Posts made by Goblin

@Auspice That'd just be to get the scene started, once people get to posing it usually rolls onward. You can introduce the 3pr after the initial set from everyone.

Unless there's a clear reason for someone to start, why not simply make everyone do a roll. Highest start, then the rest follow in the order of the dice.

Simple and efficient.

Over the many years of Mu*ing I just got tired of waiting for people to set (I'm not blaming anyone for it, just saying I got nothing against starting, in fact I enjoy it), or start the GMed scene, so I just pose whenever and often makes the set of the scene itself with others as well. I find that often people are thankful/happy to let someone else start so they can react to something.

@JinShei Oh right, it's statting BOOK characters... I think I should reread the books first or I'd probably not be of much help I'll dig out Guards, Guards! today and start reading.

@JinShei You got any takers? I'm interested - I got a week off next week, I can probably pop in this week already and get started if you need me.

Going to reread the Guards books now. Assuming the setting will be Ankh-Morpork?

YES! I AM VERY INTERESTED! If you do this, I'll be there. I've literally been begging for a Discworld game for years.

When the thunder in the air is so heavy and oppressive it literally feels like it's trying to squeeze my brain out of my ears. GET GOING ALREADY!

How're you coming along with things, @PuppyBreath ?

Also bumping it cause I'm sure more people can throw a few bucks in. The gofundme giving is super easy.

I've been in a similar situation (apart from the parents part, my parents always supported me so I got it much easier). Newly divorced, without a job, without an apartment - then BAM, I got a job in another city and in the matter of a weekend everything sorted itself cause I just doggedly kept at it. It is NOT easy to ask for help - you're brave.

Keep us updated!

@PuppyBreath Thanks, sent some over via the gofundme. Good luck with everything!

@PuppyBreath Gah, I apparently had a paypal account but can't reactivate it (I think I used an email I don't remember any longer) and the venmo doesn't work from my country due to the telephone number? I donno why, but can't get it to work. I don't want to put MORE strain on you, but I do want to give something. ARe gofundmes a pain to set up?

Can you set up a gofundme? (I'll definitely try it via paypal, never used that, but a gofundme is super easy.)

I always wanted a Discworld game set in Ankh Morpork.

So, about Chernobyl. This post will be a bit of a self-pity one, and a realisation that I had a trauma when I was a kid that I've kept ignoring for years and years. I mean, not the sort of trauma that has seen me in need of professional help, but now that this TV show is there, I've had a growing sense of unease and I've realised just how BAD it was back then, and how it has colored the lives of so many afterwards. Even people far, far away from that nuclear power plant.

In 1986 I was 11 (I was turning 12 later that year). I live in Sweden, my family is a farmer and forester family, we lived largely off the land, we picked berries, hunted, ate the meat off our own animals, drank the milk from our own cows. Not much was bought in a store back then, food wise. Sure, butter and things, I mean, we weren't churning our own damn butter, it wasn't the 1800s.

Remember, I was 11 at the time, I remember this through the lense of a kid, watching my parents and uncles (who all were involved in the farming/foresting somehow) be very scared. I remember we were being kept indoors a lot. We weren't allowed to go out into the nearby forest and play, until we knew more what was happening, how it'd affect us. Eating berries, mushrooms, or any meat hunted, was a big no-no. The word 'bequerel' was on everyone's lips, constantly. How much bequerel was safe? When would we be able to eat off the land again? In one year? Ten? What about our domestic animals? Would we all get cancer now?

Obviously, we weren't dropping dead. The real suffering happened by those directly involved in that accident at Chernobyl, but man. It was scary. It was terrifying.

So, I want to watch this show and I don't want to watch it. I'll probably watch it at some point. And once more get angry at humanity's penchance for ruining their own world.

Maybe this isn't the best forum for cathartic posts, but fuck it. Chernobyl was bad. That they made a TV show about it, is a good reminder for everyone. I have barely thought about that in over a decade, but now it all comes back and we shouldn't forget.

When you've been in a bit of a slump on your character and then suddenly, WHAM, something utterly cool happens thanks to good IC friends and awesome staff and admittedly, some stubborness on my own part to keep going.

That feeling. It's the best.

Evaristo also appreciates Raymesin because he isn't chatty. Means he can talk endlessly. Of course, Raymesin has managed to make Evaristo be quiet. There was a knife involved and some not so veiled threats of violence...

Best of times!

Raymesin is the best. waves hi from Evaristo

@Cupcake This sounds so awesome. I want this. SOMEONE MAKE THIS HAPPEN

SULLY! oh man, so glad you're on Arx, I got all unhappy when you disappeared from SF and we actually got all worried about you, a bunch of us (Opal included.) I played Audgrim there, and I play Jyri and Evaristo on Arx, and I'd love to RP with you over there, if we can manage to be online at the same time