Peachy, somewhat keen, and about to bifurcate a bad guy! :D

Ello all!

Constantly worried that I'm in over my head because Carol has very little idea about what's going on.

So, plenty of fun!

Also, Bill may have an upstairs apartment in a charming rustic two family tower to rent if anyone is looking.

I'm out of town next week.  Sorry this is happening during a combat.  The GM can run Bill while I'm gone if they like.

Hi! I'm back.

Welcome back!

In reply to Winter (msg # 103):

Thanks!

This is a super busy week for me but I just wrote this as part of another game I'm fiddling with (yes, about being dead) and thought I'd run it past y'all, the dead




Meeting a deity in the deathlands is always awkward, for one of three reasons:

1. Reason #1 is that the deathlands is the actual home of almost no deities. Most of them you might encounter there are just passing through or just visiting to work on something else briefly. So usually, seeing one is like if you went to a cafe and recognized a big celebrity. You're in awe of them, but they surely have no idea who you are. Dare you say hello and ask for an autograph? Awkward.

2. Reason #2 is that you're in the deathlands because you're dead, so you've forgotten almost all of your memories from your time as a living person. What if the deity actually recognizes you? "Oh hey, you used to be my cleric/paladin" or "oh hey, you're the chosen one, how'd that whole prophecy thing work out?" It's like if you went to a cafe and a big celebrity recognized you and told you "oh hey it's you, we went to school together a long time ago, remember?" and you're thinking "oh wow I don't remember that at all, awkward" Also, what if you prayed to the deity in question not to let you die? Oops, here you are, dead anyway, so that'd be super awkward for them, too.

3. Reason #3 is that the one exception to the first rule is Death Gods, the only deities who actually might live and/or work in the deathlands. So then it's like you've gotten lost and you knock on a door to ask directions and it turns out you've called Daigath the god of Death out of the shower or interrupted him at the office or whatever, just because you don't know what the heck you're doing. Super awkward.

In reply to The GM (msg # 105):

Gods are just like us only more famous with incredible power.  They probably have people gushing over them all the time, and they just want to live their lives.  Play it cool: say, "hey," and go about your business.

*checks the map*

Where are we again?

*starts wondering about random deity encounters*

Nah, this is the living world. That's for another game.

Now, I could ARRANGE for y'all to visit the deadlands, if you wanted...

Would we be able to whilst only mostly dead or would we need to be really dead? I'll pass if it's the latter.

I see why you wondered, though, since I recycled the name of Daigath...





Nah, I could eventually arrange some sort of magic MacGuffin to just send you there as you are now...

Hellooooooooo........

I know I've been busy lately...

To help make up for it, I offer this little game I recently wrote entitled RPol: The Game:

link to another game

If it's a game, then it might be fun to play sometime.

If it is, instead, a work of literary satire, I think it's an amusing and insightful look into the nature of being a GM on RPol.

Please enjoy reading it.

Hah! That’s funny. :D

TIME CRUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT/APOLOGY:

Yeah so there's the usual busy-ness, and then I felt rotten this weekend, which was a time I'd planned to try to catch up. Not feeling 100% even now, but just announcing I haven't forgotten about you. I'll continue to do my best--

Everyone please put your current HP in your bio lines, like Winter has done, thanks in advance

Hi, I'm still around. I thought I posted more recently, but I guess that was just in my head.

I've got a disrupted schedule for a few days, folks. Might be back to normal Monday, or possibly not... Sorry--

Okay, I'm back. Will try to catch up...

Hey hey kids it's excuses time!

I've just been exhausted. Then compounded by this being kinda the busiest part of my year, arguably anyway. So Health Stuff compounded by Work Stuff... but the worst MIGHT be over...

Tis the season - hope your health is better!

This is a busy time of year. I hope you feel better.

Health better, for now-- now it's just the "busy time of year" part.

The busy time of year is catching up to me.  I'll be out til next week.

Merry Christmas! everyone!