For when real life intrudes.
Timeslot: 7:00 AM EST.
As for gamestart, I don't have a concrete date nailed down yet. Late December or the start of January. Will update when I know for sure.
I am aiming to start the first Saturday of the new year (Jan. 5th) if that works for everyone.
Works for me.
Works for me as well!
ciiid
are you DST'd
I am. Don't worry about it. I'll be around whenever necessary.
(Do mention when DST becomes relevant for the rest of you though.)
Advance notice of Cid nonexistence April 20th.
Please note whatever vacations people have coming up for near future planning, as it sounded like we're going to have a bundle of absences shortly?
It seems likely I'd miss 27/4, 4/5, 11/5.
For me it'll be the 4th, 11th, and 18th of May.
I may not be able to make this Saturday. Not set in stone yet and I'll know for sure tomorrow.
Confirmed, definitely missing tomorrow. Sorry.
No worries. I could use a weekend off after three months straight!
I'll be gone from the 20th of April through to the 12th of May or so. That's like 4 weeks gone.
In sum:
-4/20 out due to absence of GM.
-5/4 and 5/11 out due to complete absence of players
-Eb alone is present 4/27
-Rat and Cor alone present on 5/18
-Full group back on 5/27
I may try to do something with available parties 4/27 and 5/18 if said parties are up for it, just to keep momentum from being totally lost.
No game next weekend. Cat's fault.
Actually, it occurs to me I could split the two of you up if there's interest? Lemme know, Saturday morning is the only part of next weekend that's spoken for.
I will be out this Saturday. Funeral, extended family. (Don't give me condolences or anything, I can't stand that.)
Gaming will resume next weekend, barring further misfortune.
I'm going to miss tomorrow on account of family.
Noted.
Eb/Rat: any interest on running with just the two of you tomorrow? It does make some sense that Franceska would pass on visiting the local brothel.
I have been meaning to say, on a similar note, that if there is anything of local interest to a particular PC but not so much to the others, I'm open to side sessions for that. Since we're in a city right now, there's opportunity and reasonable excuse for one person to be off on their own for a day. Not so much a thing that can happen while you're out in the planar wilderness, figure we might as well take advantage while we can, and in the interest of efficiency it might help streamline whatever local politicking you mean to do anyway.
Which might be nice considering that I do have two weekends of nonexistence coming up (7/20 and 8/24). I packed in plenty of stuff to do/happen in this town, but at the same time I don't want us to be here forever, right?
I'm happy to take the day off if one of us isn't around.
As for stuff to do in the town, Julia might be interested in their catacombs/mortuary if they have one, especially if there are any interesting corpses to be found.
7/20 is incidentally convenient since I wasn't going to be around either.
Redundant anyway since Rat and Cid are already absent, but I won't be around on the 20th either!
I'm having internet troubles and my phone hotspot isn't working either.
I'll miss the 28th and the 5th as I'll be in Gran Canaria those days.
I'll miss the 5th as well due to being in Greece.
I cannot state this emphatically enough: FUCK THIS WEEK.
I have no intention of doing anything tomorrow morning that requires being conscious at a respectable hour. Rat, I can always just catch you next weekend when everyone else is out. Cor, Sunday a possibility? It's probably better I don't have to multitask anyway.
I probably won't be there this weekend since I am off to celebrate nupitals.
Impending nupitals.
blargh
Okay. Confirm ahead of time if possible?
Yeah, pretty certain I won't be there.
But don't let that stop you running stuff. Steph would try and sort out the captured girls, and then chat up her Rule 63'd clone.
There is no Rule 63. There's just players uncannily predicting pregame planning. (I have even had to rename NPCs because of this.)
Fran/Julia could try and talk some intel out of the surviving locals tomorrow if you guys want to avoid a total dead weekend?
I'd much rather roll around in my cool new skelesnake, but I guess I could do both.
Also I'm probably missing next week due to a developer conference.
By which I mean the company wants me to go to a wilderness camp on the weekend to talk about how cool open source is (hah!) and iBeacons.
They actually do have wifi, if I can be around I will be and should be able to let you know on friday.
So does anyone anticipate missing any sessions during the holidays? I personally do not (they all have the decency to turn up mid-week this year).
All looks clear for me.
Anticipate, no.
I'll be late this coming Saturday (the 21st) since my parents are dropping by around game start time. Shouldn't be too long though.
I've been feeling rotten all day but I think I'm on the mend. Just in case I relapse though I might not be up for gaming tomorrow.
Week of exceptional shittiness, gameprep of any kind basically not a thing that was happening. Going to call this a skip week and use long weekend to reset brain. Sorry.
I'll miss March 1st.
Noted. Depending on where we are situationally in-game (and player interest) I may run something light for Steph and Julia that weekend instead of having another skip week.
So for next week separate sessions is the sanest way to deal with a split party. Basically the only good time I can hit Rat is normal game-time, so we'll tackle that next Saturday. Eb I can grab Sunday morning if that works? Cor, have a preference? We can shoot for one of your days off later in the week if necessary.
Sunday I'm visiting family (unless you mean next Sunday). Otherwise any night during the week works.
I do mean next week Sunday, yes.
Right, so, two out of three PCs are basically coterminous at the moment. Eb/Cor able to be run simultaneously, Rat...not so much. I think available scheduling solutions are basically one of two things:
-I run Rat early Saturday morning, Eb/Cor that afternoon and hopefully everyone's in the same position the week after.
or
-I knock out one side or the other during the remainder of this week to facilitate everyone being in the same basic vicinity Saturday. This is of course dependent on people's willingness and availability outside usual session times.
Please let me know if Plan B is a thing anyone's in a position to facilitate this week.
I have a public holiday this *friday* so I should be around on your thursday evening?
That works.
Eb/Cor?
EDIT: should note Friday probably best if possible because by then I know what Steph's been up to (likely more unfinished business on her end than on yours).
I can make it
Public holiday on Friday represent.
I have to make a couple of hours for Dune's game but that's usually about over by the time you get home from work so it evens out?
Works. I can't vouch for how long we'll run, kinda depends on where Steph ends up Thursday and how likely you guys are to find her quickly, but we'll see.
Steph! Stop fucking around with your new friends and come find your old friends!
But but but I want to bring you lots of outsider corpses. You like outsider corpses, right? Right?
You've always liked them more than me, and my puny 1HD frame. It's like years of hard living and training mean nothing, in the end. When you're dead, you're just another skeleton. The flesh and bone that can stop bullet before it touches the heart are suddenly weak as clay!
I don't know what it's going to take to get you to notice me. Maybe becoming a proper demon is the only way.
No, that path leads to hate and murder.
Then I'm already there!
Outsider corpses are worthless when I don't have any black onyx, I need my living outsider pal!
Not sure I'll be around next week.
That's okay because I definitely won't be around next weekend.
The fucking cat has a fucking Saturday vet appointment because he doesn't know what's fucking good for him and once again I can't wrangle him into a box without parental backup. This likely means no session the 31st god fucking dammit.
EDIT: I'll try and arrange more stuff to happen individually just so we don't totally lose momentum and all that but too pissed off to think about it right now.
Hang in there! Individual stuff is fine, we'll keep momentum alive!
Eb/Cor: could the two of you determine which day next week you'd prefer for dryad resurrection stuff? It doesn't really matter to me, I should be around every day but Monday, so just point me towards whichever day we won't get in the way of Dunegame.
Tuesday works.
sure
Tomorrow, then (Wednesday)? I'll be around ~8pm my time, which is 6pm GMT.
I will likely be late tonight by an hour or two. Agreed to go to a thing this afternoon earlier this week and it'll probably run pretty close to start time.
Ok, I should be on time after all
This weekend, though, I won't be able to make it due to being away at family things.
This is a bummer, man.
If there's any interest from Eb/Cor, I may pass the time with some light chatter instead of just calling it a total loss. Skip weeks suck and hey, you do have a lot of guests right now.
Sure. Maybe Rat's schedule will change! It's been known to happen. >_>
oh shut up
It *might* but I'm not counting on it so neither should Cid!
My soul is prepared, how's yours?
Internets down so I'll be late or possibly a noshow depending.
Might be late tomorrow, but I'll stay up to save kill deal with the queen.
Are we on this Saturday?
I believe Cor is still out through this weekend, so it would be next Saturday that we resume.
While I have no distinct plans to miss a session in the immediate future, my aged computer increasingly struggles just to snap out of sleep mode and I think it may be a relatively short time before it simply decomposes overnight into a pile of scrap. I actually have a new one ordered (parents inherited some money and went on a spree of buying everyone expensive things) but in the event that I mysteriously disappear from the internet sometime over the next couple weeks, tech problems are probably why.
Try and hack it to run an IRC client out the bios terminal.
Boot disk/flash drive with mirc loaded!
You guys talk like I actually understand the simplest thing about how computers work.
Owing to birthdays and the potential for free alcohol, I won't be around on the 18th.
I'm sorry guys, but I just can't get my mind on-topic this morning and I would rather call it a skip week than run half-assed.
We will fight for our right to party next weekend.
I won't be around this weekend, engagement things are happening
We've missed a lot of sessions the past couple months and I'd rather avoid more if possible. Do Rat/other people mind if we at least knock out the remaining info gathering one person short this weekend?
I don't mind, we can make our decision on which offer to pick once we're all back together.
Sure~
I'm fine with it.
So I've been sick for the past couple days. I was hoping I'd be functional by this morning if I could at least get a decent night's sleep but I managed all of three hours last night. I've been awake since midnight.
I am not remotely in coherent shape for running a game this morning. Hopefully life sucks less next week.
I have to miss today for reasons.
I will miss this week's session due to an altitude problem.
Did Australia sink under the ocean again? If so, what are you going to do to fix this, Rat?
Ideally I can still run a little with Eb and Cor anyway. Steph had her interview on Monday so I think it's reasonable for Fran and Julia to get some screentime sans Steph this week. Everyone okay with this?
Sure.
Maybe that elf can harass Fran.
Marry Kevin Costner
Sure (but not the elf part). I can do my interview after and Julia can enjoy the elf's company while Stephanie slips away to the restroom and scouts the mansion?
Rat has informed me that he is out again this Saturday. Steph will be stealthing around solo sometime this week and weekend will just be Fran+Julia again. We may run short if it looks like anyone's trending toward activity that requires a group decision, we'll see, but I figure that's better than not running at all. Thing can show up and brief Julia, Fran can have the scheduled chat with Jill. Anything else anyone particularly wants to look into around the mansion?
Let's plan to run at a sane hour this weekend since we actually can? Normal time+3 work?
Works.
Suits me.
I'll miss the second of May.
Something I was hoping to also schedule for May 2nd was unfortunately pushed back to May 9th, so we're off for two weeks after this coming session.
I'll need to finish about midway through our usual schedule tomorrow (as in two hours in).
I checked with Eb via PM and we are shooting to start an hour earlier tomorrow to make up for missed time. I presume people in later timezones do not object.