@Arkandel Agreed. I don't offer to host Wikis, and I don't intend to let you actually access the server itself. Please let me know if there's some other factor I'm not considering w/r/t that kind of issue, but, I don't intend to give people their own free directory on my VPS, I intend to ask them to let me use them as lab rats for a Mux In A Box project.
Well, I don't offer to host your wiki.
So, you go to MediaWiki or ShoutWiki or what is it, Wikia? If you want MediaWiki you're gonna have to pay for hosting somewhere,
If you need MediaWiki, then free isn't free, but, you still get the hardest part done for you.
Sweeeet. I'm updating the first post with more information so if you have questions I'll also put the answers there.
Oh, don't worry man, hahaha, I can do it myself. I don't want extra coders. I mean, if you want to help then sure I ain't gonna be like NOOOOO but
What I want is LABRATS.
So for more info,
If you are a staffer, you aren't given game-wide permissions, you're given access to an object. What it does is gives you all the commands you need to perform your job (sheet setting, attribute setting, XP setting, blah blah) and it makes sure you're only doing that to people who are on the same game as you. You can't peek on other peoples' games. You can't fuck with other peoples' sheets unless you're staff for that game. RIGHT NOW the +game/switchto command isn't locked up, but there can be a lock put on its use so that you can't just switchto games you aren't on the staff roster for.
If you are a brand new player, when you sign on you'll see a generic connection screen which will list the name of all the games because I am a doodyhead who doesn't know how to make the connection screen report something different to you if you put in a different port.
So you sign in and it' slike WELCOME TO JD'S STEADY DESCENT INTO MADNESS PICK A GAME, Public is a shared-across-games channel and you can page people across games because this is all scripted in, i's not coded in. Shut up. I had a lot of free time.
@Thenomain Now all I'm thinking of is that Cow N Chickin episode with the Carpet Munchers biker gang.
So, I want to provide a user-friendly platform for experimental NWOD and GMC and OWOD games. because I have 80% set one up. The idea is a person with a game idea but little to no coding ability should be able to whip up a game. At this point, it needs lab rats, so what I want to do is host multiple games on the same database to hammer out specific needs and wants for spheres that I do not play and do not staff for and thus would otherwise not have an opportunity to learn about, so I can find out what options need to be in it. Once a few games have been set up and run on it for like a year or so, then I can safely say "Hey, you can plug and play your own game, have all this code."
WHAT THE HELL IS IT?
It's a game with a script on it that sorts players by &_game attribute so that commands like +sheet, +roll, +where, +who, and +jobs refer to information and options specific to their game. You share game space with other people. It's scripted because the end idea one day is to give people who are like "what is linux" a Game In A Box they can copy and paste into their MU* window and get going. All they have to do, code wise, is fill in some blanks. I understand that Mux In A Minute exists but I think it's ugly dog shit.
PROS AND CONS
PRO: Free MU* hosting.
CON: You're on your own for a Wiki.
PRO: Your game can be ready to play as soon as your grid and news files are ready (unless you require code that does not yet exist).
CON: This is scripted, not hard-coded, so that means that your game co-exists with other games. If you want to move your game to an independent solution you will be able to, just not instantly, because I'll need to make a copy of the original, make sure the other games are wiped off of that copy, and then send you THAT copy. I'd still do it, you'd just need to give me notice.
PRO: You do not have to touch anything server-side, ever.
CON: You CAN'T touch anything server-side. Since this is geared towards non-coders this shouldn't be a huge con, but you should be aware of it, and also that you can't log in to #1 to @admin things. It's not very often that you have to do that in the first place, but again, be aware.
WHAT ALREADY EXISTS?
WHY THE HELL DOES THIS EXIST
Because I've coded for other people since like 2008 and I've kept everything and decided one day I'd make it relevant again by throwing it into a pot and make it hierarchal to a game-control object so I can make a Mux In A Box The Way You Like It system.
HOW THE HELL WOULD BBOARDS WORK
A shitload of BBs with locks, frankly, so it'll be horrifying to type +bbread on staff-side if you want to see all that shit, but I've logged on to games like The Screech and seen like "+BB 251" so I, mean, it won't kill you.
WHAT DO I DO TO GET A GAME?
I recommend you to plan out your grid first. I do require you to have your grid rooms named with a consistent prefix (or prefixes), like, you know, the name of the city or the name of the game. For immediate example all By Right Of Blood grid squares are prefixed MIAMI, MIAMI BEACH or EVERGLADES. So, if I wanted to extract my game's grid, then I could run a search for anything beginning with MIAMI, MIAMI BEACH, or EVERGLADES. That way, if you ever need to move, it won't be a GIGANTIC PAIN IN THE ASS. because you can get all your grid sorted out. Don't worry about characters, they will have a &_game attribute that says "This person is playing on this game" so they, too, can be sorted out if you need to move.
Tell me these things:
WHAT WOULD STAFFING BE LIKE?
Instead of being set "wizard" or "royalty," you'll be given an attribute that tells the Staff Commands what people you have permission to use its commands on. You'll be able to do All The Things, from sheet management and approvals to going (un)dark, you just won't be able to peek on other peoples' stuff.
The exception is if you need to find out if Jimbo is being an asshole on neighbor games. You can +alts/gamecheck Jimbo. = Reason. That'll open up a global +request that is CCed to all staff (ALL STAFF D:). The contents of the +Request will list Jimbo's alts on the other games and be accompanied with your comment. So, +alts/gamecheck Jimbo = Jimbo keeps throwing epic temper tantrums when he loses combat scenes, be warned, and it'll come out like JImbo (Jimbob on GeistMUX, Kayla and Jody on ChangelingMUX) keeps throwing epic temper tantrums when he loses combat scenes, be warned."
Tthe last time I went flying I was wearing my like, cholo lesbian couture look, so I looked like Viva La Raza complete with catseye and I'm not surprised that I went through pre-check and I got
RANDOMLY hand-swabbed in line, and I was the only one who was RANDOMLY hand-swabbed
RANDOMLY patted down at the end of the millimeter wave in pre-check. And I don't mean like, let me flim-flamsy my limp wrists on your shoulders in this half-ass achieve-nothing pat that takes 2 seconds, I mean like STEP ASIDE MA'AM, ALLOW ME TO GROPE YOUR THIGHS, I hadn't seen that much action in months, and the motherfuckers didn't even check my pockets. If you're gonna grope me at least humor me with checking my pockets.
So at this point I raelize, in my wondering what I did to deserve this, I forgot a knife in my carry-on since I use the same bag for everything. But my bag hasn't made it through the little X ray scanner yet so why are they fucking molesting me and what's gonna happen when they find my knife? So as soon as this woman's done tickling my labia I'm free for like, 2 seconds, until someone picks up my backpack like WHOSE IS THIS?!?!?!!?!?!
So I claim it and the next thing I know I have people all over me and like DID YOU PACK YOUR BAG YOURSELF IS THERE ANYTHING IN THIS BAG THAT WOULD HURT ME IF I OPEN IT. "Oh. Yes. I forgot. There is a knife. It's my father's. May I please leave the checkout so that I can ship it home?" So they let me out.
So I go ship it home and say fuck this, I'm going to the other goddamn side of the air port's check-in to deal with other people., and I'm going into the general goddamn line since the last few times I did that I was left the fuck alone. NOOOOPEEEE.
CHORIZO STUFFED CHICKEN D:<
Preheat oven to 375 because we gonna bake
1. Get you some chicken, either butterfly and beat the fuck out of it so it's rollable. or cut holes into the chicken for imminent stuffing. If you've never filet-ed before then what you do is you put your hand on top of the meat so you can feel what's going on and then you drag your knife parallel to the table along its length, and you leave like, ehhh, a quarter to a third of an inch of meat as a connection between the butterfly halves. And if you're JD you have to do this with your pocketknife because your Hipster-White (that kind of white) boyfriend doensn't know what the fuck a whetstone is.
2. Get you some chorizo. If you live somewhere where they SELL CANNED TORTILLAS (WHY) so you're not going to get any chorizo, just buy some goddamn pork sausage and put a shitload of garlic in it and enough comino/cumin and/or chili powder in it to make you think "gee whiz marge, this smells like tacos," voila, good enough.
3. Spice the chorizo the way you want. Basically just make it taste like whatever type of Mexican food you're happy with with pork as your base. If you don't have a preference or a clue just spice that shit with more garlic than chili powder than comino (cumin) and then mince up some onions, bellpeppers, and jalapeños into there.
4. Get the chorizo to ... just get really hot in a pan I don't know cooking words. You generally don't need to add butter or olive oil to a pan when chorizo is in the picture because it's super greasy.
5. While the chorizo is purging itself of trichinosis, prepare the chicken for stuffing. Either butterfly the chicken and then beat the hell out of it so that you can roll it up and secure with toothpicks and/or string, or cut pockets into the chicken. You want the chorizo halfway cooked.
8. The name of the dish is "chorizo stuffed chcken." I believe in you..
9. If you're one of those Clean As You Goers don't fucking clean that chorizo pan yet. In fact, leave some chorizo in there and keep it warm.
10. Bread the chicken. You're too forgetful for panko bread crumbs and if you just take a hammer to the nearest bag of tortilla chips you've got this.. Put some salt and pepper and garlic on that shit so it tastes like something on the outside. Now pour out some milk and whip an egg into it, now dip your stuffed chicken in that and then roll the chicken in your uh, 'bread crumbs'.
10. Bake for an hour. You can make sides. Jalapeño cole slaw is fab with this and rice is fab with this.. Both of those take like 10-20 minutes or less to achieve, so you've got more minutes to kill, so make a cheese sauce to go on top of the chorizo.
OPTIONAL CHEESE SAUCE
1. Once the chorizo you left in the pan is cooked all the way, set that aside somewhere.
2. Get the chorizo pan hot again and pour some beer in it. It needs to be a beer hipsters put limes in. Bring it up to a boil.
3. Pour like half a mouthful of jalapeño juice in it. Or pickle juice if you're a pansy.
3. Once that gets boiling, pour more milk than you did beer. Like ... 1 to 1 1/2 ratio.
4. Now turn the heat down and fill up the pan with cheese Like Monterey Jack, or mozzarella. Or a combo.
5. Stir and stir and stir until you're pretty sure you have cheese sauce. If you really need to thicken it, go with flour.
6. Stir in that chorizo you set aside. If your name is Heather or Courtney or Blake I guess you can ~~garnish it with cilantro~~.
Sorry for double-posting, but I wanted to make sure it gets on here since I say I'm on here every Wednesday and Thursday: This week I can't go 'cause I have to help make A FUCKLOAD OF CUPCAKES AND A GROOM'S CAKE AUGH for a wedding.
But I talked to Yamazaki, the other ST, and he should be able to run something this week so that we have a little action moving forward every week. Yay!
Does anybody know how to decorate cupcakes to look like flowers ;.;
I need to upload this character generation system since it's actually a MODULAR character generator I made, then I sculpted up an OWOD and NWOD version of it. So if you choose another system, then you're set.
The character generation system is set up to where you can edit it without my help if you can learn from examples. There is also a "stat" function so that you can plug it in to code from other people instead of having to code whole systems around a new chargen structure.
If you log in to tex-mux.mmlx.us port 2015 and type "break shit" you will find the NWOD character generator in its current state, which comes with the ability to filter merits and check pre-requisites for you so that staff doesn't have to run around going "OK, does he have the pre reqs for this merit?"
I'm all new to this "being part of the mu* community" thing, where do I upload this sort of stuff for people to cavort?
It was in December, around December 18th.
Hey there, I've made an NWOD character generator and sheets and diceroller. It's waiting to be plugged into a game. You want? Send me a message on here and I'll talk with you :D,
Hahaha.
A few months back when California was LOSING ITS MIND about the storm coming up, the one that rams a fist up their ass every seven years or so and floods everything, I was visiting. People were just, holy shit, it was like Doomsday Preppers over in San Francisco. And me and the Filipinos in Daly City (45 minutes to an hour south, so just as hit by the rain) and my college buddies from Galveston and Houston, we're used to fucking hurricanes, cyclones, and other matter of Biblical shit. So we were like "Wow, it's Wednesday."
Hey I made a thing. It's an NWOD Character generator which uses GMC where available or else uses NWOD, and it's ... Enough done that I want to ask people to throw rocks at it.
So far I have Werewolf and Vampire with GMC rools, and Geist, Changeling and Mage with uh, Not GMC Rules. I intend to add Demon and Changing Breeds as soon as I can ... wrap my head around how the hell Changing Breeds even works.
Anyway,
Do you think you could kindly connect to tex-mux.mmlx.us port 2015, then type "break shit" when you're connected to my cute little game, and use the CG?
If you run into a bug you can bitch at me for it here or you can use +request to be like SHIT'S BROKE.
Of course I want to know if it's broken, but I'm also looking for feedback with regard to user-friendliness and if there are any missed opportunities to eliminate work for the player. Since I want to make games that have risk involved IC, I want making a character to be as easy and low-investment as it can be.
Thank you!
@The-Tree-of-Woe But GEIST. And it can take place elsewhere, but, I want a supah haunted city that isn't New Orleans and Savannah is cool as hell. I think that New Orleans has been done too many times. I'm too busy having Very Strong Opinions about Edmund J. Davis and so on to really give a damn about Sherman, myself.
Hahaha.
What I usually get from outside of Texas is
Or,
Half Mexican and then Mutt-White-Mostly-English-And-Irish on my dad's side which results in me being asked what my heritage is now and then.
One time these weird white supremacists were asking me what "breed" I was, that was awkward and creepy and uncomfortable.
Then there was this one Australian chick, while I was out of State. When she found out I was from Texas she proceeded to shit-talk Texas as being just a racist shit-hole and that she's above that. I kind of just let her ramble about how diversity conscious she was and went on to talking to her friends.
We were talking about school and work and she just interrupts me with "so what is your background?" I answered with my educational background since I thought she was trying to catch up to the current conversation, only to get, "No, I mean your BACKGROUND, what is your heritage.?" Oh. okay, woman who just told me race shouldn't matter, I'm half Mexian and half Irish. So I tell her, and she's all "Oh, I'm part Maltesian." I asked her, "Oh, you mean like the dog?" and she fucking didn't get the joke because she was too busy telling me how exotic Malta is. 
Speakin' of historical accuracy me and a buddy are making a Western. We put it in a fictional place so nobody's like THIS MUST HAPPEN ON THIS DATE LIKE THIS and we'll have resources for you if you wanna be historically accurate but if you don't then you don't. So long as you don't uh, drive cars and shit you should be good?
I'm interested in starting Geist in present-day Savannah, Georgia (Sherman's March to the Sea).
