Hi, I want to run an SR4 game over IM., Or whatever other program you want. Options

[emo samurai]

New house rule: Banishing no longer gives you drain, but each net success that a spirit has reduces your magic, magic loss which recharges once per hour.

New magical group creation rules:There's a "central" tradition whose centrality to the group will have no bearing on anything outside of group creation. The group has to have at least one magician of the "central" tradition. The negative modifier to creating the group for each extra tradition will be variable based on how much it diverges from the central tradition. For example, if you had a hermetic central tradition and you wanted to admit Gardnerian Wiccans, you'd have no modifiers and they could even join after group creation. Same for chaos mages. Chaos magic will have few traditions with which it would have that lack of a modifier, but it will have at most a -1 modifier with any other tradition. Hermeticism will only have a -1 with Wuxing, and a -2 with hedge witchcraft. And so on, and so forth.

[Fortune]

So, I got lost somewhere along the way. What time do you actually start this game?

And is it still on AIM, or do I have to do the whole IRC (yuck!) thing?

[emo samurai]

IRC. #shadowrun@irc.gamesurge.net. Download mIRC if you use windows, XChat if you use anything else.

12 AM central standard time, Saturday. You thinking of joining?

[Fortune]

I might drop in if I'm up and about at 5 AM on Sunday (my time).

Can I use your custom Aspected Mage rules (from your BNO thread)? My spellslinger ain't getting enough love (although I'd redesign him slightly for this, or indeed any other game).

[emo samurai]

Sure. I forgot to transport them over.

[Fortune]

Cool. I'll give him a refit and then we'll see what happens.

So, what has been happening in the game so far?

[emo samurai]

We have gone through effectively one sessions, since everybody who showed up for the first didn't show up for the second.

Basically, they got a job to kill a young Shiawase executive who wanted to buy out a bar called the Happy Jumper, whose owner was being threatened because he refused to sell. The Happy Jumper has a tradition where bar patrons bid on the right to jump off the bridge above the bar through its rooftop while protected by an armor spell. This bar is in a house that had a smiley face painted on the rooftop to dissuade people from committing suicide on top of it.

[Agdevil]

What incredibly horrible timing, your shadowrun irc starts the exact same time as my real-life shadowrun game. Bwahahaha*sob*sob*sob*

[emo samurai]

Why'd everybody pick my game? Just thought I'd ask for an ego boost. :D

[SoyKaf Adict]

I got my character into you, but I'm not going to be done with work until... I dunno when. I usually don't like getting Saturday jobs, but it pays really well. It'll probably be until 4PM, but I'm going to be in bumblef*&k Georgia so I don't know how long it'll be until I get back... Lucky we were going to start off soloing my character, eh? I totally understand if you don't want my character in your game because of time constraints though.

[emo samurai]

Yeah, time constraints. If only I could siphon off your enthusiasm and forcefeed it to a hot girl or something. Even if the process kills you horribly.

[Kesslan]

[Trigger]

Emo, I am not going to be able to join the game this weekend, as I am headed out of town for a three day weekend/ wedding of a best friend. I will be back for the game the week after that though and also for anyone one on one roleplaying to keep Shift caught up with the team.

[emo samurai]

AAAGGGHHHH okay.

[SoyKaf Adict]

And thus we realize why post and play, while it may be inadequate in getting things done quickly, there in-lies it's strength, slow and steady wins the race. Things actually get done with everyone participating.

[emo samurai]

Goddammit people, show the fuck up!

[yoippari]

Aww, man, I completely forgot about the game. It doesn't help that I had my days mixed up yesterday thinking that it was friday.

Did anyone show up?

[emo samurai]

cattynebulart did. Nobody else did. :grr:

[SoyKaf Adict]

Have you maybe thought of changing the time and/or day of the week that we can do this?

[emo samurai]

Okay... Sundays okay for you guys? Sundays at noon, Midwestern time? Anything during the weekend's good, actually. And sorry if the time was bad, but I didn't really hear much of anything in terms of dissent... and if I seemed unapproachable on that point, sorry.

[yoippari]

My hours have been messed up for a while to the point where I'm still asleep at the time when the game starts. And I am not a morning person.

[yoippari]

edit: double post, sry

I do have a job interview wedensday morning though so maybe my hours will return to normal. Of course that means I may have to work weekends. It isn't an issue unless I actually get the job though.

[Agdevil]

Wooooooo, thanks for switching it to sunday :grinbig:

[emo samurai]

I'm glad you like the possible switch, but I'm not changing the time until I get more feedback from the other dudes. You know, the saying about counting chickens and shit? Yeah, that one. But thanks for your enthusiasm!

[SoyKaf Adict]

So you know what's hilarious... I'm working Sunday and not Saturday this weekend, hahahahaha. :rotfl: Damn, if only my job didn't get me off work so late... Grrr, arg.