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Oh yeah, today, we kick off with some voodoo and some fudge....
 
 
 
As an aside, let me say how difficult it is to find a forum-appropriate picture of voodoo...
 
Anyway!  Last night was good.  I did a little recruiting, but found nothing around.  Determined, I plopped Seeger down in Thayd's bar and played poke-the-other-characters.  I think Sahar wants to kill him, but I was keeping entertained.  The RP is fun in this game because so much fits, and I think I'm the only one playing a serious character that isn't steeped in melodrama.  Oh I do enjoy people wanting to strangle my characters!  Anyway, got into a conversation with Kitty Starwraith and I'll be kicking off some RP tonight around nine for any Saddles that are interested.  We got us a job to do... and it would be good to know how many people will be coming along so I can think of something appropriate.
 
Also, I brought a couple bricks of fudge to work, my grandfather's own recipe.  Everyone loves it so far, so we're having it for breakfast, essentially.  It's Ohio!  We don't live healthy!
 
Don't know what's in store on Nexus except the RP around nine-ish, give or take a half hour.  Be dere at deh bayou, bruddahs an' sistahs!
 
This should get fun!	
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			Ah ... so here it is ... I retract my last admonition.  Well there is still no Dt. Mt. Dew boss. ;)	
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Ah ... so here it is ... I retract my last admonition.  Well there is still no Dt. Mt. Dew boss. ;)
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You had me at fudge and Dt. Mt. Dew. *mesmerized* 0_0
 
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OK ... I must say this ... MIke's Harder Cider is freaking totally awesome. Not because of the apple but because it is THE most cinnamon laden drink I have ever had. It is freaking the cinnamon bomb! 0_o
 
Er ... Happy October and November! ;)	
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Working on Lore, busy busy busy!
Wrote first part how see Planet and Moons, maybe good, maybe not.
Trying to get Pappy involved, not much response yet outside tweet favourites.
 
Play again tonight! Big Roleplay event, Halloween with Chua Moska
Attend and have fun, maybe get scared, maybe make new friends.
Lots to do, lots to do!!
 
Guild also killed Kuralak!
Now on 2/6 progession. Working now on getting clean kill and farm for gear.
Work on progress too!
 
Breakfast simple bread.
Keep simple, keep healthy. Science shown good for Chua	
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Fudge, it is an anytime sort of food...
 
Reminds me soon It'll be fudge season for me and I'll get to working on my 50+ Lbs of fudge for the holidays that I ship out every year in assorted flavors to friends and family. Fun, but can be a good bit of work too!	
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Didn't RP on Rocio yesterday.
 
I didn't realize you wanted to RP tonight or else I would not have made plans for something else. Sorry Seeger.
 
Now I disagree that you're the only one not steeped in melodrama. The truth is, no one really likes a melodramatic character. One eyed orphans with cancer are not fun to play or RP with. (No offense to the one guy/girl who fits that description. It's just an example of melodrama)
 
But Aurin are in serious danger of descending into melodrama because of being robbed of their entire world and thrown into a War.
 
It's so easy to make things turn from dramatic to melodramatic with a single detail. Aurin racial backstory is rough enough! 
 
So for Rocio, his whole family is NOT dead, Planet Reapers were not dropped in his area while he was on Arboria and the entire invasion, he never saw a Dominion soldier. His drama doesn't happen until the call to evacuate.
 
On my second character, she did suffer the loss of her family and tribe and suffers the mental effects associated, but her general outlook is positive, she's hard working and likeable, while still having little flaws that make her interesting.	
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Good morning, coffee people! How's the science?I am working the 3pm to 8pm shift tonight so I will not have much time for WildStar. Being back to my regular schedule is nice, I suppose. Being on vacation for a whole week can get tedious at times. However, this week I have to write my biannual report on people who work for me and I hate that. I had Harvest Crunch cereals for breakfast. Really, my life is nothing fascinating outside of other people's own craziness in the ER.
 
Today's picture is Scorchwing!
Yes, the picture is wrong on purpose because I thought it would be funny!
 
In WildStar news, I made 18 plats last night from selling an AMP Point Upgrade. I used some of the currency to buy three dyes I did not have. Down to 32 dyes left! Beyond that, I am working on Containment R-12 reputation but since you can only turn in the quest once a day (1500 rep) it'll take a while. I actually managed to kill Scorchwing, Elyona AND complete Containment R-12 at like 8am on a weekday one after the other. Megaserver at its best! I also cleared Northern Wastes again. Got to earn elder gems  and make currency -somehow-. I have also swapped some housing challenges around so I get a shot at the few dyes I am missing from those. I am still debating what to do with Erayo's plot though...
 
More to do! More to do! Also, more to do!	
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*slowly stares at image in the top post*
 
Creepy....	
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*slowly stares at image in the top post*
Creepy....
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Didn't RP on Rocio yesterday.
 
I didn't realize you wanted to RP tonight or else I would not have made plans for something else. Sorry Seeger.
 
Now I disagree that you're the only one not steeped in melodrama. The truth is, no one really likes a melodramatic character. One eyed orphans with cancer are not fun to play or RP with. (No offense to the one guy/girl who fits that description. It's just an example of melodrama)
 
But Aurin are in serious danger of descending into melodrama because of being robbed of their entire world and thrown into a War.
 
It's so easy to make things turn from dramatic to melodramatic with a single detail. Aurin racial backstory is rough enough!
 
So for Rocio, his whole family is NOT dead, Planet Reapers were not dropped in his area while he was on Arboria and the entire invasion, he never saw a Dominion soldier. His drama doesn't happen until the call to evacuate.
 
On my second character, she did suffer the loss of her family and tribe and suffers the mental effects associated, but her general outlook is positive, she's hard working and likeable, while still having little flaws that make her interesting.
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Moska sure that is coffee?Chua thinks looks very like alcoholic drink!
 
 
 
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Oh ok. I like a bit of both worlds. Somedays, I like beong a casual observer, shooting the breeze...
 
Somedays I wanna punch some thing
 
Like that Rock Star from Pink. We're all gonna get in a fight!	
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*slowly stares at image in the top post*
 
Creepy....
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Moska sure that is coffee?
Chua thinks looks very like alcoholic drink!
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But Aurin are in serious danger of descending into melodrama because of being robbed of their entire world and thrown into a War.
 
It's so easy to make things turn from dramatic to melodramatic with a single detail. Aurin racial backstory is rough enough!
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The first time I stepped into Celestion I almost went into sugar shock.  To better synchronize an Aurin character within my personality tolerance, I needed the big tragedy to temper the natural Aurin exuberance.  Some of it will leak out situationally as I get more comfortable with the community.
 
I'm already planning out one of her sisters as a character that's not as 'damaged'. :ph34r:
 
 
In a previous game the IG gossip network was critical to getting people involved in events and spreading information (or misinformation). Yeah, there was a bit of high school social dynamic involved but unless there were any active events in progress the alternative was to sit around and talk about the weather.
 
Heh heh. I was like... what just happened there?
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hehe, Yeah...our religion isn't exactly what you might call the ummm easiest to find "good" images online for XD
 
Last night was pretty decent, we did a fun guild run of riot in the void, had a lovely bit of conversations in guild as well. Nice mellow peaceful night...
 
Had a little funeral for our pet rat this morning as well before work so I'm a little winded, but sure an after work nap and I'll be good to go.	
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I guess I have an allergy to damaged characters. Does the RP world really need another one-legged puppy? But I guess sometimes personal hangups can be fun to play out... 
 
My happiest chatacter has the saddest backstory, but I surround her with mitigating factors so she's not all woe-is-me all the time. And she's not like, "Don't hug me. I'm damaged." Which I see everywhere!	
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Oh my.  Fudge for breakfast.  So tempting.
 
But I think I better stick to more normal fare today.
 
Not a lot of Wildstar news as I'm on the tail end of my weekly no-wildstar-because-RL-is-too-busy thing.  Finally got the german issue that kept me busy all weekend fixed, so now it's just digging out of everything else that is happening, and hoping my guys in Japan/China/Australia don't come up with a new crisis for me before the end of the week.  Hoping to get in game tonight, if not, tomorrow for sure.  Tonight is iffy because I have to head over to the new house after work with the first load of boxes.... yup, moving has begun.  If I just plain don't show my face around here as regularly as usual, it's not because Seeger smells - well ok, maybe a little, but really it's just because of the moving in real life thing.  I'm actually taking next week off from work entirely to focus on moving, so you all might not notice a difference, really.
 
Tonight the Daggers are doing some Hycrest runs to help our guild's newest tanks and healers get comfortable with the role.  As a guild we're making an effort to invest in support specs by making gear for each other and doing runs for people to learn.  We're hoping that long term this will mean that we always have someone available to be a tank or a healer when people want to get a group together on the fly.
 
With my move happening I am not sure yet exactly when I will do it but I will probably post another public group dungeon run up for either next week or the week after.  Or possibly I'll get one of the other Daggers to set it up since my play time will be iffy.  Hopefully we'll get some new players interested in going this time.  The last one was a bit of a letdown - we had people standing by, but it didn't seem like any new players were really interested.  We resolved this time to try and advertise it better in game and see if we can do a better job of getting the word out.
 
Also over the weekend Chestnut and I did an interview for Wildstar Magazine about ThaydFest and the work that went into setting it up.  One of the questions that wasn't asked was "when's the next one?" but since I know everyone wants to know that, I'll tease and say that we're looking at probably early March right now.  We have to get through the holidays first since they mess with everyone's play schedule, and something the size of ThaydFest takes about six weeks of planning and coordination to set up, between building the events and collecting prizes and so on.  We might do some smaller server events in the meantime, but it will just depend on how things look.  Right now there's a lot of cool stuff going on over on Entity that we're planning on attending whenever possible.
 
Eh, that's all I've got.  I should really go make breakfast now.  Back later.	
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			You're doing it again? Amazing!	
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Of course.  We'll keep doing them for as long as they're fun for us to do and for everyone to attend :)  It will probably work out to about 3 times a year.
 
Would be really awesome if our Dominion friends could do an IllumFest in the spring too.... just sayin'	
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Oh my.  Fudge for breakfast.  So tempting.
 
But I think I better stick to more normal fare today.
 
Not a lot of Wildstar news as I'm on the tail end of my weekly no-wildstar-because-RL-is-too-busy thing.  Finally got the german issue that kept me busy all weekend fixed, so now it's just digging out of everything else that is happening, and hoping my guys in Japan/China/Australia don't come up with a new crisis for me before the end of the week.  Hoping to get in game tonight, if not, tomorrow for sure.  Tonight is iffy because I have to head over to the new house after work with the first load of boxes.... yup, moving has begun.  If I just plain don't show my face around here as regularly as usual, it's not because Seeger smells - well ok, maybe a little, but really it's just because of the moving in real life thing.  I'm actually taking next week off from work entirely to focus on moving, so you all might not notice a difference, really.
 
Tonight the Daggers are doing some Hycrest runs to help our guild's newest tanks and healers get comfortable with the role.  As a guild we're making an effort to invest in support specs by making gear for each other and doing runs for people to learn.  We're hoping that long term this will mean that we always have someone available to be a tank or a healer when people want to get a group together on the fly.
 
With my move happening I am not sure yet exactly when I will do it but I will probably post another public group dungeon run up for either next week or the week after.  Or possibly I'll get one of the other Daggers to set it up since my play time will be iffy.  Hopefully we'll get some new players interested in going this time.  The last one was a bit of a letdown - we had people standing by, but it didn't seem like any new players were really interested.  We resolved this time to try and advertise it better in game and see if we can do a better job of getting the word out.
 
Also over the weekend Chestnut and I did an interview for Wildstar Magazine about ThaydFest and the work that went into setting it up.  One of the questions that wasn't asked was "when's the next one?" but since I know everyone wants to know that, I'll tease and say that we're looking at probably early March right now.  We have to get through the holidays first since they mess with everyone's play schedule, and something the size of ThaydFest takes about six weeks of planning and coordination to set up, between building the events and collecting prizes and so on.  We might do some smaller server events in the meantime, but it will just depend on how things look.  Right now there's a lot of cool stuff going on over on Entity that we're planning on attending whenever possible.
 
Eh, that's all I've got.  I should really go make breakfast now.  Back later.
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I'd be more than happy to help in any way that I can as always. Anything from just being a simple usher to putting up prizes, etc...
 
I've been contemplating a cross faction 1v1 tournament for the hell of it(I know pvp is a mess, but doesn't mean we can't have fun beating the snot out of eachother) and I've had a form of hide and seek event idea on the back burner for awhile that I've been messing with.
 
Also Nephele or even Vic if you guys need a tank feel free to give me a poke. I guess I'm a masochist, but made an Exile warrior as well(only class i can really get into), plus I've always liked granok women.	
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Also Nephele or even Vic if you guys need a tank feel free to give me a poke. I guess I'm a masochist, but made an Exile warrior as well(only class i can really get into), plus I've always liked granok women.
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I'd be more than happy to help in any way that I can as always. Anything from just being a simple usher to putting up prizes, etc...
 
I've been contemplating a cross faction 1v1 tournament for the hell of it(I know pvp is a mess, but doesn't mean we can't have fun beating the snot out of eachother) and I've had a form of hide and seek event idea on the back burner for awhile that I've been messing with.
 
Also Nephele or even Vic if you guys need a tank feel free to give me a poke. I guess I'm a masochist, but made an Exile warrior as well(only class i can really get into), plus I've always liked granok women.
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Good morning, everyone.
 
Had a good time in WS last night. Ran into the Aurin incarnation of one of our members, who promptly waved and apologized to me for not being on her Dom character. Really, guys, I'm the last one to complain about people playing lots of characters! She then corralled a group of five of us to do Riot in the Void so she could practice healing. It was actually the first time Scaarinen had done it, so he had about 30 seconds of continuous achievement announcements at the end. ^_^
 
I now have enough Survivalist neighbors that it takes a solid 45 minutes to do a gathering cycle. That makes it sound tedious, but it's a nice thing to do while catching up on TV shows (last night was Agents of Shield - I'm several weeks behind). It's also very nice income. It's also nice logging in to find some harvested materials in my mailbox, although it still seems like a lot of people prefer having their plot harvested without doing gathering themselves. *shrug* Still good money.
 
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Had a little funeral for our pet rat this morning as well before work so I'm a little winded, but sure an after work nap and I'll be good to go.
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			@Nazryn - I looked through yesterday's MC thread to see what I missed after hours, and realized that I completely overlooked your post about joining SK. You're always welcome to join up. :)	
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@Nazryn - I looked through yesterday's MC thread to see what I missed after hours, and realized that I completely overlooked your post about joining SK. You're always welcome to join up. :)
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Would be really awesome if our Dominion friends could do an IllumFest in the spring too.... just sayin'
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If EVAL grows enough by spring maybe we can help :) , but more likely we'll have to put together some conglomeration of the Dom side rp groups in order to organize it properly.
 
Also, last night.... probably easier to just show you.
 
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Toric:  The ship... out of danger?
 
Artemis:  Yes
 
Toric:  Do not grieve.  The needs of the many, outweigh...
 
 
Sorry, couldn't resist :)
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Hahahaha no worries, being a big fan of Star Trek and Star Wars any ship/station that I make is usually heavily influenced by their designs (also Doctor Who).
 
Also is the communications array not a reactor :o, because sometimes you really, really, really need to order Dominus Pizza from your favorite place on Cassus.
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Hehe.  It was the first thing that sprang into my head with that photo.
 
If you added some random consoles around the bottom, it could work as a TARDIS too. :)
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Would be really awesome if our Dominion friends could do an IllumFest in the spring too.... just sayin'
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If EVAL grows enough by spring maybe we can help :) , but more likely we'll have to put together some conglomeration of the Dom side rp groups in order to organize it properly.
 
Also, last night.... probably easier to just show you.
 
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@Vick - Yeah it's the same rat. We named him Templeton Wacom. It'll be weird painting cause I'm so used to him laying his head on the bottom of my cintiq screen.
 
As for the one-legged puppy. I think it's just....easier for people to do. It's one of those "safe" roles to play that even though it's common(some cases overwhelmingly so among certain populations like asura and aurin, you'd think they were mordesh lol). However I believe as well that because of lack of personal experience with being in varying degrees of trauma they tend to go with what's popular....	
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Aw...R.I.P. Templeton. :(
 	
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I guess I have an allergy to damaged characters. Does the RP world really need another one-legged puppy? But I guess sometimes personal hangups can be fun to play out...
 
My happiest chatacter has the saddest backstory, but I surround her with mitigating factors so she's not all woe-is-me all the time. And she's not like, "Don't hug me. I'm damaged." Which I see everywhere!
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First off, agreed with Vick. It strikes me as a very empowering thing. "Take that, hindrance!"
 
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Good morning! 
 
I'm still somewhat feel jet lagged - feels like getting hit by a truck between 2pm-7pm but then after 8pm I had a random surge of energy which was nice... Except for the fact that I went to bed way too late (streaming... Well worth it). 
One big reason I dislike the timezone change is... I can't watch Zero to Fifty and Nexus Reports anymore, since they air at 3AM here (I would put an alarm clock if I was hardcore enough... Sucks missing out on the giveaways though).
 
Now.... waiting for the recap to pop up on the forums! :)
 
Might try this later for lunch..
 	
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			Vic... where's my TL:DR? I tried to watch but kid was being far too noisy =/	
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Vic... where's my TL:DR? I tried to watch but kid was being far too noisy =/
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			Start work at 3pm. Get off at 7pm. Get called back in at 10pm. Life is pain. Off I go! Good night, coffee people!	
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Nifty, please buy that burget and take a pic. I want to see how photoshopped the Japanese ads are compared to actual product.
 
Are those egg yolks or the globs of mustard or cheese sauce made to look like egg yolks?	
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			New thread is up :) 	
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