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Not a problem...really always liked this one and the group...near and dear to the heart.
RL is hammering me at the mo folks - work + hund is off to vet this evening. Will try and get an update to ye all tonight, but am bushed so may be tomorrow.
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Hope the hund is ok.
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No hurry!
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Thistledown says "Ruff", translated as 'Hope the dog is OK'.
Muli says Gruff-Chitter-Chitter, but he is just nuts.
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Take your time, BD.
Cheers all
Minn hund Darby has a double whammy of an ear infection and conjunctivitis - but he has meds and is already back to waking me up for "breakfast" @ 05.00am :)
Bless.
Will get on this tonight as work is calming down also!
Cheers man - he's a tough wee(ish) SOB so fingers crossed it'll be a full recovery.
On a game note I'm sitting here now trying to find out why (OH WHY) my Maptools won't load my recent map... Hel's teeth.
Dammit.
Dire Bear with me...
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F*%king Maptools - now none of the maps will upload and my resource library is kaput.
Will likely have to redo the map... - sorry about this - am in the midst of a Computer Rage 3/9 rounds...
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRARRRRGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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Not sure what your issue is, and I usually just lurk here, but I thought I would post and say I had an issue with Maptools after I updated Java and had to go back to version 6 (and turn off automatic updating)
Sounds like the problem GMB... will give that a tilt tonight to see if it solves the issue (pretty sure I updated Java to version 7 recently)
Cheers for the heads up - very much appreciated :)
Guys bear with me (again) we had a major incident offshore Monday that is part of my workscope; couple that with the fatal Super Puma crash last weekend (not connected) - work has been smashing me this week.
Annual Golf day tomorrow which I avoid like the plague - so fingers crossed I'll have ye knee deep in Puca blod afore the weekend...
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Bugger - hopefully none of your boys entangled in the Puma that went down? Those things have an annoying habit of failing at the flying part of their job description.
You should just rock up to the golf day dressed like this they'd soon start 'losing' your invitations.
Nah Mark - none of our boys involved, was coming off a circuit involving a platform where we are working.
Heh - Wild Thing!
Heads up folks - I'm heading off this Saturday over to Houston tae spend Thanksgiving with my bro and sis-in-law. We're on a busy schedule so unlikely I'll get much time/interweb access so its highly likely I'll be off the grid until beginning of Dec (am back 1st Dec).
After tomorrow afternoon (Scotia time) you'll likely notice a massive drop in the sledgehammer pace - apologies ahead of time ;)
Prods the sleeping yeti "Ey, yer back inna land o' neeps n' tatties agin... Where's me Haggis?"
Am indeed back - work, jetlag and me birthday is conspiring to limit my time. Will fire up some ample updates o'er the coming days :)
DM Yeti - I'm guessing with the hiatus on the KM, this will go the same way as well?
Aye it'll be going into winter hibernation pretty soon, still mulling to resolve the Hinderlander encounter before I do.
We'll be here, brother.
The bells ding, oor clock strikes the midnight oor
Some ring em in, wi a song fae oor past
Maist linkin airms, an singing oot loud
Fir thae auld pals, they’ll nivver forget
Sung the world oer, a hoosehold chant
An a toast o the year tae come, we a hud oot hope
Fir a Happy New Year, tae ane an a
A Braw New Year - auld Doric (Aberdeen dialect) poem :)
Happy Hogmanay to one and all when it comes gang - has been a privilege to have you all in my game and looking forward to continuing the Saga with you all in 2014.
May your patience be rewarded with health, wealth and happiness in the coming year (both in game and RL :)
Alas I'm on call with work and thus won't be imbibing any tinctures of potency... I will however raise a symbolic dram to you all come the bells.
Skal!
Black Dow
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Aye, Skal, shieldbrother!
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Symbolic grunting and smacking of table in appreciation.
Will thaw out the game thread today/tomorrow folks
Still having PC troubles at home (laptop is suffering a slow death) and posting at work is more attacks of opportunity.
Once again thanks for the patience - have had some interesting ideas for the Saga...
Hello friends. I hope all are well and have had a good holiday season.
I wish to apologize for my absence and the obvious hole it left in this game. I suffered a major shock in my life around Thanksgiving that has affected my network of family and friends, my emotional health, my career, and long term financial wellbeing.
My job increased in duties to overcome a vital loss in our small ranks just to make it to the new year. While we struggled to meet that milestone, my job may yet still evaporate in the coming months if the board moves to dissolve. Exhaustion and depression had settled over me, to a sense that I knew something was wrong but was unable to stop it.
I have been around long enough on these boards to see people up and disappear, and I always wondered what happened. Well, I am here to report that sometimes life can kick you in the teeth, and take something from you. I loved visiting these boards and not just for the online PbP. Several times a day. Usually first thing in the morning after checking email and last thing at night, looking for that last possible update. Well, a switch had been thrown in me. Something I loved just fell away.
Over Christmas, I did some travel to spend time in desolate places to clear my head. I love the desert and its effect on me. Seeing life growing, however limited, in the harshest of environments is a good inspiration for one looking to renew one's life or get over life's hurdles.
My job still may evaporate and I don't look forward to finding a similar job in this economy, BUT I have turned a corner and have begun to look at this proactively as something to prepare for instead of dread. Maybe even doing some fiction writing, something I always wanted, but a full-time career held me back...we will see.
Through this, my local friends and family have been supportive. In that vein I seek to get back with my wider net of friends I have made over the internet. Chatting with people all over the world in different locales and different (or the same) places in their life has always been an education and comfort. So while not completely over my depression (I have been battling depression to a smaller degree for a number of years now) I am in a better place, so I return to my old haunts. I want to thank those that reached out and others that expressed concern.
This is my first visit to the boards in quite some time, and I image there is a lot that has happened in my absence to go back and read. I suspect I have been dropped or replaced in some cases, and I totally understand and respect that. And again I apologize for the disruption I brought to this game. If the group does still have a place for me, I can begin to resume my postings here as I try to get back up to speed.
In either case I have enjoyed my time here and will read future developments as it has been a fine game.
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Meowzebub - as expressed over the electronic mail sending device and what will be a plethora of other threads on here by the time I am done... condolences for the shock over the holidays and if I saw you in person I would offer platonic man-hugs of a comforting nature.
For mine you're always welcome in any of the many many games that we share on here. Our dour and dark group of vikingr needs it's bizarre and off-kilter squirrel man.
Cliff notes version is nae much has happened here :P
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Meowz, sorry to hear about the setbacks. It's never easy and the holidays always makes it worse. It's very good to see you back, hale if not yet healthy. Take your time. There's always room at the table for you.
Muli!!! Ditto the above!
Did have a big post prepped when the outage on the boards hit - was pretty epic... have yet to summon the energy to re-write it - so bear with me its incoming soon...
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Wow, that is so weird. I had this epic reply all typed up in response to your epic post that was eaten by the board outage and I haven't summoned up the gumption to rewrite it either...
=P
Har-Har.
Just a heads up. I am leaving for California this morning and will not be back until early Tuesday morning. I won't have any access until that time, so I will not be posting until late Tuesday.
No worries Drayen - will do her justice in your absence :)
Stincmaga (Stinkmaw) cometh :)
Map up but am dropping Skol from the merry band (nae posted since August) - if he re-appears nae worries...
Didn't see a map. Muli can exclude 4 friends from a bomb toss if it is an issue.
I will get something up in the A.M.
As both a heads up and an FYI - I shall be wending my way on holiday starting Monday, and will be out of the country from roughly 2-3 weeks give or take (through to about 10th April).
During such time my online time shall be curtailed from what I'm usually capable - which should engender a reduction in verbosity and potentially some unreliability when it comes to posting rates and speed.
I'm more that happy to be DMPC'd whenever it's appropriate, but am hopefuly that I should be able to keep up with all the PbPs that I'm currently playing in during the time down-under.
Still mulling on the status of this game... With Meowz leaving us and I've not heard from Skol in some time am presuming we're the following:
Ragnar
Luke
Disa
Frerin
Am happy to continue with the 4 above if you guys are... might make the game flow quicker (god knows it needs it lol).
To give you some insight into my grand plan - this Saga really splits into two strands (based on UK2 and UK3 old skool TSR modules)... I'm mooting the second part as Mythic...
Losing Muli will hit the game hard as he really is a special character - one of my favourites ever - might phase them out at the lair and IF they come back at anytime the sandbox nature of the game means it should be easy to bring them back into the fold.
Anyway guys - check back with me on your thoughts regards the game and the way forward.
Skal
DMBD
I am ready to proceed with the four of us. I would have to do some serious reading to get up to speed on Mythic. but I am willing if that is the route taken.
Ragnar is still here and ornery.
Disa reporting for duty. She can start chittering if it will help speed the game along. =D
No need to read up on the Mythic stuff yet Luke as we're a ways from there at present...
With just the four of you I'll need to re-jig some plans for the game, but should be fine.
Will keep you all posted on startup version III
I would love to continue. I may want to re-roll to help the party be more balanced if you would allow.
Hey...Where'd everyone go?
Still here...waiting on Black Dow.
Hei Guys
Thanks for the continuing support :)
Party currently sits at
Luke - our Ranger (Warden)
Ragnar - our Barbarian (Invulnerable Rager)
Disa - our Magus (Skirnir)
Frerin - our Dweorg Druid
Am pretty happy with that balance if you guys are? We're a little light on arcane magicks and Druid's ain't the best primary healers... but you lot steamroller most challenges so I've no worries going forward :)
However if anyone wants to rejig - now's the time :)
Nei need to re-jig.
I do not feel the need to do so either.