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    Gashlycrumb @sao
    last edited by 11 Sept 2023, 02:14

    @sao said in MU Peeves Thread:

    @Third-Eye WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

    I am not shocked, having had this exchange:

    Enraged GM: “I ought to ban you! You told Player that I said I don’t have time for you!”

    Me: “You did say that.”

    EGM: “Yeah, but when you say it it sounds like I said you’re not important!”

    "This is Liberty Hall; you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard!"
    – A. Bertram Chandler

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      SpaceKhomeini @Gashlycrumb
      last edited by SpaceKhomeini 9 Nov 2023, 03:46 11 Sept 2023, 03:46

      @Gashlycrumb that sounds like an…

      Escplosion.

      I woke up feeling so good, I think I’d better call in sick/ I need a personal trainer to help me hold my drink
      I plan to be spontaneous next time we meet/I’m putting off procrastinating until next week
      I’ll get onto it when I give a shit

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        Cobalt @SpaceKhomeini
        last edited by 11 Sept 2023, 12:15

        @SpaceKhomeini no

        Do not speak the forbidden words.

        Cobalt@Under the Stars
        cob.alt@Discord
        Cobalt#3811@mas.to

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          Polk @SpaceKhomeini
          last edited by 11 Sept 2023, 12:27

          @SpaceKhomeini said in MU Peeves Thread:

          @Gashlycrumb that sounds like an…

          Escplosion.

          In hindsight I’m so lucky I didn’t play Mage under that clown. I met some nice people there, but he and I would have butted heads very, very quickly.

          I’m active. I ask questions. I try to do things and to understand the reasoning behind rulings. The first time he tried to bite my head off for asking the wrong question I’d have launched a rhetorical nuke and left.

          And then I’d not have met the nice people I met there, before the culture of STing he fostered on that game eventually led me to do that anyway.

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            Gashlycrumb @SpaceKhomeini
            last edited by 12 Sept 2023, 01:15

            @SpaceKhomeini Haha! Sounds like, but no. This person was fond of complaining about Escalus, but made him look a paragon of fun, fair-mindedness and competence.

            Really, if you don’t take it to heart when Escalus screams his head off at you for some mystifying and petty reason, he’s not so bad. It took me years to figure out that he wasn’t joking when he does that, and I never did get over it giving me the giggles.

            "This is Liberty Hall; you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard!"
            – A. Bertram Chandler

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              bear_necessities
              last edited by 12 Sept 2023, 01:38

              My favorite story about Esc is when he told me to stop paging him because I said thank you for explaining something to me 🙂 I keep this log because it still makes me LOL years and years later

              From afar (to Escalus and Emma), Zachary (Zach) nods. “We’ll work on it, then. T
              hanks for the input.”
              <Council> Zachary says, “And I’m off!”
              Zachary has disconnected.
              <Watch> Zachary has disconnected.
              Zachary is not connected.
              Unable to page: Zachary
              You paged Escalus with ‘Thank you again :)’
              Escalus (Esc) pages: Will you stop paging me?

              Ahhh. Memories.

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                Noraaa
                last edited by 12 Sept 2023, 05:05

                My biggest MU* pet peeve is when you start a scene, and everyone poses walking through the door at the same time. It feels like I’m in some sort of sitcom or something.

                sitcom

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                  Prospero @SpaceKhomeini
                  last edited by 12 Sept 2023, 11:46

                  @SpaceKhomeini said in MU Peeves Thread:

                  @Gashlycrumb that sounds like an…

                  Escplosion.

                  What’s sad is that as soon as I saw this and Cobalt’s reply, the name came back to me in an instant and I knew who you were talking about despite having not THOUGHT about it in years.

                  But yeah, searing vivid memory. Haha. Back before I realized how vibrant the meta-community was.

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                    Vulgar Boy
                    last edited by 12 Sept 2023, 11:46

                    Today my peeve is simple theme questions you’re told to +request and then no one ever claims the request and a week later you still have no answer to a question every character should know. If you don’t want people asking how many moons there are on your weird sci-fi planet, set your game in Sacramento. I know how many moons Sacramento has.

                    love that perfect frown

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                      iota @Noraaa
                      last edited by 12 Sept 2023, 11:46

                      @Noraaa said in MU Peeves Thread:

                      It feels like I’m in some sort of sitcom or something.

                      This drives me bonkers as well, which is absurd in itself since… it’s just people walking through a door, yet the visual of person after person doing the same thing is so irksome.

                      Similar as when an event or scene starts, and players go through the process of their PCs saying hello and greeting one another with little further context. How many minutes and rounds of poses over however many scenes will just become devoted to placid greetings instead of like, story or development or anything else? No. I just cannot.

                      Which is a convoluted way of saying: I’ve a preference for scenes that start within action already set/agreed as taking place - everybody already being somewhere, doing some thing in proximity, and/or picking up their conversation or whatever; no need for tedious pleasantries and introductions - because the stream of characters all walking through a door en masse and saying ‘hey!’ just tires me out.

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                        Coin @iota
                        last edited by 12 Sept 2023, 12:10

                        @iota said in MU Peeves Thread:

                        I’ve a preference for scenes that start within action already set/agreed as taking place - everybody already being somewhere, doing some thing in proximity, and/or picking up their conversation or whatever; no need for tedious pleasantries and introductions

                        This is how I tend to run my scenes. I give a long expository intro GM pose so everyone knows where they are, why they are there, what they’re there to do, and when it is…

                        If you wanna chat and do pleasantries, either do it while you’re in the middle of the action or go make your own scene. >.>

                        In Occam I trust.

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                          Roz
                          last edited by 12 Sept 2023, 12:22

                          I often end up waiting a round or two to pose in to a group scene like that specifically to avoid the feeling of everyone magically arriving at the same time. Idk I just like to stagger it a lil bit.

                          she/her | playlist

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                            Pavel
                            last edited by Pavel 9 Dec 2023, 12:34 12 Sept 2023, 12:33

                            I usually enter scenes (especially for events/planned things) like this:

                            sam reich

                            ETA: Obviously not if my being there the whole time would be intrusive or story-corrupting.

                            He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
                            BE AN ADULT

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                              Coin @Pavel
                              last edited by 12 Sept 2023, 12:37

                              @Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

                              ETA: Obviously not if my being there the whole time would be intrusive or story-corrupting.

                              this is exclusively when i’ve been there the entire time

                              In Occam I trust.

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                                Pavel @Coin
                                last edited by 12 Sept 2023, 12:38

                                @Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                @Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                ETA: Obviously not if my being there the whole time would be intrusive or story-corrupting.

                                this is exclusively when i’ve been there the entire time

                                I think that’s just us on games period.

                                He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
                                BE AN ADULT

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                                  Coin @Pavel
                                  last edited by 12 Sept 2023, 12:40

                                  @Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                  @Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                  @Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                  ETA: Obviously not if my being there the whole time would be intrusive or story-corrupting.

                                  this is exclusively when i’ve been there the entire time

                                  I think that’s just us on games period.

                                  fair.

                                  i don’t think we’ve been on a game together since New Orleans, tho.

                                  In Occam I trust.

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                                    Pavel @Coin
                                    last edited by 12 Sept 2023, 12:40

                                    @Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                    @Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                    @Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                    @Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                    ETA: Obviously not if my being there the whole time would be intrusive or story-corrupting.

                                    this is exclusively when i’ve been there the entire time

                                    I think that’s just us on games period.

                                    fair.

                                    i don’t think we’ve been on a game together since New Orleans, tho.

                                    We don’t talk about that game.

                                    He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
                                    BE AN ADULT

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                                      Coin @Pavel
                                      last edited by Coin 9 Dec 2023, 12:44 12 Sept 2023, 12:44

                                      @Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                      @Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                      @Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                      @Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                      @Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                      ETA: Obviously not if my being there the whole time would be intrusive or story-corrupting.

                                      this is exclusively when i’ve been there the entire time

                                      I think that’s just us on games period.

                                      fair.

                                      i don’t think we’ve been on a game together since New Orleans, tho.

                                      We don’t talk about that game.

                                      pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft

                                      i mean, before that i’m pretty sure it was The Reach, so you pick which one you wanna be remembered from, lol

                                      In Occam I trust.

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                                        Pavel @Coin
                                        last edited by 12 Sept 2023, 12:45

                                        @Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                        @Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                        @Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                        @Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                        @Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                        @Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                        ETA: Obviously not if my being there the whole time would be intrusive or story-corrupting.

                                        this is exclusively when i’ve been there the entire time

                                        I think that’s just us on games period.

                                        fair.

                                        i don’t think we’ve been on a game together since New Orleans, tho.

                                        We don’t talk about that game.

                                        pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft

                                        i mean, before that i’m pretty sure it was The Reach, so you pick which one you wanna be remembered from, lol

                                        Oh I don’t care how I’m remembered. I just don’t want to remember NOLA the same way I don’t want to remember Firan.

                                        He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
                                        BE AN ADULT

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                                          Aria @iota
                                          last edited by 12 Sept 2023, 12:56

                                          @iota said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                          Which is a convoluted way of saying: I’ve a preference for scenes that start within action already set/agreed as taking place - everybody already being somewhere, doing some thing in proximity, and/or picking up their conversation or whatever; no need for tedious pleasantries and introductions - because the stream of characters all walking through a door en masse and saying ‘hey!’ just tires me out.

                                          I was in a scene not that long ago where the hosts specifically said “Hey, we are assuming everyone already entered and introduced themselves.”

                                          And the players hopped right on board with the already here thing…

                                          AND THEN ALL PROCEEDED TO INTRODUCE THEMSELVES.

                                          Guys. Guys. You were so close. We almost skipped the worst part of IC meetings. Just a little bit more. Like, just a little bit.

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