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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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    [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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    H
    I am of the opinion game runners should be playing the game. Whether they need to flag their pcs or not I think depends on how much their pcs are involved in plot, and if they have authority or power as a pc that could be fudged with their staff power. If a staffer is playing some ordinary, low-stakes pc just to stretch their legs? I don’t really care if they flag or not. I don’t see how STs can gauge story pacing and see areas of the game that actually need work, and sort these from trivial (even if loud) complaints without playing the game. @Jumpscare said: I’m open to suggestions! I don’t think you can have a truly organic experience. Going incognito in and of itself is not organic because it is a forced thing. You can tell people up front your character is not a stepping stone or a plot lever. If you’re logged on, you’re on to chill (same as everyone else) and not there to entertain or Oprah plot hooks. It’s fairly easy to note people who will be up your ass just because you’re an ST. Pour ice water on them.

  • 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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    Could you give a bit more on the tone and themes of the game, and a rough outline of the world? L&L is a pretty large genre. Dune, Bridgerton, Game of Thrones, Kushiel’s Dart, and a Court of Thorns and Roses are very different from one another.

  • 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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    Late to the conversation, but thought I would weigh in. My thoughts are that topics like this only work in a truly collaborative writing environment, meaning that all players are responsible for working together and writing for all parties involved in the scene. When it is Player A writing only for Character 1 who is abusing Character 2 written solely by Player B, the player-character connection is tightly bound and bleed can happen. Also, I feel it’s harder for the scene to get steered in a direction one of the players doesn’t want to go in when that player can yank the steering wheel of the offending character at any point.

  • Comments, criticism, suggestions, feedback?

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    ToriT
    Thank you, @tez!

  • The place to put non-game things.

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    VPN of choice; be sure to check out any before you use them, some are connected to Palantir or the Israeli govt. Organic Maps to track my running without feeding me to a data miner or worse. Foobar2000 for music. VLC for non-music media. Foxit for reading and filling in .pdfs. First Aid and Pet First Aid from The American Red Cross. One time payment for DroidcamX so I can use my phone in lieu of a webcam, resulting in much better quality than any retail webcam.

  • 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