Post by Mike on May 13, 2021 3:47:35 GMT -5
I see Lissa, Bobbi, and Amber on Facebook here and there, but sometimes I get nostalgic and hop on here to take a look.
There's a sadness, I think, that I associate with this. Sadness that it's gone, that life isn't as simple as it used to be, whatever. I am still roleplaying, actually - and still roleplaying Star Wars, believe it or not! I started a FFG tabletop game about a year ago on Roll20 with some folks that wanted to help me write "Tabletop in the Time of Covid." Or...Love in the Time of Coronavirus. Or something like that.
My real life has gone a lot of places since I was last here (though briefly in 2015). I've been a homeowner and living with my wife for 10 years, though we only got married in 2017. Yes, someone actually married me. Jobs have come and gone, but Chelsea is now a doctor of pharmacy at a big hospital here in Atlanta and making the big bucks while working to treat cancer in their infusion center.
As far as my nerd life...well, I used to LARP, but a year and a half ago that all came tumbling down. We found out a lot of things that I won't want to upset anyone with here, but let's just say that like any communities, LARPs can hide bad people for a long, long time. I was helping to run the LARP for a while there, and I was, in some capacity, a staff member from 2011 to 2019.
I still play games, read books, and I am absolutely in love with the stuff Star Wars has been putting out (not those sequel movies, of course - though, somehow, they made me appreciate the prequels more).
I am currently developing an online D&D game in roll20 and we hope to have our first session soon. I may stream and/or record it so if I do, I'll post it here.
As for my Star Wars FFG game, my players are awesome and I've had the privilege of running that story for a year. We're about halfway through the campaign. The premise of the story is that Bail Organa, hearing that the Tantive IV had no survivors, called upon trusted individuals to deliver a message to Obi-Wan on Tatooine and bring him back if able. The players were just behind the movie characters every step of the way, and ultimately returned to Alderaan empty handed - only to find it destroyed, and the Death Star jumping into Hyperspace. Since then they have come to find the message was an encoded list of Force Sensitives that Bail was hiding from the Empire, and his hope to rebuild a Jedi Order under Kenobi. Now my players are hunting down these individuals, but so are the Inquisitors (I have 2 that they've had some fantastic interactions with...I have some experience roleplaying in that arena) as well as the Crimson Dawn. Qi'ra, from the Solo movie, is now in charge and was trained by Maul, and she is looking for these Force Sensitives to make them into Decraniated with Dr. Evazan, extending her own will into them and controlling their bodies Mekhetu/Phobos style. So far they've fought with the Rebels on Dantooine against the Empire, rescuing a Jedi that was frozen in carbonite from the Clone Wars, as well as ventured through Tatooine, Ryloth, Bothawui, and...I'm forgetting one...OH YEAH. They went to this weird asteroid smuggler's den, a real hive of scum and villainy. Free-floating asteroid, Soto Clan, taxing ships for power, day/night cycle made artificially by the neon lights, artificial gravity making a stream of refuse in the center of the tunnels while buildings were done 360 around them. Lame idea, I know. I just named it "The Cave" because I figured it was fitting? I dunno. They killed some Twi'lek asshole named Inos there.
They are enjoying the game and the intrigue so much (they don't really know all of that plot stuff quite yet) that one of the players commissioned a movie poster for with the characters on it, and for Christmas, I got them this... www.cameo.com/v/RTH-TgV62
So, I'm still a Star Wars nerd, still doing fantasy stuff, and still ripping off of Charlotte's ideas for my own gratification. I even did SWTOR for a while and leveled up Ith'li, a Sith Immortal Juggernaut, that I played with nearly all the Light Side responses and wore old, tattered-looking Jedi robes, wielding a silver lightsaber - his trophies from finally murdering that Tekal jerkwad. Annnnnd I'm 99% sure that I'm gonna make some asshole named Sadhric Tlin in my game so the players can murder him, too. I might even have them do it again to Badhric Flin, his brother, just for an additional layer of satisfaction. Needless to say, SWRP will always have a very special place in my heart, and I remember the game and all of you very fondly.
Hope you're all doing well. I was sad to see that some of our former players have passed in recent years, but I am glad to see so many familiar type-faces still nerding it up like it's 2003. If you want to add me on some kind of media let me know where else you guys dwell.
I love you guys.
Ith'li / Inos / Fennsk / Rilan / Keles / Halran / probably others I'm forgetting / Slayer of Erics / Nonbeliever in Brads / Dark Lord of the Sith / No But For Real those other guys are just posers / I'm fucking 34 now wtf / I still have the Daaku and Zajuk RP's and read them occasionally / the starting town in my D&D campaign is called Glengarden because Charlotte 20 years ago was still more creative than I am now
-Mike
There's a sadness, I think, that I associate with this. Sadness that it's gone, that life isn't as simple as it used to be, whatever. I am still roleplaying, actually - and still roleplaying Star Wars, believe it or not! I started a FFG tabletop game about a year ago on Roll20 with some folks that wanted to help me write "Tabletop in the Time of Covid." Or...Love in the Time of Coronavirus. Or something like that.
My real life has gone a lot of places since I was last here (though briefly in 2015). I've been a homeowner and living with my wife for 10 years, though we only got married in 2017. Yes, someone actually married me. Jobs have come and gone, but Chelsea is now a doctor of pharmacy at a big hospital here in Atlanta and making the big bucks while working to treat cancer in their infusion center.
As far as my nerd life...well, I used to LARP, but a year and a half ago that all came tumbling down. We found out a lot of things that I won't want to upset anyone with here, but let's just say that like any communities, LARPs can hide bad people for a long, long time. I was helping to run the LARP for a while there, and I was, in some capacity, a staff member from 2011 to 2019.
I still play games, read books, and I am absolutely in love with the stuff Star Wars has been putting out (not those sequel movies, of course - though, somehow, they made me appreciate the prequels more).
I am currently developing an online D&D game in roll20 and we hope to have our first session soon. I may stream and/or record it so if I do, I'll post it here.
As for my Star Wars FFG game, my players are awesome and I've had the privilege of running that story for a year. We're about halfway through the campaign. The premise of the story is that Bail Organa, hearing that the Tantive IV had no survivors, called upon trusted individuals to deliver a message to Obi-Wan on Tatooine and bring him back if able. The players were just behind the movie characters every step of the way, and ultimately returned to Alderaan empty handed - only to find it destroyed, and the Death Star jumping into Hyperspace. Since then they have come to find the message was an encoded list of Force Sensitives that Bail was hiding from the Empire, and his hope to rebuild a Jedi Order under Kenobi. Now my players are hunting down these individuals, but so are the Inquisitors (I have 2 that they've had some fantastic interactions with...I have some experience roleplaying in that arena) as well as the Crimson Dawn. Qi'ra, from the Solo movie, is now in charge and was trained by Maul, and she is looking for these Force Sensitives to make them into Decraniated with Dr. Evazan, extending her own will into them and controlling their bodies Mekhetu/Phobos style. So far they've fought with the Rebels on Dantooine against the Empire, rescuing a Jedi that was frozen in carbonite from the Clone Wars, as well as ventured through Tatooine, Ryloth, Bothawui, and...I'm forgetting one...OH YEAH. They went to this weird asteroid smuggler's den, a real hive of scum and villainy. Free-floating asteroid, Soto Clan, taxing ships for power, day/night cycle made artificially by the neon lights, artificial gravity making a stream of refuse in the center of the tunnels while buildings were done 360 around them. Lame idea, I know. I just named it "The Cave" because I figured it was fitting? I dunno. They killed some Twi'lek asshole named Inos there.
They are enjoying the game and the intrigue so much (they don't really know all of that plot stuff quite yet) that one of the players commissioned a movie poster for with the characters on it, and for Christmas, I got them this... www.cameo.com/v/RTH-TgV62
So, I'm still a Star Wars nerd, still doing fantasy stuff, and still ripping off of Charlotte's ideas for my own gratification. I even did SWTOR for a while and leveled up Ith'li, a Sith Immortal Juggernaut, that I played with nearly all the Light Side responses and wore old, tattered-looking Jedi robes, wielding a silver lightsaber - his trophies from finally murdering that Tekal jerkwad. Annnnnd I'm 99% sure that I'm gonna make some asshole named Sadhric Tlin in my game so the players can murder him, too. I might even have them do it again to Badhric Flin, his brother, just for an additional layer of satisfaction. Needless to say, SWRP will always have a very special place in my heart, and I remember the game and all of you very fondly.
Hope you're all doing well. I was sad to see that some of our former players have passed in recent years, but I am glad to see so many familiar type-faces still nerding it up like it's 2003. If you want to add me on some kind of media let me know where else you guys dwell.
I love you guys.
Ith'li / Inos / Fennsk / Rilan / Keles / Halran / probably others I'm forgetting / Slayer of Erics / Nonbeliever in Brads / Dark Lord of the Sith / No But For Real those other guys are just posers / I'm fucking 34 now wtf / I still have the Daaku and Zajuk RP's and read them occasionally / the starting town in my D&D campaign is called Glengarden because Charlotte 20 years ago was still more creative than I am now
-Mike