Mike:
I wanted you to know that my hiatus from the Friday game may go on
longer than expected. I had a hard-drive failure on my computer at
home which I think I've mentioned before. The good news is that I've
installed a spiffy new hard-drive but (and here's the big "aw,
man...") the bad news is my anti-virus program isn't letting me
update anymore. So, internet at my house is a no-no until I get my
new AV software in. I should be getting my new copy of the software
in a couple of weeks. This is all likely for the best as my old anti-
virus software was over 4 years old and *really* needed an update.

At this time, I'm keeping up with things online via work (on my
breaks) and using the computers at school (which is where I am right
now). My computer at home is running, but I positively won't use it
to surf the net unless I have virus protection.

Please feel free to use and abuse my character as you see fit,
including Serama, the sidekick. As I said before, I'll be keeping up
as I can via the writeups on this thread. I trust you guys to do
what's in the best interest of the story. I look forward to coming
back later this month. Sorry about the inconvenience. This is a bad
time for this to happen, but it's something that needs/needed to be
done.

Scott


--- In indie-netgaming@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Holmes"
<homeydont@h...> wrote:
> >From: "bigblackcatmail" <bigblackcatmail@y...>
>
> >I don't know if you've received my email or not, Mike. But I
won't be able
> >to attend this Friday (sort of worked out for both of us there)
or the
> >following Friday (the 27th).
> >
> >Scott
>
> Yep, I got it. Just getting around to responding to a lot of mail
today. I
> was at a local Con for the last four days, and not able to really
get to my
> mail.
>
> In any case, the game is still on for the 27th, we'll just have to
play
> around Lhan not being able to respond (using the same heavy handed
tactics
> that I did for Thomas last week if I have to). I hate to leave
people
> "behind" but there are so many alternates that I hate to miss a
week if I
> don't have to. It'll all work out.
>
> Mike
>
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--- In indie-netgaming@yahoogroups.com, "bigblackcatmail"
<bigblackcatmail@y...> wrote:
> Mike:
> I wanted you to know that my hiatus from the Friday game may go on
> longer than expected.

SUCK!

We're gonna miss you Scott. Get your ass back to game fast, okay?

HP spends for last week: +1 to Love Alitia and Loved By Alitia. +1
to Friends with Old Unit, +1 to Leadership (learning to listen to
his friends and followers and letting them guide when it is
appropriate).

I've updated and reloaded his character sheet to the Indy Group
Files section.

Also, I know Mike said Alitia looked like Xena, but I always
pictured her as something closer to this: http://www.brand-
publications.spaceanddeath.com/Alitia.jpg

Finally: If you don't have a .pdf character sheet in the Shadow
World HQ file, its because I don't have the final version of your
stats yet. If you're in the game and want one, email me your stats
and any links to pictures or ideas for pictures, and I'll make you
one.

Everybody else seems to have added a haiku as a contribution to this
discussion, here is mine for a 3 line Sam scene using Kerouac's
relaxed rules:

The perfect warrior
need not draw his sword,
But who among us is perfect?

>The perfect warrior
>need not draw his sword,
>But who among us is perfect?

...Just my two cents on how to make it more typical (TECHNICALLY, the
japanese count nasal consonants a sylables, so the english understanding
of syllabification as it pertaints to haiku is flawed, but that's just
he linguist in me getting silly):

The perfect fighter
Need not unsheath his weapon.
I'm not perfect yet.

Damn, now I feel like making one of my own:


   Like wind in willows
   A lashing of swift whispers
   kusari-gama

Finally decided to break down and begin an online indie game. I have
Chosen Paladin for it's simplicity (and because I like it). I will be
using the canonical Sword of Heaven setting. I have excerpted some
pages dealing with the setting and with basic character creation,
these are availble in the group file section.

As for myself I have extensive experience running F2F games and a
playing freeform MUSH's ,this will be my first attempt at running a
PnP RPG online.

With that in mind I would like to solicit players, please email me
about your interest and availability. Also send in advance any
characters you have created for the game for examination and approval.

Thanx in advance and hope to be hearing from you soon for plenty of
online fun.

>From: "Brand" <Brand@...>
>
>--- In indie-netgaming@yahoogroups.com, "bigblackcatmail"
><bigblackcatmail@y...> wrote:
> > Mike:
> > I wanted you to know that my hiatus from the Friday game may go on
> > longer than expected.
>
>SUCK!
>
>We're gonna miss you Scott. Get your ass back to game fast, okay?

Yeah, I had some really pressurizing bangs for everybody that were based off
of Lhan being around. So do let us know when you're going to play again.

Mike

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It's tonight, kids, unless my brain is funny, which is possible. 8pm
Eastern, as usual.

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Your brain is VERY funny, Kirt.

But so is mine.  It's tonight.

--- In indie-netgaming@yahoogroups.com, Loki <xiombarg@i...> wrote:
> It's tonight, kids, unless my brain is funny, which is possible.
8pm
> Eastern, as usual.

>From: "Brand" <Brand@...>
>
>HP spends for last week: +1 to Love Alitia and Loved By Alitia. +1
>to Friends with Old Unit, +1 to Leadership (learning to listen to
>his friends and followers and letting them guide when it is
>appropriate).
>
>I've updated and reloaded his character sheet to the Indy Group
>Files section.

Good stuff. The blade drank blood not too long ago. Sure you don't want to
pump it up at all? Also, your feelings about your brother? About Sorcerers?

>Also, I know Mike said Alitia looked like Xena,

That was just gross shorthand, to get the quick idea across. I wanted to
give the impression that she was tall - she's probably at least six feet
tall. Few Amazons are shorter, and she doesn't strike me as the smallest of
them. From the picture I take it that it's OK to make her just as totally an
asskicker as I wanted to?

>but I always
>pictured her as something closer to this: http://www.brand-
>publications.spaceanddeath.com/Alitia.jpg

Neat. We'll make that her official appearance with Chris's consent - he does
have some stake in this now. Chris, cool?

>Finally: If you don't have a .pdf character sheet in the Shadow
>World HQ file, its because I don't have the final version of your
>stats yet. If you're in the game and want one, email me your stats
>and any links to pictures or ideas for pictures, and I'll make you
>one.

Hmmm. Any chance you could send JPG versions to me, Brand? I do everything
on the computer (I wish I had a screen version of the book), and the print
versions you have are unweildy on screen. I just need something at 72 dpi
for easy handling and reference. Any chance?

Mike

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>From: Loki <xiombarg@...>
>
>It's tonight, kids, unless my brain is funny, which is possible. 8pm
>Eastern, as usual.

So, Kirt, is it water or life? Mars? I'll probably find out in one minute.

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>From: "Mike Holmes" <homeydont@...>
>
> >From: Loki <xiombarg@...>
> >
> >It's tonight, kids, unless my brain is funny, which is possible. 8pm
> >Eastern, as usual.
>
>So, Kirt, is it water or life? Mars? I'll probably find out in one minute.

Too late, cat's out of the bag. It's water.

I think the following game just became eminently more playable:
http://www.geocities.com/mithrapolis/mars.html

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> Neat. We'll make that her official appearance with Chris's
consent - he does
> have some stake in this now. Chris, cool?


That works for me, Mike. She's hotter than Xena at any rate. ;)

-Chris

--- In indie-netgaming@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Holmes"
<homeydont@h...> wrote:
> Good stuff. The blade drank blood not too long ago. Sure you don't
want to
> pump it up at all?

I did the episode after it drank blood -- it went up to 4w from 3w.

> Also, your feelings about your brother? About Sorcerers?

The Sorcerer he left alive, but only beause a girl was in danger --
so no real change. His brother will probably get a big bump soon,
but it hasn't happened yet. (I'm saving a HP or two for when it
happens in game.)

> Hmmm. Any chance you could send JPG versions to me, Brand?

I can do that, I think. I'll upload em later this week.

>From: "Brand" <Brand@...>
>
> > Also, your feelings about your brother? About Sorcerers?
>
>The Sorcerer he left alive, but only beause a girl was in danger --
>so no real change. His brother will probably get a big bump soon,
>but it hasn't happened yet. (I'm saving a HP or two for when it
>happens in game.)

OK, OK. I'm just worried that I'm not putting enough stuff out there for you
guys to attach to. You're all accumulating big piles of HP. I'm probably
giving out too many for the amount of action that's occuring. But I really
like the action that does happen, so...

> > Hmmm. Any chance you could send JPG versions to me, Brand?
>
>I can do that, I think. I'll upload em later this week.

Excellent.

Mike

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--- In indie-netgaming@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Holmes"
<homeydont@h...> wrote:
> You're all accumulating big piles of HP.

Dude -- I have 3. That's hardly a big pile.

As for what the others are doing, I don't know, but I know that I
have a tought time attaching stuff that comes up in play and still
having a nest egg to keep me alive when you roll 5 1s in a row...

>From: "Brand" <Brand@...>
>
>--- In indie-netgaming@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Holmes"
><homeydont@h...> wrote:
> > You're all accumulating big piles of HP.
>
>Dude -- I have 3. That's hardly a big pile.

Hmm. The price you pay for being the center of attention so often.

>As for what the others are doing, I don't know, but I know that I
>have a tought time attaching stuff that comes up in play and still
>having a nest egg to keep me alive when you roll 5 1s in a row...

LOL. I'm a statistician. You're experiencing an over-reaction to what is
actually a not too statistically improbable set of events. You aren't
required to bump, that's your choice. Failure is a fun option, one that you
should consider more often. :-)

Mike

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Hey Chris,

Got ahold of Brian. We're on for the times agreed. Anyone else who wishes to
lurk on the game, please feel free. As I believ Mike's HQ game is that same
night, we will probably be using a different set of ooc and nar rooms..
#recoil_ooc and #recoil_nar, probably. For those who either don't know or don't
remember what happened the first session, a log of the game can be found at
http://members.cox.net/dariuswolfe/WDHome.html under the Games link.
>
> From: <dariuswolfe@...>
> Date: 2004/02/27 Fri PM 08:51:42 EST
> To: indie-netgaming@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [indie-netgaming] ReCoil
>
> Okay, gonna try to do this right. Chris and Brian(Brian's on the e-mail list,
isn't he?), how's this:
>
> 5pm PST Friday, Mar. 5th for Chris
> 6pm MST Friday, Mar. 5th for me
> 1pm (Aukland) Saturday, Mar 6th for Brian
>
> Good?
>
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>

Received from Brian in PMs today:

Sorry man, I know you're going to kill me, but it turns out we are busy today -
soem friend og my wife is having an end-of-summer barbeque this avo. Not someone
I even like, but I wont be popular if I try to get out of it.

I thik I can guarantee next Saturday though, if you and Chris aren't just sick
of me by now. Any earlier would be better too, although the agreed time would be
OK for at least 3 hours or so I think.

Let me know. Sorry man.

Brian.

Just as well I suppose. Now I can give Mike some grief in the HQ
game. ;)

I don't think I can do next Saturday. And there's no way I can play
any earlier. So, I'm not sure where that leaves us.

-Chris


--- In indie-netgaming@yahoogroups.com, <dariuswolfe@c...> wrote:
> Received from Brian in PMs today:
>
> Sorry man, I know you're going to kill me, but it turns out we are
busy today - soem friend og my wife is having an end-of-summer
barbeque this avo. Not someone I even like, but I wont be popular if
I try to get out of it.
>
> I thik I can guarantee next Saturday though, if you and Chris
aren't just sick of me by now. Any earlier would be better too,
although the agreed time would be OK for at least 3 hours or so I
think.
>
> Let me know. Sorry man.
>
> Brian.

I'm considering doing a one-shot of Pretender on Saturday night, at 8pm
Eastern. Ideally, we'd discuss the world set-up by email before the game
starts, to speed the game up.

http://ivanhoeunbound.com/pretender.html

Would anyone be interested?

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"I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night." --Milton

Oooh.  OOOH!  What do you think the chances are that we can get our
old group back together for "part II" of the interesting story we'd
started up?

--- In indie-netgaming@yahoogroups.com, Loki <xiombarg@i...> wrote:
> I'm considering doing a one-shot of Pretender on Saturday night, at
8pm
> Eastern. Ideally, we'd discuss the world set-up by email before the
game
> starts, to speed the game up.
>
> http://ivanhoeunbound.com/pretender.html
>
> Would anyone be interested?
>
> --
> Kirt "Loki" Dankmyer -- yet another homepage at
http://www.io.com/~xiombarg
> My opinions are my own. PGP public key available. Surreal poetry on
request.
> "I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night." --Milton

> Oooh.  OOOH!  What do you think the chances are that we can get our
> old group back together for "part II" of the interesting story we'd
> started up?

If we get the right players, right on. Otherwise we can simply steal bits
from the other game.

Anyhoo, if you want to discuss it further, I'm encouraging people to join
the "Ivanhoe Unbound" yahoo group list to discuss the details further,
since not all interested parties are on this list.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IvanhoeUnbound/

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>From: Robert McNamee <mcnameebob@...>
>
>Hi folks,
>
>Its very unlikely that I will be able to make this fridays HQ game, since
>an old friend from college is going to be in town staying with us... (ie
>Bob will be drinking, conversing, etc)
>
>better put me into the substitutes category

OK, y'all, Bob's not going to be the only one missing tonight, I think. So
if you're an alternate and want to play, pipe up here, or show up in the IRC
room to play!

Mike

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So, I picked this up on the cheap a few days ago, and I'm pretty
amused by it. It does the monster-catching-battling thing better than
BESM/Seizure Monsters, and I think the subject matter (cthulhuoid
beasties) is more appealing to the ING folk than the source
(saccharinely-cute cuddlies).

Play goes something like this:

Create your Trainer kid, of an age between 5 and 16. then pick some
scores for things like Trash Talking, Education, and some other odds
and ends. Grade Level is dependant on age.

Anytime you need to roll, you roll either 1, 2, or 3 dice, depending
on whether it's stupidly hard or just kinda tricky (hard = 1 die,
kinda tricky = 3 dice), and try and roll under one of your applicable
stats.

Your little monster buddies have Lovecraftian-appropriate Types (as
opposed to the Pokemon standards of Grass, Fighting, Ghost, et
cetera, it's more like Non-Euclidian or Slimy or Undead, and so on).

Then the trainers take their beasties and go beat up other beasties.
The "dungeons" are more likely a 2 storey house or small forest than
a 30-level crypt. Still plenty of battlin', that's the goal.

Anyway, not a lot of -deep- gameplay, but if 2 or 3 people wanna give
this a shot some evening, let me know.

--mouse