Leif_Roar

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I roleplay a infamous vile old man at GG RP sessions, and many of the GG regulars create alts every nanosecond (not naming, names <coughs> Zortel <cough>.

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You have been gone for a while. Zortel moved into the pictosecond range ages ago.

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7. THE CHARIOT.--Succour, providence also war, triumph, presumption, vengeance, trouble. Reversed: Riot, quarrel, dispute, litigation, defeat.

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not sure who this fits really, it a toughie. but generally pretty good.

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From the Waite key "An erect and princely figure [..] He has led captivity captive; he is conquest on all planes--in the mind, in science, in progress, in certain trials of initiation. He has thus replied to the sphinx, [...] He is above all things triumph in the mind.

It is to be understood for this reason (a) that the question of the sphinx is concerned with a Mystery of Nature and not of the world of Grace, to which the charioteer could offer no answer; [...] (c) that the liberation which he effects may leave himself in the bondage of the logical understanding; [...] he could not open the scroll called Tora"

So it should be someone who's big on science: logical, intellectual, almost anti-mystic. Someone who wields Occam's Razor like a scythe, sweeping away the underbrush of superstition and mysticism. Someone like ... Ummm...

[I don't like posting only the first part of this, but don't have the time to finish it right now (I need to get to work ... oh, about an hour ago,) and I suspect that if I stopped without posting this bit, I'd never get around to write the rest.]


"Finding anything, girls?" Professor Kastner asked, walking over to the edge of a trench where two archeology students were carefully scraping away earth to unearth what, around the time of the battle of Crecy, had been a wood-laid floor.

"I'm starting to find some sore knees," one of the students replied with a grimace and shifted her kneeling pads in an attempt to spread the ache evenly on both knees, "and we've found more pieces of burnt shingles than I've ever wanted to see in my whole life."

Kastner grinned back and climbed into the trench to get a better look at the girls' work. "Welcome to the daily grind of archaeology and the hundred-hundred-one rule: Hundred pounds of dirt for every pound of artifact, hundred pounds of artifact for every ounce of treasure. Just remember that what we don't find can tell us a lot too."

"In that case we must have learnt tons from this trench, right Catherine?" the student with the sore knees said, and to her bemusement realised that the other student hadn't looked up when the Professor had arrived, but was still busy with trowel and brush. "Don't tell me you've just found something?"

"Umm, I'm not sure," Catherine replied without looking up, "I think maybe it's an arrowhead or something."

"Oh?" the Professor asked and with a smile to the less lucky student crouched down besides Catherine to have a look at the find. "Well, it's certainly an arrowhead, but not a kind I would have expected to find at this site. Remarkably well preserved too."

Kastner straightened up and called out to a tall man working at the cataloguing table. "Robert, can you come have a look at something?"

"Ow!" Catherine suddenly jerked back with a vitreous oath and put her thumb in her mouth. "I cut myself on it." she explained sheepishly, sucking at a long cut on the side of her finger.

"You didn't you bleed on the find?" Kastner asked at once, horrified at the thought of blood's corrosive abilities, but quickly relented. "You didn't cut yourself badly, did you?"

"Umm, no, I don't think so. It just bleeds a lot." Catherine mumbled sheepishly against her thumb and scooted backwards away from the mostly revealed arrowhead to prevent any more blood getting on it.

"So what have you got for me, Lucien?" The tall man that Professor Kastner had called over had appeared and looked curiously down into the trench.

"Two splendid specimens of students from Paragon University, and what looks like a swallowtail. Girls, meet Doctor Eversley." Kastner introduced the tall man as the two students grudgingly climbed out of the trench to give the two professionals room.

"So you two are from Paragon?" Eversley asked with a small chuckle, "Well, I'll spare you the obligatory 'where's your cape' joke, as I'm sure you've heard it so many times ... Is something the matter?"

Catherine had suddenly stopped up and clutched a fist to her chest, her face drawn in pain. She let out a tightly clenched whimper and raised her head to look imploringly up at the professor who was standing towering at the top of the trench. She stumbled backwards and collapsed heavily against the side of the trench, bringing down a bucketful of earth and rock as she slid down to an awkward, half-lying position, her upper back propped up against the wall of earth.

She gasped sharply in pain, and her legs twitched sharply. She clawed desperately at the dirt with her left hand, still clutching her white-knuckled right tightly fist to her chest. She heard someone call out her name, and then the two professors was kneeling over her, worried and confused.

She heard them talk, clearly but distant through the thundering in her ears, asking her what was wrong, calling for a stretcher and for the first aid kit. Why did they just stand there, waiting? Why didn't they grab the arrow and help her pull it out?

Catherine let out a small, frightened whimper. She could feel the head of it digging deeper inside her, towards her heart, struggling against her grip with cold-willed tenacity. She tightened her fist around the ghostly arrow further, her fingers clenched so hard it hurt. She saw people moving around her and felt herself be lifted onto a stretcher, but she had no attention to spare on the outside world. All her willpower was locked in the struggle against the arrow and her world had narrowed to the death-grip of her aching fingers around the insubstantial shaft and the feeling of the arrowhead grating against a rib-bone. It was a stalemate, for now.

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Because it would just look so cool, with the sheeres and the hat ;-)

Last Judgement, doing it in style. ;-)

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Well, I can hardly counter an argument based on the inherent styleishness of hats, now can I?

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shame there's less cards than regular GGers ^_^

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That's just the major arcana -- there's a large number of lesser aracana cards too.

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XX The Last Judgement - Gabbleduck

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???!

Also, remember that if you have problems getting your character involved IC, you can always just ask nicely in an OOC comment.

It can be hard enough keeping track of the people who're talking at a GG meet, so it's often very easy to miss the silent ones.

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I'd actually make Zortel the Empress, and Jest er as the Fool, Crow as the Magician. ;-) I could probably do the whole deck right here and now

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I thought about Jest er as the Fool, but I don't think that work except very superficially. The tarot card "The Fool" doesn't really mean "fool" as in "jester", but more as someone who is thoughtless, doesn't see ahead and ignores warnings and just goes on ahead.

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A leet attitude? I'm very curious to see who, of the regular attendants, have posted in leet. Because I can tell you, all of the regulars who've been around for a long time (if not the start) dispise leet.

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I suspect he means leet as "elite" in general, and not specifically as "elite hack0r d00dz."

This is just a silly notion that popped out of nowhere, but how about making a tarot deck based on the Galaxy Girl crowd? Setting up screenshots and doing some Photoshop magic on them.

Say, Doc Temporis as the Hierophant, Ellie as the Emperess, Jest Er as the Magican ... Okay, probably not the best matches, (I'm out of the loop,) but you get the idea.

Okay, so some of the aspects of the cards (the dog on the Fool, Justice's scales and so on) will be hard to pull off; but it might still be a fun project.

Oh, forgot to add a linkt to this description of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot

Early in the morning, so I'm just throwing out a sleep-dazed question.

Would it be useful to have a chat channel, say "IC_Recruitment" or something along those lines, for getting together pick-up teams of roleplayers?

I mean, sometimes you want to play the game IC, but to roleplay or stay IC on a pick-up team ... well, I can't do it, at least. When nobody else on the team is roleplaying I just feel silly doing so, and trying to put "IC" or "RPer" in the search comment just gets you a lot of questions about what that means.

It might be nice to have a place to go recruit people that are at least "RP biased." Of course, it might not be practically possible to get people to use such a channel in the first place.

So, for those who're more awake than I am -- what do you think?

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The real problem with most games of this ilk is having that carrot still bobbing ahead of them, on the other side of the minefield. They always need a 'chance' to win; however minute.

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No, no. They need the perception that there's a chance to win. There is a difference. *evil smile*

It depends on the game and the genre. In games such as Call of Cthulhu or Paranoia! the world is supposed to be stacked against the party.

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Yes, I am an evil DM.

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Isn't "evil DM" a pleonasm?

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When D&D is done right, there's nothing more dangerous to a high level party than a tribe of annoyed kobolds.

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On second thoughts I have to amend this statement:

When D&D is done right, there's nothing, except for the Head of Vecna, that is more dangerous for a high level party than a tribe of annoyed kobolds.

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Well, I'd consider Possession, Replacement of your Physical Body, Seed-Stealing without Intercourse, Time-Line Altering, Rule Changes on the Whim of Reality = God-Modding; and that's just from the books.

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Not really -- all of that is within the rules, and as such it happens with implicit consent of the players. God-moding is really more of a real problem in free-form (rule-less) roleplaying. It's basically the old "I shot you" "Did not!" "Did too!" "Did not!" conflict that rules were originally created to prevent in the first place.

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Being incredibly powerful and god-moding are different things, Silver.

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"God-moding" is sometimes used in the same meaning as "power-gaming". That said, I think it's preferrable to use power-gaming for power-gaming, and use god-moding in the sense of "without consent controlling other players' characters."

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Although, that said, it does get a bit silly when nothing is a challenge. One reason I love Vampire; when all's said and done, you can still have the snot beaten out of you by a mere human playing his cards right.

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When D&D is done right, there's nothing more dangerous to a high level party than a tribe of annoyed kobolds.

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Rule 5: Leave the hat alone

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Actually, that ought to be rule #1.

Really, the main rule of roleplaying is: Respect the right of the other players to have fun as much as your own. Don't hog the limelight or run your character roughshoed over other people's characters. Don't knowingly annoy, hurt or anger other players (of course annoying, hurting or angering other characters is not only allowed, but downright encouraged.) Wash behind your ears every day. Don't talk back to your parents. Be mild mannered and nice. Turn the other cheek, but don't back down from standing up to yourself. Wear a hat at all times except, possibly, in the shower. Be a responsible mathematichan -- don't drink and derive.

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you people seem to have never heard of construtive critism

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Are you referring to the original poster, or to the people who voiced criticism of the original poster? *innocent look*

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Sorry to be pedantic but I am pretty sure the correct plural of genius is genii. It is a latin root.

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According to Merriam-Webster, the plural form genii is preferred for the meanings related to the meaning "spirit, djinni", while the plural form geniuses is preferred for the meanings related to "smart person."

Of course, that is an American dictionary, and what do they know about proper English anyway?

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I'm also Dutch, and might I comment that I've heard a lot of comments that us Dutch (in general) use better English than most English people?

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"That we Dutch ..."

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Surely, "You can keep your hat on." Tom Jones.

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Far too obvious -- besides, when it comes to Tom Jones songs, I've already reserved "Thunderball" as the theme song for my Mastermind.

Hmm. For Gabbleduck I'd go with Surf Terror by Man or Astroman.

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Nevermore and War Crow, solving the world's problems, one Z alt at a time!

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One Z alt at a time? They`ll never finish.

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I don't see how it was a tradegy.
As far as I know, no one has been killed. Therefore, to me anyway, it's just a bad accident but thankfully no one was injured.

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Huh. I haven't been following this case, only browsed the articles, so I actually thought people had been killed. I was mistaken (but it's a fair bit from "no one injured" too. 43 at last count, one in intensive care.)