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Having a GM say “hey, who wants to go to a cool scene?”

And then you show up and people haven’t flocked to it like crazy, because people have faith that other cool scenes will happen.

And then a cool scene happens and it’s cool.

Low-magic fantasy games allow you to wear cool outfits and fuck princesses.

Basically, it’s the closest any of us will ever be to being Mario.

As someone who has spent his whole life stomping turtles and hoping to grow a raccoon tail, this is close enough.

I’m great at this game! Okay, let’s vote on who we think chookitypook is, the person who gets the most votes is out of the thread and then the night cycle starts.

@hellfrog said in Concordia Thread:

@Coin I’ve asked it to 'edit" some text blocks and all it does is paraphrase or rephrase. Granted, I wasn’t asking it to change things to a british spelling.

Either way, I don’t think someone is bad or even wrong for using it to generate IC text for their game, I just don’t want to engage. So transparency is the ask.

It really depends on what you’re after in terms of editing.

Even that’s not very good. It barely even mentions the bear!

I haven’t tried to have it do any grammatical editing: since my grammar is spotless. Maybe it’s good for that?

That’s why you need to convince as many people as possible before the GM makes their ruling. Then it’s too late and everyone thinks such and such are basically Vikings, even after multiple posts get made saying that they aren’t. You can gaslight an entire theme if you work hard enough and believe in yourself!

In light of current events, I just wanted to say I never had a scene on Wyrdhold that I didn’t enjoy, I really liked just about every character I interacted with and everyone was always super chill. Best experience I’d had on a game in years. I hope it can come back in full force sooner rather than later. you all.

@Serafine said in Neitherlands:

@Roz Well, let me see.

If you were a famous heart surgeon and also a serial killer, and someone knew and had evidence, you stand to lose quite a bit.

It’s pretty impressive that everything you post is so absolutely unhinged I can’t tell if I agree with you or not.

Went into the thread thinking it would be about Gundam, came out disappointed, but educated and alarmed.

The place is super dead, so maybe she just figured that there’s no such thing as bad publicity.

I feel like I should admit that I’ve been following this thread for months and playing there since it opened and this is the first time I realized that it’s Silent Heaven, not Silent Haven.

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.

@Roz said in Concordia Thread:

@Pink said in Concordia Thread:

I feel like it’s a trend with new Ares games.

This isn’t an Ares game trend; it’s an Every MU Ever trend (in my experience). New games open, there’s a big rush, and then it settles down. I think we may just see it happen more visibly nowadays because the technical barrier is a lot lower when we have resources like Ares that make the setup a bit easier for less technical folk.

I will say that on a non-Ares MU if I decide, hey, I want some random RP, I can go into a public room and chill and if someone wants to join they can and if no one does no big. While on an Ares game I have to start a scene and throw out a first pose and then my failure to draw people in will be a feature of the active scenes page until I finally give up and go weep in a corner. And then if I’m proud of my failure I can make certain it is permanently made a part of the public record.

Concordia never really hit with me. I’m not sure what I wanted, but it felt like a lot of people weren’t really sure what they were doing and then they got successful and then they really didn’t know what they were trying to do. My favorite part was when they set up official house positions, but each house had like twenty positions to fill. Like, there were not nearly enough players to fill these spots, and the big holes in the rosters just looked silly.

Some players did some really impressive worldbuilding there, especially with work on their houses and home worlds, but the day the head of the game was like “we have no intention to do any all-game crises” after the big event that had everyone in the same city, I knew it wasn’t gonna maintain any heat. They were taking away a key reason for everyone to RP. You won’t find me bristling with compliments for Arx, but it had a clever reason for everyone to be in the same place rather than going home to their home domains. Concordia didn’t seem like it even wanted that.

I wanna have a MUSH and have 100 players so I can have 100 friends, and no one can say no to being my friend.

@Pavel said in Underage Players:

Christ, it’s confronting to know that some of us who played when we were underage, back in the day, have kids now…

“Want To Feel Old? These Neglected Children Of MUSHers Have Already Aged Out Of The Foster Care System!”

I’d read that Buzzfeed listicle.

Based on response to this game on Twitter X it seems like Baldur’s Gate 3 is proof that wokes hate femininity and ‘traditional’ marriage AND that the western media hates Japan.

Man, this game seems like it’s doing a lot. Sounds exhausting.

I fixed my stupid dishwasher.

It was very satisfying.

Stupid dishwasher.

I haven’t played on the game in a couple of years, but here are my two OCs. I also played an FC, but none of the things that were interesting about him were related to his secret.

Hamish - Hamish’s secret is that he was a nox’alfar. Not the reincarnation of a nox’alfar or half-nox’alfar. He was just a nox’alfar. In ancient times he was a minor functionary in Calithex’s court who had done something gravely offensive to Death and she had cursed him to never see the Shining Lands, so his soul drifted from recently dead human to recently dead human, and he spent a thousand years doing that. Hamish (or rather, Wyll) would die in his current human life and then would wake up in the body of someone who had just fallen off of a roof or who had died of some disease. As a result he spent hundreds of years absolutely hating humans and hating the human experience. As he would later say to Symonesse, “We just smell all the time.” He spent years as peasant laborer, as a merchant, as a soldier, a noble, as a slave. He mostly avoided Forest Gumping his way through history, though it was later established that he’d been close to Caithness. And eventually he came to appreciate humanity and love the lives they live, to see each one of them as precious. In the life before Hamish, just after Brand had died, he was approached by Bringers who thought he might like to be the next rep for Silence since he’d have a good reason to want to break the Wheel. He said no thanks and spent the next few months being tortured. Managed to swallow his tongue to get out of it and woke up as Hamish Farmer. Decided to devote himself to Death, swore before the seraph of Sanctum, and became a mendicant priest until he was called to Arx. Thanks to Herja, who was so great in helping me feel like I was more involved, his background expanded as he started to remember what he’d done. Had a vision of coming disaster, was lead astray by a demon/fractal and decided he knew better than Calithex how to deal with it, and it all blew up in his face, resulting in two of Calithex’s guards being killed and their souls destroyed. In Arx he resumed some old friendships, having tea with Symonesse was always fun, met some people it turned out were relatives, and he took the wheel with the Harlequins. Whatever my ultimate relationship with Arx may have been, I’m proud of what we ended up doing with the Harlequins, and I’m glad to hear that they remained a fairly active org after I left. Symonesse once asked Hamish if he’d like to reincarnate in his original body after he died and he said he wasn’t sure. I’d like to think that either he ended up doing just that, or he finally got to the Shining Lands.

Gilroy - A far less liked character than Hamish, and I don’t blame anyone, though weirdly popular with that group of nobles who love slumming and hearing commoners say mean things about them. He was the latest incarnation of a soul that, whenever reincarnated, was always a legendary hero. Seraphs. Paladins. Knights. Lords Commander. Which leads to Gilroy, who was the son of the Baron of Castrum Trucido, whose brutality in the Southport War was notable even in that skirmish, and whose cruelty to his own people was only second to the cruelty he had toward his own son. After his preincarnations urged him to embrace heroism, he decided to beat his father to death with a fire poker, but didn’t finish the job before he had to go on the run. As such, Gilroy reviled the nobility, hated heroes and the notion of heroism, and was in general a dick to 90% of the people he met. Which got me several offers to be the protege of different Velenosa nobles, oddly enough. His refusal to acknowledge his destiny lead to his preincarnations actually speaking to him, though he ignored them since they were all so preachy. It was actually a lot of fun coming up with historical figures like Prince Donrall Marin, Dame Eleanor Fidante, the Carnation of Tor, Mother Merrows, the Salt Witch, etc. And posing flipping off people in the Hall of Heroes never failed to get a scene going. Fun fact: Gilroy came to me almost entirely fully fleshed out while watching Matilda with my kids when Danny Devito said, “Nobody ever got rich by being honest.”

I have officially stopped avoiding the dentist out of a fear of pain.

I have officially started avoiding the dentist because who can afford this shit?