Posts made by Grayson

I believe Notre Dame is owned by the French state, having been nationalised in 1905. The Catholic church have the exclusive right to use it (while having to fork out for running costs and keeping it free to visit), but they don't own it.

It's nowhere near as bad as it could have been. At least one of the rose windows - possibly two - is intact. The towers are still up, and so is most of the stonework. Where there's a will to do it, Notre Dame can be restored. The spire was a reproduction, as was a chunk of the roof, and the important statues on the roof got taken down a few days ago as part of the restoration works.

York Minster went through a similar process when I was younger, and now there are thriving stonemasonry and stained glass workshops in York, and the fire is just another part of the building's history. Notre Dame will live on.

Green skies happen. I've seen one that was green from horizon to horizon, and it was eerie as all hell even without being the biggest thunderstorm I've ever known.

20 years I've been at this hobby. As a result I've been many people and places and forgotten a lot of them, but here goes. WoD-wise I've tended towards oWoD and werewolves (but not always).

Current:
Tenebrous Isles: Grayson, Fred
Sheltering Skies: Grayson
Arx: Raymesin
GarouMUSH: Wintersbite, Snake
Stargate: Green
NOLA: Fred

Staff bits:
Aether: Herne
Aether II
PokeMUSH Evolutions: Shadow
Denver: Dark Destiny: Judge Dredd
Windy City
Road to Amber
Dark Spires: Lincoln

Player bits:
Spheres: Kreeth
Aether: WolfEyes (Apisachi), Roxana, Draco (Mongrel slave/gladiator), Mahmut (masochistic Healer), a mute Lirite Atlantean telepath, and a few more.
Aether II: Ankle-Biter, and the lionfish Atlantean who wore a sari
PokeMUSH Evolutions: Grayson (Rocket)
Truelands: Jaymesin
Haight-Ashbury: Grayson (Garou)
Tempest: Snake (Garou)
Denver: Snake (Vampire), Grayson (Psychic), Saint (Consor and Mage), Ivan, Angharad, Eztli, Liz, Silver, Mack (Garou)
John Wayne's Idaho Garou Game: Grayson (Garou)
Metro: Astrid, Nasir (Garou)
Cajun: Rohan (Garou)
Ephemera: Rohan (Garou)
The WoD Game set on Hawai'i: Valkyrie (Glass Walker Garou)
Windy City: Iain, Amalesh (Vampire), James/Grayson (Mortal and Vampire), Jack (Psychic Wererat US Marshall... from England), Frank (Wereleopard), Hassan (Were-honeybadger, because why not)
The Anitaverse Game in Las Vegas: Grayson (Vampire)
The Anitaverse Game in New Orleans: James (Wereleopard)
Ataru's Star Wars Jedi Game: Karinye
Haunted Memories: Hans (Uratha)
St Petersburg: Vasili (Uratha)
One of the Dark Waters: Snake (Uratha)
Road to Amber: Jaymesin, Cefyn, Jean, Roxana
Dark Spires: Grayson, Snake, Cefyn
From the Ashes (Detroit): Grayson, Fred
Arx: Dycard I
Gray Harbor: Raymond

@Ghost I used to play half of a character with a very good friend who played the other half. We came up with the metaphysics and the background to fit the setting, we both had access to the bit, and when we were both online at the same time we'd make creative use of code so the two souls sharing the body could communicate internally and either one of us could communicate externally.

It was an absolute /hoot/, but it takes one hell of a lot of trust to make it work.

I was either born this way, or adopted it so far back that I can't remember - and I remember being two years old. It wasn't my parents, it wasn't my grandparents, it wasn't other kids. To the best of my knowledge I have no origin story, because I am one of those who simply /are/.

Cis female here, somewhere between bi and asexual. I mostly play men (two reasons - first, I don't understand most women, and second, I do not and never did want the sort of attention that men frequently give women whether we want it or not, I get enough of that without asking, I can think of no earthly reason to want to fill my pretendy funtime with that too). Most of the men I've played have not been straight. Most of the women I've played haven't been straight either, but they tend towards the asexual, mostly because I still don't want to have to deal with that shit. I usually FtB, though, so not many worries there, and I do at least try to do my research.

What I have learned to run away from are the incredibly subby gay-man-played-by-a-woman types, the ones who just want to lie there and pant while you put all the effort in. If I wanted to wank into a dishrag it'd probably be a sight more erotic than repeats of 'X moans as you Y'.

Trouble over my characters' sexualities? Not often, partly due to the archetypes my characters tend to be based on. Trying to seduce the evil overlord doesn't usually go too well for the seducee when he's just not interested, for instance, but he's going to wring as much advantage out of the idiot's compromising position as humanly possible. It's not as though he doesn't advertise exactly what he is - but there's always someone who doesn't read the warning labels, signs, notices, announcements and .bulletins, or thinks they just won't apply to them.

Damn, it's been a while. Good to see you again!

I BritLARP (or used to). When I died one event, I'd just picked up the perfect black-and-purple waistcoat, so I came back as a Grayson. I mean, why not? Character's already characterised, just got to buy the right skills, grab the right weapons, put on some of the kit I'd brought as part of the usual monstering/new character outfits, and go. Although being in camp that night in a quasi-medieval setting and swapping tailor's details with an NPC vampire did get slightly surreal.

Werewolves following the totem: Donkey. Obviously.