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Are you telling a story or playing a game? [Redux]

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 TheMeanestGuest
Damn it. I lost.

 Rorschach Fritos
Added to The Game!

 Luminous Crayon
Yeah, but it's too late; I'm already picturing Steerpike as a tree, typing away on the internet with his leafy branches.

 Nomadic
willowy (Adj): Tall, slim, and lithe

 FREAKINAWESOMEHORSE
Possibly has something to do with whoever "Wispy" is on IRC when they game.

 Luminous Crayon
Reason I ask is because I am imagining trees now.

 Luminous Crayon
Willowy?

Is that figurative or what?

 Nomadic
Gormenghast... I see steerpike has you in his willowy grasp.

 Conundrum Crow
Bought new books yesterday (had a gift certificate). Bought Gormenghast, Nights of Villjamur, the first book in the Long Price and Retribution Falls

 Elemental_Elf
A Spambot once told me Turtle Soup was delicious. I slew him, reanimated him, then sent him to the Plane of Turtle Samurai.

 Nomadic
Die Spambot is an exceptional example of the art of turtle theater and you are lesser for thinking ill of it.

 your guts are DELICIOUS
Oh and Luminous I've started a writeup of our Jade Stage adventure.

Fiiiiinally.

 your guts are DELICIOUS
Still panned by critics though.

It's just no good.

 Luminous Crayon
Die Spambot, one of Wagner's lesser-known operas, was panned by contemporary critics but is now widely regarded as ahead of its time.

 GambleWolf
You know the kind of category 4 hurricane with swirling winds upwards of 145mph...

....my name is Earl.

 Vreeg's Barolo
die, Spambot!!!!!

 Luminous Crayon
Hey, Vreeg: URL

More to come on the liriss. This part's like religion, only more secular, empirical, Orwellian.

As always, I'd love to have you guys' first impressions on this.

 Vreeg's Barolo
Posted the SIG session 46 transcript. I find it an interesting setting log when read straight.

 Nomadic
Dracula can rest easy knowing that he no longer has serious competition...

 Steerpike
RIP Gorethirst

 Nomadic
anything I can do to help?

 Steerpike
sorry I'm late guys, MIRC troubles...

 Vreeg's Barolo
LC, I cannot wait to see!

 Luminous Crayon
On the Jade Stage Wiki docket: all things liriss/Formerian/draconic

 Luminous Crayon
re: "hurrah for new material posted", I am working some things up on the wiki, and should have some pretty good stuff to show soon (although it's a tough week with work and such)


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 brainface on Sunday 11 July 2010 - 17:00:00 
Update - August 12, 2010:
If anyone has extended problems throughout the day in getting to the site, please send an email at fallen_ishmayl(AT)yahoo.com. I am unable to frequent the site during the day from work, but I do have email access, and can get the server reset if there are problems. We are currently trying to find out what the issue is with the server, and what we can do to fix it, so please be patient. Thanks!

As anyone who's been around the site the past couple of weeks knows, the server has been having some issues. I've taken some steps to try to correct the problem, but it may still be an ongoing issue. Please post in this thread with any problems you encounter: URL

I'm hoping to get this sorted out as soon as possible, as obviously seeing error 500s and mysql connection errors isn't a good way to get advice on your campaign setting.
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Tempter Part the Second

 Nomadic on Saturday 20 March 2010 - 17:00:00 
Steerpike will be running us through the world of tempter once more come Friday April 2nd at 4pm EST (1pm PST, 9pm GMT). Please join us on IRC for some truly demonic entertainment.

- Nomadic
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