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This might be a strange request, I'm looking for someone for a particular type of role for my character Clover@Arx:

Clover is a character designed to be a support / researcher. One of her main skillsets is investigating. However, my work training has ramped up and I'm working pretty consistently overtime AND my hours are pretty late. I'm able to catch some west-coasters but I'm often on too late for east-coasters. So passing /on/ the lore Clover's able to find can be difficult.

So I'm looking for someone who can be available later in the evenings (especially Thurs / Fri, where it doesn't have to be too late because those are my days off). Who would be available to RP about Clover's research projects and then pass that information on to other people.

RP would be a must, obviously, because @clues with no context is not good. HOWEVER. I also want someone who has other hooks as well, so they're not spinning their wheels for me. This'd be one role/job for the character, not all of them.

If you're interested let me know! Can be either a new character, or one already approved.

@stabby COME PLAY ON ARX WITH ME. I will help you make an OC or help you pick a roster. Also if you tell me who you are playing on FC, I can try to play with you there when I am awake late at night because of my ASS-SHIT schedule.

(Like tonight.)

I heard changeling.

@sparks said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

@kanye-qwest said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

@sparks Barx, After the Oh Heckening

I was going to go with "After the Chickening", as I sit here watching my corgi gnaw on a chicken chewy.

You two have made my day so much better.

In a world where the existence of Vampires and Werecreatures was exposed in the early 2010s with the advent of smart phones and social media (and then opportunistic individuals going public on national and global television).

To the Windy Plains Pack, home, hearth, and family are the most important priorities. That's why they accept any shapeshifter willing to abide by their rules as family. Pack-- Family --comes first. Everyone has a job. And no one starts any trouble that could harm the Pack.

Set on the outskirts of Cheyenne, Wyoming, The Windy Plains ranch is home to the local shifter Pack. On just over 300,000 acres of land, the Windy Plains has been home to the Brunson family for seven or eight generations. Unfortunately, the local vampire Circle has decided they want that land. The city has been pushing closer and closer to the edge of shifter territory and now the Windy Plains is prime real estate for new, lucrative development.

Warfare comes in many forms.

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• WHAT: The Pack is a game focused on a gigantic multi-animal shifter pack, located on a generational family ranch on the outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming. The Pack would be happy to continue running their ranch with little outside intervention. However, the Cheyenne City Circle of Vampires has decided to invest in urbanizing more of the land outside of Cheyenne... and they want the Pack's land. Roleplay is meant to be family, ranch, and pack oriented. This is a game of Family vs Enemies (shapeshifters vs vampires), urbanization encroaching on relatively untamed landscapes, and small town struggles against big city money. All with supernatural adventures and mysteries.

PCs will be allowed to play shapeshifters of almost any RL predatory animal (something that would bite a human being). Or human beings associated with

• WHERE:
  Website: https://thepack.aresmush.com/
  Game: thepack.aresmush.com port 2022

• WHEN: I'm putting on the finishing touches of grid and some theme webpages, then will be working on pregenned characters and npcs. I'm aiming for a soft open to alpha sometime within December. People are welcome to log in before hand and chat. But we don't encourage starting chargen just yet.

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Hello! I have been slowly working on this game for a while now. I'm getting to a point where I may be able to open to alpha! I have to finish the grid (which isn't as much of a thing on Ares games, thank god), add a little bit of info to the theme pages (oh my god I need more than just stat blocks for the monsters), and finish up NPCs and roster characters.

I'm not really sure where to advertise these days, so here I am! Whoo! Hi! Also, I'd very much be happy if anyone wanted to leave me feedback on anything that is confusing or doesn't make sense. I apologize for any typos or grammar errors on the wiki (I normally have someone else proof read my stuff because my brain doesn't accept grammar and glosses right over typos).

Anyway, I've been chipping away at this and I'm getting excited. I just wanted to share with people.

Some interesting pages you might like:

• https://thepack.aresmush.com/wiki/theme
• https://thepack.aresmush.com/wiki/the-ranch
• https://thepack.aresmush.com/wiki/the-pack
• https://thepack.aresmush.com/wiki/physiology

Oh, I've also just recently changed my mind about allowing human PCs as well as shapeshifter ones, so if you see any references on the website to humans not being allowed... disregard I'm going to go through and make sure all the pages are consistent before I open for apps.

@apos said in Let's talk about TS.:

@mietze said in Let's talk about TS.:

My hard line in the sand nope: anyone who claims to be married or partnered who then spends time bitching sexually about their spouse/partner. I'm not talking about occasional grumpy stuff, look I've been married/partnered to the same guy for like 20 years, every one gets on each other's nerves sometimes. But constant complaining or worse, /denigrating/ one's partner? Yikes. I have met people that were so ugly and mean about their SO that I did not feel comfortable interacting with them again. On any level.

Another hard note for me is someone who is constantly complaining about their other RP partners. Especially if its accompanied by "you are the nicest and the only one who understsnds." Yeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhhhh.

Holy shit, people do that? That is mind boggling to me, that would strike me as uncomfortable as someone asking like, creepy personal questions, maybe more so.

It would immediately make think that they were saying the same sort of things about me to their other RP partners.

Please, please, please.

@kay said in Let's talk about TS.:

@thatguythere said in Let's talk about TS.:

Mildly off topic but every time I open up this thread I hear Salt and Peppa in my head, then I realize how old that song is and by extension how old I am.

Let's talk about TS, baby, let's talk about pose and scene, let's talk about all the drama and the mayhem that may be

Heard it perfectly in tune with the song.

I used to think that I was SUPER PALE WHITE (I lived in Florida), as I don't really tan -- and I do sunburn but it mostly just turns pink rather than red or anything, and then the skin underneath is more peachy/pinky afterward.

However. I live in the Pacific Northwest again, and have learned that I am not nearly so pale as I thought. I am a pleasant sort of peachy color. Unlike the girl I saw walk past me at campus the other day, in cut-off hot pants that exposed the entirety of her Glow In The Dark Bone White legs. The sun glinted off of her calves and I was blinded.

@thenomain To be clear, if anyone felt I was calling them stupid or wrong for liking the chart— I’m not.

I’m sure I did come across that way, and I’m sorry for that. If this chart is your jam— my bad friends. Use it and if you can use it to help other people good!

My preference is to use more bite sized pieces of knowledge. I find it to be too complicated, and more information than needed at once.

@auspice French fries! Yes.. french fries dipped in vanilla shake is very much an "i am stressed the fuck out, stop looking at me" food.

...also i misread that as "eggnog soup" at first and was like "WHAT".... now i have to google and find out if eggnog soup is a thing

@saosmash said in Arx: @clues:

@shincashay I love the idea of theories in theory but it reminds me too much of homework when I try to actually do it and then I go lie down and nap instead. >.>

Yeah, I don't touch +theories. I'm sure this means I'm missing out on some information and important plotfoo... But if someone can't tell me what they think in a scene, but expect me to read a gigantic +theory ...

It's not going to happen. And writing one? No way.

I think I've read all of one theory, and it was stuff that I already mostly knew OOC but with some history I didn't know.

Please stop making my food slutty.

@tehom You're pretty brilliant, but I'm not sure even you can code tl;dr into some of the verbose mofas in this hobby.

"Y'all did amazing yesterday! ...so we're turning the heat up! Do better tomorrow!"

(All excellence shall be punished with added demands.)

Also:

"Hey if you finish this task that hasn't been done in FOREVER, you can leave an hour early!"

stare dead-eyed as, they also pull away the person who was supposed to be helping me do that task.

I spent the day at work away from MU stuff and talked with my SO after work. I've done a cursory glance-- folks are right in that I probably shouldn't have said what I did originally in my post since this is the constructive area (I apologize, I didn't even really realize this was in constructive, but I also probably would have still said it). I've not edited the post so everyone can see how shamefully dramatic I am.

@auspice I thought the top was my cat for a moment, and was confused. XD

@egg said in What drew you to MU*?:

I loved the tabletop game I was in running Changeling: The Dreaming so much (this was 1997) that I thought, "Hey, I wonder if they make MUDs, but, like, for roleplaying? Then I could play Changeling whenever the hell I want, and I don't have to wait for my lazy friend to run his game." It turns out they DID make roleplaying MUDs! I liked RP MU*s so much, I wrote a college paper about them at a time when such things were pretty unusual.

I was playing on Vampire Wars off and on from the age of 13 to the age of 17, and had wandered off to RP chat rooms (chatalot dot com, yo), and peeked back in to VWs at like 17?? And friends there were like: Lavian! You like RP come play on this MUSH! It's vampire but with more roleplay.

Okay.

...hey where are the mobs?

Wait, I'm not being murdered instantly just because someone finds me annoying?

Then I found other mushes. XD

Anyone watch Sense8? I want someone to gab with about the sensates! I want to be Sun Bak when I grow up. Or Wolfgang. Or Nomi.

For those who haven't heard about it, Sense8 is a Netflix original scifi thriller, about eight people around the world who become connected telepathically.

The roster is:
A white male cop from Chicago. (Will)
A transgender woman from LA. (Nomi)
A male van/bus driver from Nairobi. (Cepheus)
A female DJ from Iceland. (Riley)
A male thief/hit man from Berlin. (Wolfgang)
A female pharmacist from Mumbai. (Kala)
A male actor from Mexico City. (Lito)
A female business woman from Seoul. (Sun)

It starts out really slow but has some awesome moments as it ramps but and the last couple of episodes are awesome. Graphic birth scenes aside.

Expect a lot of tits, ass, and at least one dick scene if you watch it.

@Pandora said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

There is much weird going on in my head & I feel like most people are female-ing better than me.

I feel this on such a deep level. This might be a topic for another conversation, but I feel this so much. I'm pretty happy with my bits and don't want different ones but sometimes I feel like I do the non-physical, the ephemeral, or behavior parts od being female wrong or not as well as other women.