GFF Hammerwatch Night: A Chorus of Fucks
 

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Thursday nights, 9 PM to midnight EST (Often we run later).

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I'm so in.

I'm tentatively in until I see if my schedule gets fucked again.

I'd like to be in, but I've never played a game of this through the interwebs before. So I might need a bit of educating, but I'm otherwise cool.

YOU BET CHIEF

Can I use my xbox headset on the 'puter?

I already have a DnD character I had prepared for way back when. So there's that. I'll send it to you at some point.

What system is Space Hulk?

Oh, one more thing: build your new guys at level 5, if possible.

Xbox stuff is USB, right? It should work fine so far as I know.

Space Hulk is a tiles-based boardgame set in the Warhammer 40K universe; essentially, Space Marines clear horrible alien monsters out of a huge drifting spacecraft on a mission of hella vengeance.

(I think it's technically meant to be a 1-on-1 game but I figure you guys can split the Space Marine responsibilities — again, assuming we have time for SH at all.)

On this like stink on rice. I can probably only make it on Wednesdays, but we'll see how things go.

I'm not sure whether xbox mics would work. i know they're not USB, but i don't know if the connection is just a microphone jack or if the setup is something different. always worth a try, though.

Oh yeah, i totally have a Swordmage i've been wanting to use for DnD 4E. it's hard to convince the other players to let you use your character when you're supposed to be the DM.

Guys, I don't want to nag but I do need your 4E characters in advance, since setting up the token macros does take like 15 minutes a pop. I'll be making up some generic characters just in case but these characters are things like pixie vampires and blob knights so tarry at your own risk!

V Games Workshop seems to exist outside the constraints of conventional copyright law, on both the thief and victim ends of things.

The best description of Space Hulk is that someone watched Aliens and decided to make a board game out of it only using 40k Space Marines, since that's essentially what happened and how Games Workshop never got sued for the Genestealers I will never know.

I'd love to be in but these are going to start at like 3am here which is a touch late on a school night even for me. This thread has made me want to find my copy of Space Hulk:Vengance of the Blood Angels on PS though, the hardest console game ever made.

I'll fire this off to you by tomorrow, Pang.

Ditto. I'll shit out a character sometime tonight.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was a Robot again though.

Just sayin

Ugh 4E.

How many PC slots are you putting in? I'd be down for some playtime and can whip up a character this weekend.

I am not opposed to trying other editions, this is just what we're doing to start because most of us roughly know how it works. I have like 1 adventure's worth of experience DMing 3.5 but I'm game if everyone else is.

(I assume you're a 3.5 guy since 99% of "ugh 4E" gripes come from that direction. I am personally kind of hoping I get in on the 5E playtest and we can all take a crack at that.)

As many as needed, it's not hard to fiddle with some numbers and adjust to whoever happens to show up.

If we have to teach acer how to play again I might go crazy

Man now I kind of want to try to teach everyone how THAC0 works

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I'll play 4E if everyone else wants to, I'll just grumble about it now and then :)

3.5 is broken in a lot of different ways. I typically do either Pathfinder or d20 modern, depending on the campaign.

That being said, I'm an RPG nut, so I'll play/try out any system.

So I used to have access to this with some characters made but I don't anymore. I might have a few character sheets lying around though, now that I think about it... I'll toss one or two your way if I can find 'em.

[edit] Yeah, shit. I don't have digital copies anymore, but I might have 'em on paper. We'll see.

I'd be willing to play as well, if there aren't too many people already. As far as a character goes, I'd be willing to use whatever you have on hand Pang, as I don't have access to the Character Builder anymore either, since the PC I installed it on had a hard drive failure incident recently.

Also, I don't have a headset, but wouldn't headphones do to cut out the noise from the client? I also don't mind doing the whole mute/unmute dance at all if my mic gets too noisy.

Since the training game died pretty quick, I didn't really get to use this to it's full comedic effect.

So I'm bringing back Optimus Prime.



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My shit is mad out of date though. If there's been source books and things to look at in the last several months I'm completely behind on those.

Sorry about the delay, Pang. I made a guy, then saw you wanted them at level 5, so I remade a guy. Any magic weapons or any such thing?

Also, Halfling Monk.

What is it with you and halflings? If you're going to be a comedy short-arse then surely gnome is the way forward?

I made a psion back in, oh, October, in eager anticipation to play again. Guess it's time to dust him off.

Went ahead and emailed it to you.

^5 Deni, it's all about the Halflings.

Trying something different this time around though, class-wise. We'll see how it works out.

Oh fuck, level 5?

I missed that.

Redoing.

Unfortunately, I'm going to need to withdraw my participation tonight, I've got a bit too much schoolwork to do and I won't be able to take the evening off from it. I should hopefully be good to go on the next Tuesday session.

Sorry all, and Pang I hope you didn't take any time putting together a character for me.

Have fun!

yeah apparently I have class on Tues night so Weds. is going to be the day I can participate.

Everything's running! Join whenever, you lazy dicks

Ok, small last-minute adjustment: remember how I said I was going to compile all the mechanics into the tokens? Turns out that really only works for NPCs. Tokens can handle HP, initiative, passive stuff like that, but trying to get them to understand attack powers or equipment is like herding cats.

So, if possible, please have your sheet handy in another window for reference. Since a lot of you gave yourselves shitty and/or no equipment I'm passing level-corrected / geared up sheets back your way:

Index of /maptool

Just take whatever looks good if you're dropping in and you didn't get around to making anything. Depending on whether you even have the Builder and how up-to-date yours is you might need some things explained so let me know. Once we start a campaign proper (tonight is just a stress test really) we can work on getting everyone's tools up to date.

To connect to the game you'll need MapTool. Get the newest version, 1.3.b87. It's Java so it should work for everybody so far as I know!

Once you've installed it (that is, put the folder somewhere out of the way, there's no installer as such), DO NOT run Launch MapTool-1G-Memory.bat. DO launch via MapToolLauncher. Or try both! Who the fuck knows!

Once you've launched, go to FILE --> CONNECT TO SERVER. Pick your username, make sure your role is set as "Player" and select the Direct tab. Connect to thegond.us.to port 51234. If someone can try this in advance just so we can be sure I set things up right that would be excellent.

As for the Skype call, I only have Deni on my contacts so the rest of you will need to add me (I'm pangalin, derp) or just join the call once it starts in.... fffff, about an hour! Maybe!

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YOU ASSHOLES

WHERE WERE YOU

WE DIED HORRIBLY

WE NEEDED YOU. INSTEAD OF YOU GUYS SHOWING UP TO HELP, THE SORCERER HAD TO TANK BECAUSE THE PALADIN DIED.

well i died too but somehow i survived longer

GEEZ.

PLAYER OF THE WEEK: SOUSUKE

KILLS: ALMOST 1

:( :( :( :( :( :(

I missed the bloodbath. :(

lmao sorcerer tanking. KITE THEM WITH MAGIC MISSILE.

Fixed your thread title for you nerds.

awww, sorry everyone, i was busy trying (and failing) to kill my own players tonight. Hopefully i can make it next tuesday, my tank is (as far as i can tell) pretty solid.

Good to see that this actually sort of worked out, though. GFF D&D coming back is one of the more exciting things that's happened of late.

more like it's the only thing that's happened as of late. hurp

Since there seems to be some confusion, next session is on Wednesday, February 1. Not Tuesday. We may continue the alternation plan or we may just stick with Wednesday going forward depending on the turnout, since apparently you guys who "can't make it on Wednesdays" can't make it on Tuesdays either.

(From March forward my weekends open up and we could do Thursday or Friday maybe but who knows how that works for the rest of you or if this will even last that long)

Anyways, gonna go ahead and roll back to level 1 after all, experience on Tuesday showed that 5 levels of stuff is a little much to juggle while still learning the Maptools interface. Sorry to you guys that went through the hassle of picking out all your level 5 gear 'n shit. On the upside you can probably expect to hit level 2 within one session instead of a month! So, also different adventure of course.

Chaser game's up in the air since I'm kind of souring on the value of Space Hulk for 3+ players. Suggestions? Also, maybe it would be better to run the light games before the D&D session, give people a little more time to show up?

Oh ho ho ho ho ho ho~

this gonna be GOOOO~OO~OOD

There's not anything bad with how you're doing the scheduling, but if you're actually concerned about turnout, maybe you could put up a doodle to find the best nights. I recently discovered the site and found it to be really really helpful.

doodle.com

Despite the horrible terribleness that was our instant death, I had a lot of fun there.

I will try to make myself more available on the Wednesdays for this.

I'll never be able to do wednesdays. Soccer games ever wed night.

Daaaaaaaang.

Ok here's the Doodle, can everyone who's remotely interested kindly go on there and just assert which day(s) you're available? I don't want to shut out anybody but that might be an impossible goal so let's just shoot for the best.

Doodle: GFF Game Night

(In retrospect I should have made this a poll thread in the first place)

Space Crusade? Advanced Space Crusade? Actually, Advanced HeroQuest would be awesome, it's fairly DnD only more boardgame like and with Skaven.

SADFACE

Why is your face sad sir

HE IS SAD CUZ HE'S GONNA HAVE TO TEACH ME HOW TO PLAAAAAAY~

btw i'm gonna try and stream our session and skype shit tonight

if you aren't playing but want to watch us nerd out then check out...

Let's Play some viderogams 'n' stuff

in like i dunno 30 min or something

Ok! Server should be running. Connect at will: 72.94.96.176 port 51234

Again, if possible, join us on Skype because that makes life easier for everybody. Explanatory post from last week should still be valid, let me know if anything is causing any issues. As before, feel free to drop in even if you have no idea what you're doing. I have characters ready for you. Horrible, stupid characters.

WE HAVE NO CLUE WHAT WE'RE DOING

but it's great

and we're not dying

yet

cool

TRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

that moment when everyone discovers the bright yellow END TURN button

That button

The button of my dreeeeams

Fuckin' glue and string internet

True :(

BLOB

BLOB

tonight was an adventure in internets

<3 sir charles so much

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i like even more how magi made an art for me <3<3<3

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NEXT WEEK (Tuesday, February 7): We finish FROG MURDER SIMULATOR 20XX (shouldn't take more than 90 minutes now that we MOSTLY know what we're doing and also because Acer will be hosting and we won't have to deal with constant desync) and then try something a little less crunchy. Because, you know, much as we love pressing all the little buttons maybe it is too many buttons. And I do not say this lightly because god damn it making those buttons was a lot of work :(

Yeah I spent some time away from 4E and now that I come back to it, it's like damn son why so many moving parts? Also looking back at last night we had a lot of fun but practically none of it actually derived from the game we were all purportedly playing sooooo. But gonna finish that first adventure at least, we'll see. Looking at some alternative systems for robot truck blob battel.

(Also there is apparently no way to make TRUCK MODE into a macro which infuriates me. IF I CANNOT HAVE TRUCK BUTTON THEN WHAT GOOD IS BUTTON)

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About an hour 'til game time! Acer should be hosting maptool at thegond.us.to and possibly streaming our horrible incompetence via his Let's Play page.

We'll be finishing the 1st level D&D adventure and then moving on to character generation for the indie RPG Legends of Anglerre. LoA chargen is a cooperative thing that involves the whole group instead of a number-crunching exercise you need a dedicated app for, so that should be fun. LoA is generally a lot more freeform and I think the group is creative enough to really benefit from that.

I don't know if we'll actually have time to PLAY LoA once that's done (depending on Skills' bedtime) but I will try to wing it if necessary since there aren't any published adventures for the damned thing.

Or, potentially, Orient Express if I can find a copy of the board in a decent resolution.

Also also standard boilerplate EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO JOIN (since you cannot fuck things up more than we already do)

(PS Deni actually show up you jerk)

ALSO, potentially, nerd comedy originating from foreign lands (Canada doesn't count as foreign, shut up).

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Just streamin' some Knightmare while we wait for our last two players

P.S. NO.

(Make skills txt me to remind me. :( )

THERE'S STILL TIME! COME HELP SOUSUKE MAKE UP A STORY ABOUT TIMETRAVELING GHOSTS

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Queen Victoria's Ghost is little in the middle (but has much back)

Well I say, what's this soot-ish lump doing here?

Just to clarify, here's the party roster

Queen Victoria's TIME TRAVELING Ghost (Sousuke)
A Chimneysweep named Goblob Hobjob or I don't even know what (Rychord)
DJ Delicious, the Robot Chocolatier (Skills)
Petey, a Wizard Canary (Acer)

they all met during an epic rap battle inside the chocolate peanut butter cat surprise tunnel

v he's only swearing because all the soot made him black (and therefore evil)

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUCCCCK PISS COCK SHIT SHIT SHIIIIIIIT PISS CUNT MOTHERFUCKING ASS DILDO FRENCH HENS ON A RAINBOW DONKEY PISSING OUT KNIVES INTO YOUR FUCKING ELBOW BLOWING A RHINOCEROS SCROTUM UNDER THE SHIT SHIT CHINA NIGGERS RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAGHAHGALDJFAJJFDA FUCKING CHIMNEY BUTTCRACK

I am seriously in pain laughing so hard

A Cappella Sir Mix-A-Lot is the best anything

next week, Acer recites Fuck Tha Police

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Also, some ridiculous shit that happened during 4E play:

A corgi murdering his way through a giant frog from the inside

Frogs used as weapons against frogs

A truck hiding underneath a dog

A spectator token that technically didn't exist being used as a giant pinball

Acer spending 10 minutes crafting an improvised attack to "Lick The Frog"

Blob Loblaw growing to massive size to engage in Kaiju Big Battel with the aforementioned spectator token

Skipping the last battle of the module because the game framework was falling down around our ears

Acer and Skills only ever healing themselves while Sousuke spends half the battle at around 4 HP

It's Rogoban Goboogan.

I can't believe you didn't get that, it's not like there was three other people gasping for air and injecting random comments on the call while I was saying it.

Honestly Goblob Hobjob almost sounds better though.

Edit: I'd be curious to see what you have written down for aspects on all these guys. All I remember is that Skills "likes big butts", "cannot lie", and has an "itty-bitty waist".

You have no idea how difficult it is

to sit in a dead fucking quiet office

14 people not making a noise

and you're trying not to laugh at "peanut butter mineshaft"

It's really quite a challenge.

I don't believe you. I'm sure you had to let out a fart somewhere. XD

I didn't write down a goddamn thing, you were supposed to each be writing down your own aspects. Anyone who didn't, prepare to have the blanks filled by lyrics from other 90's hip-hop tracks.

Character Name: Blob Loblaw

Aspects

* Will make you jump, jump
* Don't call it a comeback
* Drunk as hell but no throwing up
* Got bitches in the living room gettin' it on
* Super dope homeboy from the Oaktown
* Doin' a little East Coast swing

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Tomorrow! Wednesday, February 15! 9 PM EST!

We finish the last steps of Legends of Anglerre character generation (and walk anyone who missed last week through the first steps as quickly as possible) and then straight on to Orient Express, since I still haven't had time to convert an adventure to LOA and also I want to play Orient Express DEAL WITH IT.

Orient Express is a deduction-based boardgame, so if the whole role-playing thing makes you sad and scared, hey! No imagination needed this week, just cold amoral logic.

Guys, there is something that can't be denied.

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I'll be around for the LOA part of the evening, but I will most likely drop out when you guys hop on the train, as I've been gone all day and I have a bit much shit to do still before bed.

Ok, we're rolling, if anybody else wants to get their train on let me know

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Someone put a bomb in the DJ's briefcase!

CLUE: it may have exploded at 5:55 in compartment 26, or maybe it was the ENTREPRENEUR with the candlestick in the powder room, who the fuck knows!

But it could have also been the non-existent ballerina!

The ballerina exists. However, she was in the saloon.

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Apparently there are like 5 different printings of this game and none of them are inter-compatible wheeeee

I got flashbacks of talking to town's people in Simon's Quest by the end of the session.

"Destroy the curse and you'll rule Brahm's Mansion" Huh.

"Rumor has it, the Ferryman at the Dead River loves garlic" Good to know.

"Believe in magic and you'll be saved" Will do, Gov'ner!

And my favorite: "Take my daugther, please!!" What

Also, I didn't know explosives were such a popular hobby at the start of the 20th century. I guess they had to find something to do with no internet and all.

FWIW I found how to send private messages in Maptool and also a set of cases that actually match the board so next week hopefully the game will work as intended.

Tomorrow's session is canceled on account of I am up to my neck in so much stupid bullshit this week you don't even know.

Good.

I completely forgot that I had a beer outing with some bros and was about to post that I had to bail this week.

Works for me as well, I had a workshop all weekend so it'll give me time to catch up on what I should have been doing.

This is fantastic. I completely forgot about it until just now. I have no idea why either.

Who's been playing that wouldn't be able to if we moved this to Friday/Saturday?

Who's not been playing that would if we moved it to Friday/Saturday?

(I ask this second question because fully half of the people that expressed interest in Game Night as a concept have never showed the fuck up and I prefer to believe it is a scheduling issue rather than assume you're all just jerks.)

I think I'd be okay for the weekend. Kinda makes it nice in a way. I don't have to worry about waking up early exhausted the next day for school if we did it on a Friday/Saturday. Oh.... damn.... yeah it would. I have Tennis on Saturday morning at 9 AM in a week or so. Ah well, in any case I think I'd be alright.

Depends on how late on Saturdays. Saturdays are usually my liquor/hockey/liquor-and-hockey nights, but it's usually very late when we start (10:30 PM, give or take).

I am down for whatever. I think it would be easier if we had a single day instead of alternating every week, though. I would have far less trouble keeping track of the dates in my head that way.

I'd be all for doing this on weekends, I do most of my work on weekdays so it's actually better on weekends for me. I might be called in to work every once in a while, so I may miss the odd session if you do decide to make it on weekends. Probably wouldn't happen too often though, at least not until May or so when outdoor events become more frequent.

Does asking this imply we aren't doing it this Wednesday and are instead waiting a few more days?

I could do fridays, still can't do Wed

Fridays are generally open for me save for an occasional FNM here and there. Saturdays are up in the air and vary from weekend to weekend.

Tuesdays and Wednesdays tend to be busy for me these days, so thus my lack of attendance.

I'm having that surgery on Friday afternoon so I don't know how good I'll be at staying awake or sitting upright or any of that stuff, heh. It's day surgery though (so they tell me) it shouldn't be too bad.

Worst case I'll just lay in bed with my iPad and Skype and trudge through it. :3:

Ok, Friday sounds good for everybody so far (well, aside from the surgery issue but that's not a long-term problem hopefully)! I would rather deprive Acer of sleep than deprive Skills of liquor because I have my priorities in order goddamn it.

Yeah, sorry, still a little swamped. But all this shit is due by Thursday so one way or the other I'm free for the weekend.

So good to know you care that much about Skills' liver. Friday sounds good. Same time I'm guessing? 9 PM?

So guess what I still haven't really had time to do a whole lot of fancy conversion work but we've spent like weeks now sitting around with characters and not playing them! So I'm just going to stick my hand into the Big Bag O' Adventures and we'll just convert something on the fly! THIS WILL END WELL!

(rummage, rummage)

KEEP ON THE BORDERLANDS. Oh boy oh boy!

But first, Orient Express, played actually properly with like secrecy and such. And also potentially fewer experts in explosives? Who can say.

9 PM (EST) tonight!

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FUCK I just realized I have to find token images for a canary wizard

It's a wonder really that the train didn't just go up in a blaze as soon as it left the station on its maiden voyage, if the game is painting any kind of an accurate picture of it.

Okay! Looks like nobody but Rychord even remembered that this is a thing that we do! Rychord is a pretty cool guy but I don't think he can play a board game all by himself! Especially when the dude who hosts the games for us is MIA. Better luck next week, everybody!

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OH! SO THAT'S WHY I SHOULDN'T BE MESSING AROUND INSTALLING WIN8 ON A FRIDAY NIGHT. SILLY SILLY ME.

Is this for your space invader PC that sounds like it's coming to get us every time?

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I FEEL BAD NOW

I was actually still up at 2am last night (Which I think is 9pm EST) and I considered joining in but then figureed I wasn't going to stay up late and then I was still up at 4am anyway.

But if you're making it a regular Friday night thing there's a significantly higher chance of me joining in.

Yes. It will continue to be on Friday night (at 9 PM EST). There is no time in the foreseeable future when it will not be on Friday night (at 9 PM EST). Certainly, when you all collectively think of Game Night, you should think of Friday night (at 9 PM EST), and, vice versa, when you think of Friday night (at 9 PM EST) you should think of Game Night. Always.

Much as I don't want to, I'm going to have to be absent from the session this Friday, as my GF's folks are coming to town and she'll be at work in the evening so it'll fall on me to entertain them until she gets back. Hopefully I won't miss too much info on Anglerre so that I'm good to get back in next time.

Hi! Game Night is tonight! In 30 minutes! Wow! Maybe it would be fun or maybe not.

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You people are TERRIBLE

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just super terrible

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props to Skills, this week's Player Who Has A Memory

I HONESTLY FELT BAD LAST WEEK.

YOU HAVE NO IDEA.

NO WAY I WAS GONNA FUCK IT UP TWICE.

GOD DAMN IT

Seriously though are you guys seriously just THIS GODDAMN FORGETFUL or is this some passive-aggressive nerd bullshit here where you just hate trains and don't want to get confrontational about it

I am terrible. And hospitalized. I should've Skyped in because I'm kinda high on painkillers. Might've been fun.

Well, looks like I won't be missing any info after all.

Pang, I was thinking that maybe if you post the reminder earlier (like say noon) some of the more forgetful members will see it in time?

Plaster it all over facebook, too.

Aw, man. I was completely out of it yesterday - dead tired. Completely forgot about it. :(:(:(:(

Gonna do this, every half hour starting at noon. Gonna hike to Acer's house. Gonna hang off his roof and make scary hissing noises at all times so he can't sleep ever

I'm STILL in the hospital. D: Hopefully I'll be out by Friday, but there's still no saying for sure at this point.

Good plan, but I'm not sure he'll here you over his computer's fan.

Yeah my laptop fan can be atrocious. Maybe I should get a USB keyboard/mouse and hook my laptop up to my TV and string the mic as far away with a USB extension cable as I can. It's an idea~

Also hopefully I'll be conscious Friday night after work. I fucking zonked out last night. I need to get my sleeping schedule in order. Woke up at like 3 am and read terrible books until like I dunno an hour ago cuz hungry 'n' stuff.

APPARENTLY they're releasing me today, so I will be home. At least that's the plan. I'll try to be there.

OKAY ONE MORE TRY

There is a thing tonight? We get on Skype and play some games, it is pretty fun when people actually remember to attend. Ok! So that's at 9 PM (EST) tonight, and what is planned is some Orient Express (which is a mystery-solving type boardgame) and then also the classic D&D adventure Keep on the Borderlands run with a weird-ass new system most of us hardly understand at all!

And since I make these planning decisions more or less with no fuckin' input from you chumps, if you wanna play something else let me know! Okay awesome!

HOLY SHIT

I THINK I COULD POSSIBLY REMEMBER

IT COULD HAPPEN

GUYS! MAYBE IT'LL BE TODAY

I REMEMBERED

But it doesn't look like I'll be around tonight. :( I'll actually be in NY with my roommate, visiting a friend I haven't seen in ages. Sorry!

NINETY MINUTES

what's going on tonight? is it friday yet?

I am welling with a sense of potential disappointment SO MAYBE?

All we need is Skills now.

Guys why don't you wanna play games with us

We are pretty funny

And we have pie

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If you want to start doing it three hours earlier I'm bang up for it. As it was I fell asleep with about twenty minutes to go. Old age does that to a chap you know.

Ehh, it might be worthwhile to start earlier anyways, seeing as Skills starts falling asleep around 10 PM. Was trying to be considerate of people further west but to no avail! 6 might be a little iffy for everyone else but maybe it could be pushed back a little. I'm hella flexible.

Gonna at least finish Orient Express before I shake anything else up though.

I'd be glad to do this earlier as well, just because that way we could probably make sessions a bit longer to prepare for those days when someone forgets, we have connection problems, or wild animals attack us on the way.

Bad news, I got called in for work tomorrow at 10PM, so I won't be able to make the game night session unfortunately. :(

Well, shit. Can you upload your OE notes somewhere so that Sousuke (or whoever) can cover for you?

(Unless you were writing them by hand in a cramped, illegible scrawl in which case FFFFFFFF)

We really ought to start having backup plans for this sort of thing. I imagine a lot of us still have UT2K4 installed due to Dope's thing, so that can be our go-to "fuuuuuck only two people showed up" plan until we work out something more concrete. Better than waiting around for an hour making sad noises.

I was so sure I was on the right track to solve this thing too. :tpg:

Here are my notes. Use them wisely.

Anyways I love reminding you guys about stuff you should already know, so: tonight? at 9?

UNLESS Acer is hosting MANLIEST DRINK-ON tonight, apparently he hasn't decided yet but if that happens obviously that takes priority.

I'm still not sure when I'll be doing the manly drink on. I'm sure I could snag the movies in time for it to happen tomorrow. Not sure I'm feeling it right now. If people want it this weekend that's fine. Next weekend works too. I haven't really advertised it is all.

Also drink on is definitely not happening tonight. I have shit to do Saturday morning. I can make allowance for game night though. Maybe it's me talking for this moment in time but I'd rather be sleeping but whatever. I'm just tired right now. Can't get enthused about anything in particular.

Actually, you know what, let's just take a week off then. I'm feeling kind of worn down myself and I don't want anybody to show up for board games just because they feel obligated.

And conversely I feel like I've sprung that decision on you making some sort of weird pull and tug OH MAN I'M AN AWFUL PERSON thing - NO IT IS I WHO IS THE AWFUL - NAY, I AM THE PERSON MAKING THE THING TO DO THE OTHER THING BECAUSE OF THING - CODSWALLOP I DISAGREE - I DISAGREE WITH DISAGREEMENT HARUMPH. However, if that's what you'd like to do I'm game for that too. And so rolls the ball of ME BEING AWFUL. [/self-loathing]

NO IT IS I WHO IS THE WORST

THE WORST

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god that is such a fucking nerd thing

DO YOU WANNA CANCEL

WELL I DON'T BUT I MEAN IF YOU DO THEN

I'M NOT SAYING I DO JUST IF YOU WANTED I CAN

IF THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT?

WELL, IF YOU WANT

I DON'T, I THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO?

ONLY IF YOU DO

You hang up.

No, you hang up.

No, you hang up.

Ok, bye.

IS THIS A THING THAT IS HAPPENING TONIGHT? WHY IS MY CAPS LOCK ON? I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER IT BEING ON WHEN I STARTED TYPING. HOW ODD.

A BOOP DOOP BOOBA LA DOOP HOOP SKA DOOP WADDA PA DOO WOO OOO

PANG, WHERE IS GAME NIGHT???????? :confused: :(:confused::(

Welp, I don't see him on aim. Guess not tonight. Kinda tired so perhaps it's for the best.

Guess I'll have to settle for starting that Heroes of Might and Magic 6 then. :p

Everybody gets to take a turn forgetting that this is a thing.

This was my turn.

I'm starting to think this worked better on Tuesdays

I agree with this sentiment, as it seems that even though we are internet nerding it up, we seem to actually have real life things going on sometimes.

Well 2 votes for Tuesday is the closest thing to a consensus I ever get so why the fuck not! Game Night TOMORROW. Hopefully everyone was a gentleman and refrained from peeking at Ry's notes, and then hopefully we can finally — FINALLY — get on with the adventures of Petey and his horrible retinue.

EDIT: Actually, scratch that, I am an idiot and shouldn't make scheduling decisions a single day in advance while half-asleep and starving.

oh lol and here i was scrambling to get the server and client stuff ready

a few weeks back i went and bought one of those logitech headsets with the noise cancelling microphones too

fine by me - gonna just reeelaaaaax instead

maybe do laundry

for my barbie dolls

I completely missed Pang's post until now to be honest, but if this is back to Tuesdays I'll definitely keep it in mind from now on.

Does this imply:

1) Nothing this friday and then starting on next tuesday.
2) YES this friday, since it's a holiday, and then starting on next tuesday.

Also, I apologize for my early bed shit and my other whackiness. I wish I could describe how busy I've been in the last month. But I find myself passing out involuntarily pretty early. That feel :(

what holiday is it in canuckville? cuz i certainly don't have off

This, though I don't know what... Good Friday? Huh.

But yeah one more Friday and then we'll shift back to Tuesday if that's easier for everybody since (act surprised) the I-can-only-make-it-on-Friday guys never made it anyway.

Sorry for the last-minute change yesterday, Acer.

the fuck

you think Yankeedoodle Jesus Town would have Good Friday off.

Because

y'know

JESUS

Just to let you guys know, I have a supper at a restaurant tomorrow with some friends at 5:30PM, but I should be back in time for the game session. If I run a bit late, hopefully someone can fill in for me either until I get back, or until the end of train train caboose bonanza.

My notes are already posted a bit higher in the thread for anyone who would be willing to do so.

God dammit we will finish this goddamn train tonight if I have to play all three parts myself

well i have the server up and running

i hope it doesn't crash or something equally stupid but it's there just in case i pass out or something or get distracted or or or or

anyway it'll be a good chance to test out this headset mic thingy

I daresay it has!

Did I miss the train? :jesusdance:

PLAYER OF THE WEEK: ACER

KILLS: 25 TOWN GUARDS (demoralized into suicide), 1 BEGGAR (drowned), 3 CHILDREN (smothered), 1 KOBOLD (punched into gibs)

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NEXT WEEK: HEROQUEST

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Legend of Anglerre is a hilarious system until combat breaks out at which point

well

it's still hilarious but

So the world's worst detectives, working together to fail miserably at solving anything on the train, don't make much better adventurers either.

Within 36 hours they managed to kill a hobo by throwing a wet robe off the top of a house, personally fluff over 1000 pillows, murder 3 children with downy softness, punch a house into rubble, and convince half of the city guard to commit ritualistic suicide before stripping their corpses naked.

And then take three real hours to figure out how to play hide and seek with kobolds until they stress out and die.

Props to Stop Sign for adjusting to our absolute bullshit madness with remarkable aplomb

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GOOSETOWN

We have the best fucking foie gras and don't you forget it

Are you sure you're not a goose? Perhaps you should investigate.

I liked the part where there was soot.

I can't believe that my chimneysweep, specifically designed for nothing if not soot finding got out-sooted by kobolds EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Composure stress here I come thanks for the very sciencey healing Acer! :D

I liked that time when the kobolds found no soot whatsoever but you still managed to find less soot than that.

Negative soot is all the rage these days I hear.

I'M A JEWEL MERCHANT, I MERCHANT JEWELS

Hope you guys are ready to master the arts of combat

YouTube Video

Sorry, folks - with the amount of work I have on my plate, I won't be participating tonight.

(Broken dreams :( )

Well, crap. I guess we need a fourth for HeroQuest, then. It's a pretty simple game, folks! I am not even dreading trying to teach it to Acer! Much!

(Alternately we do the hilarious thing of just giving Skills both spellcasters for MAXIMUM RUINING.)

Turn 1: I cast all of the spells! On myself!

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On second thought, cast NONE of the spells! This dagger will work much better anyway!

UGG UNABLE TO FIND PANTS

WILL STARE AT WALL INSTEAD

In the end, fists solve all problems.

WIZARD PANTS SOMEWHAT CONFINING TO UGG'S MIGHTY THEWS

TOOT TRAWS A TREASURE CARD

:harpooned:

TONIGHT: MORE HERO'S QUESTINGS, with dungeon elements that aren't "yup, another orc".

If somebody wants to show up so Rychord can stop mixing up his Toots and his Roots that would be okay! Because trying to control an Elf and a Dwarf simultaneously is, in fact, antithetical to all that is right and good.

I was thinking next week we could take a short break for some electronical gamery, suggestions? Probably something emulated since the pool of PC/Mac cross-compatible titles is still pretty anemic. Definitely some gems in there though.

http://www.saxypunch.com/pang/FARM.jpg

Is there a reason it has to be cross-platform?

If it's because of me, then it isn't a problem because I've installed Windows 7 in Bootcamp recently so I can have access to more than one game out of ten.

If it's just a question of keeping it accessible to the most people possible then by all means let's do it this way.

Well I was thinking of you in particular but yeah in general it would be nice to make things as open as possible.

Also I sort of wanted an excuse to buy Farming Simulator.

Either way I'm open to suggestions.

Nope, fuck you all.

http://cdn.steampowered.com/v/gfx/ap...ule_231x87.jpg

Okay, I got all my work done in time, so I'm in!

Also Magicka is a great idea. I'm utterly incompetent at that game so that makes it an even better idea.

i saw a let's play of that with TotalBiscuit and some other guys I can't recall who. Looked hilarious.

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That's not to say that we couldn't come up with something hilarious to do in a tractor simulator.

I'm down with that. And by "that", I mean "resurrecting Skills, then mowing him down with a lightning beam, over and over".

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Also, server's up.

Stop Sign survives with ONE HIT POINT

Everyone else is mowed down in pursuit of an empty chest

Save Skills, who died two hours ago because he just COULDN'T STOP SUMMONING MONSTERS

CONVENIENT SCROTUM

Yeah, he dies and then reminds Pang that he can pull the ole switcheroo to kill the rest of us.

I hope I never come up against Skills DM'ing.

Dr. Conveni N. Scrotums, Subterranean Urologist

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Skills DM? His adventure notes would burst into flame five minutes before the game. Instead he takes everyone bowling. Fingers get stuck in ball, flings self down alley. Somehow misses every pin.

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This is the only thread on the forums with the "scrotums" tag and I am legitimately surprised

sometimes

there's just too many chaos warriors behind the door

and even the potion you previously trawed that only heals you for 4 body points that you sneakily told pang "it restores up to all lost body points" while reading the card out loud like the cheating son of a bitch you are isn't even enough

that shit sounds dumb when read out loud and you can't believe no one called you on your bullshit

you were at 3 body points at the time which the potion would have only brought up to 7 body points so perhaps you would have died by the hands of the first chaos warrior behind the door instead of the second leading to an earlier demise for root

ah well

I work with medical research papers for a living, and now all I'm going to think when I see So and So MD PhD is scrotes.

Honestly a lot of those treasure cards AREN'T quite right so I figured there was a nonzero chance that the guy who built the campaign file was the asshole and not you.

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"Think of me as your own scrotum" probably needs to be added to the Cheers/Ciao dialog

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And Stop PROBABLY needs a nick change I'm not sayin' I'm just sayin'

IN THE SPLIT SECOND WHERE YOU DECIDE WHAT YOUR LIE TO PANG WILL BE YOU THINK...

WHAT KIND OF CARD WOULD GIVE YOU 5 BODY POINTS WHEN THE PREVIOUS ONES HAVE BEEN EVEN INTEGERS SO YOU GO WITH THE WORD "ALL" INSTEAD OF A NUMBER EVEN THOUGH THAT KINDA SOUNDS DUMB BUT HEY IT COULD HAPPEN

MAYBE

"Doctor Scrotty McButterfingers to obstetrics"

*kkkrrrrsch*

"Doctor Scrotty McButterfingers to obstetrics"

You should play Advanced Heroquest some time, the addition of Skaven makes everything better.

AdvHQ is so complicated by the standard of board games I might as well just steal the random-dungeon-generation tables and just play WFRP.

(and if Game Night ever gets back to proper RPGs it probably will be in the form of random dungeons, since this crew would only repay efforts to create a plot or memorable NPCs with wanton murder)

We can't even play the basic Hero Quest by the rules, so that should serve as an indication of what kind of party we're talking about here.

Or to be more accurate, we can play by the rules, but we keep throwing ourselves into pits for whatever reason~

It has occurred to me that Magicka multiplayer maxes out at 4 players. While it's possible (likely, really) that someone will be indisposed, maybe it would be good to have an alternate plan. I'm trying to think of something other than an FPS that'll support 5 players and coming up short. Something where we can inadvertently murder each other would be best.

We'll still do Magicka if we end up with only 4 people but I don't want anyone to get left out just because they hopped on Skype a few minutes late. (And we'll still have Magicka as a backup for the next 4-players night)

Well, if there's more than 4 players then they can at least watch the stream with the audio muted while skyping if they want to follow along. That's assuming I'm one of the players.

All right, lacking any other suggestions I guess tonight is Magicka regardless of playercount. So either show up on time or be prepared to sit around looking stupid while we have all the fun, neener neener, etc etc

OR: find 3 more players so we can have comedy wizard team racing battel

I'm in for this, I've DL'ed the game already and gave it a small whirl just so I wouldn't look like a complete idiot come game time. I can tell this is going to be rather epic. Or maybe a total and complete disaster, whichever.

Quick question though: how are we setting up the chat? is there an in-game voice chat, or are we going to Skype at the same time?

Pretty sure we'll still be Skyping it up, Magicka has no internal voice support.

Welp, it looks like I'm going to be too busy again tonight. Sorry folks :(

I died again. :mad:

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a lightning bolt smashing into your face the instant you respawn. Forever.

v Oh christ yes.

"What's my ability? Smoke Bomb? Let's see what... um."

I still don't understand how we made it out of that first dungeon, between the mutual slaughter and Pang's many bombs of game-breaking smoke.

So you guys just want to keep hammering at this thing until we beat it, or just hold onto it for Stopless nights? I don't think it's actually possible to get "out of practice" here.

When (if?) we finish Magicka, I figure VG night might be fun with Titan Quest. With the XMAX mod preferably for 400 mobs on screen six bosses at once funtime action. Damn thing goes on sale for $5 every month or two, so.

WELL COOL THANKS FOR YOUR FEEDBACK

Tonight: HQ, or Magicka if somebody goes missing! Again!

Finishing Magicka sounds good to me. Gonna have to yell at me to remember probably.

I'm down with either option. I thought I had posted about that before but apparently not.

So fry me with a lightning bolt. Or harpoon me into a pit of endless wandering monsters.

Either way, I'm in.

I've been waiting for the burly men to stop banging away at my roof (supposed to be done 45 minutes ago!), but aside from that, I'm up for gaming tonight - hopefully the background noise won't be too much of an issue.

I'M YELLING. IT'S NOT WORKING.

SORRY. I'M GONNA GRAB MY STUFF. GOT DISTRACTED BY REAL LIFE THINGS. SORRY. =(

HAHA GOOD HAHA

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do you like dolphins

do you want them on your body

I FUCKING DO

OH DEAR GOD GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH

FUCKING

WHY?!

http://i.imgur.com/P0Nj2.jpg

http://www.saxypunch.com/pang/tumblr...n52vo1_500.gif http://i.imgur.com/P0Nj2.jpg

oh crap - we could actually do this bullshit game on the forums couldn't we?

Hey guys, unfortunately I almost certainly will not be able to make it tomorrow, as I'm on a trip in New Brunswick and I'm going to be visiting my GFs folks tomorrow evening.

Hope you guys have a good one nonetheless!

Here's my Hero Quest character sheet, in case you guys decide to go that route.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22011322/root%20the%20elf.pdf

As much as I'd like to traw some treasures, perhaps if we're down you (it wouldn't be fair to run either Magicka or Hero Quest without you I think), we could do like...Minecraft? Terrorize Acer's server?

lol my poor minecraft server

i'll have to consider some of those stupid maps chat is always raving about

If they made a bukkit plugin for that I might consider it. However, it looks like everyone needs to inject that in their client jar and I into the server jar which is far more complicated than I like. But basically this mod turns the game into resource hunting with a high focus on gold for your health - cuz otherwise gold is useless. There are other ways to turn the game into a huge pain in the ass. Not a bad find though.

I honestly have never played Minecraft (nor really ever expressed any interest in it)... As such, I don't have the client or anything either. I guess I might potentially be able to be coerced into playing, though. I mean, I never really 'got' the point, but it seems like it could be fun with other people.

I hope you guys don't mind starting a bit late. I've been working out in the back yard digging trenches and planting shit ALL DAY. I'm only starting to eat in like I dunno a few minutes. So don't expect me until like 9:30. I'll poke my head into here and post again when I'm ready. And by ready I mean probably cobbling something together for tonight's minecraft server.

Sousuke, if you're super interested in minecraft I still have two account codes to give away. I've given accounts codes to lurker, shade, and skills so far.

Dinner's running late for me too so a 9:30 start is fine.

Same, I don't think I've actually played more than ten minutes since the 1.0 update.

Okay I have the server up. It's oldshoes' Broville version 10. It's a nice map that's really built up. If we get bored of it I suppose we could load up another map - or if you feel like building I suppose a fresh map would work too.

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oh yeah server address is thegond.us.to

and the web map is http://thegond.us.to:8123

Okay, that'd be kind of awesome. :3:

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...Skills and his testicle base.

"It looks like some kind of discharge."

God it took me hours to get that fucking lava bucket but it was worth it

LORDS OF BONER MOUNTAIN

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Broville is fantastic. I'm having a blast exploring the place. There's a lol Port Authority, there's graveyard lol, there's a Asian place with a sushi boat lmao, there's train stations that you can ride to places. And there's that PURPLE DRANK place. XD

Damn, I hate myself for missing this now, I've been meaning to try Minecraft for the longest time now.

Oh well, hopefully it will happen again before too long and I'll get my chance.

Ah, but it only happened because you were absent. Such is your curse.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF :mad:

ok so

what are we doing this week

We're going to do what we do every week, Pinky. Play HQ unless something goes wrong.

So I have absolutely no idea really

My Spiral Staircase has surpasses the Boner Mountain...??? LOL.

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Thought this was a cool sight to take a pic of. :)

I'm gonna level that whole goddamn town the next time I can't do a corpse run because there's 500 fences in the way. NOTHING MUST INTERFERE WITH THE ASCENT OF MT. BONERMANJARO

You can't imagine the amount of attention she put into this staircase. I think she spent at least a day just heating up cobblestone to make bricks. All the while, I was dying for the umpteenth time trying to get a goddamn blaze stick.

Well if we don't want to do more d&d things tonight we can always do more minecraft. I actually found a neat game we can do if we don't want to muck around more in broville. Now hold off on your judgements a moment but despite its source inspiration this is actually a really good game - The Survival Games based off of The Hunger Games.

The Survival Games Minecraft Project

You may not like the book or the movie but its minecraft inspired game is actually really really fun.

You basically start in the middle of a cornucopia with up to 24 other players. They'll explain the rules every time but basically there is no destroying blocks besides tree leaves, grass, and mushrooms. There are chests in the middle of the cornucopia that you can grab supplies out of once released and/or you can flee to the rest of the map to find things in chests hidden throughout the land. The purpose of the game is to be the last man standing. Teaming up is allowed although the mods may summon things to try and scatter you but they might fuck with individuals who are camping out too. The idea is to be constantly on the move trying to better your situation and take out others if you can. When someone dies thunder will sound. You'll probably hear a lot of that at the beginning. When the last man is standing the winner will be declared and the server will restart to start the game anew. Items are usually random in most of the chests near as I can tell but you'll probably figure out which chests you like to go after best.

Oh yeah, it's not all super boring once you die either. Once dead you become a host. You can fly around the map and depending on how many kills you got give helpful items to the remaining players. You will be invisible to the remaining players but not to other hosts. Hosts can also only talk to other hosts. It also gives you an opportunity to explore the map and figure out a better strategy for next time.

If you've never flown in minecraft it's double spacebar to engage and then spacebar to go up and shift to go down. Double spacebar again to disengage.

I figure if we all team up using our skype session then we might be able to take out a bunch of other public players if we're lucky enough to get good items. So what say you guys? Sound good? And if we end up not liking it we can always go back to broville or some other d&d game.


The server we should play on is: 63.141.250.234:25565 or 63.141.250.234:25566

Feel free to play on it ahead of time to get in some practice. They're up all day near as I can tell. Games can last anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes.

And if we get bored of that map they also have another map that is more city-based than wilderness. It's listed on the link above but I'll post it here if we decide to do that.

To get a good idea of what this is like check out this youtube:

YouTube Video

That sounds like so much fun, but I can't tonight - I'm getting hammered with work today, and when I'm not working, my wife will probably want me to play Diablo 3 with her.

Have fun though!

I'd love to get in on this, but alas--no Minecraft!

...That being said even if I COULD get in on it, I've never even played so I'd probably be the first to die. XD

Decided to give this a spin. Got killed immediately by a guy named dbz0wn4g3. Got opped after about 5 minutes wait. Flew around. Flying ability seemed to toggle itself on and off more or less at random. Eventually it shut off while I was in midair over a lava pit. Spent about 30 minutes sitting in lava unable to escape while the three surviving players circlejerked over their ever-so-cunning alliance and quibbled over the trade value of a stick.

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I really really like the idea of a Minecraft last-man-standing sort of thing but I really think we could get a decent-sized group together without involving horrible, horrible pubbies.

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Also what the FUCK is the deal with Minecraft mods which disable both MINING and CRAFTING hurrhghghrhgh fhfhgjhf

...how about UT2K4?

I am down with anything that doesn't involve sitting around with our heads in our hands waiting for some chucklefuck we don't even know to decide to allow us to leave a cage.

so, is this going down or not?

SOMETHING will go down

I think we will have to take a few minutes to hash out what exactly

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We will also have to take a few minutes to allow the rest of the group to wake from their respective comas

From Pang's post regarding Hunger Games, it doesn't sound very fun to me.

63.141.250.234:25567

for city level

Yeah I tried to be polite about it and give it another try but it's just bluh some dude who memorized the map is murdering you enjoy floating around for 20 minutes.

NEXT WEEK: Well, last week's Minecraft was Skills' idea, we tried Acer's idea tonight and it was terrible :mad:, so I guess it's Ry's turn to steer the boat.

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PS: Should I assume you guys are sick of HeroQuest? I just ask because everyone says PANG WHAT ARE WE PLAYING and I go HEROQUEST UNLESS SOMEONE HAS A BETTER IDEA and then bang zoom the No Feedback Ever Squad is suddenly full of ideas

I actually love Hero Quest. If your saying it's my turn to suggest something, that would be great for me, going back to the root of game night, which was board games.

P.S. Acer and I won the last Hunger Game we played, which was just two after you left :p

Heroquest is fun. I don't mind playing it if that's what people want.

Again, sorry for tonight. I think Hungergames Minecraft would probably be more fun if we could round up like 15 GFF people if I could host it with all the proper server mods like the server we were on. Problem is rounding up that many people. Even ten people might be alright.

By the way Ry and I teamed up after you guys left and we totally won even after he got stuck and had to warp back to the center losing all his items. Gave him my spare sword and some armor and we just wrecked everyone's shit. So ^5 buddy.

Anyway, if you guys want to do UT2k4 or some other game that we have to download ahead of time then you should voice your opinion so we can well you know download it ahead of time.

And now Acer is wearing my face as a mask. :(

WHAT IS THIS.

http://i.imgur.com/JW2VP.png

Edit: Philia: Oh derp, posting on his account lol.

Might I suggest Board Game Online for one night? It's rather fun, can get hilarious... It's pretty much “Screw the Other Players and Get to the End First: The Game”. Exactly the kind of thing that is conducive to a bunch of us playing games over Skype.

Well, there's always the chance Acer will go MIA again. How long does a round take/can you make private games?

NEXT week, hopefully, 5th Edition playtest. The playtest docs are supposed to go out on the 24th, so hopefully I'll have time to figure some of it out. From what they've explained in the articles it looks like a real clusterfuck since they're busting ass trying to pander to old greybeards without actually turning the game back into an unbalanced shitheap. (spoiler: the attempt ends in pleasing no-one)

A round can take anywhere from 20-30 minutes to... well, the game I'm on now has actually been going for an hour and a half now. It all depends on how much fuckery goes on. :3: But yeah, you can make private games. There's also various options for team play.

So, is everyone in for Hero Quest tonight? I'm looking At you: Stop Sign, Skills, Acer, and Pang!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22011322/Pho...at%2016.44.jpg

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Mmm, mmm. Perhaps, sir.

But how about...Magicka?

http://colonelskills.belkanairforce....templative.jpg

Well, It all depends on how many people can make it / are not in a comma.

If only



of us show up, then Magicka is



But,



on the other hadn, If all



of us are there, then it's time for an UG

!!!!!!

P.S.: Sorry for breaking your internet Pang

I don't even like Magicka very much but sometimes I just wanna get it over with so we can stop mulling over whether we should play it or not

Y no pictars?

http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/p...6-23at1110.jpg

I'm up for whatever you guys want. I've been doing testing for the Maine meet basement setup all day. Magicka would be fun if everyone wants to get that over and done with. Fair warning: I'll listen in on the skype if we start at 9 pm but can only really talk when my basement clears of people so address me if I'm being a moron I'll be listening but not talking back - unless Magicka has some unknown text function I'm not aware of. Anyway I'm game in an hour if you guys are.

Since's it's Magicka, I'll bail to make it the right number of players - not because I don't like Magicka, but because I'm once again tied up with work because of the EuroPCR meeting that happened over the weekend.

Next week I should be free though!

IT'S STILL NOT OVER

THERE IS STILL MORE MAGICKA

WHY

it'll never end

TOO MANY TRON DISCS

TO THE FACE

EVERY

SINGLE

TIME

Well, I've found the weapon of choice.

Yes, the Tron Disc. Simple, elegant, and deadly to all but self.

I can't wait to spend 3 hours making a D&D 5e character next week

I wonder if there are any peanut butter mineshafts about

I am scared of what kind of character Skills will make when there aren't any robots available

they did what

TURNS OUT: Character generation rules NOT INCLUDED! Hope you suckas like pregens.

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I'm terrible and I think I like all of these things! ='D

Just a heads up for tonight: I've been called in for work at 5, but I've been told it wouldn't be a long job, so I may or may not be back by 9.

Obviously, I'll jump into the thread and on Skype if I get back in time, but don't hold back for me, as it is also possible that I would get here much too late.

WE ARE ALL GOING TO SUFFER THROUGH THIS

THERE IS NO ESCAPE

NO ESCAPE

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"don't hold back for me"

you should be so lucky

so are we finishing magicka or...........

Only to the limited extent that frequently-dead wizards will be involved.

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All the characters are pregens but if everybody wants to be the wizard that's totally fine by me

It's dangerous to Game Night alone, take this.


EDIT: Gonna have to bail tonight, actually. :( Maybe you guys wanna go ahead and finish Magicka after all?

I'll be around for whatever nonsense shows up tonight!

Looks like I just got back in the nick of time! :-D

But all that is for naught

PANG WHERE YOU AT BRO

Well, I probably should get back to work, then. Maybe next week?

oh good job i forgot about this thing - was upgrading the tower i'm bringing to the meet - just finished getting it cleaned and situated only to have it fucking flake out on me

now i have to reinstall god damn everything i did two weeks ago WHAT THE FUCK

I want to think next week, yeah sure.

also acer how did you do that :(

i did nothing

all i did was take out the motherboard so i could put in a new backplane for the new cpu fan, put in the new cpu fan, install a few smaller fans, and reconnect everything

and then the piece of shit says it won't boot off the harddrive - it recognizes the fucker - i disconnect all other devices - only the fucking harddrive should boot - nope it's like fuck man this makes no sense to me try again maaaan - so i'm like fuck this and reinstall the os - it's installed now - computer is up - now all i need to do is reinstall all the drivers, updates, software, and configure wowza AGAIN - and test all the shit AGAIN plus some new things like the cables that came in and also the blu ray drive

FUUUUUUCK - os is installed - i'm doing the rest of this shit tomorrow sometime - so lame - so very very lame - here i am trying to prep like 4 weeks in advance and shit goes south - i am bringing backup harddrives with me to the meet and cloning this stupid harddrive once i've finalized everything with it so in the event of it flaking out again i can restore that shit to a new drive in 40 minutes

I always feel a little guilty when I have to bail on this but it always turns out that Acer exploded or fell into a lake or got eaten by a hyena or something anyways so moot point

PS: Philia I saw how much work you did on the tower, thanks so much, damn

So, again, sorry about last night. I had an appointment to... there was an emergency with... okay honestly I was just really tired okay and the more I read that rules packet the less I ever want to play it.

As for next week, how do we feel about The Ship? I just picked it up off Indie Royale, and I got two free copies to give out. And apparently anyone I give a copy to also gets a free copy so we can keep the chain going and maybe get a larger group in on this. Who knows.

Anyways if you want it speak up provided you pass it on (or just go buy the bundle for $5 whatever)

We could also finish Magicka, so we never have to look at it again.

We could not, and say we did.

THE ENDING OF MAGICKA SURE WAS GREAT HUH GUYS

I LOVED IT WHEN THAT GUY DID THAT THING

BUT WHAT WAS WITH THAT CLIFFHANGER

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Also if I have to play Magicka more than once a month I will literally stab one of you. Not sure which one.

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Probably Acer but only because I have real problems with misdirected anger

bubbububbbut

once more unto the breach, dear friends, one more.

we shall destroy each other with rocks for the final time!

D'awwwww! No problem man! :D I found a lot of new places to explore by murdering some more of them trees! :D

I'm up for whatever, as it seems Hero Quest has gone the way of the 5th edition.

I had a system! We'll take turns, I said! And then you picked a thing and then somehow the system broke I don't know what

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I blame myself for not being more belligerent in my hostility toward Magicka

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Let's play Heroquest, but, everybody's the wizard and friendly fire is on

Oh yeah, I finally figured out why the fire damage/blast damage restore plugin stopped working. I think...

Acer would need to reinstall those or something. He was talking about his poor pc woes earlier too.

I just took the opportunity of you not being on the server to save it, quit it, and start it up again. The creeperheal plugin you are referring to appears to be working for me.

Also Philia, Pang is referring to the a member picks what game to play for the week turn system thing.

Thanks for restoring the plug in, I can now continue building his tower in ease! I only posted here to make it catch your attention Acer. :)

And uh, what are you talking about? I quoted Pang when he said my name and thanked me for helping him build his tower. Did you derp.

Probably and probably. It was really late. Tired etc.

So I assume everyone's in meet mode lockdown and get shit down before flyin' on a plane mode?

I know I am, and in fact I have a family dinner to take care of before leaving, and that will be on Tuesday during our time, unfortunately.

So if something happens I'm out for this week.

Yeah, I have a few things to get done and I don't know if they'll get done by Tuesday either. If I have time it'll probably be another web games/whatever night, I guess. Maybe try that board game thing Sousuke linked us to. I doubt Acer has any computers available that aren't dedicated to FRENZIED CALCULATIONS anyway.

lol frenzied calculations

Well I will kind of be in meet lock down this week. I could possibly do something on Tuesday but it would probably be better time spent on meet prep. That said I'd honestly like to be prepped and ready to go like well before the night of. Like Wednesday max. But yeah ever since my computer blew a gasket for no reason I do still have a few things I need to test out. Also I need to make some clone images just in case that shit happens again.

Not that anyone gives a shit about Game Night right now but I just wanted to briefly express my joy that the browser-based virtual tabletop I told you guys about is now in open beta so now we will never ever ever have to use Maptools ever again

Sorry guys, I won't be around tonight. Possible new client+work from old clients+suddenly being a manager again= head explode.

Are we doing this thing tonight or not? From reading the recent posts it seems everyone is in lock down mode for meet or otherwise busy. Am I right in assuming this?

I don't have any obligations tonight, but obviously if everyone else is too busy...

Yeah, consider Game Night on hiatus until the 19th, I reckon.

TUESDAY JUNE 19:

MAGICKA?

HQ?

ARTEMIS?

THE RETURN OF BLEHONK?

VOTE NOW

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MY CREATIVITY IS CONSTRAINED

oh god let's just finish and bury magicka

WELP GUESS THAT COUNTS ME OUT.

Oh well. I can just play Magicka BY MY SELF I DON'T NEED YOU GUYS ANYWAY :mad:

this is a thing i can do

i have done it

So is this thing happening tonight?

Are we going to go see what happens to that guy who isn't even a vampire in the end, so Pang can be at peace forever more?

This is happenin' provided Acer isn't too busy swimming in the cash Sprout insisted on pouring over his head

V Hopefully we will be done with Goddamned Magicka by the time you're free, Stop

I'm going to have to pass tonight; once again, work's kicking my ass (and likely will keep doing this until July)!

ACER IS ASLEEP FOREVER. THEREFORE, BOARD GAME ONLINE

Board Game Online

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FUCK YOU AND FUCK YOUR MAGIC HAMMER, JUAN

So I hear tales of Magicka occurring tonight. Were they lies? Or were they LIES?! The tallest of tales I think. Sometimes when a person comes out of the movie theater and texts a man in charge about this and calls another man who is in lieu of certain events to tell other members he expects shit to not end in 5 minutes. Oh well. I HOPE YOU GUYS HAD AS MUCH FUN AS ME WATCHING AN ANIMAL CIRCUS MEETS KALEIDO STAR DISCO NEON UNTZ UNTZ FEVER PALACE RESCUE MISSION BOOGALOO 3. Cuz it was a pretty good time not gonna lie.

TONIGHT: MAGICKA

UNLESS ACER IS SERIOUSLY DOING THIS SHIT ON PURPOSE TO DRIVE ME INTO A MURDEROUS BLOOD FRENZY

IN WHICH CASE: MURDEROUS BLOOD FRENZY

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Tomorrow.

Magicka. Tonight. :cool:

BRIEF, ABORTIVE MURDEROUS BLOOD FRENZY FOLLOWED BY SHAME, PERVERSE DISAPPOINTMENT

UPDATE:

MAGICKA CONQUERED, UNINSTALLED, SPAT UPON, BURNED, THROWN INTO AN UNCONSECRATED GRAVE, AND DROPPED TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA

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To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

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Next week: Moonbase AlphaJOHN MADDEN

I love a game that makes me redo levels as often because I died as it does when it just wants me to start over so badly.

I remember this place. This is the place where dwarves knocked down walls on top of dragons. This is the place where Optimus Prime made a kobold head-on-a-stick. This is a good place.

Are the details of dates and times from the front post still true, or have things shifted? I know these things tend to shift around some. And i miss you guys :(

GFF Gamenight is 9 PM EST on Tuesday nights.

Uhhh... normal dnd forum games are an entirely different thing.

Yeeeeaaaah I tried to make Game Night be about D&D stuff but in practice that doesn't really work since the three hours a week we have to work with doesn't allow for a whole lot of progress in D&D terms (Plus, Acer will cheat like a bastard if not monitored constantly). So when we do tabletop stuff on Game Night it's boardgames or light RPGs (and even then it is a tremendous clusterfuck). Maybe after astronaut time I can negotiate us away from computer games (which were my idea what the hell).

Everybody's welcome regardless and Moonbase Alpha is free to play, so. By all means come and AEIOU with us.

BUT the play-by-post stuff is also coming back real soon? And by soon I mean I'm a try to get signups going tonight I hope I hope

Acer: i meant GFF as a whole, not just Game Night. Also - GFF DnD was never normal.

Pang: i'll have to see if i can make it, this tuesday i'll probably be on the road at 9 EST, but i'll definitely try to make it at some point. Will take a closer look at the new play by post thing when it isn't 3am. We'll see if i can join in properly (being that my play style tended to lack creativity, it's really similar to zerg's (minus the trying to help others munchkin constantly))

So are we going to the moon tonight?

NO ONE CAN SAVE YOU NOW
DAD NO PLEASE

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IT IS NOW MOON TIME LET'S TO GO TO MOON

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what the hell you are all traitors to moon law

the beacon god will punish you

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except for acer since he has an arm

arms ain't nothin' to fuck with

ALL HAIL THE BEACON GOD

IT IS PINK AND BRIGHT AND BLINKING

DO NOT PRAISE THE FALSE BEACON FOR IT IS WHITE AND NOT PINK

DO NOT BE LEAD ASTRAY BY ITS BLINKING

MOON HELL IS A REAL PLACE AND YOU WILL BE SENT THERE AT THE FIRST SIGN OF HERESY

PS: We're Returning To The Moon this Friday if anybody wants to join us for the encore but was disinclined to download a shitty 1GB game on a moment's notice

so, not holding my breath on that, but

God damn I missed my chance to go to the moon. Completely forgot about moonland fun times bonanza in my planning for the river trip.

I'm actually at my folks place in NB right now and we're packing up to leave at 5AM tomorrow.

Sorry guys. :(

WE CAN SEND A MAN TO THE MOON

BUT, APPARENTLY, WE CANNOT SEND THREE MEN TO A SIMULATED MOON

GUYS WE NEED THREE MORE COUPLERS

LIKE... FIVE MORE COUPLERS

BRING ALL THE COUPLERS

PANG WHAT ARE YOU DOING ARE YOU WORKING ON COUPLERS

SKILLS

GET A WRENCH

HELP WITH THESE HOSES

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Alien Swarm on Steam

Here, this is Tuesday's thing.

Also free, also completely retarded.

tonight i got trolled

so very hard

so hard it fucked up my recording

i then got trolled by my computer

my face when i have no face

just about as angry as can be

the recording of the greatest troll to ever troll on gff game night is pretty much unwatchable

i am sad :(

Meanwhile, in robotland:

"how have they not connected any of those things yet? What are those flying thi- oh. ooooooooooohhhhhh."

I don't know if the game is supposed to be on tonight or not, but I'll most likely not be able to make it, I've got a dinner that was originally supposed to be a brunch or some such tonight.

tell them you can't

priority one is aliens

they be swarmin'

GOD DAMN IT RYCHORD YOU WILL BE AN INCOMPETENT SPACEMAN OF SOME KIND AND YOU WILL LIKE IT

Term is credit to team! From stream viewer to hero. What a bro!

I like how Rychord was sooooo busy tonight but not too busy to watch the stream. YEAH WHAT UP WITH THAT

Yeah so, next week we'll finish up Alien Swarm, dunno if Term's coming back for that or what, hopefully so but god knows we'll never manage it without a fourth player of some kind. That shouldn't take more than half an hour (we very nearly made it tonight) so after that we'll be doing some more Pomme. E'erbody likes Pomme. On their bodies.

Yeah, sorry about that, but I got home at 10:15PM and saw an email from Justintv so I decided to tune in. I hadn't downloaded the 2.5GB game yet, so that would have taken too long for me to hop in on time.

Zerg Rush 2.0 actually looked like quite a bit of fun, I'm kinda sad I only got to spectate.

i've downloaded the game, but i might be a little late to the party - i'll hopefully be done work at 8:30 on Tuesday. That's assuming Alien Swarm doesn't have a leveling system wherein i will be profoundly underleveled and unhelpful.

So who's the space team that's tackling the zerg rush tonight?

I'm asking because I've (finally) downloaded the game, but it seems we are too numerous who want in (Pang, Skills, Acer, Term(?), Hawk, meself).

Obviously, since Term was the fourth last week, he should have priority to step back in if he wants in. I'm also willing to let Hawkeye take precedence over me if he's available, since I'm usually in just about every game we play with a player limit.

We only need to finish the game, which is one more stage. After that we'll get in on apples to apples the gif bullshit like we did several weeks ago and lol at that.

Acer might also be late, of course, so there's that

Yeah the goal is basically to get through this as quick as possible and then move on to the Pomme, so ideally we can get Term and his lovely medical gun that shoots life at you. Failing that, whoever we can get hold of first. If you can just fill all your item slots with medkits that would be super.

Sorry to anybody that downloaded the game and then gets left in the lurch, though at least it's free (I think we talked Stop Sign into buying Magicka and then never actually played it with him).

In buying-terrible-games news, Sanctum is $2.49 on Steam for the next 8 hours. It uses the same text-to-speech engine as Moonbase Alpha but has actual levels and gameplay and such. I don't think I need to say anything else. Not playing it next week, I think (we are long overdue a return to the virtual tabletop and I have a malicious plan), but maybe the week after.

Wait, did I miss Pomme? Is there still Pomme happening? :O

Pomme is starting NOW, get on ins. Pomme

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CABBAGE CABAL 4EVR

WHERE IS MY GIF POMME

MY GIF, WHERE

>:-|

CATBUTTS EVERYWHERE

OMG A DOG

Topdecking dog gifs, for the win.

Also, bought Sanctum. Then realized i won't be around on the tuesday in question. *facepalm* :(

There's no way we'd be getting through Sanctum in one night anyway.

TUESDAY: Pathfinder. Yup.

But what is Pathfinder, Pang?

Pathfinder is what happens when a 3rd-party adventure writing team decides they don't like 4th Edition, and thinks they can do better. And by "better", I mean they decide to copy edition 3.5, slap a couple errata stickers on it, and sell it.

Pregens WILL be provided since character generation in 3.5 or any of its derivatives takes the better part of a day and that's with the (shitty, third-party) chargen software.

We won't be using Maptool. There's a free web-based virtual table at roll20.net with all sorts of neat features Maptool could never manage since it's a pile of java garbage. I'm fairly sure you don't even need to sign up and I can just link you to the campaign URL. Guess we'll find out.

All right, so Roll20 seems to be working okay so far as I can tell, we'll see how it holds up with actual players instead of me dicking around with the jukebox.

IN THEORY, this link should bring you to the right game: https://app.roll20.net/join/23137/eSRaYA

http://colonelskills.belkanairforce....resofucked.png

We are so fucked

http://www.saxypunch.com/missile3/Clipboard-1.jpg

You are all the worst people

trip report: pathfinder even worse than anticipated, somehow

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I should mention one more thing for posterity. Hawkeye is incinerated because Skills' greedy ass sets off a massively overpowered fire trap. His ashes are scooped up and dumped into a magic fountain (which Rychord had previously pissed in). With the addition of a toy dragon and a charge from a wand of magic missile, Hawkeye was eventually resurrected as a piss-drenched cripple.

Also, Skills straight-up refusing to use his healing spells to save Hawkeye's life

I'd like to note how awesome a meatshield I was until we ran into a god damn dragon who did not give two shits about AC. 0 damage the entire game until instant death by dragon fire. I need to consider recording our games in a higher resolution. I got some good footage but you can't read any of the text. Ah well.

That was a magical moment.

"So, uh, roll your reflex save, and—"

"What about my armor?"

"Your reflex save, which is, let's see—"

"I have this armor though."

"Ooh, you needed a 14, that's not—"

"MY ARMOR!"

"Yeah, you both melted instantly."

"BUT, BUT... ARMOR."

And so they started off on their cave adventure, looking for a monster of sorts.

The FIGHTER: A man of tin and.... tin.



The CLERIC: A dark being, who weaved in and out of existence, apparently. Also with only one eye and a living hat.



The WIZARD: A man who once had a run in with a fountain most vile, and was reconstituted, minus one VERY VERY important member. Also a cyclops.



The ELF



The ummm... ELF



and...

Oh, yes, the ELF: A master of disguise, becoming all one color, and knifey, pointy things.



For a long time, they dinkered many opponents:



But it was all for naught, as the CLERIC had other plans, namely using the FIGHTER's corpse:



To cause the Ultimate Dinker for the Ages:



And so was the path they found.

I appreciated Pang's decision to arbitrarily resurrect my wizard, since our healer had shown no interest in doing so when he was so thoroughly incinerated, and i otherwise would have been left to watch, and we might have never discovered the secret of the obelisk.

Also - MSPaint, the multiplayer experience!

Somebody decided it was a cool and mysterious touch to have a MYSTERIOUS OBELISK that said "water" next to some water.

Somebody got paid for that.

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And, for what it's worth, looked it up: black dragons are intended as an 8th-level enemy

what the fuck

Sanctum on Tuesday, right?

Or Shazbot?

Wellll if I can actually get Tribes downloaded in 2 days then I guess we can put off Sanctum 'til later

I am always in favor of games that'll support more than four players when we can swing it

Hey guys, just a little heads up to say that I will be going back home today until the 19 of August, and so I won't be able to join in for any Windows only gaming. I'll be spending time with family and friends, so So don't feel bad about playing whatever you want to!

If it so happens that you decide to play something that is mac friendly, I probably will be able to find the time to join in, except for tomorrow, when I'll most likely be too busy catching up with everyone back home. In any case, I'm pretty sure what you have lined up already is Win only anyway.

Have fun guys!

so are we doing sanctum or shazbot tonight?

Well, Garr seems down for Tribes and since neither Rychord nor I can make it tonight I would recommend you go with that, since Sanctum is a tremendous pain in the ass with exactly two players.

Or, you know, whatever, make your own decisions gee golly gosh

can you not make it because you can't download tribes in time or other reasons? cuz i mean it's not like we can't do tribes next week or something if that's the case. i think you said you already had sanctum and i don't mind buying and downloading it if that's the case

SHAZBOT

SHAZBOT

i like how i had no idea what i was doing

THAT WAS ONE OF THE BEST PARTS

So what you're saying is that it's a good thing I wasn't there.

WHAT'S A SHAZBOT ANYWAY

Naw, I was just falling asleep. We can definitely do Tribes again later though anyway since it seems like you guys had a blast.

What's this week, ladies?

Because I'm stubbornly enforcing my muleheaded idea of alternating vidya and tabletop (and because Rychord can't swing Windows games for a while) this week is

ACTION CASTLE!

which should be really, really quick so we should have time for

FIASCO

afterward.

Seriously AC should take like 20 minutes tops assuming we don't get derailed by ahaahahahahahahaaaaa

Neither of these games require any visual apparatus as such but we may as well do it on Roll20 for the music and doodling opportunities. Provide your soundtrack suggestions, if you like.

A fifth player for Fiasco would be cool but not strictly necessary.

i'm around again, but i'll be at work until 9pm mountain time, so i don't know if you guys will still be busy when i get back. Just don't count on me being around any sooner than that.

Just a heads up that I might not make it this week.

I might not be able to make it either, as I'm leaving for my own folks home tomorrow. (I've been at my GF's folks house since last Tuesday.)

I'm not sure at who's gonna be at my parents' house, if the house isn't too crowded I might be able to make it, as I am on Atlantic time here, and 10PM is a bit late for my parents if they are working the next day.

Yeah I might be shit out of luck too.

If we're three down, do you just want to defer until next week? We can then move Shazbot II: Electric Shazaloo to the 21st.

Well, shit.

TONIGHT: FUCKIN' NOTHING

NOTHING

lol as a strange turn of events I am actually around tonight after all

but if you guys are peace'd out then that's cool

gff nap slash doing other things night amiright

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The answer is no.

Heads up: I probably won't be able to do tonight either. I know. I know. I'm terrible.

you are

But I'm not.

It's go time for whatever fuck yeah

Ready and waiting.

Let's fuck this castle up!

Arright, well, if we can get at least 4 total people somehow we can still go ahead with Lite RPG Nite

Otherwise I guess fallback to Sanctum which is acceptable with only 3

Wait Rychord is still on Mac-only mode right?

FFFFFF tonight's plan: flailing, throwing things

DEFLECTING IT DOESN'T MAKE IT LESS TRUE

TURNS OUT I'M ONLY SOMEWHAT TERRIBLE.

GAME ON, MOTHERFUCKERS. LET'S DO THIS. BUT FIRST. A QUICK SHOWER.

Yeah, I'm still at my folks' home, eating jujubes.

Mmmm... jujubes.

Edit: Looks like Acer, Skills and maybe Garr are in.

HURRAY CHEAP STUPID RPGS FOREVER

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I'm here?

ONE NIGHT ONLY: GHOST DICKS

That actually went better than I expected, funny thing is

And Action Castle was hilarious

I HAVE A STICK

THERE IS AN ENEMY HERE

WHAT DO

Fuckin' 30+ possible Fiasco playsets, these guys pick out DRAGONS and latch onto it like a lamprey

wait can we shatterhand the guard

YouTube Video

OUCH!

You know there's an Action Castle 2, right

Gonna be cash

PS Frank you're welcome to join us for whatever in the future

Yeah it seems a couple people remixed that. The one we were listening to was by this guy:
Ghostbusters VS. Lady Gaga by Ian Clarke 6 on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free

So remember how I was gonna study the Fiasco rulebook and figure out what the fuck we were doing wrong?

Well

I found the answer
http://www.saxypunch.com/missile3/everything.png

It was kind of hilarious listening to you dorklords. Can anybody just join in?

If I let Skills play I don't know why I would bar anybody else

Yeah, feel free to join in with us, lurks. Just join our skype session and follow the link in the thread to the game.

So what's this week? Finish Fiasco and then SHAZBOT II?

Honestly I think we fucked Fiasco up to the point where it's not really possible to finish. It's my fault.

NOTHIN' BUT SHAZBOT

Bububububububuuuuu.....I have some outstanding dick exchanges that haven't been finalized yet. :(

Real real though, in how many ways did we fuck it up? How is it supposed to go down?

Although I can't complain about a full night of Shazbot.

Well, first thing is, everybody is supposed to have a relationship with (exactly) two other people.

At a physical table, the two people would always be your neighbors. Obviously over Skype that's a little trickier. In theory our relationship chain should look like this:

Pang <-> Hawkeye <-> Rychord <-> Garr <-> Skills <-> Acer <->

But in practice it was kind of a jumbled mess. This is my fault, because you're supposed to sort out all the relationships before you even address locations/needs/stuff and I didn't do that at all. Each relationship was supposed to have at least one Detail, which we also didn't do (although I did kind of try to nudge in that direction). So in practice nobody really knew their place in the game or what the fuck they were supposed to be accomplishing. Plus, the locations and objects were also supposed to be tied to relationships, so we'd have an idea who the trophy was supposed to belong to in the first place.

Second thing we boned is the dice.

I directed you guys to pick your own dice after a scene ends, which is only supposed to happen if you Resolve. On top of that, you're supposed to pass the die to somebody else after you get it. The numbers on them don't really matter at this stage, only the color. (You keep the dice in Act 2, but clearly we never really got to Act 2.) The color of the dice matter because you add up your dice at endgame and it influences precisely how screwed over your character is when the credits roll.

Third: I defy any of you to summarize the plot of the story we were making.

I think part is this is down to the playset we used, the fantasy stuff kind of encouraged you guys to be even more dumb and slapsticky than normal. When Needs were addressed it was generally only for the duration of a single scene, whereas in principle Needs should be a thing you work up to over the course of at least the first Act if not the whole game. Nobody really seemed to be working toward anything long-term. Again, I could have done more to rein some of this in, I'm not blaming anybody but myself.

It might be worth revisiting at some point, but definitely with a more... down-to-earth setting. The game-in-progress is boned. There's no narrative arc there at all.

Acer and I, not-so-secret lovers, were conspiring to put the trophy atop the mantle. We needed it. With our powers of flight we accomplished this, but Acer died in the interim.

My attempts at appeasing my neighbours by trading them dicks was only half successful, as no amount of dicks would satiate them.

I was about to flee with my trophy, acer ghost in tow, before I had a change of heart. It was quite sudden and unfortunate. Like the Grinch there.

WE GOT THIS SEE

I'll be playing TF2 on my friend's stream (it's a weekly event, but we tend to have a hard time getting many people (so if you want to help with that, the info should be on the info page of the stream)) when game night time rolls around, so someone just gimme a poke and i'll hop in. Is there any tutorial shazbot stuff i should do first, or should i just hop right in and learn things the hard way?

Can you ski shitty and shoot while playing capture the flag? Yes?! Then you'll fit right in!

Might jump in on that TF2 for a bit. It's a bit of a hard sell for Game Night proper, unfortunately (oh god MVM with randoms is the most frustrating shit in the world).

I won't be able to make it tonight, my GF's mother is here and we will be entertaining her for the evening. Sorry guys!

400MB patch HA HA HA HA

I assume everything went down ok (if someone uneventfully, given the lack of posts). Sorry I never showed up, it was like 10:45 by the time I was patched (why the fuck can't it use Steam's patch system what the hell) and at that point it seemed kind of silly to jump in.

Anyways, we're back to dork games next week, which means The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen (a competitive storytelling game), and then, time permitting, Everyone is John.

Bring your aristocratic air and your broadest and most offensive European accent.

Skills joined in pretty late but we all had a pretty SHAZ BOT time and by SHAZ BOT I mean good. We didn't annihilate like last time - the opposite team had some good players and some players with no scruples that would join our team and sabotage shit. So when we won it was a pretty big thing.

Tonight'll be another night when i probably won't be around on time, but i'll be here eventually. Second last night of work!

Once again, I won't be able to make it tonight. A combination of my GF's sister getting out of the hospital today and coming to live with us for a while and early work tomorrow are to blame.

Why does everything always happen on Tuesdays for me lately? :(

Clickity. Still setting up so trickle in at your leisure.

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Trip report:

Deni is a bacon expert

Hawk is a masterful pugilist

Acer can hit water so hard it gets scared and flows backward

But John will never have a tail. :(

If only John had tried to reason with the doctor instead of strangling him. He was a man of science! He would understand!

NEXT WEEK:

ADVENTURE CASTLE VETS WILL STRUGGLE WITH THE HILARIOUSLY SIMPLE PUZZLES OF SPOOKY MANOR!

FIASCO RETURNS AND MAYBE YOU IDIOTS ACTUALLY TRY TO FORM A PLOT THIS TIME!

RYCHORD CAN'T JOIN US BECAUSE HE HAS TO VISIT THE E.R. DUE TO SUDDEN TESTICULAR TORSION!

LURKER AND TALEC CONTINUE STARING AT US THROUGH THE BASEMENT WINDOW, SO VERY CURIOUS BUT AFRAID TO EVER INDULGE

THREE HOURS OF NEW GHOSTBUSTERS MASHUPS (CRAZY MOTORBUSTERS? HELL YEAH SON)

WRITHE IN MY CAGE OF TORMENT! 9 PM EST TUESDAYS

Though my nutsack is so far still in acceptable shape, there are other forces at work that will prevent me from taking part for the next 2 weeks at least. Namely, I've been called in to work both days, and I can't afford to not go.

Unfortunately I'll not be able to make it tonight either, as a consequence of my shitty internet being even-more-shitty-than-usual. I've put in the usual official complaints but you know how these things go. Maybe we can reschedule later in the week once I've got this sorted or, if you'd like, go ahead without me. I've set up Fiasco in the usual place (https://app.roll20.net/join/34000/yQhjDQ).

(Here's the rulebook, if you think that would help.)

I've promoted both Skills and Acer to GM status for the time being, so shit will actually work. The jukebox has, as promised, been stocked with all manner of ghostbusting.

(Yes, I know you're all highly unlikely to play tabletop games without me around to drag you through it kicking and screaming but the tools are there if you'd like them.)

In my opinion it would be best to wait for the GM to be able to GM again. I do appreciate the offer but I believe I am too simple-minded to run Fiasco or an actual for serious D&D anything properly. It would all be jello castles and clouds made of marshmallow and then you have a DDR contest versus an eel and the die rolls would pretty much be meaningless to me because I give not a shit about numbers unless I feel absolutely creative for a 1 or 6 roll. Oh, you got a 3? I guess you hit him. Oh, maybe not? Wait, the guy got distracted by his thumb which he is sucking on like a toddler. Reroll that shit. Yeah, he's dead now. Good job. You murdered Infant Man the king of all babies. You get like a diaper full of gold nuggets and a ham sandwich.

I do like that your jukebox is prepared even if your Internet is not.

I believe we should either all take a chillax night OR do something like SHAZ BOT.

Sat around totally ready to fuck up fiasco like a boss for 15 minutes, no one showed, despite announcing in chat. I imagine it would have ended in absolute fucking disaster so it's probably for the best worst best.

Sworder treachery is a thing too!

Well, the important thing is you tried and failed.

The lesson is: never try.

And I ran around like a chicken with my head chopped off. I'd forgotten how much chaos first week of being back at school is (which is really too bad because i wanted to show off my slowly-improving-but-still-pretty-underwhelming Shazbot skills).

Tomorrow: same plan as last week! Provided Verizon doesn't fuck with me again just because they can.

Next week: Apparently Gotham City Impostors has gone F2P and is also, reportedly, kind of shit, so that's an idea.

Whatever the plan is, I can be in after all as the job has been canceled for tomorrow.

No lie. I am kinda sleepy.

Basically, you'll have to fight it off 'til the end of the evening. For the greater good.

The usual place, for those of you who are awake.

WE ARE THE CHOICIEST

YOUR FLAVORFUL AND SAVORY DELICIOUSNESS WILL BE ADDED TO OUR OWN

only the choiciest of beefs will prevail

warnings from ex-pimps lead to the destruction of the earth

planet garr is a lovely red topping

Zoom out.

It's Mo0.

Fade to black.

Basically, it's all that amputee porn that made the difference.

ok so

Next week is sort of the release date of borderjerks 2: border harder

I am thinking like half of us are going to be on that yeah. Do we bail on next week?

Yeah the release of an amazing co-op game is an excellent reason to skip game night

Half of us are on xbox chief. There might even be some triple users in there.

Embarrassingly poor platform decisions do tend to cripple the co-op aspect of things, yes.

Not like I'm not going to take a month off to play XCOM though so who am I to talk

You know it's strange. You'd think that third parties wouldn't give a fuck about PS3 and 360 players playing each other or with each other if that were at all possible. Do they have to sign a contract against doing this or are the APIs and network shit really that different that they don't bother? I mean I GET PC versus consoles not being done since it's simply not fair to console players but PS3 and 360 should be about even in terms of controls.

Also I still haven't finished Borderlands so you can count me out I guess. Also I always considered Borderlands to be mostly played on PCs what with those steam multi-game packs being so enticing among other things.

Well, if it's like the original BL then multiplayer requires some guy to host the game. If you're hosting on your xbox and a ps3 player joins, then you're using Microsoft hardware to enable a Sony customer's gameplay. So yeah, that's probably a contractual no-no.

Oh that's right the only third party assholes in town that host their own servers for this shit anymore is activision right? My mistake - I can see how a console allowing another console would be bad juju.

Acti has deds for some PC versions of COD, but console deds are few and far between no matter what. BF3 and Gears of War 3 are the most obvious of these right now.

Neither of which are Activision.

Basically Garr is right. I'll likely double dip on borderjerks. With luck, people will have less hoops to jump through than last time.

Basically I know nothing because I refuse to buy most Activision games for myself. I only figured the premium whatever accounts you pay Activision for would include playing on dedicated servers but what would I know. I'm just making assumptions.

Yeah, I heard about that one and I kind of was implying that game when I said PC and console cross platform wasn't far because that game illustrates it. PC gamers wiped the floor with 360 players in that Shadowrun game.

Basically it boiled down to the PC players being weighed down with all sorts of handicaps Harrison Bergeron style while the 360 players got aiming assistance and all the other padded sumo suit shit that's typical of FPS on consoles.

And then the PC players still took a giant shit on them. So the online community didn't last too long on that one, nope.

So can I assume that no game night tonight because of Borderlands 2? Would be good to get this cleared up.

Aw, geez, sorry, should have said something, but yeah nothing tonight both because of Borderlands and because of some other stuff. Y'know, stuff. :(

Sorry if anybody was sitting around drawing dicks and wondering what was going on.

So what are we thinking about for Tuesday? I'm thinking about The Hidden: Source. Anybody object to that?

(Yes you need to own Half-Life 2 but seriously, if you don't own that by now, what the fuck.)

I have an extra copy to hand out if someone doesn't have it.

I have not Half-life two. Shame will be had by me apparently.

I have to actually bail out on this one.

I have a CSC Certification test on Wednesday and there's that whole study like fuck thing I gotta do.

Will be back with a vengence for the week after though.

Ok apparently The Hidden actually needs the Source SDK 2006 (which is free and a hell of a lot smaller) rather than HL2. It's under Tools in your game library.

Assuming, as always, that anyone actually shows up.

So I'm spectating a game right now. And I'm the cameras. Looks like a team of hidden monsters versus a squad of boom boom bang bang. Not quite sure if I get the appeal. Are the players the hidden monsters or are those done by AI?

I will have to sit this one out, as a minor action because I don't have HL2, and my standard action is elaborated in my journal, and best summarized by this smiley. :skills:

I'm working on it.

Both sides should be players AFAIK. Normally there's just one Hidden. Perhaps I have overestimated the appeal of walljumping invisible stabby mans.

Well, Skills is out, Rychord's out, Acer is making skeptical noises. Worst comes to worst we can just do Pretend You're Xyzzy, I guess.

Okay whoever kills the hidden monster gets to be the hidden. Found that out when I accidentally killed one. Interesting game. So will we be joining a server or is one of us supposed to host one?

Guess we'll just all jump on an empty public server, don't think a few pubbies will harm much of anything. I'll give this 15 or 20 minutes and we don't don't gather many GFFers then we'll just switch to Cards.

If you have the game installed you should be able to just jump in and join me from your friends list I think??

no

chiz

The chiziest of queefs.

Almost certainly going to do this again next week, hopefully with a server of our own so we don't have to tolerate MLGPRO Hidden players stroking their epeens.

No better way to end a session than "WHO WANTS TO DIE FIRST" (gets a faceful of Garr's buckshot)

In other news, I just discovered that Garr is a pretty impressive FPS player. Hats off to you buddy!

THE_SLIMIEST_OF_QUEEFS

MYLES WHERE ARE YOU WE NEED TO STACK UP

GET ON TOP OF ME

EVERYBODY GET ON TOP OF ME

WATCH ME I'LL WATCH YOU

THIS IS A NO KILL SERVER

Yeah, this is an RP server, we're on a quest to find the golden box right now, okay thanks

And then Acer guns him down. Beautiful.

FIRST, HEAD FOR THE CORPSE PILE. LOOK FOR THE UNDERGROUND AMMO CRATE. TO REACH THE ROOF, HEAD SOUTH THROUGH THE REALM OF PANG TKED ME AGAIN. HEAD DOWN THE STAIRS AND THROUGH THE ELEVATOR THAT IS NOT AN ELEVATOR. THE CHOICE IS YOURS AND YOURS ALONE.

if i was drinking milk it would be coming out my nose right now

garr is a monster

verified

welp

got my cert

so what's on the docket for tomorrow, boss?

MORE THE HIDDEN

It's a game all about being a huge dick to people who are scared of you so we were pretty much all agreed that we weren't done with it until you had a go at it. Plus I have the most obnoxiously gimmicky plan.

Acer is the server stuff fairly straightforward, have you had any time to dick around with that?

PS the video I was telling you guys about last week

YouTube Video

Holy shit the Joker one with surprise guest Mickey Mouse was amazing as well.

YouTube Video

But naw I haven't really looked into setting up a server. If it's the same group as last time I guess that would be like maybe 5 people max which isn't a bad group. Plus if we left it open then I guess it might work well enough.

STABBIN' TIME

Pleasant dreams, Skills~

MWAHAHAHAH

GOOOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING WISCONSIN! W617, THE TRASH GARAGE, ALL THE SHARPEST CUTS FROM THE 70'S 80'S 90'S AND TODAY ALL COMIN' STRAIGHT TO YOU FROM THIS RUSTY DUMPSTER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DOWNTOWN SLUMS. I'M DJ IRIS AND THIS NEXT TRACK HOLDS A LOT OF MEMORIES.

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Seriously though once I figured out crouchjumping playing the Hidden went from sort of frustrating to amazing.

Anybody wanna suggest something for next week? This is obviously a game we can keep exploiting for a while but 3 weeks in a row seems sort of iffy. Any old idea. Throw it out there.

Remember that time some of us bought Sanctum and then never played it? Might be an option. Hard to say if i'll be able to make it, though, as soon i will probably have to work Tuesday nights :(


I was in the process of downloading and installing the Hidden, but it was taking too long, so i hopped into a minecraft speed build contest my friend was running instead. We were handed the theme "bridges" and given 25 minutes and that was it.

[EDIT] holy cow those pictures were bigger than i thought sorry anyone with slow internet

This is the bridge that won:



Naturally, this is what i built:



I came in a solid second, though, and i'm happy with how it turned out. Best part was how confused everyone else was until they figured it out.

well you can count on me not being around until a fair bit later, because i just got the word that i'll be starting working tuesday nights as of next week. I might show up late, but the possibility of me playing the full time is pretty much gone (although let be honest, i haven't been very good about remembering to show up for the last month)

Don't sweat it, Stop Sign told us he would be too busy "until July" and we haven't seen him since.

Sorry, I really should have said something. I'm still working crazy hours on Tuesday, and this may be indefinite :(

Well, no other suggestions are coming forward and I haven't really had time to prepare anything Roll20-wise so Sanctum it is. Unfortunately that caps out at 4 players sooooo apologies to the irregulars :(

Oh shit

I got that installed already so no fashionably late installs here.

Oh this one should be excellent.

Although to be honest The Hidden was some of the best vidya we've done yet so it'll be hard to top that.