@somasatori said in Seeking ancestral MU knowledge:
Seanan McGuire was a member of the Pillowfort for a while. I’m also pretty sure that VASpider was as well, but that could just be a rumor from back in the day.
she was literally the reason it existed it was part of the extended “saddest people in the entire universe” cult of non-personality around her
and yeah spider was absolutely part of it
no in this Caesar returns from the dead as the reborn Dracula and fights a Praetorian vampire by turning into a werewolf-werebat-weresnake and stakes him by throwing a crucified prisoner, it’s definitely oWoD
I have no idea, I was like 9. Probably Dark Metal or CrackMUX or some superhero place I don’t remember the name of.
i miss superhero games that were, like, actually using comics and the Marvel or DC or, whatever universe and not just a really vague idea of comics but mostly movies plus thirty different cartoons from 40 years ago and maybe this book i read and what about this one video game and and and and
anyway there’s a dumb comic i love called IDES OF BLOOD and it’s about Julius Caesar conquering Dacia because vampires are real and then there are openly vampires everywhere in Rome and that should be a WoD game
I hate basically everything about nWoD, and absolutely everything about 5th. But I seem to be in a minority.
@Pavel said in Multisphere pressure:
And the intensity of their desire is usually inversely proportional to how common the sphere is in other games.
it isn’t that I “desire” to play Ananasi it’s that I deserve to
@MisterBoring said in Character Death:
@somasatori said in Character Death:
I feel like there can be this push to misery-porn WoD games
I want a push to a different kind of WoD game. I want a WoD game that focuses very deeply on the struggle to maintain basic utilities when you’re a walking reality bending monster.
all i want is to run up the side of a building while wearing ten inch heels and then cut off an angel’s head with a gigantic praying mantis arm and nobody will let you do that anymore
oh he DEFINITELY needled at her, but i don’t think I saw him do it over anything that wasn’t a really obvious glaring issue that had already been brought up and ignored a dozen times.
@Popes said in Re: Dies Irae:
Then there was Scylla’s complete inability to, you know, understand Werewolf at all. Jesus christ her philodox npc made me cry at how bad at it she was. Though I’m pretty sure half of it was just how conflict averse the whole thing was. Especially since a scene with my pack, where we clearly were in the right, devolved into an ooc discussion that made me just quit the fucking game because of how badly she ran that shit.
She was even worse with Fera. Like, she didn’t get any of it at all and was totally uninterested in learning OR in working with anyone who DID know and was willing to help her
Like by the time I stopped paying attention the only thing she wanted for the Wyrm sphere was exclusively the narrow, totally unworkable as PCs one-page write up “corrupt fera” from Wyrm 20th. Except Ananasi, where she wanted the insanely racist Sinister Asians Kumo.
my char was a Hatar and was always meant to join Pentex IC - like, I’m 90% sure I mentioned this in my app notes - and someone was even going to make a character to facilitate it. either distributing Siren cosmetics through her club, or staging private Black Dog events.
but Scylla abruptly and for some reason angrily decided you couldn’t do that. why? “well, conflict!” ok, but i fastidiously avoided literally any interaction with shifters, there is no conflict. “YOU WOULD NEED TO MAKE A NEW CHARACTER.”
anyway by pure coincidence this change in her willingness to have me hook up with Pentex happened after some guy playing a BSD started hitting on me
@Mushling-0 said in Re: Dies Irae:
She also has a history of being toxic to female players and characters who she views as romantic competition
and suddenly I realize why she was so violently against my char joining the Wyrm sphere IC
@somasatori said in PyReach:
@somasatori oh man, I had a Upeo wa Macho concept for a game, I’ve always wanted to revisit, since the game only went two sessions. I’ve never seen anyone run the game since.
I always thought that universe was really well done, but I’ve not met too many other people who have played Adventure, Aberrant, or Aeon. I usually played Aesculapians when I wasn’t the ST.
i love OG Aberrant so much
@helvetica said in On Dragon Wings:
@Cobalt Sometimes a person has a special connection with a dragon and together as very best friends, they breathe fire at horrible worms from the sky.
just dont go camping
@MisterBoring said in Re: Dies Irae:
@Jennkryst said in Re: Dies Irae:
Yeah, you gotta yeet a lot of what was written and replace it with your own ‘here is why the spheres are forced to work together’ metaplot arc thing.
I’m totally okay with this in concept, but I’ve seen it done so disappointingly bad so much that I’m prone to calling games that fail to pull it off “Goth Powered Justice League”.
first of all, it’s called Justice League Dark, ok
anyway yeah the no-conflict thing was never going to work when you have multiple groups that are by their very nature antagonistic to each other
@somasatori said in AI In Poses:
@Pavel said in AI In Poses:
@somasatori It will gladly explain that those eyes speak to an inner rigidity and coolness that has appeared out of nowhere when compared to the rest of the description, however.
Before going on a three paragraph description of the person’s clothes
help i am being targeted
@tsar said in MU Peeves Thread:
If you’ve been turned away from a game, or know that you’re probably not welcome on a game-- DON’T SNEAK ONTO THEM.
there have been witch hunts to find me on games I have not logged into for years or never logged on to at all, which i find grimly amusing
You basically couldn’t have a conversation with her and couldn’t tell her anything. It was insanely frustrating. I say that as someone who really, really, really tried to be a good girl - i wrote up every Lost Breed gift and rite - and work with her even as the, like, basic ability of my who-gives-a-shit character to exist was eroded every time she made a decision.
(A couple of people tried to get me to make a Changeling but that crew was so much worse. Like, every single thing I saw from them that wasn’t amateurish love-bombing was an out and out tantrum.)
@catzilla said in Re: Dies Irae:
@Jennkryst said in Re: Dies Irae:
@Pavel said in Re: Dies Irae:
@somasatori said in Re: Dies Irae:
Scylla set up two pseudo-headstaff through which she could launder her reputation.
So who were they that they had a reputation in need of laundering?
I mean, if you look at her characters’ names, and then go to other WoD games and check the bboards for similar names whomst were recently (for variable definition of recently) banned, you could start to follow the papertrail.
