Coop ploughs through yet more job applications and writing projects, while congratulating:
GUTHRIE: Level 51
VJF: Level 17
Jolly: 38,000 B/P

Listening to:
Foo Fighters - The Pretender
Foo Fighters - Times Like These

At 9/27/12 09:33 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 9/26/12 04:20 AM, Coop wrote:

At 9/25/12 09:21 AM, Bahamut wrote: Alright then, Lisa Lisa Lisa!

She's lovely, but she's in a very stable relationship and she has a child. I'm not a homewrecker.

You know, I forgot why we were talking about this.

You were trying to get me to make a pass at my hairdresser. Not going to happen.

And seeing as it's London, don't expect me to help out anyone if I'm at my sister's small flat.

I wouldn't expect you to.

Unless it turns out they're in the middle of moving out and staying at their place is simply not an option this time around. They do need to find a better flat and I think they can manage that soon but it's a matter of when.

Yeah, I think most people in our age demographic need to find better accommodation.

At 9/26/12 01:53 AM, Bahamut wrote: London meet in January confirmed. YESYESYESYESYES

Proper meet? I'll have to get some cash together.

I'll only need money for transport (60) food (10) and booze.... Uh, I dunno how much that will be. I'd say around 100 for the whole weekend is actually not bad. Then again, I could consider day 0 better this time and I won't bother with the aftermath after last time.

I've not got a clue how much I need, but it's car time and that puts a lot higher a demand on my resources.

At 9/27/12 01:10 PM, Odyssic wrote:

At 9/27/12 04:10 AM, Coop wrote: Well, it works both ways - Dance of Death and El Dorado stuck straight in my head and they're two of my favourites from Maiden.

Speaking of Gangnam Style, it played TWICE at Uni today. I would love it if they just played some piano or something because thats the stuff I love most.

I've not watched the video in 2 days and I'm trying my best to avoid it - hence watching the Foo Fighters at Wembley at as high a volume that I can get away with.

At 9/27/12 05:39 PM, simon wrote:

At 9/26/12 09:28 PM, Addict wrote: 20,000 Saves.

I find it harder & harder every year to rack up a reasonable amount of blams.

I've been on 9,000+ blams for 2-3 years now, I'm never going to make it into the pentalist at this rate.

I could feel like that about 30k Blams, but just 11 more now!

At 9/28/12 01:58 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/27/12 04:10 AM, Coop wrote: The Cold War USSR would have given modern day Germany a run for its money, as would have America. Wow, can you imagine the Cold War in the internet age? Espionage via Twitter...

People always say "the cold war is over", but I'm not sure if I can believe them or not.

Well, judging by the way that Russia and China are dealing with Syria, it's still in full swing.

But there is some dramatic music after Zoidberg demands MOOOOORRREEE!

That's just a note or three. Hardly Beethoven's 5th, is it?

It still is "dramatic music".

Oh, but now you're just bandying terms around. Like in Fantasia, when the narrator says "would the soundtrack kindly produce a sound?" and it produces a random sound that lasts less than a second. Still a sound, but not what we were after.

The party rigs up a way of opening the trap again, but the argument continues, until the trap shuts once more. DM getting frustrated by this point, when they open the trap for the third time, the ceiling opens, to dump a load of refuse on the rogue. The party lets him drown in it.

Nice story. But the DM should never get frustrated. Nothing better than a party that nearly kills themselves due to stupid arguments. Less work for the DM. ^^

Oh, I've learned from these issues and gone on to run my own games. I think I'm doing marginally better.

Do ghouls still have to go to the bathroom? I mean, they aren't exactly alive...

They're still human. Just blood bound mortals, with a little Potence and possibly Fortitude added.

Oh, right. Maybe I was thinking of some other Ghouls from some other universe.

Ghouls in D&D are dead - they eat rotting flesh and can paralyse just by touch.

On a not totally unrelated side note: I once again stumbled upon "Straight Talk on D&D": http://www.chick.com/articles/dnd.asp
Make sure to also read the follow up "Should a Christian play D&D?".

I'll check it in a bit - a little busy today.

Maybe it wasn't the clan itself that the others didn't like. Maybe it was because we where gambling all along. With card tricks, shell games, and so on. Best of all: The Gamemaster didn't like us as well (yeah, maybe our characters where a bit annoying... ^^). At one time he said: "Why on earth are the two fucking Ravnos still alive?". Good times...

I could have played that into an NPC encounter. "And yet the two members of house Ravnos still live? One day, their luck will run out, I am sure."

There where no NPCs around. We where in the middle of an ocean and our helicopter just crashed. Because the pilot turned into a vampire as well...

Oh... that's not fun.

6

Listening to:

Ghost Tower - Curse of the Black Blood

At 9/28/12 01:58 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/27/12 09:33 AM, Bahamut wrote: Honestly, I would speak to him if he was online but I never get that chance. He must have been online when I have been as well so he should have some decency to say hi once in a while. And yes, I have tried PM'ing him as well; no response.

This makes me sad. :(

I have Steam open all the time so the best he can do is check for me or Coop whenever he has the chance but nope.

At 9/28/12 02:59 AM, Jolly wrote: 38,000 B/P Points!

When did Auz and reverend stop posting here?

For a while now.

At 9/28/12 05:34 AM, Coop wrote:

At 9/27/12 09:33 AM, Bahamut wrote: You know, I forgot why we were talking about this.

You were trying to get me to make a pass at my hairdresser. Not going to happen.

Oh yeah, that was it. I still thought it was amusing.

Unless it turns out they're in the middle of moving out and staying at their place is simply not an option this time around. They do need to find a better flat and I think they can manage that soon but it's a matter of when.

Yeah, I think most people in our age demographic need to find better accommodation.

If our age demographic had a better chance at getting work.

I'll only need money for transport (60) food (10) and booze.... Uh, I dunno how much that will be. I'd say around 100 for the whole weekend is actually not bad. Then again, I could consider day 0 better this time and I won't bother with the aftermath after last time.

I've not got a clue how much I need, but it's car time and that puts a lot higher a demand on my resources.

I honestly wonder how long I'll remain without a car. In this modern age, it seems better off not using a car.

Hello Newgrounders, I have reached level 41 which looks to be one of the better icons on here.

Up at 6 in the morning and lived through a midnight Magic prerelase. Fun times.

At 9/28/12 08:31 PM, bhsqad15 wrote: I thought stat threads weren't allowed on NG

As a general rule they are. But this thread was specifically made for posting your Stats/Level Ups.

oh yes

Coop tries to remain sane in the face of his nephew's party, while congratulating:
NewsReporter: Level 41
darknessdweller: 5th NG Berfday
ViceFullbuster: Level 57

Listening to:
Mr. Mister - Broken Wings

At 9/28/12 07:57 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 9/28/12 05:34 AM, Coop wrote:

At 9/27/12 09:33 AM, Bahamut wrote: Unless it turns out they're in the middle of moving out and staying at their place is simply not an option this time around. They do need to find a better flat and I think they can manage that soon but it's a matter of when.

Yeah, I think most people in our age demographic need to find better accommodation.

If our age demographic had a better chance at getting work.

It's not quite that black and white. It will come, you've got to be positive.

I'll only need money for transport (60) food (10) and booze.... Uh, I dunno how much that will be. I'd say around 100 for the whole weekend is actually not bad. Then again, I could consider day 0 better this time and I won't bother with the aftermath after last time.

I've not got a clue how much I need, but it's car time and that puts a lot higher a demand on my resources.

I honestly wonder how long I'll remain without a car. In this modern age, it seems better off not using a car.

To a certain extent, I agree. I think that it's too expensive to go and hire a car, just when you need one at the moment. Sad, but true.

At 9/28/12 08:31 PM, bhsqad15 wrote: I thought stat threads weren't allowed on NG

And why would you think that, with quite a few moderators, past and present, posting in here?

In answer to your query, yes, they are banned, on the wider world, but this keeps it all in one place, thus not annoying the layman of Newgrounds.

18,000 exp! Noice.

I reached the top 50 of the top medal point users list in under six months (4/12/12 - 9/30/12) and fewer than 250 games (picky -- I played 248 different flashies). Could this level up lounge be for milestones under specific conditions as well, or do they not matter? Anyhow, my 86,905 points brought me to #49 on that list of top medal scorers.

At 9/28/12 05:34 AM, Coop wrote:

At 9/28/12 01:58 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/27/12 04:10 AM, Coop wrote: The Cold War USSR would have given modern day Germany a run for its money, as would have America. Wow, can you imagine the Cold War in the internet age? Espionage via Twitter...

People always say "the cold war is over", but I'm not sure if I can believe them or not.

Well, judging by the way that Russia and China are dealing with Syria, it's still in full swing.

And I wouldn't be surprised, if the "old rivals" USA and Russia would still be snooping around in each others affairs.

But there is some dramatic music after Zoidberg demands MOOOOORRREEE!

That's just a note or three. Hardly Beethoven's 5th, is it?

It still is "dramatic music".

Oh, but now you're just bandying terms around. Like in Fantasia, when the narrator says "would the soundtrack kindly produce a sound?" and it produces a random sound that lasts less than a second. Still a sound, but not what we were after.

I'm not. It doesn't matter if it's only three notes or less. It sounds dramatic, it is music. So, it's "dramatic music". The Halloween theme (the main part of it) has only three notes as well: C, F and C#.

Nice story. But the DM should never get frustrated. Nothing better than a party that nearly kills themselves due to stupid arguments. Less work for the DM. ^^

Oh, I've learned from these issues and gone on to run my own games. I think I'm doing marginally better.

It also depends a lot on the players. In my old group, we more often than not got ourselves into trouble because of stupid actions from the players... ok, it didn't really help that one of the characters had a really low intelligence (he was a fighter, so... ^^). So the player only played his character. And he did it very well.

Do ghouls still have to go to the bathroom? I mean, they aren't exactly alive...

They're still human. Just blood bound mortals, with a little Potence and possibly Fortitude added.

Oh, right. Maybe I was thinking of some other Ghouls from some other universe.

Ghouls in D&D are dead - they eat rotting flesh and can paralyse just by touch.

Never encountered Ghouls in D&D, we didn't play it that much.

I could have played that into an NPC encounter. "And yet the two members of house Ravnos still live? One day, their luck will run out, I am sure."

There where no NPCs around. We where in the middle of an ocean and our helicopter just crashed. Because the pilot turned into a vampire as well...

Oh... that's not fun.

Good thing Vampires are already dead. We managed to "survive" (ie, stay undead).

At 9/28/12 07:57 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 9/28/12 01:58 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/27/12 09:33 AM, Bahamut wrote: Honestly, I would speak to him if he was online but I never get that chance. He must have been online when I have been as well so he should have some decency to say hi once in a while. And yes, I have tried PM'ing him as well; no response.

This makes me sad. :(

I have Steam open all the time so the best he can do is check for me or Coop whenever he has the chance but nope.

Maybe I should shoot him a message on last.fm and see if he replies.

4

Listening to:

Grand Magus - Iron Will

Thanks to:

Odyssic
Coop

At 9/28/12 09:28 AM, Odyssic wrote:

At 9/28/12 07:57 AM, Bahamut wrote: 6

Countdowns are back!

And they're still here but not for long.

At 9/29/12 09:32 AM, Coop wrote:

At 9/28/12 07:57 AM, Bahamut wrote: If our age demographic had a better chance at getting work.

It's not quite that black and white. It will come, you've got to be positive.

I tried that before, it always backfired.

I honestly wonder how long I'll remain without a car. In this modern age, it seems better off not using a car.

To a certain extent, I agree. I think that it's too expensive to go and hire a car, just when you need one at the moment. Sad, but true.

This is why I'm more reliant on public transport. Sucks for getting buses but I suppose I can't complain about the trains.

At 9/30/12 08:15 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/28/12 07:57 AM, Bahamut wrote: I have Steam open all the time so the best he can do is check for me or Coop whenever he has the chance but nope.

Maybe I should shoot him a message on last.fm and see if he replies.

I'm not sure how much he even uses his Last.fm account now.

Hmm... opera is making things really hard for me to read the quoted text. Hopefully fixed for the morning, I've been really shitty today, after getting wasted yesterday (SoCo, Jagerbombs, half a pint of foul beer and a shot of Gin - don't ask), before working on the cricket pitch this morning and heading off to my nephew's birthday party this afternoon.

Great stuff.

22000 EXP!

Oh good grief, it's Monday morning... Congratulations to:
Wegra: 18,000 Experience
OrangeGiant: Top 50 Medal Points
Criminal-23: Top 1,000 B/Per
Addict: 21,000 B/P
Powerage: 22,000 Experience
Martin: 58,000 B/P

At 9/30/12 08:15 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/28/12 05:34 AM, Coop wrote:

At 9/28/12 01:58 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/27/12 04:10 AM, Coop wrote: The Cold War USSR would have given modern day Germany a run for its money, as would have America. Wow, can you imagine the Cold War in the internet age? Espionage via Twitter...

People always say "the cold war is over", but I'm not sure if I can believe them or not.

Well, judging by the way that Russia and China are dealing with Syria, it's still in full swing.

And I wouldn't be surprised, if the "old rivals" USA and Russia would still be snooping around in each others affairs.

Something tells me there was a little Cold War about the death of the former Russian agent, Alexander Litvinenko, who was killed using Polonium-210, to poison him with radiation.

But there is some dramatic music after Zoidberg demands MOOOOORRREEE!

That's just a note or three. Hardly Beethoven's 5th, is it?

It still is "dramatic music".

Oh, but now you're just bandying terms around. Like in Fantasia, when the narrator says "would the soundtrack kindly produce a sound?" and it produces a random sound that lasts less than a second. Still a sound, but not what we were after.

I'm not. It doesn't matter if it's only three notes or less. It sounds dramatic, it is music. So, it's "dramatic music". The Halloween theme (the main part of it) has only three notes as well: C, F and C#.

Alright, I conceed. Memory fail FTL :(

Nice story. But the DM should never get frustrated. Nothing better than a party that nearly kills themselves due to stupid arguments. Less work for the DM. ^^

Oh, I've learned from these issues and gone on to run my own games. I think I'm doing marginally better.

It also depends a lot on the players. In my old group, we more often than not got ourselves into trouble because of stupid actions from the players... ok, it didn't really help that one of the characters had a really low intelligence (he was a fighter, so... ^^). So the player only played his character. And he did it very well.

Fair enough - I've had experiences of players who play to break the game. Just how it goes, I'm afraid.

Do ghouls still have to go to the bathroom? I mean, they aren't exactly alive...

They're still human. Just blood bound mortals, with a little Potence and possibly Fortitude added.

Oh, right. Maybe I was thinking of some other Ghouls from some other universe.

Ghouls in D&D are dead - they eat rotting flesh and can paralyse just by touch.

Never encountered Ghouls in D&D, we didn't play it that much.

Fair enough - not everyone's cup of tea, I suppose.

I could have played that into an NPC encounter. "And yet the two members of house Ravnos still live? One day, their luck will run out, I am sure."

There where no NPCs around. We where in the middle of an ocean and our helicopter just crashed. Because the pilot turned into a vampire as well...

Oh... that's not fun.

Good thing Vampires are already dead. We managed to "survive" (ie, stay undead).

Well, the helicopter was likely to explode, so rotshreck tests all around!

At 9/30/12 10:03 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 9/29/12 09:32 AM, Coop wrote:

At 9/28/12 07:57 AM, Bahamut wrote: I honestly wonder how long I'll remain without a car. In this modern age, it seems better off not using a car.

To a certain extent, I agree. I think that it's too expensive to go and hire a car, just when you need one at the moment. Sad, but true.

This is why I'm more reliant on public transport. Sucks for getting buses but I suppose I can't complain about the trains.

Well, at least you have a heads up, when it comes to London meets. My setting is too rural for me to rely on public transport. If I relied on anything like that, I'd take the bike to work sooner.

Listening to:

Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill. This. Is. Scary!

At 10/1/12 04:11 AM, Coop wrote:

At 9/30/12 10:03 AM, Bahamut wrote: This is why I'm more reliant on public transport. Sucks for getting buses but I suppose I can't complain about the trains.

Well, at least you have a heads up, when it comes to London meets. My setting is too rural for me to rely on public transport. If I relied on anything like that, I'd take the bike to work sooner.

I'll be able to book the train tickets within two weeks seeing as by then it will be 13 weeks in advance. Best train ticket prices then and this time I can easily settle with day 0 of the meet but no screwing around for the aftermath.

At 10/1/12 06:58 AM, dragoswrath wrote: This is the...

the best thread in existence. It's spread far over 2,000 pages from a single retarded topic, and no mod has stopped it.

Except for some who did try but failed. Malachy did lock this thread, though.

alright you cocksuckers, listen up. i'm a level 21 now. i've come a long way from that gay level 20 fireman's axe thing. now i mean serious business, and i DEMAND RESPECT. >:(
also getting Captain in a few days or so :)

At 9/30/12 10:03 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 9/30/12 08:15 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/28/12 07:57 AM, Bahamut wrote: I have Steam open all the time so the best he can do is check for me or Coop whenever he has the chance but nope.

Maybe I should shoot him a message on last.fm and see if he replies.

I'm not sure how much he even uses his Last.fm account now.

Last seen: August 2012
So, not too long ago.

At 9/30/12 04:54 PM, Coop wrote: Hmm... opera is making things really hard for me to read the quoted text.

Hm, no problems here at all with quoted text.

At 10/1/12 04:11 AM, Coop wrote:

At 9/30/12 08:15 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/28/12 05:34 AM, Coop wrote:

At 9/28/12 01:58 AM, Haggard wrote: People always say "the cold war is over", but I'm not sure if I can believe them or not.

Well, judging by the way that Russia and China are dealing with Syria, it's still in full swing.

And I wouldn't be surprised, if the "old rivals" USA and Russia would still be snooping around in each others affairs.

Something tells me there was a little Cold War about the death of the former Russian agent, Alexander Litvinenko, who was killed using Polonium-210, to poison him with radiation.

The most expensive assasination of all time.

But there is some dramatic music after Zoidberg demands MOOOOORRREEE!

That's just a note or three. Hardly Beethoven's 5th, is it?

It still is "dramatic music".

Oh, but now you're just bandying terms around. Like in Fantasia, when the narrator says "would the soundtrack kindly produce a sound?" and it produces a random sound that lasts less than a second. Still a sound, but not what we were after.

I'm not. It doesn't matter if it's only three notes or less. It sounds dramatic, it is music. So, it's "dramatic music". The Halloween theme (the main part of it) has only three notes as well: C, F and C#.

Alright, I conceed. Memory fail FTL :(

I AM ZE WINNAR!

Nice story. But the DM should never get frustrated. Nothing better than a party that nearly kills themselves due to stupid arguments. Less work for the DM. ^^

Oh, I've learned from these issues and gone on to run my own games. I think I'm doing marginally better.

It also depends a lot on the players. In my old group, we more often than not got ourselves into trouble because of stupid actions from the players... ok, it didn't really help that one of the characters had a really low intelligence (he was a fighter, so... ^^). So the player only played his character. And he did it very well.

Fair enough - I've had experiences of players who play to break the game. Just how it goes, I'm afraid.

Nothing beats good play of character. When I first started, I took the easy way out and played a Malkav. So any blunder I would do, I could blame it on me being not totally sane, haha.

They're still human. Just blood bound mortals, with a little Potence and possibly Fortitude added.

Oh, right. Maybe I was thinking of some other Ghouls from some other universe.

Ghouls in D&D are dead - they eat rotting flesh and can paralyse just by touch.

Never encountered Ghouls in D&D, we didn't play it that much.

Fair enough - not everyone's cup of tea, I suppose.

Well, the world is great. I enjoy Baldur's Gate and other D&D based computer games. But the system is too fucked up to be really enjoyable in a P&P session.

I could have played that into an NPC encounter. "And yet the two members of house Ravnos still live? One day, their luck will run out, I am sure."

There where no NPCs around. We where in the middle of an ocean and our helicopter just crashed. Because the pilot turned into a vampire as well...

Oh... that's not fun.

Good thing Vampires are already dead. We managed to "survive" (ie, stay undead).

Well, the helicopter was likely to explode, so rotshreck tests all around!

I don't know if it exploded or not. But in a group of 7 (I think) only 1 Ravnos survived (the others where "unconsius", ie they didn't have any blood left), and he had enough blood points left to bring one member of the group back to unlife. So of course he chose the other Ravnos, hehe.

Level 32!

I actually like this icon.

Level 17. Not that I don't like the nightstick, but I don't like it.

Oh hey, I passed 23,000 saves at some point today. That's a thing, right?

Next milestone passed 20,000 Exp. Normally I would say it isn't a big deal but for this achievement I will make the exception.

Coop prepares for the worst day in a few weeks, while congratulating:
Cool-points: Level 21
sandwich-eater: Level 32
Spretnaz: Level 17
DiMono: 23,000 Saves
LittleWashu: 20,000 Experience

At 10/1/12 06:58 AM, dragoswrath wrote: This is the...

the best thread in existence. It's spread far over 2,000 pages from a single retarded topic, and no mod has stopped it.

And most of the mods post in it from time to time.

More conversation later - gotta get going :(

2

Listening to:

Witchcraft - Firewood

At 10/1/12 03:31 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/30/12 10:03 AM, Bahamut wrote: I'm not sure how much he even uses his Last.fm account now.

Last seen: August 2012
So, not too long ago.

And the odds of trying to steer away from it?

At 10/1/12 03:45 PM, Odyssic wrote:

At 10/1/12 09:16 AM, Bahamut wrote: Except for some who did try but failed. Malachy did lock this thread, though.

Really, I don't remember this, what was the reason?

Only for lulz.

At 10/2/12 01:03 AM, LittleWashu wrote: Next milestone passed 20,000 Exp. Normally I would say it isn't a big deal but for this achievement I will make the exception.

WOOOOOOOOO! But seriously, good job on that!

Coop feels sick to the stomach over work. Congratulations to:
No-one. Perhaps today is the day... who knows.

At 10/1/12 09:16 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 10/1/12 04:11 AM, Coop wrote:

At 9/30/12 10:03 AM, Bahamut wrote: This is why I'm more reliant on public transport. Sucks for getting buses but I suppose I can't complain about the trains.

Well, at least you have a heads up, when it comes to London meets. My setting is too rural for me to rely on public transport. If I relied on anything like that, I'd take the bike to work sooner.

I'll be able to book the train tickets within two weeks seeing as by then it will be 13 weeks in advance. Best train ticket prices then and this time I can easily settle with day 0 of the meet but no screwing around for the aftermath.

I've got to get a job sorted - I'm just spending the few minutes before work being really pissed off about trying to book a hotel in French. No disrespect meant to any Frenchies reading this, because the guy wanted me to change a hotel booking 36 hours before the guys arrive, for a date they aren't booked for.

At 10/1/12 03:31 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/30/12 04:54 PM, Coop wrote: Hmm... opera is making things really hard for me to read the quoted text.

Hm, no problems here at all with quoted text.

It probably just needed to restart. I was not in the mood, anyway, but the black was all grey, so the quoted text practically looked the same. All fixed now.

At 10/1/12 04:11 AM, Coop wrote:

At 9/30/12 08:15 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/28/12 05:34 AM, Coop wrote:

At 9/28/12 01:58 AM, Haggard wrote: People always say "the cold war is over", but I'm not sure if I can believe them or not.

Well, judging by the way that Russia and China are dealing with Syria, it's still in full swing.

And I wouldn't be surprised, if the "old rivals" USA and Russia would still be snooping around in each others affairs.

Something tells me there was a little Cold War about the death of the former Russian agent, Alexander Litvinenko, who was killed using Polonium-210, to poison him with radiation.

The most expensive assasination of all time.

That we know of.

Nice story. But the DM should never get frustrated. Nothing better than a party that nearly kills themselves due to stupid arguments. Less work for the DM. ^^

Oh, I've learned from these issues and gone on to run my own games. I think I'm doing marginally better.

It also depends a lot on the players. In my old group, we more often than not got ourselves into trouble because of stupid actions from the players... ok, it didn't really help that one of the characters had a really low intelligence (he was a fighter, so... ^^). So the player only played his character. And he did it very well.

Fair enough - I've had experiences of players who play to break the game. Just how it goes, I'm afraid.

Nothing beats good play of character. When I first started, I took the easy way out and played a Malkav. So any blunder I would do, I could blame it on me being not totally sane, haha.

My first character was an Assimaar - I had to assassinate the prince of the town, then when that failed, I ran. I was blood hunted in a "LARP" fashion, which I evaded with a change of clothes and the help of a few friends from college playing pool in the local pubs.

They're still human. Just blood bound mortals, with a little Potence and possibly Fortitude added.

Oh, right. Maybe I was thinking of some other Ghouls from some other universe.

Ghouls in D&D are dead - they eat rotting flesh and can paralyse just by touch.

Never encountered Ghouls in D&D, we didn't play it that much.

Fair enough - not everyone's cup of tea, I suppose.

Well, the world is great. I enjoy Baldur's Gate and other D&D based computer games. But the system is too fucked up to be really enjoyable in a P&P session.

It's getting better - look at how bad the system was in the 70s.

I could have played that into an NPC encounter. "And yet the two members of house Ravnos still live? One day, their luck will run out, I am sure."

There where no NPCs around. We where in the middle of an ocean and our helicopter just crashed. Because the pilot turned into a vampire as well...

Oh... that's not fun.

Good thing Vampires are already dead. We managed to "survive" (ie, stay undead).

Well, the helicopter was likely to explode, so rotshreck tests all around!

I don't know if it exploded or not. But in a group of 7 (I think) only 1 Ravnos survived (the others where "unconsius", ie they didn't have any blood left), and he had enough blood points left to bring one member of the group back to unlife. So of course he chose the other Ravnos, hehe.

Well, if they can find any cattle around, they can sort out the rest coming back. Emergency crews have enough blood, too ;)

Listening to:
Death - Suicide Machine
Death - Together As One

At 10/2/12 11:59 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 10/1/12 03:31 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/30/12 10:03 AM, Bahamut wrote: I'm not sure how much he even uses his Last.fm account now.

Last seen: August 2012
So, not too long ago.

And the odds of trying to steer away from it?

I guess he wouldn't reply anyway, if he doesn't reply to your messages.

At 10/3/12 04:01 AM, Coop wrote: Coop feels sick to the stomach over work. Congratulations to:

Good thing that I don't have to work today. It's National Day!

At 10/1/12 03:31 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/30/12 04:54 PM, Coop wrote: Hmm... opera is making things really hard for me to read the quoted text.

Hm, no problems here at all with quoted text.

It probably just needed to restart. I was not in the mood, anyway, but the black was all grey, so the quoted text practically looked the same. All fixed now.

Sounds like some CSS error (like, the CSS not being fully loaded).

At 10/1/12 04:11 AM, Coop wrote: Something tells me there was a little Cold War about the death of the former Russian agent, Alexander Litvinenko, who was killed using Polonium-210, to poison him with radiation.

The most expensive assasination of all time.

That we know of.

It's also one of the most weird assasinations of all time.

It also depends a lot on the players. In my old group, we more often than not got ourselves into trouble because of stupid actions from the players... ok, it didn't really help that one of the characters had a really low intelligence (he was a fighter, so... ^^). So the player only played his character. And he did it very well.

Fair enough - I've had experiences of players who play to break the game. Just how it goes, I'm afraid.

Nothing beats good play of character. When I first started, I took the easy way out and played a Malkav. So any blunder I would do, I could blame it on me being not totally sane, haha.

My first character was an Assimaar - I had to assassinate the prince of the town, then when that failed, I ran. I was blood hunted in a "LARP" fashion, which I evaded with a change of clothes and the help of a few friends from college playing pool in the local pubs.

You mean Assamite? And I never played LARP, I always found it very strange...

Oh, right. Maybe I was thinking of some other Ghouls from some other universe.

Ghouls in D&D are dead - they eat rotting flesh and can paralyse just by touch.

Never encountered Ghouls in D&D, we didn't play it that much.

Fair enough - not everyone's cup of tea, I suppose.

Well, the world is great. I enjoy Baldur's Gate and other D&D based computer games. But the system is too fucked up to be really enjoyable in a P&P session.

It's getting better - look at how bad the system was in the 70s.

Yeah, first we had "Advanced" D&D and then everything was even more confusing...

There where no NPCs around. We where in the middle of an ocean and our helicopter just crashed. Because the pilot turned into a vampire as well...

Oh... that's not fun.

Good thing Vampires are already dead. We managed to "survive" (ie, stay undead).

Well, the helicopter was likely to explode, so rotshreck tests all around!

I don't know if it exploded or not. But in a group of 7 (I think) only 1 Ravnos survived (the others where "unconsius", ie they didn't have any blood left), and he had enough blood points left to bring one member of the group back to unlife. So of course he chose the other Ravnos, hehe.

Well, if they can find any cattle around, they can sort out the rest coming back. Emergency crews have enough blood, too ;)

I think we never continued that adventure for too long after the helicopter crashed. Too bad. Would have been fun to go hunting for some fishes!

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Listening to:

Witchcraft - Firewood

At 10/3/12 04:01 AM, Coop wrote: Coop feels sick to the stomach over work. Congratulations to:
No-one. Perhaps today is the day... who knows.

Today is the day?

At 10/1/12 09:16 AM, Bahamut wrote: I'll be able to book the train tickets within two weeks seeing as by then it will be 13 weeks in advance. Best train ticket prices then and this time I can easily settle with day 0 of the meet but no screwing around for the aftermath.

I've got to get a job sorted - I'm just spending the few minutes before work being really pissed off about trying to book a hotel in French. No disrespect meant to any Frenchies reading this, because the guy wanted me to change a hotel booking 36 hours before the guys arrive, for a date they aren't booked for.

When my money builds up a bit next week, I should easily book train tickets to cover London. I know I'm lucky that I don't have hotel expenses to cover down there and I'm most grateful for that this time. Over the time my money is taking a toll so it's only a matter of time until bankruptcy.

At 10/3/12 09:59 AM, Bahamut wrote: 1

What is this? Reply only??

At 10/3/12 10:44 AM, the-phantom-spancker wrote:

At 10/3/12 09:59 AM, Bahamut wrote: 1

What is this? Reply only??

You sure showed up at the right time. This Saturday your very own thread here will be 10 years old. Crazy to imagine a thread on the internet has lasted this long with constant activity.

Whoo only took me a month to get my last 30 exp, but I hit level 38! Back to regular nightly deposits.

Coop types out cricket minutes, while longing for progress. Congratulations to:
fuzzum111: Level 38

Listening to:
Europe - The Final Countdown

At 10/3/12 08:31 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 10/3/12 04:01 AM, Coop wrote: Coop feels sick to the stomach over work. Congratulations to:

Good thing that I don't have to work today. It's National Day!

Trying to sort out hotels in France with 36 hours notice, when it appears that the centre of Dijon is fully booked... Great.

At 10/1/12 03:31 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 9/30/12 04:54 PM, Coop wrote: Hmm... opera is making things really hard for me to read the quoted text.

Hm, no problems here at all with quoted text.

It probably just needed to restart. I was not in the mood, anyway, but the black was all grey, so the quoted text practically looked the same. All fixed now.

Sounds like some CSS error (like, the CSS not being fully loaded).

Well, whatever it was, it's fixed now :)

At 10/1/12 04:11 AM, Coop wrote: Something tells me there was a little Cold War about the death of the former Russian agent, Alexander Litvinenko, who was killed using Polonium-210, to poison him with radiation.

The most expensive assasination of all time.

That we know of.

It's also one of the most weird assasinations of all time.

Yes, but some of those have been really weird. Particularly the ones that look like accidents / suicide.

It also depends a lot on the players. In my old group, we more often than not got ourselves into trouble because of stupid actions from the players... ok, it didn't really help that one of the characters had a really low intelligence (he was a fighter, so... ^^). So the player only played his character. And he did it very well.

Fair enough - I've had experiences of players who play to break the game. Just how it goes, I'm afraid.

Nothing beats good play of character. When I first started, I took the easy way out and played a Malkav. So any blunder I would do, I could blame it on me being not totally sane, haha.

My first character was an Assimaar - I had to assassinate the prince of the town, then when that failed, I ran. I was blood hunted in a "LARP" fashion, which I evaded with a change of clothes and the help of a few friends from college playing pool in the local pubs.

You mean Assamite? And I never played LARP, I always found it very strange...

Yes, Assimaar is a plane-touched D&D race (half-angel) Driving into the centre of Worcester, pulling up at a parking space and popping the boot, to the lads grabbing their gear, including a SPAS-12 replica shotgun, for BB rounds was a little worrying. Especially when the lad in question grabs the gun (with no ammunition) and says "right lads, off to the bank!"

Well, the world is great. I enjoy Baldur's Gate and other D&D based computer games. But the system is too fucked up to be really enjoyable in a P&P session.

It's getting better - look at how bad the system was in the 70s.

Yeah, first we had "Advanced" D&D and then everything was even more confusing...

Advanced D&D still had THAC0 scores. Nowadays, you get an armour class of 10, plus your armour mod, dexterity mod (reduced for armour manoeuvrability), a modifier for the dodge feat, on one attacker per round, plus any cover, shield or spell / magic items you have. That number is equal to what the attacker must roll on the d20 to hit you. Their base attack bonus, plus strength (or dexterity - feats apply) modifier, plus any magical bonuses. Much easier to work out.

I don't know if it exploded or not. But in a group of 7 (I think) only 1 Ravnos survived (the others where "unconsius", ie they didn't have any blood left), and he had enough blood points left to bring one member of the group back to unlife. So of course he chose the other Ravnos, hehe.

Well, if they can find any cattle around, they can sort out the rest coming back. Emergency crews have enough blood, too ;)

I think we never continued that adventure for too long after the helicopter crashed. Too bad. Would have been fun to go hunting for some fishes!

"Hey, I though you said that Troy McLure was dead."
"No, what I said was: 'he sleeps with the fishes.' You see..."
"Uh, Tony, please, no. I just ate a whole plate of dingamagoo."

At 10/3/12 09:59 AM, Bahamut wrote: 1

Can't help but think that this was my countdown all along :P

At 10/3/12 04:01 AM, Coop wrote: Coop feels sick to the stomach over work. Congratulations to:
No-one. Perhaps today is the day... who knows.

Today is the day?

Apparently not. If it's not today, I'll be peeved.