So, Random OOC area for those of us not sitting on irc all day long.
*shakes fist*
Kelly is mainly going to be keeping his head down for now. He doesn't do well in crowds like this.
Dracos
YARR~! =)
Dracos
If I get punted from the mission, it's all going to be because of politics and the 'old boys network'!
Then again, sticking me in suspended animation for 40 years might be seen as punishment enough...
Shy guy wins.
Brian's likely not going to post much today, being sick. Sorry though for the delay, my fault really *is a questioning bastard with the rod logic*
Dracos
Addendum: Depending on how severely I am sick, I MAY vanish for a few days without any more warning than this post.
Sorry about that.
Note: THE GAME LIVES.
RAWR!
Dracos
*fiddles*
Dracos
Okay, want to make sure I don't give the wrong signal. Since it's taking 12 hours, I'm assuming I am paused (working on the rod logic) until another post is flung at me or I'm told differently to let the other's keep up timewise.
Dracos
Sorry about that, Drac. A collusion of events has occured.
It seems to me that I'm bungling this game a bit, probably by seeming like I don't really care about it.
I assure you that this is not the case, and to prove the point, I'll explain the situation more clearly using the voice and character of Hale:
It is assumed that the weak flesh-thing designated 'Brian' feels some sort of sorrow for his purely biological failings to the other weak flesh-things, in their quaint 'simulation'--
Thank you, Hale, that's enough--
This is assumed to be untrue, because it is a judgement based on the chaoitic and non-logical values of 'emotion'. I assure you that these 'feelings' are an illusion. Embrace logic, and you will see that this is the best way.
Now, puny flesh-beings--
That's QUITE enough, Hale.
Understood, oversensitive meatsack.
....
Ahem. Anyway, lately things have been a bit chaotic because I have been looking for a new place. I now have FOUND the new place (Hooray!), and will be moving in next week. This will be preceeded and trailed by downtime outside of work of an unknown duration. I expect to be vanished from teh home intarweb for two weeks at most, though, so let's not worry TOO much.
This is just to let everyone know, and to apologize. Once I get these things straightened out, I should be back, and willing to try and bring this game up to tDaT-relative speeds.
On a somewhat (but not entirely un-)related note, I'd also like to poll for feedback. I feel that this game is kind of stumbling, but there's still interest in it. In which areas do you (the gamers) feel I'm coming short? And please, be honest -- I want to become a better GM, and you should all want to enjoy yourselves.
We've discussed this already, but to make it public, I guess:
My big problem is that Finn has no IC reason to care about the mystery of what happened. From her practical-minded perspective, the First Crew is dead, and what really matters is getting the ship back into full operational state. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of interest in RPing repairing airlocks, or any of the other myriad tasks that have to be done that Finn presumably knows but I certainly don't.
This is mostly my own fault, given how I created Finn. I know that things will pick up; there are plot hooks that I know I should pursue, but haven't found an IC chance to do so yet.
I probably should have discussed this already, but I've pretty much just been waiting for things to pick up.
Firstly, I'm not too thrilled at being made captain. Considering the rest of the crew currently consists of one confident and capable NPC, and the remaining PCs, all of whom seem to have a good handle on what they should be doing, I'm basically stuck at a loose end.
Now, I'm not expecting to get thrown into the thick of action - I did pick communications guy, and I realise there's not much call for that, right now. I just wanted the point to be raised. By nature I'm a re-active rather than pro-active player, and the current setup isn't lending me much.
My last IC post which mentioned 'puttering around the bridge in an effort to look busy' pretty accurately describes my participation ever since the ship departed.
I do expect things to pick up once the rest of the crew is thawed and we get the ship back up to standard, but until then, I feel rather disempowered, despite Albert's sudden promotion.
*looks around*
Anyone else....there?
Dracos
;_;
:P
Okay...Being a touch out of it here...
What's going on? Brian, I know, is trying to keep it going but I have to voice aloud that I'm not quite sure if it is there to get going.
We started with four people. I believe Rez is permanently out of it, and at least temporarily so.
Bjorn is off on vacation is it? I don't know, haven't seen him in a week or so.
I, personally, am lost. Beyond the slowness, I really have lost track of what to do. I probably could read over all the logs again and remember, but again, I wonder if the game has enough players still around to make it worth it.
I don't know if Ebiris is still in, though I suspect he is. Even so, we're hitting 8 days on a single page of posts. 4 since the last one. I wonder out loud, is he also just going through the motions?
I think a variety of things have driven an ore-sledge through the center of this game. I'm not sure if we have the requisite 'one guy with the real heart' to make it happen on the player side. If I'm wrong, other players, please correct me...
But if I'm right, there's little point in Brian going through the motions of GM'ing the game, plotting, and whatnot. I know he probably doesn't want to let the game die simply because (like all GMs) it hurts to admit a game has stalled or failed (even if it isn't the GMs fault).
I admit there's undoubtedly a little bias here. I do want to play in the next game scheduled for after this one ends. It could be totally coloring my perception of events and assuredly taints what I'm saying.
But I do want to hear it. Where are the other players? Are we on pause? Is there something going on?
The communication networks on this game have pretty much shut entirely down. A board game can't survive any more in a void of communication than any other one. :\ So...let's talk. We got a chatroom. We got an OOC forum. We can acknowledge that we're still alive?
I apologize for bringing this front and center and all the inevitably blehness that goes with it. I know it is rude and possibly could just outright slay the game that still has a chance to recover from bad feelings. But... I think if it has a chance to recover, it needs to be acknowledged that it is having trouble and whether that trouble can be fixed.
Dracos
Honestly? Yes, I've been going through the motions.
As it stands now, the game doesn't interest me. With the frequent pauses, I've lost track of what's going on, and really, the plot doesn't grab me. I was hoping for more of a 'explore space and see fantastic things!' game than the 'unfurl the conspiracy and fix the ship' game we have.
I stuck it out hoping we could move past getting things shipshape and onto more interesting events, but the game's been running an awful long time without any progress.
Yep. Of course, it doesn't help that Bjorn's gone, that there was a more than a month long pause....
I consider this the worst game I ever ran.
I declare it to be dead. Whee.