To commit a horrible Beatles pun, I get by with a little kelp from my friends.

In reply to Reverend Palmer (msg # 847):

Thank you, Dad, very cool! :P

In reply to Samuel Hartman (msg # 848):

Do you need anybody? I just need someone to club

Could it be anybody? I want somebody to club... oh!

https://www.tumblr.com/acquain...n-i-was-very-small-i

...anyway, whilst looking for suitable banner images I found some good ones of Wiltshire's budget version of Herself, the King of Limbs. Thought you'd like to see.

In reply to The Keeper (msg # 823):

I would rather stay on this board and if you can find and extra player all good.


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Very well, thank you for the response: it looks like we have two for and two against a move, and one indifferent (unless Maggie's developed stronger feelings since). The Doctor has been seen and is who we're/worth waiting for, he just got the 'ronies awful fierce and is still somewhat sick, poor fellow. Waiting to see if we're flitting before bringing a new player in, since it'd be silly to intimidate them with all these threads then haul them off to a clean board flailing with confusion.

I have starting points for all of you, though now I know that Tom's depends on who/whether we get someone new, so they're sat in the outline stage, and that's where we're at. Starting up will be slower around work, especially since I'm currently clean/sorting through a shell midden with all the sand-related issues that entails (I hope the shell specialist is happy). Got a fairly dark and knotty new season plot for y'all, though: I hope you like it.

Good morning (and 2024) all, sorry for the absence, not been in a state to look at the screen, let alone contribute.

Regarding new board, personally I'd prefer all in one place, but as a new arrival I can see that would be daunting, so I'm not against a new board for a new season, and personal preference aside, newbies might prefer it.

I understand that to be a vote to stay. Won't pretend I'm pleased, exactly, but anticipating such a response was the purpose of the vote: there's no point tormenting the majority of players with having to open a new tab to refer to old threads if that disrupts their play experience, especially now that RPoL actually means it when it says "data will not be saved" should one navigate away from a post in progress (yes I found out the hard way). I have already changed all the thread titles, and if we don't get any bites for a new player because they look at the post count and flee over the horizon I'll just arrange around that/put an NPC in Tom's thread once I'm sure no-one's biting. Who knows, the somewhat terrifying effect of throwing white bread at the Players Wanted board (niche GM is not used to this) might apply to female characters, too.

Also, I just saw an intriguing thing out in the main forums saying GMs could upload a handful of portraits just to a game, but not where that can happen. Is this a thing?

This is a thing. You want the GM Menu, under 'Game Settings and Information' there is a link called 'Manage the game portraits'. You can add up to twenty images, same limitations as the main RPOL galleries (100 x 100-pixel JPGs under five kilobytes in size).

! !!! If this works for NPCs, Polzeath can get a proper cast entry! ...that and I'll be theoretically able to play settings with my GM style (handful of NPCs ready to behold on a Cast List at setup) it had been breaking my heart that I never thought I'd be able to. I am having emotions about this. Not sure which emotions, but definitely some.

Yes it works for NPC's created a lot of work in the games I run as everyone now has a proper entry....


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Oh, that pleases me tremendously. The Cast List will be getting some additions, for sure.

I'm working on the ad, by the way, just been somewhat distracted [proceeds to get distracted for several hours at this point] ...yes. Getting there. Need to ask Sam a thing, too, putting that down here for accountability/reminding myself.

Just to clarify, my vote was conditional. If the intent is to have new joiners then new board, otherwise stick with this one

Ah, no...I'm not going to inconvenience my existing players for the sake of one person who may or may not stick around. It'd be useful but not necessary for me to have a Hall/upper class lady perspective, and I put a lot of effort into ensuring my players each get their own part in a larger narrative, so six is about my limit.

Update: settling new player in, still haven't asked Sam the thing, need to eat. Whilst I'm making ones to upload, is everyone happy with their current portraits?

I am, incidentally, really bad at drawing feeple. I don't know why, they should be easy. I have something I'm kind of happy with for Polzeath, but might still take a moment. Painkiller brain and then some.

In reply to The Keeper (msg # 861):

Oh, you had something to ask me? 👀

Yes. I PM. not now, though. now sleep. Bones trying to do an escaping and Keeper is a tired Keeper, too much stupid. adjkfkfds. Your portrait, though, you want to keep? Il ne te resemblait pas in descriptiob verymuch. sorry. I need to sleep. you answer, though.

In reply to The Keeper (msg # 863):

No worries! I think I will keep it - I suck at finding portraits and this is one I'm somewhat satisfied with :)

Wait, wait, emojis?? Is that what the little snarls of code I was seeing on the non-responsive site were? I...argh. Well, they can pry my vintage kaomoji and the occasional ecksdee or other text emote that doesn't make a nasty noise from my cold dead hands. Dialect!

Anyway, I will get to your PM when I've got something approaching hydration, and am not adverse to looking out for curly dark-brown-haired 1770s men in my travels if you'd like, but not if you're content.

New character is being braided into the plot, will give y'all a start date for S2 as soon as I know it. Pain got a runup today because I basically slept most of Saturday, so though I am about clever enough for coherence because I am more ouch than blep, my brain is not up to the lovely prose that y'all deserve, so I'm not even going to try and work on the draft posts.

edit: haven't got a drink yet, but noticed that because everyone's been more or less together since I don't seem to have updated the Clues Thread summary since S109...I will do that for the new player when I have the capacity, but do we want a new Clues Thread for S2?
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:06, Sat 13 Jan.

Yes, please.

Noted. Shall I unpin the Setting Notes and let them sink to the top of S1, given how chunky the thread bars are now? Any more Notices and the active thread will be almost halfway down the page...

That would make sense.

It's highly possible that emojis might not have been supported on the old non-responsive site. I think it depends on some code in the site metadata (basically the way text is parsed in the browser). Obviously plaintext emojis (like the ecksdee or :) or things of that sort would be supported, but not any emojis.



No rush! I'd love to see what else you can find, since I know I was just using the site portraits.



I think a new clues thread would be quite helpful.

Agreed on the clues thread and quite happy with the current portrait.

All right, that's already a simple majority: I'll get on it once I've updated the old one with the rest of Season One in summary. Relatedly, shall we start a new OOC thread when S2 play starts? That way this one and the setting threads would sit there as a divider and not get wedged halfway up the board once it fills up in another 100-odd posts. Will take suggestions for what to call it, too.


So. another matter for your collective attention: You may have noticed the "Players Wanted" lamp went off awhile back and that we have a Fox Hall maid on the cast list (well, not quite so specifically, the description is being worked on, but that's what she is). However, I just got a late RTJ wanting to adopt Janet that indicates a player that really 'gets' her, my approach to cosmic horror and this game in general, and, well, I want, but that would also be seven players.

 It could work out, but only if y'all help me out considerably with group cohesion. Having a majority that have played effectively an entire game with me in this setting should be an advantage, but I don't want to either give everyone a task they're not up for or lower the quality of the game by stretching myself too thin, so. How do we feel about another player?