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D&D 3.5e "The Biggest Damned Dungeon". Love the setting, wish I could be in another campaign of it.

Going live with some #dontstarvetogether on ! Check us out here:
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Streaming some Disco Elysium here: https://www.twitch.tv/lyrateal

7th Sea.

I would give my kingdom for a 7th Sea game. But would I make it myself?

... no.

@Roz I've tried TN and as much as I wanna like it b/c I think the staff there are pretty awesome, the game itself just overwhelms me so badly. But I do highly recommend to other people.

I'm currently gonna work on a character for GH.

I ended up finding someone! Now I just gotta write my BG and desc. :weep:

Roommates still haven't paid me for this month's power. Haven't even acknowledged that it's due. Cats peed in my clothing so I have to wash literally all of it. Roommates left my previous load of laundry just ontop of the dryer rather than putting it again. So, literally everything has to be washed but what i'm wearing...

Roommate's overly aggressive spastic cat (that she has not gotten spayed yet, so he keeps trying to jump my female cat) keeps getting in the way of everything.

I am >so close to screaming<.

Making some progress with magic.

15-20 more items to go. quiet sobs

Ok, well this is a shout in the dark so I'll shout in the dark, this is a silly idea and feel free to mock for it.

On Gray Harbor there is a plot thread were people have lost 12-weeks worth of time. They suddenly found themselves shunted into the future. I'd like to take advantage of that and have an idea for a paired concept (does not need to stay that way).

Two people wake up 12-weeks in their "future" suddenly engaged to each other with no idea how, when, or why this happened. They may not have even known each other before, or maybe they knew each other but hated one another. They could immediately call it quits because /WTF/ but <insert reason this isn't currently feasible here-- maybe various parents would be heart broken, maybe they have some sort of business contract, maybe they're local starlets and if they call it quits it'll endanger their credibility, etc>.

I'll be playing a female character, and have literally no preference on gender of the other character. These characters not need to stay engaged forever and ever, maybe the first thing they do is figure out how to gracefully become unengaged. Maybe they decide to go through with it. idc.

I will note, however, I am 100% more interested in the comedy and potential relationship building (foes to lovers is fun) than I am in any sort of TS. I don't have anything against TS but I don't do it very often these days so if that's your main interest this is not the concept for you.

I can't contain my excitement:

https://bhammu.com/wiki/atarchive#the-many-and-the-none

A friend of mine and his wife are looking at getting experience with voice acting, and so recorded what is an IC 'found footage' bit of metaplot for the game.

Guys I am so excited.

(The credits is pending b/c I'm waiting to find out what names they would like to be listed under.)

@L-B-Heuschkel said in Someplace to play?:

I mean, hi.

Come visit on Gray Harbor sometime if you're bored, and feel free to hunt me down anytime. I'm in CET and I manage to find RP nonetheless.

I'll stop by tonight or tomorrow! I had poked in once but that was before I'd ever cgen'd something with ares and had really bad anxiety with making a character in fs3. Should be able to do it this time.

@GangOfDolls @Roz is correct in, I'm currently taking a break from Arx-- it may last a month, it may last another couple of days. I'm not positive, I'm resisting going back until I know I'm going back because I want to play and not because I'm trying to fill a void that the stress in my RL is causing.

But from my understanding arx is in a bit of a flux right now where staff are changing how storytelling is going to be doing-- I don't really know the details on that since I've only heard about it second hand. So you might have a better time getting involved this go around.

@Jeshin I'll check that place out.

@bear_necessities I'll poke through ares central.

I was kinda hoping there might be a place someone is playing that I could hook directly in with someone.

Any good games out there where it isn't like pulling teeth to get RP? I typically like modern and fantasy-esque games. But I'm willing to try other settings if chargen is easy or if someone will help me.

@bear_necessities said in Birmingham: The Entangled City (BhamMu*):

Looks like fun @Cobaltasaurus . The only thing I'd caution on is making sure all the PCs have a shared goal. Too many groups can splinter the population if there's nothing that brings them together, and then you just have a game where people are doing their own thing with their own group and not interacting with others.

Oh, there'll be a common goal, a snippet from plot material:

The following is a recording left in The Order Archives from forty years ago. It was recovered from an old slightly damaged cassette. It isn’t complete and only a short conversation was understandable. Everything before and after the conversation is static, strange high pitched noises, and garbled voices that cannot be understood.

[Male Voice] “This thing is called many things. I have heard it called ‘the thing between the cracks’ and ‘the many and the none’. But also ‘they who walk the shade’. I think these are all the same thing. Lost notes tell me that Unentangled in its presence are driven mad. I’ve forbidden the study of this creature to my apprentices-- not after what happened with Bartholomew last year. We keep him--”

[Female voice] “I’m sorry-- did you say you keep him --keep him? Keep him where?”

[M.V.] “Yes, we keep him locked in a special cell behind a containment ward.”

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ETA:

@Coin and I have workshopped the names for the PC affiliations a little bit, and come up with some better ones. Both the EOE and the Wildcallers are meant to be a touch pretentious and the third party is a loose affiliation that they've given an equally pretentious name.

Ephemereal doesn't mean what I thought it meant, we're going with 'ethereal intruders' for the non-embodied ones.

Hallo, I've embarked on another ares/fs3 project. This is one that isn't going to open in a couple of months or a handful of weeks. I won't have an estimate of when it'll open, because I'm taking my time developing theme and setting stuff. But here's the deets of what I have so far:

Elevator Pitch: BhamMu* is a modern urban horror game set in Birmingham, Alabama. In Bham the magically entangled fight against intruders from realms beyond even as they struggle with their mundane lives.

Setting: As mentioned above, Birmingham, AL. The grid will be made up of five neighborhoods that roughly make up the downtown/metro area of Bham: Central City, Five Points South, Fountain Heights, Highland Park, and Southside.

Theme & Mood: Struggling against magical extraplanar intruders while also struggling with the same day-to-day struggles as the nameless/faceless masses. Trying to stay sane while fighting unknowable horrors from beyond.

Key Points: There is no "veil" or the like, but the majority of the world doesn't know about the other realms or intruders from them. Most people think psychics are scam artists. The witches are just hippies. And that ghosts aren't real. They might enjoy a "paranormal hunters" show but see them as fact or mockumentories. If you start trying to warn people that a squid-faced monster is coming to eat everyone's brains you're probably going to be put in a psych ward, or lose your job. Or be scorned as "a crazy person".

Key Words:

• Unentangled: Those who do not know that magic really exists and are more free of it's web than the Entangled.
• Entangled: Those who become entangled with the reality of magic, the magic web, the silken labyrinth, and the other realms beyond them.
• The Magic Web: A metaphysical barrier between our reality and the silken labyrinth, the entangled are constantly aware of it.
• The Silken Labyrinth: A metaphysical maze that leads to other realms than the human one. It often looks like a crooked version of the world where a person entered it.
• Intruders: Creatures-- often hostile --from realms beyond the silken labyrinth. These can be corporeal or ephemeral.
  • Corporeal Intruders: Intruders from other realms with a physical form-- these often prey on Unentangled whose blindness makes them easier targets.
  • Ephemeral Intruders: Intruders from other realms without a physical form-- these often prey on the Entangled whose awareness has weakened their sanity.
• Magical Affiliations: Groups of Entangled who have banded together because of shared goals or experiences.
  • The Web Burners: A fanatical group of Entangled who believe that the only way to be free of magic and the monsters from other realms is to burn down the magic web. To do so they believe they need to overwhelm the web with more Entangled. They try to force people to become Entangled, and supposedly have rituals that allow them to do this. NPC Antagonists.
  • The Weavers: A fanatical group of Entangled who believe that the magic web is the only thing that protects the worlds, as poorly as it does, from terrible monsters from beyond the silken labyrinth. They do their best to reinforce and strengthen the web. They believe that the more who are aware of the web the weaker it gets, and are rumored to have the ability to strip people's entanglement from them. NPC Antagonists.
  • The Enlightened Order of Entangled: A group of Entangled who became so through study and ritual. Typically occult academics who believed in magic before they ever experienced it. They believe that mastery over magics and the other realm is done through knowledge and ritualism. They have a rigorous hierarchy with each chapter having a local master with dozen of apprentices and pupils beneath them.
  • The Wild Magic Affiliates: Those who believe in spontaneous magic. Often called "Wildcallers" because they are known to simply call on magic with only a vague intention of what form it should take. They call on a wild form of magic to do their works. They are often those who became entangled spontaneously with no prior experience with magic. Their structure is not as rigid as the Order, but they tend to work in cells or covens and expect loyalty from their members. They have a loose hierarchy where covens report to a hierophant in each location where they have a presence. They have no formal teacher/student structure, however.
  • The Free: Psychic anarchists, iconoclast wizards, and loners. They may believe in ritualism but can't abide by the rules of the Order, or they may be those who believe in spontaneous magic but don't want to join the Wildcallers because they prefer to be alone. They have no set structure, only a loose affiliation and individual agreements.

That's it for now. That's as far as I've gotten. I'm going to set up a 'development blog' forum on the game/wiki, and be posting updates there as I go. I'm going to work out the details as of the three PC affiliations, and what is known about the two antag ones, then work on some stock enemies, and then work on what magic is accessible to PCs, etc.

Also all of this is subject to change if I change my mind later. :]

@tek said in Welcome to the Euphoria - Alpha:

I'm disappointed, but I understand this decision. Best wishes for your next endeavor!

I'm really sorry! I absolutely loved having you as a player.

So, if anyone is still logging in it's probably not a surprise that we're going to close down. It took me a couple of months of dealing with some health stuff and just 2020 in general, and I've decided to close down and work on something else. Thank you all for the wonderful stories we had while we were here. Thank you for being here with me to learn about FS3 and what works and what does not work.

I'm going to leave Euphoria up and running for a few months so people can come by and grab descs, logs, +sheets, etc. as they want or need. But I likely won't be logging in here any longer.

If you'd like to know what I'll be doing next, you can find me at: bhammu.com:2021 -- note this won't be a playable game for quite sometime. It won't be opening in a few weeks, but sometime in 2021. It'll be an urban horror game set in a world not too unlike our own-- only this one has monsters in it (the type with claws and fangs, not just people lacking empathy).

Feel free to stop by, feel free to make bits and hang out, we can chatter as I world build and get the game set up.

Again thank you all for being here with me for the learning experience that was Euphoria.

I hope that 2021 is a better and brighter year for all of us.

A friend of mine and I are going to be playing Don't Starve Together on Twitch! It's gonna be awesome. Check us out here:

https://www.twitch.tv/lyrateal

(yes I changed my channel name <3)

This is amazing looking!

Going live with some #gloomhaven #coop play! Watch us be totally #awesome at this game here: https://www.twitch.tv/cobaltasaurus

#co-op #gloomhavencoop #twitchstreamer #twitchstreaming #streaming #twitch