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This page is for discussion of stuff related to the game coming up this week, no matter when that actually is. For instance, we can all assume Nate isnt coming for some lame reason and that Ed is sick of pizza and is bringing teriyaki or some other crap. They can post something here if that happens to be untrue.

Schedule

Date...........game................Location..........(Advanced attendance)
6/06/08......W-Wolf..........BnD............... Dieter not home until 7pm, Brandon absent or late
6/13/08......Surprise..........BnD............... Brandon gone
6/20/08......Super Heroes............BnD............... Brandon still gone
6/27/08......Super Heroes............BnD............... Kim gone, ed gone
7/04/08......Random Stuff?...........BnD...............Ed absent, Matt absent, Brandon absent
7/11/08......W-Wolf...........BnD............... Brandon gone, matt absent
7/18/08......Guttersnipes!?..........BnD............... Brandon ATTENDING!, matt absent, Gabe gone, ed gone
7/25/08......W-Wolf...........BnD...............Kim, Ed gone
8/01/08......hold yer nuts, or Buckwheat.BnD...............Ben, Kim, Brandon, Ed absent, Gabe maybe late
8/08/08......Super Heroes.......BnD...............Ben (and Kim) gone, Brandon gone (& officially married)
8/15/08......Canceled?.......BnD...............Ben (and Kim) STILL gone, Ed gone, Matt gone
8/22/08......OAAAA...........BnD...............Kim gone
8/29/08......OAAAA...........BnD...............Matt gone
9/6/08.......OAAAA...........BnK...............Brandon gone (HONEYMOON!)

Attendance and Food Preference

--Brandon 11:32, 16 August 2008 (MST) I almost had to work next Friday, but got out of it. So, I'll be present and would like pizza!

--Edmiao 15:47, 16 August 2008 (MST) might be there. 50% chance.

--Dieter the Bold 09:57, 17 August 2008 (MST) Planning to be there unless my dad has really cool birthday plans. Definitely pizza.

Nate here: I'm coming. Down for pizza as well.

GABE: I too will attend. No pizza for me though.

BEN: I'm excited, I hope it's a good first session. NATE: you need to get in touch with me to make a character, or have me make you a character. You should check out the OAAAA page if you want to tailor your concept to make it "game world appropriate", or you can just throw me a sentence or two and leave it to my imagination to totally screw you over...I mean make the character you want.

KIM: Have a GREAT first session guys! ***Mad Love from Chicago***

--Edmiao 14:43, 21 August 2008 (MST)i will be there from 6pm to 10pm. no pizza for me. gots me 6 new magic decks, which is one more than i think reasonable to have put together at once. that's what happens when ed stays home for a week with all the cards.

BEN: in that case, we will start PROMPTLY at 7 with the gaming. It being the first session and all, I would prefer to at least get characters introduced with everyone present.

--Matts 16:10, 21 August 2008 (MST)The communist aquatic software attack has been successfully repulsed here at work, and that means that tomorrow I'll be celebrating which means I'll be at gaming, but perhaps gleefully impaired.

--Edmiao 19:59, 21 August 2008 (MST) If i brought some watermellon and/or honeydew, would anyone eat it? and pears. we have had a fruit influx

--Gdaze - Ed, yes, yes, and very yes. A healthy snack would be welcomed.

Ranting and raving or other random comments

--Edmiao 15:45, 16 August 2008 (MST) Cheryl's surgery went fine, she's back home as of today and doing well, thanks for all the well wishes. hope to be at games on friday, but maybe not, depends on how sick cheryl is of my company and doting

--Gdaze 20:02, 16 August 2008 (MST) Good to hear! Glad it all went well!

--Dieter the Bold 09:58, 17 August 2008 (MST) Indeed. Gratz to you and her.

RUMI: I'm glad things went well, Ed. :) Please give Cheryl my love! I was just thinking that I missed you guys and playing board games together. It's been quite a while! :O

--Justin 16:31, 20 August 2008 (MST) Ed, what happened with Cheryl? Is she alright??

--Edmiao 18:02, 20 August 2008 (MST) hey justin! good to hear from you. Cheryl has, or had, breast cancer, they removed it along with her breast last thursday. she does not need chemo/radiation and has a 98% cure rate. We got the final pathology today and it had not spread, so it's all pretty good news as cancers go.

--71.216.15.253 18:17, 20 August 2008 (MST)That's fantastic news on the pathology front, Ed!

--Gdaze -- Second the comment above me!

--Brandon 15:17, 21 August 2008 (MST) Thirded! Yay and yay yay! Please let us know if/when Cheryl will be ready for board games/Magic playing therapy.

JASON: Good news about Cheryl. I hope things continue to go well. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

Other RPG or Non-RPG gaming Events

Monthly Board Gaming Day

shindig on aug 30/31

JASON: Also, I will be having a massive shindig for mine and Rumi's birthdays on either August 30th or 31st. I would like to see as many of you jokers as possible attend. Mark it on your calendar. I am planning on renting a venue so we have plenty of space for games, Rock Band, and partying. Does anyone know of a centrally located, reasonably priced, venue?

GABE: I'd like to come, I'm trying to be more social. A central and big location for partying thats cheap? *insert your mom comment*

KIM: Oooh, I'll be back in town then, might have a job that weekend, but will try to keep it during reasonable hours so that I can show up and commandeer the potato chip bowl... *nom nom nom*

--Dieter the Bold 16:37, 21 July 2008 (MST) Will be moving into a new place, but should be able to spare a day. Consider me attending. The only venue I could think of that's sorta' central and maybe reasonably priced is an educational building. Gym of a high school, community college, Seattle U., etc.

Other Games

--Dieter the Bold 16:48, 17 August 2008 (MST) I now have a City of Villains character with Gabe and Noelle on the Virtue server. If Matt#2 wants to go low level with us, the more the merrier. Character name: Jorus Bonesplitter, Brute

GABE: Yeah 'cept your never around to play! I'm emailing Matt#2 tonight, been quite busy this weekend.

Weekly Magic Whining/Complaining/Smack Talking

--Brandon 18:30, 21 August 2008 (MST) One more stupid MWS online story:

The scene: He attacks with stuff, I block with some stuff, but still take damage. Everything is resolved.

HIM: [Plays some enchantment that buffs all his guys] You take 4 more.

ME: Ummmm. No. That's an enchantment. You can only play it in a main phase.

HIM: lol. first time magic?

ME: Ummmm. No.

HIM: Yeah. I played it postcombat, so my guys are pumped.

ME: No. Read your phases. They are right in front of you [they are listed in a toolbar in the MWS screen]. Postcombat is after damage resolves.

HIM: I played it postcombat, before damage resolves.

ME: It's an enchantment, not an instant.

HIM: It says right here [in the phases section] that I can cast spells during combat. An enchantment is a spell. Read the rules!

ME: Yes, you can cast instants, and do a whole lot of other things. Enchantments are none of those things.

HIM: You are a noob and a looser [sic]. [severs connection]

ME: (sigh)

--Edmiao 19:59, 21 August 2008 (MST) if you were willing to pay a bizillion dollars for the real magic online where you have to buy virtual cards for the same price as real cards, then shit like this wouldn't happen

--Edmiao 20:23, 21 August 2008 (MST) check this rules question. And see how i love rulesmongering. Furnace Dragon 5/5 flying for 6RRR has affinity for artifacts. I have 4 barbed sextants in play (which parenthetically are my favorite card of all time). So I cast him using 2RRR and it goes into the stack. The spell has been played, but not resolved. I respond with instants, i tap a mountain, activate one barbed sextant, then the other three and take one mana burn or cast a spell. dragon come into play and removes all artifacts from the game, there are none. and next turn i draw 4 cards during your upkeep.

--Gdaze-- That is really funny. Ed, you should go on work station and argue for some ultra-wrong rule that lets you just do anything. I'm gonna bet you could convince them.

Also... I have that Stalking Vegence card... the only reason I'm not using it, is its mana cost.

--Edmiao 14:24, 22 August 2008 (MST) no, seriously, i think that works! I built a deck around it!

--Brandon 14:55, 22 August 2008 (MST) I was going to say, Ed, that I'm pretty sure that totally works. I mean, it's still sixth turn material, but cool regardless.

JASON: So you are just trying to kill artifacts and draw some cards? What if the opponent has no artifacts? What is the actual purpose of this? I have a ton of Barbed Sextoy by the way, if you want more. I rarely use them.

Next step in Super Heroes

What's the role of super hero? Is it to protect the innocent? Punish the guilty? Keep a captured villain in a closet and occasionally throw him some Sun Chips?

The Guardians are thinking long and hard about this moral conundrum...

GABE: That was super heroes at their bestest. How about what the heck do we do with all these people we keep beating up??? No place can hold them! I mean Viho only has so many closets.

Next step in Of Amor, Armor, and Alchemy

Fun things for friday to look forward to:
1.) The Map of Amora
2.) The "Random Magic Item" Table
3.) The 11th hour characters (a blood elf ranger and possible others)

BEN: well, we all know that I'm the most draconian of our group's GMs, so it's time for me to crack the ol' whip. I'm actually very pleased with the laizez faire attitude we've all taken to making characters, it fits exactly with my sense of the fantasy trope for story beginnings (5 strangers meet in a smoky inn...). HOWEVER, I would like very much to actually have looked at a FINAL version of everybody's character sheet before we start, promptly at 7, tomorrow. That means that if you no post'a you character sheet on the wiki before 5:30 or so tomorrow, you'll have to take precious magicking time to chat with me about your character.
One more thing. The game will begin late at night, say around midnight on a Thursday night. You should all think about where your character would be at that time. ALSO, if any of y'all want to be connected to each other in any way, that's up to you to work out, I'm fine if the first session is the first time any of you hear about it.

Some restrictions, as I think of them:
Tithe: You 'can't' start in the temple of the forge grounds. Typically, you are designated to guarding some of the holdings of the Forge Temple off the temple grounds on a regular basis: it's not terribly desirable work, and you are as close to a slave as it gets (slavery is outlawed on Caminus), so it falls to you. Only favored/trusted guards have been selected for keeping people off the temple grounds since the deadly crimson fever killed one of the lower priestesses. You have not seen or heard from Daenerys in a week or more.

--Gdaze 11:49, 22 August 2008 (MST) Quick request, although no rush in getting it done. Could we get a list of the magic schools that are open to most humans? Its really hard to find who can do what in that big list of nations.

Karthayans: Stone/Earth Magic
Eburon: Summoning
Csara: Shadow Magic

If a character is from these places they can practice the appropriate magic. All humans also have access to Hag and Druid magic.

--Brandon 12:11, 22 August 2008 (MST) Ben, are the two psychological limitations I added going to be enough to add up to 30pts. of disads? If so, I should be all set. At least, I've spent all of my points, though there are some things that I'm not sure about given that point spending (see the ??s on my char. sheet). I'll repeat my request for someone to throw Tithe into HeroDesigner (or whatever it's called) and print him out for me. Otherwise, I'll just copy what I have onto PAPER using a PEN *gasp*.

--Gdaze-- Thank ya thank ya! (continues to ignore Brandon) Sorry, I actually slept all yesterday... Dieter can atest to that as I missed playing CoV, sorry man!