City of Glass - Discussion

MisterBoring

@Testament Not far from the truth. I don’t have my book in front of me, but I believe Burn Notice is mentioned in the inspiration, along with Person of Interest.

Testament

@MisterBoring I may, eventually, slowly, one day make a Demon, but I think I read the term ‘burned’ in the first 30 pages I read this past weekend. Probably why it came to my head.

Pavel

@Testament said in City of Glass - Discussion:

My takeaway from this is that Demon is just a supernatural version of Burn Notice.

My name is Percy. I used to be a Angel from God, until…

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When you’re burned, you’ve got nothing.
No cash, no credit, no job history.
You’re stuck in whatever body they decide to dump you in…

Testament

@Pavel I’m more of a Sam Axe kind of guy myself.

Pavel

@Testament Oh agreed. He turned me onto mojitos and I rarely drink anything else when I get the opportunity.

Coin

@Testament said in City of Glass - Discussion:

@Pavel I’m more of a Sam Axe kind of guy myself.

Fi for the win.

… it probably says something that my favorite characters from BN and PoI are Fi and Shaw…

…well, the human characters, from PoI. There are at least two non-human characters that trump everyone else.

Rinel

@Testament said in City of Glass - Discussion:

My takeaway from this is that Demon is just a supernatural version of Burn Notice.

Mixed up BURN NOTICE and BURN AFTER READING, and boy, lemme tell you, that changed the meaning of this post a whole bunch

MisterBoring

@Rinel Burn After Reading is about a bunch of highly confused Stigmatics and their attempt at playing in the big leagues.

heysparky

@Jennkryst
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Jennkryst

I’d just like to say that I was not the person who first brought up Mummies, nor am I the one making an Egypt-affiliated character.

please clap

MisterBoring

I made a character and then immediately got eaten by work and life nonsense and I feel bad that I haven’t really done anything beyond cg and saying hello.

Pavel

@MisterBoring My dude, one of my PCs has been in an async scene for a very long time because other-player had to go AWOL for a bit because life. The game’s basically built for that idea, and it’s totally okay.

sao

@MisterBoring don’t worry, you’ve finished cg so you’re still ahead of Jennkryst!

Game will be here when RL lets up-- I keep telling myself that too, lol

Tez

@sao Joke’s on you. She finished.

MisterBoring

I do look forward to doing sneaky super spy stuff when I finally can get free enough to even start a scene.

Jennkryst

@sao said in City of Glass - Discussion:

@MisterBoring don’t worry, you’ve finished cg so you’re still ahead of Jennkryst!

Look Chargen is hard enough before you hit submit and get told ‘actually we changed the rules’

and you go

‘okay, I will adjust my character to fit the new ru-’
‘actually we changed the rules again’

so it becomes easier to just… start from scratch.

This also won’t beat my record-setting Otaku stuck-in-chargen since at least 2009, on Shadowrun: Denver, so 21 days is like… nothing (but Shadowrun: Denver shenanigans is a discussion for another thread!)

sao

@Tez @Jennkryst It was still funny and I regret nothing

glitch

@Jennkryst When we went with 18+, the idea was that it would be clear we were looking for adults, not barely legal catholic high school girls with a tempter agenda in demon.

But you’re right in that we changed the rules. So there’s that.

Jenn

@Pavel Was it me? I feel like a half-dozen of those wound up being me…

Also. If it WAS me and I somehow missed getting back to it once the RL trying to eat me abated a touch, please throw me a few pokes. Trying to catch up as best as I can, but I know my brain. If something got lost in a swiss cheese memory hole, it’s all me and I don’t mean to have dropped things that weren’t picked back up again when they could be!

Roz

when players cannot be trusted to respect the spirit of “PCs must clearly be adults,” then sometimes revisions must be made