I'll post when you do. 

So, let's talk about "teams".

I consider myself to be pretty open minded; I honestly didn't think that the whole "other team" thing was offensive, just a silly term.  If it does offend anyone, I apologize, I certainly meant no offense.

I will confess to a moment of stupidity, though.  When Reralae first suggested retconning Arancon to Aranwen, my exact thought process was "okay, no problem, no difference in game mechanics... oh, wait.  Arancon hooked up with Davena, I don't want to pretend that never happened!"

Because I was... what?  Unaware that two women can have sex?  (insert facepalm emoji)

I mean, good grief.  If we're changing someone's gender and character retroactively, it's not like we cannot change the sexuality of another make believe person.  Durr. 

I figured that out pretty quickly, but that was my embarassing knee jerk reaction.

As for tolerance?  Those of you who are my facebook friends have seen me rant about this a couple of times.  I identify as a Christian... who doesn't comprehend how people can justify turning a blind eye to other sexual stuff but fixate on people who happen to have the same gender.  It's utterly private business to begin with, why does it concern me any more if they have the same junk?

It doesn't.  My job as a Christian is to love people.  That's it.  

But back to the game, if we're going to have the very realistic situation where two consenting adults have casual sex, how can we only accept that if they are opposite genders?  That's just silly. 

As a final note, in case we ever need this to be stated - the Inn's official policy has always been that everyone deserves to be treated with respect.  I don't care what race, gender, religion, political affiliation, sexual orientation, etc, etc, etc you identify as - you deserve to be treated respectfully.  Hate speech of any sort means that you have no place in this community, period. 

Lol, other team...

It happened.  It's a legit plot point.  If we're retconning,  no reason Davena can't like girls.  

Welp... I may try this a couple more times...

I've had three people post.  Anyone else care to give it a shot?

I'm so stoked.  Dying for Brom and Raven to post, over here!

Yep.  One tiny bt of luck in all of that was that the blade came to rest on a zombie's corpse, technically not hitting the ground.  So it is still usable, else I'd have mentioned it. 

Yay posts!

Bladedancer/bladesinger are indeed very similar... at least thematically.

If you haven't looked at it, you may want to look at the Bladesinger class stuff.

Thanks for all of the awesome work, Eol.

Nervious?  Psh, I invited (begged) you for a reason!

Halfway there!

The man is doing WORK.

No doubt!  With a plan and everything!

Ho ho ho!

Game thread, Q&A thread, recruitment thread are all done in terms of name swaps.  And I swapped a few back in this discussion manually so that it made more sense.

Welp, just ran the replace on the Q&A thread.  May make this most recent conversation look a little funny, but the swap seems to have worked great.

On to the game and recruitment threads.

They can get away with a shorter period than other species.

And we're just happy to have you!

I  you, Captain Backup!

I can restrict the find/replace to the three game threads.  I still think I'll do the name, just not the pronouns or whatnot. 

If a staff member ever gets crazy industrous, they could manually edit those. 

I'm gonna say with three votes for (and only two other players), and in the interest of making the new player as comfortable as possible, we'll go with the retcon.  I can't imagine somebody just making this a deal breaker objection. 

Yup. 

I'm tempted to do a big SQL update to the back end, with a "find/replace" of "Aranwen" for "Aranwen", just for reading continuity.  Like, if we're gonne retcon, let's really retcon. 

Of course, you do get the he/his in the old posts still, and you can't just brute force replace those... so it may not be worth the effort.

A'ight.  Does anyone object to a retcon of "Arancon" to "Aranwen"?  I imagine this might have changed some interactions in the past a bit... but meh.  If it works for you folks, it works for me. 

The only issues I see with a retcon are the facts that "Arancon" is a male name, and that he hooked up with Davena back at the Inn. 

But then again, I don't guess that the latter is an issue.  It's not like we can't retcon Davena's sexuality so that the encounter still happened. 

No kidding.  It's bad enough to NPC Midge, but he's had so little life breathed into him, anyway, that it's not as big of a deal.  Arancon has been played the entire time, and is the party leader... I hated to reduce him to an NPC.

To get a player of Reralae's caliber is a boon I hadn't even dared to hope for.

Ladies and gentlemen, for our remaining performances, the part of Aranwen will now be played by Reralae.

I'm am beyond stoked! 

It's a bus, not a tank!

A bit of a faux pas, skipping directly to the triple dog dare.

Let's see if I can get a post up here.

I concur.  Step by step would be super interesting.

Alive?  I don't think Ohio is THAT dangerous...

Love the van! 

I'll see what I can do about sharing some beer.  A word of warning - Canada customs kills packages of beer.