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Consilium of Angels
Structure: Path based.
Hierarch: Obrimos NPC
Councilors: One per path, excluding Obrimos - all NPCs.
Provost: One per path. - Initially NPCs.
Heralds: One per path. - Initially NPCs.
Sentinels: Two per path. - Initially NPCs.

Duties:
Hierarch: tie-breaker on council matters. Tasked with housing the Consilium Meeting places, and keeping them safe.

Council: Decision makers. Creators of Consilium Laws. Arbiters of cabal territories. Judges over magical crimes. Each councilor is tasked with providing a "safe place" that may be temporarily used by members of their path seeking sanctuary. Appoint special investigators as needed.

Provosts: Second hand to the councilors. Set up meetings. Run message. General personal assistants.

Heralds: Run messages between cabals. Make announcements. Keep history of the consilium.

Sentinels: Muscle of the consilium. Protectors against threats. Councilor attacks dogs against the cabals. Enforcers of laws. NOT investigators, unless asked to do so. Not police.

CABALS:

1. Cabals must have 3 active people.
2. Cabals of 3 people may petition for sanctum/surrounding area.
3. Cabals of 3 active people gain access to consilium tass twice a month.

Solitaires:

1. A mage who is master of at least one arcana my declare themselves a solitaire.
2. Soltaires may claim a sanctum/surrounding area.
3. Soltaires gain access to consilium tass once a month.

Consilium properties:
Consilium - The Getty Museum, roof top.
Obrimos - Unitarian Faith Center of Los Angeles, backrooms.
Thyrsus - Griffith Park - Observatory.
Mastigos - Eclipse Nightclub, VIP rooms
Moros - Los Angeles National Cemetery, office.
Acanthus - Angel's Gate Lighthouse.

Los Angeles Greater Consilium
Structure: Order based.
Hierarch: Silver Ladder NPC
Councilors: One per order, excluding Silver Ladder. NPCs.
Provosts: One per order, initially NPCs.
Heralds: Two per order, initially NPCs.
Sentinels: Three per order, initially NPCs.

Duties:
Hierarch: Tie-breaker on council matters. Tasked with maintaining Consilium resources.

Council: Decision makers, creators of consilium law, arbiters of cabal status, judges over magical crimes.

Provosts: Personal assistants of the councilors. Also tasked with maintain order headquarters for the consilium.

Heralds: Run messages, historians, make announcements, etc.

Sentinels: Duties based on chosen roles.
Investigator-- investigates crimes, anything that happens that the councilors decide to look up.
Peacekeeper-- bodyguards, security personnel etc, honorguard type stuff.
Enforcer-- thugs, etc.

Cabals:

1. Cabals must have 3 active people.
2. Cabals may petition of sanctum/surrounding area.
3. Cabals of 3 active people gain access to consilium resources
4. Cabals must once a month give some sort of resources to the consilium (NOT something that costs XP)

Consilium Properties:
Consilium: Restaurant on Santa Monica Pier
Silver Ladder: Civic Center
Mysterium: Getty Museum Basement
Guardians of the Veil: UCLA - Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities building.
Free Council: Green City "garden city" housing development.
Adamantine Arrow: Bellflower Community Center

Starfleet@Anomlay and Halmar@Gamma One both ran really decent Star Trek games. (Starfleet had his problems and some people wouldn't agree with me). But both are pretty much no longer mushing-- or aren't as far as I'm aware. That particular style of star games (heavy on the storytold "missions" and plots) was left with Rapier@Gamma One, and he basically ran things into the ground. Also was very heavy on the play-by-reports that people always complain about here (though to be honest I never thought it was that bad to put in a report saying 'hey there's this thing, lets talk about it and do some stuff' and then add to it afterward saying 'hey we figured out this stuff'.)

@skew said in Pokemon Go:

@VulgarKitten said in Pokemon Go:

http://www.techinsider.io/pokemon-go-tips-and-tricks-2016-7

Found this. Very helpful.

Geez, where is this person? There's a poke stop everywhere! I have like 3 within a mile radius, and I'm considering that lucky.

My town is freaking full of pokestops.

It's there. I have a wizbit but not access to #1. I don't have any way to contact Barracuda et co, to see if they would mind it being restarted.

@HorrorHound I very much doubt its the same grid tho.

I still can't get page spawning to work. Someone help!

@tragedyjones said in Interest/Volunteer Check: Major Multisphere Chronicles of Darkness:

UPDATE:

Setting is LA

I wish that I had logs of LAmush's grid, and +map. And their +hunt code, and um. Everything.

...I wonder if Venice is about and has any of that stuff...

I did enjoy CoFaB for a while too, yeah. I'd almost be happy to see it rebooted.

@tragedyjones said in Interest/Volunteer Check: Major Multisphere Chronicles of Darkness:

a focus on enabling crossover with a minimum of incident and drama

You have my attention.

Con:
The change would be as half-assed as it was on TR.

For me its graying out everything on the same page as the person ignored, though I can still read the posts.

/me falls over giggling which causes her to fall over again, which causes her to giggle more, which causes her to.... XD

Jesus christ she came back again. You don't have to keep fucking shouting when I'm /walking fucking toward you/, you hateful old cunt. Do your own damned shopping. AAARRRGG.

i'm not retyping this, i know it's long but its worth the read:

9:23 PM - Princess Jellyfish: i have spent the majority of the past 16-works hours on self check out
9:23 PM - Princess Jellyfish: this is incredibly frustrating
9:23 PM - The Valentine's Crab: UGH
9:23 PM - The Valentine's Crab: I CAN'T FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS
9:23 PM - Princess Jellyfish: i got told by a man today that i was "out of my tree" because i carded him at self check out and he's old. bu ti have to. especiallty at self checkout
9:24 PM - Princess Jellyfish: but tonight a man came into the story clearly out of his goddamned mind
9:24 PM - The Valentine's Crab: THIS MACHINE DOESN'T WORK BECAUSE I AM TOO STUPID TO WALK AND TALK AT THE SAME TIME
9:24 PM - Princess Jellyfish: super out of it
9:24 PM - Princess Jellyfish: twitching, scratching, jerking around. talking to himself. raising his hands like he was waiting for the lord to pick him up and carry him away
9:24 PM - Princess Jellyfish: and he comes through self check out
9:24 PM - Princess Jellyfish: and he's mostly fine
9:24 PM - Princess Jellyfish: but stares at the machine after putting out his money
9:24 PM - Princess Jellyfish: i'm like
9:24 PM - Princess Jellyfish: "its 2.50"
9:24 PM - Princess Jellyfish: and he babbles something
9:24 PM - Princess Jellyfish: and i'm like okay
9:24 PM - Princess Jellyfish: change is here
9:25 PM - Princess Jellyfish: dollars here
9:25 PM - Princess Jellyfish: and then the receipt starts to come out and he starts yyyaaaannnking on it
9:25 PM - Princess Jellyfish: and i'm like: no give it a second
9:25 PM - Princess Jellyfish: and he goes: its all good
9:25 PM - The Valentine's Crab: This is even better than oblique sarcasm
9:25 PM - Princess Jellyfish: and i'm like: no, if you pull on the receipt it hurts the machine
9:25 PM - Princess Jellyfish: and i kid you fucking not he turns to me and says
9:25 PM - Princess Jellyfish: i'm empathic to machines
9:25 PM - Princess Jellyfish: i'm empathic to all material, even machines
9:25 PM - Princess Jellyfish: i sense what it feels
9:25 PM - Princess Jellyfish: i know what it feels
9:26 PM - Princess Jellyfish: i'm empathic to everything
9:26 PM - The Valentine's Crab: holy shit
9:26 PM - The Valentine's Crab: I'm dying
9:26 PM - The Valentine's Crab: You must have been terrified
9:26 PM - Princess Jellyfish: and i'm slowly trying to walk away from him, while smiling / trying not to laugh / trying not to cry
9:26 PM - Princess Jellyfish: and he keeps on about how he's empathic to machines
9:26 PM - Princess Jellyfish: and then ends it with: i'm peter pan's son, i never stop flying
9:27 PM - Princess Jellyfish: and then he walked off, came to a stop infront of my supervisor, looked at her, made a show of crumbling up his receipt and announced, see! i'm empathic to machines

@WTFE

ugh. our self check machines are like the most retarded things ever. The regularly freak out when you put the item YOU JUST SCANNED into the bagging area. If you have a bag it does this particularly. No amount of "add my bag" fixes it. It just freaks out like: OMG WHAT IS THIS WHA TIS GOING OMG.

And then one got stuck in a loop when someone scanned a $0.50 pack of gum and put down on the thing today. No amount of "i don't want to bag this item" made the fucking thing go away. So I had to restart the whole damned machine.

ETA: And our POS system will not let you swipe your card if it has a chip. So if your chip is in some way damaged you're basically fucked. I had two people today trying to use the self checks without the same of thirty minutes, with broken chips. I finally managed to get one working, but the other had had to use a completely different card because the fucking system wouldn't let him swipe despite his chip being defective.

(Yes, yes, I know go get it fixed if it doesn't work but he should /still be able to swipe!/ augh!!)

FUCK SELF CHECK OUT FUCK SELF CHECK OUT FUCK SELF CHECK OUT FUCK SELF CHECK OUT FUCK SELF FUCK OUT

Here we go in fact:

----------------------------| Crime & Punishment |-----------------------------

  If it becomes an issue, it will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.

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-------------------| Acceptable Behavior on Blood & Citrus |-------------------

  We have a few guidelines for acceptable behavior but are all based upon
  two rules that everyone must follow:

  * Behave like an adult
  * Treat others like adults

  PG-13: All public venues, IC and OOC, are to be treated with the spirit of
  a PG-13 rating. This includes the OOC nexus, public grid locations, large
  scenes, and all non-group channels. Discussions of a gross or overtly
  sexual nature are to be avoided.

  OOC Affection: Player boundaries are not limited to the violent, but the
  intimate as well. Excitement and enthusiasm are fantastic and we encourage
  them, but please respect the virtual boundaries of strangers.

  CAVEAT: All behavior is okay if all people involved are okay with it. If
  you are in doubt, either ask or don't do it. If you are not okay with a
  situation, respectfully say so.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(Well, that last file is from B&C, not DW. The original DW file also had a note about rape not being permissible unless all parties involved in the "RP" would wanted to deal with it.)

Darkwater had one policy:

"If it's a problem, we'll deal with it."

And then eventually a "conduct" semi-policy that outlined things like:

• Don't be touchy-feely with people you don't know are okay with it.
• Stop if someone says stop.
• No Rape where other people are forced to interact with it if they don't want to.

@tragedyjones said in Grid Construction and Planning:

@Seamus said in Grid Construction and Planning:

My concern is that the original Twilight Moons' grid was HUGE. And I don't know if that's the way to go now-a-days.

It isn't.

Not necessarily so. You want a grid that fits your player base. HM's grid was "huge" as well, but for its time it fit its player base. Fallcoast's grid is relatively small and it does not fit its playerbase. There are rooms with so many builds attached to them its like: "wtf".

Are you building an all-spheres-included CoD game? If so got with a medium to large grid. Are you doing a single sphere game? Small grid. Some weird niche game (like mine), probably a smaller ish grid, but with the possibility of expansion if things get going.