By all means.
I'm always up for RP.
You just earned 300xp each. Well done! I'll keep a record of how much xp you've earned in the campaign tab.
I just thought of something I should have thought of a long time ago.
There's going to be some themes in the campaign that are mature in nature. These can be played up or down, and most of them can be removed entirely without disturbing the plot. As such, I thought I should set up a check-list of things that are ok to have in the game, and some things that aren't. This way I can know what sort of situations that are safe to dump your characters in, and what sort of situations make you uncomfortable. (and not in the exciting horror oh-god-shivers-down-my-spine way)
I've been told off once before for having my games deal with stuff that was traumatic/uncomfortable for them, (One of my players apparently had some deepset homophobia, who'd have known) and I kind of promised myself that wouldn't happen again.
Anyway, Here's how the check-list works:
"No" means that it won't happen in the world, and won't be implied or reffered to either. If one of us puts No in one of the things on the list, I'm going to keep it out of the campaign entirely.
"Yes" means that it can happen on screen, so to speak.
"Off-screen" means that it can happen to NPCs while you aren't watching the scene, can be implied to have happened in the past and can be used as plot points. It can also happen to your characters, but will not be described. I.E. if you have sex with a tavern wench, the closest we'll come to describing it will be something like
Here's my 'checklist'. Not everything on it will be in the game as it stands, but some of it will.
Sex: Offscreen.
Romantic relationships: Yes.
Homosexuality: Yes.
Fantastical Animal Sex: I.E. making half-fiends: Off-screen.
Pedophilia: Off-screen.
Rape: Off-screen.
Explicit Violence: Yes.
Explicit Injuries & Death: Yes.
Body Horror: Yes.
If you can think of some points beyond these to add, feel free to do so.
I'm going to be completely transparent for a minute here, because when I signed up for this game, I made a commitment to sick it out. So, way I see it, you guys deserve to know what's going on.
My life isn't going so well at the moment. My depression has been worsening due to a series of circumstances, most of which revolve around my family. My stepfather and stepsister are nearly impossible to peacefully coexist with, and it's only gotten worse over the last few months.
Last week, my mother and stepfather got into an argument so bad and so hostile, I didn't feel safe. I walked out, saying I was going to see a friend for a few hours, and m mother followed me out. "Come back, and pack what you need for a week. We'll go stay somewhere else for a while."
So, well, we did. We were in motels for a while, and now I'm staying with my fiancé. I don't know yet whether I'll be going home soon, or just packing up my things and moving in here. It puts me in a pretty tight spot, and I don't know if it will get better.
Am I safe/alright? Safe, yes. Alright, not really.
Am I still going to play? Yes, if you'll still have me. I signed up with the intention of sticking this out, and I don't intend to let a rough patch stop me completely. I might just be sporadic for a while. I hope you understand, and I'll try to get an in-character post later today.
GM, as for your checklist, I'm cool with a lot of it. I think I'd prefer to set pedophilia to a 'no', however. I've done my mandatory reporting training, and being a volunteer in the education sector, it's something I'm aware of, and would prefer not to deal with in my fantasy games.
The rest of it looks fine to me.
Okay, so I didn't get a post on Friday, but... I think things are stable enough for me now that I can continue. Sorry for the hold-up. Let's get this moving again, shall we?
Glad to hear things are a bit better, that sounds rough. Didn't chime in mostly to wait for Dragon's post, but it never came and I kind of wandered off mentally. Hoping we haven't been abandoned though, since Dragon is still posting and around.
It's really been doing my head in. Living with depression is awful enough on its own, but when you add in ASD and then a good, strong upheaval of everything one thought was safe, it becomes a real clusterf$++. I'm 'home' again - for now, at least - and hopefully I can settle back into my distractions.
Like devouring all the RPG books I can get my hands on, and playing entirely too much Dragon Age: Inquisition.
First of all, I'm sorry to have dissappeared on you, everything has been crazy, although nowhere near your problems. I should have posted that I was busy, but, well, I didn't. I'm sorry.
That really sounds rough. I went through a depression some time back; It isn't fun stuff. Although I probably don't need to tell you that. I'm glad you want to continue with us.
ASD is the thing where your heart has a hole in it and the blood sometimes isn't circulated right, yes?
DAI... Dammit, I wished my PC could run it. Which kind of describes the kind of PC I have at the moment.
I'm on top of posting an update now.
I should be more careful with acronyms; I keep forgetting that some stand for more than one thing. Nah, in my case, it's an autism spectrum disorder. Asperger's, to be precise. Any upset in a routine messes with me to an awful degree, I don't always interpret sarcasm or humor properly, and I'm really awkward and nervous around strangers. All my health issues are strictly mental, which, to some people, means they don't count. That's fun. *rolls eyes*
Sorry things have been crazy, Dragon, but glad you're here and willing to keep this going :) And yep, depression is a bloody awful thing. Not something anyone should have to suffer through.
And DA:I is wonderful in so many ways. 100 hours in, not even halfway through the main quest. I'm stuck playing it on the fiancé's PS4, though, which limits my time. Damn him.
... Huh. It's more surreal than I thought it would be, meeting someone else with the same thing (condition?). Basically, me too, although I'm 'high-functional'.(not a precise translation, I believe, not entirely sure what you'd say in english)
Strangers and change in general are exhausting.
I should probably have realised that was what it was from the 'upheaval in routine' comment, but the acronym threw me. I learned about it in danish; I've never updated my vocabulary to english on that subject.
Hmm. I don't quite understand why I'm feeling so surprised right now.
At any rate, I'm glad to be back at this campaign again.
All right. We've now spend a significant amount of time on the funeral, and I get a drift that you want to get on with it. Would you like to hold speeches at the funeral proper?
Update incoming.
So er, how 'incoming' is that update right now?
Edit: Looks like you got into that other gestalt CC game, so I guess this is indeed pretty dead in the water. Some warning would've been nice; could you mark the campaign as inactive then?
Well, that's an upsetting thought. I feel like if I'd posted sooner, maybe this wouldn't have lagged...