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I just want to thank Giordano, Kellan, Gerrit, and Sebastien on The 8th Sea for making last night one of the most enjoyable scenes I've ST'd in a long time.

I try really hard to craft a narrative and engage people in the sights, sounds, smells (rotting flesh, ha ha!), and the landscape around them. Horror is my favorite. These guys engaged not only with the story, but with each other. The bickering between the Englishman and the Italian was a highlight of the evening.

It was a joy to run for you guys. And for anyone on T8S who missed it? Don't worry. Tooth and Claw is far from over as a plot and there will be more after the holidays. I promise.

Every so often, things go out of whack and I know it'll just be a few weeks, maybe a couple months of homg depression and then I'll be OK again but until then everything is just hard. And I know it's the major depressive disorder. But I can't help but also look at life and go why. Goddamnit self why. You have a social life now you have your finances mostly in order you have a job you love why can't you get out of bed on a nice day why is your apartment a mess why can't you feed yourself

me af rn:

I know in a few weeks everything will rebalance itself and I know it's just a spike in everything and spending money on adjusting meds when it's just a brief spike isn't worth it but fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu I hate it.

@faraday said in System dealbreakers:

@arkandel said in System dealbreakers:

What makes a table-top system not good to use for a MUSH?

What Rook said. Also, personally, I think that too much complexity is a bad fit for a MU. I adore Shadowrun tabletop. Even if it were fully coded, I would absolutely dread playing that system on a MU. And usually it isn't, requiring entirely too much effort on the part of players and GMs. I know people use it, but I think it doesn't work so great.

Honestly, for as popular as nWoD is, sometimes it drives me insane as a MU*. I get so sick of having to reference websites/PDFs to remember all the different dice pools.

"Ok, for this power I have to roll This+That+Other+... and then I have this OTHER merit that adds..."

I will worship as a god the person that ever finds a way to streamline that shit.

all I heard was Dune

I resolve to get @Tinuviel to love me.

I thought this weekend that maybe this ADHD 'hyper' episode was coming to an end. I didn't feel as.... bad. Bad, but not as bad. I was eating a bit better. I was handling stuff like personal hygiene (ha ha) a bit more. I made it out of the house to a social engagement.

Today at work I feel like my brain is on fire.

I can't focus on other people talking.

I sit down to type out emails or even handle my to-do list and I just......... spazz. I can't even finish thoughts.

I forget where I was even going with this.

I wanna go to a corner and cry.

Who wants to learn Python with me and build an awesome space system in Evennia? I've had Ideas for a couple years now.

Dr office waiting rooms are just anxiety purgatory

@lisse24 said in Encouraging Proactive Players:

Maybe schedule a post-action/downtime scene in between action scenes to give the chars involved a chance to debrief/talk/plan?

Why should that be on the ST? Why should the ST have to schedule time for the players to do their research? To do their planning? To do their legwork?

If I'm running an investigative plot, should I have to:

• Design the plot
• Run initial +events
• Schedule time for downtime hangouts
• Schedule time for info gathering
• Schedule time for brainstorming
• Schedule time for 'what should we do next?'
• Tap everyone on the shoulder to ask them if they wanna do anything else?
• Walk them through every possible option for what they should do next

... at that point why not just skip those last six things and just jump to the next +event and go 'OK so you would have done X, Y, Z and gotten these results.'?

And +actions are nice, but you're assuming all plot is run by Staff.

Not all plot is run by Staff.

I'm gonna be my own peeve for a moment. I was an idiot yesterday.

Texas has been hell for anyone with allergies and asthma lately. Ragweed has been insane. Temperatures have been up and down. The past few weeks I have been an allergy mess. The past week I've had an asthma attack going. Saw new doc yesterday.

He's great. Like, asks permission before touching great. Asked about weight, then apologized for asking and said 'I won't ask again, but if you ever want to discuss it I'm here' great.

When we discussed my asthma, I pulled the 'ha ha I'm probably at 75% capacity' and when he checked me out he got all worried and nope you're barely getting any air. We need to get you on a steroid run.

But my ass didn't pick it up on the way home. Instead I decided 'I'm too tired. I just wanna go home and rest. I'll do it tomorrow.' I was too stupid to realize that tired was the asthma.

So today at work has been a fight. I kept slumping over at my desk between hits on the inhaler. Dizzy spells. After finishing my presentation prep I gave in and told my boss I was heading out....and she picked up on my stress and thought it was presentation stress (ok some of it was and we did talk that out).

But really I'm my own peeve because I should be smarter than this and I'd have yelled at any one of you or an rl friend to get the damn meds immediately and not have put it off like this.

I found my Barkening PB:

I made alfredo sauce from scratch tonight. No recipe. Just the knowledge that 'okay, bechamel is the base for most sauces so I start with a roux and a block of grated Parmesan and....'

holy shit this is so good and I am amazing

@goldfish said in MU Things I Love:

And they liked it! Staff helped Goldie to refine the concept, make it fit into theme, and offered ideas to further it. They nurtured Goldie and out of it came Nick: Disabled former marine turned Alex Jones for the paranormal. (ADAMSKI operative. He spreads lies on Youtube.) He's involved in plot and Goldie is totally engaged with him as a character.

Look, I will fully admit I can be one of those Staffers who will sometimes see an app and gripe and go 'ugh are you fucking kidding me' because it is some really stupid annoying ass trope or because I am really worried a person is painting themselves into a 'gonna have a hard af time finding RP' corner.

but

I am also one of those staffers who really loves to see interesting concepts out there and wants people to have fun. Nick is a great idea and I fully believe TFV likes to use their assets. ADAMSKI is not commonly used on MUs because they aren't the kicking-in-doors and shotguns-in-faces wing of TFV, but... everybody needs their guy in the chair. And Nick? Nick makes the perfect guy in the chair.

And this is totally what you have a retainer for, when it comes to everything else. TFV has needs for everything. They're not just boots with guns (that's Union). They're an entirely backed and funded force across the world. That's why they're a conspiracy, not a compact.

I love Nick. Nick is great. And your bbposts with Nick are so awesome to see. They're one of the most fun ways to get plot-y rumor stuff out there I've seen.

"Every jacket's a party jacket if I've got it on."

@arkandel said in Bad descriptions:

I get the concept of colors, but what are vindictive eyes?

@shincashay said in Bad descriptions:

@arkandel Someone stole his car and his dog.

This gave me the idea for our first 'purple prose desc challenge.' Not all of them will be purple prose. Not all of them, necessarily, will require writing (some might be where you are provided a desc and asked to draw what that person / thing looks like IN YOUR MIND). But this one... this one tickled me.

• Take a song.
• Desc a person using lyrics from that song.
• Embed them into the desc whatever, whichever way you want.
• The more creative you get, the better.

You have a week, ladies and gentlemen. Next Monday, I'll put up a poll so people can vote on their favorites. No cash prize, but the pride of knowing you had the best desc in all of MSB (this week). Just hope @Tinuviel doesn't hit the bottle first or we all lose (he probably will).

@Roz said in Y2K:

Why do people think the Y2K issues weren't real? The reason we didn't see anything seriously fuck up is because of how much work people did to prepare and update systems so they didn't break.

This hurt.

I sort of petered out towards the end because...ow.

This woman is like a lanky, lithesome feline in the darkness, but she is become the darkness itself; wrapped in its ebony embrace like a promise from heaven itself. Her hair shines like the evening dew, reflective of the care put into the gently draping and twisting locks that tumble and fall along her curving, voluptuous curves: a woman taken as much by the earth as the wind that shapes each individual ringlet that frames her distant expression. The mass is dark as night like when the sky itself is starless. She has the fey features of the ruler of a distant, long-lost land, taken flight like a fine skylark. One could get lost in the cerulean pools of her twin eyes: each glinting like a bell through the night beneath high-arched brows over aquiline nose and the cupid's bow of full lips that tease a dream unwinding. It begs, through perfection of form: wouldn't you love to love her?

Song.

I'm checkin' it out. I like murder and mayhem.