Deep 6 FaWtL

[lisamarlene]

Freehold DM wrote:

lisamarlene wrote:

Feels so freaking weird to be rereading "Code of the Harpers" and looking at maps of the Moonshae Isles after all these years.

loads flamethrower the realms must burn.

(Fully clothed, btw...)

You know, it's kind of like watching a sitcom from the 70s or 80s... the nostalgia factor is overriding all other considerations.

I was always more partial to Ravenloft. But, GM chooses, and right now I'm just happy to be playing instead of GMing.

[Celestial Healer]

gran rey de los mono wrote:

(Discussing Waffle House)

A: "Last time I went there, I was with C, and I didn't feel well afterwards."
C: "YOU ORDERED LIVER AND ONIONS AT A PLACE WHERE I DON'T THINK THEY'D EVER CLEANED THE BATHROOM!"

Embarrassed admission:

The worst food poisoning I have ever had was after eating at Pizzeria Uno. To which everyone responded: WHY THE F$~$ DID YOU THINK IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO ORDER THE SALMON AT PIZZERIA UNO.

I have learned my lesson about ordering items that did not belong on the menu in the first place.

[Celestial Healer]

lisamarlene wrote:

Freehold DM wrote:

lisamarlene wrote:

Feels so freaking weird to be rereading "Code of the Harpers" and looking at maps of the Moonshae Isles after all these years.

loads flamethrower the realms must burn.

(Fully clothed, btw...)

You know, it's kind of like watching a sitcom from the 70s or 80s... the nostalgia factor is overriding all other considerations.

I was always more partial to Ravenloft. But, GM chooses, and right now I'm just happy to be playing instead of GMing.

A girl after my own heart.

My Ravenloft PbP has been running since 2012. And I am considering having my next VTT campaign be 5e Curse of Strahd.

[captain yesterday]

I loved the size and scope of the Forgotten Realms compared to other campaign settings.

But 1st edition Greyhawk, Ravenloft, and the setting for the box sets (with the grand duchy of Karamikos) were my favorite.

[Freehold DM]

DARK SUN FOREVER

[Woran]

lisamarlene wrote:

I finally uninstalled Goth Bard's game and felt massively disloyal. BUT.

Right at the start of Christmas vacation, it crashed and mysteriously erased a bunch of my data, knocking me back from chapter 56 to chapter 34 and deleting months worth of modifications and coin. The customer service reps were all Bad Janets and said, "Yeah, that sux, bye." So I worked my way back up to the end of chapter 57, and it just crashed AGAIN and erased EVERYTHING, back fo the beginning, so, bye, Felicia.

Im thinking about uninstalling it.

It doesnt always run smoothly on my phone. And There is a ton of messages of the 'come play' variant. I know apps like these make companies money but I hate reminders that I am NOT playing.

[Woran]

Drejk wrote:

NobodysHome wrote:

Poor Shiro.

He lost power at 10:00 am, and it's still not back as of 5:30 pm, with the latest estimate being no power before 7:00 pm at the earliest.

For me, that's, "Woo hoo! Time to completely reorganize the bookcases, move some furniture, work 'til I'm ready to drop, and then read a book!"
Shiro's existence is pretty much video games, streaming shows, and using his computer to build a new RPG, so he's been bored stupid all day.

I feel for him. Without power I wouldn't know what to do with myself either. Ok, I could read a book, but it still gets dark early anyway.

Yeah. I could read with a flashlight, but its less comfortable. Altough I could do with a nap.

[Vanykrye]

"Upload this info."

"You didn't include all the info you wanted uploaded in the file you sent me."

Silence.

I could have had this done by noon.

[lisamarlene]

Just got a text from my boss. She's officially closing my classroom until we get my student's results, and she wants me to go in at 1:00 for another rapid test. Not sure if 72 hours since possible exposure is enough time to avoid a false negative, but I will do what I am told.

Meanwhile I haven't hugged my own children since Saturday and I'm afraid to go near them.

[Sharoth]

Damn LM. I am sorry to hear that. Good luck.

[lisamarlene]

I'm negative!

But my boss still wants to test me daily to be sure.

Meanwhile, I'm doing home learning until my student's results come back, longer if she's positive, but Hermione and Teensy Valeros still get to go to school.

[Limeylongears]

captain yesterday wrote:

I loved the size and scope of the Forgotten Realms compared to other campaign settings.

But 1st edition Greyhawk, Ravenloft, and the setting for the box sets (with the grand duchy of Karamikos) were my favorite.

Greyhawk is nice and doomy; Mystara is a bit of a kitchen sink setting, but that's kinda what you want to adventure in, and it was very well done (I have an old Gazetteer upstairs which is a lot of fun to read).

[Treppa]

My auto insurance bill is $666. Seems right for 2021.

[captain yesterday]

I made my character for Extinction Curse.

Fabios Goldenrod

Chaotic Good woodland Elf Farmhand Swashbuckler with Wit for Swashbuckler's Style (makes quips to confuse opponents in combat) and nimble dodge for his swashbuckler feat.

Str 10
Dex 16
Con 12
Int 12
Wis 10
Cha 16

I regret nothing.

[Ambrosia Slaad]

gran rey de los mono wrote:

NobodysHome wrote:

...and until you're all wearing fish pants you're not me.

My favorite, most comfortable pair of pajama pants has sharks on them. Does that count?

Do mermaid scales leggings count?

Freehold DM wrote:

NobodysHome wrote:

Today's News:

<Politics reluctantly deleted>
- Our tree grows a "plague doctor" lemon that Impus Major now keeps as a pet.

why does he look like a bad supervillain from a CW TV show?

CWverse/Arrowverse show? No. DC's Doom Patrol TV show-verse? He'd fit right in.

[gran rey de los mono]

Well, f+*@ me running. Turns out the manager did work a double shift today, so I'm looking at a 7-foot mound of completely untouched laundry. And what am I going to do, complain to him that he didn't do laundry?

[Vidmaster7]

gran rey de los mono wrote:

Well, f@~~ me running. Turns out the manager did work a double shift today, so I'm looking at a 7-foot mound of completely untouched laundry. And what am I going to do, complain to him that he didn't do laundry?

I mean I would at my manager but it wouldn't get me anywhere.

[gran rey de los mono]

I have sorted it all, and started the first load. I estimate 8 total loads. With each wash cycle taking 45 minutes, I'm going to be working on this s%$* all night.

[Singed Vidmaster7]

gran rey de los mono wrote:

I have sorted it all, and started the first load. I estimate 8 total loads. With each wash cycle taking 45 minutes, I'm going to be working on this s~+@ all night.

Well You can guess my suggestion.

[gran rey de los mono]

Singed Vidmaster7 wrote:

gran rey de los mono wrote:

I have sorted it all, and started the first load. I estimate 8 total loads. With each wash cycle taking 45 minutes, I'm going to be working on this s~+@ all night.

Well You can guess my suggestion.

Chuck it in the f&@%-it bucket?

[Vidmaster7]

gran rey de los mono wrote:

Singed Vidmaster7 wrote:

gran rey de los mono wrote:

I have sorted it all, and started the first load. I estimate 8 total loads. With each wash cycle taking 45 minutes, I'm going to be working on this s~+@ all night.

Well You can guess my suggestion.

Chuck it in the f!$#-it bucket?

fire but that also works and with less smoke.

[gran rey de los mono]

Vidmaster7 wrote:

gran rey de los mono wrote:

Singed Vidmaster7 wrote:

gran rey de los mono wrote:

I have sorted it all, and started the first load. I estimate 8 total loads. With each wash cycle taking 45 minutes, I'm going to be working on this s~+@ all night.

Well You can guess my suggestion.

Chuck it in the f!$#-it bucket?

fire but that also works and with less smoke.

We can set the bucket on fire too.

[Vidmaster7]

I approve.

[Woran]

gran rey de los mono wrote:

Vidmaster7 wrote:

gran rey de los mono wrote:

Singed Vidmaster7 wrote:

gran rey de los mono wrote:

I have sorted it all, and started the first load. I estimate 8 total loads. With each wash cycle taking 45 minutes, I'm going to be working on this s~+@ all night.

Well You can guess my suggestion.

Chuck it in the f!$#-it bucket?

fire but that also works and with less smoke.

We can set the bucket on fire too.

Go for it

[Darth Draconis]

Fire is good!!!

[gran rey de los mono]

Well, I just got the last load in the wash, and the penultimate load in the dryer. Luckily, I was able to get it all in 7 loads instead of 8. Also, I forgot that the cycle for the decorative topsheet is only 30 minutes, instead of 45. So that saved some time there. Still have to put it all away, and still hate the manager.

[gran rey de los mono]

Vidmaster7 wrote:

gran rey de los mono wrote:

Well, f@~~ me running. Turns out the manager did work a double shift today, so I'm looking at a 7-foot mound of completely untouched laundry. And what am I going to do, complain to him that he didn't do laundry?

I mean I would at my manager but it wouldn't get me anywhere.

With my luck, he would write me up for insubordination or some s#&%, and f+#@ with my schedule just to be an a~$$~$$.

[Vidmaster7]

I'm on the verge of moving and quitting this job soon so I'm feeling brazen lately.

[gran rey de los mono]

I know when I was getting ready to quit my last job, I was done even pretending to give a s%~*. I had this job lined up, didn't tell anyone at the old job, and just stopped doing things like laundry, cleaning, wearing my uniform. My plan had been to just leave a note saying "I quit" as I walked out the morning before I started here, but the manager happened to be there when I came in so I told him "Oh, by the way, this is my last shift. I quit when this shift is over." He was taken aback, to say the least. And then 1st shift didn't show up, and wasn't answering her phone, so at five minutes after, I called the manager (he was staying in the hotel) and said "I'm clocking out now. You better come down and cover the desk." He started to say something, but I just hung up, clocked out, and left.

[Vidmaster7]

I don't dislike my current manager that much but that was about how I left Walmart. Not so much in action but in spirit of that.

[gran rey de los mono]

That place had gone to hell. When I started, it was owned by the same company that owns where I now work, and it was good. Then they sold it, and the new owner sent it spiraling down the drain so fast.

[gran rey de los mono]

And, because I'm thinking of laundry and my former place of employment, a memory has surfaced. As long as I worked there, laundry was the front desk's responsibility. Everyone was to do it, everyone knew that, and-for the most part-everyone did their bit. But there was one clerk who would always do only a fraction of what she should have been able to, while always complaining that she was "spending all day, every day, doing nothing but laundry". I don't think she realized that there was a security cam in the laundry room. Well, after a few months of this, the manager decided to check the tapes one day. Turned out, what this wonderful employee was doing, was putting about 1/3 of a full load into the wash. Letting it run. Putting it in one dryer for a full hour plus 15 minute cooldown (that much should have dried in 15-20 minutes for sheets, 25-30 for towels...less if she split it between the two dryers we had), then fold it (slowly), and then put another 1/3 load into the washer. Repeat. When the manager told her that wasn't how it was to be done (do full loads, run the washer as stuff dries, use both dryers to speed it up), she started crying about the manager being unfair to her, and quit.

[Vidmaster7]

Yeah my manager when I started was very strict and kept things orderly. It had its up and down but at least people did their jobs and we hardly ever had customer complaints except from the crazy ones. won 3 awards while she was here in fact. we were rank in the double digits of hotels. Since she left we've dropped to a 4 digit number starting with a 6.

[gran rey de los mono]

Oh, that place was never that good, but at least it functioned and we usually had what we needed in order to do our job. Sure, sometimes we'd run out of something, but that happens and the manager always got some replacements ASAP. At lot of the complaints there, and here for that matter, have to do with the property needing renovating. And here, it's not even so much that it "needs" renovated, but that since it's been so long since it was, people who stay at the chain frequently feel like it's old and run down. Yeah, the carpet needs replaced, and some of the wall paper has seen better days, but frankly, most of it is cosmetic. And that the aesthetics are older. The general color schemes of most of the newer (or more recently redone) hotels are brighter, while ours is more of black "granite" countertops, some wood, darker blues and greens, and a (frankly ugly, to me at least) yellow/orange that just looks like it is dirty even if it isn't. But, considering that I have been led to believe that the last complete remodel was about 15 years ago, what can you expect?

Also, some of it is just the result of changing expectations. Over time, hotel rooms have generally gotten bigger, with more amenities, and such. The rooms here feel small in comparison, and would definitely be too small if you tried to add more stuff into them. The only way to do that would be to knock down walls, combine rooms together, and make larger, better equipped rooms, but have fewer of them.

[gran rey de los mono]

Oh, and I managed to get all the laundry washed, dried, folded, and put away. Out of spite.

[Vidmaster7]

My spite and your spite look different.

[gran rey de los mono]

Vidmaster7 wrote:

My spite and your spite look different.

Sometimes I am fueled by hate.

[Sharoth]

Where you moving to Vid?

[captain yesterday]

I'm primarily fueled by love and sunlight.

[Woran]

I could use a re-fuel right about now

[gran rey de los mono]

With what? I have a half jar of crunchy peanut butter handy, if that helps.

[Darth Draconis]

captain yesterday wrote:

I'm primarily fueled by love and sunlight.

Jedi scum. You do not know the power of the dark side!

[C.Yesterday, Super Jedi Warrior]

What the dark side doesn't tell you when they're offering you cookies is the light side has pie, and women.

[Freehold DM]

Limeylongears wrote:

captain yesterday wrote:

I loved the size and scope of the Forgotten Realms compared to other campaign settings.

But 1st edition Greyhawk, Ravenloft, and the setting for the box sets (with the grand duchy of Karamikos) were my favorite.

Greyhawk is nice and doomy; Mystara is a bit of a kitchen sink setting, but that's kinda what you want to adventure in, and it was very well done (I have an old Gazetteer upstairs which is a lot of fun to read).

ALL NON FORGOTTEN REALMS SETTINGS RULE

[Mark Hoover 330]

I took the day off yesterday; came back to over 130 emails since Saturday, with more than half of those requiring some level of work and response. My boss on the dept meeting just now said to the team "for those of you that took yesterday off, you DESERVE days off! Don't feel bad if your workload is higher this week; if it takes 4 days to get caught up, that's NO problem. If you get any complaints, send them to me."

Now, I know she's trying to be nice and I get the sentiment, but here's my reality: over the next 4 days, as I get caught up, my workload continues unabated. That means that as I get caught up to the one day off I took, I've got MORE work to do from today and beyond that I'm then falling behind on.

I tried bringing this up in our meeting which is why she made those comments in the first place. This is why I ended last year with just a tad over 40 hours of PTO left untaken. When I take a single day off, it takes forever to get caught back up. Couple this with a freeze on OT due to quarantine and the quarantine itself restricting a lot of travel options and it just isn't WORTH it to take any "vacation" time.

I'm really trying to be fueled by sunshine and love, but rage is SO cheap and plentiful.

[Woran]

You know its a good campaign when you, as the AI of the ship, have to remind the players not to put drugs in the ships intake manifolds

[Freehold DM]

gran rey de los mono wrote:

Well, f$$@ me running. Turns out the manager did work a double shift today, so I'm looking at a 7-foot mound of completely untouched laundry. And what am I going to do, complain to him that he didn't do laundry?

If you ease up on the room party policy I will do the laundry for you.

[Freehold DM]

Woran wrote:

I could use a re-fuel right about now

I'm on my way.

[Freehold DM]

Mark Hoover 330 wrote:

I took the day off yesterday; came back to over 130 emails since Saturday, with more than half of those requiring some level of work and response. My boss on the dept meeting just now said to the team "for those of you that took yesterday off, you DESERVE days off! Don't feel bad if your workload is higher this week; if it takes 4 days to get caught up, that's NO problem. If you get any complaints, send them to me."

Now, I know she's trying to be nice and I get the sentiment, but here's my reality: over the next 4 days, as I get caught up, my workload continues unabated. That means that as I get caught up to the one day off I took, I've got MORE work to do from today and beyond that I'm then falling behind on.

I tried bringing this up in our meeting which is why she made those comments in the first place. This is why I ended last year with just a tad over 40 hours of PTO left untaken. When I take a single day off, it takes forever to get caught back up. Couple this with a freeze on OT due to quarantine and the quarantine itself restricting a lot of travel options and it just isn't WORTH it to take any "vacation" time.

I know that feeling. Especially with working from home being really workdays with no defined end and taking a day off means it's just a day at home and you don't open the laptop. Joy.