Yeah, look after yourself GM!

To hell with it, lets post something

Sorry for the slow posting rate, last few weeks have been not good but I think things are looking up.

I'm still stuck up with the EMTs, is that were Melanie popped up or is she down at the other side of the river bank with Cody and Officer Kenndle?

Melanie flew across to where Cody and Office Tightbuns are waiting on the bank.  You would probably arrive at about the time she is crossing the river as you were not that far behind them.

Busy weekend, but I got most of the tractor shed rebuilt after the winter nearly destroyed it.  Also got the garden planted, hope it does good.  Three types of tomatoes and lots of peppers and chilies. Also planted about 5 varieties of basil and oregano. I hope to make lots of salsa and chili sauce.

On a fun note, the local museum is doing a steampunk display for the next few months and the Wife and I are working on some costumes to wear when we go to see it.  I want to build a great big gun with lots of tubes, gauges, valves and blinky bits that attaches to a large backpack and when you pull the trigger it blows bubbles. I considered a backpack mounted Tesla Coil but decided that might be dangerous.  It might cause someone to lose cell phone coverage.

Moved this here to not break up flow in character!

Because that is freakin' awesome?

I play in a fairy tale based larp. I actually play Queen Mab, which is amazing fun, as being evil and malevolent is always a giggle. We have an AMAZING Tinkerbell. The player is over six feet tall, and made the most accurate costume you can imagine, even the wig. She only speaks in jingles or whistles. And is either really lovely, or a total psychopath, as she can't have two things in her head at once. Tinkerbell, wielding a wickedly sharp dagger, shivving someone from behind on a whim... Everyone got utterly horrified, except me. I gave her sweeties for keeping me entertained...

She can be a FAST bundle of anger and potential violence. :)

Tomorrow, Saturday, is the opening day of the open general fishing season around these parts.  It is also Memorial weekend and the start of the camping season.  For many this is a bigger holiday than Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years and the Super Bowl all rolled into one.  That makes today the equivalent of Christmas Eve.  I expect it to get very drunk out.  If you are in the US and you celebrate Memorial Day please enjoy your long weekend.  If you don't celebrate Memorial Day then have a good weekend anyway.

Enjoy your memorial day weekend, Narrator!

And everyone one else that sentiment is relevant to :)

Just wanted to let you know that I haven't overclocked a rubber potato and I'm in the process of replenishing my slide dinkle arm to compensate for non linear galvanic defragmentation.  My God! It's full of stars! The Heisenberg effect will compensate for the temperal blue shift as the sperving gears approach he speed of uncertainty.  137% of the known universe is made up of Doesn't Matter.

THERE BE WAILS HERE!

It's The Summoning!  The Summoning!

OK, I'll admit this might be a bit of a rant and I can understand if none of you have an opinion on it but i find it very frustrating.

I know a person online who claims to be homeless in the fact that that they do not own a home or rent an apartment but live in a small camper that they park where ever they can for however long they can. From what they have said they used to be a teacher and they still have their certificates.  They are always going on about how poor they are and how hard it is for them to find a job because they are homeless and they are always asking for money. The work they can get is menial labor for minimum wage or less if they are being paid under the table. They are currently about 500 miles from where I live.

I am not the type of person that goes around giving out handouts but I am more than willing to give a person a hand up.  I have told this person on several occasions that the place my Wife works is looking to add 60 new employees by the first of November. It is a call center for a credit union, customer care, no sales work or cold calls or debt collection.  It is Office work in a very good environment, paid vacation, paid sick leave, full benefits, $14.00 hour starting out with good incentives and bonuses (my wife makes about $400 a month just on incentives and bonuses).  They also give full pay for the one month of training they have for the job.

I have told this person that I would help them move up here if they were accepted to work there.  at least turn in an application and resume'.  All they will do is offer excuses as to why they can't do it and then complain again about how bad life sucks.

Am I screwed up for thinking that their life sucks just because they won't make an effort to make it better

Got to say, if they really were wanting to break out of their situation, they would yank your arm off to grab that. Also, as someone who *has* actually lived homeless and slept on the street, they are definitely NOT homeless. If they have a residential vehicle, they may have no fixed address, but that is NOT that same as not having somewhere to live. That difference is HUGE!
This message was last edited by the player at 20:56, Fri 01 June 2018.

I'd say that you've done everything you can, and more that could be reasonably expected of you.

If they chose not to take action, that's their choice.
Respect it, and let them know that in light of it being their choice they have made here you are no longer interested in offering emotional support for the consequences of said choice.
The behaviour you tolerate is the behaviour that will continue.

It sounds like there are mental health issues wrapped up in whatever's going on with them.
As I said, you've done more than could reasonably be expected already. There has to come a point where you stop their problem becoming yours.

Which is to say, no, it doesn't make you screwed up. But the why doesn't really matter. The what you do now and the what they do now is what does.

Was going to give my two sense, but Michael and Melanie covered it all much better than I could.

I just get tired of hearing "help me, help me, help me" when what they mean is "give me money so i don't have to work".  If they were as bad off as they claim I know that there are aide programs available.

Wheras, a friend of mine two days ago had a huge house fire. She has three kids under the age of five. I am offering help in terms of financial assistance... and they are having issues accepting it as they do not want to be a burden. Life is strange...

In reply to Melanie Moore (msg # 210):

I’ve seen that many times (been a volunteer firefighter for several years). There is some sort of pride that rears it’s ugly head often when people are in a time of definite need, yet can’t bring themselves to accept help.

Never understood it

For several years my Father and I ran our own business, Heating, Refrigeration, and Electrical.  Some of our work was on domestic appliances (by the way, if your Refrigerator ever stops working, just replace it, cheaper than having it repaired, trust me.) and it never failed that the older people on a fixed income, particularly those who had been through the American Depression always wanted to pay as soon as the work was done and most others you had to hound them month after month in order to get paid.  In a business like that you can't afford to get behind with your supply houses.  You lose your preferred customer status and it can put you out of business.

We had one Lady, and I use the term loosely, the bishop of her church called us and asked us to check her Fridge.  Domestic Fridges are terrible, you are going to have an hour of labor into just getting it tore down enough that you can diagnose the problem unless it is glaringly obvious.  Well anyway, come to find out the church ( I won't say which one) was paying this lady's rent, power, propane and giving her money each month for food.  From the moment we walked in the door all she did was complain about how they were not doing enough to help her and how they kept trying to get her to go to job interviews and trying to force her onto welfare and how they had no respect for her dignity, and oh, could we make sure that the repair bill for he fridge would be over $150 because if it was then the church had said they would just buy her a new fridge.

It cost us $90 in parts, 5 hours of labor at $50 an hour and we threw in the freon for free but the bill ended up coming to an even $100.  She was not happy with us. :)

OK Folks, we can spend the next several days in back and forth chatter about getting Maggie across the river or we can jump to loading her into the ambulance with a brief description of how she got there.  Either way is fine with me.  The problem with going into detail is I tend to get bogged down in the details and feel the need to explain everything which can kill a story.  The problem with skipping it all is we miss out on a lot of good chances to RP and develop the characters which is kind of the point of the adventure.  Which way would you like to go with it?

I am happy to throw up a quick post for carrying her over the river. We don't need to drag it out, you are right.

I also in favor of a quick transition.  But to make it more realistic, Melanie should transport one of the EMTs first, then Maggie.  That way the patient still has medical care available on either side of the river.  :)

She's not wrong, you know!

It all comes from all those riddles about how to move predators and prey safely across the river.  lol  This one is easy by comparison!  ^_^