1.4 - The Wyr River: Out of the darkness, into ...

(Now now children, through the portal)

(ooc: Agreed Kai. I just think personal attacks should be kept to PMs. In a pbp game we can't all be perfect. We may miss something, we may misread something, we may interpret something differently. We may have a different perspective on something. We may want to do something that takes longer than someone else. Ultimately we have to be flexible to make this work. If a player makes a mistake ina post that needs correcting I suggest you PM them, and if they agree they can edit their post. We also have a strategy thread for disputes. I'm done anyway... I'm saying nothing more... back to the portal).

(OOC: WOW. I'm sorry I used an example that contained you Merlin.. I should have used one of the other examples. This was just one of the clearest and most recent ones to use. I'm sorry I was honestly confused as to how you could possibly know that and why the GM accepted it and gave more information made me think that perhaps ***I*** misunderstood if everything the GM posted was public knowledge or not... WHICH WAS WHY I ASKED! If you feel I personally attacked you then I am sorry, that was not my intention at all. I'll just STFU)
(Addendum OOC: I understand some tempers could be flayed a bit because of the issues that just happened with me going to the surface. The grandmaster never told me 3 hours, or I'd have used that timeframe and maybe you wouldn't be around at all, or would have come looking for me.. I took an hour and 10 min rest.. and it was my understanding it was a short walk. So when I said "a little over an hour", I believed it, and the GM never indicated to me otherwise. Nothing in my PMs with him made me feel it took over an hour and a half to get to the surface and do what happened.
Further: I understand that some people might be upset about my having held up postings for a day. Let me tell you that Tara's reasoning was not only completely tactical, but also directly in line with her training, morals, and duty. I'm sorry I can't just "break" my entire character concept to allow for 'majority rule'. If I did that I'd be playing a broken character, and any of you that have gamed for long periods know that playing a broken character that you willingly destroyed isn't much fun. I even told the GM that if it couldn't be resolved and the party ended up splitting that I'd create a new character; because I would rather throw this character away with respect and play a new one. I'm sorry that slowed down the campaign, and I can understand why there might be some resentment towards me for that. I apologize, but I'd do it again.)

(OOC: Just so everyone is aware, I know the GM is: I get confused. I've gotten even more confused after this last heart attack about 3 weeks ago, and it was happening with some frequency before that even. Entire conversations, even events, people have to remind me of because I do'nt remember.. So I'm constantly re-reading things and by the end wondering if I missed something or not.. and usually I dismiss it if it's something small.. but when the GM is responding to it and I can't resolve it, and I know he's unavailable today.. I had to frame it so you could understand what I was trying to ask and why I'm confused. My mind locked onto the thought of 'maybe the gms posts are open knowledge'? and it wouldn't let go.. but that didn't seem right to me and figured it was a mistake.. but then why would the gm give out more knowledge on a mistake and my mind just went into a vicious circle from there. Again, I'm sorry I caused all this drama over the last day or so..)

I hope you're doing ok

I'm still alive. GM says it's because Heaven doesn't want me and Hell has a restraining order. :)
Although I'm realizing I should have posted this in Rules Q's and not in the main thread.. :( My bad.

(ooc: Wow, Grant, I'm sorry to hear about your health troubles. I for one don't mind players headed in different directions, with different motivations. If we roleplay ourselves separate ways, then that is fine with me. Don't stress over it. As you say, play your character the way that we see fit. Only, if I were to make one suggestion, please realize that we are trying to do the same. So, if we don't follow you, it isn't necessarily because we're meta-gaming or making bad tactical decisions.)

Don't worry about it Grant, life is confusing enough without text based storytelling and health issues. I completely respected your decision by the way, I get very uppity about characters too and would rather see them dead, raped (sorry, harsh language, but it's true), and broken before they bow to something that isn't like them. Yui would have followed Tara if I knew she was taking Birtwood, I thought that she just wanted some time alone.

If Yui ends up stabbing Tara because of our rivalry, as long as it's in character, I'll defend that decision till the day we both die, so rest easy, dude :)
Feel better, I'm sending get better wishes Japanese style. Ganbatte to zettai akiramenai!

LOL Kai! But Tara doesn't have a rivalry with Yui.. Yui has one with Tara. ;) I wish I knew Japanese.. It'd make watching Anime easier.
I realize we are all RP'ing different ways, and *I* understand why you might not want to leave the portal.. but Tara has a different set of priorities she had to follow. The metagaming question was me not comprehending, the tactical 'lecture' was Tara's viewpoint of things, roleplay, and she escorted Birtwood to the surface because her priorities were different. As I said, if I were playing a different character, such as a greedy rogue, I'd have been on the other side of that portal with Utazo and probably already scouting it. I get the different motivations thing. I'll try to be more lax and relaxed..

OOC: I am glad you got that all out of your system while I was gone and were able to work things out.

I think I cleared the air a little in the "Rules" thread, but ... when I post something, it is because I assume we are all sitting around the table and everyone will hear it. If it is something that is targeted to a single person, like what would be said through a sheet of paper passed between GM and a player, it would be a PM. Now, that is not to say that when it is within a post, everyone in the party can act upon it. For example, I did not let Darazen nor Yui have a chance to see the shins pinging Tara because of distance. I did let Darazen act on the scanner because they were linked and because Darazen told him to look at it and was waiting.

Last thing, when you do have these discussion, I feel OOC is okay for a comment, a sentence or two. However if we need to stop the game to discuss something, please take it into the stragetizing thread. If the thread is too long, make a new one. If you cannot, then ask me and I will. Thank you.

With that, onto the game.

OOC: After several cardio incidents, how else can you explain how you are still breathing? :D

Waiting on actions from Utazo and Vult.