Posts made by Ghost

You know, now that I think about it, I don't think in 15+ years of MUing I've ever seen a campaign open and close on any sort of sentimental "our story is done" line.

I played plenty of the Battlestar games, like Cerberus, which had endings that were pretty much months/years before the intended close time due to loss of player interest or staff disappearance. Those games dropped one of those "let's all write our closing endgame points, but the game is closing on X date" things.

Shit. Yeah. I've never seen a story come to an end.

HOWEVER, the BSG themed games did it the best. The linear plotlines and attempts at cohesive teamwork were some of the best I'd seen before egos got in the way of cohesiveness.

Shit. This Bowie one is actually impacting me.

When I was a kid, I once took a picture of Bowie to a hairstylist because I wanted to have Bowie's haircut. I loved his music.

I haven't picked up Blackstar yet, but I wonder if it will be like Johnny Cash: American IV, because it was clearly obvious Cash knew that would going to be his final album when he made it.

@Miss-Demeanor Demon Knight was amazing. Billy Zane was so good, and that SOUNDTRACK.

I miss the days when the movie's soundtrack was a great album to buy, like the Crow soundtrack or Queen of the Damned. The Awesome Mix Vol. 1 seems like the first movie in a long, long time to do that.

@tragedyjones @Arkandel and hopefully longer than two paragraphs.

I'm 90-95% sure that if I ever become single again, I will probably end up with someone I met over a mush, and have to endure the anxiety of one of those I hope the real sex is as good as the TS hookups.

@Arkandel Yeah, I don't get how some couples end up where OMGFantasyFootball is okay, but Fantasy Novel Collection(tm) is verboten. Shit, everyone is a nerd for something: fantasy football, cooking, dogs, watching Dr. Oz. People should be more tolerant about other people's interests. They're just things to do...

...unless it's Warhammer 40k.

Holy Fuck the time/space/monetary commitment to that game...

@Arkandel That's a shame. I bet your roommate ended up with someone who didn't have the same interests. I didn't hide my interests in horror, gaming, and metal music. It helped me find a girl who liked similar things. Now we game together, watch horror movies, go to metal concerts, and have the sex.

I know someone who is into metaphysical stuff, like tarot and mysticism, but hid it from his girlfriend, who was into being Baptist or something, and then they married...and now he's afraid she'll find out and he is unable to follow his interest in it without risking issues.

@Warma-Sheen said:

Interesting topic this has fallen to on this particular board.

I'm black. I got into RP through reading comic books when I was young and being enticed to try D&D from the ads in the comic books, usually at the back I think.

And while I hesitate to share many of my opinions on the topic, I will say that I don't have any other black friends who know I MU* or RP who don't also do it themselves. Any black RPers I know I met through showing up to RPing events - conventions, tabletops, etc. And not one of them would I put into a social situation with other black people. They would be completely out of place.

This just isn't a popular hobby. Quite the opposite. It will quickly make you unpopular. So I hide it. Like a deep dark secret. You wouldn't look at me and guess I RP. Probably one of the last things you'd guess. But I don't tell a soul about it.

But I love it and just because I won't tell anyone about it doesn't mean I don't love doing it. So I do. As far as characters go, I almost always play black characters. But it seems to me, and this is just wild presumption, that I see a great percentage of black characters than there are black players on a game.

There's no point to any of this except to give purely speculative observations from a black RPer.

Dude, I empathize. Being a white guy, I can tell anyone that I play D&D and unless they were some kind of hellfire and brimstone Evangelical, they wouldn't think anything of it. I had a few black friends back in the day who hid their RPG habit, too, and I get it. I love being able to fly my nerd flag high, so whenever I come into contact with someone who loves it but has to hide it, I try to be supportive.

Thanks for sharing.

@Cirno WORD. AOL RP CHATS. Remember names like Vv_HellVAMP_vV ?

Good times.

So, it has been announced that Tales From the Crypt will be returning, though it will be made by M. Night Shyamalan and won't have the Cryptkeeper. SO, since we are about to have a shitty new Tales From the Crypt coming our way...

...what was your favorite Tales From the Crypt episode?

Mine was "Terror Television", about the hokey journalist who does a publicity stunt to spend a night in a haunted house, only to find out that the house is actually haunted. Him and his camera man end up being chainsawed and hung out of a window.

Yeah, the outpouring of joy and support? I hope you're feeling it. This is great news. CAAAAAAN YOU FEEL THE LOOOOVE TONIGHT...

I would also donate my time to run scenes. Part of the reason I've been chomping at the bit to play a Jedi is because I really like to run Jedi training scenes. If you're interested, hit me up and I'll share my ideas/process with you.

I quit mushing and said the only thing that might get me to end my hiatus is a FFG STAR WARS Mu.

...you wonderful son of a bitch.

EDIT: My availability is maybe 2 nights a week and scattered weekends. I'm not an "all day, all night, all week" MUer, but I have the Age of Rebellion, Force and Destiny, and some module books, as well as a strong working knowledge of the system and setting. Send me a PM if you're looking for helpers, people to data entry help/news files, and whatnot.

P.S. Apu is awesome. You will like her assistance.

@Jennkryst I would totally come back to MU for a FFG Star Wars game. I love the narrative dice and the plethora of character options. It is a storytelling system, which I love.

@Thenomain Bill Cosby voices: Theoooooo Roooodeeeee VanESSSuhh

@Soresu in fairness, I'll take a look at the logs and go from there, but I do think the process of having to app a non-force sensitive and then hope, pray, kiss ass, run events, behave, roleplay a lot for just the chance of getting what you really want is really rough on people. It's easy to feel like these "slots" go to staff, friends of staff, people fortunate to roleplay in staff run scenes, or people who just somehow managed to do just the right thing to be given a Golden Wonka Ticket. I've seen it build resentment on nearly every SW game that does it, and I don't think it's a positive policy.

ARE Luke, Rey, and Kylo Ren FCs (and presumably the only force users on grid) currently occupied as staff alts? That really is all that needs to be answered. The answer to that question will spell a lot.

Anyone on the game know the answer to this?

What the fuck?

You know, there's a difference between a roleplaying game and a kink/fetish site chat room, and I really wish the people who want the latter would keep their kink bullshit on places like Shang and leave the actual RPGMushes alone.

@tragedyjones Theo Bell! I have a Theo Bell Brujah action figure. He was a major player in the novels.

I still think CthulhuTech would make an amazing Mu*.

Despite the books being overpriced, the setting isn't based on "what kind of special you are", like WoD, but more "which scale of the CthulhuTech stuff are you involved in?"

1. There's an entire setting for a Band of Brothers style military campaign, which is currently a losing battle, where humans use soldiers, tanks, and MECHA (including mecha-altered Lovecraftian beasts called Engels) to fight any number of cosmic entity armies, like the Mi-Go, attacking Earth.

2. Then the scale gets smaller. You have the city life, which includes everything from hackers, to private investigators, to prostitutes and police, living within society centers which are constantly at risk of infiltration by the cult of Nyarlothotep. You could effectively film noir this setting, like Sin City, to tell any number of stories, or have characters be drafted/enlisted into #1, the war campaign.

3. Even smaller in scale are the fringe cults (hunted by #2) who use stolen texts of Nyarlothotep to bond with a monster. They become tagers, which are basically overpowered humans who shift into fleshy monsters, and they are constantly at risk of losing themselves to the alien psychology. However, they are actually good guys who risk being hunted and murdered while they fight a shadow war against the ACTUAL cults who are attacking both #1 and #2. The mortality rate for Tagers is so high, you could probably rotate who has an opportunity to play a tager through your player base, avoiding "slots" or "applications" in favor of hard no-consent rules and high risk combat.

MU* can be done with a shitty laptop/desktop and uses freeware. So I don't think the expensive factor would be much of an issue, because we come across plenty of people logged in from work or a library.

I think it has more to do with A) time investment B.) speed of reward and C) complication/harder to find.

When people want to play an RPG, for the most part, MMORPGs show up first in browsers. Then, should someone find a mush, they will need to download software, learn commands, and mess around with program settings they're not used to. THEN they will need to use creative writing skills that they may or may not be interest in to conceptualize a character, wait a day or two for approval, and then spend weeks cultivating a character with relationships and plot...

...or they could log into an MMORPG and have near-instant access to gameplay, content, and not really have to wait for anyone to help them find their fun-cookie.

I really hate glitter. Glitter is like sand. It gets everywhere and after you've been infected with it, you will be finding it in strange places for weeks to come.

Coworkers took down the Xmas decorations at work and it looks like a whole bunch of glitter was sprinkled on my desk.