And now for a non-sequitur

http://www.utilikilts.com/

Down with pants! Up With Kilts!

I would have ordered mine a few nights ago, but I'm stuck in

Oh no! Do I get the Original??? OR the MOcker??? OR TeH WorkMan!?1!/1??

God. I hate being indecisive. I think I want the Workman. Who has one of these? Arrrgh. I need mine soon or I'll die. Or something. Must...make...decision...

1. To dispel any doubt about whether or not Emo's campaign is going down: it is. The first session will be this Saturday at 1 PM CST. I'm not sure when the second session will be, however, because my mom and dad will be visiting me the weekend after this one. Call it a hunch, but I don't think it will sit well with my parents if I tell them, "I'm sorry, but I can't spend my quality time with you, even though you've been really looking forward to coming to see me. I have go play a game in which I pretend to be a criminal with a bunch of boys you don't know."

2. I encourage Emo to read anything posted in any of my threads, and to comment on them as well. Sure, I can't look at his threads, but as the GM he has a right to a certain degree of secrecy that I just don't have. Plus, I want him to hear my ideas and opinions, and the silly quibbling that tends to arise between Emo and the other forum members is greatly amusing.
I should mention that I'm thinking of starting a new thread on the day of the first session. This one, quite frankly, is much longer than I had expected it to be; one might even say it's too long for a thread that's just about preliminaries. I'll link to this thread on the new one for easy reference purposes.

FanGirl:
1-yay! actual game time! Eventually! I understand about the whole family thing though. I always tell my players that their family has to come first. We'll wait for more (impatiently, but we'll wait).

2-that's a good idea


Adam: Got any pictures?

What? we don't ritually sacrifice our families to the great GM in the sky anymore?

That's hard to do more than once. Even if you have more than one GM, the others usually wise up.

A quick google search shows kilts on sale for as little as $13 USD. Unfortuantly, I have only seen 2 types of men's kilts for such low prices, plaid and leather fetish. The leather fetish kilt doesn't provide significant coverage and probably shouldn't be worn in public outside leather fairs.

While I can certainly understand why runners would fashion (haha) a run specifically to lift some high quality clothes from an impeccable fashion center, somehow I expect 'World o' Kilts' would be too narrow in its interests to justify the work. Unless your troll sammie REALLY liked kilts.

How could you possibly taint Drop Bears? The Drop Bears ARE taint in all its insidious forms.

And in my game, powergaming is encouraged. I mean, what are shadowrunners but professional powergamers?

POWERGAMERS UNITE!!!! Let's FYAD this thread to death; she'll just make another one. This will be the new off-topic forum!!!!

OFF TOPIC!!! OFF TOPIC!!!

Boy emo... Seems you don't have really good memory. Weren't you banned not a week ago for this sort of thing?

BTW, I seem to recollect someone asking earlier when the game is and not getting an answer. So when is the game and when can we expect Fangirl's next update 'from the field'?

I already told you: SATURDAY.

And this is a friend's forum; I'm sure it's okay to do this. Besides, Adam already said this could degenerate into a pile of meaningless psychosis.

Just because it can doesn't mean it should. There are other ways to handle boredom.

Like siccing barghest whelps on old ladies and then punching them in the face?

Fangirl, I think your thread is going DOWN. I'm so sorry.

Adam, is this an experiment in containment policies, kind of like putting peanut butter in a cage?

Peanut butter in a cage?

Oh, yeah, animal trapping.

Just make sure you don't catch a skunk, or a bear.

And another campaign idea: AWAKENED SKUNKS!!! You'd need alchemical hydrogen peroxide to get rid of that smell.

Nah, if you were really sorry you wouldn't try to do it. Apologies during the commitment of an act are kinda pointless. Besides, closing the thread would be rewarding you, which would only teach you to continue.

Back on topic: Well, nevermind. I guess we have tow ait until Saturday to have an on topic.

UtiliKilt does have a Scratch and Dent section where you can buy not-perfect or returned kilts at a discount.

And to anyone planning on being @ Gencon, Id wager to guess after the bang-up busniess they did last year, they will be back. Save on your shipping costs, and get a place to wear it with no redicule at all. So long as your bathe at least once every other week.

I'm just unsure how to feel about Adam posting off topic. It's like Joseph Smith just asked me for a smoke.

You'll get that if you've ever spent time in Utah BTW

Is he usually a hardass? I don't usually see him closing down threads unless people start yelling at each other, and he usually lets that go on for, like, 10 pages. Does Fangirl just have a "settle down or you'll die old, alone, and hated by people who don't even know you" aura?

I said the whole thing about dying old, alone, and hated by people who don't even know you because "humanizing" seemed too strong a word.

I've never seen him post.

Really? Ever taken a gander at that litte section on the top of the SR4 section here that says Important Topics ?

I want to say something smartassed just 'cause I'm in a mood, but I really shouldn't. So I'll sate myself by just saying that I should.

You should use your powers to 'convince' them to give us Street Magic sooner.

No; kilts are just the only off-topic discussion I've seen in recent months that I care about.

And yes, this thread is a social experiment, as the amount of off-topic and back-and-forth-chit-chat posting in other threads in the SR4 forum, lately, has been at a level that makes me want to prevent many people from posting at all.

I do not like the leanings that the board has taken towards "perpetual" threads, as I favour short, focused discussions [less than 50 posts for SURE, ideally less than 25] that clearly outline a specific problem, discuss it, and then come to some sort of conclusion or let it die.

Honestly, that makes me unsure if I should post to say "sorry" or not.

But obviously I am anyways. But now I'll stop. Sorry.

Because this is such an official forum and we have to keep it official-sounding. Brief, surreptitious, constrained interactions breed community.

Hmm... I suspect that, even though 90% of the thread is on topic and it is still addressing a major and current issue in the Shadowrun world, that Adam is not a follow of the Drop Bear Conspiracy thread. It's alright, in time he will be... You all will be...

In general I agree with Adam's position. We do tend to go off-topic so often that threads never reach their intended conclusion. But it's good to have some 'containment' threads (which, I note, all but one feature emo as an avid poster).

Dude, we're leprous.