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  • This is mostly for maintenance and board-wide stuff from admin.

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    TezT
    I’m out. Jumpscare’s in. Jumpscare will be the main server admin. Your admin team is jumpscare, junipersky, and pyrephox. https://brandmu.day/topic/698/tag-team-tez-out-jumpscare-in

  • This is a place for game runners to post about their games. Discussion on those games will happen elsewhere. Please respect this!

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    K
    [image: 1789915673671-beee42e2-ae8a-4c2c-a644-443dcc9cb472-image.jpeg] The “street is quiet” will have some IN GAME events and rumor mills to hopefully show off that theme your talking about

  • Conversations and questions about current, upcoming, and advertised games and the hobby as a whole.

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    @dvoraen I did talk to staff and there were staff alts in these scenes. They didn’t seem concerned about the child character.

  • When you want to talk about HOW to do something when running a game, bring it here: Code, Theme, Policies, Game Design.

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    @Babs said: @Meg does a picture even count as a shortrel Yes, if it’s a game of hangman where the word guessed was “shortrel.”

  • Please post a playlist if you feel comfortable doing so, and if you are looking for old friends – try here! If you are looking for old enemies, consider a nap.

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    ThionoxialT
    So I doubt anyone will know who I am but I figured I’d introduce myself. I used to be Thionoxial on MCM (I left like 18 years ago or something like that, maybe 15? LONG TIME AGO) - I was the fachead for their evil faction and plotstaff. I used to be Einara (Zelosian idealist working for the CIS who secretly helped the Jedi alot) on Star Wars: Generations I used to play Ioanna on a VTM Dark Ages game set in Iberia. I played (until I had a nervous breakdown over my gender) a daeva lawyer based on Elle from Legally Blonde on some VTM Revised game, but only for a few months, about 5-6 years ago during COVID. pronouns are she/her if your cis and straight, she/they if your cis and queer, or they/she if your trans. (yes its complicated so am I). I have a B.S. in Physics with minors in astrophysics and mathematics. I’m 43 and I’ve been mushing since I was ~9. I’ve been trying to be on computers less the past year so I can live life instead of writing about it, life is too short. Other facts about me: My mom died 3 weeks ago and the last thing she ever said to me was (she was transphobic) that she spent her whole life fighting her urge to be a boy and never realized other girls didn’t feel that way. I used to be a buddhist but I’ve been an atheist for ~3 weeks now. There is nothing else interesting about me. I just wanted to introduce myself. Musical tastes: punk/post-punk Reading: scifi/fantasy Favorite Authors: Tolkien, Brandon Sanderson, Elizabeth Moon, Ursula K. LeGuin I play a LOT of online tabletop. I’m currently in a VTM Dark Ages campaign and an Exalted vs WOD campaign.

  • Gloves off, but don’t be a total asshole.

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    It is most ideal for staff to tell one directly and quickly if they don’t want a player around. It is not usually how it happens. Most ideal doesn’t mean they are bad if they don’t. Disclaimer: I’m not referring to this situation in particular but thinking more generally. Staff are unpaid volunteers, fellow players and not paid professionally trained Human Resources or therapists. Staff should still be ethical. But is not telling someone difficult with them to take a hike where I draw my line and say they are unethical staff? Absolutely not. They might intend to get to that player but keep procrastinating on the unpleasant task. They might be waiting until they have more spoons to deal with the difficult jobs. They might be avoiding drama and conflict. They might think the conversation will get ugly and involve them being verbally mistreated and hope the person just leaves on their own. They might be intimidated by said player or their friend group. They might sincerely hope the player chills and things get better with time. They might not want to ban so that player can still enjoy the aspects of the game that one doesn’t need a gm for. They also might have no big problem with said player and could have forgot to answer the job, are buried in tasks and jobs and etc. I also had jobs sit for an extremely long time on Liberation. I didn’t and don’t think it had anything to do with staff disliking me. There was a long stretch when the game was pretty inactive and barely staffed. It seems to be resolving now and getting more active. I don’t think there was anything personal about staff being slow in the slow period. I also think there was basically one staff only doing the entire game and every sphere alone until recently. What might seem like malice to someone waiting could be a lot of other things. I also don’t think anyone even staff should be obligated to participate in role play they don’t desire to participate in which includes imo an obligation to run scenes and GM scenes for others. Staff creates a framework for our roleplay but isn’t under an obligation to entertain us all. The game is what we make of it. Sometimes staff will hold off on full bans for someone who annoys them but is not being a terrible creep because maybe a storyteller will come along who isn’t annoyed by them or maybe some other players really enjoy them. I agree with Kestel though that if one isn’t getting what they want from a game (it doesn’t really matter why) than just leave. I’m content to wait a long time and expect it on WOD but that is not for everyone. Walk with your feet. Find or make the community that is right for you.

  • Comments, criticism, suggestions, feedback?

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    ToriT
    Thank you, @tez!

  • The place to put non-game things.

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    RozR
    Saw this on Bluesky and thought it appropriate to share: “A joyous fat bear week to all ” [image: bafkreibbvpyly7tmnscwvf2lv5267paoqgu662fd2ypctpne5jkwg364b4] https://bsky.app/profile/lollibeepop.bsky.social/post/3mwbbihwvo222

  • Video games, tabletop, etc.

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    looks at Among Us update with the Judge role looks at @meg and @tez, drops off below Innersloth video that says everything necessary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqX21F0c_w0