Third Forum
Well, this forum wasn’t exactly as well planned and as good as the others in some ways. But in other ways I think this forum is most likely the funniest day of all the days we’ve tried to have a forum and a meeting. Though the meeting today was absolutely ridiculous, but that’s entirely my fault anyway but you don’t care about that anyway =).
So to sum it up we decided like nothing, I hadn’t prepared almost anything I thought I should prepare for either one of the things, the meeting or the forum. The other two… or three times I hold this forum I’d prepared some points and even had some concrete stuff to bring up according to an inner plan. Well, due to my stress this week and my ignorance towards today, I skipped it. I always rely on my ability to improvise and just go with my thought to guide me with things I’m interested in.
Well, a meeting needs some purpose and preparations so no wonder it went all astray. Though the forum actually brought up some interesting points and I got to present some new changes, especially Demonic Lineage that is ready for use. The only thing I have left for this ability now is to organize the traits and abilities of the second stage and to finish the extra-page. But otherwise it’s ready to be (ab)used.
We actually managed to work out some good stuff too, I think even though I’m a little bit disappointed that BOTH PB and Foppa didn’t participate too much in the discussions about the changes. Well, PB had his reasons and Foppa is like he is but I can’t help it to be a little bit disappointed or at least wonder if the enthusiasm will die before I’m ready to stop playing with you all. It’s other’s interest in my game and my own satisfaction when things work as I want that drives this forward, if that enthusiasm disappears I might as well go back to reading, trying to collect myself in all the ways and then prepare to leave this town instead.
But well, putting that aside at least I think we had a good day, even though it’s always a little bit demoralizing for an evening like this to end with people bailing out on us, one after another but I guess you have to respect it or something. Actually I thought it went pretty well after Foppa left but I obviously was greatly mistaken. But no wonder actually, we had gone about all day so no wonder people started to get tired and fall asleep like flies around one. I actually think that the only one that wasn’t tired or even nodded of during the evening was Ankan… though I might be wrong…
What do you have to say about today? Care to just write down a few lines or just a few words about what you thought? Are you disappointed? Was it boring? I felt like it was really fun at least, even though we had some obstacles. And during our walk towards Statoil (which was a great walk by the way!) it almost felt like this was the last thing we would do together as a group. Though feelings like that aren’t always right, even though I think it might hold some truth. Things ARE actually ending, no doubt about it, and we are growing apart. I can feel it and well, it’s only a matter of time now, sad enough. But I like to be wrong on this part.
Well, if everything works out like they should and could we might have a full group within the end of this month again. That will certainly be interesting and I think that by the end of the next month, we will have seen both the end of Jayde1 and as well as the beginning of the third and final war before the last time before the apocalypse.
And if you really are interested in more short stories and novels and shit like that, I suggest you post some comments and I promise I will come with a new one very, very soon. The more enthusiasm and level of interest you show will only boost my ability and will to write something more, though I can understand if you won’t comment and won’t post. I will write if I really feel an urge to do so, like now. Or if I feel like it fills out a purpose to me.
Well, now I’m going to finish some of your dishes before I read the two chapters of Mistborn that I’ve printed out and then… if I’m tired I will go to bed (which I most likely will do anyway because I don’t want to pull an allnighter to give Ankan a possibility to play today). As for PB, I promise that I will try to finish the preparations till Monday so if Foppa doesn’t want to play or anything, we start on your scenario. As of now I believe it will be about three to five sessions containing three to five real battles and a lot of lower ones too. My plan right now is to mostly focus on the story and your choices, the battles will be completely optional. Note than to negative nor positive effects will come of this… well maybe one or two positive, but I doubt it.
And yeah, thanks again all for a great day!
Best regards,
Herid Fel
This all depending on how much we are playing, I won’t kill her just because I can… I have a promise to keep, so no worries PB-chan =) ↩
Well , I think the day was fun and pretty entertaining , although I agree that I wasnt very active on the points that was brought up, but that was simply cause I didnt have much input there really and Ankan and Davids ideas was actually pretty good so I didnt feel like it was much too add.. although ill try to do better next time.
And about growing apart.. I think youre the only one feeling it.. probably cause youre the one that is split about staying/leaving soon(unless you have already decided :() , it might also have to do with all these eternal single sessions.. its starting to become abit too much in my oppinion.
Sure roleplaying doesnt need many ppl to play but if you aim to integrate people in a group , it would be wise not too delay it for too long(cause that might also mean that the characters in the group might die and such.. which means more single sessions) , I mean I havent seen ankan in like a month or so and we dont play as much now as we did for like 1-2 months ago.. and that in my oppinion isnt just that vacations have ended , for me it feels like you are slowing things down(maybe to think or decide what you wanna do) , its fine I suppose , but I mean im almost available 24/7 even when im working. Im also gonna talk to you probably over MSN about some things that I wanna clear up , but im not gonna write it here on the blog so. well.. ive written alot of stuff now, I hope you dont get all annoyed with me =). Good Night , and thanks for a great evening…
Well, the integration was put an halt due to Foppa. Ankan had requested ten sessions and the request had been granted and just when I was ready to implement it… Foppa wasn’t ready.
Actually the only thing I demand right now is three single sessions before integration when you create a new character.
IT takes about three sessions to create a character and then three sessions to try a play it a little.
Then I integrate you if you haven’t asked for more. Like Ankan asked for about eight to twelve sessions before and David have asked about five.
So if you just want to jump in as soon as we’re finished it doesn’t take too long. Though I must say this; the single sessions have proven to be more needed than I first thought. Ankan, please give your opinion about your first ten pre-sessions here to give us some perspective about what you think. Have they been of use to you and if they have, in what ways? I’m interested other than just to prove how worth it actually is.
Just saw that I didn’t respond to this well let’s say this then;
I feel it, because I observe it. I know things about all of you that you (probably) haven’t shared yet with each others. I know that things will implicate, no matter my decision.
I also se growing of people and interests and I also know that I’m changing for better or worse at the moment. I’m more demanding and have less patientce than before.
Mostly though, I’m reading tides of emotions from you then adding facts and probability about what I know about the closests future and in the end adding the limit of your patience with me and my strange ways, because as you know… I will always have things my way.
But as I said, I like to be wrong because I’ve already lost too much here and if I loose much more here I won’t stay. And whatever or not I’ll leave… I have almost decided, but you won’t know until you’ve seen it.
I think I mentioned this earlier but I will do it again clearly if someone forgot it or didn’t hear it.
I will eventually print out the first book of Mistborn, if someone wants to read it or borrow it, it’s an option if you don’t want to buy the book or read by a computer or anything. I will most likely even have it a possibilty to read it during sessions if you are out in the other room…
I enjoyed yesterday, altough I wasn’t very active but that is not unusual though. About growing apart I can’t say, but I hope it isn’t so.
Monday should work fine for me, so we can play then. And Mistborn I’m interested in reading, maybe after I’ve read through WoT though.
The day was actually quite enjoyable. The association meeting was not much more than a joke, but in my opinion the rule forum was a success. Sure, some people were not very active, but apart from that I think we came up with kinda much. And it was fun.
About growing apart, it’s not anything I can feel very much of. Sure, we haven’t played together for a long time now (by the way, as far as I can remember I requested something like “7, or maybe 7-10 sessions”, not “8-12”) but I have been ready to go back to group for a while now. I can agree, we could have shortened it down a little bit but in essence I really think it was a good thing. But it will be a bit tedious if we do it like that with every character.
It was a fun and very creative way of making a background. It gives you a lot of experience of the background, not simply a short cooperative story-telling that is open for later single sessions but also possibility to evolve the character and a livid past. We still have quite a lot of openings for flashback episodes since we did some jumping through time at certain points. Another good thing with some single sessions before the group stuff is that you get time to play ball with your character against a wall before you try it against live people. Role-playing centred around your soon-to-be past and character personality.
I wish to begin group-sessions ASAP!
See you around. And hopefully there will be a single session today. Hope I didn’t forget to write anything.
Hehe, about the growing apart part I hope I’m wrong though I might not be if I should go on my gut feeling and my observations. But time will tell.
Hehe, well, you actually said seven, but I added your three pre sessions to that, the first time. The second time we talked about it we actually agreed to make it somewhat inbetween of eight to twelve sessions although I already had decided upon ten, because then you would have grown adjusted to your character and the lifeline would have been all used up.
Well, of course it will be very tedious if we do this all the time, I won’t have that much time to do it every time either. You on the other hand chose something that actually needed this and you wanted to try a new thing and so did I. I actually could have cut it shorter but I aimed for my goal and just made sure that everything I wanted to implement before group-sessions were inserted. (Which it was about two and a half sessions ago)
Well, I think that most of the group actually wants the group-sessions to start again as soon as possible and so would I. I’ve had a great of a lot idéas that have gone to waste the last couple of weeks just due to that. But I think I need to speed up some of the changes now when a group will be created soon.
Heh, maybe during the day then, so we leave the evening for David or Ankan. Now you’re alone as you might now so well.