I have GOTTA get to the UK while I'm still Young (enough) to enjoy it!
I wanna go to a REAL pub!
Not the 'Americanized' versions
(even the 'good' ones aren't the 'real deal'!)
;P
Should we all teleport to the pub?
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Why that sounds like a great idea. :)
EDIT: Oh, you mean in game?!
<BAMPH!>
Oh, I was already here,... nevermind,...
<BAMPH!>
yep, back at work.
Shoulda stayed at the pub,... ;P
Wow, Rags, just think of the money you could make as an urgent delivery guy. ;)
LOL,
Flashback to Mr Rogers Neighborhood!
<BAMPH!> "Speedy Delivery! Speedy Delivery!"
Mr Rogers: Why, Hello ther,...
<BAMPH!>
I ran a Shackled City campaign and set the city/volcano in the Amedio Jungle in the Greyhawk setting.
Once my wizard got high enough level to teleport and had some time off, she started asking about shipping rates back to the mainland, transit time, etc. Then she set up a high-priced transportation business for nobles and luxury goods.
Honestly, I couldn't see a reason why NOT to do this, but it wasn't often people needed and were willing to pay for the service.
I don't think she became as wealthy as she wanted.
Maybe not as wealthy as she WANTED,... but still cool! ;)
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Belated happy birthday, Wizzie!
Thank you!
:D
What she said about the whole celebration, Rags. :) Happy belated.
Thenk yew, thenk yew,...
;)
While we all seem to be in a quiet time, I thought I'd mention that I'll be away on holidays starting Wednesday (12) and back and able to check in Monday the 23.
So.... don't start up again during that time. Or, if you do, Kenneth will arrive late to the scene.
LOL,
Sorry guys & gals.
I'm a LITTLE 'distracted',...
I mean, I'm booked solid at work, (Running an auditorium for a university) and losing student workers faster than I can hire them. :P
And it's nice to be popular, or at least wanted, Buuut,...
I was basically shanghaied into one show (We shall call this "MUSICAL #1", in a town just outside of where I live)
And THEN asked to audition for another show ("Musical #2", in ANOTHER town outside of where I live, in the opposite direction from the first one.)
I was offered a part in the chorus (I later discovered that the only reason I was not offered a lead role was that the first director insisted that I not be given a large role due to being in their show) which is fine, and being so busy at work I declined to be in the chorus,... Only to be drug back in TWO DAYS LATER due to others (mostly High schoolers) suddenly realizing they had overbooked themselves and their grades were suffering so they dropped out. ;P
So yes, my lack of posting is ENTIRELY due to me being a glutton for punishment (and applause!) as I have been running from work, to Rehearsals for show #2, (opens THIS week!) to rehearsals for show #1 (opens in a month) and back to work again.
I (and Danny) will rejoin everyone. Eventually. :P
Have a great week! :)
It's all cool, as long as nobody goes on a cruise. D:
ACK! I'd LOVE to go on a cruise!
I havent been on a cruise since my High School sr class went on one!
Oh, wait, that was a reference to current events, wasn't it?
;P
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I went on one cruise from hell. I won't go on another unless forcibly kidnapped.
My sister and I were the youngest people on board. The next youngest was a septuagenarian. The oldsters couldn't figure out how to carry cafeteria trays and kept dropping their full trays in the dining line. They were drunk, rude, loud, demanding, selfish, horrible people.
Worse, everyone kept seeing wildlife that I didn't. Dinner conversation was always about the whales and dolphins and other wonderful critters that I never saw, despite spending all my time on the very deserted deck peering through the cold mist and rain. [I was mostly on deck to avoid my sister, who was going through a Mr. Hyde spell, but that's another story.] I was horribly jealous and couldn't figure out how I was missing everything.
Then, when we were docking one day, the oldsters near me on the rail were pointing at the adorable otters sporting around the shore. I looked and looked and couldn't find any. Then they saw dolphins. I couldn't find any.
Long story short, the "dolphin" was a duck that kept diving and popping up out of the water. I mean, it was cute, but it was a f~$!ing duck.
The "otter" was a floating stick that had a little branch poking up in the air. The fogies near me definitely saw it lying on its back waving at them. >_<
On the good side, all the active shore excursions were open because most of the elderly were only interested in gambling, drinking, and shopping, so I went hiking in Tongass, sea kayaking near Ketchican, four-wheeling near Kotzebue to see polar bears, etc. THAT was cool.
But cruising and ADHD do not mix well, especially with entitled octogenarians tossed in for good measure. I could have quite cheerfully strangled the lot of them. Slowly. Happily.
Hoping you and yours are all well and being safe.
I've barely left the house in a month, but that's kinda normal for me.
LOL,.
Well its NOT normal for me,
Or, well, it WASN'T normal for me,...
;P
Being cooped up in my home. FOr a month. With my wife "Mrs Wizard/Angel", my Daughter "Princess/Peanut", and my son "Not-so-mini-me".
SIgh, IF this way lies madness,...
At least For ME it's a short trip! ;P
Take care all, see you on the other side! :)
Back from Mexico (since Thursday) -- and now I'm into lockdown (isolation) for 14 days. :)
Still, things are good here. Trip was amazing - well worth it.
I've done a total of 3 cruises - first one was amazing; second one was considerably less so - almost painful - it was clear that the ship got filled up with people who bought super-discount last-minute tickets -- and they were terrible (and super-demanding on the staff)... and they'd paired us with another couple of newlyweds (it was our honeymoon), who were like 20 years older and essentially 100% different than us -- so we stopped going to formal dinner after just 1 night.
Third one was pretty darn good, though.
Glad you had a (mostly) good time Tilnar!
Stay safe, and STAY SANE! (No promises on my end, just well-wishes) ;P
I wanted to go on a Windjammer Barefoot Cruise for our honeymoon.
Imagine my astonishment when I found out quite definitely that not everyone's idea of a romantic honeymoon is being in a tiny cabin on a tossing sailboat and scrambling around deck after lines to help with the sails.
Who knew?
*lol* You mean it's not a blessing, Rags? ;)
That could be fun - though I do agree it's a little less on the romantic side. Then again, I'm a lazy romantic - I'd rather be dedicating my energies toward the wooing of the spouse than the tugging of the lines.
Ok, so, I just now noticed there's like 2 dozen posts in gameplay I didn't see before. I don't know why my notification on that thread keeps breaking - but guys, seriously, don't be afraid to poke me with a stick if I don't seem to be posting.
OK.
Just remember YOU asked for it!
<Starts stripping bark and sharpening the biggest, longest stick from the backyard cleanup operation,...>
;)
*lol* You mean it's not a blessing, Rags? ;)
That could be fun - though I do agree it's a little less on the romantic side. Then again, I'm a lazy romantic - I'd rather be dedicating my energies toward the wooing of the spouse than the tugging of the lines.
I have the feeling that's the right idea for a honeymoon. ;)
Ok, so, I just now noticed there's like 2 dozen posts in gameplay I didn't see before. I don't know why my notification on that thread keeps breaking - but guys, seriously, don't be afraid to poke me with a stick if I don't seem to be posting.
We didn't want to be noodges!
I have the feeling that's the right idea for a honeymoon. ;)*lol* You mean it's not a blessing, Rags? ;)
That could be fun - though I do agree it's a little less on the romantic side. Then again, I'm a lazy romantic - I'd rather be dedicating my energies toward the wooing of the spouse than the tugging of the lines.
I suppose I should clarify as it really depends as to what those lines are attached to. ;)
Ok, so, I just now noticed there's like 2 dozen posts in gameplay I didn't see before. I don't know why my notification on that thread keeps breaking - but guys, seriously, don't be afraid to poke me with a stick if I don't seem to be posting.We didn't want to be noodges!
Bah. You have my permission to pester. Game's been going on for like nearly a decade (even if I didn't join 'til year 2) - I think you've got the right to bug me to make sure I'm about. I mean, we certainly shouldn't let the game wither out of some sort of misplaced politeness
... some sort of misplaced politeness
Wait, I thought you were Canadian?
Oh, Danny and Sal have both posted.
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... some sort of misplaced politenessWait, I thought you were Canadian?
I am, indeed. That's why I know when politeness is misplaced. ;) We're experts. ;)
Being stuck at home with no paying work has advantages.
So, I ran into a brick wall on my Dad's surname lineage. I got it documented back to 17xx Pennsylvania and to a William Bell who was born in Ulster in 1732. He's my DAR connection because he fought in the Revolutionary war.
Couldn't find a damned thing about his transportation to the US or his Irish records. I even bought into the Irish records database. Nothing there but arrests. Oopsie.
My Dad and I had done paper book research that showed Bell was a sept of McMillan, not its own clan.
So today I idly decided to find my name in Gaelic for grins, Googled Bell in Gaelic, and found CLAN BELL! The thieving tartan merchants have LIED to Bells for years because Bell didn't have a tartan and they wanted to sell them McMillan. Bastards.
I found Bells were in Ulster because they'd been sort of kicked out of Scotland by James VI, being deemed one of the "unruly clans." They didn't have a tartan because they wore leather because they were freakin' horseback riding cattle rustling Border reaving mercenary scum! Yeah!
So now I know about the Ulster Plantations and have the reformed Clan Bell to look to for some record help. We're from Dumfriesshire.
Another unruly border reaving clan was Thomson, which is my maternal Grandfather's name. So I may be descended from thieving lowlife scum on BOTH sides.
So happy. That Ulster brick wall is gone and I can start digging more.
And there we are.
"Among the clans of the debateable land in 1597, in Annanduill, were the Belles – Will Bell of Alby, John Bell of the Tourne, Mathie Bell called the King, Andro Bell called Lokkis Andro, and Will Bell, Redchoke."
Lokkis Andro Bell, my 9th great-grandfather. Finally got my Dad's line back to the Old Country. He would have been pleased.
NICE work Treppa!
very cool.
I started reading "Border Raids and Reivers" looking for more info about family, but it's such a great read that I'm caught up in the stories. Bold Buccleuch's rescue of his vassal, Kinmont Willie Armstrong, from Carlisle Castle. The oldest son of Auld Wat (my 11th great-grandfather) being captured by an enemy and offered a choice between the noose and marrying the man's truly homely daughter. He chose the rope, but found the girl more and more attractive the closer he got to the hanging tree. One reiver being questioned by a judge on why he was imprisoned and saying it was for stealing two halters and tethers. When the judge exclaimed how harsh the charges seemed for such light theft, the man admitted there might have been a couple of colts in those halters. :) All memorialized in great poetry. It's a fun, fun read making isolation just fly by.
Congratulations, you genetic-scallywag you. ;)
For myself, I've done a tracing of the paternal side back to the old country (the north coast of France) -- or, rather, I did a small amount of work - enough that I could connect to someone else who had done so (like a 4th or 5th cousin or something). On that side, two brothers came over and one settled right near Quebec City - one died before he could have children. We were here when the English conquest came (I have a multiply-great uncle who died in the siege of Quebec and another who died on the Plains of Abraham).
I know that the same is true of my maternal side - that they're from the north coast of France -- but have less documentation - in part because when the English showed up, my ancestors changed their name (anglicized it, in fact) to avoid being given a one-way trip to Louisiana when New France became Nova Scotia and New Brunswick -- and didn't go back to the original name until WWI.
Also cool.
My wife has some interesting family history. Nothing she knows goes THAT far back, but I heard all about the 'recent' family history (Say about WW2 and since) on about my 2nd or 3rd date. So I knew EXACTLY what I was getting into! ;P
I may or may not have an interesting family history as well. I presume that I do, but have done Zero research on it to find out. And the one good start I did have (A large book researched by a friend of dads who needed a family to research on for a grad thesis or something) got thrown out by my mother when dad died. :P AND I'm really too lazy (and busy!) to go do all of that research by myself at the moment! ;P
Nice bombshell, Edwyn!
Hmm, looks like we might have come from France, too. FRANCE. WE COME FROM FRANCE.
"A Border riding Clan which gave allegiance to the House of Douglas until the power of that great Clan was dispersed. It is thought that the Bells originate from a Norman supporter of David I, and that the name comes from the French word "Bel", translated as meaning beautiful or handsome."
Of course, we're all related if you go back far enough.
Since I've got time, I'll roll through the records cited in the Scotland - Ulster - US lineage. The Ulster part of the tree comes from the LDS family trees, but I trust those about as much as Ancestry. People get tired, bored, or eager for noble lineage and start clicking away to add links without documentation. I added a whole branch to the family before noticing that one father was born 100 years after his son. Pruned that entire damned branch and started again from scratch.
Personally, I find it far more appealing to be descended from reivers than nobility. ;) Of course, it's a good heritage because of the wonderful bards, culminating in Sir Walter Scott (who may have shared Auld Wat as a forebear.) Tons of those bards were lost to history, but their work lives on. Great stuff.
Of course, the Acadians have their own romantic history and poet/bard in Longfellow. Evangeline is one of my favorite poems.
Hope you're all doing well in these odd times. As for me, well, I have a bit more time to dedicate to my oft-neglected PbPs. I figured that if I am gonna be more active again, I'd might as well try to make it interesting. :)
I'm still totally jealous of your genealogical research, Treppa. I had the damnedest time trying to trace my own lineage; I ended up hitting a bunch of dead ends. But maybe I just really suck at using Ancestry (ugh).
Ancestry.com is more the repository than anything. I stand on the shoulders of giants. One of my dad's distant cousins did his branch of the family tree back to Germany/Switzerland. My dad did a lot of work at the courthouse where the family farm is to get records. He kept it in a Mac application, so I had to put it all into Ancestry. Mom had a bunch of family documents, including a ginormous Bible that I can't believe anyone brought over on the ship. I've done a lot with the online repositories - all the governments are scanning their records and making them available (for a small fee, of course.) It takes hours roll through all that stuff.
Ancestry is a nice recording device, and you can share info with others, but I have learned from sad experience to go back to primary sources when possible to verify.
I finally signed up on the free LDS site and got some Ulster data there, but I'm skeptical of some connections. There are record citations, but it's just "Scotland church registry," nothing concrete. There's one Ulster tree where the parents, who were born, married, and died in Stirling, apparently decided to pop over to Ulster to have their daughter, then left her there. It's not impossible, I guess, but likely? Nah. More work needs to be done. It's a good Plague Project.
LOL!
They can convert you post-mortem? I don't even know how that would work.
I mean, in order to be able to do that, they'd pretty much need to be right about the afterlife, in which case, it would make sense to go with it?
Apparently you get to choose, even after death?
I do NOT understand religion.
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*pokes Tilnar's RSS feed*
Hey, wait, it's our fearless GM's turn!
See, this is why I don't noodge. I screw things up.
*lol* Fair enough. ;)
Do we have anything to decide or settle before Sven arrives? I can't think of anything. We just need to hear his story, I guess?
I think so, I was just ensuring that there was no slow transitions to his house and give you guys more character interaction if needed.
Cool
:)
Thanks!