Posts made by Rinel

@Auspice said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@Rinel said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

I'm making a LOST BOY.

Character generation is hard when engines don't hold your hand

make @RDC do it

pretty sure they're doing it by proxy

I'm making a LOST BOY.

Character generation is hard when engines don't hold your hand

@Ganymede said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

I just want people to like me.

word

@RDC said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

But the natural state of a vampire is a ravening, blood-hungering monster and every moment you get where you aren't that is a hard-won victory.

See, I like this. What I don't like, and I guess it's just the reason Vampire isn't the sphere for me, is how even at level 10 humanity you're an awful creature. Is there really no room for Kindred who go off and suck cow blood? I know in VtM the vitae is less potent, but whatever. There are a lot of cows.

I think what I'm looking for is something like the Sharia El-Sama or Road to Heaven. But in VtR. I like the idea of becoming a not-total-monster being an almost impossible task, but the heavy emphasis here is on "almost."

ANYWAY the setting is what it is, so I'm gonna quit bitchin' and start learning about warwilfs.

@Auspice

I like the Salubri :<

@RDC said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@Rinel There are two religious sects in VtR, the Circle of the Crones (basically every pagan religion banded together to be numerous enough to not burn wholesale for heresy separately) and the Lancea et Sanctum, a splinter of Catholicism that believes Longinus (the dude who stabbed Jesus with a spear) is the vampire antichrist and that all vampires are, by their nature, Damned. It's their job to sin a bunch and to punish mortal sinners and to be an example of what not to do.

Also don't read the in-game book of theirs if you're squeamish about non-consensual sex acts and...basically just everything someone might put into an Aristocrats joke but played straight as if it were the most serious, badass shit ever.

Uh. Are there any ones who aren't, you know... awful?

@Auspice said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

RELIGIOUS VAMPING

This is a thing?

I might pop my head in but I have to figure out nWoD rules on vampires. Unless I go warwilf. Or mortal.

I'm probably gonna pop my head in. Just gotta... figure something out.

@Derp said in The Work Thread:

@Rinel said in The Work Thread:

Copy-paste the entire original memo and slap on an introductory paragraph explaining why the standard of review is de novo?

Just add the original as an exhibit to the new one!

If I were in federal court, I'd be doing exactly that. I would have a two page writ application with a bunch of footnotes to the record.

I'm in state court. I don't think they're going to read the record.

ETA: @Ganymede This is habeas work, so it's really too individualized for me to have any standard forms. The few things that are common to the point of being standard (e.g. Strickland, Cronic, Lafler, Frye) are familiar enough to me that it's faster for me to just write how they relate to the facts anew in each case.

@Auspice said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

(And I am using men/women here tho I have flirted with, interacted with, etc. those who are trans- or flexible or... but this is a 'for sake of argument' conversation so.)

Generally speaking, those of us who are trans and still operating within the binary actively prefer to be included in the group "men/women."

I really wanna try out mage, but I'm a bit worried that I'd get everything wrong. But if you are not drowning in apps, I'd put in something for a Mysterium Moros going Uncrowned King (there's so much more stuff you need to say to describe a mage. Yikes).

@toreadorfool said in CoD Ancient Rome game...:

I THINK I am going to set the game during the war with Carthage

For the record, though your 200 BC dating clarifies, there were three of these.

ETA: You're thinking about the second one, I assume? Hannibal, Alps, Elephants?

@RDC said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

if later I decide to delete this post and pretend this never happened because it's really fucking scary

One of the things I think a lot of us who decide to kick our assigned gender to the curb in some form or fashion (either by defecting to the other side like I did or deciding the whole thing is a spook like you did) deal with really frequently is the fear that somehow we will change our minds on some aspect of this and therefore we will be terrible and awful and invalid and dumb.

But, you know, when you live in a world that pretty much demands everyone fall relatively neatly into one of two categories, it can be really hard to even conceive of saying "no thank you" to those expectations. So if you end up moving from "okay, I'm agender and asexual" to "okay, I'm agender but not asexual," or "okay, I'm asexual but trans," or "okay, I'm actually cis and hetero," all of those things are totally okay to do.

And of course if you don't move at all that is obviously okay! But do not be upset at yourself for being unsure.

ETA: Also, if you want a trans woman to listen to you scream incoherently at the world, feel free to hit me up on here. You can scream coherently too. Or just talk. Whatever you like.

@Ganymede said in The Work Thread:

@Rinel

I think you know my answer to this.

Copy-paste the entire original memo and slap on an introductory paragraph explaining why the standard of review is de novo?

@Auspice

Learning how to unwind has been one of the hardest lessons for me to learn. Usually, at best, I just distract myself from my stress by playing video games. Actual relaxation is hard.

Personally, nature helps a great deal, assuming sufficiently not-horrible climate.

@Auspice said in Which text editor?:

I mean this is really specifically for the in-line ones, I put notepad to be jokey.

Joke's on you; I'm such a not-coder that I don't even know what an in-line editor is.

@Roz said in The Work Thread:

I got the job. And they gave me more money than I asked for.

Microsoft Word. :B

I know what I want to write in this application for a supervisory writ, but I don't know whether I should do it "professionally" (short with references to the record) or "safe" (copy pasting enormous chunks of my original motion).

Because I have little faith that the court is going to look at the record.