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I'm sorry to hear that, but I think you're going about it the right way. Your friend does need help and you can't let his behaviour drag you down with him, so hopefully this is the wake up call he needs, and maybe being in custody will put him in the way of a councilor. I had a friend who was incredibly self-destructive with his alcoholism and nothing myself or my friends did to help stuck, I realized it was something he had to do on his own and I couldn't deal with his behaviour past the point it got to. Best of luck, man.

He needs to stay away from alcohol until his depression, anxiety, and other issues are subverted; maybe stay away from it permanently. This is really bizarre to me because a few years ago alcohol didn’t affect him like this; like at all. But starting with two or three years ago, he just started a downward spiral that I only now can see. You can write things off as “jokes” or “drunken banter” for only so long before you see them as warning signs. I just hope that this eviction isn’t going to lead to him relapsing from his treatment and becoming suicidal.
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Next round of posts starts now. If all of the able-bodied members of the party do indeed pile on the big draugr and attack it, it will die with only a very small chance of wounding one of its attackers in a final act of revenge.
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And there's one from lil ol' moi.
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I have decided to wait just a little bit longer before dropping aa post in from Lord Vensor. Probably one or two more IC posts, give people time to react to the big one getting injured. His bow takes time to draw after all, so things happening in between would be the natural course.
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Hello? Anyone here?
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I'm alive. I'm kinda worried about the lack of activity going on, too.
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I'm here.

Is it too soon for me to post? Happy to write something to keep us going though, but don't want to clog up the rp :p
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We have our first injury and use of magicka has returned. In my book, feel free to go for it. I stand firm in my decision to wait a couple posts more, though if we start experiencing sudden drops in player count I'll be sure to move earlier. I am not going to remain stubborn to the game's grave
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Due to the preceding reasons, there is not much I can do until Stormflyx reacts anyway.
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Okay, well I have a post for another RP to write up tonight I see no reason why I can't fill in a gap here too. :)
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I'm really sorry for breaking on a commitment to post.

I'm not one for getting in to a story, but I'm currently sat on my lounge room floor in tears at 9pm, my dinner has gone stone cold, because I am expected to re-do an entire presentation for a guest speaker at an event I was told to put on only 3 weeks ago. I'm beyond stressed. I feel like I never stop at the moment, I've not had much of a chance to look in RPG the last 2-3 weeks.

I will get to this, I would love to do it on Sunday. I'm sorry for holding us up, but I literally have nothing of me to give at the moment. I know you will all understand this, thanks in advance :( I will get to it when I can.
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Real life takes precedence. I understand that just as much as the next guy. If you can manage a post on Sunday, that'd be swell; if not, we'll skip Raelynn for now and I'll just point at someone else that has to post.
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I'll be okay, I feel like I've been dramatic but hey I'm a drama queen - sue me

I can do a post on Sunday <3
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I'm really sorry for breaking on a commitment to post.

I'm not one for getting in to a story, but I'm currently sat on my lounge room floor in tears at 9pm, my dinner has gone stone cold, because I am expected to re-do an entire presentation for a guest speaker at an event I was told to put on only 3 weeks ago. I'm beyond stressed. I feel like I never stop at the moment, I've not had much of a chance to look in RPG the last 2-3 weeks.

I will get to this, I would love to do it on Sunday. I'm sorry for holding us up, but I literally have nothing of me to give at the moment. I know you will all understand this, thanks in advance :( I will get to it when I can.


Take it an hour at a time and try not to fret about stuff until it's the day of. Trust me, I hit periods that are insanely stressful in my life, such as a couple months ago when one of the villages I work in had both water plant pumps fail and I couldn't do anything but watch people run out of water while my phone wouldn't stop ringing from that and 4 other sites all deciding to have after hours mechanical failures in the same time frame, so the only way I don't end up turning into a panic attack prone wreck is to just try and force myself to not worry about the next day and focus on what I can. It helps even knocking off little tasks!

You'll get there! Head down, one step at a time.
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Ahh- Ahhhhh CHOOOOOO!

holy shit what even is this-



[Hank's Critique Points] -
Judena Callisar, @DearTrickster
You win huge points for sheer creativity and originality here. The idea of an Argonian mage with such a significant weakness as short-term memory loss tickles my funny-bone in all the right places and we're big fans of the concept and quirkiness of the character. That said, you admitted to me that the sheet would be a lot more polished if you had more time and I believe it's better to give you that time now. There are still awkward turns of phrase and other grammatical errors in the sheet and some things about her history don't logically line up with the rest of the character without some further explanation. Why Mysticism, for example? How did she end up learning that school of magic and why did she choose it over something more practical, like Destruction? Peik and I also had our doubts about the hidden stashes you mention in her sheet. It seems unlikely for a lone treasure hunter to find enough valuables to have not just one, but several hidden stashes of items. On top of that, why didn't she sell her discoveries? Peik is better at explaining these concerns so I'll leave it to him to elaborate further. We definitely want Judena in the RP, make no mistake, but when the last character slot became a choice between Sjara and Judena, I felt obligated to go with the character I can accept right out of the gate over the more unique and interesting one that still needs some work. Please don't be discouraged -- we'll work with you to iron everything out and then I'm sure Judena will be a fantastic, hilarious and endearing addition to the crew.


Again thank you for your thoughts, I've addressed your points in the polished sheet, the majority of it was spent cleaning it up. When I originally made the sheet, from the template alone I thought Mysticism was free game for a school of magic but since then have just plain removed it for the sake of it being an out-of-date school of magic that it is.

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I’ve thought of Judena as a slanted and odd character from the very beginning of her appearance section and she indeed has been one, and I think it’s obvious by now that for me these are positive traits. Your inclusion of ‘bearded dragon’ as reference in her appearance has helped me visualize her much more uniquely, and admittedly positively, in comparison to the two other possible avenues that often plague Argonians; ‘generic anthropomorphized lizard’ or ‘wet dream of scalies everywhere’.

I like how her personality mixes with that of a passionate professor and a forgetful old lady at the same time, although somehow I think it would not be that easy to make your peace with a condition as horrifying as memory loss. Even logbooks would be just a daily reminder of your failing state of mind; and foregoing them would mean just dooming your experiences and development as a person. Nonetheless, I appreciate her obsessive notes about daily things that she goes through.

Her background is quite detailed yet simple at the same time, although I feel it could be a polished a little bit further to both streamline it and make it more believable. For example, she and her siblings learn how to survive in the wilds of the Black Marsh, and thus she learns how to use a spear, and also picks up fishing. Considering how port cities are often more developed and cosmopolitan, I feel they wouldn’t teach people how to use weapons as to defend themselves; maybe you could simply write that she took up usage of spears as a way of fishing (spear fishing is a valid practice, if I recall correctly, and for an Argonian it would be likely twice if not thrice as convenient in my opinion). She is victim to a common, plausible accident that leaves her impaired. This is a very much authentic path in her evolution as person, and her interest in magic has pretty simple and believable beginnings. However, I’m not sure how effective the Arcane University would be as an institution of education, given how the Mages Guild has disbanded after the Oblivion Crisis – this kind of leaves the extent of her education in magic -especially Mysticism which has practically fallen out of usage in the Fourth Era- somewhat up in the air, in my opinion, doubly so with her memory loss. While I appreciate her collector-enthusiast approach to her findings, her simply stashing them also does not make much sense to me, and I feel that a person of that caliber would be able to oversee expeditions as opposed to taking part in muddy and possibly fruitless dungeon delving. There are also some grammar and syntax errors, but these are a simple do-over away from fixing. I very much like Judena, and perhaps it is for this reason that I’ll put my approval into another character; she can be made much better, in my opinion, and the concept you’ve caught is very much neat, I would like to see her at the apex of her potential as a complex character.


Thank you as well for the thoughts~ I believe I've done well to address them in the polished sheet. Wanted to clarify it seems on some of them. Judena had her education in magic well before the accident that caused her memory loss, 8 years worth of learnin' and adventuring with her little band of mages. Hank had made a comment about the Arcane University as well when I first submitted but I picked it with this little excerpt from the Elder Scrolls wiki to back it up as a good place for education.

The university was not directly affected by the attacks on the Mages Guild from the Order of the Black Worm, although the attendants of Wellspring Cave were slain by the necromancers, cutting off the supply of special wood needed for the creation of magical staffs, and several members of the council of mages based at the university including the Arch-Mage died during the crisis.[3] The Arcane University survived the dissolution of the Mages Guild following the Oblivion Crisis, and was still a center of magical study in 4E 201.[11]


So I kept it in there.

Anyway though, I know you guys are still in the middle of the tomb shenanigans. Wanted to get this posted here and have a show for it.
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Take it an hour at a time and try not to fret about stuff until it's the day of. Trust me, I hit periods that are insanely stressful in my life, such as a couple months ago when one of the villages I work in had both water plant pumps fail and I couldn't do anything but watch people run out of water while my phone wouldn't stop ringing from that and 4 other sites all deciding to have after hours mechanical failures in the same time frame, so the only way I don't end up turning into a panic attack prone wreck is to just try and force myself to not worry about the next day and focus on what I can. It helps even knocking off little tasks!

You'll get there! Head down, one step at a time.


Thanks <3

How do you eat a sandwich right? One bite at a time. I feel better today, so there's that.
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Thanks <3

How do you eat a sandwich right? One bite at a time. I feel better today, so there's that.


I dunno, I kind of just unhinge my jaw and swallow the sandwich whole like a regular human.
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I dunno, I kind of just unhinge my jaw and swallow the sandwich whole like a regular human.

Whaddoya mean you don't "fix" the sandwich, reveal [ENEMY STAND]s and then eat what was left behind?
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I dunno, I kind of just unhinge my jaw and swallow the sandwich whole like a regular human.


That's what an alien would say.

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Whaddoya mean you don't "fix" the sandwich, reveal [ENEMY STAND]s and then eat what was left behind?


Like this?



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That's what an alien would say.



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