Posts made by EmmahSue

Kireek:

Before I even saw HR's response, my first thought on reading your initial post was: "Fuck that guy trying to tell me what I should or should not like." HR's rambled at me about the Fate animes before, I've seen an episode or two and it didn't do enough for me to keep watching. so it's not like I'm a die-hard fan of the show.

Try presenting your facts (whether they're actually facts or not is not the point of this comment) without inserting mansplaining instructions about what I as a self-respecting woman should do. Maybe then you won't prompt an immediate "Fuck you" response.

Just in case it's not clear: it's entirely possible to be a self-respecting woman and still like all sorts of stupid shit. The two are not related. Yes, in your own words, very poor word choice.

ES

I vaguely recall taking a proposed New System to the other covenants and getting their various approvals as much as possible so that after Moritz, I was able to swoop in and say "and now we all agree to New System, tahdah!"

Which killed the sphere, from what I'm told.

I win!

ES

Dear Boss. When I suggest RPing (yes, we can call it "case studies" instead) to help divisions get a better idea of what they-all actually do for clients, do not then say we can do it as part of a mixer. RP is srsbznz! It is not for booze!

Way to ruin my awesome idea to sneak RP into workplace.

ES

This is what I gave to @Coin as a rough draft to start from for his game (I'll help just about anyone get a game off the ground, even if I'm not staff there m'self). Feel free to poke holes or make suggestions, I'm sure he'll take what he wants from the mix.

There's enough Stuff in town so that everybody can keep maintenance. E.g., there's vitae enough that all vampires in town can maintain waking up, maybe doing a jolt of Night Life, rinse repeat. Same with other resources for other supers and mortals and such. That way the people who do not give a fuck don't have to worry about resource-wars. Them that barplay aren't forced to deal with something they find unappealing and unfun. (This is a very important point. Not everyone enjoys this sort of game and forcing them to play it is Uncool.) Stuff above that maintenance level is what folks fight over.

1. Categorize your Stuff. Examples:
   a. Population
   b. Wealth
   c. Commerce
   d. Business Interests
   e. Crime
   f. Free-floating Vitae
   g. Whatever Wolves use for power-juice
   h. Etc.
2. Assign Stuff values for each neighborhood within a grid-square, per the flavor of that area IC. An UUC residential would be low population, high wealth, medium crime.
   a. Smaller neighborhoods have less Stuff.
3. "Owning" a neighborhood means you and your posse have control over the Stuff there. How to own and how to steal ownership tbd.
4. Stuff grants a single success on an appropriate roll (so long as the ST agrees that failure isn't lethal to PC or plot). Stuff successes are for no-rush guarantees.
   a. E.g. a vampire uses a point of wealth Stuff on buying something he couldn't normally buy.
   b. No good using Stuff for a success in a fight, there's too much lethality involved.
5. Stuff regens on a set schedule. It cannot be pooled/saved.
6. Ownership of neighborhoods is limited by size: a neighborhood with a lot of Stuff requires either a posse (this encourages group formation) or a Loner so very powerful that she can hold it on her own somehow.
7. Stuff can be passed out by the Owner(s). Once given outside the posse, it can't be demanded back, though it can be returned willingly.
   a. Regeneration-rule still applies; no hoarding Stuff. It'll fade at the end of the time-period.
8. Anyone above in rank or status can take Stuff (amount undetermined, possibly difference in rank/status?) from someone in the structure below. This encourages interaction with NPCs -- gain influence with your NPC to spare yourself the toll, thus keeping Stuff for yourself. Piss off your NPC boss, she takes almost all your Stuff for a week or two.

If this is who I think it is, he's gone RL for the most part. But I'll try to pass along that you're looking for him.

ES

@Ganymede said...

Transparency would help this, but no one has come up with a way to define what transparency is necessary, and what is not.

So let's discuss. Transparency: when? how much? where? about? etc.

Do we set up court-dockets on-game so anyone can go see that Joe Bob is angry at Jane Marie, with or without details?

ES

Talk to @Glitch here about design of the forum. He'll love it, I promise!

ES

Shadow War (oMage/nMage game-to-be) is still a go, but it's also still waiting on the rules to come out so we can apply the translation guide appropriately. Spring 2015 means we'll prolly get them... October?

ES

A thread for awesome things.

Tony Hawke rides a real hoverboard (not the prank one from before): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSheVhmcYLA

ES

ETA: Feel free to add your own!

Ten, fifteen years ago when WORA was first created, it was meant to be the wild west, where outlaws rode in on their shining steeds and spewed truth along with every other curse word. At least that's what I imagine was in the head of JadedGamer, way back when. It probably wasn't and he's looking up from his morning coffee wondering why he got chills just now.

That said, we're all older now. Maybe hopefully a little wiser. Everyone here has been around the proverbial block enough to know that the wild west isn't always the best choice. It has its uses and I'm not suggesting we do away with it, but it isn't the only mode we have to operate-in.

So: I'd like to know what, if any, community standards the community thinks should apply here. @Glitch, @Thenomain and I aren't particularly inclined to be anyone's online parents. I certainly have no desire to walk up and down the threads smacking fingers with a ruler. But if there are 'rules' aka 'guidelines' aka 'shit folks should not do', then I'd like to hear what you think they are. I make no promises that we'll definitely take up every suggestion, but we can't discuss them if a) we didn't think of it; and b) we didn't ask you to think of it.

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The only one rattling around in my head at the moment is malicious sharing of RL information. I'm not even sure there's a way to draw a line between malicious and not -- it might be like any number of iffy things, "I know it when I see it."

ES

This is about as good a spot as any, I figure. The following is the list of PCs I've played o'er the years, hither and yon. It's by no means complete, I'm sure I've forgotten some.

• Laibah, Carthian Gangrel @ Haunted Memories.
• Johanna, Gangbanger turned Obrimos Libertine @ Haunted Memories.
• Xiumei, Celestial Chorus Mage @ Denver by Night.
• Chloe, Sidhe changeling @ Ashes to Ashes
• Adrien, Sidhe changeling @ Hint of Malice.
• Marcello, Caerdiccan @ Kushiel Mux.
• Genevieve, Dowayne Mandrake @ Kushiel Mux.
• Zahari, Elodoth Iron master @ St. Petersburg.
• Mrs. Hadley, healer @ String Theory.
• Nishi, shadow-ridden psychic thief @ Depraved Creations.
• Leilani, mortal @ Dublin by Night.
• Alejandra, mortal turned Ley Line Walker @ Rifts: Rise from Chaos.
• Ysabela, mortal turned Brujah @ DarkWeb.
• Summer, mortal turned Fomori @ DarkWeb.
• Wendy, Sluagh coroner @ Crescent City.
• Lady Fairfax, Silent Legion wraith @ Metro.
• Sileny, ghoul @ Reno
• Wan-Suen aka Wendy, vampire @ CoFaB
• The Quickling, a demon on some Angels & Demons MU (name unknown)
• Meadow, Cultist @ The Reach
• Anahid, Ventrue Lancea vamp @ Eldritch

I've also staffed around-about:

• EmmahSue, general purpose ST and NPC Purveyor @ DarkWater
• Lemuria, Headstaff @ The Reach
• Ms. Garnet, Vamp Admin @ St. Petersburg (I vaguely recall that was the name, but it might have been a green shade instead)
• SomethingSomething, Build Admin @ Ashes to Ashes (It was a weather name of some sort. Drizzle?)
• Pinochle, Spot-Trouble Assistance @ Reno
• Jungle, General Assistance and STing @ Dark Water
• NGC-6302, ST at large and NPC Wrangler @ Euphoria

No competition, October. More the merrier, I'm not invested in this beyond Ark's comment: providing a space, mod enough to keep the categories tidy, and otherwise leaving the community alone to do its thing.

I don't know about changing colors/layouts/etc. That's for @Glitch to worry about -- he's the codeguy.

ES

Hello! I'm EmmahSue, or ES, or Meadow, or Lemuria, or any number of a million PCs over the years.

Rome, Thenomain and I are your mods.

WORA's lost to us (if the database becomes available in the future, we'll take a look at whether it's possible or worth it to port topics over), so it's time for something New! (gasp!oooh!ahh!)

Please don't be a jerk with usernames. That is to say, don't name yourself Lemuria or ES and post as me, that's kinda jackassy. Jackass at each other as needed in posts, that's pretty standard, but deliberate ID-trickery because we're starting out fresh, that's not okay.