reading a game manual is not the same as reading a book series, but I take your point.

Jerk.

[Coin]

@Arkandel said:

@Coin said:

I mean, not to drag it back to nWoD, but how many people do you know that play nWoD without actually reading the damn book even a little? Hint: way more than you think.

Reading a game manual is not the same as reading a book series, but I take your point.

Jerk.

Actually, when you're playing a game that is based on a fictional setting, where the context of the game is largely based on how things work in that world and there is no rules manual for that world, it is exactly the same.

If there is no Kushiel RPG System published, then reading the books is the closest thing you'll get to a manual regarding what is common, uncommon, possible, impossible, etc., in that setting. The source material becomes the manual.

Dickbutt.

[Arkandel]

@Coin Nope! Because a game manual can be skimmed even if you don't want/intend/have to read the whole thing. Page 55 is where the powers are, woo-hoo! Page 115 explains how the vinculum works.

For a book series you really do need to read the whole thing since this information is scattered throughout the pages. Yes, you can read a compilation of all this stuff in a wiki or something but that doesn't include the wealth of theme, expressions, regional dynamics etc you'd absorb from the novels.

I played in a Wheel of Time RP MUD for years and we could always tell when an Aiel player hadn't read the material. They were played like soldiers-with-spears or barbarians-with-spears rather than Aiel.

I agree that you'd eventually learn from just picking up on what everyone else is doing though. Or uh, I suppose reading the books is always an option, too.

Buttcrack.

[Coin]

@Arkandel

Except we're talking within a certain context of playing a game based on these things, and I posit that people who skim are even worse than people who don't read the manuals at all, because they take isolated information without the surrounding context and make stupid mistakes that make other people want to defenestrate them.

Turd blossom.