Living in the Shadows: OOC, never relax... Options

[banditf50]

Temporary Absence announcement

Tomorrow morning (Saturday) is my commencement ceremony and immediately following I will be driving to New York. My girlfriend has an internship located there over the summer and I will be traveling with her and helping get her settled into her new apartment. I will be flying back on Sunday and should be back in my apartment Sunday evening.

I will (barring a deluge of posting) caught up before heading to bed tonight, but then I will not be posting until Sunday night. Thanks everyone and have great weekends.

-bandit

[WinterRat1]

Yes, you recognize them, and they recognize you. Assume you know Megan and Tyler's names, and the rest (whom are currently unnamed for a variety of reasons) and they know you too, as Max, just like Trancer and Melina.

[Slipshade]

Thanks, that will help with posting.

Slip

[Sedna]

Won't be able to post further today. Will be back on-line for an hour or so tomorrow. As so often, Sunday is looking like the good day :)

Congratulations, bandit! You got there! :)

[Slipshade]

Scrap - Nice post, unfortunately I may not be able to get anything up for you until Monday. Sorry man, weekends are just to damn hard to post on for me.

Slip

[Cedric Rolfsson]

My advise for the new graduate. . . . don't. Stay in college its a hell of a lot more fun than this career, real world crap. It keeps getting in the way of my hobbies.

Reality, congrats Bandit, big congrats.

Cedric

[Slipshade]

Cedric - LOL! That's the truth. I have thought numerous times that I may just go back to college and never leave. :) Just keep taking out those loans and never have to pay them back since I would still be in school. :D

Slip

And yes, congrats on the graduation!!!!

[WinterRat1]

Heh, I echo the above thoughts. Money's no good if you never have time to spend it.

[banditf50]

Thank you all for your congratulatory posts. I appreciate the support and advice . . . hopefully you will be pleased to know that I will not be leaving the academic world just yet. I will be starting a M.S. degree in the fall . . .you don't have to tell me about the many benefits of avoiding the real world :-P

Thank you all.

-bandit

[WinterRat1]

Sedna- Did you want me to post something in response to your last post or will Dragon automatically look back where he thinks he saw something?

PS- I didn't do drugs before posting your last post. And I didn't watch Alice in Wonderland. Just so you know. :)

[bclements]

grendel: Basing my post on Sedna's weather guidelines above. I'm going to give some preemptive rolls for trying to get a cab in the middle of the Ice Age:

[ Spoiler ]

Bargaining 5:
2, 5, 4, 2, 11

Also, I have no clue as to what is in Everett, and whether or not a psec would have a map (and even if it does have a map, whether it would show anything of use). If it does, that's another option for Tony. Tell me if I need body rolls for him as needed.

banditf50: Way to go! And yes, stay in school. Real World bad, very bad :grinbig:

[grendel]

They left the truck for you if you want to take it. Otherwise it'll be about twenty five minutes before a cab shows up.

[Sedna]

To the PS, I know, WinterRat :) -- and I actually had to edit something out of the degree to which I had adopted your -- no, it goes beyond "just" metaphor. Symbology, maybe? And Alleycat has the knowledge (if not emotional connection) to identify and comprehend the symbology -- parallel to my own areas of focus in real life as it happens, although her ability is probably much greater in the abstract/applied, worse in the practical/emotional. (Maybe invert the numbers for lit/arts and psychology; add in a couple of spiritual disciplines for the RL version.) Although if you think about it, there have to be many, many magicians who've told the Dweller on the Threshold to f-off in one form or another ... although there wouldn't be any records of how many of them survived the experience (intact or otherwise).

As to the threesome storyline, I'm already assuming that Dragon did automatically look back, and that's the most he can make out from any conventional angle in the kitchen. It's only Dragon's vision and perceptiveness that allowed him to spot it in the first place. (Forgot to mention in-post, it's middling dark in there: and if you test it, you'll find the electricity has been cut off.) There's something, close to the back, that seems to have fallen through the (less than inch-wide) crack between the refrigerator and the countertop/cabinets.

Given that you said you didn't want to make "tracks", I'm letting you figure out what to do about it :)

[banditf50]

I am back everyone, after having traveled 1,700 miles (700 by car and 1,000 by plane) all in a 23 hour time-span. Nothing for those of you who do much international traveling, but a lot for my someone of my usual boring routine ;) I am about ready get some sleep, but I wanted to post this first in keeping with my goal to never fall behind in awards again. . .

Sunday Karma Awards

Cedric: (May 9th-15th) 1 pt
Moirdryd: (May 9th-15th) 1pt

[Sedna]

Good timing. For me at least, the boards just came back up :)

Sunday karma: (for the week of May 9-15)

bandit: 1 (+1 GM bonus + 1 for Sheepdog) = 3
Sentinel: 1
tiredronin: 1 (+1 for a reason I can't disclose yet :vegm:) = 2
WinterRat 1 (+1 GM bonus) = 2

[Sorry about that, bandit. Fixed now.]

[Sedna]

[WinterRat1]

Uh Sedna, that last post means what? :huh:

[Sedna]

Just me watching the development of at least six separate and increasingly interlinking character stories :D (And no: it's not going to get explained further :grinbig: )

Oh, Eyes, since you've been working in and commenting on Shadowland a lot ("half a conversation"!), and I haven't yet been able to play with it IC, I'd better mention this explicitly -- and just fyi this applies to every player, not just you:

Every player is free to pursue any hook they want. You aren't limited to a linear pursuit. You'll be working with your player GM in doing so, and the rest of the world won't ever stand still while/if you're doing so -- but I want to emphasise again the essential freedom of your character's actions. (Of course, as always, with all actions come consequences :vegm: )

[WinterRat1]

Sedna- In your response post, please be sure to specify whether or not Alleycat will continue down the path they are currently going down, or if she will pull back and try to stop.

[Sedna]

Was that an adequate indication of continuing down the path?

(There really isn't an adequate smiley for this. Although I'm looking at the ones standardly on the side, left column, third from the bottom, and trying to picture your face if I posted it.)

[WinterRat1]

Wait, just tell me OOC, so Talia is/is not going along with it? Cause I actually am not really sure, reading that post. And that smiley would have gotten me fired, because I'd have been on the ground laughing so hard they'd think I was insane.

[Sedna]

And now I'm suddenly flashing on grendel's Tino :)

Yes, she's going along with it. Yes, she's continuing along that path. And yes: she had to have that one random, disconnected thought at that moment ... or it really wouldn't be her.

[WinterRat1]

OK that is what I thought, and that’s certainly what it sounded like, but given that that’s obviously a very significant decision for any number of reasons, I wanted to be absolutely certain I was reading your response correctly before posting the reply. Isn’t it nice to get some attention as a player for a change? :) Ah, it’s good to be back as a GM.

[grendel]

I use Extreme Ways as the music for the closing credits on my Shadowrun games.

[WinterRat1]

Paul- give me an Force check for the watcher.