Giants Reign (Inactive)

Game Master Tall Tale Teller

All in favour of having Jennier Lawrence play Siobhan! I approve entirely of this film!

Hope I'm not waiting too long.

I think Phil Fondacaro be better for the role of Polmar. If not married to being white I'd prefer Tony Cox.

hah. Sorry for disappearing. I vastly overestimated how much time I would have available during my thanksgiving trip home.

And I actually have been imagining Phil Fondacaro as Polmar the whole time.

Oh yeah. Phil. love that guy. I remember watching Sabrina back in the day, any time he showed up I knew it was gonna be a fun episode.

sorry, finals week and the like.

Rose, I am still tweaking Sam's stats. I'll continue your part tomorrow. Sorry for the wait.

sorry, finals week and the like.

Would you like to wait till finals are over, before I implement your character?

S'all good.

I was also out for the holiday, next time I will try to let everyone know. Back into it now and ready to post!!!!!

Just making a note here. But TTT... do you really need to make multiple posts towards multiple people if their in one place? Like Karliah & Nephele.

Plus... why are you telling me that Karliah heard Nephele? She spoke to hear, and there's no distractions. So... of course Karliah would hear Nephele and see who it is.

Its... kinda annoying honestly. You make a lot of redundant posts, clogging the RP up quite a bit.

I guess I was just making sure that everyone understood, there has been times I post once and people got confused or weren't sure if it was aimed at them. I can tone it down though. Also work on your tactfulness please.

You could use spoiler tags. I've seen it used to great effect.

Perhaps labelled spoilers might be the solution TTT? That way we get fewer posts but people can still have separate information... I'm sure we all read closely enough to find a spoiler with our name on it.

Yes, thank you for the suggestions. I'll do that.

Tact is so bloody difficult online... I'll try to work on it, but no promises.

No, Fury, you will learn or be booted. I come on here to have fun, not to deal with rudeness. Make helpful suggestions in the future the way the others did. It gets the point across just fine without the sass.

Wow. Something I just remembered. Rose, Talirin and Lershoth. You three still have an unused cookie or two (Favor from the GM) Just a reminder.

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Sass? What sass?

There's no sass in that post

That is just me trying to express my feelings on the matter, without knowing how to say it without coming across as insulting & rude!

How on earth did you get SASS from that?!

Do you see what I mean when I say tact is so bloody difficult online? Here I am, trying to be as tactful and polite as possible, and I get accused of being sassy!

I mean hell, there's nothing wrong with bringing a problem up to the DM! I didn't know how to solve it, but it was a problem. Then when I brought it up, other players were able to offer solutions. What's so wrong about that?

Ok Fury. Sass was the wrong word. Now enough.

I'm away at a job interview over the next couple of days. Feel free to bot / ignore me until I get back~

Back alive now. Ruh Roh. A rat huh?

A fearsome beast indeed.... it seems to have Draconic ambitions :)

It saving up for a better island;)

Just be glad this one doesn't have laser beams on his head...

Talirin, Rose... I know you are bolding your speech, but can you put speech marks in as well? That is grammatically correct, and it makes your posts a lot easier and nicer to read.

Placing bold on your text is the way you typically indicate speech on the PBP's, or is at least in the 20-30 PBP's I have all been in. It is rather confusing when people use "" and don't bold...its rather hard to pick out the "" vs. the bold text, even though it may not be 100% grammatically correct.

I think Fury was asking to for people to do both. So "This is the way he'd like." Rather than "Doing it like this" or Like this.

Just seems redundant if the bold means the same thing as "" but if the GM wants us to follow this I am okay with it.

Not saying it is grammatically correct just the way we have communicated via the PBP in the past.

As far as I can tell, people always use speech marks.

Whenever they use specific colour for their character speech, bold the words to make them stand out, or something else all together. In the equal amount of PBP's I've been in. People have ALWAYS used speech marks

I can read either or, fine. But for the sake of others, let's do "Bold." Though I am not going to jump down anyone's throats if they forget.

So I know a lot of you will be very preoccupied this weekend, me included. So let's take a break Thursday-Sunday, and resume Monday. How does that sound to everyone?

Fine with me. I'm going to be doing a lot of stuff tonight (packing+shopping+cleaning) and then have to work & drive for 10 hours tomorrow so probably won't be particularly active.

Sure. One most post before the break.

Hopefully when people return they'll be more willing to write down more than one line... admittedly, the boards have very long lines. But still, its kind of depressing to be putting out 2-4 line posts on a regular basis... and get replies such as 'Rose's eyes narrow. Is that a threat?' That's 7 words... that's it.

Is it too much to ask for people to put in a bit more effort into these things?

Your very critical aren't you? Happy holidays all!

Happy holidays everyone!

Lershoth's thoughts on the holidays in picture form.

Happy holidays!

Lol

Considering the Feudal system of law, the fact that your request was granted for others to judge the accused should be a significant gesture...not sure where you are getting your idea of a modern court system from.

It is a little annoying. But the character is allowed to have ideals. Even if they're anchored in the modern or ancient world.

So my real life got way more crazy, thanks to my new job in nursing. It takes a lot out of me, to where running this game well is just not in the cards, right now. I am not enjoying it, as it is starting to feel like a chore. As I am both physically and mentally exhausted. So I am calling it. As big of a bummer as this is, I am ending Giants Reign. I want to thank all who participated and brought so much to their characters and the story. Again I am sorry. Happy future gaming.

Thanks very much for runnning TTT - hope real life gets better for you soon.

Hope to see some of you soon.

Awww... I only just joined...

Sorry to see it go, but I understand. As is the way with many games I've been a part of.

So Jalel. Now that it's over were you plotting acoup?

It was going to be a long haul, but eventually yes. My original plan had been to try and play the haughty but generally more helpful than harmful politician. At least until we had a decently strong setup on the surface, and a larger population. While you would be busy leading the populace in the open, I'd have found some small but important niche of power opposite of you, probably in the tunnels below, where I'd be trying to subtly manipulate peoples beliefs of your skill and who was actually doing the work in the background.

Once I'd felt that I had gained enough support I would wait for some crucial decision to be made that would make the general and hopefully bigger populace unhappy and then try to step in with some speech about "the weight of initial leadership burdening you too much, and now that things were past the hard times of our desperate beginnings perhaps it was time for someone more open minded to step in. Like me." Also there was every likelihood that I would begin using my charm magic on you to make this seem far more reasonable to you.

My plan changed after we encountered the Orcs, but before I decided to join Polmar's quest. I had planned to use my charm person spells and my guile again to more easily control the weak-minded but strong bodied Orcs to prepare a personal army to pull a more traditional coup. If needed.

Of course to make things interesting, I specifically made it so that Jalel's plan could come apart any number of ways. He was supremely confident in his chances and abilities. He was great at convincing people and if that failed he could force them to do what he wanted, but had no real ability to read them. Why would he need to after all? Hence the lack of sense motive.

Also, while he was very stealthy himself, he had no chance of detecting anyone else who was also stealthy. So an assassin could get the drop on him pretty easily.

Plus he wasn't going to be very good in a stand-up kind of fight. His spells were about disabling threats, mostly to turn them into allies, letting his allies deal with them, or letting him run away, but not killing opponents.

Alas. I wish we could have played that out. I was already considering whether Polmar was more hindrance or help and whether it would be more prudent to remove him.

Sorry to see the game end, it was fun. TTT, if you pop back on here at some point, I'm curious. Did you have any particular direction you planned on things going over the long term. <- Just curious on how the general world was expected to progress outside of our actions/development.

@Jalel and Korak
LOL, it would have been fun to see such things play out. Lershoth would have supported...