In reply to Christine Bjorn (msg # 384):

Little bit of both. One of their last actions was to email me and cc their boss accusing me of being delinquent in my duties. I only can do this QA crap after hours, and need the other departments (ccu, cysto, endo, perfusion,dental,  etc) to bring me their aprons, and part of his job was to facilitate that. Everyone above a supervisory level, plus the operators (there were two others besides me and this schmuck from rad safety) would get a dailybemail about what lead was overdue. The first year we did this, there were little stickers, but some of these schlubs would peel them off, leading to multiple entries for the same apron. So we got little alluminum tags with barcodes and serial numbers.
 I oversee around 350 aprons, not including the interventional radiology and Operating staff aprons, which are handled by other techs.
 (This is in addition to my regular job xraying patients)
He got nervous that his boss could see the unfinished work, so he hid/archived/deleted the files of the overdue stuff. Guaranteed, anytime I am trying to log an apron that failed because people don't hang them up, half of them don't  exist...

malfeasance!

In reply to Chye Isuel (msg # 386):

Office politics truly sucks...

In reply to Christine Bjorn (msg # 387):

Part of the issue resolved to be because the other q/a people had restrictions on who could view their work, and that we will straighten out by deleatibg the duplicates. On the other hand, plenty of items I had tagged and logged myself were just absent, with no trace of them being on another list...
That done with for now. Smh.

GM, have you read the Name of the Wind?

In reply to Haveron Stormwal (msg # 389):

And the Wise Man's Fear, and The Slow Regard of Silent Things!

In reply to Narrator (msg # 390):

Back on tomorrow

I've only read the second one in that book.


The regard about silent things - that's the one about the girl's life right? Auri?

There's another one too, I think which covers someone else's life (Elodin maybe?) or maybe the girl that 'loans'

In reply to Haveron Stormwal (msg # 392):

I think we are waiting on Haveron, who our characters are following, for the caravan thread, right?

In reply to Gareth (msg # 393):

Going to the Dismal tower first. Other characters not with your group are meeting there, like Adept Yisslithness, possibly Gorgath if he is interested in joining.

I was wiating for the new threat to appear - and then to make sure I was on the correct one (GM prompt)

:)

In reply to Haveron Stormwal (msg # 395):

I might not get much posting in today.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 396):

I take it there is no further interest in fighting the big bad of the Ogrekin's expedition?

The next week or so will be busy IRL.  Will try to check in some and post if needed.

AM going to kill this scribe :D

does your character have some sort of disadvantages that cause him to treat others around him, condescendingly and poorly? just curious..

He probably just hates people who can read and prefer to do so over getting out and doing things.

You know, he's this guy:  http://www.raybendici.com/wp-c...s/2012/12/nerds1.jpg
This message was last edited by the player at 08:40, Mon 25 Sept 2017.

LOL you cad, you Jareth. xD
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 08:43, Mon 25 Sept 2017.

i've been watching movies marathon style for the past few nights. now i'm gonna have to watch the revenge of the nerds movies, and probably porkies, too. xD good times... good times...

Haha,

Actually no. He's born noble and ultiamtely that "viewing people lower than him" is kind of part of that whole schtick.

He's spent a lot of time essentially having people do what he wants, 'being a leader' of sorts, and just having people around him get on with the things he thinks are best.  He doesn't speak it in an intentionally condescending way, it's more just he's used to talking that way around people.

It might grate, but given his (charitable and 'sense of duty to subordinate/ally') nature it's all stemming from a good place. And his manner is often very friendly - as long as he's getting his way :)



Getting the 'exact' balance (as a player, writing part of a story) is not very easy to do, and I can only hope to do the nuanced personality justice.

He also has some minor quirks (like chauvenistic/rough manner) that probably cause some grating every now and then.


and Jareth, he's not brutish - just prefers to get things done, I suppose.
This message was last edited by the player at 12:40, Mon 25 Sept 2017.

I wasn't meaning brutish*, just that Ogre gets the idea of "scribe hating lout" across more quickly than this guy:  http://www.edadrian.com/wp-con.../12/ted-mcginley.jpg




* Also Ogre is the one that in the sequel ends up switching teams and becoming one of the nerds, so he isn't as big an asshole.  ;)

I think i only know that dude from MArried with Children. I guess it's part of a movie I havent seen :)
(not quite sure what Ogre you're talking about exactly)


Well, I guess I understand the sentiment a bit. It's a little pushy and almost anti-intellectual, but not that he's really any of that - or even an asshole. Just maybe low in agreeableness at times.

He finds it a little odd that people would resign to sitting in a library all day (he's a lead from the front dude)

anyway that's the ins and out of that part of Haveron.

Revenge of the Nerds and Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise.


Ogre is the nickname of the jock in the first pic.  He's a stereotypical (dumbass) happy-go-lucky college football jock who enjoys partying, football, and picking on nerds.

He's actually my favorite character from the movies, because he is always true to himself, despite what his 'friends' want him to be.

he's seemed like a condescending douche, ever since wastrels hope and then the bit with the scribe, i just wondered if he had issues, or if that's just how he was being played. we had a player before he was pretty grating, sometimes it makes things interesting when other players personalities ....clash. lol so, he's paid points for social status? or is he no longer actually "noble"? sounds like his duchy/province has been destroyed.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:50, Mon 25 Sept 2017.

Well, as a player I aim to be as inoffensive as possible and if I do end up grating, then apologies.

The duchy Haveron is from has been destroyed and so he has no current social status. I appreciate that he might come off as a little bit of a dick, and to some degree that is intentional. He's a good guy at heart, but kind of has some way to grow. Despite his 'somewhat grizzled' appearance he is also still quite young and relatively unworldly to be tackling the woes of society without guide.

Much of the things that grate are really due to his privileged position while growing up and his lack of experience dealing with real people in particular walks of life. I (player) am trying to get the texture of the character coming through in roleplaty so that he's a blend of good and bad things, rather than so strongly tied to one particular concept, but I don't always mange it perfectly.

But to give a little indication of some of his character (which hopefully will become more apparent as the adventure progresses, and as other characters will come to see after spending some time with him.

He has a fairly noble and honourable character.

Charitable,
Sense of duty
Code of honour


Not to just rehash the same stuff again, but if it does seem off, or there is a question about how he's acting then I'll try to explain it as best I can in OOC.