Posts made by cirim13

@a-meowley Myles! Frankie! Both people I loved RPing with loads! I'm glad to know you're still out there, typing away, because you're awesome

-Jimena from Fallcoast/Candice from Fate's Harvest

@pyrephox Oh I absolutely agree with you, but again....I do love the setting and little details so much I would totally play it for the six months it managed to stay on the rails.

TLDR; TBH I seriously need a book club to talk books with. If any of y'all got a discord book club... I'll probably chat forever and spam y'all, but if you need another person, I throw myself on your consideration. Since I don't, let me get this off my chest, community.

So like a lot of people my life has been one big roller coaster the past two years, and atm I find myself somehow uninterested with all my past fixation/hobbies... AND YET... without the time or energy to dedicate to (1) find new MUs for those that have shut down but also (2) without the availability to dependably play on the ones I still have characters on. So I've dusted off my kindle, was convinced by my far left roomie to download StoryGraph as an alternative to goodreads (I really like it), and started rereading some old favorites.

First off, Ilona Andrews. ILONA ANDREWS. Caught up on all the Hidden Legacy books and reread all the Kate Daniels books.

• HIDDEN LEGACIES WOULD MAKE SUCH A GOOD GAME/MU* SETTING. Like. You have the Houses for all your politicking and all the super fun powers and levels and weird nonsense, and it's modern day and who doesn't want to have magical feng shui powers (Harmonizers need to be explored more, darn it) and magic mech. Sadly I feel it would devolve into a power upping contest or a L&L marriage-match session but man I would love to play in that setting and part of me wants to make info pages for this game I 100% would not run or create but it could be great.

• Kate Daniels. Also would make a great setting, between the Pack, the People, the Mercs, the random scions, the fun of the Shifts... but also can I just say I really, really want whatever novella must exist about Christopher and John Hopkins hospital because I read that last novel and spent days looking for a short story that apparently doesn't exist. Yet. YET. IT HAS TO AT SOME POINT RIGHT?!?!

• Hugh & Elara are amazing and I want Book 2 like, this weekend. Sadly not happening.

And Los Bujold! Miles Vorkosigan is an amazing series, but can I say - Five Gods world = best?

• Curse of Chalion was so good. I loved Caz. But Paladin of Souls and Ista's thorniness will forever make her #goals. I'm not gonna lie, at least one of my chars was probably subtly influenced by her (justified) snark and scorn. The other books were...okay I guess. The mythology was simple but fun.
• I hope to find/start the Penric books. Has anyone read them? Opinions?

Not a favorite, but I also found The Others series by Anne Bishop, rec'd by a friend.

• The main character wasn't my favorite. I'm not a super-fan of the innocent ingenue types unless they're spooky-horroriffic. We all have our types, okay?!
• The world slaps, though. What can I say, I love me some good world. And the idea that all the wild things in the woods were just like, "Nope, no farther hoomins" and enjoy a good side of long pork was pretty entertaining. But also, can you imagine the characters you could make in a story like that? The freed blood prophets, the wild things in the woods, the elementals, the people with baby powers, the vampires-- it all sounds really fun, though more for a campaign setting than a MU*, imo.

Anyway, that's all I've done in... uh... two weeks. No one count what that comes out to. But StoryGraph is now also recommending I read Unclean Spirits by MLN Hanover, Urban Shaman by CE Murphy, and Rook by JC Andrijeski, along with some stuff I've already read but haven't rated, like Mercy Thompson or Nalini Singh stuff. I also plan on reading Vicious by VE Schwab from my to-read pile. Anyone read any of these to tell me if they're good? (Vicious I know is). Or have other recs for me?! LMK-- through private chat, even, if you don't want the world to know you got ten books deep into the Psy-Changeling world, I totally understand.

If you've gotten this far, my god you're a trooper. Or someone who likes reading a mental trainwreck happening before you. But thank you!

XOXO

My one complaint to you, @surreality, is I have spent the entire friggin week looking up insane fish abilities and holy cripes there is some fascinating things out there, but nothing I think is entirely apropos for a mu*based power, but how cool would it be to have a character who needs to eat insane amounts of algae for 3-4 weeks of the year but then basically lives on sunshine and has to stay in shallow waters for a year because sunlight...

Aherm. Not sure if you'll have shallow-water people (it doesn't sound like it) but if you did,..nudibranch people. So much colors. Or really, any sea slug. They're so cool.
Anyway, I have spent far too much of my week looking up weird fish and being super excited about them, and I'm pretty sure the classmates who sit behind me are questioning why I have so many creepy fish I look at when I should be doing classwork.

Creativity, curiosity, and a dash of escapism. Maybe a little collaboration. I like coming up with characters and then shooing them into a world. The challenge for me is considering how this thing I've created is going to act/react, especially if the character's really different from me. So basically, everything @Seraphim73 said. Plus exactly @SG's situation, with less fools being blasted and more insane ideas being exchanged.

The grumpiest Warden on DS! I remember you! Both your characters were awesome.

Mimi says hi! And probably tries to set you up on a date or something.

You know who I've played with. I adored like half these people.

Twinsies!

@Arkandel Too late!

@Faceless Thank you for that link! It looks wonderful!

@Coin Oh, definitely. Absolutely just going to run for friends and people I know first. I'd never even consider it otherwise. Heck, I'm having second thoughts when it's just friends.

I think the thing to watch for me will definitely be what @Gilette says - expectations of what players might do. Hopefully I'll have time to read that Storytelling thread today. But thanks to all for responding with some solid advice to think about.

So hey, not sure if this is the place to post (how often do you hear that, right?) buuuuut...

Well, I've been RPing for like, a decade - which is apparently young for people in this hobby, so whatever - but I've never ST'd, not really. But a friend and I were lamenting that we couldn't find a new MU* that appealed to us and decided what the heck, we'd do something small via messaging or Roll20 or something for ourselves.

Unfortunately, I have the most RP seniority, which means I defaulted to ST. So! Seeing as I'm prone to freak-outs and overthinking, I figured it couldn't hurt to ask the collective - what's the best, most useful advice you have for fledgling STs? Is there a board already that has a repository of all wisdom?

If it helps, we're probably doing a Fate-based Welcome To Night Vale thing because Night Vale is SO PERFECT for small TT rather than a MU* setting.

Minor edit because I lost a word somehow. Bad me, not proofreading.

On the whole description thing - I tend to write one because usually the PB's I find are close-but-not-quite matches to my mental images, but not exact matches. Yeah, I usually have a mental image in my head and search endlessly for someone who matches it.

So it'll be small things, like the picture will have short hair, but the character's is long, or the character has multiple piercings but the picture doesn't. And since I know I do that, I do tend to write my own descriptions (though I hate doing it) and try to read other people's descs to see if there are inconsistencies I need to pay attention to between PB and the actual character.

@Arkandel

Oh, absolutely, especially weekend ones - weekdays I usually don't get home till 9PM EST, so I'd be late for a lot. I like bar/casual/downtime RP more than most, but the events give you something to talk and wonder and brood about in that off time!

I'm liking Shadows Over Reno, but I'm new to WoD 2.0/CoD/whatever. So I made normal mortal+ while I learn more about the system. This isn't going to get me into most +events and I'm doubtful it'll mean I do major plots, and I went in knowing that's a thing. Even if the events weren't mostly Hunter/Super (which makes sense) I would avoid the public events because I don't want to slow down the pace with questions and my book-flipping while things are getting exciting.

As for not-me people, RL holidays and staffer-rl keep cropping up. Plus, I see a lot of people getting their bearings in the game, deciding what and who they want to play and how. Especially with alts being open: it's the first week of a new mu* all over again, with people popping in and out of chargen and debating second or third faces.

Despite the fact that I play rather cheerful characters most of the time, I like games with a hint of noir to them - even if we're not criminals or it isn't crime-dominated, the touch of cynicism and moral ambiguity is something I prefer to "We're Good Guys! They're Bad Guys!" Regardless of genre. That said, constant gloom and doom makes me pull my hair out. There has to be a happy balance between them: happiness and joy and fun can happen, but the idea of not being able to escape the world you're in has to be there.

I hesitate to use the word "political" because it always brings to mind these huge factions, but I like games where tension between character groups can play out, more than I like games that pit players against outside monsters and threats - though throwing those into the pot every once in a while is fun. Just not when it's ALL the time. Throw in a little mystery and we're on our way to a fun game. I also prefer when things are more...local than global. Like, defending your neighborhood vs THE WORLD IN DANGER. It's the immediacy and personal nature of the threat when it's local that I like, I guess. So yes, I prefer player-led efforts with staff around to monitor and throw in the occasional surprise wrench.

For genres/settings I like historical-based though not 100% accurate. I also like space operas, because of the operatic, adventure-swashbuckling, dramatic nature of everything. I like westerns because of the kick-ass pragmatism that is such a large part of it. Like Arkandel I'm not much for robots and transformers. Anthropomorphic animal characters can't be the main attraction or I'm out. School games I don't mind as long as no one creeps on the underage characters because ewww squick.

I despair of anything that has me have to learn an entirely new vocabulary, political systems, history, and nation-names just so my character doesn't sound like a backwoods idiot. I don't like The Bedroom Shuffle Game though I do like tea parties and pretty dresses and fantasy-of-manners.

I can't staff to save my life but I already have my character half-planned so consider me a mostly-lurking cheerleader. cheers...lurkily?

@Ninjakitten Ha! I haven't actually played KD in 2 years or so? Maybe longer? I think I asked initially because KD wasn't doing it for me.

@Lithium said in Cirim13's Playlist:

@cirim13 I am always amazed when you mention your Kushiel's characters, because I /know/ you little sister, and it is so out of character for you

Hahaha! Well, remember, she WAS a minor, so there were no sexcapades. I just got to dress up better than anyone, flip my awesome hair and be bratty and superior. I can be really good at that

@Seraphim73 I remember! We went clubbing that one time! Think it was just one or two scenes, though.

zomg eeee a yooouuu! Hi Jai!

Mostly because it seems fun and nostalgic.

I occasionally have RP'd some minor characters not listed, but usually not for very long. These are the big ones that come to mind.

Chronologically backwards by game (time overlaps):
*Edits: updated with new chars as time goes on.

Most Active
Modern Nights:
Breyenne Almadulce Silva

RL: The Fuckery

Occasional Activity

Inactive:
Gray Harbor:
Gina Castro
Ginger Johansson Lovage-Vydal

Euphoria:
Thea Efferding

Spirit Lake:
Marisol Xoana Reyes-Keaton

Paris of the West:
Yumaris Sorensen-Diaz

Arx:
Ennettia Igniseri
Victoria Kennex (1rst iteration)

Fate's Harvest:
Candice Ellison
Jimena Moore
Sabrina Desrochers

Fear and Loathing:
Felicia Worth
Alondra Avila

Fallcoast:
Jimena Moore

Reno 2.0:
Luciana Villanueva

Bump in the Night
Temathee Dalton

Dark Spires:
Lavinia Church
Alondra Maestra
Mimi Arias

Eldritch (Super briefly)
Iris Weathers

ChicagoMU
Meredith "Merry" Maddison
Millie Wilson

Kushiel's Debut
Eleonore Chabot
Perashyl

Masq
River McCoy
Liane Wiggins

Seattle-Shadowrun game
Tinmai

Legends of Karinth (very first MUD ever!)
Arisca Dyis

I am vaguely bummed about the lack of a western mu* out there. Am I the only one who would squee at the wild west with a dash of eldritch?

@ThatGuyThere I'll lurk about and see if it'll cure my fix. I do like the idea of mortals-only in a big bad world.

@Cobaltasaurus The Singh GuildHunter novels are actually on my too-read list but I haven't actually read them yet. I might move them up on the lit, if there's a game coming out. Too early for a timetable so I know how far up the list to move it? I have a reaaaally long list.