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Post by Terry Mixon on Feb 28, 2021 18:25:16 GMT -5
How would you all feel about me putting out feelers for another 1 or 2 players for this game? Rock on. |
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Post by raikenclw on Mar 1, 2021 0:48:43 GMT -5
How would you all feel about me putting out feelers for another 1 or 2 players for this game? Fine with me, particularly if they want to play our Escaped Vargr Gent.  NOTE: I would be willing to switch to playing said Vargr, if nobody new wants to play him and we feel that him being a PC rather than an NPC is preferable. I'm not eager to give up Peng, but I am willing to make the offer. |
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Post by erisred on Mar 1, 2021 23:37:34 GMT -5
How would you all feel about me putting out feelers for another 1 or 2 players for this game? Fine with me, particularly if they want to play our Escaped Vargr Gent. NOTE: I would be willing to switch to playing said Vargr, if nobody new wants to play him and we feel that him being a PC rather than an NPC is preferable. I'm not eager to give up Peng, but I am willing to make the offer. I'm not eager for you to give up Ha'penny Peng either! He is a fun character, to be sure, and at least half-Vargr already from the way he acts.  |
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Post by erisred on Mar 5, 2021 3:00:55 GMT -5
You can probably tell we're getting some new players and new PC's. I'm stalling, I know we're in the middle of a nail biter, but bare with me. I WILL be posting an action on the tarmac tomorrow. After that one, the NPC Vargr will probably become a PC, but I want to make one more before I relinquish him. Hopefully more posts bringing the action forward for the existing PC's will come later tomorrow or Saturday. If the new folks can get me some barebone stats (names and UPP's would be enough to get them started) I can get them started, too. |
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Post by Aarav on Mar 7, 2021 10:00:14 GMT -5
You can probably tell we're getting some new players and new PC's. [snip] If the new folks can get me some barebone stats (names and UPP's would be enough to get them started) I can get them started, too. Sorry, newbie here. Will you be letting us know when we can "jump in"? |
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Post by erisred on Mar 8, 2021 0:04:01 GMT -5
You can probably tell we're getting some new players and new PC's. [snip] If the new folks can get me some barebone stats (names and UPP's would be enough to get them started) I can get them started, too. Sorry, newbie here. Will you be letting us know when we can "jump in"? Yes, now! |
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Post by erisred on Mar 8, 2021 0:08:21 GMT -5
Everyone we've added 3 new players: Tophocles who is playing Casca Vhar (if he survives his introduction), piperfan who is playing Aarav Gazi and ateno who is playing Ekhunoz Girskhaen (our Vargr stowaway camped out on the Bridge).
Say Hi everyone!
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Post by ateno on Mar 8, 2021 6:52:25 GMT -5
Hey: I'm Eric Rhude, long time gamer starting in the middle 70's. I'm a nurse and live in Riverhead, NY. The crotch of the fish of Long Island. Looking forward to many translation problems. |
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Post by Aarav on Mar 8, 2021 23:35:02 GMT -5
Hello. An old-time gamer who first played D&D in high school with those three little brown books and then moved on to Traveller with the three little black books.
Sword World grav tank officer in the old Journal "draft" for the Fifth Frontier War. H. Beam Piper fan. David Victoria, British Columbia
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Post by raikenclw on Mar 9, 2021 0:02:37 GMT -5
Hey: I'm Eric Rhude, long time gamer starting in the middle 70's. I'm a nurse and live in Riverhead, NY. The crotch of the fish of Long Island. , you've got a few years on me. I didn't start gaming until 1983, the year after I graduated high school. Looking forward to many translation problems. Due to being a Yankee? Well, given that this is PbP, the most common communication issue on my end [e.g. the fact that Yankees speak too dang FAST] shouldn't be an issue. However, Peng's speech might be a tad hard for you (or your PC) to follow. He has a bad habit of dropping the "g" at the end of most words that rightly lay claim to one. He also skimps on pronouns and linking words. |
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Post by raikenclw on Mar 9, 2021 0:07:55 GMT -5
Hello. An old-time gamer who first played D&D in high school with those three little brown books and then moved on to Traveller with the three little black books.
Sword World grav tank officer in the old Journal "draft" for the Fifth Frontier War. H. Beam Piper fan. David Victoria, British Columbia
Hello, David. I'm Richard. I'm also a Piper fan, particularly his Paratime novels. I have read Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen many times over the years. [The sequels by those other folk as well . . . even though they don't really compare.] Actually, I think I may have previously been in a PbP with you. Your handle and avatar seem very familiar. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Mar 9, 2021 3:18:07 GMT -5
Hello. An old-time gamer who first played D&D in high school with those three little brown books and then moved on to Traveller with the three little black books.
Sword World grav tank officer in the old Journal "draft" for the Fifth Frontier War. H. Beam Piper fan. David Victoria, British Columbia
Welcome, I am also a big H. Beam Piper fan and first discovered him through the first Little Fuzzy stories. If you have time someday, poke around through the three little brown books area of the forum and if you see something you want to comment on go ahead. Also and this is for all of you, feel free to start Traveller Threads up in the main forum area known as the Village Commons at the top of the forum. I would love to have you all spread your Classic Traveller knowledge around. |
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Post by ateno on Mar 9, 2021 7:53:31 GMT -5
Looking forward to many translation problems. Due to being a Yankee? Well, given that this is PbP, the most common communication issue on my end [e.g. the fact that Yankees speak too dang FAST] shouldn't be an issue. However, Peng's speech might be a tad hard for you (or your PC) to follow. He has a bad habit of dropping the "g" at the end of most words that rightly lay claim to one. He also skimps on pronouns and linking words. More towards playing a long rare Vargr among humans. But about your comment, North Easterner's (Mostly NY/NJ) speak very fast in relation to the rest of the US. Due to quite a bot of traveling in my youth and beyond I've been able to handle living here and mostly pass for a native, except for my accent. People think its a midwestern, buy its actually Alaskan.... |
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Post by Aarav on Mar 9, 2021 9:23:07 GMT -5
I'm also a Piper fan, particularly his Paratime novels. I have read Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen many times over the years. Hi Richard. Lord Kalvan is a great yarn but my favorite is Space Viking and the other Terro-human Future History novels Junkyard Planet (aka The Cosmic Computer) and Four-Day Planet. |
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Post by Aarav on Mar 9, 2021 9:26:32 GMT -5
Actually, I think I may have previously been in a PbP with you. Your handle and avatar seem very familiar. Haven't played much PbP in quite a while but I did run a PbP game way back in 2004+ set in the aftermath of Space Viking. |
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Post by Aarav on Mar 9, 2021 9:28:57 GMT -5
Welcome, I am also a big H. Beam Piper fan and first discovered him through the first Little Fuzzy stories. If you have time someday, poke around through the three little brown books area of the forum and if you see something you want to comment on go ahead. Thanks, and will do. |
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Post by Aarav on Mar 9, 2021 9:38:09 GMT -5
People think its a midwestern, buy its actually Alaskan.... There's an Alaskan accent? Only been to Alaska once--Alaska Highway from Yukon to Fairbanks and down to Denali--but didn't notice an accent. |
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Post by ateno on Mar 9, 2021 9:56:53 GMT -5
People think its a midwestern, buy its actually Alaskan.... There's an Alaskan accent? Only been to Alaska once--Alaska Highway from Yukon to Fairbanks and down to Denali--but didn't notice an accent. Well to hear the new yorkers, yes, my wife tells me I pronounce a few words different. Also comments while I worked at east end Vineyards selling wine to tourists. |
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Post by raikenclw on Mar 10, 2021 2:34:36 GMT -5
But about your comment, North Easterner's (Mostly NY/NJ) speak very fast in relation to the rest of the US. In my job as a hotel front desk clerk here in Sevier County Tennessee, I mostly field calls from fellow Southerners. Folk from Ohio and Indiana as well, but even though they're well over the Mason-Dixon line they're still easily intelligible. But every once in a great while, I'll get a call from a Northeasterner and it's then that I find myself having to listen very hard in order to parse what they're saying. There has been a large amount of blending, even so. My father (born in Georgia in 1925) used to tell about his maternal aunt calling him while he was away at photography school in California in the late 1940s. He always found himself interpreting her words for the long distance operator handling the call. I also recall a foreign exchange student from Venezuela that I met in college. This was in the mid-1980s. The first school she attended here in the States was the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She said that for the first week or so that she was there, she was totally mystified as to what exactly a "dough wah" could be. Finally, it dawned upon her that her classmates were pronouncing "door" as if it had two syllables. |
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Post by raikenclw on Mar 10, 2021 2:42:53 GMT -5
I'm also a Piper fan, particularly his Paratime novels. I have read Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen many times over the years. Hi Richard. Lord Kalvan is a great yarn but my favorite is Space Viking and the other Terro-human Future History novels Junkyard Planet (aka The Cosmic Computer) and Four-Day Planet. Oh, yeah! I like those, as well. Classic Traveller was heavily influenced by those books. There's a whole subsector in the canon Spinward Marches that's pretty much a copy of that setting. And - of course - Little Fuzzy Et Al. |
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Post by raikenclw on Mar 10, 2021 2:44:08 GMT -5
Actually, I think I may have previously been in a PbP with you. Your handle and avatar seem very familiar. Haven't played much PbP in quite a while but I did run a PbP game way back in 2004+ set in the aftermath of Space Viking. Nope. I would surely remember something like that. Maybe I'm wrong or maybe it'll come back to me later. |
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Post by ateno on Mar 10, 2021 7:10:43 GMT -5
But every once in a great while, I'll get a call from a Northeasterner and it's then that I find myself having to listen very hard in order to parse what they're saying. Gotcha, chose are mostly from Eastern Massachusetts, they cause problems for New Yorkers.... |
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Post by Aarav on Mar 10, 2021 9:35:17 GMT -5
There's a whole subsector in the canon Spinward Marches that's pretty much a copy of that setting. Oh, yes! I've spent more than a reasonable amount of time playing with that mash-up. |
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Post by Aarav on Mar 10, 2021 9:42:49 GMT -5
There's an Alaskan accent? Only been to Alaska once--Alaska Highway from Yukon to Fairbanks and down to Denali--but didn't notice an accent. Well to hear the new yorkers, yes, my wife tells me I pronounce a few words different. Also comments while I worked at east end Vineyards selling wine to tourists. Perhaps a "midwestern" accent simply didn't sound like an accent to me. 
I got a "warning" for speeding from a state trooper somewhere between Fairbanks and Denali. He'd been stationed in Virginia while in the military and claimed he gave me a break because of the Virginia plates on my truck. He didn't sound like he was from Virginia either.  |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Mar 10, 2021 10:10:44 GMT -5
But about your comment, North Easterner's (Mostly NY/NJ) speak very fast in relation to the rest of the US. In my job as a hotel front desk clerk here in Sevier County Tennessee, I mostly field calls from fellow Southerners. Folk from Ohio and Indiana as well, but even though they're well over the Mason-Dixon line they're still easily intelligible. But every once in a great while, I'll get a call from a Northeasterner and it's then that I find myself having to listen very hard in order to parse what they're saying. There has been a large amount of blending, even so. My father (born in Georgia in 1925) used to tell about his maternal aunt calling him while he was away at photography school in California in the late 1940s. He always found himself interpreting her words for the long distance operator handling the call. I also recall a foreign exchange student from Venezuela that I met in college. This was in the mid-1980s. The first school she attended here in the States was the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She said that for the first week or so that she was there, she was totally mystified as to what exactly a "dough wah" could be. Finally, it dawned upon her that her classmates were pronouncing "door" as if it had two syllables. My father was also born in the 1920s (mom was a bit younger) in central WV, and we moved to OH when I was three. After I left home, my accent was still noticeable to other people in Cleveland where I worked at the time, but to large extent my accent changed to general Midwest, so when I would go home, my parents would ask why I was talking funny. Door, wash and many other words are just a bit different and they drop the gs off the end of words, say things like agin instead of again, etc. After living away from that accent for over 40 years, I still drop right back into it if I am around it. Of course they did not have the full further south flavor, it was a bit different. |
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Post by Tophocles on Mar 10, 2021 16:49:40 GMT -5
Hi all; late to the introductions. I'm Toph, in Vancouver (so only a short hop from piperfan). Eric -- it has been ages since we've been in the same subsector, but it's nice to see you again!
Happy to be here!
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Post by ateno on Mar 10, 2021 17:12:19 GMT -5
Hi all; late to the introductions. I'm Toph, in Vancouver (so only a short hop from piperfan). Eric -- it has been ages since we've been in the same subsector, but it's nice to see you again! Happy to be here! TOPH Great to 'see' you man. I cant wait to interact with you in this game, I check in on your books and your career from time to time. More later, promise!! Eric
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Post by Terry Mixon on Mar 10, 2021 17:20:40 GMT -5
Hi all; late to the introductions. I'm Toph, in Vancouver (so only a short hop from piperfan). Eric -- it has been ages since we've been in the same subsector, but it's nice to see you again! Happy to be here! TOPH Great to 'see' you man. I cant wait to interact with you in this game, I check in on your books and your career from time to time. More later, promise!! Eric
Books? *perks up* Are you a fellow writer? |
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Post by Tophocles on Mar 10, 2021 17:28:13 GMT -5
Ha! Not in that sense, no. An academic. I've done some gaming stuff, but most of my work focuses on Greek and Roman theatre. ( Most recently). |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Mar 10, 2021 19:15:50 GMT -5
TOPH Great to 'see' you man. I cant wait to interact with you in this game, I check in on your books and your career from time to time. More later, promise!! Eric
Books? *perks up* Are you a fellow writer? What do you write! Links please! |
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