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When you know that you can throw a complete curve ball at another player's character and that they'll catch it and run with it. Damn do I love players like that and it makes for some of the most spontaneous, engaging and fun scenes.

This is Mabel. She's my Tibetan Terrier terror and has just turned one year. She's currently asleep draped across the back of my neck on the sofa. For some reason her breed demands they always get up on things!

And this is Mabel and Gus (my ginger ninja) on squirrel (and pigeon, rabbit, crow, anything-that-moves) garden watch. They make a great good cop/bad cop team.

What hellish games do you people play on? NPC's are plot facilitators, nothing more.

FEAR AND LOATHING: 138.197.94.50 8000 / www.fandlmux.com

Fear and Loathing is a Las Vegas based nWoD game using 1e theme and GMC rules. The game approaches the Storyteller and MU system a bit different than most games. Staff do not run metaplot - the game is a player-centric game. Staff are purely OOC in function: they approve characters, handle XP spends, set notes, handle +jobs, approve theme and story ideas (see below), and otherwise keep the game running. For this reason, staff are not restricted in what Spheres or IC positions they can play in, but they cannot approve their own characters or handle their own +jobs.

Being player-centric means that staff encourage players to be Storytellers and make plots using the setting and theme provided. They also encourage them to BUILD on it, add to it, and help it grow. In a way it's a sandbox game - a sandbox for the players. You decide what you want to do, and staff just keep the toys clean and functioning. To facilitate this, they have eased a number of the restrictions you commonly see on other games regarding PRPs (player run plots), and have added incentives to encourage inclusion and co-operation. Whilst PRPs are looked over before they go live, it's only to make sure nothing gets out of hand or too crazy. Staff want to be a game that finds reasons to say 'Yes' rather than 'No'. They also allow for several different types of character that other games do not, including transfers.

At this time the game is accepting Vampire: the Requiem, Changeling: the Lost, Changing Breeds, Immortal, and many Mortal+ templates. It's open and ready to go - come check it out!

138.197.94.50 8000 / www.fandlmux.com

It's my nickname. Came about when I was four and it involved a pond, some algae, and me.

Victorian England. Also 1940's England during World War II.

There's a starman, waiting in the sky...
RIP David Bowie, such an influence on music, soundtrack of my life.

@Gingerlily So much this,

Some of my funniest RP has been through text messages. Love it!

On the bitching thread, @Arkandel said

@Arkandel said in Random Bitching:

@saosmash said in Random Bitching:

The name of the thread does indeed have the word bitch in it. Is that symptomatic of the sexist culture in which our language developed? Yep.

It's probably unrelated but I dislike the name of the "RL anger" thread.

There are many, many things that peeve, annoy or disappoint me about real life that I don't feel anger towards. Anger is a strong word.

Sunday night/Monday morning some thieving scumbags forced an entry to my garden and stole patio furniture that we got for an anniversary present. Also took as many garden tools as they could carry (some of which belonged to my mother who died 3 years ago and thus were of great sentimental value), and our barbecue. We reported it to the police, but they said we'd probably never see it again, and gave us an incident number.

So I went out and around where I live today, asking people I met if anyone had been trying to flog some wicker patio furniture, and amazingly one girl I know from walking our dogs said, oh huh, is it white and so big by so big, and are you missing a barbecue too? If so, it's in this lock up shed over where I live.

I ran all the way there, and yup... was all my stuff. So snapped some pics through the shed slats on my phone, rang police and sat on the ground in front of the door for three solid hours until police came. I was so ANGRY that some fucking nasty shitbags had done this that I was fully ready to stop them moving it someplace else. It was so satisfying when they busted the place open and got my stuff out.

RL ANGER!!

The game continues to slowly grow and has seen an influx of new players in the last few days. Some important positions are still available that staff would love to see filled:

Tier 1 Positions Open:
Now all filled (sorry).

Tier 2 Positions:
Warden: Protector/steward of the lands of Kidare; reports to Court Garrison.
Intendant: Organizes entertainment for the court, music, theatre, or otherwise - no troupe, act, fool, performing bard gets in without going through the Intendant, reports to the Kapelmaster
Heralds: (2 positions): bards/fili/scribes, responsible to organize, announce and referee the contestants at a tournament (not during the contest); reports to the Kapelmaster
Priests: (2 positions): Layleaders under the Bishop of Colmac, these priests operate in the court itself for Christians, performing services/mass
Ovates: (2 positions): Layleaders under the Fili of Court, performs direct services for household members and staff of the Celtic pagan faith

Along with the above, there are a wealth of other positions which are the backbone of RP at Court. http://fivek.wikidot.com/theme:court-of-ronain#toc3

Plots are running, including the alleged sighting of a river monster which will be kicking off the early part of next week, and the gathering of forces to the north of Kidare as Ulster bid to take the city of Artri. Men have just been mustered and are leaving to reinforce Artri n preparation for battles which will span the next couple of weeks.

Staff and players are helpful and responsive, so if the above piques an interest, drop on by for a chat.

http://fivek.wikidot.com/start
connect at: arthur.silvertree.org : 1106

Edited to add: Staff are working on a political/economics system which will be introduced once thrashed out fully. It'll place more focus on the Septs as crop failures and morale (amongst other things) become very real threats to success in the game.

Edited again to add: As of just now, the Fili position and the Marshal are both pending apps.

America Ferrera https://goo.gl/images/rBjwZh
Marilyn Monroe: https://goo.gl/images/gqQ9s2

Both gorgeously curvy, feminine and real.

So sorry to hear this @Arkandel . It's that unconditional love that they give us, which makes it so hard when they go.

I don't mind unfindable code, I just find it a peeve when people are persistently unfindable, even when in public, on grid, engaged in scenes. Sorry. No. You're not unfindable. Go hide!

Leaving this here to prove we Brits know how to have a twitter war! https://www.sciencealert.com/the-science-museum-and-natural-history-are-having-a-beef-on-twitter-and-we-love-it

You're looking for this:
https://github.com/wyrdathru/TheCreationist.
https://github.com/wyrdathru/TheCreationist/releases

It was Daranos' player that wrote the program and I'm not sure if he's still supporting it/working on it or not. It was much better than A2A however, which was the standard 16 colour one which everyone used.

I know Daranos' player reads this forum, so you could put maybe put a shout out for him.

Donated. Hope your kitty gets the treatment he needs.

Going to take one to the back of the head for this, but I really enjoyed the crafting system on Firan. I had a lot of fun with everything from farming, to forging, cooking, animal husbandry, perfuming, tailoring, jewellery making and the rest. I loved the act of creating an object, setting descriptions and then seeing others in game using that. So the staff were intolerable, and the circle jerks horrendous, but I had fun in my own little corner. Not found another place that has crafting like they did.

Well this is how I'm feeling right now, even though could see it coming a mile off....
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