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I ran the first event on my game last night, for the first plot that's tangentially related to the metaplot that will probably start rolling come next weekend.

I finally broke the ten player barrier, and had people show up. I haven't run events in a long time, as I'm far more used to DMing than GMing, but everyone seemed to love what I put out, even if it was nothing more than a dispute at the gates of the city.

It's rewarding to be able to finally tell stories that I've wanted to tell and people being really interested and already asking questions to meet with NPCs related to said plots.

No, I don't have a lot people playing. But that's okay. I've worked pretty hard on this theme over the course of a year and people generally seem interested in being apart of it. There's a lot of personal reward in others enjoying it. And I enjoy making stories for them.

To all the unvaccinated dying of Covid and taking up spaces for people with cancer and other diseases and literally being turned away because there's no room?

I've been working in a Covid lab for going on two years. My compassion and sympathy have long since run out.

Running the first real event of my game's metaplot and a bunch of people showed and it was a great time, even if it was a lot of lore-dumping on players so they have all sorts of threads and bit to chase down for proceeding plots to run.

However, playing about five different NPCs for four hours will definitely take a mental taxing on you after awhile. Still, I'm happy everyone enjoyed it.

Bubba has been trying so hard to be best friends with Old Man Fuzz.

Finally, after a few months, Fuzz tolerates Bubba's presence.

"If you think you can do it so well, how about you make your own game?"

Okay.

Who knows if it'll be good, but I have a theme in my head, and inspiration of those who seem to want to help. But it'll be something, got some feedback on how to refine it/make it better, and I've gotten some advice in regards if I wanted to use Ares because I'm code-dumb.

Might as well shoot your shot, because what else do you have to loose.

This is Zucchini but I call her Zooey. She's cute but a small terror.

I know for myself, there are people I enjoy talking to but I haven't shared my Discord handle with because I've always been a rather private person when it comes to people being able to contact me if I don't want to be contacted.

Logging on MUs, even if I'm not playing(and let's be honest, I'm barely playing anywhere currently)creates a buffer that makes me feel a touch more comfortable.

As weird as it to say, that feeling of sudden relief after you have an infected and abscessed tooth extracted. I was so nervous/anxious going into to see the surgeon, but that man knew his shit. Popped that thing in about ten minutes.

No pain, but I can't describe the amount of pressure I felt in my head while he was working on loosening it. I almost started crying once I felt the tooth gone. There was this audible sigh of 'OH GOD THANK YOU'.

Few know I have a thing for shoes. The sneaker life is very very real. I didnt buy a couple pairs yesterday because I got my yearly bonus. Nope. Not me.

The tower isn't even my entire collection. Just the ones currently being displayed, worn in cycles.

Someone help me.

Due to my job, I qualify as a Phase 1A eligible for the vaccine in my state.

As someone who works in a lab constantly handling 'Rona samples, there is a certain relief to that.

I'm not even angry about it anymore. I simply don't care. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

These people wanting to spout "muh freedoms" don't seem to understand how vaccines have always been mandatory in some situations.

In school or college you had to be up to date on all your vaccines or you couldn't go to school.

Having be up to date on all your vaccines was a requirement to work in a medical setting or position

Officers in the military tending their resignation over the vaccine forget that on fucking Day 3 of BMT, you're filed down a line of nurses who jab you about four times in each arm and you didn't question it then

So fuck them. Every last one of them. They have nobody but themselves to blame for dying on this stupid hill of ignorance.

Hell of a hill to die on, but at least you're dead.

@Apos said in Arx Alts:

I'm Apostate on there

I'm sorry. This is wrong. I have a point to try and post as little as possible, but this is morally wrong.

There is little justification to keep these bans in place, beyond trying to uphold this almost draconian position of what's perceived as black and white justice.

To note, there are of those banned that I disagree with, some I don't even like but I don't wish them to branded in such a way.

This is wrong and it will continue to be so.

That is wrong and you are silencing voices, even when it looks especially grevious when most of the voices banned ate those of dissent.

This look of "control must be maintained" is a bad look. I simply no longer believe that there is self awareness of that.

That's is.

@faraday has put up with my continuous list of either odd or simple or just ignorant questions, wholly oblivious to how coding actually works. She's been kind enough to tolerate all that and still answer my questions.

If it were not for Ares and Fara, I would not have the game I have now. And while there's stuff I'm going to want to do or see if I can do, the fact that I have a game at all is a testament to how easy Ares is to use to get a game running. If her goal was to make creating the initial setup as painless as possible so you don't have to know a great deal of coding to get something off the ground, then she's done it.

I'm also grateful that she allows us to bend and twist around the systems to do what we'd like. And while I might be old-fashioned and may never truly get on the scene system, it works really well for my game that was by design, not meant to be played all the time, every day. I might be a fan of grids and rooms, but I can't deny how useful that system has been to a lot of people. Even including myself.

Fara is indeed amazing and I'm very thankful she created Ares.

Just want to make a note that not everyone will have the holidays to spend with. For a couple years that was me, so just want to point out to those that're going through that. I hear you, I know what that's like.

And for the rest of that are going to deal with family that we may or may not always get along with....

You know what the worst thing about this whole last year(and going to this year)is? People weaponizing their own suffering. I can't count on how many fingers I've seen instances of "Shit/Life/Drama is hard for me right now, be nice to me." only for whatever person who said that turns around and acts like a gigantic asshole and treat everyone around them like shit. And then going back to hide behind a wall of "Oh but everything is so hard for me, remember."

And...I get it. To a point. Though if I talk about myself for a moment, I'm not excused either. Because I even pulled shit like that last week, and I kind of hate myself for it(read: I do). But I really think people, both online and offline because at this point, I see both at my job and online these days. It's half the reason(read: most) I left Facebook almost four years ago. And now it's just all the time. Or at least, it feels like it. I think what set me off to write this was the fact I just got off the phone with my brother, and boy, is that relationship a fun one.

It's just grating. There are many times, far too many times where I just want to start stating "Fuck you and fuck your feelings." By the sheer grace of patience I don't say it out loud.

Think I enjoy the random mouse cameos more than the cats sometimes.

Is this because Stephen King wrote a lot of books that were based in Maine?

This is literally my only explanation for this.

After a couple weeks of idle discussion, and some back and forth about what kind of character they should play, finally got to play out a particular storyline I've been wanting to do for literal years. And it's with a friend who hadn't really gotten to RP much up until recently.

It's pretty good and it's been everything I've hoped for.