Posts made by Olsson

She was indeed awesome.

Just pinging this.

Remind me when you open up to sign up on this list? So I don't forget and get in the dreaded line.

So Sattriya on HM, lost contact with this person after the great purge of HM. I kinda suspect she just quit MU*ing after this, but figured I'd toss it out here.

Any of you people who played the character or know if she's still around somewhere?

@Bennie

Not really an option here now, alas. Not really a thing here at all to my knowledge.

Finding a place to live, which of course differs from city to city. But damn, am having no progress.

I just want an apartment that I can fit a computer and bed into.

The Long Earth, written by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter.

I think it's a very nice mixture of Pratchett's famous strange and humerous meeting Baxter who is a rather hardline so called 'hard sci-fi' writer. The premise is a new technology which allows access to parallel universes, each with a new and usually untouched Earth that gives an out and a new frontier for people, now that the original Earth is overpopulated as it is. But who knows if these parallel worlds really are as identical as they seem?

I find it rather funny and intresting, and was a good read.

I wish it could get colder here so we'd have actual snow rather than this wet snow/rain mix. I hate the wet.

Get colder, thanks.

I mostly just hear about a lot of rape.

@Bennie

This I actually agree with.

I for one generally don't play timid or withdrawn roles, it's all about being big, large, loud and bright. I generally don't overly prepare for things, I don't generally care about making plans and schemes of action.

If I see the big bad? I am going to charge him shouting taunts to try and pierce his heart. My PCs will often boast, be opinionated, and not neccecarily care about the opinion and thoughts of others.

I myself as a player, of course do care about others. I want everyone to have fun, but to me this often seems to boildown to playstyles. While I want to charge forward all suicidal blaze of glory, others want to sit back, plan, watch, and intricatly set up the eventual fall of the big bad.

If I just charge ahead, I ruin their fun.

If I have to sit through their planning and scheming? They ruin my fun.

So beyond the obvious point of alternating, sometimes letting them have fun, and sometimes letting me have fun. And me taking the backseat and pulling back on the loud and bright shit. Any suggestions for how to handle that?

Most of my crafts related hobbies relate to the historical recreation stuff, as such I do in various amounts.

Sewing.(Clothes, duh)
Woodwroking? (I mostly just try and do wood cores for scabbards when the mood strikes, also shields)
Metalwroking/Blacksmithing (Modifying armor, making simple tools and/or components)
Making Chainmail
Leatherworking
Cooking

I try to learn embroidery but that doesn't go well so far. Is heeeelllll.

Current projects are making new shirts to be worn for casual appearance, most of them are miscoloured and filthy to the point of I only wear them under stuff now. Need to repair my Gambeson, I tore an arm halfway off during the summer. I got green linen lying around for a shirt, also a lot of brown wool which are meant to become trousers and a kaftan.

There are also ideas about sewing a tent, but that's a bit off currently.

Past PC Bits
Haunted Memories: Igor, Tim, Quinn, Garfield (and more I don't remember)
The Reach: Roland, Bob, Warwick, Wright, Sofia, Ron (and more)
City of Fog and Blood: Bruce
Fallcaost: Richard, Johanna, Ulf, Whiskey, Keith
Bump in the Night: Joan
Reno 2.0 Alexander, Zeke
Arx Gabriel
Fallen World Panopticon

Current PC Bits
Arx Tibaltus, Asha
Fate's Harvest Vo

Past Staff Bits
The Reach: Carthage

I'd reccomend The Prince of Nothing series by R. Scott Bakker. The Darkness That Comes Before being the first one in the series. It's High Fantasy but less generic than a lot of things I myself tend to see. I rather enjoy it.