Um. On thursday night (my time) I vanish for a week - I've been offered some fairly lucrative contracting work down in Sydney which I really would be stupid to turn down. :)
I'll have a net connection, but I don't know how consistent it'll be. Worst case is I can't post at all (unlikely but possible).
No worries whatsoever. Work is important, I'm just happy you let us know.
So thanks, and ignore the men in black suites with the stabbitors.
I will be gone most of the day Saturday.
A friend of mine needs some help moving some stuff in Merced, which is about 80 miles from where I live. I'll only be online early morning and late evening on that day.
Seems like the best thread for it, even though it isn't technically a leave of absence. However, at present, the timelines are concurrent, and I'm leery of letting any one thread get too far ahead of the others. Especially if they cross over (as they currently do) or even merge.
So, Bjorn and Death's threads are going to be put on hold until we can have the House of Dracos thread catch up a bit -- since Ginrai's still adjusting to gaming, and Rez has his contract, this may take a bit, but I expect things will work out.
Rez has a net connection.
It won't be incredibly consistent, of course, 'cause I -am- expected to work when down here.
But I -DO- have a net connection. :D
Work and/or be maimed!
Dracos
I will be unable to post this Sunday, as I have martial arts practice followed by a bounenkai party (and I get my spiffy new diploma, yay). I'll be around on Monday, and on Saturday until 4PM PST or so.
*puts in a vote*
Gin returns for postage by monday or gets struck by lead pipe.
Dracos
Agreed. Hazy Shade of Winter is paused until Ginrai posts.
Yar, otik's tree. I'm in a phenomenially miserable mood at it and all but until it gets fixed odds are my posting is going to be hella sporadic -_-.
Now if only the bloody repair people would get here.
Edit: Just in case, Rez, you know what ya doing. Ye can control my char if necessary.
Dracos
Okay, now that I've finished updating my new computer with some necessary files (including the audio driver) I should be around to post more.
THEY DO NOT LIVE O_O
Dracos
Man with evil plan, gin, rez, message soon.
Okay, then.
*takes off his Ginrai mask*
Was starting to chafe a wee bit.
I won't be around this Friday evening (Jan 30th), or the following morning. But I'll be around all Saturday afternoon and evening.
I am unavailable most of the day on Saturday because I am down at the comic shop getting my various and sundry games on. This Saturday, February 28th, I will be leaving later than usual -- about 5:30-ish -- and returning at around 11. Most Saturdays I get there around noon and stay to 11. All times EST.
This is sorta after the fact, but I impulsively vanished myself over the weekend, rendering myself unable to post and worrying a few people 'cause I said I'd only be gone a couple of hours.
>_>
On the plus side, I de-stressed myself good!
Well, hard work fine, and hard work good, but first take care of head.
I may all but vanish this week. I really regret this but alongside of some crappily huge work loads this week, bad things seem to just be happening. I'll do what I can, but just a notice in case you effectively don't see me at all.
Dracos
If two players vanish for more than 24 hours this week, I'm going to shut the game down for a week; a LOT of us seem to have a busy week this week for some reason.
Yeesh.
Lost the phone line at the place I was staying, which naturally took the DSL with it. I'll have dialup until I go home - where I'll have my normal state of things back.
I may go home a couple of days early! But until I'm home (expected: Sunday) my onlineness will be fritzy.
Sorry. It wasn't something I could anticipate, and definitely not something I could avoid. ><
Out sick.
I've been sick for a while, but now need some time to rest, among other things. We can hopefully pick up on Friday and get things moving again.
Get better soon.
Dracos
I will leave for Seattle Friday afternoon, and get back Tuesday afternoon. I don't expect I'll have any significant net access during that time.
I have a new job.
I have no idea what my hours are, and as a console tester, I have no access to a PC while I'm actually working.
This pretty much means that I can't post when I'm at work. I'll try and post in the mornings, before I leave for work, again when I get my breaks (if the work PCs are connected to the internet; sometimes they aren't), during lunch, etc., and then again when I get home.
I can't help but see this seriously cutting into my ability to post, unfortunately, but hey, a man's gotta work. Anyway, I'll be home after work on Monday with clearer ideas of what exactly this means in terms of when I can and cannot post. On Tuesday, I'm not going to be here at all.
Wednesday, I will return (if only in limited capacity).
So ... pretty much the game is being put on hiatus until Wednesday. I'm sorry about that, and the late warning, but.... :/
Gambatte, Brian! Go make lots of money!
Dracos
I am gone. I will return. Rez can play me as need. Brian can NPC me as need. Rez has a huge file on plans of mine he can flash if he needs authorization from me.
Unseen/Huitzil has officially retired from the campaign.
I am back! Sick, but BACK!
Dracos
um, thought I said it here but anyhow, 25th may to 2nd june, I will be here not.
Dracos
waits for the smite
The game is on hold until the 21st at the earliest, as it's falling apart (I've been lazy).
Hopefully this will allow us (me) to pull it back together.
Not a full leave of absence, but: my home computer will not start. I suspect it is either that the power switch itself has gotten gummed, or that the power supply has failed. In the worst case scenario, of course, it is the motherboard. What this means is that I can't post from home for the time being. I don't think I'll be able to fix this before Saturday at the earliest.
And I still don't have a computer to use at work, so my ability to post is ... limited.
Hooray for choosing the wrong week to pause the game!
I know I just established a very strict guideline for the schedule of the sieges, but as it is, it looks like me and Rez are going to be the only people here for them, I may have to delay and say the strict enforcement starts next week.
No sense having a session with so many of the players missing....
Thoughts?
Little to really say - but as a note, if the sieges don't happen on a Friday or Saturday your time my thereness will be suspect. I can be around enough to post while I'm at work, but not always enough for an IRC session - for obvious reasons. >.>
Quick update:
Tales of Symphonia is being released on the 13th of this month.
In unrelated events, some aspects of the game are stressing me out -- mostly me trying to keep up with you guys, people who told me the game sucked whining to get back in after telling me they weren't interested in my story, and a few other minor things. You may have noticed I have been VERY LAZY about posting lately.
I am still having fun.
But I'm shutting the game down for a week -- possibly two -- on the fifteenth of this month, because I need a bit of time to recharge.
Note that my vacation is starting on the fifteenth, a whole two days after Tales of Symphonia is being released. So really, it's not about ToS.
That is all.
-Brian
Who grumbles about two-day ship times out of earshot.
I will be gone from about July 23rd to Aug 4th or so. Too lazy to look up exact travel dates.
I may be able to post occasionally in that time frame, but dinnae be holding your breath.
In the interests of continuing this chain, I'm being shipped off to play tech support for our goons at a trade show from August 5th to August 10th - roughly. The net effect of this is I go, I plug in five laptops (that I've already pre-set-up), and sit on my ass for four days. Four days of paid vacation - fun fun.
I may or may not be around much that weekend. Don't bet on it. I don't really intend to hang around the trade show unless I -really- can't find anything else to do, because if I stay there these people will talk to me and bug me and I'll go insane. :)
Because Rez has established that this chain must be continued, I will be leaving tomorrow (Aug 18th) for a week. I won't have Internet at all while I'm gone.
But when I'm back, I'll be back for good. Honest.
May the chain prevail long!
Well.
Fuck.
I should have put the game on hold for a solid month.
You know what? That's fine. Bjorn mentioned this some time ago.
We're putting team one on hold, then. Until Bjorn returns, no one from team one has to post.
Team two is going to get some time on the boards. I seriously doubt I can assemble all of the team two players into a single session for IRC, so probably I'm going to TRY to push equal amounts of plot and filler at you until Friday, at which point I'm going to split team two into sub-groups ... and start a Team Two e-mail thread. :D Maybe. ;_;
So. Just as a quick aside....
...the game may be on hold, but Ginrai is allowed to post to it. :D
If he doesn't post at least once by the time Bjorn comes back, then I raise a Plot Elemental and cast it into Ginraiform. Yeeeees....
Rez has been offered the chance for a free, all expenses paid ski trip between September 4th and September 11th, as a 21st birthday present.
He might maybe have some internet access while there. He will at the least be taking his laptop, but if he has net access he won't be online often or consistently. So . . . eheh. More leave of absenceness.
May the chain prevail long!
That's fine.
I'm officially scrapping the entire game.
Sorry about this, but, eh. It happens.
I had fun.
May 14th to the 21st I will be gone.
It is my first trip to E3. The odds of me finding time to post is...slender ^^;
Dracos
That Brian post almost gave me a heart attack until I checked the date.
Anyway, this coming Thursday I'm going to Hong Kong for work. I will be there for eleven days.
That said, I am the sysadmin, and I'm going there to fix servrers; I will have net access and be available. How busy I am going to be I honestly cannot predict. It should NOT be as bad as this last few days have been.
@_@
I've said it before, but forgot to put it in this thread -- I will have unreliable ability to post from Sunday, May 8th through Wednesday, May 11th.
Also, I will be in Iceland June 18th-28th. No net access for me.
I suspect the game is on pause for the current moment (As is right) due to real life issues taking precedence. Just tossing some post here for Brian in case any of the other gamers were unaware.
Dracos
This thread is a thread of tragedy. ;.;
I will be in Denver from Feb 9th through Feb 14th. No internet access during that time (or rather, there will be net access, but I'll have no time to make use of it).
Back again! I'm even awake!
Yay.
Dracos
Going to be nonexistent this week. GDC, you understand.
Dracos
In Germany Friday through Sunday.
Inconvenient. Dracos, I need Germany destroyed, and quickly. o_o
But then Bjorn won't continue his martial arts kung-fuing.
Can't block a man from his leg breaking exercises.
Dracos
Yeah, sorry. Crunch has been and will continue to be bad.
Slowly reclaiming external intelligence.
Dracos
Both my laptops have died. I find this rather impressive, but even more irritating.
I should be back by this time tomorrow.
Wow. Owie.
Dracos
Well, to be precise - the screen died on my old laptop, then both of the power cables died in rapid succession. So my newer laptop is perfectly okay - and the old laptop works if I hook it up to a screen - but neither of them have any power. :P
Work-schedule panic. Sorry, been kind of in a crunch doing returns. I hope to resume posting, oh, Thursday local time, potentially sooner. X_x
I'm alive again, yay!
I am going to be in Halifax, Canada from the 21st through the 29th. I probably won't have much Internet access then. I suppose this is rather unfortunate timing. :/
My computer is dying. I am going to attempt to replace it shortly, but I have a party to go to tonight, and work late tomorrow. <_<;;
The game is more-or-less on hold. By which I mean, I will post on occasion, but I'm trying to coordinate, and as mentioned, I kind of fudged arrival times based on estimated post volumes. So ... until Bjorn gets back, everyone else is moving in bullet-time. Push your workcounts, people, not the postcounts! :D
I think the prior statement has been invalidated.
Additionally, I call for rootbeer.
Dracos
I am flooded with work. I'm trying, but until the Book Group Expo finishes (June 8th through 10th), I'm under about a 180% workload. x_x
The expo is done. Now I'm drained by [self-censorship]: unpleasant things. I really don't have the energy to post right now. Maybe tomorrow, or Thursday, but no promises (I'm going to try and visit my Mom on Thursday, and maybe take up smoking again).
Unintended leave of absence ended?
Dracos
Remembers to check such things.
Indeed.
/me waves?
Sorry. Bad things have been happening, among them my computer dying, and now me going to the hospital. Will post when I can, but.... x.x
*nods* thought they'd cleared up... that sounds horrible though. I hope you feel better, Brian.
Dracos
I'm back. I've got a new computer.
I would have posted sooner, but Dracos broke my knees. Getting back from the theater was a real exercise. o_o
Okay. One more time. I have been letting things slip. But rather than killing the game (again), I'm going to call pause for the rest of this week. Let's make that official instead of frustrating everyone with slower and slower posts.
Things in my life have been spiraling out of control. This game will continue, as attempts to kill it all fail. But it is going to nap briefly.
So.... The pre-dinner conversation can actually continue a bit, if people are so inclined -- Rez, I have Friday and Saturday (PST) off, when would work well for you to run the IRC session?
And while we're here ... feedback check? Is there anything I could do to make this gaming experience better, or are there things that are going on that players find suck-tacular and would like to have changed?
Sorry about breaking your knees man. I didn't realize you couldn't afford the hospital trip.
Anyhow, really, all I could ask for is just flailing when you're flailing, though I know that's hard. A 'we need to pause a while' is fine and much appreciated generally rather than 'silent doom'. I think Bjorn has been in much the same spot life wise, so its not like many were blinking that the game was stalled.
I've been very hit and miss too.
Either Friday or Saturday should work in the evenings. Gimme a poke at one of those times!
Yeah, sorry. Things have been a little frantic here what with one thing and the other. I've been checking the game regularly, but there really hasn't been anything that I've felt I should reply to.
There's not really much I can say about things to improve in terms of keeping the game going. In terms of how you're handling it, everything's going fine -- it's slow for the obvious and understandable reason that you can't post much at the moment. That's life.
Unrelated note: I will be at a conference in San Diego from Nov 2 through Nov. 12. No posting from me.
Hold extension. Personal life is getting bad in ways I don't want to share across the net.
Also, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZ~!
That is all.
Fnord
I am moving at the end of this month! I will be offline except at work for about two weeks from the 27th (possibly longer) except at work.
Ironically, this will probably have no impact on posting speeds.
Okay~! No longer is there a reason to delay posting.
Get to it, people!
/me cracks whip.
Yay. :)
Sheesh ... you lose all internet access for two months, and people just stop posting.
I'd like to not let the game die (again). Anyone else?
Saaame. :)
I too have this opinion! ... which is why I will be away all next week, no internet access.
...
Sorry.
That's cool, you're giving Team B time to catch up.
*eyes team B*
I'm here, I'm awake, I'm enthusiastic, I'm hyperactively cheerful and have been for weeks!
GIVE ME SOMETHING TO DO BEFORE MY HEAD EXPLODES!
Discounting of course the fact that it's been my post for a month or so now. Oops.
Rawr~
Okay, disappearing for a long weekend in a few hours - will be back on Monday night my time. :)
Alrighty. Any posts > no posts.
We post on
with fire.
And have fun rez.