Just remember:

Everything Vestrial tells you is a reliable.
Everything Dis has you do is important.
Everything pisses Raggok off.
Horrors are bad.

 If you remember that, you should be good.
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:02, Sat 25 Feb 2012.

Good advice, Alia!  Good advice!

...(Um, what `edited by GM' marker?  Gosh.  RPoL must be acting up again.)

See? Told you! Vestrial even manages to put words in other people's mouths.

GMs!  You can't trust any of 'em.

Er... any of them, except Vestrial, of course.

Ain't that the...pauses, remembers just how many of my GMs I invited to this game -- er, balderdash!  Utter balderdash.  GMs are fine folk.

On the presumption a young dwarf would have a short beard, I picked a new portrait. You know, there just aren't many that fit that criteria, and the few that do, a lot look like losers or wimps. Pretty much, it came down to Vigo or Russell. I picked the Crowe, even though he doesn't look like a dwarf. Use your imagination, that's why you're here, right? ;)

And I agree. You can only trust GMs somewhat. Even if they only GM IRL or another site. (Like me.) :P

There's three categories of trust:
1) Don't trust.
2) Trust somewhat.
3) Trust completely. *

* Category 3 may only be achieved posthumously.

Er...Of course not.  Rashamon's just relatively unimportant, compared to the other...um...well...I mean, as the Passion of Leadership and Ending Sentences In A Comma, it just seemed appropriate?

grin  Thank you!  Most of my posts are written in bits, in the middle of doing Other Stuff - especially long ones.  Apparently I forgot to get back to him.  He should be all there now.

Well, as the patron saint passion of politicians, I guess he really is pretty unimportant. :P

OK!  Am sorting out some final pieces with Kerric, and I think everyone else is pretty much finished.

Am I missing anything?  Does anybody not feel ready to start?  If you have any pending questions that I haven't gotten to, whether it's because I missed it or forgot or because you haven't actually asked it yet, now would be a good time!

Except you, Alia.  Yours was on purpose. grin

Number 3. Gottcha.

I think I'm ready. If not... well, we'll find that out soon, won't we?

Oh, that reminds me - everybody roll Initiative!


----OK, just kidding.

I was born ready.

Well, not me, personally.  That was just a quote from Alia.

I was born hiding under a table.

Looks up from the twigs and random stuff that she's collected. I'm sorry Yona, did you say something?

That explains a bit about Yona's background.  I expect the midwife's apology must have included the phrase, "Apparently, your wife was supposed to be on top of the table."  With a little better lighting, your childhood might have been completely different!


...Er.  I'm just going to pretend I never said that.  Although not quite to the point of actually, you know, not saying it, although I'm well aware that that's still totally an option until I actually click Post Message.

So, I just slapped together a bit of a map in Paint.  You can tell that Map Making is not my Artisan Skill, but, you know, it's mostly supposed to be sort of an idea.  I'll probably fill in some more landmarks and things when I have some more time - if anybody has any suggestions of things they'd like to know where they are, or if anyone wants to move^*, let me know!

As noted in the Races post, only the Trolls are really segregated in the Bend.  The T'skrang tend to be in the houses along the river, but not all of them, and some other folk do live there too.  The Humans, Dwarves, Orks, and Elves are mostly pretty mixed around, and the Windlings... well, they're just... around.  There is a bit of an Ork Section and kind of a Human Area, but only vaguely.  Yes, the Trolls actually have their own wall, complete with gates.  It's not a tall wall - at least, by Trollish standards, making it probably about 5 feet high.  But the Idea of the wall is important to them, and they consider it very rude to ignore it.

Which is to say, people caught climbing over the wall are subject to smooshing.

^{*- I know, I know, that last is a dangerous option.  So help me, if I hear another, "But I don't wanna live next to Opluriko! T'skrang smell funny!", you are all grounded!}

Ah, so, I get to swim to work every day? )I see no bridges...)

Well, for the T'skrang...yes.

But you're right, there should also be bridges, and I suppose people would know where they are.  Good catch!  Thanks!

*sigh*

I live out in the sticks.  I have that awful commute every day.

Yay! I'm right by the pavilion, I probably get good seats for every circus that comes to town! :)

And I want full plate armor, a tower shield, a plasma rifle in a 40 watt range... :P

Seriously, maybe a purse for coins, and a couple torches? I don't know if we're doing camping-style gear, or what, but I could totally see tinder. And a towel. Gotta have a towel when you go anywhere further than your cart.

I'm ready to go here!

When I first saw the map, I thought that Vestrial was messing with us and that there wasn't a number 6.

I have a house. It's a nice house. Really, it is.

Quiet neighbors, at least... right next to the graveyard...

Awww, man!  That would have been hilarious!  I wish I'd thought of that.  Hehehe...


You get the best seat!

 Yep.  That one.

The one the lion tamer waves at the lions.

Luckily, you're already wearing armor made out of plates, which makes it easy for the lions to split out portions.


At least you don't live out in the straw.  Then that wolf would keep blowing your house down.

Wait, doesn't the wolf blow the stick house down, too? But who's commuting? I mean, you got a farm, you just go to town on SUndays. You know, "I'm puttin' on my good, go-town-clothes." You need more sticks every time the wolf goes by, but you can get them out there, isn't that why they call it the sticks? You just need to get bags of flour. I don't know why, every movie I saw with ranchers going into town, they buy bags of flour. You'd think at least the guys who harvest grain wouldn't need so much. ;)

And I changed my mind. I want full bowl armor. So I can have my cereal in the morning, if I have milk. Lionesses have milk, right? I hear it's bad to try milking lions. (The male sort, I mean.)

I live on the farm, but who wants to work on one?

I mean its full of smelly animals and smellier cabbages and dirt and stuff.  And the mud would ruin my shoes.  And all that manual work wouldn't do my nails any good.

And the phone reception is terrible way out there.
This message was last edited by the GM at 09:42, Wed 29 Feb 2012.