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(no subject) [Jan. 18th, 2012|12:46 pm] Repost and answer. Or, if you don't have a blog, answer in the comments. Or be a big rebel and do neither. 1. If you had to pick a single invention in a game you were most proud of what would it be? hard to say. im pritty pleased with my abuse of gather information to distrubte meta style plot. no one ever uses gather informtion. seresly. 2. When was the last time you GMed? last friday 3. When was the last time you played? 2 weeks ago 4. Give us a one-sentence pitch for an adventure you haven't run but would like to. sabbat plan, and excute, crazy wepones theft of major miltary vhicles (up to battleships) and use them for crazy awsom plan to fuck up the cam 5. What do you do while you wait for players to do things? try not to get sucked in to the off topic convo. i fail. or check my emails. ITS RIGHT THERE! 6. What, if anything, do you eat while you play? choclate, pizza, stuff from pizza hut that isnt pizza, choclate 7. Do you find GMing physically exhausting? i can. games havent been so hard resently, but sometimes i'll finish a game and just feel recked beyond reson 8. What was the last interesting (to you, anyway) thing you remember a PC you were running doing? influncing major npcs to do what they want. infairness, im fairly easy, and i love talking shit, even if i feel i ought to involve the dice sometimes (dnd has stats for this, if its hostal, i ought to take them in to account a little, otherwise, why spend skill points on it?). no ones done anything crazy of the rails resently (tho if they did, that would be cool). not even any summery excutions. hmmmm.... 9. Do your players take your serious setting and make it unserious? Vice versa? Neither? no. they genrely run with the tone. but its a war. course, we could go all mash with it... 10. What do you do with goblins? well, nothing yet. but ive got series plans for goblins. but one of my players reads this. THEY SIT AT HOME AND DO NOT ANTAGNOSE MY PCS. hehe, fool proof cover... 11. What was the last non-RPG thing you saw that you converted into game material (background, setting, trap, etc.)? the cold war 12. What's the funniest table moment you can remember right now? oh god. imnot sure. nothing springs to mind. agueing about the correct way to ride a horse over long distences, i suposes. its just so pointlessly unssery. events move at a pace convient to me, and there for to the players. as long as they dont spend all day shopping after being sent somewhere asap, no ones gona get mad. and yetwe spent like, 10 minites talking about how to ride a horse. witch was awsomly intresting. but enterly unessery. can my players help me out here? anything spring to mind? 13. What was the last game book you looked at--aside from things you referenced in a game--why were you looking at it? pathfinder. im thinking of running in it. 14. Who's your idea of the perfect RPG illustrator? no idea. im quite happy with most of my stuff art wise. 15. Does your game ever make your players genuinely afraid? no. i dont think so. its not a scary game. i think they sometimes worry for there carrcters, but thats not the same 16. What was the best time you ever had running an adventure you didn't write? (If ever) ive never run an adventure strait from book. appart from a distruse attampt to run a paranoia game. 17. What would be the ideal physical set up to run a game in? somewhere with a bigger table and a fridge that could be accessed without song and dance, ie, not my kitchen 18. If you had to think of the two most disparate games or game products that you like what would they be? paranoia, stupid funand all, and...i run a very series dnd game. cthulu mabby, but i suspect it would devolve in to paranoia. vampire mabby.im a bit sheltered RP game wise i suposes 19. If you had to think of the most disparate influences overall on your game, what would they be? hmmm...the cold war is the hard background. thats the primary influnce. im not sure if i would be able to point to other influnces, of the top of my head. vampire influnced my information disemation system. can my players think of anything i missed? 20. As a GM, what kind of player do you want at your table? fun ones. people who partispate and enjoy. i like people who talk there carcters talk and such, but most of all, i want people who are clearly enjoying it. 21. What's a real life experience you've translated into game terms? san points. but who hasnt? 22. Is there an RPG product that you wish existed but doesn't? not right of the top of my head. 23. Is there anyone you know who you talk about RPGs with who doesn't play? How do those conversations go? usualy slowly. not offten either. link

i can forsee i might have screwed this up, and expect critisum, but... [Jan. 17th, 2012|07:24 pm] my MP, tom brake, dosent post messages on gay marrage but the member of enfiled dose http://www.scribd.com/doc/78524990/David-Burrowes-MP-Statement-on-Gay-Marriage ive read it, and i want to reply. but its a link. so im gona write it here and throw it at his twitter. IN IT. heres the things. im not gay. im not looking to get married. and so in meny sences im more or less disqulifed. and im fine with that. i dont have very much to say on the subject. its not something that nags at my soul. and yet... the uk goverment says civil partnerships are treated the same as marrage on a wide range of league matters" but not all. we're more progrssive here then the us, but thats kinds like beating a small child in a race. so, from the league standpoint, theres more to be done. then, theres "changing the purpose of marrage". im genunely intriged. what is the purpose of marrage? to ensure a male eire to the family line? its cool, the commenwelth agree, its strait succession now. to have kids? well, lesbian couples have artifical insimantion. gay men are, alas, denied such a direct rout, but adopt, and love children, like meny couples. then theres all the stuff i cant examin. im in no postion to question the use of words. for starters, im fairly relaxed on such things. and im not the person whom would have to deal with the issue. i dont have to sit here, and worry about wether, when i get married, it'll be real mariage final food for thought. when my friend got her civil partnership, she called it marraed. i call it marrage. her other half is her wife. i ask after her wife, as her wife (ive an awful memmory). if civil partner ship is de facto marrage in public consunes, why not make it de jure? edit: insdently, my prefered soulstion, if i could have it, would be enterly opposit. take the goverment out of marrage. all civil marrages become civil partnerships. all civil partnerships gain the same respect int he law as what was called marrage. relgion can keep its pantys untwisted, becous "the scrade insution of marrage" will be left enterly to there hands, a relgiuse cermony invested with whatever meaning they care to give it, whilst the goverment can consider the issue without having to worry it gona piss off the lords spiritual or whatever. if marriage is regluse, leave it to them. link 3 comments|post comment

nuclear poetry [Jan. 16th, 2012|02:06 pm] ( i find this poem a litle...hard to read, so cut incase people dont want too. nuclear war! ) link post comment

(no subject) [Jan. 4th, 2012|09:08 am] the love meme go comment with nice things :) on my post. you know the drill. its the one with WITCH I PERCE THE HEVENS (i can never mention drills ever agine) link post comment

peoples centery: age of hope [Dec. 18th, 2011|11:25 am] [ Tags | people's centery ] i want to show peeps peoples centrery. ive been extoling its virtue for weeks, but im gona post it all on here, an episdoe at a time link post comment

(no subject) [Dec. 17th, 2011|10:33 pm] i belive magie thatcher once said, without the Bomb, there would have been no peace in eroupe. i have little doubt she was right mankind faught a war so white hot with rage and fury in the second world war that it exausted the arsnales and manpower of most of the world. it was ended with the atom bomb. no one has ever challanged its supremecy. no one has wanted to see what an atom war would look like. ive no doubt it would be horrid. but if there were no atom bomb, what then? i have little doubt that the cold war would have turned white hot. world war one was suposed to be the war to end all wars. but 20 years down the line and we had destoryed eroupe, asia, all over agine. tanks littered the wester deserts. and even with the bomb hanging over his head, stalin never stopped probing. without it, how much more vicouses, out going, might he have been? berlin nearly sparked a war at least twice (the berlin blockade and the check point charlie insident). how much more brutle, how much less subtle, how much more whilling to push just a little father, might people have been, if they hadnt had that dooms day senario hanging over there head? i think, without the bomb, we would have seen a war between the western powers and the soviat union. quite proberbly in stalins lifes time. just some thoughts. link 5 comments|post comment

London 2012: 13,500 troops to provide Olympic security [Dec. 15th, 2011|10:49 pm] Up to 13,500 military personnel will help to provide security at the London 2012 Olympic Games, the Ministry of Defence has announced. Security would be police-led but the military would make a "significant contribution", the MoD said. Some 5,000 troops will support the police, up to 7,500 will provide venue security and 1,000 will provide logistical support. Last week, ministers revised the Games security budget from £282m to £553m. In addition to the 13,500 figure, there will be a 1,000-strong unarmed contingency force ready for deployment in the event of an "Olympics-related civil emergency". Venue protection The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said it now estimated 23,700 security staff would be required at Olympic and Paralympic venues next summer, more than double the original estimate of 10,000. In a written ministerial statement, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said that the MoD would be increasing the specialist support work during the Games that it routinely provides for the civilian authorities - such as bomb disposal, building search teams and specialist sniffer dogs. In addition to the 5,000 personnel allocated to that role, some 3,500 would provide venue security. This figure would rise to 7,500 on peak days during the Olympic Games, he said. The MoD said the servicemen and women would be on hand across the UK to protect 150 venues and training sites. And as part of the military's Olympic security role, the Royal Navy's HMS Ocean and HMS Bulwark will also be based at Greenwich, in London, and Weymouth Bay, in Dorset, respectively. Specialist skills Mr Hammond told the BBC that the Games were "the biggest security challenge this country has faced for decades". But he added that military deployment during Olympic Games was routine since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. "This defence contribution is on a similar scale to that deployed at other recent Olympic Games and will contribute to ensuring a safe, secure and enjoyable 2012 Olympics," he said. "Defence will continue to be able to support current and contingent operations during the Games and my priority will remain the troops we have deployed on operations, including in Afghanistan, before, during and after the Olympics." Philip Hammond: "They will add resilience and robustness to what will be a civilian-led operation" Mr Hammond also said the military would split its role into two areas. "First of all we will be providing the routine military aid to the civil power - helping and supporting the police, with things like special forces, bomb disposal capability, military search capability. "And then we'll be supplying up to 7,500 men and women to support the guarding of the venues themselves. "They'll be working with civilians in mixed teams, searching and checking people going into the stadiums, making sure - airline style - that nothing that shouldn't get in there gets in." The defence secretary also said the military would be using its full range of capabilities and equipment to "keep London safe during the Olympics". He added: "Military hardware will be used, we'll be deploying helicopters, we'll be deploying Typhoon fighters to defend London's airspace, we'll be deploying ground-to-air missile systems." Military 'pride' Lord Dannatt, a former head of the British Army who used to advise the Conservative Party on defence matters, believes service personnel will be pleased to be involved with the Olympics. "It's not like Afghanistan," he said. "That's been a rolling operation for a long time, 10,000 soldiers there for six months at a time. "This is going to be a relatively short deployment and I think, as Philip Hammond said, the soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines who are involved actually will be... I think very proud to be part of this spectacular, once-in-a-generation operation to showcase London and showcase the UK." Conservative MP Patrick Mercer, a former officer in the British army, said the move underlined the importance of having sufficient military capacity to fulfil unforeseen tasks. He told the BBC: "We have a limited number of police officers. You can't necessarily employ close protection officers or other security officers in this role. "But it makes me wonder why we continue to talk about reducing the armed forces, particularly in terms of manpower, when these sorts of tasks come up at relatively short notice." Labour's shadow defence minister, Russell Brown, said: "There can be no compromise with security at the Olympic Games and we support the deployment of UK troops. "The British people will want to know everything possible is being done to protect their safety. "It is important we know where these troops will be drawn from and whether there will be any impact on ongoing international efforts." sauce http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16195861 this makes me twitchy. civil deployment of miltary assets is a dodgy thing. i would be intrested to see what kind of miltary pressnes there were at the sydney and athens games... link post comment

kink filter? [Dec. 12th, 2011|01:03 am] [ Tags | admin stuff, i dont realy use tags, rawww ] hey. ive desised, on reflection, to set up a kink filter. no one will be exlucded if they want in. if you do want in, comment. all comments are screened. the kink filter might be a little racer then other entrys on this, tho proberbly not, as i dont see my self going in to more detail then night of the sences. it might contain more philsophical and introspecitve thoughts on my kink stuff tho, so i cant promise anything. anyway, it'll be easer to handle and more privte then cuts. tho i'll still cut, becous people read this at work and so on, and its only fair yo lerave NSFW warnings. comment away. link post comment

(no subject) [Dec. 9th, 2011|01:39 pm] plotting a trip to the impiral war musiume. anyone want to join me? hope to do it befor christmas :) link post comment

some bits from the eye [Dec. 9th, 2011|12:28 pm] number crunching £0.3bnAmount taken from banks in extra levy announced in George Osborne’s autumn statement which proves we are all in it together £1.3bnAmount taken from tax credit claimants in cancelled rises in George Osborne’s autumn statement, which proves we’re not for refrence RE first cartoon of the pair link post comment

interviews 1 ?- a spotainus, mabby cyberpunk, fic [Nov. 8th, 2011|10:57 pm] the rain beat down. it wasnt always like this. often tho. as far as the eye could see, glass spires, flashing with light, and closer too, damp brick, people hurrying to and fro. the guadie lights of advertisement flashing "get the hell in man" inside, it was exactly as i expected, and nothing like it at all. the hall was littered with unread mail. old phone diretorys, never read for there numbers, lined the left hand side of the hall, stacked for or 5 high. a cubard with the door gone housed a cluster of mechines, theres lights flashing. the next room was the same. a bed, 5 or 6 towers, a server, i think. a laptop on anther table. cables littered the floor. the tv was on, but on mute. the news scrolled passed, collpase this, drop that, megere here, defult there, 7 dead in a train crash, driver error the world spun on. "i would make you something, but ive lost the tea". that didnt surpise me. "so, you wanted to talk?" "no names, you said" "no names. just the talk" i pulled out some tobbaco, and started rolling. i was playing for time. it was a bad habbit anyway. i should quit. "why do you do it?". i lit up, and waited for his answere i should explain. the man i was meating was one of meny. it was clear the world was pushing somewhere. somewhere dark. and the man i was with, half his skull, as he was to show me later, silvered, where he had wires in his head, he delt in computers. he cracked them, he broke them, he distrubted there info. a friend of a friend had told me. he was the type of person to drop something off on the net embrassing someone high up somewhere. it was dangrues. alot of people got caught. some people got fried. direct interface was rare, dangrues to get, even more so to use. he took an eithernet cable from out of his hat, where it had been dangling, dropping it to the floor. he even turned of the tv. the room felt dark. "i do it becous socities broken". he took out something of his own, and a second later, it lit. a strait. "look around you. 150 year copy right. componeys trying to shut it all down. sueing anybody. they dont always win. but there getting better. and that means someone has to take the risks. show up the corps. the goverment. everyone who trys to screw over the people and rule for there gread." a light shone through the curtens, his eyes sparkling, a fire in them. "thats why i do it". he showed me things. told me they were secret. some of them his insurnece. said, if he died, they would go out. he expected a bullit one day. i didnt dispoint. link post comment

a long week [Nov. 2nd, 2011|10:28 pm] hi. so, some of you might have heard im dead. or a mexican drug lord. or under aresset for the murder of jfk. all of these are true so, thursday, i began my latest expo jorney. jerry, the guy i works for brother, packs the worst boxes. i lifted, carryed, sorrted, and eventuly sold. i saw meny peeps there, inlcuding leana and kirsty, neither of whom i was sure would turn up, and some others, who i knew would. i shouted and sold. all in all, nothing to write home about (i wasnt even gona blog about it, but...) so, sunday. monday, i invite a friend over, cos she needs some tlc. hugs, dvds, pizza. it all goes well. she crashs on my couch 6:45 am, tusday morning, i get a knock on my door. and i mean a knock. turns out, im being raided by uk boarder patrol (formerly hm revenues and customes, formaly hm customs and exerises). sometime after i left my old address, someone, with a name like mine, registered out off 44 longlands, brought two vans, both used in the transportion off drugs across the country in safes, totaling 11 million pounds, or so. i might be out. they went inside, where myself and my friend were rather surpised at this turn of events. they waited for the fuzz, who took there time, to pick me up, and started serching befor the fuzz got here. i was told i might be hand cuffed. me and my friend, whos kinky, shared a giggle. it was that kind of morning. the fuzz evently did turn up, and i hitched a lift (unfettered) with the terrtorial suport group to sutton police station, where i then waited, as no one (sept me) knew why i was under arrest. i was unrelebale. evently, uk boarder patrol (et al) turn up, and im charged with whatever. my prints and dna is taken, and im shown to a cell, with my book (witch i was alowned to keep, along with most of my jewlery). i asked for a solicter, and got one, from brixten. nice bloke, not nesserly what i was expecting. he talked me through stuff (the caution, the chargeses, the evidence) and then we went in to the interview they asked me questions, like "do you own these vans?" (no) "do you know this man" (no) and about the adresses (squaters). about 1pm, i was balied, from folkstone (where there based, as opposed to where i was) for april (so remind me will you?). less a phone, and every computer that worked, i tryed to contact my brother in law at work, but failed, so sent an email from the libary (useing my bail papers for id, as my wallet was at home), and got lunch (having missed breakfast and police food) i got home, however, to find blood everywhere. gorgue had prolapsed his anus (something i was to desecover later). with no way to tell anyone anything, i broke down a bit. lucky, my nabour helped, and phoned me vet and cab. shortly after, my aunt, drafted by my sister, came over, and helped me get a new phone and some food. kali came over, to stay whils at collage, and my friends turned up. everyone was amazing. ive been lent a laptop (im currentlyt putting ubuntu on to a usb pen so i can run it off that, and save fouling up his laptop with crud) and my friend came over and was amazing tonight. thanks to everyone whos sent me messages of suport and what have you apparntly, i have a reptution for adevnturers now. link 11 comments|post comment

(no subject) [Oct. 26th, 2011|08:16 am] so me and posey went off to brighton yesterday. heres an artists depection (i'll let you desised with is me and witch posey) it was hella fun so, i was sitting at home, struggling to write my CV (i had a job i wanted to apply for with the dead line yesterday). anyway, i finished it (it was awful) and sent it off (im not gona get the job). posey was like "come to brighton" and i was like "CV :(". then, it got finished, she spent check it, and it was sent, and one of us grabbed the others boobs! by witch i mean we caught a train. she got on at london bridge. but all trains to brighton go via east croydon, where i hopped on. we chatted shit on the train, and then we got to brighton, trooping down the road to the beach. and once we we're there i ran hell for leather to the sea. wooooo. it was awsom. i messed around the sea a bit, and one of my shoes got wet (This is importent later) soaking the sock inside. anyway, we both took off our shoes, roled up our twoers, and paddled, witch was fun. then we went digging for...god knows what. but that was also fun. also, digging in stones is hard. after digging, we burryed the sock (told you it was importent) that got soaked. i sang amazing grace. i would have done full miltary honors, but i dont know what they are, and i think they involve a flag. we got some awsom photos (to go up later) and then troped off to the bar, were we had a drink. and then to the peer! we went on a bunch of rides, including the thing that spins, the roler coster, walts, and...something else. all were wintaculer! we went off to dinner. oh, at some point, we got in all the broken down boats on the beach and sang as well. posey told me off for singing to loud anyway, the tale nears an end. dinner, then, we went off to find the venue. posey was here to see a band, but i, alas, had kittens to feed. we had anther drink, huged, and then i ran off for my train journy home: uneventful. link 1 comment|post comment

(no subject) [Oct. 24th, 2011|09:32 pm] plotting a poke around the north west :D. brum, wolves and preston, all close enough to pull off... link 2 comments|post comment

(no subject) [Oct. 20th, 2011|03:03 pm] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15389550 gaddafi has, apparntly, been either killed or captrued in sirte. link post comment

(no subject) [Oct. 18th, 2011|09:31 pm] all the god damed feed on tumblr i want to follow, so ive joined. if you want to follow me, im metapill.tumblr.com. expect: poems, ponies...poems and ponies, and possbly science link post comment

(no subject) [Sep. 28th, 2011|10:14 pm] with the reliase of V20, ive been thinking of making anther wessex carcter, a non court one. or at least, a non standered court one. im thinking of giving sir richard longford, my dark ages carcter, the face lift he needs, and throwing him in, if he gets approvel and im crazy enough to play 4 carcters in wessex with that im mind, ive been mulling over things, and i wrote a short little ficlet. its not got much content. mabby i'll write more as i mull it over more Sir richard longford looked out across the night. The man, correction, the cainite had seen almost a thousdon years, rounding up. 700, certenly. He had riden agist the moores, and faught in the crusades. He had swing his swords at demons. He had debarised beings of dreadfulness. He had been in the pressence of mithras himself. He had quested eroupe. Pilgrimed to the holy land. Travsed italie when the light of knowlage shone upon its devided citys. He had forught for the king aginst parlement. He had fought nepolian. He had lived outside the camarilla, and defently outside the sabbat. He had put to death some of the worst exesses of the eroupean vampires, in the wake of both world wars. He had seen horror, and it was not a vampire he had cast it, but man. There was aleast one who he had assurged a final, painful, compleat death. And now, he stood, home once more, on the septered isle, the seat of kings. He felt imessrebly old. He, who had taken part in epic, had found the world incressingly hard to deal with. Trains, he could deal with, but motercars? And so meny of them? So he directed his attention to the grandest of domains, the former seat of mithras. It helped that, aparntly, every train on earth went there. Even at 10 oclock at night. London. Once there, he would asses his sitution. And see how he could achive what he needed... ps. main thing keeping me from asking if he needs a goal. his too old, and, poetently, too powerful not to have one, plus, as a non court carcter, he needs one, as he would be interacting night to night with standered plot. im thinking, mabby, inquestion, witch would fit well with his exprencess with the red monks... link 3 comments|post comment

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