Demens Chosen [PL: Into the Abyss - CLOSED]

[Highfort]

:)
Just remember that she has to motivate the healers to actually want to train under those conditions and they're probably largely the 'civilian' side of the 'joint unit.'

Fvaar is correct, the military medic cadre to be assigned to missions and the civilian healers are two separate units.

That being said, we do need PCs for mission teams.

[Northwest Slobovia]

:)
Just remember that she has to motivate the healers to actually want to train under those conditions and they're probably largely the 'civilian' side of the 'joint unit.'

Fvaar is correct, the military medic cadre to be assigned to missions and the civilian healers are two separate units.

That being said, we do need PCs for mission teams.

What, civvies can't go on missions because it upsets the people with the stripes and brass?

[Highfort]

Fvaar is correct, the military medic cadre to be assigned to missions and the civilian healers are two separate units.

That being said, we do need PCs for mission teams.

What, civvies can't go on missions because it upsets the people with the stripes and brass?

We're trying to avoid getting people killed, man

[Monfrox]

Fvaar is correct, the military medic cadre to be assigned to missions and the civilian healers are two separate units.

That being said, we do need PCs for mission teams.

What, civvies can't go on missions because it upsets the people with the stripes and brass?

Don't think it's the brass they're worried about

[The BranRiech]

Hey, sorry for the lack of me posting for the past week. I started a new schedule at work, and had a hard time posting regularly. My schedule is busy tonight, is it okay to post tomorrow? I don't want to hold anyone back, and I still need to send Char!Bran to the meeting.

[Tiltjuice]

Hey, sorry for the lack of me posting for the past week. I started a new schedule at work, and had a hard time posting regularly. My schedule is busy tonight, is it okay to post tomorrow? I don't want to hold anyone back, and I still need to send Char!Bran to the meeting.

*offers tea*

[Giovenith]

Hey, sorry for the lack of me posting for the past week. I started a new schedule at work, and had a hard time posting regularly. My schedule is busy tonight, is it okay to post tomorrow? I don't want to hold anyone back, and I still need to send Char!Bran to the meeting.

I thought you said you were retiring him.

[Northwest Slobovia]

What, civvies can't go on missions because it upsets the people with the stripes and brass?

We're trying to avoid getting people killed, man

Well, sure, but -- *takes another sip of his wine* -- that's a question of story design and character/player capabilities.

Scribbling in a character name like "Emperor General Nuke McBadass III" at the top of an app and writing "Far-FT Military Badassery: 7" under skills doesn't guarantee survival on any sort of IC battlefield. I kinda thought the point of missions was to build up the right sort of capabilities for IC military stuff, actually.

And that's making the assumption that "mission" means "military mission". Even broadening that slightly to include espionage (including combined military/espionage missions) dramatically increases the range of appropriate IC abilities and OOC player skills for sending characters on missions. And I'm sure we can think of even broader ranges of things for our characters to do to Save the Universe™ that take built-up characters and careful play.

E. g.:

Delta Force in Afghanistan: military
Combined CIA/SOCOM operations in multple theaters: military/espionage (the pointy end of the initial US response to Al Qaeda).
Unified State Department/Intelligence Services/SOCOM operations worldwide: the totality of the initial US response to Al Qaeda.

The last is close to what I think we'll need to Defeat the Forces of Badness in PL.

Starring Samuel L "Motherfucker" Jackson as Septimus Itum as Secretary of State Colin Powell

[Giovenith]

We're trying to avoid getting people killed, man

Well, sure, but -- *takes another sip of his wine* -- that's a question of story design and character/player capabilities.

Scribbling in a character name like "Emperor General Nuke McBadass III" at the top of an app and writing "Far-FT Military Badassery: 7" under skills doesn't guarantee survival on any sort of IC battlefield. I kinda thought the point of missions was to build up the right sort of capabilities for IC military stuff, actually.

And that's making the assumption that "mission" means "military mission". Even broadening that slightly to include espionage (including combined military/espionage missions) dramatically increases the range of appropriate IC abilities and OOC player skills for sending characters on missions. And I'm sure we can think of even broader ranges of things for our characters to do to Save the Universe™ that take built-up characters and careful play.

E. g.:

Delta Force in Afghanistan: military
Combined CIA/SOCOM operations in multple theaters: military/espionage (the pointy end of the initial US response to Al Qaeda).
Unified State Department/Intelligence Services/SOCOM operations worldwide: the totality of the initial US response to Al Qaeda.

The last is close to what I think we'll need to Defeat the Forces of Badness in PL.

Starring Samuel L "Motherfucker" Jackson as Septimus Itum as Secretary of State Colin Powell

That's Emperor King Lord Sir General Nuke McBadass NotHitlerButHitler Awesome III TO YOU!!!

[Northwest Slobovia]

Well, sure, but -- *takes another sip of his wine* -- that's a question of story design and character/player capabilities.

Scribbling in a character name like "Emperor General Nuke McBadass III" at the top of an app and writing "Far-FT Military Badassery: 7" under skills doesn't guarantee survival on any sort of IC battlefield. I kinda thought the point of missions was to build up the right sort of capabilities for IC military stuff, actually.

And that's making the assumption that "mission" means "military mission". Even broadening that slightly to include espionage (including combined military/espionage missions) dramatically increases the range of appropriate IC abilities and OOC player skills for sending characters on missions. And I'm sure we can think of even broader ranges of things for our characters to do to Save the Universe™ that take built-up characters and careful play.

E. g.:

Delta Force in Afghanistan: military
Combined CIA/SOCOM operations in multple theaters: military/espionage (the pointy end of the initial US response to Al Qaeda).
Unified State Department/Intelligence Services/SOCOM operations worldwide: the totality of the initial US response to Al Qaeda.

The last is close to what I think we'll need to Defeat the Forces of Badness in PL.

Starring Samuel L "Motherfucker" Jackson as Septimus Itum as Secretary of State Colin Powell

That's Emperor King Lord Sir General Nuke McBadass NotHitlerButHitler Awesome III TO YOU!!!

Right, right, right! *makes circling-finger gesture usually meaning 'let's speed this up', but is really casting The Cantrip of Snarling Entanglement on the Emperor King Lord Sir General's adamantium shoelaces*

[The BranRiech]

I thought you said you were retiring him.

I think I'm going to go with what Cer suggested. Keep him around until Yuna returns, and then maaaaaaaaybe keep him as an NPC for his helicopter.

*offers tea*

Danke!

[Ganonsyoni]

I'll see about getting Kale's app up by tomorrow. Might also post tonight as well

[Giovenith]

When you need to write emotionally upsetting stuff but you're in too much of a good mood to do it effectively.

[Northwest Slobovia]

When you need to write emotionally upsetting stuff but you're in too much of a good mood to do it effectively.

I could send you news headlines until you're ready to write.

[Giovenith]

When you need to write emotionally upsetting stuff but you're in too much of a good mood to do it effectively.

I could send you news headlines until you're ready to write.

I need sad juice not angry juice! How else am I going to make Willow cry?

Conscience: Well, you could, you know... not.

Oh hush you, no one ever wrote a good story by letting you be their guide!

[Tiltjuice]

I could send you news headlines until you're ready to write.

I need sad juice not angry juice! How else am I going to make Willow cry?

Conscience: Well, you could, you know... not.

Oh hush you, no one ever wrote a good story by letting you be their guide!

A squirt of lemon juice!

[Northwest Slobovia]

I could send you news headlines until you're ready to write.

I need sad juice not angry juice! How else am I going to make Willow cry?

Oh, you want sad headlines? OK, just a sec...

There are, actually, a bunch I read recently, but I'll spare you.

[Giovenith]

"A puppy... was NOT told he was a good boy today!"

*breaks down in sobs*

[Cerillium]

"A puppy... was NOT told he was a good boy today!"

*breaks down in sobs*

On a somewhat related note, my kid was supposed to do a report on PSAs ("How universal is the message?") Apparently she found these PSA from Thailand. Good job, Thailand. You turned my kid into velcro-child.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEYm2zA7h_k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dthhXa36ZZM

I've half-finished a Rache post. Apologies to Gio and crew but I'm falling asleep faster than I can type it.

[Tiltjuice]

[Holy Lykos]

"A puppy... was NOT told he was a good boy today!"

*breaks down in sobs*

On a somewhat related note, my kid was supposed to do a report on PSAs ("How universal is the message?") Apparently she found these PSA from Thailand. Good job, Thailand. You turned my kid into velcro-child.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEYm2zA7h_k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dthhXa36ZZM

I've half-finished a Rache post. Apologies to Gio and crew but I'm falling asleep faster than I can type it.

oh my god cer, those are so damn sad. the whole channel is making me cry.

[Cerillium]

Fantastic collab, Last Chance group!

[Holy Lykos]

Fantastic collab, Last Chance group!

Well thank you! Took us long enough

[Tiltjuice]

Do I owe any posts?

*paints Storm*

[Cerillium]

Fantastic collab, Last Chance group!

Well thank you! Took us long enough

It looks good. I'm enjoying the product of Fvaar's effort, too. Her character has grown much stronger and we're really getting a feel for her quirks and qualities. Really good job, Fvaar. That's not to say the others haven't also improved. But this is Fvaar's moment to shine - the rest of you can be patient.

NA, when you're done (and when you're done, Gio and Slo), maybe you could give some feedback on what it was like to run an encapsulated story. What challenges you faced as a GM, how you worked your way around them or overcame them, etc. We have other PLeeps that want to run long-term stories but they hesitate - it looks so daunting.



In other news -

The effects of politics touch your personal lives. Corporate has just distributed our projects and program schedule. It was re-drafted on Friday. Our division out here handles a lot of EPA work for the tri-state area. Trump's measure has effectively shut down one lab. I have to put thirty people on short notice on Monday because we can not support them - not enough work for them without our EPA contracts. This means that my other labs have to compensate by taking on the small percentage of work that the team covered when not working on EPA projects. My other labs are already swamped with projects. If I'm to save thirty people, I need to bang on doors and scrounge up contracts to justify keeping them on the payroll. In addition, I have to cover some of those extra projects because I'm one of two remaining people certified for a particular process. This means my time here will become limited once more.

Let's all take a moment to thank Dear Leader. Thirty people will be so grateful to him come Monday. Their families will also be grateful to Dear Leader. My family is. We will all be thrilled at Dear Leader's profound insight should he wave his magic pen and shut down more industry because he doesn't understand the full picture - thus they close our division and we have nothing. And you, PLeeps, should be grateful, too. Remember, he's making America great again!

tl:dr
That asshole Trump has just fucked you out of fully enjoying PL because the god war is once again fucking stalled. Swith, you'll have to approve apps. Min and Tilt, I'll need you to keep track of things for her. She'll have the password to my account in order to make changes to OP boxes. Gio, I might need you to continue stepping up to help mentor our noobies. @ALL - Swith doesn't know all the "whys" regarding why things are a certain way. Please be kind and don't pester her for details. She simply does not know everything I'm working on and has to just go by "because I said so" with regard to whether or not something is feasible. My apologies for that.