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5 yrs ago
Current Happy International Women's Day to all the fabulous female Gm's and Rpers out there
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6 yrs ago
Bond, James Bond, 007. You can never be replaced and will be deeply missed sir. RIP Connery 😭
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6 yrs ago
Major Congrats to all my peeps in The Walking Dead - We have reached the 5 year strong milestone!!! HOLY SHIT!
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6 yrs ago
If things get real bad and you have to resort to cannibalism remember: Vegans first, they are the closest thing to grass fed.
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6 yrs ago
March didn't come in like a lion... It came in like a T-Rex with PMS, and hemorrhoids, wearing barbed wire undies....
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✾ 𝙻𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝙰𝚋𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚊
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I've been at this a long time and when I say a long time I mean a long long damn time. I started out with table top, ADnD, back in the 80's, then dived into others: Nightlife, Mage the Ascension, Shadow Run, HoL, etc. Moved onto Online in the 90's. I've been running various incarnations of a single RP group for twenty years now. Worked helping setting up, building, and/or admining/modding various RP forums over the years: Adventure Quest, Priston Tales, War Gods, etc. It's been a long road filled with ups and downs. I'm an evil GM, you've been warned.

Outside of RP, I am a mom. Yup, I've reproduced and there are little Lady A's running around plotting their own take over of the world. I am a published author and once upon a time an award winning poet. I've done a lot in my life. I haven't done as much as I would like. I've grown a lot. I have a lot more growing to do. I love to cook, baker by trade currently. I went to university and majored in Mathematics. I've programmed websites, worked as a model, worked as a 3d modeler. Shit, I even used to dance. And have been known to sing a bit. Jack of all trades. Master of like 3, lol.


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This is where I go into my personality. In the past I would normally make some self deprecating remark about how I am a bitch of a GM, pushing my rpers as hard as I push myself and so forth. Not anymore. People change, or perhaps they just come into their own. This can happen at any age. More than that it can happen several times over the course of your life as you discover and rediscover yourself. Everything happens for a reason, usually that reason is ones owns actions. Or inaction's. Right now, I am in a better place than I can remember being in the longest time. I am happy and at peace. I have no regrets. Maybe I should but I don't. I plan on keeping this peace I have found, I went far too long without it.

Currently I am enjoying several things. Some are things I have enjoyed most of my life: Coffee, chocolate, bacon, M*A*S*H. One isn't something I have enjoyed since I was seventeen: being clean and free of poisons in my system. It is beyond description and I love it: One-hundred and twenty days and counting. Music taste is shifting to more mood oriented than anything, strange I am finding a lot of newer Country I am enjoying and I have NEVER liked country. Watching things like Lark Rise to Candleford and being hooked to the point of reading the trilogy. Recently added yoga to my workouts and all I can say is, "Fuckmaste: the fucked up in me accepts the fucked up in you."

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The first step is scary.
Take it anyway.

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@Morose - Quick note - since Calum and Maeve are basically at the pass out stage for the night - not gonna update Scotland for a bit unless a roll comes up when I do other updates that tells me something is going on that would get their attention. You don't have to post for Maeve until morning, or a roll denotes differently if you don't want. If you get inspired and want to, go for it but just letting you know until something changes, her counts won't be going for you.
@Dark Light Okay, a few things - you have as a fear - Being out in the black - how is that going to play out? Fears are things that truly drive a person to distraction or even mad. Make them beyond on edge. So if he gets on a ship, how is he going to cope with that? And claustrophobia?

Also - you have space for one more special skill but since you have drawing/tattoo - divide those up to fill the empty space since they are two different specialties in this case. (I know plenty of people who can draw but will hamburger the fuck out of you if you let them tat you. ><!)

And - Under personal style and personality - it has to be a minimal of 2 paragraphs - you will need to expand there a bit. (About triple of what you currently have. Two good paragraphs. Style, can talk about things other than clothing, hair and jewelry is included, as well as beard maintenance - Just ask Foy lol) - Personality gets to the nitty gritty of a person.

Then - Under items - you have spots left under on person and quarters - you may want to expand those - remember if it isn't listed, he won't have it. With that beard he will need grooming items and such, at least until he meets Foy lol

Under Reason For Why you Joined The Side You Did - need expanding on that as well. Remember, 1 decent paragraph. (More than just two sentences as it were.

Think that covers it from first glance - go ahead and make the edits and then tag me when you are done. (Though I might suggest taking on some form of fighting - if he is a freeloader and a gambler, chances are he has gotten into a few fights. If he doesn't have anything like that, next time someone flips a table and goes at him, he's going to be like 1st grader going up against Ronda Rousey. It ain't gonna be pretty lol.
In Mahz's Dev Journal 9 yrs ago Forum: News
@NuttsnBolts Okies, that answers a lot of that - thankies.

Think there could be a way to add a list to a persons bio page of their old name? For example - Buddha is now Odin - that is a rather big change if you didn't know him. Maybe not a complete listing but at least for the last six months? Like the Users from before Guild Fall have the thing on their bio page about what their name was there.

Or at least when we go to their page the number of their user is listed in the URL instead of the name. I don't even know my user number, much less the 20+ people I have on black lists that are not allowed back into one of my Rp's. O.o I mean yes I can go through their old posts but that takes forever since there is no page number for their posts pages on the bio page - so you can't jump back further, you have to go it page by page.
Okay, probably the weirdest bitch for this topic yet but... My Rp's run too long! LOL I have tons of ideas and at least half a dozen of them ready and waiting to be launched but I can't because if I hosted anymore than 1 more RP I couldn't manage it time wise. Half the Rp's I am currently hosting are well passed their 1 year mark, the other are all passed 7 months running. None are even close to closing.

So, here I am stuck - having to chose between all these ideas and only 1 slot open to actually work with. It's an odd bitch but damn, I want to host more Rp's yet I can't! ><!!! A rare but real frustration.


In Mahz's Dev Journal 9 yrs ago Forum: News
Question about name changes - Seeing that this is now a thing on the forum I have some questions.

If one is to change their name and they are say listed in an Rp they are already in - will tags for them change in previous posts? If not, will say if someone clicks on their old name in an @mention will it redirect someone to their old name?

Also, is there going to be a list of name changes so that GM's will know if someone changed their name? Say they had a problem with @Joe in the past and banned them from an RP but Joe changed his name to Ralph and then tried to join a new RP that GM is hosting - will the Gm be able to check for this?

And about Pm's - what about the pm's people are in conversations with a person that has changed their name? Will they continue to go through or will new pm's have to be started?
@Sputnik Don't have any restrictions currently for gender with the Rp - I believe we are even with the amount of PC's between female and male, so I don't see an issue. But again, when they would be brought in would depend on the character. (Though I doubt I will write in openings for any new characters until after the day is over in RP currently considering the late hour in the day already.)
@Sputnik You can submit a new character at anytime - when they are brought in will depend on the character itself and such, can't really answer that until a Cs is submitted and approved.
@Sigil Simple regular draw in a non combat situation, no. Quick draw to make a point - yes.


World Narrative



@ONL - It is going to be slow going. Even though the sun is rising higher in the sky, it's still early. Not even 8 AM. The temperature is just above freezing now and while things are starting to melt it was a long hard snow and a long time of temperatures never getting above freezing, plus a lot of cloudy days. The snow in the area that hasn't been traveled in what looks like months is packed with snow that is hard in some places and hip deep in others.

The roads seemed to be slightly more clear than around the buildings, which is good. But everything varies from step to step. Alexander will find his foot falling through what looked like solid snow one minute and walking on top of it the next. Over the last fifteen minutes he has made it about two hundred yards. But hey it's progress right? The smoke pillars are still in the distance but a little closer. Could be worse, there could be a hoard. Doesn't seem like there is one right then.



Thana Martin


Location: Northern Parking Lot of Building 4 (Repair Shop)



Jim got the radio and quickly headed over to get James truck. He would fill it up and head over to the armory to gather any of James' things. He didn't like that James was being kicked out of Newnan but he understood what was going on. There had to be some form of law here and people were emotional. Most were friends of James, so of course they would side with him not even questioning the fact he had killed someone in cold blood. Jim didn't like it but he understood that as well. Thing was, even if Richard was a Dick, he hadn't done this. At least not in his eyes. Sana had. And she was gone. End of it. It would suck not having James around for various reasons but if would snap over this it couldn't be overlooked. More than that Ash was making a point he figured, that it didn't matter who broke the law of Newnan, you got punished for it. No matter who you were.

Either way it would take a little time to get things together on his end but Jim hurried, running from his position to the truck and radioing to James' detail what was up. Thana in the meantime kept her eyes fixed on Ash. Watching him take the axe and look at it. She was worried about him far more than she was James. Sure being out there sucked, not having walls, but if you knew what you were doing you could survive. James' little event proved it didn't matter how safe you were being walls, death and murder happened everywhere. It was far worse it happening inside a so called safe zone than out there. Out there you expected it, you watched for it. Here, you didn't and Thana felt that was why this entire thing went down. People had become complaisant. When you let your guard down that was when shit happened. This just proved it.

Taking a breath as people started to clear out Thana showed the first sign of any emotion as she stepped over to Ash and came up behind him. Resting her hand on his shoulder for a brief moment and giving it a reassuring squeeze. "You did the right thing Captain. Never doubt that," she said in a calm voice before letting go and stepping back away from him. She wanted to give him his space right then nearly as much as she just wanted to wrap her arms around him and hold him tight. Holding him could wait, until they were behind closed doors and away from the watchful eye of those passing as they ran this way and that to get things done and others prepared to say goodbye to James.

Thana stepped away from Ash, giving him plenty of space but keeping in his line of sight at this point. If he needed her she wanted to be right where he could see her. Not far out of arms reach if he should need her support but just far enough to where if he snapped her draw had a chance against a swinging axe. It wasn't that she was afraid he would hurt her but one never knew what someone would do when they were this stressed out.



Tatiana Korvo


Location: Infirmary (Building 1)



Tatiana hopped into the main court house and over to the infirmary with the help of Froggy. Scooting up onto one of the gurney's and propping her foot up on a pillow as Victor started to get a pan of water, some bandages, hydrogen peroxide, and other things to clean her cut up and see just how bad it was. Tatiana didn't figure it was too horrible, she had only stepped on a piece of glass from a broken tea cup.

Cringing she hoped that Jack didn't step in it when he got home. She would have to clean that up. And their breakfast... She hoped it didn't go to waste. No, it could sit for a while before having to worry about it. They would still have their breakfast as soon as James was gone after she spoke with him. She would give everyone the rest of the day before she started calling them in to talk. She wasn't going to take no for an answer on that one. She wasn't having another Sana incident on her conscience. No, she would play hard ball if asking nicely didn't ask.

Froggy came back and pulled up a stool next to her and got to work. Tatiana didn't say anything even when he tried to ask, she was too lost in thought of what she would be asking James, what points she would hit on, and more. This was her first serious evaluation but it was for James' safety in her mind. James' and the towns. Whether she liked it or not, if she feared that James would pose a threat she would have to tell Ash and recommend incarcerating him in a cell until he was no longer a threat. That or the worst... No, she would make sure this worked out.




Ryan O'Reily


Location: Building B (Rejects R Us Housing)



Ryan tossed his Jack on the couch as he passed by before heading up to his room to get changed. His mind was wandering a bit as he looked into the mirror. He was having a hard time believing that James actually killed Richard. Not that he didn't see it coming but he figured it would be Richard finally ending Chocolate Thunders life, not the other way around. This put a whole new spin on things and oddly enough Ryan found himself actually respecting James on a level he never thought possible before. Not for killing Richard but over the simple fact that he had in pure revenge for all the deaths James blamed on Richard. That took balls.

"God damn it..." he said after a moment of reflection. Muttering it under his breath before he grabbed his pants and slipped them over his hips. Zipping the fly he shoved his feet into his socks and then boots, lacing them up tight. Then it was time to finish getting dressed. He was moving at a hurried pace. His head barely coming out of the top of his shirt as he pulled it on as he rushed out of his room and into Richards. He grabbed Richards packs and hefted them over his shoulder before returning to his own room.

Then he started rummaging through them. He knew what he wanted out of them and what he didn't. One pack was just dumped out fully but it didn't remain that way long. Ryan started emptying his drawers and refilling the pack. "I must be fucking nuts..." he said as he continued to pack. Ryan was reading to leave Newnan, with Chocolate Thunder. What the fuck was wrong with him?



Gavin Comfort


Location: Northern Parking Lot of Building 4 (Repair Shop)



Gavin looked over to Miss Sally and shook his head. "Thank you ma'am but no thanks. I hads me some right tasty grits and eggs already. I gots places to be, thank ya though," he said tipping his hat to her before looking over towards Ravi. Ravi's words actually made the cowboy grunt and spit on the ground before looking back at him. This was not what he needed right now.

Rubbing his scraggly facial hair he eyed Ravi before leaning in and resting his hand on his buddies shoulder. "Listen man, yous stay heres ors I gonna put a bullet in yer knee so you lame as a dog and can't walks. Is glad yous wanna help but whats goods ya gonna be? You ain'ts evers kills someone. You just be gettin' in the ways and anyways. Yous a healer, heals man. And whose else gonnas looks after hers whiles I gone? I ain't got more trust in anyones on this earth than I dos yous. I don'ts knows how shes feels. She ain't ever been one to shows emotion outside from behinds a closed door. That dead guy could have been her greatest love and yous wouldn't knows it. She wouldn't shed a tear until she was alones. Just how she is. Unlike that bitch sister of hers. Buts I stills feels the way I do. Listen...Yous my brother," he said in a firm tone.

He didn't want to leave Ravi behind but he wasn't about to put him in danger any more than he already was just by being alive in this world. Looking down he kicked the ground some but he didn't let go of Ravi's shoulder yet. He squeezed it softly before looking back up. Gavin look torn up, sad before he continued. His tone changed from hard anger and point making to someone nearly begging. "Yous my brother. I loves ya man. Takes care of hers, please. Fer me," he said before letting go of Ravi and turning his attention back to Thana about the time she stepped away from Ash.

Taking a deep breath he started over towards her. Miss Sally cocking a brow as she looked from Gavin over to Ravi. "I don't know where he is going but that right there who has made his mind up. Do I even want to know where he is going?" she pondered out loud before shaking her head and looking up at Ravi. "Let's get some tea, you can tell me all about it. We have time before the bloody fool tries to get outside the gate," she assured him.

Her eyes drifted over to Gavin as he made a beeline for Thana. Oh this was not going to be good. Miss Sally's eyes went to Ash, to Thana, to Gavins guard who was staying close, and then back to Gavin. The cowboy looked like he was on a mission, she just hoped it wasn't a suicide one.

"Strawberry," Gavin said as he came over to her. Thana's brow rising and about to tell him to go on and she would talk to him later but she didn't have the chance. His hand was on the back of her neck and his lips were against hers before she could blink. It was a firm kiss, deep but brief. Thana's jaw going slack as he pulled away as quickly as he had pulled her in. His eyes were glistening and he spoke quickly.

"'For anythang else happens, I gots to tell ya I'm sorry's. I was stupid. I was a dang blasted fool fer lettin' ya goes. I was in suchs a dark place when Christina died. Yous brought me outs of it. Shows me how to live again but I was stupids I was. I felt so guilty fers being with yas, fer hows I was feelin' abouts ya, thats I pushed ya away. I knews it was a mistake the moment you walked outs that door. Gods I wanted to go afters ya. I didn't and that was doubly stupid."

He took a breath and Thana just stood there in shock still but she hadn't moved to push him away, not even as his hand came from the back of her neck and began to caress her cheek. "I fells in loves with ya Strawberry. I truly did and bys the time I snapped out of the dumb shits already been hitting the fan. Jesus I wanted to finds ya, never thoughts fer a moment yous weren't alive. Never dreamt I sees yous again either. Nevers stopped lovings ya."

That made Thana actually blink. "Love me?" was all she could manage to choke out.

Gavin smiled slightly, a sad broken smile. "Yeah babies and listen. I knows its been years. Yous probably moved on, maybes more than once since I did the dumbest thing since people decided to pass off red colored chocolate cake as Red Velvet. I ain't askin' yas to takes me back. I ain't askin' yas anything. I just lettin' ya knows I loves ya and I am so very sorrys," he said before pulling her close and wrapping his arms around her. Thana wasn't sure what to do, he was shocking her and bomb dropping on her left and right.

Slowly her arms went around him and she hugged him briefly. It made his smile brighten. "I gots to be runnin', don't ya worries yer little head. I bes back one day but b'for I went I hads to tell yas. I wasn't gonna be makin' the same mistake again. Seeing ya standing there and not telling yas hows I feel. Ain't throwing a chances away," he added before he pulled back and pushed her hair back out of her face.

"Your leaving?" she asked confused and the sound of her voice could have been anything between concerned, depressed, or just confused. "Why?"

"Gots some justice of me own to deal outs but I be's back. Ain't asking yas to wait, just askins yas to think is all. About's fergiving me."

Thana could only nod a bit, she could give him that much. If she could give him more? She couldn't answer. This entire thing was throwing her for a loop and it was taking everything in her to remain as stoic as she was. Kissing her brow he let her go and walked off back towards the Mess Hall. He had to grab his bag before heading to the front gate.
@Morose @Rivaan @Sigil @FantasyChic @Caits @Nallore @ONL

Sigil - Approved, go ahead and move her over to the CS tab and then get to working on the relations. I know it isn't required but since she did know Caesar, Alicia, Bridgette, and Astrid - think it would be good to have some base relation there even if those characters are the D E A D. (Also, we gotta finishing working out her and Lola's relation) - once we get through that, you can edit it into the CS under relations (Then tag me here to let me know it is done.)

After that, we can bring them in.

Everyone Else - Okay, I am going to try to even out the time differences between the people of Newnan currently. Everyone right now is a few minutes difference since some of you are covering just the walk to the Mess Hall. Others are there, eating and, then leaving said mess hall. (Or anywhere in between that) We gotta get back on the same page. We don't want that to grow anymore.

Remember, take your time ques from the WN posts. If my characters aren't but moving a little or a few seconds or minutes - don't make your characters move further than that by much if any. Some of you will need to do posts just for introspection due to the amount of time you covered in your last posts - so go back, review, and estimate just how long ahead you are. (Or behind, which I don't think is any of you.) - Try to think logically when it comes to what your character can do during a set amount of time. How long does it take to walk across town with snow and ice on the ground? How long did it take to get your food? How long did it take to get dressed?

I try to vary the amount of time to keep things moving but to give people time to react as well. If ever in doubt, simply ask. Don't want one person going to three different areas of Newnan in the same time it takes 1 person to sit down lol. Granted, there are variables that adjust this from running to day dreaming but if your character has moved from one side of Newnan to the other in one post you sure as hell are going to have to wait on someone who took the same post to just get food. >.>

It's nothing huge right now but this is going to start playing in the RP huge with some of the things coming up. So want to get a hand on it now and get people better used to thinking on those lines before shit hits the fan. (And yes, it is going to hit - far more than anything you have seen yet.)
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