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Postby Grenartia » Wed May 25, 2016 2:42 pm

Len Hyet wrote:Tigger is/was busy as shit with school stuffs, as of about a month and a half ago he was still waiting to hear back from some grad schools and similar things. I imagine he's working somewhere, finishing up his school year, and other such important items of business.

I have full confidence he'll get back to us before the end of the next month.


I hope so.
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Postby The Two Jerseys » Sun Jun 26, 2016 4:20 pm

Really? Nobody's been around for a whole month?
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Postby Monfrox » Sun Jun 26, 2016 5:18 pm

The Two Jerseys wrote:Really? Nobody's been around for a whole month?

Just waiting on Tiger to resurrect...
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Postby Gibberan » Sun Jun 26, 2016 6:10 pm

Monfrox wrote:
The Two Jerseys wrote:Really? Nobody's been around for a whole month?

Just waiting on Tiger to resurrect...

He's planning on returning with a bang, I can sense it.
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Postby Morrdh » Mon Jun 27, 2016 2:35 am

Still here, just been busy with sleeping, revising for a theory test and work (in that order of importance).
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Postby Len Hyet » Mon Jun 27, 2016 6:17 pm

Gibberan wrote:
Monfrox wrote:Just waiting on Tiger to resurrect...

He's planning on returning with a bang, I can sense it.

Been in touch with Tigger, here's what I know;

1. His last quarter of school ended about 20 days ago. It was a brutal quarter, but he's confirmed graduating.

2. He is working on his post-grad school/work options, I don't want to say more without it coming from Tigger as I'm not sure what he's comfortable sharing on the open forum.

3. He is coming back, with grandiose plans, sweeping ideas, etc, etc, he's just been working on them off-site to avoid promises that he can't/won't end up delivering on.
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Postby The Two Jerseys » Mon Jun 27, 2016 6:20 pm

Len Hyet wrote:
Gibberan wrote:He's planning on returning with a bang, I can sense it.

Been in touch with Tigger, here's what I know;

1. His last quarter of school ended about 20 days ago. It was a brutal quarter, but he's confirmed graduating.

2. He is working on his post-grad school/work options, I don't want to say more without it coming from Tigger as I'm not sure what he's comfortable sharing on the open forum.

3. He is coming back, with grandiose plans, sweeping ideas, etc, etc, he's just been working on them off-site to avoid promises that he can't/won't end up delivering on.

That's good to hear.

Congrats on graduating, Tigger!
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Postby Tiltjuice » Mon Jun 27, 2016 7:13 pm

The Two Jerseys wrote:Congrats on graduating, Tigger!
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Postby Altito Asmoro » Mon Jun 27, 2016 11:01 pm

Tiltjuice wrote:
The Two Jerseys wrote:Congrats on graduating, Tigger!
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Altito Asmoro wrote:You people can call me...AA. Or Alt.
Or Tito.

I'm calling you "non-aligned comrade."

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Postby Gibberan » Tue Jun 28, 2016 5:30 am

Altito Asmoro wrote:
Tiltjuice wrote:

oh crap




well the sentiment is there, anyway.
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Postby Altito Asmoro » Tue Jun 28, 2016 5:44 am

Gibberan wrote:
Altito Asmoro wrote:

oh crap




well the sentiment is there, anyway.


You pushed it too much, Gib.
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Altito Asmoro wrote:You people can call me...AA. Or Alt.
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Postby Goram » Tue Jun 28, 2016 3:52 pm

Still here. Waiting for what, at this point, is about as likely as the second coming, but still here never the less. Busy with ATPL stuff and finally quit my retail job. Enjoyed that quite a lot. Tiger, if you're lurking, good effort on graduating. Congrats.

Here endeth the Goram update.

Altito Asmoro wrote:
Gibberan wrote:oh crap




well the sentiment is there, anyway.


You pushed it too much, Gib.


Did I miss something here?

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Postby The Two Jerseys » Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:43 pm

GOram wrote:Still here. Waiting for what, at this point, is about as likely as the second coming, but still here never the less. Busy with ATPL stuff and finally quit my retail job. Enjoyed that quite a lot. Tiger, if you're lurking, good effort on graduating. Congrats.

Here endeth the Goram update.

Altito Asmoro wrote:
You pushed it too much, Gib.


Did I miss something here?

A Quote Too Far.
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Postby Morrdh » Wed Jun 29, 2016 2:13 am

OK, where the heck did season 7 of Archer spring from?
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Postby The Two Jerseys » Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:15 am

Morrdh wrote:OK, where the heck did season 7 of Archer spring from?

The Danger Zone.
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Postby Morrdh » Wed Jun 29, 2016 7:30 am

The Two Jerseys wrote:
Morrdh wrote:OK, where the heck did season 7 of Archer spring from?

The Danger Zone.


Missed opportunity...

Regardless, Theory Test passed and now I have to wait until October to do my practical.
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Postby Goram » Thu Jun 30, 2016 1:08 pm

The Two Jerseys wrote:
GOram wrote:Still here. Waiting for what, at this point, is about as likely as the second coming, but still here never the less. Busy with ATPL stuff and finally quit my retail job. Enjoyed that quite a lot. Tiger, if you're lurking, good effort on graduating. Congrats.

Here endeth the Goram update.



Did I miss something here?

A Quote Too Far.


Oh, do tell. I do love a good bit of gossip.

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Postby The Two Jerseys » Thu Jun 30, 2016 2:31 pm

GOram wrote:
The Two Jerseys wrote:A Quote Too Far.


Oh, do tell. I do love a good bit of gossip.

Nothing juicy at all: Gib just quoted Altito quoting Tilt quoting my congratulating Tigger on graduating, which resulted in my original message being automatically cut out of the chain.


And while I was out in the field for work today, I saw an F-16 fly overhead while driving through, of all places, Talbot County, MD.
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Postby Organized States » Thu Jun 30, 2016 5:22 pm

Congrats Tiger!

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And while I was out in the field for work today, I saw an F-16 fly overhead while driving through, of all places, Talbot County, MD.

For some reason, I can just imagine you leaning out of your car window and shaking your fist angrily at the F-16 as it passed low and fast over you. :p
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Postby The Two Jerseys » Thu Jun 30, 2016 5:35 pm

Organized States wrote:Congrats Tiger!

The Two Jerseys wrote:
And while I was out in the field for work today, I saw an F-16 fly overhead while driving through, of all places, Talbot County, MD.

For some reason, I can just imagine you leaning out of your car window and shaking your fist angrily at the F-16 as it passed low and fast over you. :p

I wonder what the farmer in the crop sprayer we just passed would think when he saw that...
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Postby Grenartia » Sun Jul 03, 2016 10:25 pm

Congrats on graduating, Tigger!

Also, I'm still alive. Mostly. Had to retake Calculus. Also, been busy a lot with my new responsibilities as Secretary. On the upshot, this means I have a title now.
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Postby The Tiger Kingdom » Sun Jul 03, 2016 11:11 pm

Okay, so heres the deal:
I've graduated. I've been working 8-hour days. It is HARD, given how weirdly insecure and perfectionist I've gotten, to write almost anything, This isn't really an excuse, I have no homework anymore, and I know I've been badly remiss for like...a solid two years at this point, given how inactive I've been.

And more important than that, I think the whole Vietnam thing was a bit of a misfire. Not that it was a bad idea, necessarily, but it was the kind of thing that immediately beggared a whole bunch of backstory that I was unable to provide off the top of my head. I want to tell a single, continuous story wirth this whole ESverse thing, and had I proceeded with the Vietnam story, it would've basically been impossible to continue stick to that one story for long.

In addition, the more I thought about it, the more I realized I didn't have a firm grip on what the Vietnam story would have entailed, and there were a few ideas in there that I was ultimately unable to reconcile. I've thrown away so many ideas over the last few weeks that I can't even tell you, because I just wasn't as happy with them as I thought I would have been.

- So here's what I'm thinking:
- I want to go back to ES - the WW2 era. However this will work, I dunno, but I'm thinking of starting via some long-overdue retconning work on my stuff, hopefully with the cooperation of a few of you. I intend to spend the entirety of tomorrow doing provable, demonstrable work to this end, as a show of good faith. You all have waited a very long time, and I'm sorry about that.
- I am also open (if people want to) to start telling stories post-WW2, as part of an integrated ES thing - not as a different RP entirely, as I tried to do back in January. I've never wanted to really go into the mechanics of who lives/who dies/what happens necessarily at the end of the war, as that would entail THPOILERTH, but clearly we're to the point where that's no longer really important. We all are clearly committed to this thing come hell or high water, so the exact dynamics of who lives and dies isn't really central to anything anymore. This never was Game of Thrones, the "who dies" spoilers never interested me much anyways.
- There is at least one Korean War story I want to work on with a few of you - likely not as a full RP, but as a limited bridging story for Excalibur in the postwar era, featuring Page and a few new characters. This isn't like the Vietnam story, in that I have it pretty well resolved in terms of how it will work. If you want in on that, let me know.
- I may come back to the Vietnam story in the future, but given how my thoughts are elsewhere at this point, I will likely not come back to it anytime soon.

So that's where I'm at, right now. If you all want to yell at me, or tell me I'm full of shit, I absolutely do0n't blame you. All I can say is that I started and committed to Excalibur at a very, very different time in my life than where I'm at now, and my obligations and mental hangups are very different from what they were then - as is my intent for this RP. I never dreamed it would get as involved, massive and complex as it has in such a relatively short time, nor that it would require so much mental power and literary skill to keep straight.
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Postby Organized States » Sun Jul 03, 2016 11:20 pm

All I have to say is,

Welcome Back Tiger. Good to have you back.
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Postby The Two Jerseys » Sun Jul 03, 2016 11:23 pm

Tigger lives! Let's shoot off some fireworks to celebrate!
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Postby The Tiger Kingdom » Sun Jul 03, 2016 11:25 pm

Organized States wrote:All I have to say is,

Welcome Back Tiger. Good to have you back.

Don't thank me yet, OS. :p
And here's another thing: As part of the retconning thing, I want to use that as an excuse to sort of"grandfather" people into active status within the group. I don't know how this will work, and I don't know how much of the old ES continuity (such as it was) can be kept as a result of this, but I still want it to happen.
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