Posts made by Groth

Soresu managed to remind me about something I've been thinking about in the past.

@Soresu said:

To Clarify, On the Star Wars game I play - You can do what ever you want sex wise behind closed doors. No big deal. But we're not shangrila.. So wanting to do ads for slaves, sex workers, etc - is something not allowed.

Sometimes I see people put up adds for submissives/slaves in various games but I've never quite understood why they've felt the need to. I don't know if it's my MUSH experience that's very unusual, but I feel like I'm running into a lot more players who are into playing submissive roles then I do players who are willing/able to be dominant. I do feel it must be a reasonably common trend however because I don't think RP harems would be anywhere near as common as they are otherwise.

For instance on @Soresus game I've already found three players who like playing submissive, not because I've made any advertisements for that kind of thing but merely because I like pressing peoples psychological buttons and they like getting theirs pushed.

So I'm curious, what are your experiences like?

@thebird said:

Lately, I've wanted an IC Nemesis so bad... Not just some NPC, but an actual character on a game. I feel like, sometimes, just because my characters have boobs, means that people can't not (double negative for the win) get along with them. I know that, generally speaking, people don't want to overstep, or whatever, but come on... Makes me miss the days of all the smaller MUSHes I used to play on. I guess since we were more of a tight nit group of players at the time, there was more ooc trust, which led to more IC risk.

So... No specific scene I've wanted, really. Just a series of them.

Also, as an ST, a scene where someone actually responds and catches on to little nuances in plot instead of skim-reading and missing half the shit I planned. I was just getting back into STing after years, and someone ruined it for me again,.kind of. What's the point of RP if you're not going to read? =(

You should RP with @Alzie. They're pretty great at stepping up and taking actual hostile action when appropriate.

When you make a game, make the game you would love to play. If you make it well you'll attract others who'll also like it regardless of what the theme or system is.

@Monogram said:

Damnit, I was halfway through reading that when it got deleted.

Horrors of modern technology. In my day posts couldn't be withdrawn while I was looking at them!

@Coin

Not sure I get what you're implying, so I'm not going to reply to it as if I do. But... what?

^H is the symbol representing backspace. He was deleting the 'Now' and 'Again' from your comment.

Classy

Very few of the MUSH games we run are legal, I would not rate concerns over copyright licensing very highly when it comes to reasons we don't run GURPS.

I think that when you're not trying to run a very specific game such as V:TR or L5R, it's likely vastly easier to just cook up your own custom MUSH based rules system like how Multiverse-Crisis does then try to shoehorn in a TT system like GURPS.

Various Exalted games

• Sparrow/Raven
• Silver Eagle
• Tixis
• Veritas

RfK

• Vireo
• Sparrow
• Weaver
• Cerys
• Groth-Golka

Kishi Kaisei

• Suzume

Generations of Darkness

• Nikoova

Haven

• Ceris
• Hwan
• Bradley

Arx

• Andry

@Admiral said:

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? It might be as bad as my pay-to-play idea, for all I know.

We talked about this on RFK a few times as we and Shavalyoth believed that the best way to run a game is to focus on a single sphere and do it well rather then try to do multiple spheres at the same time. Running several different games on the same server would be one way to let people who prefer other spheres to also be part of the fun.

The main reason we never did it was because we wouldn't want to share server with a game we couldn't feel sure would be high quality, we didn't have the manpower to run a second game by ourselves and it's really hard to find people that can run a good game. However if you want to run a vampire game and a werewolf game at the same time, I certainly don't think running them as two separate grids of the same game is a bad idea.

@Arkandel

But you'd also need separate channels, +events, separate controls so staff from one game can't spy on players from the others, etc.

Why would you need that? It seems to me that sharing channels, events, staff controls etc is one of the only reasons to run the spheres off the same game. If you want to split all of that you might as well run them entirely separate.

It appears to install
PennMush, Mu2, Arch, MariaDB, Initial Install

12:33 AM <PaCo> So before we start, I've been in here for like 2 years now I think.
12:33 AM <PaCo> So I may have told this story before
12:33 AM <PaCo> If so, I apologize
12:34 AM <PaCo> So briefly, while scamming the american high school system (a whole other story entirely), I was enrolled at a community college in southern california
12:34 AM <PaCo> Antelope Valley Community College
12:34 AM <PaCo> I believe someone in here even goes/went there
12:34 AM <PaCo> Now, I found out from some of my gaming friends that AVCC took their WoD gaming very seriously.
12:34 AM <PaCo> This was 1998.
12:34 AM <Gayo> Antelope Valley Community College is a beautiful name
12:35 AM <PaCo> It's a shithole Gayo haha
12:35 AM <Gayo> well, that's kind of what I mean
12:35 AM <Gayo> it's very evocative of a community college sort of in the middle of nowhere!
12:35 AM <Gayo> anyhow go on
12:35 AM <PaCo> So I get introduced to the regulars by my fairly normal friend Mike
12:35 AM → MockCell joined (Mockery@sorcery-fcnapu.fios.verizon.net)
12:35 AM <Lumi> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twPyY8chalQ
12:35 AM <PaCo> It's by far the most gender diverse group of gamers I'd ever seen
12:35 AM <PaCo> an almost clean split of male to female
12:36 AM <PaCo> black, white, hispanic. It was like a goddamn poster.
12:36 AM <PaCo> Like an ad for diversity.
12:36 AM <PaCo> I was feelin' it at the time, being a stupid teenage idealogue
12:37 AM <PaCo> So I immediately am attracted to one of the girls in the group, Katie. She wasn't overly mallgothy, but it was just enough. It was probably the fishnets.
12:37 AM <PaCo> And also the extra 10lbs which made her look like a woman and not a teenage girl (how's that for an awful romance novel line)
12:37 AM <PaCo> So at any rate, I get into gaming with these people. Their main game was Vampire, but they allowed Werewolves if they were blood bound to another PC.
12:38 AM <Gayo> adequately mallgothy
12:38 AM <MorkaisChosen> ohgod
12:38 AM <PaCo> So just let that sink in for a sec
12:38 AM <MorkaisChosen> please tell me you didn't play a woofwoof bloodbound to Katie's PC
12:38 AM <PaCo> MC: I did not
12:38 AM <PaCo> she already had a bitch
12:38 AM <MorkaisChosen> I am equal parts relieved and disappointed
12:39 AM ⇐ MockeryCellPhone quit (Mockery@sorcery-6a7cnu.faf0.o13m.100c.2600.IP) Ping timeout: 121 seconds
12:39 AM <PaCo> So they are... very bad players. I mean like, some of the worst players I've ever seen.
12:39 AM <Gayo> it would have been funny if the game gradually shifted to be one vampire with four blood-bound werewolf pokemon
12:39 AM <PaCo> Like, it's all social one upsmanship and lore shittalking
12:39 AM <PaCo> However, I, being the youngest and newest person in the group, decided not to make any waves
12:40 AM <PaCo> I would ask Mike how he puts up with this, and he just said "girls who play games dude"
12:40 AM <PaCo> I think he expected me to high five him, but, I missed that cue at the time
12:40 AM — pringles facepalm
12:40 AM <PaCo> So anyways, I try to get my way in with Katie
12:41 AM <PaCo> In the process of doing so, I learn that they take their RP so seriously, that they sometimes interact in character in the cafeteria... and in class... and in the quad...
12:41 AM <pringles> ... oh god
12:41 AM <Endings> oh no
12:41 AM <Gayo> I think I saw this movie
12:41 AM <Will12343> ...huh.
12:42 AM <PaCo> I had an embarassing moment where I was playing Street Fighter in the cafeteria with my other group of friends (i tended to segregate), when one of them called me by my characters name
12:42 AM <PaCo> and I had to run a hurry-up social offensive to distract and end that situation
12:42 AM <MorkaisChosen> ... oh jesus
12:42 AM <PaCo> 50 dice to change the subject
12:42 AM <MorkaisChosen> this shit is why all the LARP movies contain no concept of the IC/OOC divide
12:42 AM <pringles> loooool
12:42 AM <MorkaisChosen> and are therefore cringe-inducingly unwatchable
12:43 AM <PaCo> anyways, I thought, ok, these guys are touched but they are mostly OK people
12:43 AM <PaCo> sometimes I'd have to stoneface them to get them to cut the shit, but I mean, friends are friends right?
12:43 AM <PaCo> So after a month or so I think I've got a bit of clout and I want to make a move on Katie
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12:44 AM <PaCo> I feign that I lost my cash and didn't have enough for buss fare home and ask her for a ride and tell her I will pay her gas money when we get back to my place.
12:44 AM <PaCo> My parents were not home, they were off on vacation
12:44 AM <PaCo> She agrees, we talk, things are looking good
12:45 AM <PaCo> I invite her in, we hang out awhile, I flirt, she is receptive, we start fooling around.
12:45 AM <PaCo> We are about to get down to business, and she says "I can't" so I say "Ok, no problem, but do you mind if I ask why?"
12:45 AM <PaCo> anyone want to field as guess as to what her answer was?
12:45 AM — MorkaisChosen is feeling the fear one feels as a horror story reaches its climax
12:45 AM <Endings> The blood bond?
12:45 AM <Zironic> She's undead?
12:45 AM <Will12343> I'm with Morkai
12:45 AM <MorkaisChosen> vampire blood sex doom?
12:45 AM <•Mobius> It isn't what our characters would do
12:46 AM <PaCo> "I can't fuck a Caitiff"

They matched me with Rey, I'm not going to complain.

Everyone must listen to this at least once in their lives
Aqua - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyhrYis509A

Yes, @Alzie should be able to set you up with code that's compatible with most flavours of WoD.

@Misadventure said:

Penny dreadful's character dynamics had involved backstories that mattered, and little contact with others who knew any of what was going on. The viewers learned as the characters did, or slower. This dynamic does not work on a MU*.

I don't think any of us here are talking about the specific setting of Penny Dreadful but rather a setting in the style of Penny Dreadful.

@Coin said:

@Arkandel said:

@Groth I'll help run it, but I won't head it.

You have a bad habit of getting people to hypothesize and get into an idea and then going, "but I'm not gonna be in charge!"

We've seen what happens to people who headstaff.

If I were to write a Viking Werewolf setting, I'd probably be fairly straightforward about it and make the werewolves become the historical berserkers and be the surprisingly obvious supernatural champions of their mortal families.

The setting would probably involve 5 major families who settle their differences at the monthly ting, most of those differences being complaints about who fucked whos daughter and who is supposed to inherit whos land. When people seem to be getting too blood-thirsty all the warriors are sent out to raid some foreign land as a way to chill out.

So now that interest in the idea has been established, the question is just who should run it. I call anti-dibs on that!

@Coin said:

I would personally prefer just werewolves, but you know.

I would like the Masquerade to be light. People ignore it, but it's not a deadly secret.

I very much like Penny Dreadful as a general "feel" if you're going to do Victorian-esque London.

There's a lot of advantages to a Penny Dreadful style Victorian-esque London.

1. Almost everyone will be well acquainted with the general theme of the setting because there's been hundreds of TV-dramas set in the general time period.
2. At the same time between being alt-history and such a cosmopolitan city, there's almost nothing that will feel out of place if you want to add it.
3. Between the lack of mobile phones, cameras and the internet, the effort required to maintain the masquerade is minimal. Even if you rip someone in half on an open street, people will just assume they're hallucinating from reading too many penny dreadfuls.
4. Being the capital city of the British Empire, there's plenty of room for high-stakes politics.

I'd suggest alt-history Victorian London, that gives you a cosmopolitan, reasonably low tech, reasonably liberated setting.