Re: General Non-game Chat Thread

by **Baelon Drakeson** Sun Apr 03, 2016 3:27 pm

Oh man, I haven't listened to Enigma in years... their 3rd or 4th album, I think.

by **Lady Corrine Marsten** Sun Apr 03, 2016 7:14 pm

Hello and welcome, new blood!

by Ser Jasper Strongarm Sun Apr 03, 2016 9:55 pm

Lady Corrine Marsten wrote:Hello and welcome, new blood!

Thanks!

by **Ayleth Bartheld** Mon Apr 04, 2016 9:25 am

Welcome, good ser!

by Ser Jasper Strongarm Mon Apr 04, 2016 9:48 am

Ayleth Bartheld wrote:Welcome, good ser!

Thank you, my lady!

by **Ereth Redwain** Mon Apr 04, 2016 5:46 pm

Welcome, hope you enjoy playing with whatever House you join and the rest of the players.

by Ser Jasper Strongarm Mon Apr 04, 2016 5:48 pm

Ereth Redwain wrote:Welcome, hope you enjoy playing with whatever House you join and the rest of the players.

Thank you, I have taken up service in House Tullison. I look forward to playing with you!

by **Lady Corrine Marsten** Wed Apr 06, 2016 2:19 am

I'm the only one on the forum right now! Not even the bots are here! Bwahaha! *rearranges the furniture and drinks all the orange juice*.

by **Benedict Marsten** Wed Apr 06, 2016 2:55 am

Lady Corrine Marsten wrote:I'm the only one on the forum right now! Not even the bots are here! Bwahaha! *rearranges the furniture and drinks all the orange juice*.

Oww! Who moved the stuffed shadowcat in front of the General Non-game Chat Thread door?

by **Lady Corrine Marsten** Wed Apr 06, 2016 2:57 am

Benedict Marsten wrote:
Lady Corrine Marsten wrote:I'm the only one on the forum right now! Not even the bots are here! Bwahaha! *rearranges the furniture and drinks all the orange juice*.

Oww! Who moved the stuffed shadowcat in front of the General Non-game Chat Thread door?

*innocent face*

I may have ingested too much sugar, due to baking frenzy.

by **Reader** Wed Apr 06, 2016 9:52 pm

Lady Corrine Marsten wrote:I'm the only one on the forum right now! Not even the bots are here! Bwahaha! *rearranges the furniture and drinks all the orange juice*.

A glorious prize beckons!

All alone in the castle...

by **Ayleth Bartheld** Wed Apr 13, 2016 12:55 pm

Has anyone heard from my Davain lately?

by **Kevan Lyras** Wed Apr 13, 2016 4:12 pm

Activity in general has dropped a lot recently Crying or Very sad

by **Loreia** Wed Apr 13, 2016 5:03 pm

Reader is dealing with some stuff. A few threads I know of(because I'm in them) need a response from him before they can continue.

by **Baelon Drakeson** Wed Apr 13, 2016 7:19 pm

Ayleth Bartheld wrote:Has anyone heard from my Davain lately?

According to his member page, he last logged on (publicly) on Monday.

Loreia wrote:Reader is dealing with some stuff. A few threads I know of(because I'm in them) need a response from him before they can continue.

Indeed. Really, this would be the perfect time to run the Drakeson tourney (126/05). We just need a board to set up threads in and relevant NC stats.

Like the Redwain tourney, it is only a joust, but it is regional so there could be upward of 500 knights (for the sake of math I am assuming 512 knights, mostly nameless .
Not everybody will be invited, but a tourney of this magnitude is not really something that can be kept secret, so tourney-crashing is quite feasible.

I don't think we would really want to roll out 500+ knight's worth of tilts, nor do I think we would want a larger-scale version of the Redwain tourney where after a few intense early matches there were a whole slew of hand-waived bouts leading to large ransom payoffs to a handful of characters. I'm working on a system to quickly and easily determine a top 8 or 16 to participate in a traditional single elimination. The idea is to abstract out the first 500 or so tilts in a way that rewards the skilled with moving onto the top tiers while also rewarding participation by those less skilled as well. More detail will be forthcoming after reader approves the system. :;
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by **Reader** Thu Apr 14, 2016 8:57 pm

Happy to set up forum stuff for Drakeson tourney to allow some scheming and jousting this weekend, along with a system wide PM to announce that I'm getting back up to speed.

Sorry all for delays, as Loreia noted I've got a lot going on personally (time &
money for repairs, albeit fingers crossed insurance is coming through. Nothing health threatening). Barring a sudden, tragic GoT stlye end I would never drop game without letting people knowing and hopefully passing my spreadsheets + notes on. I've been a player in a couple of these games and know how much work everyone puts in.

by **Yoren longshore** Sun May 01, 2016 5:10 pm

I have returned once more, I have scimmed through stuff, and am almost up to date!
On more important news: The greatest books ever made is finally, after many flukes, being made into a proper tv series: http://moviepilot.com/posts/3890977

by **Theomore Tullison** Sun May 01, 2016 6:35 pm

Take that man to pyre for such blasphemy Evil or Very Mad

by **Gwyneth Drakeson** Mon May 02, 2016 2:37 am

lol...I suppose the success of Game of Thrones made it inevitable, but I can't see it ending well. They'd have to rewrite practically the entire series, start to finish.

by **Yoren longshore** Tue May 03, 2016 6:13 pm

Theomore Tullison wrote:Take that man to pyre for such blasphemy

Aiels protect me!
Seriously though, I think that Wheel of time translates quite well into TV. It's biggest issue is that it is quite cinematic. It wont have that issue in TV form. It might be a huge flop, but remember that Jordans wife is still around, and she did a good job supervising the last books...

by **Gwyneth Drakeson** Tue May 03, 2016 6:51 pm

I'd love it if they could pull it off.

But if there's one series of books that is MORE needlessly complex and bloated than Game of Thrones, it's Wheel of Time. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it thoroughly, but it would need a HUGE amount of work to make it as streamlined and as comprehensible as it would need to be to work as a television series.

That said, I sincerely do hope they do a good job on it.

by **Kevan Lyras** Tue May 03, 2016 7:00 pm

Anything else having trouble with all the TV show spoilers floating around? I dont care for the TV series one bit, but since it overtook the books now I am a bit sensitive. And it is practically impossible to avoid any spoilers when even your average newspaper is discussing developments on the frontpage! Evil or Very Mad

by **Reader** Tue May 03, 2016 7:18 pm

Kevan Lyras wrote:Anything else having trouble with all the TV show spoilers floating around? I dont care for the TV series one bit, but since it overtook the books now I am a bit sensitive. And it is practically impossible to avoid any spoilers when even your average newspaper is discussing developments on the frontpage!

I sympathise! Feel free to flag anything on this board - players here are generally pretty considerate.

As you note, the programme's enormous success makes it hard to avoid. I can't even escape from things professionally: at least one piece of investment bank research mentioned ASOIAF last week. Rolling Eyes

by **Baelon Drakeson** Thu May 05, 2016 9:12 pm

Kevan Lyras wrote:Anything else having trouble with all the TV show spoilers floating around? I dont care for the TV series one bit, but since it overtook the books now I am a bit sensitive. And it is practically impossible to avoid any spoilers when even your average newspaper is discussing developments on the frontpage!

Amazingly I haven't heard anything... then again I've been pretty much sequestered the last couple of weeks writing papers, so it might change...

I'm sure there's a monastery you cold join somewhere. Laughing

by **Kevan Lyras** Fri May 06, 2016 9:21 am

Baelon wrote:
I'm sure there's a monastery you cold join somewhere.

At GRRM's current pace that would probably be a decision for the next decade or so :;
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