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I will also will go on to make the claim that Tactics has the best immersive, instrumental soundtrack of any FF game.

@Kanye-Qwest said in General Video Game Thread:

Except for Tactics, which is the best FF game

Fucking right it is. Gafgarion, Zalbag, and Delita.

When you're in a scene, things start to get tense, and some pretty heavy violence is on the horizon.

First, the players involved stick to IC communication. There's no OOC "OMG wut r u dueing?!?!', people kept it In Character and dealt with the mounting issue and tension through in character means. Gold star.

Second, those that did have things to say out of character kept it confined to pages with myself and generally kept the atmosphere light and fun. Through pages myself and a fraction of the people present, seemed to understand that the IC tensions were not in any form an out of character tension. Jokes were exchanged and chuckles were had. "Sorry! Sorry! Kill me quickly!"

Third, it didn't result in everyone immediately trying to jump to combat as the first response. Even if someone seems on the edge of going HAM, there's always that potential of talking sense into them! It resulted in dialogue and an apparent misunderstanding overcome. I always appreciate people who can deescalate a tense IC situation, through IC means. I salute you half dozen or so people.

Fourth, even after the scene concluded the in character matters weren't really discussed. Everyone kept the mood light and there was unspoken understanding(at least I think) that the IC actions were just that and should remain there. So kudos to everyone for being Big Kids.

@Roz

I've never noticed those before or the Lexicon in general. Thanks for pointing that out.

Since I failed to actually answer the question.

1. Simon: I swear... when it's appropriate
   Kaylee: Simon, the whole point of swearin' is that it ain't appropriate.

My character is Simon in this case. He doesn't curse regularly, but he does so when appropriate. This extends to private conversations pretty often.

2. I like descriptions. Whether it's character or equipment. In fact I regularly view people's worn equipment for specific details. Gotta keep an eye out for them stones.

I can verify Victus curses like a...well, sailor.

Inauguration Day bad lip reading.

@tangent to be clear my comments earlier in this thread were not directed at you specifically. My tongue-in-cheek commentary was intended more for the historical acts you find of Big FC Names on a Star Wars MU? Yes. Not you specifically in this case. The easy access FC TS character aside the other frequent activity of most played FCs that was mentioned by another party previously: they ultimately end up idling in a room and ignoring the game-at-large.

In fact, I hope you do the role justice and absolutely rock it. Along with any other played FCs. Fun is fun, even if it's not my type of fun. While I don't intend on playing at Insurgency, I do hope you at least have a killer time and prove yourself the exception to the unwritten rule. Good luck!

Updated with a couple more past characters I've remembered.

@Akurel pretty much.

Do I think the game can work? Sure. In fact, my biggest issue is with the one planet aspect. The FC presence is a thing, one which I've saw fail time and time again in the past. In nearly two decades of various Star Wars games, I can say I've not saw it work out with 100% success. Moderate? Sure. Full? No. In fact, a recent conversation about another Star Wars game had mention of how some staffer's special snowflake character got hitched to Jabba the Hutt(the FC) so she could become "Empress" of a terraformed Tatooine. So, yeah.

No, my biggest qualm is with the whole rebel cell on Corellia thing. There's a reason that the Rebel Alliance kept largely on the backwater planets; safety. Yavin, Hoth, Dantooine(in mention), Sullust(used as a rally point), and all the EU mentions. The Rebellion runs, that's what they do. On a planet like Corellia, I imagine they'd be discovered within a few days. Star Wars Rebels provides evidence that a planet-based insurgency on a world with a moderate to heavy Imperial presence would quickly be put on it's heels and would have to flee; and that's on a relatively minor planet, by all appearances. The Rebellion runs, it's their thing. That too, of course, can be overcome. It only requires a level of disbelief suspension that I can't thoroughly wrap my head around. So that means the game is not for me, which does not mean it's not for others, and that's okay.

@Arkandel I'm ashamed of you. You haven't read the Expanded Universe material then. The one when Luke Skywalker got blitzed in the Starburst Cantina, met a young Twi'lek dude, then both went back to Luke's apartment and hosted a bukkake party with a few pals and a nice Rodian girl named Skeeton.

That's my eye-twitching with FCs in games. They inevitably end up being used by whomever, staff or player, to lay pipe. Use the Force. Assemble their lightsaber. Lock their s-foils in attack position. Impact on the surface. Let someone ride their taun-taun. Have their Imperial troops enter someone's base. Blast points that are too accurate for sand people. Okay, I'm done...probably.

@Cupcake I'll keep an eye out for it. Thanks!

I've never played a Kushiel game. Frankly I have no idea what it is. When I think of Lords & Ladies in a modern setting though? I immediately think family operated corporations in a world where corporations have an even greater impact than they already do in reality or even something akin to the mafia families that are viewed in that old Romeo + Juliet movie with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes.

I may also just have no idea what I'm talking about.

@Monogram that's it, yeah!

Wasn't that Five Worlds or something like that? Or at least Space L&L.

Received a ton of In Character information that had been largely withheld from my character, whether intentionally or accidentally is irrelevant. A series of clues scattered within the game world. Virtual dots cast into the wind and left to be found. Though as I began piecing those dots together, the puzzle started to make more sense. A lot more sense.

The MU Thing I Love? When you find yourself going to bed later and later because your mind dwells on those clues for so long. Then when you go to bed, you find yourself laying there filling the silence with thinking about your imaginary fun-times and those clues. Connecting dots to dots to dots with the little information that you already had available to yourself and you find it gives you a little wiggle of goddamn fun-terror at some of your theories.

I haven't felt this immersed in a game for a long time and it feels good. Gotta make sure I give the player who brought me into the fold a vote and another thank you. Are internet reach-around's an acceptable form of MU payment?

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

@Arkandel I can tell you that Ashford has several super cool players! I haven't played with the newest Harlan (head of the house) but I can tell you that Aislin, Cara, and Killian are all good folk.

Seconded.

I've been getting caught up on the Lethal Weapon tv series. I was very apprehensive about it, just because I'm totally unfamiliar with the guy they chose to play Riggs. I've been pleasantly surprised. They've really dove into the psyche of the Riggs character and addressed the tendencies that the character had in the movies, from a fairly serious standpoint.

Damon Wayans as Murtaugh was originally a pretty tough pill to swallow and still is at times. Though I guess it's a good thing that he's not type cast into a role simply because he's Damon Wayans. He doesn't really portray the gravitas that you would see in Glover as Murtaugh, it's a different Murtaugh. A more metrosexual Murtaugh. It's not bad, it's not terrible; it's just different.

Overall the show has been a blast. The bits of comedy always get a good chuckle out of me, the action tends to keep me from getting bored, the above mention of them delving into Riggs' emotional instability keeps me interested in him as a character, and it just feels like an altogether great show.

@Cupcake to my knowledge neither of those options are available to MUSHclient. Unless I had used it for a decade, until recently and never discovered the options to do it.

@Coin said in Faceless' Playlist:

Oh, god, not you...

SIGH