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Shadowrun RPG Play-By-Post Games => Welcome to the Shadows => Topic started by: Ruski on February 28, 2005, 03:35:32 PM
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Okay, so this is the advice for Play by Post 2.0, comments, thoughts, suggestions, and the like can all be sent here.
feel free to mock / congradulate / theorise with any of the pubbers who are involved with this.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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dang this ought to b intresting we have a deeply depress paranoid decker a free cal water type dwarven surfer type shaman a elven arsitcrat
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oh yes. putting them all in the same room together will be QUITE interesting.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
(i don't think he's a decker though)
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Yeah I don't have any idea what 6's character is... apart from seriously depressed and down on his luck.
I can envisage a confrontation between Prince and Big Surge though ::)
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He's definately not a decker...
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LOL well, let's see what happens when they have to interact together.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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This is gonna be good! :hyper:
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I can't get enough of that little jiggering hyper smilie:
:hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper:
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let's see what happens when :hyper:, 8), and :-\ are all in the stuffershack together.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I;m betting much bloodshed on the part of the gangers. I know poor people, like the :( might be willing to give up thier last 2Y, but there's no way that the rich daisy eater is going to give his money to a 'lesser' species.
-Kid Vid
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LOL let's see if anyone throws ninja stars at the guys with shotguns!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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That was such a bad idea. That and holding the dismembered peices of the gang, and threatening to "hurt" them when Lonestar pulls up out front. ;D ;D ;D
-Kid Vid
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*sigh* yea... good time.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I also thought not fitting through the drive-through window was funny.
No points to the rookie who 'discovers' how he escaped. ;D
-Kid Vid
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*shrug* well, it worked for you and your body of 2.
-RuskIFace the Pirate
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Hey, I was hiding under the counter!
And I did have the foresight to check and see if I would fit out the window before trying to cram myself through it.
Also, it's usually a good idea to take the huge laser-axe out of it's holster on your back before trying to squeeze through.
-Kid Vid
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and not being a 7' tall ork that weighs in at just under 800 lbs would be a good idea too.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Are you guys talking about the current Back To The Shack PbP... because I'm sure the elf at the counter would have a different expression if Kid was hiding down there :P
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Well, probably not.
I'm not so good with the ladies. ;D
-Kid Vid
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Ha ha ha! Well, I wonder how TBS is gonna get out of this situation...
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*shrug* i dunno either, but let's see what he comes up with.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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A shame there's no tent in my inventory...
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What is with this Tent thing you keep talking about?!
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Oh, if you weren't reading the other PBP, you would've missed it.
Mercy, a long-time poster, cut up his tent to rappel down the side of the hospital that he was stuck in after Lone Star and some runners started throwing drek back and forth without reguard to the hostages.
So he cut up his elastic tent, and tried to use it as a rope.
But when you tie knots with elastic fabric, (as Ruski and I have both experienced) they knots don't hold very well, and you fall.
Luckily for Mercy, there was a nice security guard there to break his fall. ;D
-Kid Vid
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LOL yea. his reaction was "aww... it didn't work"
our reaction was: "a tent?"
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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So um... we're waiting for Poison to go again right?
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Well, perhaps he'll get shot a couple times and that'll slow him down to normal speeds?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Have a secret vendetta against him, Ruski?
No, I was just making sure. I didn't want to act out of turn or anything. I'm still moderately confused by the PBP rules, but I'm slowly catching on.
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I doubt that, he'd need to get stabbed for Serious damage and beaten to serious stun and he'd still have 3 passes.
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That's what comes of being the superior species :)
Oh, I love how 6's first reaction when faced by a gang of orks busting up the Shack was to jump on top of the cute female counter clerk. ;D
You'd better be quick though, as you've got about 3 seconds. Just enough time for a super quick 'quickie' :-[
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Believe me, I'd be doing the same thing if it was a dorky guy with duct-taped up glasses and a pocket protector. But uh... if we're in collusion and sharing our plans with each other out of the game, I'd say that's cheating so I'll be quiet now.
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Or having reaction enhancements...
Doubt those are "genial"
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maybe he has the adept power 'faster quickie'
it's actually a one point flaw you can take!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Wasn't that a Perk you could get on Fallout 2?
Kama Sutra or something like that...
Use your Kama Sutra dice at the point of "intercourse" every 2 successes against a target number of 4 or whatever lowers the target number for future Social tests against that person?
Perhaps a mental addiction based the skill rating with an edge factor equal to 10-Charisma?
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I bought the second fallout game, but never got as into it as i did the first one.
*shrug*
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Believe me, I'd be doing the same thing if it was a dorky guy with duct-taped up glasses and a pocket protector.
So, you're not fussy then?
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Hopefully the spirits and fireworks will distract the gangers a bit
Hehehehe..
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If I didn't know any better, Poison, I'd say your mind is in the gutter.
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...but as you do know better, what is your opinion? ;)
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LOL must be hanging out with Gabe again.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Are we still talking about ice cream?
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i like rainbow sherbet.
is that still icecream?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I don't have a sweet tooth AT ALL, but there's one flavor I like: it's called 'Death By Chocolate', with these giant chocolate chip chunks in there... mmmmm.
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LOL me too. i'd rather have a steak.
-RuskiFace teh Pirate
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ok first things first...Now Mercy has a nurse to care for him and his errs in his ways...so when he falls he can come see his lil elf and she will fix him up as good as new..as for sherbert its not considered ice cream its more of frozen skim milk diluted and heavily flavoured with no sugared flavouring...death by chocolate yummmmmmmmmmmmm heath ice cream yummmmmmmmm both the bestest ice creams in the world :P
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I like sherbet more, especially the orange variety. It's because of the acid in it gives it a tang. I always liked sour flavors...
Guess it's because I'm pretty abrasive...
/nerd
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You sure it's not the acid you like?
Surfing dwarf types surely must like a drop of acid every now and then...
:o
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I've never seen Death By Chocolate flavoured ice-cream. Apparently, though, there is a Death By Chocolate cake or slice or something that is a favourite of someone I know...
I wonder if you can order it online? Hmmm, might have to order a surprise delivery... :o
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Good God... someone is going to blow the entire bloody Shack up...
;D
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Not the entire shack, just the bit around the counter...
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I wanna stuff a banana in the tailpipe of the hovercraft... if it has a tailpipe...
Inspiration (http://www.modarchive.com/cgi-bin/download.cgi/A/axel-f.mod)
Clearly I'm Eddie Murphy...
So who's Judge Reinhold?
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well, you'r going to need to bring the whole bushel, kuz it's running off of a V-8 with open headders, you'll need to stick a bunch of them in there...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I thought Hovercraft were electric..?
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This one's not.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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"Nah, you gotta say it tougher."
"Hey man! I ain't fallin' for no banana in no tailpipe!
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*shrug* maybe it'll work?
-RuskiFace teh Pirate
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It was really just a joke, never really considered it a viable option. There's no exhaust on the thing at all?
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Not if it has open headers... and probably not if it's electric.
-Kid Vid
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ack if done right or wrong in this case thats enough butane to flatten the shack
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Yeah, i might leave that for another time, or if things start going severely pear shaped.
so whose action is it?
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pear shaped?
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Same as wahoonie shaped, only less so.
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BTW, what weapons do I have with me? I can't eally imagine taking my Katana to a restaurant with me, but I wouln't want to wander the street undefended against ruffians and peasants...
Bwahahahaha! See if the GM has any sympathy on you! You should have kept this little tidbit to yourself.
Have no clue who's go it is.
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New week, New Init. Pass.
Lets see if anyone can live through the beutane explosion well enough to get to the hovercraft and roll a tech. check to stick a bananna somewhere important.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I was only kidding about the banana thing. Axel Foley will have to wait for another time.
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BTW, what weapons do I have with me? I can't eally imagine taking my Katana to a restaurant with me, but I wouln't want to wander the street undefended against ruffians and peasants...
Bwahahahaha! See if the GM has any sympathy on you! You should have kept this little tidbit to yourself.
Have no clue who's go it is.
Yeah, when I GM I normally ask players what they have with them before they go anywhere - it's handy to know for social situations and the like.
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Axel Foley... mwahahaha....
Hey Retread, wanna play a game of cards while we wait for the so-called 'superior race' to take his 712 turns?
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The first beveryly hills cop was the best.
although i still maintain that he's playing the same charichter in 48 hours.
oh, and as for a game while you wait... i'm thinking of a number between 1 and 10, first person to guess it gets a point of karma!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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is it an integer?
;)
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nope!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
(Good question BTW)
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p?
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HAHAHAHAHA, no, but that would have been a good number for me to pick.
it's higher than that.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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3.1415926535897932384626433832795?
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Okay, let's keep it to 10 digits past the desemil place.
for time's sake.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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3.1415926536?
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higher.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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5.56?
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Higher.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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7.44
Higher
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Yo, I've posted now. >:(
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7.62?
[higher]
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8.14?
-Kid VId
Lower
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8 even.
Lower
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7.91 :P
Lower
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gets out the lighter fluid cuz thats all i got in the house sprays it around and all over objects just to see how good it burns poof wow now thats a fire... giggles :P if your gonna do it do it right that way you wont be doing it again :P
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7.50
higher
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7.77
<BINGO!>
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WTF? Pi not good enough for you?
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Nah, Pi would have been awsome, but i didn't think of it. Perhaps next time.
-RuskIFace the Pirate
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That's what 3.1415926535897932384626433832795 is...
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*sigh*
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Yes, quite right. and it would have been an awsome number to pick, had i thought of that number instead of 7.77 when i started this game, but it didn't seem fair to change it just because it was cooler.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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its not fair 6 bribed and gave lots of gold for the answers... :o
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of course, I understand that Pi isn't that exact number. Since Pi continues ad infinitum...
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Well, to get arround that, you did put the actuall Pi symbol up there... and that's pretty much as exact as it can be, and we did limit it to 10 digits, just for the sake of time.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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What's Infinity in ten digits?
-Kid Vid
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uh... ten digits.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
(I'd talk more, but someone just deleted all of the index tables in the database, and the latest backup is from monday of last week)
*sigh* if it wasn't my boss, he'd soo be fired.
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As it is there'll be a present in his chair after lunch :P
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go for it and tell us all bout it when it happens :P
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LOL, well, i have a killer migrane right now, and not much time to deal with it.
*sigh*
here's the short version:
My boss, took it upon himself to be incharge of the backup system i set up. (a rotation of removeable hard drives that are remotely mirrored off of the server, getting the entirety of the database, and working data we use on a daily basis), and with this newfound responcability, he thought that a year of 'pointless' backups would allow him some leaway in when he took care of it.
Then, he disregarded the safty operating procedures on the database index rebuild, and decided that he didn't need to have everyone out of the databse when he re-indexed it.
so, he crashed the entire database, corrupting it from the groud up, and neglected to back it up more recent than 10 days ago. so, i was here untill 11PM a couple nights in a row putting the network back together, and automating part of the security system (i'm getting raid 1 hot swapable drive controllers for the server next week) and setting it up so we could pull all of the hardcopy paperwork and re-enter 10 days worth of data. (we are eight days caught up to two days ago at this point)
*sigh*
buisy buisy buisy.
hopefully in a week or so my job will go back to it's normal goofing off normality.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Wow, that's a pretty big screw up on your boss' part... I mean, really :P
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Yea. if it was my fault, i'd be out of a job, but seeing as how it's his company... well,... it just becomes my mess to clean up.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
But, i guess that's what i get paid for anyways...
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Think about it, though- things like this mean that they will NEVER EVER be able to get rid of you. The only time they'll try to replace you is when you've decided that you've had enough of thier crap (or have finished school) and leave.
So you can get any amount of money, get away with any amount of goofing off, and they have to keep you. You have tenure... they CAN'T FIRE YOU.
So congrats.
-kid vid
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untill all of a sudden someone gets the bright ideal to learn all there is to know about the system
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SSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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Unlikely.
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hahaha wtg Ruski now to be a real shyt head leave a reminder to keep a back up and show how much you really know...shyt what can be done lol he needs you too much your a valuable emplyee :P
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Actually, there are very few people willing to work here for what they pay that have the ability to do what i do. most people are asking for 6 digits to be a network administrator, and they aren't going to find many willing to work for 25K/year. so, untill i start demanding competative salary, i'm not going to have to worry about my job security.
so, i pretend to work, and they pretend to pay me. LOL
i think it's a pretty fair arrangement... although i should ask for a raise if they want me to take over yet another department.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Pretend is fun!
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LOL except when i have to pretend to pay my bills.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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or the bills pretend not to come but up and up pretend is fun...still you gotta know something or they wouldnt keep you around so long yanno..most of us know more then the boss in your case you do.... :P
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Well, I wouldn't say that I know MORE than my boss. I know more about MY job than my boss, but it's my job to know. If my boss knew what I knew, he wouldn't need me, he'd be doing this stuff himself. And my boss is a smart guy, but his job requires him to have a diffrent skillset than mine. I couldn't do his job any better than he could do mine. *shrug*
but that's just my view on things.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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You're being nice. I know both you and both of your bosses. Mike might be as smart as you, but I'd bet newyen against old american money you could do Dave's job while napping.
-Kid Vid
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hhaha see your smarter and could do it with your eyes closed Ruski dont be modest if your good your good...alot of people know more then their bosses nothing wrong with that..you dont have to admit too it but shyt lol take a lil credit where its due 8)
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Well, in my opinion there's no humility about it. I have an awfull lot of skill when it comes to computers. I can recover things that other trained profesionals would throw up their hands in disguested defeat at. There are probibly lots of people that are better at working with computers than me, but I don't know any of thoes people, and I know a lot of people. But, inorder to do Dave's job, i'd have to fire and disipline people. i'd have to fill out paperwork all day long. i'd have to quantify everything I did, I would have to be super nice to total jerk customers, I'd have to deal with every assanine thing that any two employees could think up to fight about, I'd have to put in time at work without getting paid for it, I'd have to give up my hour lunch (in favor of eating a granola bar while answering phone calls) I would have to give raises to worthless employees just because they whine so much that it's the only way to get them to work, while letting the true tallent dwindle at minimum wage just because they didn't complaine enough. (an anti-social reward as it were)... and for all of that trouble, I actually wouldn't make that much more money than I do now. so, as far as working 500% more for only a 15% increase in salary,... He does a much better job of it than I ever would. and there are some parts of his job that i could do easily, the parts of his job that are redundant with mine, finding technical information, telling customers what the solution to their problems could be, researching new vendors, troubleshooting new heavy machinery in the warehouse, but the places where we differ, is where most of the work takes place.
*shrug*
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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now i have worked for some real good bosses who cared bout the employees and have worked for ones that didnt give a shyt but in no way if one didnt deserve something good did they get it yes i think some know more then their bosses and being a boss is like being a mom or dad all stress i agree not worth time but you wouldnt have to give up much of what you were talkin bout just be a lil more organized then they r and learn your employees :-\
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a boss that cares about you is still a boss.
and the whole reason for being 'the boss' isn't to make your underlings like you, although it is possibile to do that as well, it's to make the company that pays you as profitable as possible.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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but you shouldnt feel you can do no less then him cuz hes boss hes just boss cuz they didnt find you first lol :P
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*shrug* diffrent jobs. if they found us in reverse order, I think that the job descriptions would still be the same. our skills are in diffrent areas.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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ahhh i see smiles still think youd make a good one :P
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LOL, well, a good GM perhaps, but I certanly wouldn't want to work for me.
anyways, speaking of GMing... how do ya'll think the run is going?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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There's a run? :D
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Uh... ocasionally...
sept on the weekends...
or other bank holidays...
or when the GM forgets that it's his turn.
Players: *stare blankly at GM*
GM: *thinking: Hmm... i wonder why this run is taking so long?*
Players: *continue to stare at GM*
GM: *I wonder who's turn it is?*
Players: *Blink Blink*
GM: "Will someone GO already!?!?!!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Hey Ruski, you know what would look really cool? If you altered your avatar a little so that the little lines below the nose formed letters and said 'Ruski' ;D
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Yea!
Poisons right!
it would!
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Hmm.... time to bring my pirated version of photoshop to work...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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looks at Rustis av looks like it spells out slut :-\ omg my bad sticks a pen in my mouth has that thinkin look on my face and thinks :P
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*shrug* i've been called worse...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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its not bad lol look below his lip lol not callin you the slut lol :P
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Actually, it looks to me like it says "sluts"...
-Kid Vid
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Uh... i just see lines... you all have very dirty imaginations...
some people see the virgin mary or mother teresa... you people see sluts...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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not dirty minded just honest it says sluts lol :P
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In our defense, we are looking at a skull and crossbones with vampire teeth... not a lot of people see visions of the Virgin Mary when looking at those. ;D
-Kid Vid
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Perhaps if they were looking harder...
it's not like that's what they are trying to see when they look at their peanut butter either...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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it's not like that's what they are trying to see when they look at their peanut butter either...
Actually, it quite often is.
That, and a meal, ofcourse.
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so then if i close my eyes and see the skull n cross bones licking the peanut butter off his lips ok sound better :P
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uh... eeew...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yes. Also EEEEWwwwWWWWwww. :poison: :bob: :crazy:
-Kid Vid
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well you said we were all dirty minded and iwas showing you it wasent me lol sides whats wrong with peanut butter huh its good to eat and lick off your lips ever see a dog try to eat it off the roof of his/her mouth thats funny not gross but now isnt it better then sluts.... :P
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sheesh people, it's just peanust butter!
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see and whats so bad with that :P
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LOL okay. i'll grant you that throwing a little ball of peanut butter at an annoying neighbrohood dog is a really good way to get it to shut up for an hour or two...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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What happened to Number Six?! BLARGH!
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Now that I look a bit closer, I see the word 'Elvis' written backwards... so Ruski is the incarnation of "The King" who has made a pact with Satan? :-X
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hahahaha there ya go could read elvis backwords but i still see slut :o
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Six murdered Elvis, and became a Slut.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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hahaha and sold his soul to satin there ya go lol :P
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"I... Warship... Satin?"
-Stay Tuned
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no not you elvis 8)
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Hmm... perhaps we should delay action for him... or have him get shot and killed?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Well, it's been over a week... delaying an action for him sounds reasonable.
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i agree wait :-\
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I think the bad guys need a moral check after that display
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now what would the fun in that be?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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simple it adds realism to the game and i think the game died
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You think?
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looks like it
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Yea. well, not everyone can post for a couple of years consistantly.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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This is a post to keep the General Fiction area full of nice old things to read.
-RF
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