Random Stuff II

[Delightful]

I'm kind of scared joining Oregon will zap all my time.

[The Honor Spren she/her]

I'm kind of scared joining Oregon will zap all my time.

Exactly. Edited September 28, 2015 by The Honor Spren

[Mashadar Mistborn he/him]

I'm kind of scared joining Oregon will zap all my time.

 

I haven't been on long enough to be sure about that, but I'm juggling a lot, and I'm currently managing. Didn't you do a little at the start of Portland?

Also thank you so much for posting Every Major's Terrible on the Majors thread. I am using it as the cover art for my binder.

[mail-mi he/him]

I'm kind of scared joining Oregon will zap all my time.

Weren't you in Oregon for a while?

[Delightful]

I did I think two posts and then I had to drop out. Considering joining again but......how much time a day/week does it take?

Mashadar mistborn: no worries .

[Mckeedee123 he/him]

I did I think two posts and then I had to drop out. Considering joining again but......how much time a day/week does it take?

Mashadar mistborn: no worries .

 

Depends on how many characters you have and whether or not you actually want to read through the Questions thread. You could probably get by on about an hour a week if you only have one guy to write for.

[Mistrunner]

*struggling, crawls up to discussion by pulling self along with arms* Guys... guys.... *coughs* I have been accosted by the... awful... horrible... *coughs again* thing... called... It's called... LIFE! *has terrible coughing fit and falls down, unconscious*

 

In other news, I've been listening to the same song over and over for about fifteen minutes. Maybe longer.

Edited September 29, 2015 by Mistrunner

[The Honor Spren she/her]

*struggling, crawls up to discussion by pulling self along with arms* Guys... guys.... *coughs* I have been accosted by the... awful... horrible... *coughs again* thing... called... It's called... LIFE! *has terrible coughing fit and falls down, unconscious*

In other news, I've been listening to the same song over and over for about fifteen minutes. Maybe longer.

I'm confused. Clarification?

[Mistrunner]

I'm confused. Clarification?

Life attacked me. I'm dying.

[The Honor Spren she/her]

Life attacked me. I'm dying.

Oh I'm so sorry, man. You have my condolences.

Do you know how nice it is to be on a site where I can use larger words and not be looked at strangely? I can't do this stuff in the disastrous circumstance known as life.

[Mistrunner]

Oh I'm so sorry, man. You have my condolences.

Do you know how nice it is to be on a site where I can use larger words and not be looked at strangely? I can't do this stuff in the disastrous circumstance known as life.

I offer my agreement by jumping up and down yelling "Exactly!"

 

I can use "extrapolate" or "discombobulate" (both amazing words, of course)!

Edited September 29, 2015 by Mistrunner

[Delightful]

*struggling, crawls up to discussion by pulling self along with arms* Guys... guys.... *coughs* I have been accosted by the... awful... horrible... *coughs again* thing... called... It's called... LIFE! *has terrible coughing fit and falls down, unconscious*

In other news, I've been listening to the same song over and over for about fifteen minutes. Maybe longer.

Which song?

Also, discombobulate is an awesome word.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Bruce is so chill. It was a little weird at first, since Bruno and Mollie get excited over everything, and all he wants to do is cuddle. Every time I sit on the floor, he climbs up into my lap. 

 

I think he'll wind up being like Doug the Pug—totally cool with anything, whether it's grinning in front of a cheeseburger or dressing up in a wig. 

[Mistrunner]

Which song?

Also, discombobulate is an awesome word.

The song is called "When You Need a Train it Never Comes." Kinda depressing, kinda country, and I'm usually not really into that style, but I just really like it. I found it on "Said the Gramophone," a great blog that basically gives you a song per day.

[Kestrel she/her]

Omg, band today

Like let me give backstory.

So during passoffs we did p badly, and the director, we'll call her M, was considering not passing us. We stood there for three minutes, with her staring at the score then back at us, until finally I was like "i have coffee in my backpack. Its yours if you pass us off" "I don't drink coffee" "tea?" "No." "What about a painting? $20 value, yours for free!" "I will not be bribed."

Any way we ended up passing off.

But onto tonight

I'm walking to the band hall and really don't want to walk, but I hear the band golf cart behind me so i decided why not and i stuck out my thumb like a hitchhiker

And lo and behold, guess who the driver was

She drove by shouting "i will not be bribed!" at the top of her lungs

[Zathoth]

damnation teachers who can not be bribed, Ive tried doing the same before, they are very hard to bribe, or blackmail, you cant blackmail teachers either.

[Kobold King he/him]

Bruce is so chill. It was a little weird at first, since Bruno and Mollie get excited over everything, and all he wants to do is cuddle. Every time I sit on the floor, he climbs up into my lap. 

 

I think he'll wind up being like Doug the Pug—totally cool with anything, whether it's grinning in front of a cheeseburger or dressing up in a wig. 

 

Sounds like my cat, Blackthorn. Last time we took all the cats to the vet, we had to wrestle Loki and Splotches into their crates, earning quite a few scratches in the process. With Blackthorn, all we had to do was open the door and he contentedly walked in and lay down.

[DanTheSeamonster he/him]

Bruce is so chill. It was a little weird at first, since Bruno and Mollie get excited over everything, and all he wants to do is cuddle. Every time I sit on the floor, he climbs up into my lap. 

 

I think he'll wind up being like Doug the Pug—totally cool with anything, whether it's grinning in front of a cheeseburger or dressing up in a wig. 

 

Wait, did you actually adopt him!? 

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Wait, did you actually adopt him!?

Indeed I did.

[Edgedancer he/him]

I'm kind of scared joining Oregon will zap all my time.

Exactly.

Eh, I don't think you'll have to worry about the time consumption. I'm not calling names but there've been times where people took a month between posts and said person is still perfectly fine and with us. Worst thing that happens that I ask once after a week or so passed with no activity to make sure you didn't just forget and that's pretty much it

[Delightful]

But what happens with story lines? Your character just disappears for a few days?

[Edgedancer he/him]

But what happens with story lines? Your character just disappears for a few days?

Depends, if your character is just sitting in his/her room watching tv or something, then yeah the character wouldn't really do anything for the time (although I doubt that it would be a few days in game, given that we tend to move somewhat slowly on the time axis), if it happens within a scene, well then the other people involved will have to wait for you or maybe work around it a bit by you giving a vague outline of what your character would do or something, should you really have no time at the moment and don't want to hold whatever number of people are also in the scene but that's not something you have to worry about unless it's really a significant amount of time.

Edited September 29, 2015 by Edgedancer

[Delightful]

So I was trying to work out who I am in the 17s family. My age doesn't match at all, but I'm starting to wonder if I'm the awesome grandmother who dispenses love and cookies.

Edit: and slays dragons both literal+evil, and metaphoric sense I n her spare time, of course.

............maybe I'm generally the dragon slayer?

Edit 2: So I just jumped from grandmother to dragonslayer. Lol but I'm totally cool with that.

Edgedancer: thanks! I didn't realise the time

Moved so slowly.

Edited September 29, 2015 by Delightful

[Left he/him]

I think I'm probably that one uncle who shows up every once in a while, usually with mixed responses, and was around in ye olden days but faded into the shadows over time.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

So my family is re-watching Once Upon a Time episodes, and after seeing Sydney's story once more, I've concluded: The genie is terrible at his job.

All right, if you've opened the spoiler tag, I'll assume you've seen the episode. You know all about how he was freed by the King, fell in love with Regina, killed the King and used his last and only wish to "be close to" Regina, trapping him in a magic mirror.

Bummer.

Except, he was the one granting wishes in the first place. He was obligated to grant them until the King wished for the Genie's freedom and used his second wish to give the third wish to the Genie. In this case, he is granting his own wish, meaning he wished for such a crummy outcome.

Except, he was genuinely surprised by the turn of events. This means one of two things:

1. Regina interfered with the magic somehow, or

2. He left the outcome of his wish to whatever Mysterious Force gave him the power to grant them in the first place.

If it's the first option, then it means Regina has not only the ability to interfere with genie magic (which, given her wide array of powers, isn't out of the question) but also the timing and knowledge of how to best make his magic suit her whims. However, since there is no indication Regina interfered with his magic, this seems unlikely.

Option 2 makes the Genie an idiot. The show itself gives us precious little on genie magic, but since this is a Disney-sponsored show, I'll use Aladdin as a basis. In that movie, Genie, despite being enslaved to whoever rubs his lamp, actually has a good bit of leeway when it comes to granting wishes. He is able to get Aladdin out of the Cave of Wonders without using up a wish because Aladdin simply tricked him. He is able to interpret Aladdin's unconscious head bobble as a nod, allowing him to use a wish (that Aladdin never technically made) to save his life. Despite the rigid rules regarding wishes, genie magic in the Disneyverse appears to have quite a few loopholes. It isn't too far off to presume some poor sap wished to be "the eternally youthful head of a thousand kingdoms" and was transformed into a giant floating baby head by a grouchy genie.

So why on earth would this genie make such a vague wish? He's been granting wishes longer than an aging King has been alive. He should know the intricacies and dangers of his own magic. A genie making a dangerously vague wish and trusting it to fate is like a seasoned lawyer throwing himself at the mercy of the prosecution.