I have to say, best 4 SAN spend ever, 10/10 would go almost-crazy again.
This message was last edited by the player at 21:58, Wed 13 Mar.

I mean, you do possess the means to do so, if Kitty wasn't currently playing dead to get out of awkward social situations and all.

All right, a heads up that we're within a couple of posts of a new chapter all round, and I shall endeavour to sweep said new chapter into a sensible arrangement. The Vicar has provided a means for me to get Kitty into the plot since my original plot-plotting failed, so now I just have to sweep Maggie in...wish me luck. Party cohesion in this game is still like trying to get multiple live eels into one jar.

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Unrelated to anything, I'd like to wave a calm little historical game on RPoL that's been struggling for want of players under folks' noses here, since we like history, play a form of BRP and already get on: The Honorbound.

At present it's a trio of knights trying to keep on top of an exponential werewolf problem and possible witch/cult with no clear source without panicking the peasantry, but it'd be really nice to expand and engage with the as-yet unconquered alt-Occitania setting if we could get some religious folks and/or ladies involved, if not a troubadour or Cathar shepherd. I have a knight there whose base concept is being a sweet summer child raised and content with the knowledge that fighting and/or killing people is what he's for and I love the daft lad dearly, so I can vouch for one friendly contact/the entertainment that concept provides, and that the world's neither D&D shallow nor irritatingly gritty.

Oh, I'm so glad that game went ahead! I was briefly there at the very beggining before it picked up speed (Emma de Trencavel), but was shamefully absent and so swamped in work that I ended up being kicked out (entirely my fault). I doubt they'd give me a second chance, lol.
This message was last edited by the player at 09:37, Fri 15 Mar.

Ask? The GM is a bit ruthless on the absence policy, but would probably be glad of the interest/encouraged that you came back. The boss lady has been kind of relegated to Quest Giver, but if on thinking it over she decided to ride out herself, Quin would be the tiercel on her fist all the way.

...well, the GM says no hard feelings if you're interested, Kitty.

update: Waiting on a couple of posts to come in, then will make a start on gathering a bit of overnight info from a few folk and posting new chapter threads. Excess of busy and poor sleep may slow things down, but I'm hopeful things'll get easier, particularly if I can get more than one of y'all into one thread for more than ten in-game minutes.

Meanwhile, whilst I fully intend to get other things out of Lidl's Japanese Week out of curiousity, I got some "vegan sushi" while scavenging for reduced items yesterday and have discovered that wasabi (or the pretend wasabi in supermarket sushi sauce packets) is actually some kind of malignant preternatural substance. It's just slightly horseradish-flavoured pain. I mean, yes I have hypersensitivity and presumably experience more wasabi per wasabi than average, but I like horseradish, mustard, and several kinds of chilli, and that stuff's just...torment in a paste. Cultists scrape it off the floor after summoning entities of extreme reality-scorching might, I'm sure.

Actual wasabi (which I haven't tasted myself) is supposed to be milder and more subtle, also prohibitively expensive because it's nigh impossible to cultivate outside of Japan, apparently. I vaguely recall reading about a British farmer who had managed to grow real wasabi for the first time ever... four, five years ago? And the journos had been asked to keep the location of his farm confidential because it was such a trade secret, apparently.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:18, Sat 16 Mar.

(also thanks for asking on my behalf, Keeper, that's very sweet of you. I'm pondering whether I actually have the time and mental bandwidth to play one more quality game; some games one can play with half a brain switched off, others deserve/demand more intellectual effort).

In reply to Christine Chantry (msg # 43):

Yes, it's like real soy sauce, vanishingly rare to start with and even harder to export...the sauce packet did have a Japanese company name on, but maybe I'll forgive wasabi if it's like truffle produce and they just show a vat of concentrate of similar substance a truffle/piece of wasabi the size of your little fingernail to make it "truffle/wasabi _____". I think it might even have the same short window of peak flavour issue. Props to the Secret Wasabi Farmer for working out how to do it, though, I think you need to replicate a volcanic mountain stream with a perfect amount of daily mist or something.

As for The Honorbound, it's very chill, kind of a 'you get out what you put in' kind of game. Not really worth it for anyone expecting to be led by the nose, but not high effort either, so long as one keeps some hold of the plot. Trust your gut, though, if there's any way to definitely have a bad time it's overstretching yourself.

Tapping the OOC to put it on top of all the closed c1 threads and provide an update that I'm in the process of going around and prodding folk for overnight answers in PMs. Just picture a little 'working in background' hourglass here (or play with the cat in the meantime).

edit: fixed link, sorry.
This message was last edited by the GM at 15:48, Thu 21 Mar.

It's me. Every time Cecil enters a scene, the other PCs hurriedly scurry off.

In reply to Reverend Palmer (msg # 47):

Hear that, gang? Proverbs 28:1

...sounds like all of you are full of S̷͚̙̞̥̖̦̥̤͑͆̈́̈̽̈́͜I̸̢͇̬̞̳̠̍͆͆̇͊̋̌̎̄̓̎͒͌͘͝N̸̨̛̝̺̯̝͋̉̈.

In reply to The Keeper (msg # 48):

Is it sin or cringe that we're full of? I mean, I can see both, at least for myself.

In reply to Samuel Hartman (msg # 49):

You can confess to, and be forgiven for, both in theory. Depends on your audience. ^_^

I don't really understand The Youth's concept of "cringe", it makes me cr- deeply uncomfortable. At any rate, if you're unhappy with your character, Sam, come talk about it in PM and we'll sort it out.

Waiting on overnight info from Tom and I have to pass on to Sam how others' interactions will affect his night. We're presuming the Doctor AWOL for now.

Think of it as second-hand embarrassment, on behalf of the person or thing that is cringe.

That...sounds like an empath thing. I thought things that were "cringe" didn't know they were embarrassing and were just doing their best, though? Like old dads or youth pastors trying to be cool and failing, kind of thing. Sincere affection badly pack...wait. I'm terrible at rl social cues, cheerfully weird and refuse to be aloof and cynical in a way that sucks joy from life. I...I think I'm cringe. I don't know what to do with this information.

Not to get too deep into just an idiom, but methinks it gets repeated and used for slightly different cases, until it ceases to have any significant meaning, much like any other idiom (e.g. 'boomer' had a very specific definition initially, and I've heard/read people use it for anything from 'old-fashioned' to 'you said comething uncool according to me'). I do think it initially held that meaning: someone who should cringe at their own words/behavior, but doesn't, so the observer/speaker feels the cringe for them. So, a degree of empathy involved indeed.

In reply to The Keeper (msg # 51):

Oh, I'm actually fine with Sam as a character, I was just joking.

Well then...don't bully your character, I suppose.

New threads as soon as I can get 'em, folks. Background stuff mostly settled, please forgive what crazy old iPad's autocorrect has done to the Clues update. I'll prod it later but I have to actually go do some things today.

I feel your pain (metaphorically). The autocorrect on my phone is exasperating.

That was an odd first sentence to read, since I currently have a headache. Crazy inherited iPad is a funny object and something of a prude besides, but I think I caught and fixed all the oddness last night.

As an update, I am getting there, if slowly. Trying to remember how to do the 'sleeping' thing, which'd help, but also wondering if I can find some way to fold Maggie and Sam's threads together straight off (I don't think I can).

edit: Need to consult a bit. Think I'll post threads as I finish 'em. Getting there.
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:14, Wed 27 Mar.

Given this game's geographical location I find this Tumblr poll especially funny, thought y'all might, too: https://probablybadrpgideas.tu...at-old-ones-out-sure  Keen to see the results!

Let's eat capitalism.

Looks like "the Great Old Ones are just woke or Welsh" to me...though honestly, if you've seen written Welsh you can see how the confusion would arise. Iä! Iä!