Long Game 18: Holly and Iron

[Elbereth she/her]

Seems to be your lucky day for votes, Stink.

Edited March 3, 2016 by Elbereth

[STINK he/him]

Is that lucky?

[Paranoid King he/him]

Delta looked up from his research. What was that Stench? It was disturbing his studies. Bother. How could he concentrate if . . . Oh right, it was probably just himself. He hadn't showered in several weeks. Too many things to do. It was probably for the best, anyways. If he plugged his nose, the smell didn't bother him. And it seemed to clear the library for several feet in each direction. In fact. . . was that hazard tape they were putting around this section of the library? He needed to clear this up right away. What if he needed to replenish his food supplies? He rose and walked over to the group, who shied back slightly.

 

"Gas masks? Really? Are you trying to go over the top so that I'll pay attention to you?"

 

"He speaks!"

 

"Of course I speak. What did you expect?"

 

"You just hadn't moved for 12 hours straight. We figured we'd better get this area sectioned off so that a proper cleaning crew could clean up the mess."

 

"I get it. So you want me to go home and get cleaned up before coming back here?"

 

"Actually, no. Your library card's been revoked."

 

"WHAT?"

 

"No use issuing cards to a dead person prone to yelling at people who come too close, who then throws soda cans at them before returning to his book with a highlighter and a pair of scissors."

 

"You - you can't..."

 

"Actually, we can. And I believe the security's here."

 

Delta was no warrior. But he had courage, and he knew how to defend what was important to him. He leaped at the security guards with a yell, brandishing his heavy book.

 

***

 

Back in his apartment, Delta finally cleaned himself up, ridding himself of the stench that had been plaguing him. "mhrgrumblemumble. 4 talent fine. Unreasonable. mhrmblegrr community service." He forced himself to look on the bright side. At least no complaints had been filed against him. And they had let him out of solitary confinement after four hours for "good behavior". He suspected they just wanted him out of there as fast as possible. Well, he'd show them. He'd show them all!

Edited March 2, 2016 by Paranoid King

[Silverblade5 he/him]

I didn't have a PM with Clanky. I only made 2 PM's last Month, and didn't use them for much honestly.

Silverblade, you accidentally substituted Kliin(Clanky, the insane guy) for Corrin(Lopen, also happens to be me ) in your RP.

Oops. Will fix. No pms with Clanky. Only pms have been with gms.

[Mailliw73 he/him]

"W-What? Did you just say... what I thought you said?" How naïve was this girl? What had she expected from him offering his room? "You were so kind to me because you wanted me naked in your room? I thought you were generous! I thought you cared!" All the current occupants in the inn looked over as Varda's voice rose. 

 

"Varda, calm down." Wilem glanced around and then pulled himself closer to her, dropping his voice. "I can pay you, if money's what you need," he said. Why was she freaking out so badly? It wasn't like he hadn't led up to it. 

 

He looked around the room and smiled at the others in the inn. If the Vintish nobles heard of this... Well, Wil would not be happy. Even if his fellow Aturans, Akasha or Aeaiesis, heard, there'd be hell to pay. Wilem wasn't one to be embarrassed in public.

[Wonko the Sane he/him]

Why so much aggression for Maill, BB? Everyone else seems to be shooting in the dark, but doubling down on one person like that, surely you know something we don't?

 

I'm putting my obligatory tuition-reduction vote on Clanky, where I'm pretty sure it can't do much harm.

Edited March 2, 2016 by Wonko the Sane

[little wilson she/her]

Why so much aggression for Maill, BB? Everyone else seems to be shooting in the dark, but doubling down on one person like that, surely you know something we don't?

I'm putting my obligatory tuition-reduction vote on Clanky, where I'm pretty sure it can't do much harm.

Complaints against the insane are invalid and will not reduce your tuition.

[Kynedath]

No time to do RP right now, but I will also do the voting to save money thing. I think that the inactives are a good place to dump my complaints. I might do and RP about it later, but I have to go for now.

 

Also, Maill, nice RPing man. You are really making me hate Wilem.

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Also, Maill, nice RPing man. You are really making me hate Wilem.

Thanks! That's kinda the point. The Reckoners RP gave me lots of experience with Epics, so it's not too hard.  Though I wouldn't mind an RP companion who could whip him into shape. Writing arrogant chulls is only fun for so long. 

Edited March 2, 2016 by Mailliw73

[Wonko the Sane he/him]

Complaints against the insane are invalid and will not reduce your tuition.

 

Ah. Blast. Well, then, I'll withdraw from C​lanky (​if that means anything).​

[Elbereth she/her]

Is that lucky?

Of course it is!

EDIT:

Thanks! That's kinda the point. The Reckoners RP gave me lots of experience with Epics, so it's not too hard.  Though I wouldn't mind an RP companion who could whip him into shape. Writing arrogant chulls is only fun for so long.

As I've commented before, I wish Varda were up to the task... Too bad. If he's not better by the end of this game, I'm making someone more suitable for the next one we play together.

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Varda, calm down," Wilem said softly. "I can pay you, if money's what you need."

She raised her eyebrows, much more angry than shocked now. "Although it may not seem so, I in fact have a sense of honor, which you appear to be sadly lacking. I wrongly assumed that you were an honorable man who was being kind out of the goodness of his heart. I had hope that this world would be easy to save! No. Of course not. That would be too easy. I don't want money from you." She ignored the doubt in the back of her mind asking how she was planning to get money, then. "

"And for your information, I'm taken. By the god of air and nobility. So don't think you can stand up to that. I'd be surprised if he doesn't decide to blow you from this planet once my task here is accomplished!" She grinned for a moment, imagining Manwë doing any such thing. She might have a word with him, though. But unfortunately probably not. Her divine self was annoyingly forgiving and non-interfering. Why couldn't she wipe someone from the earth, just once?

"And I'm certainly not staying in your company any longer! I'll go and find someone who cares, if anyone like that exists here." She turned away, crying a little, and began to walk out of the inn.

Anyone can jump in at this point, Wilem or not.

Edited March 3, 2016 by Elbereth

[Mailliw73 he/him]

"Although it may not seem so, I in fact have a sense of honor, which you appear to be sadly lacking. I wrongly assumed that you were an honorable man who was being kind out of the goodness of his heart. I had hope that this world would be easy to save! No. Of course not. That would be too easy. I don't want money from you." She ignored the doubt in the back of her mind asking how she was planning to get money, then," Varda began yelling again. Saving the world? What was she talking about?

 

"And for your information, I'm taken. By the god of air and nobility. So don't think you can stand up to that. I'd be surprised if he doesn't decide to blow you from this planet once my task here is accomplished!" Varda grinned for a moment. "And I'm certainly not staying in your company any longer! I'll go and find someone who cares, if anyone like that exists here." 

 

Kote! That was a disaster. Wil thought as Varda left, crying. But kraem, he was glad he didn't get more involved with her. She was taken by a god?! Either foolishly arrogant or completely crazy, Wilem wasn't sure. 

 

Wil walked up to his room shrugging his shoulders to everyone looking. "She's not quite right in the head, you know," he said as he headed up the stairs. In his room, he sat astonished. He should've known she was crazy, from the moment he saw her naked on top of a building in the University of all places! 

 

Well, since Varda didn't work out, Wil sent a runner for Telari. She was actually sane and knew what she was getting into when she took her clothes off.

[Araris Valerian he/him]

Amari was jogging back to Anker's when he crashed into a young woman, sending both of them tumbling to the ground. He quickly picked himself up, then offered her a hand. "Sorry!" She accepted his hand and pulled herself to her feet. Amari was intending to leave without getting himself entangled in a long conversation when he noticed she was crying. I suppose my studying can wait a bit. After all, I probably should try and get to know some people in town a bit in case I get into some trouble of my own. "Woah there, did I hurt you?"

 

-

 

OOC: I might not be able to be here to be back and forth super frequently, just as a heads up.

[Kynedath]

Alright, so it seems I made a post saying that I was going to vote on inactives, but then never did.

 

Thisismyusername and Dowanx. If you guys have been posting and I just missed them, then please point it out to me.

 

 

And Maill, I want to at least see if I can "whip Wilem into shape". Just come on over to the library. I'll be there.

Edited March 3, 2016 by Kynedath

[DeathClutch19 he/him]

Touka decided to go for a run. Touka loved running she had been doing it her entire life after all. Where am I even going to run to? she thought to herself as she left her room. It was only after running for awhile she decided to go see make some friends.

 

Are friends even important here? What if I befriend a skindancer?! Maybe i can find a boy who will finally love me! or maybe I shouldn't meet new people after all. No, no new people are good! All these thoughts ran through Touka's head as she ran.

 

Still lost in thought, she crossed by a boy and a crying girl. They had apparently ran into each other or something of that nature. "Are you guys ok?!" she exclaimed. Touka had always been the compassionate type and seeing the girl crying had sent her into nurture mode. 

[Burnt Spaghetti she/her]

Pyra walked around for a bit before finding the person she was after. She walked directly up to Corin. “Why were you not punished?” She demanded. “I formally complained about you. Do they not think my complaints noteworthy? I mean, seriously! First you make a derogatory comment about people like me who can barely afford tuition and then the masters themselves ignore me? This is ridiculous! I ought to complain about this.”

She continued to ramble about the unfairness of it all. Not even waiting for any responses to the man she was ranting both to, and about. She had a lot of things to complain about. To be honest, she kinda actually liked complaining to people out loud. It sometimes got it out of her system and so she could leave satisfied, having resolved her complaints. It… didn’t exactly make people like her though.

She finally paused in her rant. “Oh. By the way, I’m Pyra. You are Corin and you annoy me. But then, everyone annoys me. I get annoyed rather easily. I’m like that. People in general are annoying. I just happened to decided to find you the most annoying though. You probably think i’m annoying too. Everyone is annoying so it makes sense that I would be annoying to everyone. Might explain things. Huh. Some people get annoyed about how much I talk and how negative I am. Do you agree? Do you believe I'm too negative? I am talking too much. I am speaking too much” She abruptly stopped talking and glanced to the side, continuing her rant in her thoughts instead of out loud, one hand tapping as she thought. It was a habit of hers. She tapped a constant beat whenever she was thinking deeply.

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hrm. I think pyra is even starting to annoy me constant complaining is exhausting... don't worry though, I'm sure she will stop grumping eventually... hope you don't mind being the recipient of her rant lopen

also, I didn't have a pm with clanky either if that helps.

[Haelbarde he/him]

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> Term 1: Month 1

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A month of putting up with Kipper. He was surprised he was still sane. Since the whole skindancer thing had turned up, he'd kept on running into the obnoxious fellow. If things didn't change soon, he was going to have to do something to deflate the windbag. Maybe even do something that would have justified that complain the previous month. The more he thought about it, the more he liked this idea. He begun to plan. 

 

The first order of business was to to work out the best time to pull a prank. He had a group of friends who had altogether too many silver spoons. So the question would be how to get him when he was by himself. As he was deliberating this, a thought crossed his mind. He pulled out a small notebook, and a pencil. 

 

THE PLAN

> Locate a bucket.

 

 

Now he had a List, and some percentage of a plan. Which was better than no plan. He put away the notebook, and checked the time.

"Bother!" He was late for class. He started to run.

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I'm again going to complain about Thisismyusername's absence. Contribution crusade, if it were. And you guys beat me to the punch. There was overly much RP last cycle (not necessarily a bad thing, but not if it means no discussion). It was, I guess, first cycle, so it's understandable. And I guess in some ways, we're waiting on elevations to begin - we're quite use to having roles and trying to ascertain alignment based on actions. Don't have time now, but a bit later, I'm going to try start having a think about what people have said so far, to come up with anything to go on.

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

Too Sick to do quality posts or RP, but I'm putting a complaint of Kynedath, Because I've never trusted players who post complicated statistics like he did last month.

Edited March 3, 2016 by The Only Joe

[TheMightyLopen he/him]

hrm. I think pyra is even starting to annoy me constant complaining is exhausting... don't worry though, I'm sure she will stop grumping eventually... hope you don't mind being the recipient of her rant lopen

 

I don't mind. It gives me the chance to RP in response, which is nice, since I find it difficult to do very much RP. I'll get Corrin to respond soon, but I don't have the time right at this moment. Sorry.

 

And for anyone that wants me to vote or discuss, sorry, I don't have a clue right now. I do want to get up a post with some game relevancy soon, but I'm not sure when I'll have the time to go over things and find suitable targets for my vote(s).

 

(Varda totally shoulda slapped that dude though Elbereth.  )

[Mark IV he/him]

IMO, those without a PM to clanky seem more suspicious to me. As has been said previously, Clanky was most probably killed randomly. That being said, neither did I have a PM with Clanky.

Also, RP coming I a few hours. Anyone want to join me?

[Mailliw73 he/him]

(Varda totally shoulda slapped that dude though Elbereth. )

I was waiting for a slap, myself.

[ostrichofevil he/him]

He looked around the room and smiled at the others in the inn. If the Vintish nobles heard of this... Well, Wil would not be happy. Even if his fellow Aturans, Akasha or Aeaiesis, heard, there'd be hell to pay. Wilem wasn't one to be embarrassed in public.

 

Aeaieis did hear.  Unacceptable!  How could a fellow Aturan, even one as despicable as Wilem, mistreat the Ainu Elbereth herself?  He would have to lodge a complaint with the masters.

 

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Yavanna woke and sat up in her divine bed.  How dare that fool try to take advantage of her friend, even if only in a dream.

[Wonko the Sane he/him]

Hael, I'm (supposedly) in contact with Thisismyusername through other channels; I can (probably) confirm that his inactivity is genuine, rather than sinister. I'm not trying to pardon him -- inactives are bad for the game, and all that -- but I thought I should mention it. I'll keep trying to raise him on my end.

[Haelbarde he/him]

@Wonko: Roger that. But I'll keep my complaint there until I have a need of it elsewhere or they come back.

[Wonko the Sane he/him]

That's fine. I'm a little irked that he is ignoring me. Just thought I would make you aware.

 

Mark, I may join you to a small degree, but my RP involvement in this game is unfortunately limited. I don't have a lot of time, lately, and so I've really only been skimming the RP. So, we'll see. Do our characters have a relationship, or not? So far, I've basically been snobby and standoffish. I resent being forced to study at the University, so I limit my involvement with its students. It's a useful cover for my real-world lack of involvement.

Edited March 3, 2016 by Wonko the Sane