Posts made by Cobalt

I’m not answering because I think you’ll actually believe me, I’m answering so Bess and Hobos don’t have to keep having a circular conversation with you all.

No. I didn’t TS Isaac. I RP’d all of once with him where I was acting as GM and was busy having a vampire spray other characters in the scene with pepper spray. For the record, I didn’t TS anyone on my game. Ever since people accused me of TSing a staff NPC that my character was actively plotting to kill I have stopped TSing random people and only rarely engage and only with people I’ve known for a while. Huh, it just hit me I was talking about TR but that applies to Arx too…

I’m really tired of this particular community using the fact that I engaged in sexual RP in the past to shame me or question my judgments.

The slutshaming you have going on here is all too familiar. I also have literally no idea what Derp is talking about how I have banned him from games because I wanted his TS partner, but he won’t provide receipts so idec.

Now, this is literally the last of my attention I’m giving any of you.

Just so we’re clear, @reimesu @Ghost @Derp @Ganymede Do me a favor, and don’t come around to any game I run in the future. Because you won’t be welcome.

@reimesu lol Are you for real? Calling out the action would have been “This doesn’t make sense” or “seems like an unfair banning”.

Not spinning up a whole tale about how I wanted Isaac for myself so banned one of his TS partners. Labeling me as just jealous, rather than as I said grossly distressed and disgusted by Macha’s RP.

Hilariously, Isaac, Itzak, AND Macha are all not welcome to my next project. Because they are all, in my opinion, equally problematic and toxic to the community.

The final straw for Macha was her trying to get other people to ask me for a copy of the game db for her.

ETA But I forgot it is your precious Derp who can do no wrong.

Y’all can fuck right off.

@reimesu said in Ruiz:

@Bessarion said in Ruiz:

And I'm done giving your dysfunctional ass attention. Just stop.

(Bold is mine) That's a personal attack. Please stop.

Lol.

But spinning a story about how I banned Macha because I wanted Isaac for myself wasn’t? Y’all some on some hypocritical stuff here.

Your view of me is really disappointing and hurtful.

@Lyanna said in Coming Soon: The Pack an Ares Game:

@Cobalt I love the look of the website, awesome work there.

I can't really take credit for that! That was all Ren! Who is absolutely magical. I was just like "hey here's a background image" and they went to town.

@faraday said in Coming Soon: The Pack an Ares Game:

Supernatural isn't really my jam, but it looks really nice. The idea of werewolves and vampires revealing themselves on social media is hilariously imaginable.

Isn't it tho? I was up googling when the first smart phones came out, when instagram and facebook and all that were all officially launched to get the dates right too, lol.

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.

I have a sadness.

I ran a nonsensical in the hedge on DW2.0, where an insane hob was throwing lizards at people from a tower screaming "merry lizardmus".

I accidentally killed a PC with one of the lizards due to dice explosion.

Or, the time, on TR a pack of three werewolves were fighting some wasp spirits, and one of the PCs kept rolling so badly and the Wasps NPCs rolled so well that they knocked him out.

These were rank one spirits vs an overpowered Rahul.

Still, Lizardmus takes the cake.

Unless you count back in the days of yore, where on a dice less Anitaverse game, my PC vampire and her broodmate were arguing and started fighting...

And I went to write "Azura knees Lily in the stomach", but instead wrote "Azura kicks Lily in the snug."

And everyone just assumed I meant her cooch.

》.》

@tooters yes

Haunted Memories: I allowed my attachment to a player color my judgment and made rulings her favor that that had to be retconned. Not once, but twice. Her character was being stalked by another character and I decided that her Auspex would give her a chance at realizing she was being watched round the clock, and had an Battle of Wills or whatever it's called roll vs the other character. Then after that was retconned by other staff and her character was diablerized... I sigh decided that an NPC who was "obsessed with her" had been lurking around and witnessed it and let the cat out of the bag. This was retconned. ETA: The player did not ask me for these rulings, btw.

Blood and Citrus: (An Anitaverse Game set in Fort Lauderdale). I... used NPCs to TS PCs. It went about as good as you can imagine.

@misadventure she doesn't want to be. She gets cuddles when she wants.

Willow is turning 1 on the 13! I've got her spay appointment set up for next Monday. Here are some updated pictures, her being the runt and having husky in her meant she didn't get very big.

Bonus video:
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/690226408668135477/967689339528179732/Snapchat-627920786.mp4

For your kindness, I offer an excited puppy happy I am home.

https://imgur.com/gallery/4NyCkM0

Hi guys,

I'm sorry for my dramatics with this post. @GreenFlashlight kinda hit the nail on the head, re: depression. I wanted to thank you all for the kind words and support you left here. I also wanted to let you know that I am O.K.

Medicine has been increased and I'm undergoing different tests and dietary changes to figure out why I feel sick all the time. But I'm beginning to feel more like a human being again day by day.

I'm not planning on returning to MUSHing at large any time soon-- at the very least nothing Big. Nothing I'll need to invest too much of myself in. I'm focusing my time on writing and getting healthier: emotionally and physically.

Thank you again for all the kindness, and I'm sorry if I worried you all.

-Cobbles

Not sure why I'm posting this, perhaps one last cry for attention. I finally understand that in the grand schema of this hobby I don't matter. I am a blip on the radar, a tiny pebble in the ocean. As interchangeable and replaceable as a Lego piece.

Achievements and collaborations I'm proud of go forgotten, mistakes and people who despised me a thing of the past as well. I have given so much of my life to a hobby that, at this point, makes me feel insignificant and dehumanized.

Don't get me wrong, I genuinely care and love many of you. Members of this community have helped me many times when I have needed it. And I will always remember and appreciate that. But, it's gotten to the point where I am sure that is all I'll be remembered for-- the times I needed your help.

The games I have created, the ones I have collaborated on, the ones I have played on-- I don't matter. They don't matter. None of it. I'll be replaced as soon as someone wants my spot bad enough. Some other angsty flake. Part of me wants to scream, to rage, to demand to know why I don't matter enough. But that's pointless. This is a fact of reality. To the universe, to the world, to this hobby. No single matters. And I'm just a single person.

I've already been replaced. It's time to go.

So, I'm going the way of Thenomain, EmmahSue, Peverel, Brus, Bloodnut, R2, Ceredwyn, Whirlwind, PsyJane, Rasheem, and others of this community whose names I struggle to recall. Some I go less gracefully than. Others more so.

So long. Stay healthy, safe, and happy.

@coin said in Books...Books...Books....:

@cobalt said in Books...Books...Books....:

My favorite author says that it is important to be widely read if you want to be a good writer. So, I am attempting to be more widely read and read things that are not just romance or urban fantasy with a touch of romance.

I have no idea why but Amazon suggested Babel-17 to me and goodness. How peculiar a book. I think I will have to read it and then read it again.

It's on my list.

It's a very intriguing book. There's some dated language/ideas in it (the main thing that made me cringe was overly detailed negative descriptors about a fat person), but then on the other side shows polyamory in a positive light.

The world it is set in is incredibly intriguing, and it's a very quick read. And the way it's written is ... Wow. I hadn't heard of this guy before (being I'm a terrible person who mostly read smut), but I'll probably pick up some of his other books to read.

My favorite author says that it is important to be widely read if you want to be a good writer. So, I am attempting to be more widely read and read things that are not just romance or urban fantasy with a touch of romance.

I have no idea why but Amazon suggested Babel-17 to me and goodness. How peculiar a book. I think I will have to read it and then read it again.

@packrat I'm so sorry