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It's why I'm generally for just having the GM do a quick Matrix download course via GM PM like Neo doing that quick kung-fu training montage in The Matrix and then bam I know kung fu imma trash you Morpheus. Obviously we can help out a bit in the thread but either Thaid is playing up the new player image (sorry Thaid, nothing against you but that's what I did in my first game), or Thaid is really lost - in which case, probably better resources than having us cover the basics. Otherwise I'd just consider it NAI at this current point in time without further context. I hate you so much right now. My tea...my table...
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I feel like GMing shouldn't be so stressful that you lose all your hair overnight, bhai :|
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Mist filled the air, growing denser with each moment. Mordred grimaced and kept moving. Odds were, it was hostile Epic activity. Always was, really. The first rule was to figure out what the damned hell was going on. Alexis wasn't the sort of person to share too much information—need to know basis, he'd said, but as far as the briefing had gone, Mordred knew they were up against some tough customers, like Vexcave. Some sort of history there. He hadn't asked. Alexis, after all, was one of the few Reckoners left who'd never asked him about Balog, about Sarajevo. Mordred ground his teeth together. Couldn't say the same for the rest of their party. He knew Locke, had worked with him a couple of times. Then there was Nathaniel Walker. To say nothing of the polar bear. Hell, it was cold, for all they'd come prepared. In Dante's Inferno, the ninth circle of hell was all ice. Strange that people thought of damnation and hellfire. Damnation was ice, slowly creeping forwards as the walls came tumbling down. He shot a wary glance at one of their party. Sonia Biven [OOC: Devo] seemed to have been quiet on the helicopter ride, and Mordred wondered. It felt like Sarajevo, all over again, and he wasn't sure he liked that. @|TJ| - Suggest you see if you can get your IM or some volunteer to give Thaidakar a bit of the low down on the basics. Thread can do that as well, but it's probably a bit easier to feed it in GM PM and I know El/myself have had to do that before for new players. @Thaidakar the Ghostblood - In short, you place a vote on a player you find suspicious and do it in red, the way everyone else has. If you can't find the correct red, use [*color=red]Playername[/*color], remove the asterisks. To unvote, do [*color=green]Playername[/*color]. Edited to add: Thaid, bold it if you can. It's annoying for a GM to try to pick out unbolded votes so bolding makes their lives easier.
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Default closed according to the rules. May be open under some circumstances but we don't know what it would take. Gotta love blackouts Edited to add: Wow, ninja-ed by TJ, I shoulda just kept writing my RP
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Mar'e! Su cuy'gar, Bev'ika! [OOC: ="At last! Hello there, M'Hael!"] Note: If you need me to lay back on the Star Wars nerding out with the M'Hael, let me know as it might break the no languages (or I guess conlang) rules. As I don't intend to do anything more than banter in Mando'a, I will be translating anything I say in that context to ensure there is no particular secrecy. Kavar sat on his bunk, slowly disassembling the light ceramic armour that most of the Mistborn strike force was using. It gave him something to do, he supposed. And then there was the dictum, drilled into them from the beginning: take care of your equipment, and your equipment will take care of you. Captain Kellian had asked for things to be kept quiet, so naturally, every soldier within hearing on the Survivor had immediately gossiped about it. Sabotage. Kavar didn’t like the sound of that at all. ‘Course, he should’ve figured the rebels would’ve put their own among them. But then, this was the sort of thing Internal Security was supposed to handle. Which meant they were slipping up—or they, too, were suborned. Wasn’t that a comforting thought. Sergeant Vahn knew better than to tell Pyrehawk to shut up about it, and in turn, the squad knew better than to chatter about it where Vahn could hear, but all the same, the comm channel kept lighting up with commentary. Because the only thing worse than gossiping Mistborn were bored gossiping Mistborn. He polished away the scratches carefully. ‘Least Haen Plaid had showed up. That was something. Shab’, he didn’t even know if he could trust Plaid, for all they’d seen a couple ops together. If anyone could be a rebel spy, well. Kavar knew better than to just assume Plaid was as solid as beskar; ruusaanyc, he would’ve said, but then you never knew when someone cracked. Sometimes it was the pay that did it. Sometimes you thought you knew someone, but then he turned out to be a hut’tuun. The fading corner of a crinkled and folded photograph poked out between the ballistic plates, colours faded where it had been smoothed over repeatedly. Carefully, Kavar tugged it loose and placed it in the inner pocket of his jacket. Felt the old pain rise in him, even as he breathed it out. They were old souls, Plaid and him. Maybe that was the problem. One last op. Always one last op. You don’t know what to do with yourself, Aral, he thought, bitterly. They’d given him the chance to walk away and he’d stayed anyway. All the more fool him. He’d have left, perhaps, if Mira’d asked. But of course she never did. The space between them only grew over the course of the years, with each terse, brief communication, and sometimes Kavar wondered where he’d taken that first wrong step.
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Tbh I'm kind of down for that by this point, though I do wonder if Meta posted a more complete version in AoGC at any point. Will probably run a post search when I'm not dealing with exams
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You're in luck that I seem to be your resident SE Archivist today Yes and no - Burnt and I have been working on a Scadrial game a bit like Clue in terms of mechanics, based off Murder on the Orient Express, but that's never seen light of day due to our schedules and the fact we got overambitious. For mechanical search mechanisms with a luck factor, you're primarily looking at LG28 which was a SE version of Betrayal at House on the Hill; I later recycled Wyrm's search mechanic for MR43. In Wyrm's game, you had to keep running the searches to find Omens, and then the ability to locate and destroy the Heart of the House, and kill the Elims (converted each time an Omen was discovered.) Might be forgetting some details, but I co-GMed this with Wyrm. Should run it again sometime, it was a blast.
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Apologies for the double-post: Karn, found something in the LG15 dead doc you might want to check out. I've c/ped here because the doc is insanely long in the fashion of the old school dead rambly players, but Meta had a slightly similar idea that I don't think we ever saw in action: Red is Meta, green is STINK.
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I get that, was more commenting it's something that brings back up for me where I think the political worldbuilding in Star Wars failed. This is a very Republic model and unsurprisingly, it's not a good one. Nevertheless, as always, I will keep praying for Village Even though I don't think the system works. Edited to add: Ha! My prequel meme powers are still strong!
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Striker rn tbh
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Elantrian though? Oof. Galactic Republic vibes here. Really think that a Kyrus model works better. But my soul is Village which in this case apparently means being pro-Republic >>
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Hmm. If current player numbers hold, request to take my Bladerunner/Scadrial LG off the inactive list, please. Thank you
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Nothing. It's not a downside, it's just an opportunity cost, i.e. saving it would help the Village more later on after there's more discussion and results. You get the free Elim D1, but the Elim still helps their team strategise, and you don't have robust connections to run analysis with. So if the Elims distance well or stay under the radar, you've burned the Hail Mary pass.
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Anniversary Game 8 / AN11: Back to Beginnings
Kasimir replied to Elbereth's topic in Sanderson Elimination
Think you're being too kind The problem with trying to be fancy and ~literary is that it's hard to give other players scaffolding for joint RP though I definitely bounced off some of Dyring thanks to Axl having done a bit of Kellehrt in his RP. tldr; don't be fancy and literary >> -
Depends. Someone - Kynedath, I think? - tried signing up as Wilson in QF29. I don't want to talk too much about it, except that person decided to be my RP buddy, and I was playing a flirt in that game (IIRC I had to keep clarifying OOC to Devo that when I asked her to be my last love I was asking if she wanted to pair up, since that gave us a 50% chance of avoiding death, but a 25% chance of dying if one of us did. I was really into character in that game.) Anyway the point was that I tend to be pretty 'yes and' for RP as long as people don't break my characterisation/arc/backstory, and it pushed into territory that Wilson was very uncomfortable with so Kynedath changed the name to something like - Sabine? Was it Sabine? It's easy for trolling to get out of hand but I generally don't play with players' names for that reason. It was a one-off incident but it really wasn't worth it.
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I mean you can just go Caesar then :eyes: Tbh given this game has successfully pushed out the local troll population, I'm half expecting someone to sign up as kTJ, Kararis Alerian, Kamanuensis, Aillwei or Asimir by this point. Edited to add: It does give me powerful QF29 energy though. Before we signed up as plants, people were signing up as Wilson, Druoght...
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Oy vey, on the day of my exam and before the second exam. Gonna just state it here then: don't expect much from me until my second exam is over next week, guys
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Thoughts on making it 1/2 instead? For one, it'd be more permissive. I ran the simulations in the 2/3rd case and it does come out to around C4 or so, but making it 1/2 would allow Village to also trigger it at lylo. I don't think that'd be the optimal strat because you don't want to be guessing the Elims' strategy at lylo but it does allow them that level of desperation, and to be less screwed over by inactives who haven't yet died to the filter. @Experience @|TJ| since I will just assume you guys are mildly invested now :eyes: Edited to add: Also, interested in thoughts on Fifth Seekers: Feels like the trade-off between losing a role and gaining alignment might incentivise Seekers to be more careful and Smokers to be more profligate with Smoking trusts. At the same time, I cannot count how many Tyrian GMs have died trying to incentivise Smoking.
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I'm asking for people within this game, not TJ's I already have a plot arc for Mordred that won't necessarily need an RP buddy. But Kavar's arc is the same as the one I did in the campaign and I don't mind bouncing off someone. But also, no A names, no K names, doctor's orders.
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@ me if someone needs an RP buddy. Not taking applications from any of you very many K and A names >>
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You can just say Archer you know. I don't think he cares
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My take would be that this is the point of requiring it as a GM PM order rather than in thread, since requiring it in thread means that players would essentially be forced to out themselves. I could see people doing it like what happens with anon voting but given that defection is possible, that feels overly optimistic. Why not just let the Elims send in Fang orders too and change it to 2/3 living players? Since the Elim population would start at 1/5 anyway, I don't see them substantially killing the Fang and the original point/thought from you was to let it go through at C3/4 anyway which seems a reasonable break glass point.
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Don't Stop RPin': Just a RPer I signed up for an SE game Picked my character, prepared this RP arc Just a Village boi Gotta find those hiding Spiked Wrote some RP but I gotta analyse Runaway train with no CW Is this signal or some noise It's now a game of vote chicken It goes on and on and on and on Village waitin' For the flip after rollover Analyse Posts and voting patterns Lurking players Posting just to dodge the filter Hiding somewhere out of sight Workin' hard to find the Spiked Everybody contributes No more ties, we cannot roll the dice Just analyse Some will ML Some get NKed Sometimes we even post RP Oh, the MLs never end It goes on and on and on and on Village waitin' For the flip after rollover Analyse Posts and voting patterns Lurking players Posting just to dodge the filter Hiding somewhere out of sight Don't stop RPin' Gotta keep on enjoyin' Village people Don't stop RPin' Keep on Don't stop RPin' Don't stop RPin' Gotta keep on enjoyin' Village people
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Anniversary Game 8 / AN11: Back to Beginnings
Kasimir replied to Elbereth's topic in Sanderson Elimination
This is something I like to see. I think it's why AG2 is one of my favourite games, and I believe one of El's too: we sort of just synched up as RP buddies and started bouncing off each other's RPs so she was El, Kassien's apprentice, and I was Kassien, runaway noble with a dark past hiding as a skaa apothecary. And we just didn't stop! I think she swore vengeance after the Spiked murdered me. I was touched Lylo usually kills the desire to RP for me. I think it's the stress. I think it was nice to see you, Zebra and Axl - especially you and Axl - keep up with the RP late into the game. But I'm not going to hold this one against me (not saying you do, but I'm not going to) because my bandwidth was full up. -
It's been a stressful week and I apparently deal with stress by channelling my energies into creative efforts. Here's another game based off a comment/brief exchange with Araris last year: MRXX: Helvegen Årle ell i dagars hell enn veit ravnen om eg fell —Helvegen, Wardruna The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. The small village of Helgen is sheltered from the Blight by the mountains of Kandor and the swords of the Borderlanders. This is not your war: most of you have grown up in Helgen and will die there as well. That was until last morning. A grey morning, seemingly unremarkable. Then everything you knew shattered like the thin crust of ice in the horse trough. This was where they found the body. Someone had murdered Gamen, and left him in the horse trough, to be discovered by the innkeeper in the morning, a snarled tracery of black thorns growing out through his skin in a macabre display. “Light shelter us, it’s happening again,” Wyden mutters and then he clams up and refuses to say anything more. He glares daggers at the Dragon’s Fang scrawled on the inn door. An ill wind blows from the Blight, and the fog creeps in towards Helgen. Last night, one of Tema’s goats sickened and died. The stranger, Kaim, claims to have heard ravens calling at dusk. The Shadow, it seems, has fallen across even Helgen. Can you find the Darkfriends hidden in your midst before it is too late? Or will even Helgen be claimed by the Shadow? General Rules: Win Conditions: Roles: Dragon's Fang: Thoughts/Comments:
