Wheeee!!!  Much happy kuporific glomps!  So very happy to make your day!  ^.^

Same here, Timothius :) Happy that you're enjoying our input so much!

Really, I'm enjoying it too. Faction just seems so wide and open... the perfect place to play in and explore. It's actually inspiring enough that I've tried writing little pieces on my own for Jacqueline, just to play with the setting further.

Thanks for sharing all of this with us

  I think it's a good sign for a place when the only downside I can think of is that I wish I better matched the quality of posts that not only the other players are making, but making for multiple characters in some cases.
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Reminder: It's Jaq and Chad's turns.

I'm sorry! This one got away from me this past week :( Was busy and out of town for a spell and it just kept slipping my mind. I'll be posting tonight, as I have to go to work right now.  However, I'll be gone Thursday - Sunday for a convention, so I will not be able to respond to anything during that time :(

Two examples I can give for this:  One, my elder bro is married into a family from India for many years but was still surprised by things he learned about their culture when he visited India with them.  Amusingly, even his in-laws got sick from the food.

Two, I spoke with a lady who said she was from West Africa when I asked what nation she's from.  Then later said she was from Ghana.  "So... which nation is it?  West Africa?  or Ghana?"  "Don't you know know Africa?  Ghana and West Africa.  America has states, right?"

Ghana is a nation, but she was comparing it to a state because the meaning of the word state can also mean nation.  "United States" may as well be "United Nations" to some.

Lucky's player and I had an interesting discussion after I read this latest OOC from him. :) Part of that discussion included me pointing out "But the Blissians aren't geniuses anymore" to which he said "But they have the reputation of being such due to their advances in science. People just don't think about the fact that Blissians advance thanks to getting along and not warring." Me: "Interesting. So Walter is guilty of the very same thing he's laughing inside at Billy for" Him: "Yes."

Also as an interesting side note, Billy DOES have some tough-guy to him (He has to be to handle his wife, believe me), but he's not a tough guy like we picture one. He's only one part confrontational cowboy, but two parts smirking rogue in the shadows who hides in plain view. Anyway... so as Lucky pointed out in Walter's post, I strongly aim to make cultures diverse in this setting, to where clumping a planets' worth of people into a preconception is still silly. :)

  So, wait.  You mean there are Blissians who aren't adorable?

Sort of. There are Blissians who are downright creepy (Billy in the OLD storyline was creepy as Hell and had his own theme music. Changed him a bit for this one.) such as Carla (Not to be confused with my cherub character), but many would probably consider such Blissians adorable at first anyway due to sheer looks and the fact Blissians have certain habits just that ingrained into them.

Roger Xalitron, the guy you saw on the Blissian news, who discovered this nice ore on Bliss? Again, in the old storyline, he was one serious tough guy and lost a lot of faith in most anything, so he wound up grizzled kinda like Stanton in my "Heroes of Shame" comic. So sure, if you think a bunny is cute when it smokes, talks tough and can drink with the best of them, he'd still be adorable.... so like I said. Sort of.

Other examples we dreamed up were:

"I'm married to a black woman from downtown D.C.  I know African culture."

or my favorite:

"I'm married to a girl from Mars.  Close enough to Earth culture.  I've even met Earthlings before.  I totally know Earth culture."

Just popping in to say hello to everyone.

  A bit late with the waving, but hey I'm still the first to say hi! (at least on this board).

  Hi Leon.

I'm still working out details with Leon on his character sheet. I plan to confer with Joe/Mitts. :)

FYI, the GM and Myself will be going on a vacation from Sun 26th to Thurs 30th where we'll likely have very limited internet access much less time to post.

By way of reminder, me, GM, and Leon go on vacation tomorrow morning.  I plan on trying out the new Final Fantasy MMO when I get back.  Anyone here play that?

The recent lack of narrative is due to the GM's work situation becoming insane.  (And rather dangerous I might add).  He will likely have much more time on his hands in about 2 weeks if you catch my drift.  Possibly sooner.

Make that about 1 week.  :)

Deepest appologies. Last month was crazy. Complete with family vacation followed be near lockdown at work from someone threatening to shoot up the place. I quit that job. Now I have time. Now I am posting.

Again, sorry for the holdup.

Jaq/Elena/Nash. You're up. :) Hope you're having a good time with whatever is going on in your life. Haven't seen you on IM.

I apologize for basically disappearing for a month :( I should have given you guys some notice of that delay. Although I can't post tonight due to time, I will be posting this weekend. Work's finally calmed down from the holiday rush, among other things.

I haven't seen you on IM either, Tim! We need to fix that :) For the rest of the crew here, thanks for holding on.

  Good to have you around again.  If it helps any, I'm used to the crazy long delays between posts around here anyways ;D

True to my character, my A.D.D. has kicked in. Even back-scrolling, I can't seem to figure out exactly where Team Joe is going. XD

 I... guess I'll get to posting when Joe has something to respond to then?

I'm sorry! I didn't realize that I posted before Leon until after I was halfway through with Nash's post :( I'm really sorry for jumping the gun on that one, Leon! Really hope I didn't interrupt anything you were planning.

Actually quite the contrary.  I truly have no idea where I am going with my next post.  So no worries.  I will post when I figure it out. Please feel free to post around me until that time.  This goes for everybody.