Ok, I did it... I added myself as keeper to the above scenario. Over at Umbria They got a neat site - in Spanish. Kabukiman - do you understand Spanish? Anyways, I drafted Airbornexo to join that game. Does either of you guys want to jump in?
I have two slots open. One as a Geology Professor and one as Electronics Specialist. Place: Antarctica (swapped Sky Rig for Rig below massive ice...)
While trying to wrap my non Spanish speaking head around the board, I kind of slipped with my effort over here. But I´ve been creative!
Regarding forums in general. The Umbria forum has one up on PLAY@YSDC, that is the character and player tabs. Check them out and you´ll see what I mean.
I visited Dark and moody forums, and couldn´t get past the fact that I didn´t like the black background and multicolour texts. It´s subjective, I know. And arguable if it´s better to have texts in Spansih
So, when you guys get back, please drop over to umbria and say hi. It will be a short scenario. I just want to test the forum and see if it´s possible to create something similar in English.
Got seven Spanish players and one Brit, Airbornexo on board over there. I can still add any of you if you want to check it out. There´s a function to get VIP-passes to watch the game - without participating.
Still one character not taken - Electronics Specialist Camilla Vasqez.
TVblog The soul trembles before emptiness and desires contact at any price. Doctor Glass
"It is invigorating, being asked personal questions." "Makes one feel desired." Luv (BR2049)
Yesterday, I watched True Grit, and I think my one-eyed marksman for the Maple Hill scenario made an appearance there . Added the first character to that scenario.
My movie weekend ended with The Tourist, what I like to see as a sequel to Salt (Saw it a month ago). Oddly enough I haven´t used Mrs Jolie for any of my characters... She´s awesome!
Besides these two films I managed to sneek a peek at The Adjustment Bureau.
As with most films I watch, I tend to like the concepts but not the final turnout. Guess that´s the drawback of being at the helm plotwise in gaming. Of the four films I keep the one with Evelyn Salt as the best.
TVblog The soul trembles before emptiness and desires contact at any price. Doctor Glass
"It is invigorating, being asked personal questions." "Makes one feel desired." Luv (BR2049)
I saw The King's Speech when I was in London last month, in a very expensive movie theater. Had to sit through ten minutes of commercials there too, but at least they were different commercials from the ones I've seen, and then ten minutes of coming attractions before the movie actually started. It was very good and earned every one of its awards.
I just finished reading Harry Turtledove's The Man with the Iron Heart, an alternate history novel that speculates on what might have happened had Reinhard Heydrich survived the assassination that killed him in 1942 and gone on to prepare an effective guerrilla resistance to American, British, French, and Soviet occupiers. It was pretty good, but I don't think American sentiment would have turned as rapidly against the war as it did in the timeframe involved. I know the author was trying to compare it to Iraq, but it was a different mindset in the 1940s - and even in the 2000s, Americans didn't turn against the war anywhere near as quickly.
I finished Season 15 of Doctor Who some time ago, but I went back to watch the new DVD releases of The Mutants, The Ark, and The Seeds of Doom. Now I'm ready to start Season 16, which is about the quest for the Key to Time. I haven't seen those in a while. The second story of Season 16, The Pirate Planet, was written by Douglas Adams. He also cowrote City of Death, the second story of Season 17 (and probably my favorite overall). I also just ordered about half of the DVDs I don't yet have because BBC America is having a big sale on them. With that and my promotion codes, I'm getting 12 stories for just $170 plus tax, and my collection is now nearly complete.
My Doctor Who/Call of Cthulhu game The Terror Out of Time is going really well. I just wrapped up Episode 3 with a doozy of a cliffhanger, and Episode 4 just started. It should be quite a rip-roaring conclusion. If things really go pear-shaped, and there are a number of ways this could happen, the investigators may end up meeting Nyarlathotep himself. This scenario has used many of the standard tropes of both Doctor Who and Call of Cthulhu, but with some novel twists. After that, I plan to start the second adventure in my Doctor Who campaign, the science-fiction themed The Ninth Planet. I still need to do some more work to develop it before it's ready to start, but I haven't had time lately, nor have I had time to do much work on the Aquitania scenario.
Good to hear things are running smoothly. I ordered something too. The USB-from yoggie with the two first issues of The Black Seal. I really liked reading the preview and look forward to reading the real deal.
My game at Umbria is flowing just fine. I have set a slow pace and have had time to interact off-topic with the players. I even tried the chat function. I will use that next weekend to take my players to the mission site. If enough of them log on at midnight.
Kabs, you´ve been lurking over there, any comments?
TVblog The soul trembles before emptiness and desires contact at any price. Doctor Glass
"It is invigorating, being asked personal questions." "Makes one feel desired." Luv (BR2049)
Well, to tell the true I hate the system of navigation there. I think it's much more confuse that good old YSDC... But the players are doing well, and that's what counts. And the campaign is nice remembers me "The thing".
I had enouth of see my son playing super-mario and sonic. so I have introduce him to Sid meyer's pirates and he just loved it. And I have play with him for the first time dungeons and dragons (I had the old red box translated in portuguese) and he liked. Now I'm thinklig to buy miniatures to be easier to understand it.
Yes, it´s quite a roundabout way to navigate the site. But when one has reached the actual game, the structure is easy. All threads on the same drop down list and the die-roller is in the message menu. I just wanted to have the VIP, Player, character and group messages on a similar drop down.
Maybe less effort should be put on décor and more to optimize browsing?
And a big plus is that it´s a huge community. It took no time to gather players . Even in a foreign language!
I see how you get a feel of The Thing, I sure have had that in mind when putting the scenario together. Well, let´s see how the actual mission turns out...
TVblog The soul trembles before emptiness and desires contact at any price. Doctor Glass
"It is invigorating, being asked personal questions." "Makes one feel desired." Luv (BR2049)
There are a lot of spanish playing. Several of the material of CoC (and other rpg's too) that I bought were in spanish because they translate it and it's much cheaper.
I´ve just got The Black Seal #1 & 2 in my hand. Bought the pre-packed USB from yoggie and printed the articles I was interested in.
Is there something in these volumes either of you is interested in?
I can pdf-print one or two articles for you to review as part of our writing scheme.
'Unusual suspects' - Sermon Grant, occultist; and Michael Scrimgoer, city analyst.
'Mental Health in the United Kingdom' - a factual introduction to modern mental health laws.
'Let Sleeping Gods Lie' - PISCES section 'H'
'Dangerous Places' - The Devil's Rings.
'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' - procuring illegal firearms in the UK.
'The Further Files of Prof. Grant Emerson' - Delta Green: Countdown's Quincy reports more.
'With Extreme Prejudice...' - PISCES' dirty jobs squad.
'Zodiac Clearance' & 'Drive Through Carefully' - DG-UK-style. Campaign outline and starter scenario.
'Tale of Terrors' - A couple of tales for Cthulhu Now and Delta Green.
'A Landscape of the Stones' - an examination of stone circles, standing stones and ley lines.
'The Tombola Cipher' - your very own secret code based on the UK National lottery results!
'Firearms of the UK and Irish Police and Military' - the Ronseal article.
'The Mythos Gazetteer of the British Isles' -updated to 2002 from Games Workshop's 'Green and Pleasant Land' (1987).
'British Investigator Templates' - a list of military and civilian agency profiles and character templates in the style of Delta Green: Countdown.
'Green Box' - the latest gear for the well-equipped investigator.
'Reviews' - no magazine would be complete without a review section.
'What is the Black Seal?'
PISCES: Her Majesty's Watchmen
A Brief Summary of known Great Old One-worshipping Cults and Independent Agents in the British Isles
Missing Persons...: PISCES' Magonia Facility
Unusual Suspects: Wilbur Bromley
The Avengers: Off-beat espionage in the Swinging Sixties
Dangerous Places: RAF Hobwood
Perfidious Albion: PISCES Operations in the United States
A Stylish Death: A Tale of Terror
Mind Games: A Tale of Terror
The Wrong Man: A Tale of Terror
Strange Histories: Four alternatives to PISCES for Cthulhu Now games
The Penhew-Carlyle Foundation
13 Places of Interest in Brichester
An Interview with Gary Sumpter
The Further Files of Professor Emerson Grant: Report on Peruvian Mummy
Reviews
Investigator Templates
Dangerous Places: Stranger's Race
/Dave
TVblog The soul trembles before emptiness and desires contact at any price. Doctor Glass
"It is invigorating, being asked personal questions." "Makes one feel desired." Luv (BR2049)
Nice! The police/military firearms and the investigator templates could prove useful for my scenario. So could the PISCES summary. I hadn't thought of using them, but that would spice things up. Maybe PISCES knows something of the fate of the Aquitania, and there could even be a PISCES operative aboard the sub.
Hmmm, works from my end. I used pdf create along with foxit reader.
I´ll put the two mags in my drop box and post the links her instead.
Just hold on.
/Dave
TVblog The soul trembles before emptiness and desires contact at any price. Doctor Glass
"It is invigorating, being asked personal questions." "Makes one feel desired." Luv (BR2049)
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