Posts made by ThugHeaven

I'm just curious if really fishy transgendereds are allowed?

Or how about a woman that transforms into a drag queen?

@Kanye-Qwest

I see who I want to play. Get my Catelyn Stark on.

Yeah, I just looked at the website. I think I'm going to enjoy this.

How the hell did I miss this thread and game? A marriage of RPI and mush? Good quality rp? Alpha?? I'm going to try this out when I get home.

Things like this really make me happy!

@Sab sounds good! I'm all for types of RP that's collaborative. I've been playing Arm lately and it's so anti social lately. If you can balance social with highly lethal (and it sounds like that's what you're going for), it'll be a really good game.

@Sab is it a classless system? Sounds like characters are going to need to be able to do a little bit of everything.

@Sab

Hmmm, interesting. Another RPI in the mix, I'll check it out.

Every store has its characters, those oddballs that come in and do their thing. When I was a front end supervisor it was "Santa Claus".

I know what you're thinking, "a guy coming in the store with a Santa Claus suit". No, we called him Santa because he looked like Santa without the suit: white hair and beard, pot belly and a friendly demeanor.....until.....

You start having a conversation with him. Then you begin to see he's a little off and probably escaped the loonie bin. I used to warn all the new cashiers about him because he had a type: young, pretty "thick" dark-skinned girls. Once he found one he would have a conversation with them for an uncomfortable period of time and I'd have to pull them off the register.

One time we got a new girl named Brandy. The same day I tell her about Santa and how contractors can be really sleazy, guess who shows up? Yep, Santa's down there with Brandy. The code was to flash the register light and I would go down there and tell them to take a break. Five minutes pass and no flashing light. He should've left by now, so I make my way down there.

Brandy's looking at me wide eyed when I tell her to take a break. She quickly leaves. Fifteen minutes later he's back looking for Brandy. I tell him Brandy went home. He rings up duct tape, rope, contractor bags and drain opener (I'm not even joking about the items).

I ask her about what he said to her and she says "he has a room for me in his basement and I should stay with him." I told her, "..next time you gotta get out of there like I told you. You can't have a conversation with him and hope he goes away." She agrees and life goes on.

About a week later Brandy comes running into the store terrified and crying. Santa pulled up in a van and tells her he'll give her a ride to work. She refused and he started following her until she ran. I tell her to go in the break room and who shows up five minutes later? Yeah....

I tell him he's got to leave. He doesn't, I call the police and they show up pretty quick. They too know Santa and ironically they call him Santa. I'm not sure what they charge him with, but they put him in handcuffs and tell me he's a sex offender.

I think he's worse than that.

@Seraphim73 I think Shadowrun had a +stash command, where you could hide your guns. Looking back at it, it was a shitty way to treat a noob. Things like that were the norm. Mess up on a run? consequences! Carrying visible firearms downtown? Consequences!

Anyway back to the topic. I think shadowrun is regarded as crunchy is because at least in 3rd edition, Rigging, decking and magic were almost like separate rule sets. Some staff on Shadowrun and Detroit only dealt with certain rules and you could kind of tell by the plots they ran. By the time I started playing there were mostly street sams, phys adepts, and mages walking around. Every once in a while you'd bump into the odd rigger or decker.

I think at some point people kind of said "eff those rules."

Wow a Shadowrun discussion. I'm at work, but I agree with a lot of what was said.

The noir element to me is the fact that you can't stop the megacorps. Whatever their evil plan is, you only stopped it for the moment. You just built a firebreak, but you know the fire is going to go around it. And that's if you were doing heroic deeds.

You could very well just be a part of the plan, just a cog in the wheel. The world keeps on spinning.

@Tyche

:~(

Anybody watching Slasher? Not sure if this one's been mentioned. I've watched three episodes, and it seems like a show written by horror fans.

@Lithium See, no. I really meant read erotica in general....no disclaimer. Now you're getting into what's good and what's not; which is for whoever is reading it to decide.

The reason I mentioned Zane is because it's arguably bad yet I enjoy reading it. There's a whole lot of things that count as erotica, from 120 days of Sodom, which I think a lot of people have read to The English patient to The Tropic of Capricorn.

But without reading a variety, how would you know what you like? Reading a variety could actually help your writing.

I don't think reading erotica needs a disclaimer at all.

Mine are:

1. Don't be rapey. By that I mean, don't be all grabby-handsie, "I wanna [insert weird sexual fetish] ....", etc especially when you first meet someone. More than anything it's funny and it happens so often, it's not even shocking.

2. Be descriptive, but don't power emote. Ironic, but 'nuff said.

3. Read some erotica. I frickin' love Zane novels, they're my guilty pleasure. Seeing how the pros do it goes a long way.

@Lithium Gotcha. I love Dresden though, I might have to check that out.

@Lithium I get that, but London is like what a 2-2-1/2 hour drive? It wouldn't be impossible to take a drive to get a gun.

I get the whole thing, shit I played on SR: London, it was hard to get guns on there. I'm just saying...not my game, not my rules, but still....airsoft with magick bullets at least?

Hmm, that's interesting. Can't the underground/criminal element get a hold of guns still?

@rebekahse

I think it can be mush quality if you find the right group and sim and you're on with the right people.

For some reason the pirate sims seem to never die, then there are oddball ones like wrestling...seriously, they mic up and act like wrestlers or roller derby. Those "urban" sims like Crackden are still going too.

Yup mesh is everything right now. I stopped with the mesh body, havent gotten into the mesh head thing. I'm waiting to see what they do with project bento, since its going to add facial bones. I just learned to rig fitmesh, so imma wait on a head because bento may make them all obsolete.

@HorrorHound

It is hard to describe Second Life because it's like a multiverse that bleeds horribly into one another. That being said, there is a guy that built a Shadowrun Sim there and there used to be a few Dungeons and Dragons-like sims. The problem with Second Life is nothing is permanent and most things worth finding are extremely hard to find save smut. So you could find a well done sim or group that is completely empty or inactive. Worse still, you could find a lively sim that is full of people and you go there one day and everything is gone.

I create content on there, there is a very steep learning curve. There is pretty much no guide since there really is no way to describe it easily. You could argue, just creating an avatar you are roleplaying, but there are people that see thier avis as themselves.

Its something you have to try for yourself, set your own end game and know that other people arent necessarily playing that same game.

Rolling up a character was a snap. Can't wait to start playing!