Muck Pond OOC

[Schme]

Well, I'm not surprised you did not hear about it. I only heard by chance. It's not like it's a big thing. It just reminded me of my old neighbhourhood.

But you kidding, man? Increase? If anything, it's gotten more peaceful.

Gun violence and other violence is no different, either. Kill a guy with a gun or kill him with a knife, what's the difference?

I really don't see what you mean.



I think we might be talking about different places. Where I'm talking about is quite if bit farther up Walkley. I think I know where you mean.

But this is all digression. Sorry.

[Fleegle]

Of course, dead is dead, there's no difference whether someone is killed by a gun or a knife. But an increase in gun crime MAY suggest that guns are more readily available than previously, which may point towards a rise in organized crime. They are just indicators that's all.
The fact is, I don't know whether there is an increase or not. I am aware that not everything gets reported, and that media spin can be responsible for a perceived increase in crime, when in actual fact it may be lower. That said, I am aware that Ottawa is a growing city, occupying that never-never land between big little-city and little big-city, and one of the well-known growing pains for a city is increase in crime, gun-related or not.

I hope you're not basing where you think I live off where my Adanac character live(d)... they are not one and the same

Anyways, yes, this was an interesting digression, but we should restore the topic to Muck Pond-related stuff.

[Debsy]

Alright. I know I said I was gonna be gone and I'd be back...but I've found lately that I lack the creativity to do anything with Erake lately...I'm trying to get my creative bit back...but it's just not coming. So...until then, I won't be playing Muck Pond.

[Lumin]

Looks like this threads kind of gotten off on another topic by now, but I gotta say, I just read a couple of pages of the game and damn, if you guys ever start a new one then I want to play! Awesome game. (...why do I always miss out on the fun stuff?)

[Fleegle]

Yes, I was just trying to steer it back on course. Thank you for helping me out.
Well Lumin, this is kind of an ongoing game. I mean, I'm sure someday there'll be an ending... but only when I run out of ideas, and I'm nowhere near there yet. As far as I'm concerned the game has just started, and I just took on a couple new players. So if you want to make a character and join, that's fine with me. I may be asking for trouble if the older players decide to join in again, but I'll manage
I might have to start recycling magic abilities soon... I'm running out of ideas for those, and some of the coolest ones belong to characters presently inactive. But hey, nobody said these were unique powers...

[Lumin]

As far as I'm concerned the game has just started, and I just took on a couple new players.

Thirty-six pages in? Well, I'll consider it, but I've got to make some time to read up onwhat's happening.

So my chara would just come up out of the muck? That wouldn't be interrupting the current storyline? (I've done a couple of games over e-mail, but those just had a handful of players, and I'm kind of new at these forum games...not real clear on the etiquette yet.)

[Fleegle]

So my chara would just come up out of the muck?

Yeah, pretty much. I would only expect you to familiarize yourself with the changes made to the area around the Muck Pond before posting, and I outlined those changes in a post just after Leo Luncid and Pie joined (I think it's page 34). You don't HAVE to read all 36 pages... although it would be nice if you did Also, it might help to look through the OOC posts, as it might help to clarify some of the rules.
As for forum game etiquette, well I think that differs from game to game. For my game, if you feel it is ABSOLUTELY necessary to post OOC comments in game, please surround them by brackets and keep those comments in a separate paragraph at the top or bottom of the post. I think this topic here can satisfy all our OOC needs though. And although I don't think I've ever mentioned it, I prefer if you post in the third person... I think that's fairly intuitive, and it helps me keep track of who's who.

[Lumin]

Well, okay, I decided to give it a shot.

There were two characters I had the hardest time deciding between, but I finally chose one just for the novelty of playing "a woman in her twenties, wearing nothing worth mentioning".

Well, it's a novelty in this game anyway. I'm curious to see how I'll do with a regular human, and if she goes and gets herself killed I can always play the other one.

Though it seems tough for a char to get killed in this game. Haven't seen anything like Varrius' death for over thirty pages now. (That little ant just seemed like an excuse for Vex and Xev to use their powers...) The DM doesn't seem to want to kill anyone, and even Beezelbub's been tame lately. What's the matter, guys? You losing your edge?

[AoM]

Well, sadly, Beezlebub's player has been silent for a while. I hope Fleegle makes him into an NPC and plays his story secretely... he makes an excellent villain after all.

I can't speak for the others, but Ao and Tek haven't stopped doing their thing.

[Fleegle]

Yeah, I see your point Lumin. However, my players seem to be good at getting themselves out of trouble. To a certain extent Briker was a kind of test for Vex/Xev - I wanted to see if they would use their powers to save Briker. Keep in mind though that many of the characters haven't run into a lot of danger thus far. Briker died but was resurrected during the rescue attempt. Audirda could have died if the other players didn't come to her rescue. As for Ao and Tek, they are currently in a potentially dangerous situation, being in a village of insane wizards. If they don't play their cards right, one of them could easily meet their demise. I don't want to say too much as I don't want to influence any decisions they might make.
That said, I want to make it clear that risk-taking is an integral part of the game. Sometimes not taking a risk could end up badly either for that character or for other characters (e.g. Briker and Vex/Xev took a risk to save Audirda, had they not taken that risk she would have died).
Note also that the three characters near the forest are in a dangerous situation as well, even with the help of Felinibis.

As for Snake_byte's character, I don't really want to make him an NPC in case Snake_byte returns... but I might have to eventually. If Snake_byte is around and doesn't want to play anymore, it would be nice if he gave me permission to turn him into an NPC... he can always take over for the NPC later if he wants to, or start a new character. I'll give it some more time.

On a separate note, I'm busy writing an essay for the next few days, so I likely won't post any responses until after the 5th.

[Lumin]

I hope Snake-byte starts playing again and makes Beezlebub go back to his old unpredictable badassery. (That's not a word, but it SHOULD be.)

Right now MushBall is my favorite character, even if I thought burning down the village was tiny bit out of character, but Beezlebub's whole 'rip to tiny quivering shreds first, don't bother asking questions later' attitude is sorely missed.

Oh, and yay for Briker! He's got what is potentially the coolest fate in the game and I've been waiting for him to use it on somebody. My only questions are:

1.) Whether it's possible to use it on an entire group of people...from what Ilosep said it sounds like he'd have to pick the leader of the Pink Ones.

2.) Will a fate like that work as well on a person who is "blind" to the gods?

3.) Is what they're doing now that unjust? Trying to kill Audirda isn't really excusable, but as for attacking the forest, well, that could be taken as an understandable response to having their own homes (and possibly families) destroyed. Though of course that's all OOC stuff, there's no way for Briker to know what MushBall did...

[Fleegle]

The way the fate works is that a particular individual must be targetted. Right now I'm treating Briker's words as just an outburst of mindspeech... it won't have any effect to declare it like that, since he hasn't targetted anyone. That said, there are a lot of Pink Ones and Briker would use up his fate pretty quickly if he used it as a mode of attack. Also, the effects of the fate are unpredictable, since as you said there is some ambiguity about the justness of their actions. However, remember that the Pink Ones aren't in anyone's good books right now. Presumably they have transgressed multiple times, hence why their society as a whole has been charged with committing hubris.

While we're on the topic, an attack on the forest would not be justified by MushBall's actions. Remember that although MushBall is friends with Bassus, he does not represent the forest. He is an independent actor. The attack on the forest is a case of misdirected anger. The Pink Ones do not understand what has happened, partly because they have turned their backs on the gods.

Yeah, I don't know that MushBall's action really was that out of character... I mean, the guy does have an expansive ego. He has been told that these Pink Ones are more or less evil and they haven't treated him with "due respect" in his eyes. MushBall strikes me as the kind of guy who might do something really nasty because he believes it is the right thing to do.

[Schme]

Exactly.



I'm very flattered that you like the character, Lumin.






Essay on what?

[Lumin]

Oh, Fleegle, you are evil.

This is the part in the movie where the scary soundtrack plays and I scream "Don't do it! Get the *censored* out of there as fast as you can!" at the TV, but of course that would be considered OOC knowledge...

[Fleegle]

Schme: My essay is on Michel Foucault, a French post-modern philosopher (now dead). Or rather it's on his ethics.

Lumin: You assume the worst