We don't say much, but when we do, it's profound.  Right?

Profound.

Profound.


Also, I want to let you know, I think I'm going to skip Sophia. It's taken me over a month to write an opening post and I still don't have anything actually written for it. So I think that's a sign that I should not be making new characters at the current time.

Another also-

Did you get all the stuff from Crossroads saved? I don't want to unsticky it if we still need to get stuff from it. I'm pretty sure once no one has it stickied anymore it goes on the fasttrack to permanent deletion.

That's fine, Deb.  To be honest, I'm pretty sure this game is dying.  No one logs on anymore and I seem to be the only one still interested.  If no one wants to play, then maybe we should just let this die.

I have saved all the Crossroads stuff, so it's safe to unsticky.

Terrible Ace Ventura Impression:

Nobody wants to play with me.

We don't see you come on anymore!

I don't usually get on msn. But I still check rpol whenever I get on my computer.

This Friday, me and the kids aren't going to my brother's, so I should be on. Though, I won't be on very late, since we've been going to bed at 9, so I get tired early.
This message was last edited by the GM at 04:39, Wed 28 Sept 2011.

You know me. Start something and I'll happily join in. hehe

Well, you're the one that's actually playing with me. It's just on Facebook. It's just sad to go days and days without seeing any new posts in here.

Just playing with he new color options...

Red - Bold Red
Orange - Bold Orange
Aqua - Bold Aqua
Blue - Bold Blue
DarkBlue - Bold DarkBlue
Green - Bold Green
DarkGreen - Bold DarkGreen
Brown - Bold Brown
Purple - Bold Purple
Yellow - Bold Yellow
Pink - Bold Pink
RoyalRed - Bold RoyalRed
Coral - Bold Coral
Goldenrod - Bold Goldenrod
Seagreen - Bold Seagreen
Periwinkle - Bold Periwinkle
Lavender - Bold Lavender
Rose - Bold Rose
Gray - Bold Gray
Black - Bold Black

Well, NaNoWriMo is almost over. So guilt over RP writing will go away. Also, I quit my job, so that will hopefully open up some time that I can be on the computer. Here's hoping.

I'm starting to feel neglected, guys :(

We decided that MSN drools. Skype rules.

Basically, MSN wouldn't let us talk, so we found somewhere that would. So you should add us to your skype.

what's your add on, Deb?

maidenfine@yahoo.com

So, is everyone pretty much fast-forwarding to November? If so, I can start a Kate & Ky thread for the summer.

No, we just wanted to start on the movie earlier.  Everyone else is still in March/April.

Niiiiiseeeeey, I love you. Will you post somewhere for me? It's your turn in Swollen Portfolios, the thing with Leigha & company in New York, and in California on the movie set. I have other characters that want to come out and play but I've technically already got three going so I worry about overload (not necessarily overload for me, but most of my peeps play with your peeps and I don't want to have 7 or 8 threads waiting for you. That's just overwhelming).

I wasn't at home earlier, Britt and I were rping via text and she was posting them but I'll get some posted after I take some advil.

VBS is over!! I still have some follow-up stuff to do, but my period of complete mental insanity and constant stuff to do is over.I will be able to get back to posting soon. Assuming someone posts in my threads.

OMG The colors are so... Easter-ish XD

I love the April Fools color scheme.

I'm going to post Kiley later today. I don't care who posts with her. I just want to write and she popped up as someone that maybe Sopha or Britt could play with.

WHAT?!?! I got a post?!?! :p

In reply to Britt (msg #24):

HA! More than one!

Is it Christmas?! lol

Not Christmas. But maybe they're Easter gifts. Some people do that.

It's in celebration of me having internet at work during my lunch half hour. lol

Ooh! That's exciting news! If I can get our router to cooperate, I need to start checking in on my Kindle when I don't have enough time to hop on a computer.

No forgetsies that I posted Mara too!!

Yeah. I texted you about that one.

Ah... my phone has been off for almost two weeks :(  No moolah to add minutes.

Oh. Well, in that case, Logan has shut down. I suspect it is due to one of two reasons.

1. He thinks he'll actually have a good time out with his cousin and son. And you know how he feels about that sort of thing.

2. I haven't gotten around to going back and figuring out how old Jason is.

I'm trying to make time for looking up the Jason thing so that if that's the reason then I can fix it. But I'm also in the process of deciding how to write an author bio for myself, try to blog more than once every couple weeks, and clean my darn house (though it looks better than usual since I did major cleaning before leaving for my conference.

Well, we can just assume they did have a great time and go from there.  Maybe to the following week when he realizes Daphne is the lead? :D

That should be torturous enough for him. Ought to make him. . . not happy.

Ahhhhh James McAvoy as Finn!!! <3<3<3

It was surprisingly quick to find a face for Finn. My only concern was that maybe James McAvoy didn't look 35. But IRL he's 33, so I figure it doesn't matter how old he looks.

Teehee I love James <3

FYI: No idea what my online time will look like this week. Tomorrow night (Tuesday) there's a BBQ for Mother's Day and my grandma's bday. Then we may or may not be driving 2 hours to Newton because we have a funeral for Allen's step-grandpa on Wednesday. After that, they're bringing his grandma up here for a visit because his brother is graduating Thursday night. So we're going to take her to the zoo on Friday while his mom works. Then Sunday, my sister and Allen's stepsister are both graduating, plus there's a going-away party for my cousin who's moving to AZ and an Open House Picnic at Allen's work, so we'll be doing some combination of those things. Then Sunday is a graduation party in the afternoon and a potluck & missions presentation in the evening. And I haven't even really looked at next week yet. So there you go.

Not like anyone else logs in anyway :-/

I'm just getting expectations out there.

I've been thinking lately about what we can do to reinvigorate this place. And I got to thinking about when we all met and started writing together. And the thing is, when we started, we were all writers who enjoyed roleplaying. And I think somewhere along the line, we've become roleplayers. But that's not who we are and I think that's why we get burnt out like we do and we get busy and it gets put on the back burner, because it's not as refreshing to us as our first love. We all need to write. And I'm not talking about this stuff. This stuff is fun and I love brainstorming with you guys and writing with you and letting other people help to make the story more interesting and powerful and whatever. But at the end of the day, we all need to be making time to write for ourselves. To write our own stuff.

So, I have a proposal. The month of June is Camp NaNoWriMo. It's the same 50,000 word project as November, but it's more low-key and all the group stuff is online. No physical get-togethers. So I say we take June off. Those of us who want to write something for Camp NaNoWriMo, do that. Those of us who aren't into writing novels, pick something else as our goal for June. Maybe your goal will be to write 15 short stories (that's one every other day). Or maybe the goal is to write and illustrate a children's book (I know that won't be any of us, but it's a valid goal, put out there for illustrative purposes). Whatever the goal, I think we should start a thread in here, state our goals, and encourage each other in them during the month of June. And then maybe we should do something like this every few months.

This time, it's make your own goal. Maybe another time it'll be for each of us to take someone else's Unbound character and write them in an alternate universe scenario. I'd love to see David as written by Sopha. Or Dee as written by Britt. And then maybe another time we can do drawings or photoedits of each other's characters. Or just whatever. But I think that trying to get our engines going by sitting around waiting for them to start is the wrong path. Engines don't start by themselves. Engines start when you stick the key in and turn it. They need that little jolt of electricity. And I think it's hard to get that little jolt of electricity going in a group like this, when we're all available at different times. I think we all need a jolt, but we're not going to be able to get it from each other at this point in our lives. So let's each figure out our kickstart, and get to kicking in June.

I like this idea. Anyone else?

I like it too :)

It's June 1st! I hope to see some updates and such from you ladies in the Goals thread this month. And we'll see if July is a more productive RP month as a result.

*sniffle* I miss posting here.

I just wish my characters would be a little less active when I'm showering and trying to sleep and a little more active when I'm wasting time on the computer. Which I do way more than I should.

The link to the alternative edition if you guys are interested: link to another game

*steals Tendaji and runs off*

*steals back and hides in pants*

Can Tendaji have a twin...

A real twin, no. But if someone wanted to make a guy that happened to look just like him, I'd allow it.

But I want to play with you :( lol

I told you you had to get in there before Renee showed up to cart him off around the world.

But I have other guys. There's the director of the movie. Flinn. You said you liked his face, too.

But, but Nisey pounced on him so fast so I didn't have to do anything! lol :P Yes I do like Finn hehe... I don't know if you planned on playing him a lot? I don't want you to force anything :)

Finn was a character who created himself. Partly because we needed a director for Logan to go whine to. But honestly, as crazy as I know this makes me, I was laying around in bed, just thinking about stuff and it was like he just walked up and said, "Hi. I'm Finn. I'm directing the movie." So I made him. And since he was in-your-face about being created, I figure eventually he'll start bugging me for air time. So you're not forcing me to play him, that's for sure. You just figure out which lady you'd like him to meet.

OMG Sopha! Isla DeVane! You don't have anything for her yet!  She can be in there somehow or meet Finn somewhere.  She is in LA, isn't she?

LOL I don't remember. I know I told you something about her but... it escapes me now. I didn't give her to Sally?

I don't think so.  She's still listed under your name.

I'm such a dork. I've been calling him Flinn all day. It's Finn.

And I will continue the adventures of Finn tomorrow after I've gotten some sleep to hopefully rid me of the last bits of this headache.

I will post Kyrian after Kate and Jack are done :)

My cell phone is out of time and I won't get paid until next week at the earliest :(

Aww :( I'm on msn now!!

If the amount of chatter in my head is any indication, Jack and Kare may never stop talking.

Now would be a good time for Kyrian to call.  Lots of eavesdroppers.

lol I need a timeframe. What time is it in NY?

*snakes 5000th post*

Didn't Leigha know Cam for like, two days before she fell in love with him?

*g*

No. She knew him for like, a week, before she slept with him. Then she hated him. Then she decided he was alright, as long as they weren't sleeping together. Then she found out he was open to more than sex with "the right girl" and didn't want to fall in love with him, so she did. She's a very psychotic little chick. But that last part happened in New York, so we're talking like, 6 months in there.

Mark missed the fine print that says only a sibling or parent can sponsor an immigrant for permanent residency. :)

Is he gone gone or can Sash stop him on the porch?

In reply to Deb (msg # 72):

She can stop him on the porch :D

Finn is such a dork.

lol And so cute!

Wow, I decided yesterday that Gavin's school is Texas A&M University and today in the news, there was a shooting over there!

You're a jinx!

Actually though, that's just kinda scary. People are going nuts all over the place.

Awww @ Mara :( Chris had been silent for so long but he made his voice heard by saying that he wants to comfort her hehe

She says she appreciates that and wants a big giant hug from Chris when she gets back to the hotel. :D

My msn is being a dick and won't let me sign on anymore :(

Did you try uninstalling and reinstalling?  You can also get on through their website/email, too.

Fiona annoys Gavin now LOL

He's not even trying to understand why she's upset. :(

Yeah I wanted him to feel sorry and shit but he took over... I guess he's like that :(

Oh well.  I'll just close the thread and delete it when I get home. :(

Two things.

1. I'm not feeling well today, so I won't be on. I'm probably going to play the sims 3 on the PS3 until it's time to put the kids to bed.

2. Gavin asked what it was with Fiona and having to trust people in dangerous situations. Maybe she should enlighten him regarding some of the situations she's been involved in that would qualify as dangerous. Like helping Jack and Araceli get back in touch. Just to show him that it really is important to be trustworthy in a bad situation. Just a thought I had when I was reading that scene. He thinks she's being overdramatic because the worst thing that probably ever happened to him was a horse trying to give birth to a breech baby.

Still dealing with the flu. I will try to post later but I'm not making any promises.

For the wedding, it's just siblings and parents, right? So for David's side, there'd be his sibblings and their dates. And his parents (not including Mitchell, who apparently doesn't consider David family even after being married to his mom for so long). For the Ohio reception, he'd invite the entire Hofman clan. Only the Ohio-based members (plus the Groves) will come. No Jessika or Klarissa. They can't afford the trip from New York.

He'll also invite his ex, Emily and her husband, Michael (who is also his boss). And he'll invite his partner, Chester, along with his wife and family (2 sons). He'll also invite a little old lady who's been living in his apartment building since before he bought it. I don't know her name, but I can come up with it if you really need it. David will also invite his pastor and his wife. I don't know the pastor's name yet, but the wife is named Agatha. They don't have any kids locally. And he'd invite the local organizer of the blind softball league where he volunteers.

Those are the only non-Hofman invitees. If I get a chance later, I'll make a list of the known Hofman clan and figure out their locations/spouses/kids/etc. so that you'll have a super accurate guest list. I don't know if I'll get to it today, since we're going to my brother's tonight and I've been addicted to my PS3 lately. Major Sims 3 kick. Happens every once in a while. I go months without playing and then play obsessively for several weeks. It's how I roll. Or something. Anyway, I'll try to get all the names out of the character data spreadsheet and see who needs more info added to them. Try to get it all done in Word so that I can just dropbox it to you.

Okey doke.  I don't know why Bella is making me do a detailed list (okay, okay, it's my OCD but I can name it Bella for now, yes?)  Take your time, since I don't know when I'll be able to be online again, with everything that's going on; visitors, trying to find another job (had to quit the theater), memorial concert on Sunday, blah blah.

And Sopha's flitting off to NY.  *harumph*

#1- Waiting on Camden to post before I post Nicco.  Not sure if you want to have them interact a little before he leaves.

#2 - Before I post Keran, I want to know just how much of their day you want to rp out before the actual proposal.

That is all.

#2 - Doesn't matter to me. If they start to get boring, we can ff them. They do that on us every once in a while.

You can ff them, Soph. Finn doesn't really have a response to that other than to smile.

LOL Okie! So I can ff to the closing of the bar and she takes him home? OH and I finally received your book!! ^^

In reply to Sopha (msg # 93):

Yes, and hurray!

I modified the last post!

Yes, I am coming back soon.  I hope y'all are still interested after such a longgggg delay.  If you aren't, I understand, but if you areeeee then I will edit the "what needs to be done" thread.

Mucho huggos, love you guys and miss you!

In reply to Denise (msg # 96):

You already know (I hope) that I'm still interested. I don't have much computer time but I'm hoping that will change after we move. I'm planning to actually try to set up a little workspace for myself in the new place. I seem to go through phases where a desk either is or isn't ideal and I've definitely moved back to a time of needing a desk. Do I'll hopefully make myself a space and be able organize my mind enough to have time for rpol again. It might not happen until after New Years though,  just because of unpacking and then having the holidays.

Right now my life is mind-numbingly hectic and crazy and I don't see that changing anytime soon.  Writing like I used to isn't going to happen, and I know that everyone else is busy, so it actually feels like less pressure.  I will feel better about not posting all night or even every day, since no one else can :)

I'll be slowly updating threads and organizing my thoughts.  There is a slight possibility that I will have Monday and Tuesday off (I work Friday), and if I do, I'll post a lot those days.

Seriously... Logan just walked right into that one.  Couldn't pass up the obvious reply. :D

I told him he was stepping in it when he said it. He told me he thought Mara wouldn't catch it.

So, I was looking around in my RPOL folder, looking for an old character write-up. And I saw this file called 2025 New York threads. I thought "What are those? Did we set Lights Out that far ahead?" So I open it. And it's the 8 years later Kat & Chris stuff. So now Kat wants to come out and play.

Britt, is Cam still kicking around in your head or should I imaginary her? Denise, what about whatshisface-Evilpants? And Sopha, how's Miah in your head?

whatshisface-Evilpants (aka Jonah) says he would be happy to come out and torture Kat some more.

Cam would love to come out for a bit :)

So it occurred to me this morning that with Daphne's probable ethnic heritage being Hungarian-Romanian, that if Firenze were to serve something at Thanksgiving that's ethnically Hungarian (and if I remember correctly, she always does), Daphne would probably recognize it.  Her mother was only 15 when she left Romania and had Daphne, so it's incredibly likely that she would have served her homeland dishes to her child growing up.

Imagine what that would do to Logan... the woman he's trying not to be in love with is also part-Hungarian and Catholic and loves his grandmother's cooking?

Hahahahahahah! His jaw is clenching already.

Heads up... I'm nearly out of time on my phone and I can't afford to get the unlimited plan back until I get paid next Friday.  So, unless it's an emergency, please try not to text me on my phone until next week.  If it's rpol related, just post it here and I will answer at some point during the day. :)

Can do.

Also, as I recall, the usual Christmas meal at the Hofman house is something super spicy. So I apologize to poor Nicco.

Still not done, but I've added a few more pages to Logan's wiki page. It's actually been really nice to nail down the timing on a few things and figure out the specifics of when he went to LA and such. Once I'm finished, I'm looking forward to working on someone else. Maybe Davey. I'll have the stuff with his mom's cancer nailed down because of Logan (since his mom is so close with Mel), so I might as well make my way around all the people who are connected to Mel. Then I can branch out from there.

Man. Why did we ever let the wiki project slide? I forgot there were forums there and we were working on archiving everything there. Is it weird that I'm fired up for the wiki all over again?

Finished Logan's wiki info last night. Should have it all types up and on the site later today.

And Logan is done!

http://unbound.wikidot.com/characters:logan-boland

Woohoo!!  I love the extra photos, btw.  Great idea!  I'm gonna do that with some of mine.  Thankfully a lot are child actors so I can get earlier photos easily.

Also, Grandma Firenze wants to meet Daphne. Any family member that has not been mentioned as being outside, can go outside to deliver the "summons."

I just did the math and she's only 77. Not bad for a great-grandma.
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Soooo... as I was in Unbound separating threads, I came across a conversation between Erica and Jax during Christmas of 1993.  It happened when they were in the bathroom and Erica had freaked out when she overheard Malcolm and James talking about Katherine.  She thought they were planning to kill her.  She told Jax she had to tell him something and didn't know how to say it and his response was, "You're not pregnant, are you?"

Later, they talked about his comment and he said:



I believe *this* is the conversation you were remembering the other night, and it would change the whole "when did they get married" thing.  See, the thing is, they both knew in 1993 that Jax did NOT want to get married because she was pregnant.  Erica is very sensitive to what Jax needs and wants and would then make it a priority to make sure she didn't get pregnant before they got married.  With this all in mind, I propose that the date of their wedding changes, since we apparently never rped the proposal or wedding, and move it to before she gets pregnant with Mara.  Also, I had a different date for Mara's birthday in that Hofman birthdays document, but I know there was a reason later for her birthday to be in September, though I don't remember what that is.  So, I changed it in the birthday list and hers is officially August 31.

TL:DR - Jax and Erica had that baby/marriage conversation years before we remembered and therefore we should change the date of their wedding to at least 6 months earlier than what we came up with on Monday.

You are correct that that is the conversation I was remembering. So because that is correct, I agree with everything you stated afterward.

Okay, so, during Ilona and James' wedding, Emma asked Erica if she and Alexis were moving to Chatham.  So when was Ilona and James' wedding?

edit: Okay, found an msn convo/



So, now the question changes to when did Gizi and Malcolm get married?  I'll keep looking on SRP. :)

edit 2: Did not find the actual wedding anywhere.  However, I believe it was on either April 27 or April 28, as on the 28th, Gizi and Malcolm had sex for the first time and Malcolm referred to their honeymoon being rained out.  I'll let you decide the exact date.

This means, though, that Ilona and James' wedding was in May or June.  In the timeline, I have that Erica moved to Ohio in May.  There's a range of months that she could have moved: May, June or July, possibly August.

edit 3: *Schawing!*

So, depending on what part of June the wedding was, that narrows down Alexis and Erica's move-in to late June or sometime in July, and the beginning of her freakout would be in July or August.

If I don't find anything else, then I want to narrow everything down to a date if possible.  Since Ilona is yours, you can pick her date of wedding and I'll pick the move-in date.  :)

edit 4: I found the old Hofman Birthdates file, with the old years, and that one states that Gizi and Malcolm were married May 25th.  However, on SRP, the actual physical date that we played it out (which I still can't find, btw) was April 27th or 28th.
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:15, Sun 27 Jan 2013.

We never played them actually getting married. But the first sex thing was their honeymoon. So that would have technically been the right date. Though, originally we were pretending like that was closer to her birthday (which is in December), so it gets a little screwy when you stretch things back out to normal time. I don't really care which way you want to do it. The May 25 works, or we could go with the April date.

Let's go with the April date.

Okay. So, according to my mental survey, Rosalind is the only one who got the blessing out of the grandkids. Maybe Maggie, but she's not speaking to me, so I suspect she's already defected into your head, just waiting for an opening to join Rosalind. So the only other potential blessing candidates are Claudia and Johnny. And Claudia will only get it if Keran convinces her to get married soon enough. Johnny is one year younger than Claudia (well, part of a year, anyway).

Hmm, well I can certainly look for Maggie up there.  I don't know if I will find her anytime soon, as it's getting awfully crowded up there.

She seems to be a quiet one. Not much mention of her among the family. So she may not have much of a story to tell yet. But we both know they all eventually have one.

It's also possible that she's still in there but she's waiting for Ginny's story to make her debut. Because Ginny is telling me that she has a story and she's just waiting for me to find it and help her get clean.

Just a little song from Logan to Daphne. I'm sure it would apply in other couples too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPC2Fp7IT7o

Poor sad Logan.

I'm at my brother's for game night, but I still got online. I have some headphones plugged in, so no one else will notice.

I finished my church presentation stuff, so I'm on skype now, my lovely.

I'll be back in about an hour. Would be half hour but the boy is coming with me. :/

Funny how things always take longer when we're not by ourselves.

Okay. So, eventually, Kyra's going to wonder where the hell her pictures are. She'll go to Logan, who will tell her that he "got a better offer" and gave them to someone else. Which leaves two people, since the pictures weren't leaked. She'll guess Daphne because she figures Anthony wouldn't bother to pay money in order to get them. So she'll go to Daphne and ask her how much she paid for them. Assuming Daphne will tell the truth, Kyra will be skeptical that the "better offer" didn't involve money. She will assume that Daphne slept with Logan in order to get the pictures, and despite the fact that she and Anthony no longer get along, she'll feel obligated to warn him. After that, it's up to the individual characters to go where they would go. But I figure any discussion that involved "Did you sleep with X?" wouldn't go over very well with Daphne.

The short version is that Alexis wants to move closer to her family (and Derrick, if he forgives her) and Chicago will give her a chance to continue working, albeit at a less-demanding job.  Mara will jump at the chance to maybe connect with her sister, and living in Chicago won't hurt her ability to work in Hollywood.

Rachel and Rebekah have been created.  And yes, I know their portraits are of different girls and that said girls are much older than seven, but a) there is a lack of usable children in the portraits and b) I'm too lazy and c) impatient to submit new portraits.

You could always find a pic and I can edit it to the right size and submit them for you. And we can use the current pictures in the meantime.

Info for Sopha

Jax: As a cop, Jax tries to be even-handed with discipline, not playing favorites. He especially tries to treat all of the children the same because of the nature of their mixed family. He doesn't want any kid feeling like he loves them more or less because they're a step kid or have a certain mom. That said, as the baby, Johnny would have had less rules by virtue of the general weakening of all parental rules as they have more children. So he wouldn't have been spoiled by any means, but he might have been considered spoiled by his older siblings.

David: He would have been a lot more relaxed and fun to be around before the whole thing with his ex. But even after, he tends to deflect things with humor, so he wouldn't have been terrible to be around except for right after the breakup. His relationship with all of his siblings is pretty similar if only because he's not fully related to any of them and therefore there are no favorites to play. He is, understandably, more protective of the girls. But as a wounded man, he'd at least warn Johnny to be careful.

And now I gotta go, so if I think of something else I'll try to add it later.

Ok thanks!! ^^

Hana and Devon theme song! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzX-93RiGbc

Will be out about an hour, can post for a little but have lots to do here :(

Yeah. I know you do. I've been brainstorming pirates too. I'll have more up in our PM thread soon. After I post for you here.

Nisey, the game is telling me I have a PM, but not showing me any new PMs. I'm assuming it's the access request for my friend, but I can't add him without being able to see the message. And either way, why can't I see everything? As a GM, I should be able to see everyone's PM box, but it's only showing boxes for the characters I run. Is there some setting somewhere that you flipped?

EDIT: It's not from him, but it's still weird that I can't see any new PMs. As game owner, you should be able to see everything. So is it a PM between two of you guys? I'm assuming that since we're all GMs, it won't let us see each other's PM boxes. But game owner should see everything. Either way, I'm reluctant to hit the mark all as read until I know why it's saying I have a new PM in the first place.
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Thinking about stories that can/cannot be skipped forward.

Jack/Araceli/Maleena/Greg is way behind. I think they're still in 2017, even. Don't remember. I need to look at our timeline again to see when the baby's due. We should probably do the birth scene. Did the kid ever get a name in the 2025 stuff? I remember it's a girl. Don't remember much else. Other than Jack ends up with her.

Did we ever write up a scene when Jack realized he hadn't seen Maleena in a while? Even if the whole baby thing is majorly complicating his life, I think he'd still be upset that she decided to run off to the East coast without telling him.

Somewhere I have the girl's name, but it's at home.  I'll look tonight.  As for the rest, we only got to where she and Greg flew off to Maryland.  He'll want to introduce her at the same time he starts running for [enter political position here] to get sympathy votes, preferably before she starts to really show.  Then he'll hide her until the baby's born, which we can rp.

Any idea on the phantom PM issue?

If you delete a pm without reading it, that's when you get a ghost pm.  The way to fix it is to send yourself a pm, read it, then delete it, and the notification will go away.

Thank you, Oh Wise One who posted as me. That fixed it. I was seriously starting to feel a bit crazy.

The opening had to be 2017.  Kat was born in 1999. And she was out of high school for the opening. She would have had another year to go in 2016. And, I greatly suspect that Chris wouldn't have touched her then, even if she wasn't a Rosakis.

http://unbound.wikidot.com/alphabetical

Move whoever you think is a minor character. :)

And I'm back from our weekly dinner with the father-in-law. I'll be posting a round soon.

So. Hell of a morning. We have a funeral to go to this morning for Allen's stepdad's grandpa. And right behind my alarm is a text letting me know that one of our church members died this morning. She's been fighting cancer for longer than they originally told her she'd live. Amazing woman. Very sad.

Ok, confused a bit here.  What event is Lena talking about?  I don't remember.  And aren't they supposed to leave Greece in two days?

Okay. So, on the topic of Derrick and Alexis. Where are we going to pick them up? Shall I figure out a date for him to propose and whatnot? Or was there a scene or two that you wanted to write before that?

I actually need to go back and read a bunch of our old stuff with them. You were asking all that stuff about his teammates, and I was thinking, "I can't even remember his crazy roommates name." There isn't a crapton of stuff for them, so if I can find it all, I'm thinking it'll only be an hour-ish of reading. Not like re-reading Jo and the Boys. That stuff took me a few hours.

Dudeeee lol That scene is one week before they leave and like the night before their flight is *the scene* which is an event/party red carpet thingy

So... I feel like making banners for the threads teehee

Sopha, you should know that none of us will ever complain about you making banners.

First one!

Ooh! Pretty! I'm now thinking that Christian Bale and Lacey Chabert must be introduced in real life. They look darn good together.

So, I remembered at 2am last night that we have an appointment in KC at 10 this morning for Nathan. I hate being up this early. But anyway. Nisey, if you post on your lunch, go ahead and text me. If I'm not the one driving us back, I'll try to post from my phone. But there's only the tiniest of chances that we'll be home by then, since we're of course going to hit the game store while we're there. Allen has actually sold enough pieces online to be able to buy a new box set of figurines to paint. And the store there gives him a 15% discount (and the store owner is cute in a dorky way and always recognizes us when we come in, even though that's only like once every few months when Nathan has to see the endo).

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Oh dear Hana... don't you know that's the first place Devon will look?

And here's another one that I saw and thought would be funny. Since I can totally imagine him making this face because of Lena.

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.ne...irtless-covenant.jpg

Hahahahaha! That's great!

His response: "Yeap."

Allyson teleported into the car with Finn and Ary!

Rofl my bad! Fixed!

Where were you last night, Nisey? You were the only one who said "I will be on tomorrow." But then us two unsure people were there and you weren't. What's up with that?

As an aside, I have been so scarred for life by Perfect Hair Forever (a terribly awful cartoon that was on Adult Swim for a while) that I can no longer say "What's up with that?" without picturing a cartoon tree saying "I have sex with dogs! What's up with that?" You think I could sue them for mental distress?

I was dying of a migraine when I got home, and ended up falling asleep on the couch.  :(

And yes... yes, I believe that you can sue for that.
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Poor Derrick! :(

Hurray for reading old Alexis and Derrick stuff. I found his brother's name! I knew it was strange for him to have made it so far without me naming his fricken brother.

Our characters should never joke. It's just cruel to their future selves. This is a little Derrick/Alexis moment from the archives.




As an aside, for our Lurker. We keep all our old threads. Our current method of archiving is to download threads when they're ready to be purged. Then we keep them in a shared Dropbox folder so that we all have access to them. Denise can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure she's been slowly going through them all and putting them into yWriter in scenes. yWriter is a really awesome little writing program that we give lots of love. I went looking for a blog post I wrote about it, but to my horror, I couldn't find one. Though I did have two other blog posts for the same site, so maybe I just wrote about it in my 30 Days of PreWriting book and it didn't get its own post on the blog. Who knows. Anyway, awesome program, you can find more about it here: http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5.html

Anyhow. I don't know that you'll find that method of archiving to be of any benefit. But I figured since we've mentioned how much other writing there's been, I'd let you know where we put it all.

So, uh, if Alexis agrees to the double room, how tempting would it be for there to be a hotel scheduling snafu that leaves them in a room with only one bed?

Very tempting.  Irresistibly tempting.  We must do this.

Well if Ary isn't going to, Nisey will! *brows*

Been sick.  Trying to post today between naps.

Saw your post in ToT. *Rubs and snuggles* Feel better.

Found the Ivan/Abby breakup scene. It's in the christmasxd file, starting on pg 149.

Thank you!!!

Are you online-online?

Actually, me and the girl are going to take a shower, but then I will be. At least until I'm cooking dinner and online (though I'm thinking of convincing the hubby to go to church with me tonight and then we can pick up Papa Murphy's and eat there).

The things I forget my characters say and do. From the ridiculously long and random of topics christmasxd file:

Hahahaha!

So, Nisey. I finished reading the christmasxd file. And between that and the other Ivan&Abby files, we have everything that I know for sure we wrote except for one thing. Where the heck is the end? I know we wrote it, because Ivan got caught in traffic and he wasn't sure she'd still be there when he got there. And I do not remember tiny details like that of stuff we didn't write.

I saw it the other day when I was searching for the beginning (when Abby catches Ivan cheating). I am looking now for it and I'll add it when I find it.

edit: So, at least one good things came out of my search.  Remember that file I accidentally deleted and had a major meltdown over?  Well, it popped up in the Hofman Chronicles Dropbox folder when I was searching for Abby and Ivan's scene. :D :D :D :D

Still haven't found the reunion scene, but I know I have it somewhere.
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Hurray for finding lost files!

Alexis clearly took this advice to heart.

From Thanksgiving 1993:

More fun quotes from Thanksgiving 1993:





Also, Nisey, I remember how Gizi knew Eniko was pregnant just by looking at her at Thanksgiving. I forgot about it until I was rereading. After the first few, she started wearing a specific shirt when she was knocked up, so she wouldn't have to keep telling everyone she was pregnant. So when she got there:

Ok, need to know where everyone Hofman lives.

Firenze .................................. Chatham
Erno & Emma ......................... Medina
Freddie & ? (and children??) .. Akron
Caleigh ............................... Medina
Eniko & Daniel .................... Chatham
Keira & ? .........................
Hannah ............................ Chicago
Logan ............................. Hollywood
Shawn ............................. Medina
Laura & ? (and children??) ........ Chatham
Maggie & ? (and children??) ....... Medina
Rosalind & Steven ................. Chatham
Ginnifer .......................... Chatham
Ilona & James ..................... New York
Gary .............................. Cleveland or Akron
Jessika & ? ....................... New York
Klara & Adam ...................... Medina
Jax & Erica ....................... Chatham
Melanie & Mitchell ....................... Medina
Leigha ............................ New York
Alexis ............................ New York
David & Isabella .................. Cleveland
Mara .............................. Hollywood
John .............................. Chatham
Gizi & Malcolm .................... New York
Claudia ........................... New York
Billy Johnson Sr .................. Chatham
Billy Johnson Jr .................. Akron

Anyone else?
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In reply to Denise (msg # 183):

Erno & Emma - Medina
Keira - I'll have to look at a map again. They sent Hannah to Logan in Chicago and I don't think she's in Cleveland, but I don't remember where she was. Maybe look at the first post for Hannah.
Hannah - Chicago
Laura - Chatham
You can decide where Maggie and Rosalind are.
Ginny - Chatham
Gary - I don't know. Not Chatham. Probably Akron or Cleveland.
Walter is not alive. I'll figure out when he died.
Melanie & Mitchell - Medina
David - Cleveland

And you have Gizi/Malcolm as a question? Is there a reason they wouldn't be in New York with Claudia.

More like "I missed that line when I typed out all the place names because I'm blond today."

Ty, I will update these.  I hope Iulian and Karolina have lots of travelin cash for Roman. :D

I haven't figured out what they do yet, but the werewolf gypsies have a very mafia like thing going on. They have a family business that they all pretty much become a part of, plus they live in a communal estate situation, so the family as a whole is very well off.

I love the little things I stumble on in re-reading old stuff. Like this.



That was Malcolm. Must not have worked out. He's back to corporate raiding now, isn't he?

Just because he announced it doesn't mean he actually did it. hahaha

It really took him almost losing his family to make him figure things out.

Post #44, page 3



Post #46, 47, 48, page 3







Post #128, page 6



Post #164, page 8



Post #244 & 245, page 11





Post #256, page 11



And finally, what Mara says about her role in the movie:



Now, I don't know how long it takes from auditions to the first day on set.  I tried looking.  But regardless, she wouldn't have even known about the part until around June, since by April 7th, she had started in her second play.  Rehearsal + show run would place the ending around May 25 or so.  Commercials don't take long to film, usually only a day, so she could easily have done several in a couple of weeks.  So, mid-June at the earliest.

Therefore, the movie wasn't even on Mara's radar during the rp.  But, maybe Cili thinks Mara's in movies, since at 14, Hollywood = Movie stars.

As for Logan, his part can stay.  Finn would have known by April that he had the green light for the movie, and with Logan in Chicago filming Love Affair, it's not inconceivable that he would have asked Logan ahead of time to film his movie.

In reply to Denise (msg # 189):

So we can change most references to "a movie" and then change "she's not the only Hoffman involved" to "she's not the only one in movies." Then modify her statement after that to match.

"Two in Hollywood" could be left as an assumption on Roman's part that movies = Hollywood. And then I can edit out the part about Mara in the last post.

Acceptable filling of the giant plot hole?

So, if we assume that Firenze (as the matriarch and a person with not much to do other than know everything about her family), knows about Cili's little gift. I can change Post #164, page 8 to say (change in italics):


Change #245 to say "about a movie." I don't think that Caleigh would be privy to the fortune-telling prowess of her niece, especially since she's been living elsewhere for the last 10 years. But since she knows that Logan is headed to Hollywood, she might not think it odd to mention two in Hollywood. Or, we could change it to "movie stuff." That would leave it more vague and would show that she's not aware of "the movie" yet.

I can get rid of any mention of Mara in Caleigh's last post, so it would now be:



What do you think? Does it fix our problem and put us back on track?

I completely agree with the second post changes.  And sorry about the psychic thing.  As soon as it popped into my head, I knew that Cili would become a problem child. hahaha

Don't worry. She'll become a complication for Roman too. So we'll be even-ish.

And the appropriate changes have been made.
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Also, we totally need to get our pirate thing going in ToT. All my other threads have slowed to zombie crawl.

I won't have a phone for a few days.  It depends on when my refund check shows up, really, but worst-case, it will be next Friday before I can top up.

I'll just use PMs or this thread here to keep in touch until then, since I can access rpol at work.

That said, I had a VERY interesting conversation with Daphne's mother today.  She's got some things to say (though it will be a while until she can say them) that explain a lot.

You always have such important conversations with characters. Mostly I just have conversations with Caleigh where she goes back and forth about whether or not she just wants Roman to kiss her and get her all hot and bothered sooner rather than later. She wavers a lot.

And then there's Logan who's all "Can you give me an excuse to kiss her this post?" For every post.

I think the general pattern here is that my characters are horny. Maybe I need to chat with my husband.

LOL Deb!

Sopha! I miss you!

Also, are you still working on pics for people? Or has that desire passed? If you're still doing it, I'd love to see one for Roman and Caleigh.

Nisey! I miss you!

I actually went to bed super early on Monday (which was amazing) and then was up late last night doing nothing important. Is your phone working again? I know you texted me, but I try not to assume things.

Anyway, Costin says he wants to meet Mara before she gets her heart broken, though not necessarily before she ends up with the heartbreaker. I can tell you more about it if you're on skype later tonight. After I get home from church.

Yep yep, my phone is working since I ended up borrowing against my paycheck (meh).  Text me when you get home, hopefully I'll hear it when it goes off.

I miss you guys too! hehe I hit a block with Ary and Finn's poster because I haven't found suitable matching pics but I will put Roman and Caleigh on my list ;)

So, since Netflix is losing a bunch of stuff later this month, I was trying to watch anything that was on my queue that we were going to lose. I watched Alice, which was actually really excellent and now I'm kinda sad I didn't watch it sooner so that I might have watched it a dozen or more times before it gets removed. Anyhow. Andrew Lee Potts.




I'll let that sink in a little, though honestly, half of his appeal was the ridiculously gorgeous accent and the tiny little smile.

Now, I'm debating between making a character to play using him for a face, or forcing one of you lovely ladies to watch Alice so that you can get the proper Hatter feel and make a character for some lady. I don't know who. There's still Ginny left in the Hofman camp. Or Hannah. Or, if I went for a gypsy girl, there's Roman's cousins (though Emise is the only name I actually remember right this second).

Just had to share before I go to bed. I think I'm going to watch Alice again on Saturday if I don't get to go out with my mom. I really did enjoy it and I think I'd enjoy it even more if I finished reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland between now and then. Elisebeth and I are almost halfway through. And then I'm sure I can find a free copy of Through the Looking Glass. And then I'll be all officially knowledgeable about Wonderland stuff.

Though, really, I'm wondering why the Hatter is the absolute best character in almost all the Wonderland derivative stuff. I seriously loved Hatter Madigan from Looking Glass Wars, too.

WHERE ARE YOU BRITT AND SOPHA?!

Btw, I found the thread where Criss (Daniela's papa) runs into Erica Cantos and reveals to Diora they had a child together and Erica gave him up for adoption.  That means Daniela has a 10-years-older brother out there somewhere. :D :D :D

Tee hee!

Sopha! Get on skype with us, woman!

Okay, Nisey. There's a new file in your Dropbox about the changes we need to make in the Hofman Chronicles stuff in order to avoid writing from people who we don't have a good relationship to just ask if we can use it. Read it at your leisure. But it basically sets out the changes that I plan to make and the changes I definitely don't want to make. Let me know if there's something I'm forgetting that we'll need to change or if there's something that maybe we shouldn't change. I'll be writing up an outline for the portions of stuff that will need to be rewritten while I'm searching for visuals to use for everyone.

I clicked to read Kate and Jack then Kyrian came out saying he wants to play... XD

YAY!!!!!

What did I miss... did something happen to Kate?? *confused face*

The guy that beat her up in the alley. Kyrian was informed (by her ditzy-ish coworker) and had a nice chat with Jack, remember?

Oh yeah!!! lollll

Well, Nisey, I've been thinking on it for a few days, and there is just no one in my head that wants to be in that zombie game. I kept thinking about different angles and none of them made my brain go "Oh! I have just the thing!" So, as much as I'd love to help you get that game going, I don't have it in me right now. Sorry.

Nisey!! If you see this, go to Hofman Chronicles and read the new prologue that's in the drafts. It might need some work on flow, but I feel like it really followed the images in my head pretty well. So see what you think.

Just a heads up. My phone has been shut off since Saturday. As soon as I get a reimbursement check from the church, I should be able to get it back on, but that won't be until at least Wednesday night, so probably Thursday to get it back on.

Also, our internet it shut off right now. Allen's dad is maybe going to help us get it back on today, but I'm not going to guarantee that. I'm at the library to post this right now and if we got much longer without internet, I'll probably be camping out here for internet on a regular basis, but since Allen got a new job (Hallelujah!), I won't be able to look at anything in the evenings until we get internet at home again.

Miss you ladies. Love you.

Info for Sopha in case she wants to do my cover:

Leslie Alloway face(s): I haven't actually picked her a face yet, so feel free to pick whichever girl you can find a good picture for.

• Sophia Bush
• Ginnifer Goodwin
• Emilie de Ravin (as a brunette)
• Some other brunette. I have no clear image of her, really.

Leslie is a gardener working in a tree nursery, so don't pick anything too glamorous for a picture.


Alexander Coel face(s): I started to make a list for this one too, but then I looked at an IMDB list and found the perfect face. Joseph Morgan. For the cover, he needs to have completely black eyes. Or sunglasses. Either one works for me.


I don't have a title yet. I don't even have a crappy working title. It's about aliens. And they're in a rebellion together, trying to save the earth and whatnot. I don't know. I'm not very far into things. I have no idea what it's really about yet.

Black eyes like a demon or still have white? And it's modern time?

In reply to Sopha (msg # 215):

Technically, it's future. Or at least not specifically anywhere in the past. There was an alien invasion and they won. So now we're the conquered species. We have most modern things, but they ration certain stuff. And clearly things like guns and other weapons are restricted. But in terms of style, it's modern day.

And like demon eyes. No whites. Technically, his eyes were removed and replaced with alien eyes. But it amounts to the same thing.

Yay! Ty Sopha for making covers.

Mine don't have faces yet.  I have 4 main characters, they don't all have to be in the cover.

Bethany - black, short, curly hair.  White girl, short, not super thin, 24, college student, quiet, photographer.

Jack- longish dark blonde hair, scruffy, white guy, tall (6'ish), 27, male nurse, rides a motorcycle.

Danielle - long, straightened black hair, black girl, tall (5'7"ish), sporty-thin, 22, college student, cheerleader

Charlie - short black hair, clean-cut, black guy, looks kind of like Eugene Byrd (Clark from Bones), but younger.  26, salesman for an energy company.  If you think he could pass for 26, use Eugene Byrd.

Basic premise - Six college kids on a photo scavenger hunt take a picture of something that doesn't want to be seen.  It (a vengeful ghost) chases them through the streets of Phoenix and kills them off one by one.

If you want to use the first dead girl scene, she gets killed off by a shadow in a public bathroom while she's primping.  22, cheerleader, blonde, floozy.

Here you go Deb, I hope it's okay! lol

I love it! I think you captured the feel of my novel's world better than my writing has (since my writing has been sucking greatly lately). It's awesome.

Awwww but yay, I'm glad you like it!! Hang in there, I know you can do it ^^ *sends writer mojo juice*

Googling 'blonde girl primping' is dangerous... LOL

I imagine it is.

Nisey-

Hannah says she's supposed to end up with her current boss' brother. I don't know who her current boss is, but Daphne helped her get her job. And she's a personal assistant. So I'm not sure if Daphne actually knew the person, or if Daphne wrote her a letter of recommendation or what, but she helped in some way. And apparently, now Hannah's boss is having a baby, which is why his brother will be around. But she's been fairly vague on other details, like her boss' name or what he does or any of that. So, if you're willing to make the brother, there's at least a bit of flexibility for you. I don't care if you want to make the boss too. You're fairly good at hot brothers, if I recall correctly.

And I may be on at some point tonight. Don't know. We're having car issues now and Allen's going to be in a grumpy mood because of it, so we'll see what gets done around here.

I wasn't sure if you got my text last night.  Maggie and Laura are asking what their full names are.  Since you run their mom, she'd know what she put on their birth certificates. :D

Just a little something that I would have found helpful the other day. I added a game website link (to the wiki) and a game file link (to the Character Data spreadsheet). In order to access them, click on Game Map and then that little menu bar will change to have links to those (instead of Character Details, Scratchpad, etc.).

In reply to Deb (msg # 225):

I like that!  It doesn't stay, though, which is too bad.  Still, very useful.  Thanks!!

In reply to Denise (msg # 226):

What do you mean by it doesn't stay?

It works only when I'm in the game map.  If I go from there to any other page, the link goes away.

Oh. Yeah. That menu is specific to that area, apparently. I hadn't ever tried to use those things, so I didn't realize it was like that. I may actually put in a suggestion in the development forum to make those things easier to get to. It's not intuitive at all. I only found them because I knew that I'd created them so I was like "Now, how do I get to them?"

You can also get the menu to change if you go into Game Info (that link is way way at the very top, on the right). I went in there while I was figuring out how to find the stupid links, but missed the menu change. It was pointed out to me when I posted something in the Development forum. Anyway. No fewer clicks that way, but at least it's more intuitive to find it there.

Okay, Nisey. I finished Dust. I have many thoughts and can't decide if I liked the ending or not. Are Sopha and Britt going to read it too? If so, I can put my thoughts in spoiler tags for them. But with my sporadic online time, my currently non-working main phone, my upcoming Facebook sabbatical, and the fact that my backup phone is very much not for major texting, this is probably the best place for discussing the series.

I highly doubt Britt or Sopha will read it but I left a message elsewhere just in case.

My desktop PC hard drive has completely failed. The good news is that shortly before it crashed, I had transferred everything in my writing folder to Dropbox, so I didn't lose any of that. Everything else, however, (game files, Sims files, photos, artwork, music, everysingleprogramIhave) might be lost. So I'm not in a good mood right now. :/

NOOOOOOO :((

That so sucks. And I'm glad you got all your writing stuff into dropbox (though it made my dropbox full and I had to go through and move a bunch of files out of there in order for Allen to send me a pdf to print).

Also, I know I owe you guys posts. I slept about half the day today so hopefully I'll still have brainpower after the kids go to bed to get started on that. I had part of a Finn post and then I dropped the mouse and it somehow shut all the windows down. I was very frustrated.

Yes, sorry about the Dropbox thing. I'm working on moving all of it out of there to my laptop. I need to clear off my laptop first, though, and I've been super busy the past couple of days.

It's fine. I was able to weed out some unnecessary stuff from my Dropbox and get it to work again. But it took me forever to figure out why my Dropbox was suddenly full when I hadn't really added more than a couple files. After your hard drive issues, I'm glad you were able to get everything moved. I would consider the writing stuff to be irreplaceable. So, better an inconvenience for me than a total loss for you.


As an aside, after a super frustrating day with my children yesterday (I swear, they both went completely insane on me), I was all "Man, I want to play the Sims." Only we lost my Sims 2 Apartment Life CD in the move. And not even in the landlord-evil situation. It was lost before that. And it's amazing how hard it is to find a replacement for that. I may have to resort to eBay

postirvynpostirvynpostirvynpostirvyn

Updated the portraits list.

There are two "faces" that are duplicated - Taylor Kitsch (Blake Gauthier and Jansen Polo) and Karen Gillan (Ginnifer Boland and Cameron Reeves).

There are two characters without portraits and should have one - Marco Alero and Deliah Bedrosian (I'm up for ideas for Marco).

There are two with unidentifiable portraits - Xander Solomon and Naomi Sorenson. (Naomi's will stay as-is, since she's a really cute kid and Naomi's really an NPC.)

Blake and Jansen aren't in the same timeline since Taylor's use for Jansen is in the alternate version. Maybe it's ok?

Oh, gotcha. I didn't realize he wasn't in this cast. I'll take him off there then.

Hmm. I usually check the face list before finishing a face selection. Not sure how Ginny ended up with a duplicate face. I'll ponder it, but that chick is really super perfect for her. So I don't know.

As far as Xan's face. I've seen an ID for him. It's a guy in a band. If it's not in the Portrait ID lists, then I have no idea where I saw the ID. Someone in a game somewhere was a fan of the band and mentioned it. I totally thought I'd taken the time to report the ID in the list forum. I think it was in Streets, maybe (it was a really long time ago), so not really an ID I'm likely to be able to just pop in and find again. Grr.

Not aimed at you, Deb. Actually Izzy picked hers last night and we all missed that the face was already taken. Not your fault. :)

Oh. Dur. I was thinking of Britt's Cam that's roommates with Kat. I should think longer when looking at the cast list.

Haha no worries. I missed that Lily Hart was using Nina Dobrev and I even looked at the list before making Rosalind. I found a good face for her though, take a look at the wiki.

"Patience was not his forte."

Nor is it Sopha's XD

Sopha is always patient but there are always exceptions ;) LOL

Well I didn't see Karen Gillan on the list must have missed it, lol.  But since I haven't started the character yet, I can find a replacement. No problem. Also am I supposed to come up with Deliah's portrait, since technically she is my character.

OK, So Cameron is Deborah Ann Woll and Deliah is Eva Longoria. :)

Sopha how many of the songs Poison Eden sings are written by Hugo and how many by Vin? I don't want to assume one way or another!

lol Did we determine how many songs they have?

I don't think we ever came up with a number. I'd be satisfied with a percentage.

Then how about... 35%?

I just noticed this LOLLL XD


Character Name : Morgan Styelle
Tag : NPC
# of Posts : 0
Biography pt 1 : Niko's Crazy-Ass
Biography pt 2 : Big Sister

Hahaha They must meet someday. ;D

Years ago I wanted to use Hayden Panettiere for someone but now I can't for the life of me remember who. So I'm claiming her for someone. Just don't know who. That is all.

Edit: Also claiming Siri Green and Jennifer Aniston since I had a char for Siri and can't remember who and Jennifer is just gorgeous and needs to be mine. Now that is all.
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Okay, Nisey. I love you. But my Dropbox is no longer working. So somehow, the Writing folder has got to get smaller. I have become lazy and having to search multiple computers for the file I want is annoying. And takes too much time. Especially when I'm trying to get ready for church.

I love you.

I don't know why it's not working. I removed the entire writing folder from it about a week ago. I'll double-check on the actual site and see if something went goofy.

Edit: I'm not sure why, but I had moved them out on my comp and it didn't sync. It is all clear now and I also did some little things to increase the space we have. Sorry for the hassle :(
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:02, Sun 30 Mar 2014.

I may have to call their tech support. Because it determined my dropbox is full, it is refusing to sync at all. Which means that no matter what you do from your end, it isn't translating it to mine. Though, it may also just be that you removed the folder, which would sever the sharing and therefore that folder won't sync so my copy, as the last version I had, is still full.

I'll fiddle with it.

But you have the whole thing on your comp, right? So if I move that folder and start deleting stuff that isn't mine, it's not going to screw you up?

Ok. I seriously did not know that there was a RPoL game wiki specifically for this game that we could create, until today. How freaking cool is that? Right next to "Game Info" in the top right corner.
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Wow cool! haha

I see you've been here today, Ms. Deb. How are you? Baby here yet? Haven't heard anything so I kind of assume yes?

It was added in the last update. I figured since we already had the other wiki, it wasn't worth mentioning.

Also, I'm a mom again!

https://drive.google.com/file/...jZF/edit?usp=sharing

Elijah Paul was born Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 1:44pm. He was the exact same size as Nathan: 7lbs 9oz and 19 inches long. And he seriously looks so much like Nathan as a baby, it kinda creeps me out. In a few years, I may look back at baby pictures and not be able to figure out which kid is in them.

D'awwwww! Congrats Mommy!! Glad to see everyone is doing well. :)

We came home from the hospital today. My phone ran out of minutes so I haven't been able to text or anything from the hospital. Allen had to work yesterday and today, so I had the kids with me. I've never been so anxious to get home. They kept getting all crazy hyper at meal times and bed time.

Eeeee April's fool baby! lol Awww congrats Debbo!! *hugs all around*

Congrats Deb!!!! :)

Thank you, guys. We are very happy about our April Fools Day baby. And my labor went pretty fast. We got to the hospital at 7am, they actually got around to starting the induction meds around 9, he broke my water at 11:15 or so, and I had a baby at 1:44. So even the sucky parts were over fast enough that while they were sucky, I still feel pretty good. Yesterday, was a sucky day, since all my parts decided to be sore all at once. But I actually feel pretty good. And my sleep deprivation is fairly mild.

Aww. Noah was almost an April Fools baby, but he was born the day after. :)

Oh Nisey and while you calling dibs on people. I call dibs on Janina Gavankar, Alexander Skarsgård, Ryan Kwanten, Clive Owen, Ariana Grande and Zooey Deschanel. :P

The first three 'cuz I love True Blood and the last three 'cuz I love them. LOL

LOLLLLL man you're funny woman, who for?? XD

I have no idea but I'm still calling dibs. :P

Zooey Deschanel is Olivia! lol

I thought Ariana Grande was taken but I don't see her name on the list. Others are all yours! lmao

Fine then I get her sister. Bones. I mean Emily Deschanel or Cobie Smulders. LOL

Two things.

1. For a second, I totally forgot the girl's name was Heaven, so at first I thought he was telling Penny that standing there holding her hand was Heaven. And then when I finished reading I was confused and then had a "duh" moment.

2. Izzy! I want to play with you too!


Okay, I lied, more things.

Ginny is apparently serious about wanting to get her story told too. Anybody want to make a friend/future guy for her? She's going to need some friends that party with her currently, some friends to make along her path toward sobriety, and hopefully, a guy at the end who will help her stick it out and then be her happily ever until we decide to do something else to her.

If possible, I'd sure like it to be this guy: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1524440/?ref_=tt_cl_t9

I love Captain Hook. https://www.google.com/search?...;biw=914&bih=465

I love Colin, so hot!! C3

I know. I'm starting to wish Once Upon A Time was just Captain Hook. There's never enough of him in the show. And Emma is a retard every day she doesn't make out with him.

Also, for those of you not fasting from Facebook. I tried to email some pics to Facebook earlier today. Can you look for me and see if they made it?

Sorry, no pictures on Facebook :(

Well, darn. They must have gotten rid of the ability to email in status updates and such. I ran out of time to check before I started my fast. Allen wants me to put them up, but if I go on there to do that, I'm worried I'll wander off to do other things.

Okay. I have to run to our storage unit and then when I come back, I'll log onto skype while I finish our taxes. So if any of the rest of you want to be on there when I get back, this is fair warning.

I'm already on Skype but I'm fighting sleep. So I'm going to take a nap for about an hour just to recharge.

So, I'm Skyping it today. I'm having a nice do-nothing day (though I'll probably clean our room some since it makes me want to kick things looking like it does). So I'll be on Skype all day. And even if I clean, I'll still hear if someone pops on to say hello.

Ok Deb!

And I'll be on all this week, except if I go to the beach one day on the weekend, if it's nice. I didn't go to the beach all year, last year. So ya'll need to text me if ya are on, so I know, to sign on to skype. :)

I've misplaced my phone somewhere at home so I don't have it today. If y'all post, I'll try to respond but I can't make any promises I'll see it.

I won't be on today. Great-grandma died, so I'm mourning. :(

:(

I'm sorry for your loss, Izzy. Take whatever time you need and be with family.

Thanks. I wish I could have been at the funeral but it was in Puerto Rico and had no time. Oh she wasn't my great-grandma by blood (my grandparents are all gone), she was my young cousin's but we were all close. Well I'm feeling better so, I'll be back on tomorrow. :)

All of the characters in my head just sent mental hugs to all of Kai's kids. Sadly, none of my characters have interacted with them beyond the club opening, so they can't give in-character hugs.

Okay. So, since I first heard of Kai's death, my brain has been doing weird things to me. Basically, the thought process is something like this:

"We can kill our characters off? I never thought of that. Maybe I should kill Jo off in a car wreck or something. Sash would gain instant depth. And I'd have a reason to play Kiley again. And Xan. Of course, we'd have to decide once and for all if she ended up with Ash or Logan. But I've been wanting to continue that for ages."

It continues on from there. But someone should probably talk me down from it altogether. Right? I should not kill my favorite character ever?

You most definitely should NOT kill off your favorite character ever until you think really hard about it and decide whether you can live with her death. Also, yes, we need to revisit Logan and Ash to find out what happens there.

I converted the JoandtheBoys file to a pdf and sent it to my kindle. Hopefully, reading that will make me not want to kill her off. Then, maybe I'll do the same with all Sash stuff and flesh her out a bit. Find the depth I want her to have.

Yeah, I'm taking Kai's death pretty hard lol. DON'T DO IT UNLESS YOU KNOW FOR SURE.

Well, here's an option- make her go missing. A plane crash, somewhere in the mountains or in the middle of the ocean or something where they can't get to the plane or find it. Or an avalanche cutting her off from civilization or a flood or an earthquake collapsing a building on her or collapsing a building she's supposed to be in or really, anything that makes her disappear and make people fear for her life.

Then all those people mentioned will still want to come out and play, because of the fear and grief and all that.

Tax season is over, yay! I can finally breathe for a bit. I will return to play after my trip :)

Yes. Your evil Hawaii trip *the sopha*

On another note, now that Dane is single again, can we kill off Gio so he can marry Joo Eun? lmao JUST KIDDING.

Rereading the stuff with Jo and the twins has staved off any desire to kill her off. For now. But it has led to a lot of thinking about the rest of her story and how that ties in with Sash. I now need to compile all the Sash stuff I can find so I can figure some things out.

I did determine, Denise, that unless I find a spot where she specifically says she's an only child (and really, I could probably make it work even then), Jo and someone *could* have a kid together. But I'm thinking probably an oops baby, because Jo's not really interested in having more after the evil that is toddler Sash. After rereading all that stuff, Sash was a terror. Jo would not want to go through that stage again, even though she loves Sash like crazy. So it would have to be an oops baby. And probably one that would be born late enough that Sash would be just as likely to resent the kid and think of it as her mom's second family, rather than a sibling. Which could explain a lot of her self-destructive, attention-getting behaviors. She'd go from being spoiled rotten to feeling like an outsider at an age when she'd be nearing teenage rebellion and puberty stuff already. It'll have to be worked out. And like I said, I'm going to compile all the Sash stuff and reread all of that, too. And then I'll probably do a character writeup of some sort to figure Sash out. I think the wishy washy nature of Sash in my head has a lot to do with why the plot with her and Mark hasn't been going anywhere. We barely even get the urge to write them, and I know we have other characters who are stronger, but we should still come around to them every once in a while.

I think tonight (if I can stay awake long enough), I'm going to have a sit-down with all my characters and find out what their plans are (so I can ruin them muahahahahaha). Quite a few have gone dormant from lack of attention. Many have plots that have gone stale since it's been so long since they've been touched.

I'm so sleepy right now, I don't know how much I will get done. But I will try to at least get to Ash, Logan and Mark.

Works for me. I'm doing plenty of reading and thinking, but I still don't get a lot of writing done on any given day. So as much as I feel like I'm in a hurry, I'm really not, because first I have to carve out writing time.

Also, I'm super-frustrated. There's a scene between Sash and Mark that I remember,  but can't find.

HAHAHAHAHA!! Back in the days, I was secretly hoping that ;) I mean Joo and Dane hooking up lol
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Me too!! But alas, it was not to be. *plays violins*

Deb- As I was reading your texts, this clicked: What if Mr. Blair *wasn't* around? If I remember right, the spirited one was a traveler and the grumpy one owned a growing business. Either one would have the potential to be an absent boyfriend/husband/stepfather so maybe he was? Off doing his thing, leaving Jo and Sash to fend for themselves. Or maybe there were other problems that popped up to complicate the relationship. Eventually Mr. Blair would come back, because he's madly in love with Jo and can't stay away, but by that time the damage would be done to Sash.

This makes Oops Baby unneeded, but hey, what if we add Oops Baby into that scenario? His return coincides with Oops Baby and now Sash has to deal with the idea that he would stay for Oops Baby but not her (even though that isn't the truth). How much damage would *that* do?

It would explain why most of her attention-seeking is sexual, too. Because the father figure only stuck around for his own spawn. So, even though she's not really interested in being a mom, she'd still have that thought in the back of her head that guys only stick around if there's babies involved. So if she wants attention from a guy, she'd feel compelled to at least make a baby a remote possibility. Eventually, the .01 failure rate in birth control would snag her a guy for more than one night. Though, she wouldn't realize that's what she's doing, so the fact that she rarely gets contact info would make actually snagging the guy pretty problematic.

What's the plot-breaking hole for the Triplets?

I believe the timing of the werewolves may be. Not 100% certain.

Gotcha

Kill off Gio? Hmm sounds interesting. I never killed anyone before and I'm all serial killer and shit. Lmao!

DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!! *the sopha*

ahahaha poor Sopha, posting in all caps.

Uh-oh! *the sopha* Got it woman! lol

Since my Caleigh m only requires a minor Roman m, I'm going to post another for her.

Again, no posting tonight since I don't have internet at home. I will spend some time sketching out characters and maybe build the Rosakis house in the Sims :D

Denise

ps I can post from work, so if you're home, check every so often.

Gah! I hate rereading and finding discrepancies.

For Sopha, when she comes back from her trip:

Remind me of the discrepancy with Niko's birthdate. Technically, according to SRP, he was born August 19, 2006 and adjusting for the date change, that places him Aug 19, 1991. Now, I seem to recall us discussing an additional leap somewhere in there because of how the rps were being portrayed in SRP and that's why his birthday is Jan 23, 1990 (a year and 6 months difference).

The reason I'm asking is to pinpoint Morgan's birthdate. In SRP, she was born July 12, 1991 (adjusted for our date change). Obviously, this can't be true if Niko was born a month later, so I can adjust for any time difference we agreed on later on. I just don't remember what that was, exactly.

Or Deb, if you remember, you can answer.

For one of our events, Tendaji wants to take Renee to serve food in a homeless shelter. He doesn't care where they do that or when. But he feels like her view of the world is very limited and since she said she's trying to see the world, he wants to help her see all of it. Even the bad parts.
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He's right, of course. Her view of the world is, "Ooh, look, pretty." She ignores or dismisses the bad parts.

I don't even remember how old Morgan was when Jianna met Kyrian then had Niko. A year old? *confused face*

Sopha, assuming you've already read Styxx too, would you agree that the blurb on the back of the book is total BS? After reading the book I was like, yeah, they were way off.

I have it but I haven't had time to read it yet!

In reply to Sopha (msg # 320):

:O  Blasphemy!

It's very good. Makes me want to read the whole series in chronological order, starting with the ancient stuff in Acheron and Styxx, then hitting any prologues that are all ancient-y, then reading through the books and popping into Acheron and Styx for the appropriate chapters as I go.

All my books other than Styxx are in storage though. So instead I'm checking out the Chronicles of Nick books from the library and attempting to get caught up with those.

Yeah I know, shame on me :( lol I should start having 2 days off like normal people now but who knows how long that is going to last? haha

I should re-read everything starting from Julian because there's so much shit going on, I probably won't remember all the details I should know if I continue with the recent books. With Chronicles of Nick, I only have 2 books to read to be up-to-date.

I cannot wait for the TV series, movies and all those stuff! *spazz*

The stuff that comes up in Styxx, is Talon, and then whatever book had the bit about him being put in that place where they showed him Acheron's life, and then I seem to recall reading the part where he asked Ash if he could go to Katoteros, but that may have just been me trying to figure out which stuff was overlap.

I will eventually definitely read Styxx and Acheron side-by-side. It's so crazy to read both sides of it. Styxx seemed like such an asshole in Acheron, but then you read Styxx and you realize how much Acheron actually let other people into his head when he was young.

And yes, I hope the TV series and movie stuff actually happens. Though, I have no idea how they're going to do the TV series. At this point, there are sooooo many characters and with every book, the cast list gets longer. So I'm wondering if they're planning to stretch each book into a whole season and see how the ratings go, or if they're going to tackle it some other way.

I know right? But I do hope one book will be one season so that nothing will be rushed. However, that might be unlikely since there's so many books and characters. I'm craving for an update or news about it but hopefully the lack of it means they are working hard ;)

Sorry I've been so quiet, unresponsive this week. I'm preparing for my trip and have lots to do before then. I'll try to update my threads today if it's not too busy at work and keep you posted. I still have so much to do on characters and plots and such and they're all pestering me.

As for Morgan, Sopha, technically she was born 5 months before Niko, which is obv impossible lol! He wasn't a preemie.
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Where are you going Nisey?? lol Just make Morgan a year older, whatcha think?

And guess what guys? When I was in Hawaii near my hotel there was this place we went to eat most of the times called... THE BAREFOOT BEACH CAFE! hahaha I giggled when I saw it and thought of our RP.

Next Wednesday I'm flying up with my mom to Northern Cali to meet Sydney :D We'll be up there for four days and coming back Sunday morning. I'll have my laptop with me, but I'm not making any promises for being online during those four days.

For Morgan, I figured that's what I would do, so I tentatively gave her a birthday ten months before Niko's. It kind of matches our timeline since if I remember correctly, we added a year to anything written before Nov 2006. If we add six months to anything written within the first month of SRP, I think we should have an adequate timeline, yes?

And woohoo!  I was gonna ask if you saw any of our chars while you were there xD
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Yayyy for meeting Sydney! :D Don't bother with your laptop, enjoy those days with your daughter to the fullest hehe

Yes, that timeline works for me :)

My mom and I are staying in a hotel so there might be some time now and then, but I don't really know. Just wanted to warn you, though, if I wasn't on.

Okay, so, you ladies know I'm into genealogy, right? I have a program called Family Tree Maker to store all my genealogy information, and it syncs up with Ancestry.com. Whenever there's a records match, I get a little green leaf on that person that shakes.

So, because I always like to have information at my fingertips, I had added our characters to the tree. It keeps it sorted and allows me to look up stuff fast, and I can make reports and such. It's kind of fun.

And now, of course, I am getting shaky leaf matches for some of our characters!! I thought I'd share some of the records for your entertainment.

Rendor Hofman - Jax and Gizi's grandfather. I don't have a birth or death date or place for him, so I suspect this is why I'm getting a leaf.

Canada, Voters Lists, 1935-1980
Name:  Randor Hofman
Residence:  1957 - Cartier, Québec, Canada

Kláris Vargha - mother of Rendor Hofman. Same as above, no dates or places. The matches are always Soundex matches, meaning only some of the information needs to match, not all.

Lubert Family Tree
Name:  Klara Varga
Birth:  1790 - Hungary
Death:  14 Nov 1864 - Szendrolád, Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen, Hungary
Marriage:  21 Jan 1818 - Szendrolád, Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen, Hungary
Spouse:  Janos Nagy

Genoveffa Lidia Valenti - Chiara's mother and Criss Alero's second wife. I have all her information entered, but she still matched on her name.

England & Wales, Marriage Index, 1916-2005
Name:  Genoveffa Valente
Spouse:  Diment
Marriage:  Mar 1952  - Weymouth, Dorset
Other:  QJan-Jan-Feb-Mar 1952

England & Wales, Marriage Index, 1916-2005
Name:  Genoveffa Valente
Spouse:  Duffy
Marriage:  Sep 1966  - Kettering, Northamptonshire

Sylvia Anne Crest - Erica Taylor Hofman's mother. I suspect this was picked up because her married name is Sylvia A. Taylor. The search looks for combinations of maiden and married.

California, Marriage Index, 1960-1985
Name:  Sylvia A Taylor
Spouse:  Mac A Bailey
Birth:  abt 1948
Birth:  abt 1943

Eric Johnson - Husband to Cecile, father to Adrian, Cedric & Renee, killer to several. This one is even creepier because the date of birth is EXACTLY the same as what I gave him. *shudder*

Minnesota Birth Index, 1935-2002
Name:  Eric Ernest Johnson
Birth:  8 Jul 1949 - Stearns, Minnesota

Kathleen Johnson - Mistress of Eric Johnson and father of Pete Johnson. Even creeper is that not only does this woman share an exact birth date with my character, she lives in Minnesota like the above Eric Johnson. If she turns out to be his mistress and has a son named Pete, I'm going to check myself into a psychic hospital.

Minnesota Birth Index, 1935-2002
Birth, Marriage & Death
Name:  Sarah Kathleen Johnson
Birth:  18 Mar 1973 - Ramsey, Minnesota

Gary Miller - Abusive ex-husband of Jax and Gizi's sister, Ilona. Another creepy-ass match. The birthdate is off only by 11 days and unlike the two above, this guy matches Deb's character's birth state as well.

Ohio, Birth Index, 1908-1964
Name:  Gary P Miller
Birth:  19 Apr 1963 - Barberton, Summit, Ohio, United States

Arnold "Blaze" Bucko - Claudia's husband and father to Eva and Araceli. This was a little more disappointing as the only part that matched was the birth year.

Web: New Jersey, Find A Grave Index, 1664-2012
Name:  Ronald M Bucko
Birth:  1971
Death:  1988

Melanie Simmons - Jax's ex-wife and mother to Leigha York. Partial match to name and year of birth.

U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1
Name:  Melanie S Simmons
Birth:  26 Jun 1969
Residence:  1989  - Lawton, OK

That's all I have for now. Also, my file has 216 people in it but I still need to add a bunch. I suspect 80% are mine lmao.

So, I get Red Bulletin Magazine (bc it was free and new so why not try it out) and I actually opened it for the first time this month because James McAvoy was mentioned on the cover. When I got to that article, I decided that was definitely the look that Finn would be sporting at Christmas. Since he'll actually be somewhere cold with snow and such.

For your viewing pleasure: http://www.redbull.com/cs/RedB.../1406_INT_McAvoy.jpg

Mmmmm <3 I love that man :D

Leigha and Kiley have been having a very awkward conversation in my head about dating and such. I assume that they will meet when Kiley comes to watch Daniela's performance.

Hmm...

Finn, Aryana, Mara, Logan & Daphne on a road trip...

Don't forget Ary's brother.

Yep, don't forget Ethan lol tsk tsk Nisey

A teenager on a road trip with Hollywoods and his sister. Even better!

Since our lovely Sopha appears to be here. . .

There is a girl in my head who wants to play with Johnny and Selah. She says she's in his group of friends and she's had a crush on him (though she says he's never shown any interest in her). She'd like to get all psycho jealous on Selah. I know your Johnny-Selah stuff is going very slowly, but if you make it a bit down the road, she's there for you.

@Deb - Okay! :D

Mars, Johnny! She's from Mars!

Random thought: Drew and Sonja's kid is guaranteed to be blonde-haired and blue-eyed.

lol Deb so totally random indeed

I've been reading through Tori's files for Drew and somehow had forgotten, or not realized, that he had blue eyes too. So I knew they were going to have a little blondie running around. But it's somewhat humorous to me that they both also have blue eyes so they'll end up with a blue-eyed kiddo, too. Should be adorable. That's a ways off though. They've got to get to the actual baby-having first.

hehehe If Shawn only knew...

Also, Jescha pronounces her name "YES-kah", but because she's always getting it mispronounced and misspelled, she makes it easy and goes by Jessa.

So, we've finally been able to watch Game of Thrones. We're on like, episode 4 or something. We've been watching one episode after that kids go to bed each night. Anyway, last night, we had this conversation.

A: I figured out what Game of Thrones is.
D: What? ((I'm not sure what I expected his answer to be at this point. I was sort of confused by his comment altogether.))
A: It's porn for nerds.

And he's pretty much right. It's soft-core, but they do not shy away from nudity and they leave very little to the imagination.

OMG, I LOVE GAME OF THRONES.

Also, hiiiiiiiiiii lovelies. Nisey threatened me. lol.

Hi hi. Did she threaten to take away all your food? I know how you like to eat. I imagine you'd starve to death faster than the average bear.

No, she threatened a even bigger weakness of mine....Dane. *le sigh*

Dane has 90 days to live. Once those 90 days are up, I'm throwing him off the Brooklyn Bridge. Britt can save him by posting. Each post gives him an hour. Every missed day takes off ten minutes. Each plot line brought to closure gains him a year. All plot lines brought to closure gains him immortality.

Tick tock.

That's hilarious.

On another note, I'm trying to pick a face for Dorrie. I'm torn between:

Michelle Trachtenberg


Kaylee De Fer

My vote is for Michelle. She's my face for my little vampire chick.

Michelle it is then. I have to admit, I almost didn't keep looking at portraits after that one. But I wanted to give all brown or black haired teenage portraits an equal opportunity.

Are you on Skype?

Not currently. When Allen gets back with the last bit from the other house, I'm sure he'll take over the comp. He was installing something when he left.

So, upon reading the Announcement this morning, I'm thinking we picked a good time to be interested in switching from adult to mature. Perhaps the Vin/Lena thread should have the airplane portions moved so we can get rid of that thread and go to Mature. I mean, I know I don't always post every day, but I'd hate to have a day where I couldn't post because my access request for Adult games hadn't gone through yet.

We've got a couple weeks. You guys could always just finish your scene (if Sopha could be on one night and you guys got busy).

So what does the announcement actually mean for us since we're already set to Adult? *confused*

If we're still set to Adult when it happens, then when we next log on, we'll have to go into our accounts, add our birth month and year and then request access to adult games. They're thinking this will be quick, but may take a few hours to get access. Then, when we come into this game for the first time, we'll have to input our birth month and year again, but that part will be automatic, and then we'll be able to do everything we can now.


If we change to Mature, like Denise was wanting to do a few weeks ago, then we don't have to worry about any of that. Nothing will happen. The only thing preventing us from switching to Mature right now is the sex scene with Vin/Lena in their thread. All other Adult material has been removed already into the thread archives off-site.

Why did Denise want to switch to Mature by the way? It's going to be a hassle again when comes the sex scenes and we go to a separate thread/forum

I think it was because we hadn't done any in a while (other than the Vin/Lena one) and I'd pretty much said I didn't want to really do them so much anymore. I don't know. It doesn't matter to me what our designation is.

*gasps* You don't want to do them that much anymore? Awww :( XD

We can take a vote on it, if you want. Yay for keeping it adult, nay for changing it to mature.

Yay!!!

I'm gonna lose...

I'm gonna say yay for adult. I don't actually care. I haven't written a sex scene in over a year. But if Kyrian showed up tomorrow and wanted to get it on with Kate, she'd punch me if I said it had to be done offscreen. And we don't have to worry about other Rated R stuff, like violence or explosions or whatever. Not that we have a lot of that, but if the time comes to describe the flesh of someone's face melting off, there would be no pesky conversations about whether it counts as mature or adult.

LOLLLL Kyrian would yell at me too...

Well, the original plan didn't call for Kate going to Greece now. But I'm flexible. The original plan didn't call for Kyrian knowing anything about all this stuff and I found a way to get him involved. So plans can be fluid.

Also, Nisey, Former Article Subject (hereafter referred to as FAS) informs me that Senator pulled some strings to get him out of prison early. So he gets to have revenge on Kate, increased resources from the Senator, and he gets out early. He says it's definitely worth the risk. And also, he's not supposed to kill her, but when he's done toying with her, he plans on it, despite the Senator's wishes. He may or may not have gone a little crazy in prison.

I know it didn't. She doesn't have to go anywhere. He just knows that he'll be going out of town and he doesn't trust anyone but himself to keep her safe. But if she's out of the country, maybe psycho can't get to her; therefore, the suggestion.

I still say Claudia works as Cinderella. She's even into fashion design so she's got the dress angle going for her.

I'm torn between Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella.

Sleeping Beauty - in a way, Claudia's been "asleep" most of her life as far as romance. It's only when she meets Keran and kisses him that she "wakes up" to love.  Plus, a bonus is that it gives the MC a mystery to solve when she comes to the kingdom.

Cinderella - other than the dress part, I'm not sure how she fits this? She's never been poor and she doesn't have evil stepsisters or an evil stepmother. And as far as I know, there aren't any mice in the house xD And if I did go with Cinderella, that means I will have to come up with another mystery to solve.

I'm open, though, to either. I accidentally deleted all your texts so I don't remember what you'd said about Cinderella.

Also, I'm thoroughly enjoying the Stones & Sonja. I just need popcorn.

There's lots of emotions at that dinner table right now. :P

I said Cinderella because she basically had her one night with the "prince" (at the opening) and then they were separated. Though, there was no shoe involved in their getting together. But there was a horse.

I can always combine Cinderella with Sleeping Beauty. I'm combining a couple others, too.

So, when I finally to onto my netbook last night, my writing wasn't on there. I think I have a hard copy of Lark and Flair, and I did have at least really old copies of all the Mansion stuff. But anything else that was in my writing folder was gone.

Now, I swear that I had a flash drive that was decently sized and I may have copied all my writing stuff onto there for "safekeeping"/backup. But I currently have no idea where that flash drive is. Yep. Really safe.

Anyway.

That was probably the largest stash of my writing that I'd accrued ever. When I was in high school and early college, we got a new computer every year, so I lost all my files on a yearly basis and I only have hard copies of things. So that's probably part of why it upset me so much. I'd gotten out of the habit of printing everything because my files felt safe. I don't think I'll make that mistake again.

For the fairy tales, can they be disney based? or so they have to be the original story?





yes, yes, this is my question. lol

Any fairy tale written or animated by any entity. Disney, Pixar, Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, etc. :)

Ok I was thinking that the Stones still needed to do Christmas day, but as I scrolled through the thread I noticed that you both skipped over Christmas completely. You started off on Dec 23, then skipped to "a couple of days later" (pg 7) (which means they went shopping on Christmas day?). After that, they had dinner and Sonja blurted out her news, then they went to bed. They got up again, discussed turkey bacon, looked at some photos, Sonja freaked, now they're coloring on the floor.

Am I safe in saying that they're actually on Dec 26? 23rd + "couple of days" + "next morning" = 26th?

Just making sure I'm on the same page here. :)
This message was last edited by the GM at 22:07, Fri 19 Sept 2014.

When I started the scene we're on now, I was thinking of it as the 26th.

Awesome. So Jenna and Luke should be arriving shortly, then.

Questions for Tori, for the scene when Luke calls Oliver about fishing:

How long has it been since Joseph died?
Where did he die? (home or hospital?)
How and when did Luke and Jenna find out?
How long was it between when he died and the funeral?

Might be more coming. Also, Jenna's parents arranged for a car to take them to Ann Arbor so Luke didn't have to drive. They won't find out until the fishing trip that it was actually Caroline's idea.

Boo questions

When Luke calls Oliver, it's been about 3 or 4 weeks. He's been struggling to deal with it on his own and didn't want to admit that he needed help and it was too much for him. He thought he'd be able to pull himself back together, go back to work, and move on. But it hits him a lot harder than he thought it would, especially since it was a little unexpected, and he can't pull himself together.

He had the heart attack at home and died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. He went into sudden cardiac arrest on the way, blood stopped flowing to his brain, and he died.

A family friend named Lucius calls Luke and Drew. He's a police officer in town and is Joseph's best friend - he was notified about Joseph's heart attack when Beth called 9-1-1 and picked up Kyle to take him to the hospital. Kyle and Beth aren't up to it - Beth can't admit that it's true and Kyle can't face it without his brothers.

Three days between his death and the funeral. Drew finds a flight for his family shortly after they get the call from Lucius and they get into town the next morning. He and Kyle end up making a lot of the arrangements- I think Luke sits in with them while they're talking about arrangements but is a little too numb to really contribute. That's where Drew and Kyle end up getting into an argument that escalates into a fistfight. I have a vague idea about what sets it off and I think some of what they argue about leads to Luke's disillusionment with Drew which only makes his depression worse.

So, I realized this morning that when you two were making the timeline for Drew & Sonja, I wasn't paying attention, and now I'm going to have to rewrite Jess's history again. *grumblebitchmoan* And unfortunately, this time, it means that Jess, Theo, Zach and Drew never meet, unless we can figure out another way.

In the original timeline, Drew came to Sylvan Hollow with Zach when he was a toddler (we didn't do ages back then). I brought Theo (child), Jess (teen), and Kaycee (adult) as three orphaned siblings who were trying to make a go of it in a new small town. Jess met Drew because he was her high school teacher. At that point, Zach was aged up to child so that he and Theo could be friends too. During Drew's time in SH, he also met and fell for Sonja.

This is where things get messy.

In setting up the Stone timeline, the two of you settled on Drew and Sonja meeting in SH as usual, and set the date for 2010 as the time she first met the elder Stones. This places the time they were in Sylvan Hollow as 2008 (Zach was 3 in 2008). You have 2009 in the timeline, which means Zach would have turned 4 while they were there, but that's not a total stretch.

The problem is, that in the current Unbound storyline, SH Jess would have been 12 in 2009. She still would have been a bratty little pre-teen in Pennsylvania playing with her Barbie dolls, going to cheerleading practice and spending Sunday mornings eating breakfast in a sunny little nook with her parents, 5-year old little brother and her older sister. They would have been months away from losing Mr. Valette to a drunken teen driver, which was the catalyzing event to her downward spiral into homelessness and drug abuse.

But now, with it being 2010, Drew's SH days are behind him. He isn't a teacher anymore (it just occurred to me that with the timeline you set for him, he couldn't possibly have been a teacher in 2009 at all) and he's living not-in-Sylvan-Hollow. He won't be a teacher in 2013, either, when Jess is finally 16 and needing a high school English teacher to attach to. And since he's not her teacher, she can't introduce him to her little brother, so he and Zach will never have met either.

There's no possible way that Jess could have ever been in Sylvan Hollow at the same time as Drew. None. So I have to scrap that part of her life and rewrite her again. I don't mind, really, because her history seems to be as changeable as the Mississippi. But without Drew having been her teacher, that means erasing him out of her life as well.

Any ideas?
This message was last edited by the GM at 15:11, Thu 25 Sept 2014.

In 2010, Drew and Sonja are still in Sylvan Hollow. They won't move to New York until 2018. At least that's what I recall of our talks.
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:12, Thu 25 Sept 2014.

I'm with Deb. I thought they were going to stick around he SH area until they relocate to New York in 2018.

See, there you go. I wasn't paying attention.

So then, the remaining questions are, can Drew be a teacher by 2013 when Jess would need to enter his class? Usually it takes 4 years for a teaching degree (I think? I defer to Tori's superior knowledge on that part), but considering Drew has already gone through college and become an attorney, he has a better-than-average chance of getting a teaching degree in two years. I imagine he wouldn't have to retake a lot of classes.

Or is he already teaching or in the process of becoming a teacher?

If he will be a teacher with a plausible timeline by 2013, then I'm satisfied with that and happy I won't have to rewrite Jess again. :D

Not sure how it is in other states, but here, if he already has a degree, he just has to take a few classes specific to teaching and then he gets a certificate. So I would think that could be done in two years, one if you were determined.

I just did some research about teaching in Louisiana - it varies depending on the state. In Indiana, you can take the content knowledge test in any subject and be issued a teaching certificate if you pass as long as you have a bachelor’s degree (clearly they don’t hold education programs in a very high esteem - basically, everything I went to school for doesn’t matter to the state of Indiana). In Louisiana, he can become a teacher after entering into a Practitioner Teacher Alternate Certification Program.

Basically, it sounds like he’d be able to join the program and teach while he takes the classes he needs for his license. He’ll be issued a Practitioner License 1 initially. It looks like he’d need to get 21-30 credit hours and he’ll be issued a Level 1 Professional License once his coursework is done.

https://www.teachlouisiana.net...pect.aspx?PageID=606
https://www.teachlouisiana.net...lt_cert_features.pdf

Man, I'm glad I became a writer in the age of the internet.

Flannery has a face!

Yayyy! Very scruffy-looking hehehe

Now that Finn has a beard, they're both very scruffy and manly.