Congratulations on the upcoming graduation, Nigel! Any plans for what comes next? ^_^

I'm getting married in August, so the main plan is to find a job that'll enable me to support my wife once we're married. I've applied a few places, but nothing has turned up yet; I was waiting to apply to quite a few more that I know are hiring though because I don't have time to work full time yet. Once school is done job hunting will be my main priority.

and... I'm back! Peru was truly a great time, but I'm happy to be home too.

I will probably open up a thread here sometime soon, (by the weekend) with a few of the more interesting pictures, and can refer you to facebook or something if you want to see the full set.

Will read through what I missed and aim to update tomorrow at some point across all my games.

As an interesting side note, I have now had Guinea Pig and Alpaca.

Yeah? Were they any good? I'm always interested in eating new animals. :)

Welcome back!

you can find me on Facebook if you want: facebook.com/cltchrn

Would love to see pictures. :)

Alpaca was good, a bit like a flank steak. Guinea pig was a lot like pork (ironically enough) but super bony.

I'm in the process of uploading photos now, I think I'm just gonna make the albums public, so y'all can click through. Unless, of course, that's a bit too personal or something :)

Also, for Grom, I started into "The Rook" today on the plane back and it is excellent so far.

 Woot, glad to hear that you have started the novel(The Rook,umm need to add its the novel by Daniel O' Malley. there is another novel that was from a series which is much different.)

 Hmmm, had Grom confused with your first post, he was wondering how you are gonna get a alpaca thru customs without the long wait. ^-^

It is the O'Malley one. I'm about a hundred pages in

Ok, FB pictures are up. I did several smaller albums, organized by location, instead of a massive picture dump. Let me know if the links don't work:

Lima: https://www.facebook.com/media...e=1&l=b318901a27

Cusco-Chinchero-Ollantaytambo: https://www.facebook.com/media...e=1&l=b988ad108e

Urubamba: https://www.facebook.com/media...e=1&l=0dc1725ccd

Machu Picchu: https://www.facebook.com/media...e=1&l=99db463ba7

Cusco: https://www.facebook.com/media...e=1&l=8a2050a2af

Cusco-Raqchi-Puno:
https://www.facebook.com/media...e=1&l=2a94a79b14

Puno: https://www.facebook.com/media...e=1&l=89bae3c238

Welcome home!

Welcome back! Wow, I'm very jealous of your trip! The pictures look great.

 Heh, from what i have heard taking the bus up thru the mountains is kinda exciting. Shear drops from the Road?. ^-^

Really, it wasn't so bad, except for the trip up to Machu. Lots of blind turns on a narrow road that the drivers barrel through at break neck speed.

Overall, though, I just didn't look :)

Woohoo! Great pics. Crazy driving is half the fun of being in another country. :P

My driving is still terrible from all the habits I picked up living in Mexico three years ago lol.

About the game though, was that an action for Agathe? Should we post again or is there something yet coming?

Also, Holy Crap! I chopped off those things' heads! How the crap are they still moving!? :/

Through GM prerogative ;)

I had meant to post again today, but was buried in work and catching up from being out of the office. I should hopefully have a bit more time tomorrow. Sorry!

(just kidding about the prerogative thing by the way... mostly)

No rush man, I'm sure you've got a lot of catching up to do.

I knew we should have burned the bodies or something....

Also, the thought just occurred to me that this whole encounter might just be a nightmare in Grigory's head.

The nightmare thing is definitely something I would do. heh heh...

and that is an absolutely brilliant idea that would've never occurred to me. If it wasn't so obvious, I'd probably steal it.

On another note, I've said at various times that I was planning on starting a Monster Hunters game, or a "Lost World" style game after my trip. Now that I'm back, I need to decide on which one to focus on first. You certainly don't have to join either, but I still want your vote.

Tell me more about this "Lost World" idea, what is the setting like?

Totally down to play either though.

For the "Lost World" idea, I was deciding between two ideas. Either La Ciudad Blanca in Central America (which they think has just been discovered) or Shangri-La. If the former, I'm thinking something along the line of: Professor finds ancient manuscript -> gets an expedition together -> various academic types, adventurers, and gold seekers -> Trek through the jungle -> ???. The latter, wealthy noble has falling out with his sibling -> sibling goes missing on expedition to find Shangri-La -> wealthy noble organizes expedition/search party -> ???

Those are the loose frames for the "Lost World" game I have in mind, without giving too much away. Time frame would be Victorian era. Characters built on probably 200-300 points, primarily realistic but very skilled per the genre. Some supernatural elements may or may not exist, but wouldn't be available to the players at character creation. The genre tends to have combat, problem solving, and wilderness survival in equal measure and I would try to emulate that as much as possible.

Wow, both settings look really cool! Would it be cheesy of me to vote for either? Depending on when you actually launch them I may not even be prepared for another game, so my vote might not count either way in any case.

For the Lost World - do you intend it to be basically historical, or are you planning to include some future/fantasy elements?

For the Monster Hunters - what time period and power level were you thinking? We might have talked about this already, but it seems to have slipped my mind.

Another vote for either. Sorry!

 As to Grom's vote he is open to either idea. So which ever possible game feels more comfortable to then run that one.

[Private to Chance: Ok, on the off chance you decide to run the monster hunter game, i have it in my mind to run a Myfanwy Thomas char. I can see she can become powerful but she is also very vulnerable. So just a idea.]

Ok, for the Monster Hunters game, here's what I have in mind:

Set in DC, in roughly modern times (within 10-20 years of present day). Characters would be recruited into a small branch of some law enforcement agency (either Secret Service or FBI) in order to protect the nations capitol from paranormal threats. I haven't decided yet between 400pt characters, or lower starting points with rapid advancement. The latter could hopefully give the sense of recruits turning into veteran agents.

Focus would be on mysteries, finding magical artifacts, hunting and slaying monsters, not conspiracies, terrorist attacks, or Freemason treasure maps.

I'd go with DC because I know it the best, it is iconic (like New York, you probably have some idea of what the landmarks look like), and it is cosmopolitan, allowing me to throw some unexpected baddies from other mythologies at the party.

Though, now that I've said all that. A combination of both sounds kinda awesome. Victorian era monster hunters, traveling to hidden civilizations battling monsters and finding magical artifacts...

[Private to Grom Ironsmiter: We could definately work towards that. GURPS: Powers allows one to model almost any ability. Problem is, though, giving me a good idea of the character without spoiling the book for me ;)]