[Gossamer's Scrapbook] The Ethereal Canyon I

[Siiri]

I'm sorry Goss, I'm sorry!

*drags Miharu with him and makes her kneel down in penitence*

We are worms before you...worms! *writhes on the ground like a, well, worm*

...okay, disturbing image there.

But seriously, all kiddiditty aside (that's a new word kids, take note of it), we honestly didn't know that Kelvics couldn't communicate through the bond other than (?) channel emotions and feelings through it, and even those come through fuzzy and may be misunderstood by either bondee or bonder. I only realized it's wrong when Kammy brought it up with me. And I guess Miharu and I got lazy - it's soooo much easier and understandable to communicate that way. Not that we're doing it anymore or anything.

I'm a changed bondee Myrian, I swear! *shows off the Nirvana light shining behind his head*

...of course, our older threads feel weird when I read them now. Eww.

[Gossamer]

Siiri. You're fine. Don't worry about it.

[Taln]

*double nods* I remember seeing someone with a 1000 yr old lich for their PC and I just had no words. It's the Malaise, and it will pass--I promise! It's only the 4th, soon to be 5th. By the middle of this month the crazies will stop. People get nutty coz we don't harvest, prepare and store food for the winter anymore. Ok well us in new england do, but nvm. To quote Birdcage, "Don't worry honey, it'll pass!"

[Fela Meason]

You know maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to dumb Fela down a little...

@Taln, I saw that...*eye twitch* I hope you are right. I live with several crazy people. Can't handle anymore.

But on a serious note I know what you mean Goss. I say if you are going to invest your time, energy and love into a site and into a PC bother reading the lore so you can get the full experience and the full set of challenges that come with that PC and the rules unique to them.

[Gossamer]

. Seasonal XP There seems to be a lot of confusion on this, so let me try and clear it up. Seasonal XP is awarded to those PCs that have a job and actively maintain that job throughout the season. Actively maintaining a job entails not necessarily doing job threads (though a lot of ST's require 'job threads' - usually two) where all your PC is doing is working at their job or on their business etc, but mentioning their job as they thread about other things. What do I mean? Well, lets say Susie PC is a seamstress. During the season, her player writes two threads where she actually sews projects from start to finish. Those are considered job threads. Lets say she makes a lovely cloak and then a nice pair of leather pants for Bobby PC. Those threads are considered job threads. Now, lets say she's an active threader and is always posting. She can have social threads in the market where she's meeting new people but actually shopping for fabric or seamstress supplies in the background as her purpose of being there. Maybe she's someplace else in town and mentions she's just got back from measuring someone's final hemline for a wedding gown. Those little additions to threads really spruce up a career PC and give them more dimension. All that counts towards seasonal XP even though in her social threads she won't get sewing XP. Now, lets talk about Susie's friend Bobby PC whom she sewed the leather pants for. He's a hunter. He did lots of hunting threads this season. Lets say hes got five threads out there where he hunts down things and kills them. This might be a special case because did he sell the meat or skins? Did he get full XP for each thread? IF so, then your double awarding XP and Money when you shouldn't be as a storyteller... or your earning double XP and Money as a player that's inaccurate. Bobby PC needs to get the credit for being a hunter for other threads where he mentions hunting and maybe describes where the best game is to a stranger in a bar or maybe teaches a new technique to someone basically talking about his job, interacting around his job, but not actually doing his job. If all Bobby PC did was do his job, he already got XP for it and coin. This is also the reason why I don't pay Mercenaries and Hunters seasonal XP or wages or otherwise award them for doing their jobs if they are already being awarded coin and XP for those individual jobs in the threads. I don't like double XP awards. I want to award people for being a career pcer who otherwise gets no credit.... like that jewelcrafter that's always doing their job, searching for stones, thinking about new pieces they can make, and helping people pick out the perfect wedding ring sets etc... stuff that doesn't get them credit otherwise. Mages are great for this too. Sages are wonderful seasonal XP candidates. And people in places like Wind Reach where everyone gets paid but eats for free etc are great candidates because if your a Dek, everything you rp daily reflects that. Same with an Endal. Your rewarded for that! Now, lets talk rewards. Seasonal XP gets awarded like this. There's three months in a season so I tend to say 3xp in one 'professional skill' (1xp per month) is how I award. If your a teacher, you get Teaching. If you are Susie Seamstress, you get XP in Sewing. You don't get a mixed bag reward of XP. You get XP in your job and that's it. If your an Assassin, I laugh hysterically (make fun of you to your face and behind your back) and tell you I'll pay you like I do mercs and hunters... by the kill and give you coin for skin and meat. So... Susie can get up to 3 XP if she mentions her job a lot and does her job backgroundly for other threads. She can also get 1 or 2 bonus XP if she does her job a heck of a lot or hellishly much. Bobby PC... well hes sorta SOL unless he does threads and sells his kills or does a lot of talking outside his profession. I hope that clears up Seasonal XP and Wages. In order to get either of these, you really need to clear your job with an ST and then harass the ST for seasonal wages once season changes happen. If you cant get your ST to award you because they are AWOL, then just post a HD Ticket and the Founders will do it. .

[Bolden Denusk]

Thanks for the full explanation! I wasn't a hundred percent sure on the whole details of seasonal xp. I appreciate you taking the time to explain it completely.

[Tessa Poe]

That does make an awful lot of sense, have an idea for where Tessa may end up now in terms of job/place to live... depends on what happens with another PC but yay for ideas.

Edit: Because I appear to have forgotten to say this, thanks Goss

[Verilian]

Great info, Goss! I'll make sure to apply this to future rewards.

Thanks!

[Phoenix]

I'm sorry. I don't understand. Can I please have 10 XP? I'll make sure to PM you until this happens.


Thanks.
Management.



(I'm kidding of course)

[Gossamer]

. Tragedy Otherwise known as People Piss Me Off... This isn't a big surprise to you about me is it? No? Good. It shouldn't be. I bet other people upset you too. It feels like to me that the entire culture in the US is sometimes made up of people that just parrot things they hear on the news or radio. Terms get brandished about, catch phrases get adopted, and historic events like 9/11 get branded 'tragedies'. You stupid ignorant fucks. That's all I have to say about it. No. I changed my mind. I have more to say. Stop using the word 'tragedy' and call it what it is. My buddy Lisa posted a picture a few days ago in someone's scrapbook that was entitled 'Perspective'. I thought it was fitting. Today of all days this fact becomes more evident than most. People call 9/11 tragic. In fact, someone in chat just did. And when I said I don't look at it as tragic, they got all pissy. Boo hoo. Tragedy: A disastrous event, especially one involving distressing loss or injury to life. Disasters are things that go horribly wrong. Natural disasters like hurricanes and tsunamis are things we can't control and those are tragedies! Ships sinking like the Titanic was a tragedy. Bus accidents, plane crashes, and sudden flash floods or avalanches are tragedies. No one could help them. Nothing could be done to stop it. 9/11 went utterly and completely right for a group of people who are and were terrorists which carefully planned it. 9/11 was a terrorist event. 9/11 wasn't tragic. 9/11 was murder. MURDER. Don't you people - even in the news media - understand this? It was the deliberate slaughter of Americans. It wasn't a frigging tragedy. Screw you - seriously - if you sit back all pretty in your comfortable home and claim it was while you tear up and get all emotional over people you don't know. Suck it up. Use hard words. Labels should fit. When they don't, we need to use ones that do. The MURDER on 9/11 only killed about 3,000 Americans. Only. Yes. I said that. And yes I know even one american death is important. But people are people and look around in the world. You rage about 9/11 and we have events like Darfur going on? Seriously? How can anyone look at themselves in the mirror after sniffling over 9/11 and waving the US flag all patriotic when our loss is really a drop in the bucket to what the world is going through right now and has gone through in the past. Lets put this in perspective. United States & Canada- By conservative estimates, the population of the United states prior to European contact was greater than 12 million. Four centuries later, the count was reduced by 95% to 237 thousand. Then guess what? The US Government and the Candian government went about systematically killing all the native Americans and First Nations people they could get their hands on for hundreds of years afterwards. Armenia - 1 million ethnic Armenians and Assyrians between 1915 and 1923. The Holocast - 6 million Jews, two out of every three living in Europe, and another 5 million undesirables were killed between 1933 - 1945. Cambodia - Between 1.7 and 2 million Cambodians died in the Khmer Rouge’s ‘Killing Fields’ circa 1975-1979 Bosnia - The estimates for the human cost of the Bosnian civil wars range from 96,000 to 200,000, with a recent University of Washington-Harvard University study placing the fatalities near 167,000 between 1992 and 1995. Rwanda - The Hutu majority extremists were able to kill between 800,000 to 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 100 days in 1994. And finally... In the Sudan the genocide in Darfur has claimed 400,000 lives and displaced over 2,500,000 people. More than one hundred people continue to die each day; five thousand die every month. Notice I left out the revolutionary war, civil war, and WWI/WWII figures? They are truly staggering. I did it on purpose. Genocide is always more shocking, especially if its happening in this day and age even as you read this. So, if I hear another person call 9/11 a tragedy on the news, in real life, or even on Mizahar's chat... they'd better give me a little space. Because in actuality there's steam coming out of my ears and I'm about ready to blow. Call it what it was folks - Murder - and don't dress it up in pretty little titles just to soften the blow. Do not... NOT... ever forget that the people working in the towers and those that showed up to rescue folks trapped... those that fell at the pentagon.. and those passengers that brought their own hijacked plane down were MURDERED. Okay? If you forget, come back and see me. I'll remind you. I'll remind your kids. I'll even remind your grandkids if I'm still alive. I won't take the time to tell them where I was when the '9/11 tragedy' happened. Instead, I'll be glad to tell them what I was doing on September 11 when Terrorists MURDERED 3,000 Americans. Okay? I'll say it again and I'll keep saying it as long as you keep needing to hear it. I swear. .