Living in the Shadows: Shadowland OOC, Where the action all shakes out Options

[Sedna]

Since I got asked about this yesterday, I'll just write out a general rule-of-thumb here.

If you want to respond to or comment on any of the Personals or Classifieds, first you have to make sure the date of the notice is on or before your personal storyline date. Any response should match your personal storyline date. Beyond that, there's several different ways to do it.

You can break into the code to post a comment. (Skai Hai frowns on this, but generally turns a blind eye unless it starts getting overused.)

You can take out another Personal or Classified notice to respond.

If you're following instructions to respond via LTG or PM, you'd post your intent in this thread, the same way you normally would in any OOC thread, and write up your character's actual actions IC in the main LitS thread: ie. your PC would be calling someone or sending out a PM. (Check out Avalanche's story for one example of in-post PMing.)

There's probably several other ways to respond I haven't even thought of -- and that's without going into the violent ones :D

Fyi Winterrat, please fix the link in the first post of the IC Shadowland thread to make it link to the Shadowland OOC thread (#5075, not #5074).

[Sedna]

The translation of the Japanese in this post is (very loosely -- the character's Japanese is about as good as mine, which is to say not very) "arson becomes the fires of war, may I beg you for your help?" The linked words (translated in yellow) are in kanji (Japanese characters), the rest in romanji (the alphabet we use here). I'd say you'd require a 3+ in written Japanese not to have to make a roll for the kanji. Anyone more skilled in Japanese nuance might catch that despite the awkward grammar, the choice of words suggests some mid-high level of non-technical education.

[Sedna]

Fyi -- Sheepdog's commentaries on anything outside her reports tend to be almost non-existent. She says what she says, she'll talk somewhat about it, but she doesn't usually doesn't do more than lurk elsewhere; and she doesn't ever spill department business.

I'm still okay with people using her as an active NPC. Just -- keep that in mind?

WinterRat: please correct the link in the first post of the Shadowland IC thread, to link to the Shadowland OOC thread (this one). It's a bit useless, otherwise.

[WinterRat1]

Sedna- Fixed

[Sedna]

Thanks :)

[Sedna]

Dragon doesn't understand the terms Annie just used.

[WinterRat1]

I know. I don’t either, so that makes two of us. How do you want me to respond to the time question? Since I’m playing ‘ahead’ of where I’m actually at, I really have no clue how to answer because a lot depends on how the events in ASVW play out, obviously. Should I just wait to let things unfold there first, or did you have any suggestions on how I can play in two ‘times’ at once?

[Sedna]

This chat doesn't affect anything instantly in other-time; and your actions in ASVW time don't affect anything in this chat ... do they?

Other than that, I'm going to assume you survive (which means you can have this chat), and that you're on-line somewhere close to this time. If I have to, I'll fudge the exact time a bit in the webbing to make it work -- probably won't be a problem at all, but I can't see being much more than half an hour off in any case. (It's not like we haven't had to do that in the core threads on occasion!)

Finally, the topic of this chat is probably completely separate from the events happening in ASVW: so unless you're planning on telling Annie the details of what transpired a few hours earlier at the Spaghetti Palace, I see no problems with running this real-time simultaneous. If you're setting a meet-time, well, any agreed-upon time always involves juggling other events around it, as well as the constant possibility of urgent re-scheduling. (Just ask Caska.)

Okay with this?

[WinterRat1]

Works for me. The only real thing I was worried about was the ASVW situation degenerating into an ongoing chase/battle/running to ground and hiding (kinda like yesterday) that might cause time conflicts, but if it’s ok with you, I’ll metagame a bit and set the time for the meet far enough into the day that even if the ASVW situation degenerates greatly, it should still leave me with a good amount of leeway to make it. And like you said, if you’re fine with fudging the times Dragon is online a bit to make things work, that’s fine with me.

[Sedna]

I'm fine with it :)

[Sedna]

Even in a private chatroom, each post still logs a name. Which one is Dragon using?

[WinterRat1]

Zhuge Liang still. It's fixed in the IC thread now. Thanks for pointing that out.

[bclements]

[Sedna]

You should like the next post then :)

[bclements]

Ok, I'm laughing enough that my assistant is looking at me funny. 'Metaphorical or Literal?' Pure comedy gold.

EDIT: Ok, y'all are going to get me fired if you keep this up.

[Slipshade]

I said I read about him, not knew him. And I asked because I thought he was an urban legend. Stuff you hear about but never expect to actually see or experience. You know, like people who don’t wear armor in the Barrens, the Easter Bunny, the corporate executive with the heart of gold, that kind of thing.
->Zhuge Liang


Gee thanks WinterRat1 :grinbig:

[WinterRat1]

Just trying to think of stuff no one would believe was real. :D

Like the Easter Bunny. Where on earth could he possibly show up in a Shadowrun game? :)

EDIT:

[bclements]

Who else did you think was running the Blimp of DOOM!tm? Jet Black? :grinbig:

And yes, I am a boss, but not the boss. Luckly, my boss is out golfing today.

[Sedna]

I caught it. On the other hand, you now have only yourself to blame :vegm:

[WinterRat1]

Great, what next? The Hot Air Balloon of DOOM tm? Hot air balloon dropping grenades or something?

Hmm…maybe I shouldn’t have pointed that out twice… :eek:

And the Easter Bunny wasn't inherently lethal, I might add. In fact, as I recall, he was a rather friendly and helpful fellow.

EDIT: And Alleycat took a swipe at the poor guy anyway. :(

[Shadow]

You could have a cybered bunny with dykoted cyberfangs.

He would be programmed to kill a target and then hop away.

Oh I have to use this.

[WinterRat1]

Don’t forget egg-shaped grenades.

[Sedna]

In Earthdawn, the preces was a meat-eating rabbit. When it was in heat, it was liable to attack any living creature without warning, often with deadly results.

Heck, even in RL I don't have any particular emotional attachment to the Easter Bunny or any of its mythological kin. Why should I? I'm not nostalgic over an idealised innocence that never existed as we seem to wish to remember it.

Why be so surprised that when Alleycat was being forced to extremes eroding her own nature, partly due to the machinations of some entity which happened to wear the shape of a costumed rabbit, it took every WL point she had not to simply slice up the creature? It's the Sixth World! Will o' the wisps and other fairy creatures aren't nice!

(Besides which, "lethality" is defined in terms of ending existence -- which can also be interpreted as ending of everything one has learned to associate with existing. In that sense, your Easter Bunny was very lethal indeed.)

[WinterRat1]

[WinterRat1]

Sedna- Consider the conversation 'bounced' back to you. I'm just stuck on a response.