Jorvik: A Land of Snow & Ice

Game Master DSXMachina

I've survived the first week of the semester. Yay!

Sorry about the gap, folks. Rough end-of-week and week-end. (Work, the possible self-destruction of my RL campaign, a birthday dinner that turned into an endurance session, etc, etc..... if not for enjoying attending a hockey game on Thursday, I might have totally snapped [of course, the subsequent loss over the weekend didn't help]).

However, catching up and will have our usual self-confident bard in place.

Don't worry, I think January has hit everyone for 6. I'm just coming off a slight cold and stuff - hope your campaign can slide back to focus.

Yeah, I'm struggling to get back on track.

Story so far...

Another Endurance-marathon-Musical-Week survived!

I'm getting t-shirts made.
"I survived Tarzan Jr, The Musical"

And we managed to do it without doing a 'George of the jungle' Imitation.
Although it was close. Once or twice. ;)

Yeah, I keep catching up, only to get slammed again.
Eventually we'll all get rolling at the same time, right?
:)

I'm confused again. I thought Morien and I were in the back while Laura and Kenneth were in front and the Terror Twins were on the fire escape.

"She scoots to the door of 810, checks for onlookers, and listens there, quietly, without touching the door."

Well there was only a balcony or a single door to the corridor as an exit. In fact the corridor leads to either the fire escape (from which you can see the balcony) or the stairwell/lift.

Anyway, you've managed to retrieve the information that Sophie would need to totally shut down the operation - or that Laura or you lot could use.

Just go with the flow Treppa! :)

Yeah, I also didn't realize that the 'front' group and the 'back' group could basically see each other.
I presumed the fire escape led to a back window of the apartment. (Least that's the way it usually works in American apartment buildings) :/

But really? 'Terror Twins'? We're not THAT bad. :P

Ok, we COULD be, but we haven't been. Yet,... :)

As long as it's not combat, I'm fine with being confused. In fact, I'm used to it.

And here I thought that the Terror Twins referred to Danny's girlfriends? :)

We better hurry up and get our posting done.

And here I thought that the Terror Twins referred to Danny's girlfriends? :)

That was always MY assumption! :)

We better hurry up and get our posting done.

FAWE-SOME!

I'm sorry for the lack of participation lately. Sitting at the computer has been a bit beyond my capabilities. Stupid bronchitis!

Shame on you bronchitis! Keeping Treppa away from us! Shame on you I say! Release your hold on her lungs this instant! Or I shall be very cross with you!

After watching what poor Jssra went through with hers, I'm feeling pretty lucky.

Long may your luck hold.

(For those who haven't been listening to me complain for the past month and a half, I had the common cold turn into 'asthma is trying to kill me'. As of today, I'm off the strongest of the medications used to control it. We'll see what happens.)

Whoo. Good luck!
Glad to hear your getting better at least.

:)

Yup. As another asthmatic, I try to be very careful when bronchitis comes to visit, especially since watching Jssra suffer.

The good thing is, now I have something to do while under the weather.

I'm lucky I was only ever mildly asthmatic. Knocks wood.

Tee-hee, my college was up near Whitby on Saturday. He was going to a village called Filey, but it was shut - so he headed onto Whitby.

DSX laughs at the whole village/town being closed.

Heh, sounds like one of my old college-towns.
The place (downtown) rolled up and turned into a ghost town on weekends. Seriously.

I once thought of filming my sequel (to my Dr Who fan-film I made in Jr College) there, it is a ready-made abandoned town set! :)

Treppa's brought up where you are exactly...

I've placed you inside the bar/pub but with a view of the boats through the windows. There is a veranda & forecourt (which I believe you can find on google maps) where you can have drinks too.

My reasoning for this is so that you can plan whilst still getting some info about what's happening with Molly (IE. she's talking to a sea-captain about hiring a boat); rather than you guys planning so much the game stalls.

You are all together, but out of direct/obvious view of Molly - however you cannot hear her without getting closer.

The pub (Duke of York) is reasonably busy & as Tangris says has pretty wait-staff.

Awesome, luv seeing how you mix in all the real world stuff. :)

Just give me a bit to figure out how Danny's going to do this.
He's better at actually ATTRACTING attention, not avoiding it. :P

Woo! Posting from airport hell.

<Waves at Jssra through portal viewing 'airport hell'>

I was going to ask, 'Which One'?
But then realized, does it matter? They're all the same! :(

Safe travels!

Thank you; we escaped. :)

At that point it was Detroit, which is surprisingly modern and well-appointed considering the area it's in.

DH and I are crashing on the couch of two very kind friends in Palo Alto for a night, before we move on to the (terribly expensive, paid for by family) hotel where the reservation block for the wedding of one of my cousins-in-law is. Family-related stuff will take up the next three-ish days, most likely, then we'll be free for Monday, and Tuesday will be eaten by the trip home.

Detroit was (is?) the hub airport for an airline, so those do tend to be kept in better shape. (It's way better than Miami, for instance -- but maybe I'm just mad at Miami for not having free wifi)

Yeah when I was traveling for work, (Never was much, but a little) I had noticed the trend back then was already heading towards 'Pay for our airport WiFi service'. Which probably explains the then-sudden surge in popularity of the 'buy our cell service wifi-internet device and take it with you anywhere' services. :)

The hubs do tend to be kept in better shape, but also get worn out/abused a lot quicker too. They always seem to be in a perpetual state of 'improvement'. (IE= construction) ;P

Glad you escaped the clutches of the airport monster! Enjoy the wedding and what little time away from RL that you get! :D

Bonus Fate Point to both Sal & Danny, for the amusing interplay (if that's acceptable to everyone) :D

Go for it! They've earned 'em.

Kind of embarrassing getting an FP for goofiness. These are temps, right?

Yep, they get spend as you go. But stick around until you spend them, I believe everyone should be upto full anyway. (We refreshed not too long ago).

Cool, thanks!

The whole point is to have fun, right? :)

Query, if Sal HAD dunked me, would I have gotten 2? ;P
(JK!) :)

Works for me. ;)

I'm going to take a bit of a break to rethink my life while you guys chase down the boat. No more selling deathsticks for me.

Ok, cool.
Have fun(?) :)

Hope all's well, and getting better!

'Have fun storming the castle!'

;)

FYI, the Mote looks basically like this: http://proafile.com/archive/article/no_school_like_the_old_school but scaled up enough for a minimalist to live on.

For better control in high winds than the proa design offers, she's rigged in a style more familiar to Europeans & Americans: http://www.kinderindustries.com/images/mercury-keelboat.jpg

As I mentioned in the original description, the "rail" around the edge is 3-4" high and mostly serves to keep you from losing objects overboard if you happen to drop them. (In rough weather, Morien clips a line to her belt.) So I'm wondering what Molly is leaning on? ;)

IN other news, I owe everyone (in all my PbP's) an apology. There is a lot going on here. (Which stinks, since it's supposed to be my last few days off until July) But despite all of the distractions and 'emergencies' I think I just have a serious case of Creativity Crash. :(

So, apologies, please bear with me. I will keep posting and try to regain my PbP steam asap. :/

Keep up the good work! I'll catch up I promise! :)

Rags: You've been the most consistent player in here, so far as I can tell. Certainly we owe you some slack when you need it.

Sadly, Rags, I can't just fill you with inspiry-magic.

But don't worry --- we're more than happy to cut you some slack -- heck, you in a "down" phase are generally more productive than some of the others I've PbPed with when they're firing on all cylinders. :)

Aw shucks, now your just being nice! :)

Thanks guys. I'll get my head back in the game. Just need to get my crazy home and work schedule back in line.

Anyone got a bullwhip I can borrow? ;P

Don't worry, Rags. Thanks for being so considerate.

Anyway, apologies for not posting during the weekend - but my home internet went down. :(

My brain went down.
Does that count as an excuse? ;P

FYI-
I am now loading /teching/stage managing the latest youth theater show to cross my stage (Les Mis) also during university finals week.

Access to pc- Small
Time to access- Nil
Look on my face when this show is over- Priceless

Sorry in advance, will catch up when I can, but I figure this is a 2-day lighting programming show, plus the evening rehearsals.

Thanks all, Have a good week!
~Rags

All good, Rags. Break a leg. :)

Zeno's term paper is DONE. I'd like to get wildly drunk right about now, but I've got another paper due Friday that I haven't even started.

It was a term paper on Zeno? Are you sure it's not only half done? ;)

Nah, the paper itself was a bioinformatics thing. It's just been half done, then 3/4 done, then 7/8 done.... And now it's gone. :)