Current events
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.
Contents
Schedule
Date...........game................Location..........(Advanced attendance)
9/4/09.....MassEffect....????......Dieter gone to Portland, Gabe absent
9/11/09.....MassEffect....????......Matt gone on honeymoon
9/18/09.....Vamnp One Shot....Ben's condo......Dieter gone to Europe, Matt gone on honeymoon
9/25/09.....cancelled....????......Dieter gone to Europe, Matt gone on honeymoon
10/2/09.....Kingmakers one shot....bens......Dieter gone to Europe
10/9/09.....MassEffect....????......Dieter gone to Europe
10/16/09.....MassEffect....????......Dieter possibly gone
10/23/09.....MassEffect....????......Dieter possibly gone
10/30/09.....MassEffect....????......Ed likely absent, Matt likely absent
11/6/09.....MassEffect....????......
11/13/09.....MassEffect....????......
11/20/09.....????........?????.......Ed gone
11/27/09.....????........????........thanksgiving weekend
12/4/09.....????........?????.......
12/11/09.....????........?????.......
12/18/09.....????........?????.......
12/25/09.....cancelled...merry christmas!
Attendance and Food Preference
--Gdaze 09:13, 12 October 2009 (MST) I'm down for finishing off the current story in my game. Can we get at least 3 people there?
BEN: it's Nate's last gaming weekend for who knows how long, so come hell or high water we're playing this weekend. I'll be there.
Edmiao I'll be there.
Quote(s) of the week
Elemental: (to police chief, who thanked them for their good work) That certainly isn't going to help Viho's colossal ego. (or something like that...)
CyberJesus: I'm so sick and tired of this bullshit Thomas Kinkaid police state!
Ashbury: I grow plants that may or may not be used for pharmaceutical purposes
Ed/Aefra: "I use Seduction on the baby"
"Galen, you're wearing a dress." "Yes, but I still look better in it than in you do in your clothes."
Ranting and Raving
Ed. Jason i have about a foot and a half of old comics. You still in the bidness?
Edmiao wow, we just got spambot blitzed. i think i erased them all. were pages like City of Tears previously blank as appears to be the case?
JASON: I do a little bit of comic sales. In the future, let me erase these spam attacks so I can see what happened easier. I was out yesterday with kidney stones, and later today I might be out of it again.
Did you compare the history of the pages? I can do that, assuming my head is clear enough for comparative thinking.
--Gdaze 09:51, 9 October 2009 (MST) Ouch...
Edmiao zoiks! kidney stones. that's fucked up man. supposed to be excruciatingly painful, akin to a woman giving birth. Sorry to hear about that, hope that you have sufficient pain medication.
I went to each page, went back one revision, hit edit and save. essentially just resaved the previous version. But some pages claimed to be New pages, so i just deleted the content, for example City of Tears.
Edmiao gabe, you wiki blocking bitch
JASON: I havent started passing them and it was still excruciating just doing whatever it does before that. Today its fine so far.
--Matts 10:38, 9 October 2009 (MST)Good god. Get better, Jason. I hope you've got the strongest narcotics legally available to you.
Edmiao here's my understanding of kidney stones. stone forms in your kidney, is not painful. if the stone moves into the ureter (the tube between the kidney and the bladder) it's like passing a marble through a straw and it hurts like all fuck. takes a while to pass the marble through the straw so it hurts for a while (hours to days as i recall). once the stone gets into the bladder you're fine. then it passes through the urethra (tube from bladder to the outside via your wee-wee) which is not so painful because the urethra is a bigger tube. That's how this almost-doctor remembers kidney stones.
Edmiao I think this might be a good curative for kidney stones [1]
JASON: Marble and straw, day two. Ouch. The worst part was I was in so much pain earlier that I couldnt keep the pain meds down. I couldnt keep the anti-nausea meds down. Heck, I couldnt keep water down. Pain sucks, especially for a total and complete pain-wuss like me.
Ed. Bad bidness. They have suppositories for nausea. Gabes dad finds them good for recreation but most folk are willing to stuck a pill up their dairy air just to get rid of the nausea
BEN: just picked up the new Rogue Trader. It's pretty f-ing sweet. Really high production values, too.
--Gdaze 09:12, 12 October 2009 (MST) Man Jason, that sounds freaking awful. I'd be crying most likely, I suck at taking pain... how do I even get a tattoo?
And Ben I saw this book too over the weekend, but I didn't buy it because well... it is just so much cheaper on Amazon. But yeah, it looks pretty cool, much more freeform then Inques. Plus I like how the scope of the game is kinda big, like buying planets and running your trading dynasty.
Mass Effect
Current Mass Effect XP: 1000 Starting + 1900 xp = 2900. (Current at end of 8/28/09)
BEN: I'm posting here for ease of viewing...it can get moved to the recap section at your leisure. IN short, what we accomplished:
1.) Discovered that the horned, hooved folks are called narthaks. They are megalomaniacal, genocidal peoples, by the looks of it. Then again, they genocided people who were going to genocide them after they figured out how to dodge the pesky genocide courtesy of the Reapers. But they sounded a little too happy about the whole thing, so I'm not a big fan of them, personally. We also discovered that they are in suspended animation in some sort of "the matrix" where they are training to take over the galaxy, soonish. But if we get that genocide weapon, which is probably on Armeni, we can head them off at the pass.
2.) Sold 90% of those seeds. Stop screaming, we got 2.5 million credits for them. And access to the corporate black market to get rare items, and all the money in a tax-free, untraceable account. Each player gets 100,000 credits to spend. Check out this shiny 8/8 shield!
3.) 300 XP all around. Huzzah!
4.) Discovered another narthak planet, and killed 8 zombie lizards and a maintenance robot. Also blew up a giant exhaust port.
5.) Fizzak created a cipher that even corporate black ops can't crack. Five degrees of success FTW.
Next step in Of Amor, Armor, and Alchemy
Current OAAAA XP: 75 base + 352 XP; Followers: 15 XP (current as of 8/7/09)
ED: How long did you say the interim was between act 2 and 3 again, ben? 10 years would be great, time to fit a lot of goings on.
BEN: 10 years is correct. Some things for the next session of OAAAA:
1.) Everybody will get to spend their bonus "interim" XP as they please, I've changed my mind about forcing expenditures in a certain way.
2.) I want everyone to think about their interim adventures. At the start of the nextsession, I amthinking we may do Gemini style card "prologues" in which we explore people's adventures: the person we are doing it for presents the overall theme/happenings, and then we run through it, with the group contributing details. Group bonus XP will be assigned based on cool story effects people come up with in these. If this idea seems too complex or seems like it will give other players too much involvement in your interim events,we can can it and just let each person do a narrative, in character or out.
3.) I will clarify happenings in the world at the first session of book 3.
ED: Sounds fun. I wrote up a bunch of ideas, i think there's plenty of room for adventures in between the paragraphs. Brandon, what is your email so i can send you the Tithe sheet. I may not have done a great job on him, he was pretty low on the damage potential, but still could take hits quite well. you may want to remod him, i'm sure ben would be fine with that. although i really think you should keep the pegasus, since it played a major role in the fight with the dragon. Let you fly and catch Aeten, bring him back to the battle and Aeten immediately thereafter struck the killing blow.
--Brandon 20:53, 9 August 2009 (MST) Sweet. A pegasus sounds awesome, and I was totally thinking about getting a mount for Tithe anyway, so that's perfect. I'm glad that Tithe played a solid role. My e-mail is olsenb3 [at] u.washington.edu. I would appreciate a full recap at some point, if someone has the time. Gratz, y'all!!
--Dieter the Bold 15:41, 13 August 2009 (MST) I think such a prologue adventure thing would be awesome. I heartily approve. Also, I personally would like a little GM wild-card in how points get spent, but that's just me. Ben, do you have the time/interest to do that with Galen?
BEN: sure...or rather, if you want you can use your prologue adventure thing to drive your xp expenditure. Or I'm happy to take as heavy of a hand as you want. Also, if we do this, the player who was "on the spot" would have full veto power over any card played: this may sound like a cop-out, but the point is to generate a backstory for those 10 years that appeals to the given player, and that trumps. I don't anticipate this being a problem, but it's easier to enforce than a "don't be a dick" policy. Also, any given player can just opt-out and write/come up with his own background for that time.
--Gdaze 13:48, 16 September 2009 (MST) So is that exp at the top, all the exp we have? Or am I missing the extra bit for the last 10 years? Also, Ben, should I email you with what my guy has been up to? Or are we doing this card thing?
