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Topic: Season of the Witch Q/A
Subject: :)
Well one way or the other I'll try to have something up by Tuesday morning. Like I said got it all in mind... twas just hoping I wouldn't have to wake her up, it was much more enjoyable if someone else did it. 
M.
Posted on 2010-02-28 at 17:03:44.
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Topic: RedWyrm School of Online Adventuring - Q&A
Subject: Players...
Please make sure you note the last post on the prior page for your 'assignment' for the week. 
M.
Posted on 2010-02-28 at 16:56:01.
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Topic: RedWyrm School of Online Adventuring - Q&A
Subject: Assignment...
Alright boys and girls...
I have decided to leave the combat training bit as it is. However, we have noted the players concerns over how it went and will strive to improve this on the next go around.
In the light of the game, and really all gaming here, I feel it is best to let it stand and simply move forward. Getting too tied up on particular rules and instances of something not going the way we would like clogs up a game and often destroys it more than it helps. Noting your concerns is certianly acceptable, encouraged in fact, but now it is time to move on.
I would like to take a brief pause, however... and thank you all for still respecting each other in your posts about this. That helps to build an environment here at the Inn where we all feel comfortable and want to continue to play. So... give yourselves a pat on the back for that...
Now... continuing on!
You will notice that I've posted a very short post for everyone. (Except our newest student, and just hold on I'll get to you in a minute dear  )
This week I would like you all to work on a dream sequence. Take your character from the field to dinner or straight to their room as you see fit, have them contemplate the day and then I would like them to all go to sleep and dream something.
I rather enjoy doing dream sequences myself and I think that this exercise will provide you with some interesting feedback into your own character. One of the delightful aspects of playing here compared to a tabletop is the ability to really delve into your character, to focus on the Role Play aspect instead of just the combat scenes.
For style... please put the dream part of your post in italics and bracketed by the special characters below.
EXE:
She watched the candle flicker and did not even realize that she had fallen asleep.
~*~
The candle must have been doused, she thought to herself. Perhaps by the water. She could hear the water, hear it dripping but in the darkness she could not determine from where it came. Blindly she reached out with her hands trying to find her way...
~*~
With a loud crash she fell to the floor.
Posted on 2010-02-28 at 15:37:55.
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Topic: RedWyrm School of Online Adventuring
Subject: Recouping
Redwyrm Dormitories
Week 1: Monday night
There was little to talk about after the defeat in the ‘Death Yard’. The first day at the school had proven to be a difficult one. Dinner was more gruel, and the three brothers that had given them such difficulties at lunch were not present. Those who still had an appetite ate quickly and in silence, while those not willing to face another bowl of gruel simply went to their rooms.
Just as the sun was setting a bell peeled out over the campus and the professor on duty that evening made the rounds ensuring that each student was properly put away in the tiny cube assigned to them.
((OOC: before posting please see the note I have up in the Q&A about what is expected of your next post... thanks!
-Prof. M.)
Posted on 2010-02-28 at 15:26:37.
Edited on 2010-02-28 at 16:57:06 by Merideth
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Topic: Last one to post wins - Part II
Subject: Alright dear...
Start it up.
We all know I'm not the greatest DM and I can't even convince myself to start up the freeform game I've got in mind, let alone try and do a DL.
So get tapping Ion! 
M.
Posted on 2010-02-28 at 15:20:05.
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Topic: Season of the Witch Q/A
Subject: So...
Then what I gather is that no one is going to try and wake the little preistess up?
Um... hmmm...
I was kind of hoping someone would try to wake her up... but everyone seems busy. I have in mind what I want to do... I guess I'll wait a bit longer to see if someone wakes her up and if not I'll have her do it on her own I suppose and post up... have no fear Tek... I am at least still with you!
M.
Posted on 2010-02-28 at 15:01:47.
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Topic: The One Word Game
Subject: Saurkraut is scary...
Poland
Posted on 2010-02-28 at 14:55:30.
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Topic: The One Word Game
Subject: How come we always come back to zombies?
horror
Posted on 2010-02-28 at 14:00:42.
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Topic: Last one to post wins - Part II
Subject: Hmmm
You know I'm only in the second book... but... I have nothing against Riverwind. But so little has been done with him. It is hard to really get to like someone when the author does not give him much attention. In the first book he got some with him protecting Goldmoon and coming to accept Tanis and what not... but he says little, and never really takes up any kind of real leadership (or even an opinion beyond... 'I follow Goldmoon'). He did get a really cool death scene when he got fried by that dragon though... *nod* I'm always up for a good gruesome death scene! 
But yeah in the book I'm currently on he and Goldmoon are barely mentioned, just kind of thrown in now and then... 'oh yeah the Barbarian's were there too, Goldmoon healed someone... let's move on with the story'
As for Strum... he is fun. He was actually my first bit of inspiration for a character I'm building for a tabletop game. My first lawful good paladin. We shall see how this goes...
M.
Posted on 2010-02-28 at 13:36:44.
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Topic: RedWyrm School of Online Adventuring - Q&A
Subject: Ack!
Alright... calm down everyone. I'm going to take another look at this.
Give Tann some slack please... he's just gotten out of the hospital and probably not feeling that great. When I get a chance today I'm going to look into the combat sequence a little more deeply and see if anything looks like it needs some adjustment.
We will probably move on from this combat after this and go into a little writing exercise I thought up for you all and then move into Tuesday if that is alright with everyone.
Like I have said before, this is kind of a learning experience for all of us so just be patient...
Thank you,
M.
Posted on 2010-02-27 at 15:16:25.
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Topic: Cherrywood
Subject: Prologue
A dusty red 1989 Camero in need of some body work turned onto the abandoned driveway at a dangerous speed, kicking up a cloud of white dust behind it. Missouri was experiencing yet another dry summer; in fact this part of the Great American Bible Belt had not seen rain in almost a month. The blazing sun caught the rearview mirror in a blinding glimmer as the car pulled to a screeching halt in the circle drive, its bumper which brandished license plates from New York State, coming in dangerous proximity to the step leading up to the once impressive front porch. The car sat there, idling for a moment, waves of heat pouring out of the exhaust pipe. The house itself seemed to stare back at the car, not in fear, but instead with the determined expectations of a cowboy facing off his enemy for duel in the middle of a dusty western mining town. The old plantation style home did not even sway in the hot wind that came from the northwest as it glared down at the little car. Finally the driver’s door opened slowly, a feminine hand held onto the handle. One could almost swear that the sagging porch sighed and every window that was not boarded up twinkled in the light as if blinking at the woman about to step out of the car.
A hawk circled lazily in the cloudless sky, casting its v-shaped shadow over the provincial lawn full of knee high yellow grass and liter form the nearby road. The dried grass bent over in pure submission when the woman stepped out of her car and into the edge of the yard. She was not tall by any standards, and she was just as tall as she was fat. Her salt and pepper hair was pulled into a braid reaching the small of her back; wisps of shorter curls spun a halo around her head. With her delicate hand she tried to tame the halo, with little luck. She wore a blue summer dress, white sandals and a short white sweater around her shoulders. After establishing her position directly in front of the house she gave up trying to tame the halo and raised her hand to shield the suns light from her view and looked up at the corpse before her with dark squinted eyes. The two knew each other, and the hate was mutual. Memories from a time long gone wavered between them, intangible, and yet undeniable, evoking emotions neither of them wanted.
The woman cleared her throat and whispered to the wind as she nodded oh so slightly, “You know, I would do it all over again…”
As if carrying the message the wind picked up for a moment and caught the screen door in its hand, opening it and then slamming it shut with a loud bang. The woman held her breath for a moment as the sound hit her ears, the swallowed hard and took a few steps closer to the house. She kept her eyes on it though, never trusting it. She could not remember one day when she lived here that she did watch her back constantly, and even after being gone for so many years the habit did not die. For a moment her eyes flickered to her feet, and to the porch she was about to step on. The boards were splintered, sunken in and cracked, she hoped it would support her weight. Without closing her eyes she could easily imagine that porch opening up to swallow her up with the rats and lye and the dead bodies, then closing above her in its final act of revenge. She could scream, but no one would ever hear her out here, for no one ever came here anymore. The land would never sell, the house was cursed, everyone knew it, and they were so afraid they would not set foot in her or that matter even think of bulldozing her to the ground. No if she fell victim to the house she was gone, and she knew it. She wavered a moment, just as she did one hot August night when she was thirteen. Her body shivering with anticipation and fear, her palms sweating, her breath much too hot for her own comfort, and every muscle in her body tense and ready for anything. But as when she was thirteen she swallowed her fear and took a step, determined to face her fears, room by room.
The boards of the porch creaked loudly in protest as she stepped on them, threatening to break beneath her just as she had imagined, but they did not. She made it all the way to the door, putting her hand on the tarnished handle when she noticed the plank of wood just over the door. It did not shine like it used to and one end had splintered off so now it read ‘CHERRYW’ but she could remember when it used to proudly proclaim its full name to all who dared enter.
“Cherrywood… you bitch…” she hissed under her breath and ended the sentence with a period of spit cast to the dilapidated porch.
Once someone had put a few boards over the door to try and keep vagrants out, they had long ago rotted out themselves, however not even a vagrant would like the vibes this place emitted and try to stay here for a night. Then again, even if they dared risk it, who would care?
Thus the woman easily pried the door open and took her first step inside. The light took a moment to get used to. With some of the windows boarded up, others covered halfway with broken wooden blinds and some broken and wide open the light came in strange lines and patches. Where there was not a blotch of light there was almost pure darkness. After a moment though her eyes became more accustomed to the strange environment. Just as she remembered the door opened to small foyer, with a staircase leading up the right wall, a door at the foot of the stairs went to the old dining room and opposite that was a door that leads to the sitting room. Running next to the staircase, going to the back of the house, was a hallway that ended in yet another door. All the doors were closed, also just as she remembered it. The doors in Cherrywood were almost always closed, and they had many secrets lurking behind them, if only one cared to open them up and look. The house was naked though, which was not as she remembered it. The walls were bare, the furniture gone, the floors stripped to the barest of hardwood. She supposed that the police had taken some things out for evidence and the rest had either been taken by relatives or sold. It was strange to see it thus. Yet as she took a second glance at the foyer a slight smile played with corner of her lips. The Mrs. Had always tried to keep her house ready for even the most intensive Good Housekeeping inspections. Seeing her precious Cherrywood in this state would send her to the sanitarium, if she was not already dead. The woman could easily see where animals had broken in and nested or defecated on the floor, she could see the mildew crawling up the walls, and piles of dust bunnies and debris cowering in every corner. The thought of the Mrs. Screaming at the sight almost pleased her.
Those dark eyes glanced at the two doors on either side of her, she was tempted to go in, but she was tracing her steps from the night in August 1950, and she did not go in those rooms then. Instead she started to walk down the hall, careful of the piles of scat. When she reached the door she put her hand on it and gave it a gentle push, it swung open easily. The ease at which it still managed to move sent a shiver down her spine, some things were too familiar. The door revealed the old kitchen. Cherrywood was one of a handful of housed to get electricity before the Depression, so the kitchen was not something from the stone ages. There was an old fridge and a gas range sitting in one corner, both rusted beyond repair now. Her eyes focused on the sink, though, which was embedded in a sea of white Formica countertop. Memories of doing dishes there flooded her senses, the smell of the soap, the sound of her mother humming softly as she finished cleaning up dinner the sound of a radio distantly playing a ball game for her father. In an instant her eyes darkened and the smile dropped from the corner of her mouth. It was a life she hated to remember. In fact she had hated to live it, even when it was happening. So much that she had once taken a plate from the table that sat in the middle of the kitchen and thrown it against the wall in a spectacular crash. If she looked carefully enough she could probably still see the mark it left on the floor even under the fuzz of brown mildew that now called that spot home.
Her lips drew into a pale slit, she remembered why she came, and spun on her heel to leave the kitchen. Marching back down the hall toward the front door. She came to the foot of the stairs and looked up them. The porch had supported her weight; dare she try her luck again with the stairs? And in the end, did it matter? The house might still swallow her up, but perhaps it was justice finally being done. Without another thought she grabbed the railing and with a deep breath she started to mount the stairs. Each one moaned as she put her weight on it, and yet, just like the porch they held true. One by one she made it to the top and faced the upstairs hallway. It ran perpendicular to the staircase, with rooms coming off it from both sides. Instinctively she turned right, not even noticed the disrepair of the house anymore. Her right hand trailed along the wall, and even though she was a woman now in her 60’s in her mind she was thirteen again and making that fateful trip down this hallway to the last door on the left side. Face to face with the door she paused once more. She listened, almost expecting to hear crickets and the soft snores of two people sleeping. Instead all she heard was a rat scurry off into a hole in the wall with a pissed screech. The noise made her heart miss a beat and her body jump. Taking a deep breath she tried to get control of herself, to slow her heart back down and stop the perspiration that ran down her back. Until this moment she had not even noticed that she was sweating profusely, and now the hot stickiness of it bothered her immensely.
“Let’s just get it over with…” she whispered and the ghost of herself at thirteen whispered it with her.
Unlike the kitchen door this door did not swing open so easily. It stuck a little, swollen probably from the heat, and when she finally managed to give it enough of a shove it popped open and almost threw her into the death room. A smell like none she had ever encountered before, even after living in New York for the last twenty years, hit her immediately and she had to struggle to keep the hamburger she ate on the way there in her stomach. It was a rotten smell, the smell of blood and death. There were two windows in the room. This made it hard not to notice the stains on the floor. Her eyes widened as she took the full picture in, the reddish stains covered almost the entire floor, even in the square of the floor where she knew the bed had once sat. She did not remember there being so much blood, but perhaps that was a trick the moonlight had played. Here in broad daylight there was no mistaking the amount of bloodshed here. The hamburger could no longer be kept down. Leaning over with her hand against the wall she wretched it up and the smell of stomach acid and bile mixed with the smell of death. Sweating, dizzy, nauseous and deathly pale she weakly turned and fell to her knees looking out over the blood stained room she began to cry. For the first time since pulling her car up the drive she closed her eyes and let forth a wail that came straight from the depths of her damned soul. Tears streamed down her face and fell to her bosom. Her hands tore at her own hair as she bewailed her fate with mournful cries. Downstairs the front door slammed again and again. The house felt no pity, it sat sternly listening to her cries and felt nothing, it had finally won this small battle, she had broken down. Was it justice? No, but it was at least a good pacification for the time being…
Posted on 2010-02-27 at 03:49:07.
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Topic: Cherrywood
Subject: Cherrywood
Cherrywood
I've been working on this story, or a varient of it, for longer than I would really like to admit. I came up with the concept of the house when I was about thirteen myself. I have a very distinct memory of that moment actually. Perhaps that is why I keep coming back to it. At any rate I'm trying to work some more on it and thought I would share.
As always this is Merideth writing so there might be some adult themes and this is no likely to be a happy story (okay it definatly is NOT a happy story).
Thanks,
M.
Posted on 2010-02-27 at 03:47:49.
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Topic: The One Word Game
Subject: awww...
Hoffman
Posted on 2010-02-26 at 14:40:06.
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Topic: ^ < V game
Subject: Well yes... it is vile and ruining the youth of America!
^ Was Johnny Bravo for Halloween
> Watched the first season of The Simpsons last night
V Idolizes Ren & Stimpy
Posted on 2010-02-26 at 14:32:43.
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Topic: The Game
Subject: Disney is never pleased...
NSFW? I can't keep up with all of these letters...
I mean WTF?
Oh... and lost... which means that ATM I'm 
M.
Posted on 2010-02-25 at 20:11:26.
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Topic: The Morphing Game
Subject: All tied up in
knots
Posted on 2010-02-25 at 16:39:21.
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Topic: The One Word Game
Subject: lol
Smee
Posted on 2010-02-25 at 15:23:56.
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Topic: The One Word Game
Subject: Worth it though... *nod*
Alacrity
Posted on 2010-02-25 at 14:56:32.
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Topic: Last one to post wins - Part II
Subject: That's not bad!
Much better than the crap that the Jonas bro's put out...
I must say I was rather sad when they made an appearance in the 'Night at the Museum' sequel. Amusing movies (despite the historical innacuracies I still applaud anything that gets children even remotely interested in history and/or museums)... but the Jonas bro's running around as little cupids... 
Glad I could help inspire a memory of that lovely little ditty though
Hey! It's true! I'm a muse!
M.
Posted on 2010-02-25 at 14:52:09.
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Topic: ^ < V game
Subject: hmmm
^ Star
> Constellation
V Galaxy
Posted on 2010-02-25 at 14:44:46.
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Topic: Add On Story. Fill in 3 words!
Subject: The security guards at the mall drive those... I laugh...
get overrun by
Posted on 2010-02-25 at 14:36:25.
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Topic: The One Word Game
Subject: I wonder how much liquor it would take to get Ion drunk...
Chaplin
Posted on 2010-02-25 at 14:34:57.
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Topic: The Would You Rather Game
Subject: I'm a ST Junkie!
Bring it on! You know... I kind of like (when it isn't making me ) the whole positive outlook on our future sci-fi aspect of ST. So many things that are set in our future involve the destruction of the world as we know it and humanity deevolving into this rotten warped version of 'survival of the fittest'
ST with the Federation and the idea of science and exploration and humanity rising above it's animal instincts to bring peace to the Universe is kind of nice... and something that maybe we should be working towards... *nod* Maybe that's what we need at the next UN meeting... a ST marathon! Whoo!
Would you rather have Meri just answer the question or go off on one of her Meri-rants about whatever random aspect of the question that sparks her mind at the moment?
M.
Posted on 2010-02-25 at 14:24:46.
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Topic: RedWyrm School of Online Adventuring - Q&A
Subject: Check...
misread post, thank you for the clarification Steel
M.
Posted on 2010-02-23 at 13:59:54.
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Topic: Season of the Witch Q/A
Subject: Oh!
Yes yes... definatly time to get things moving!
M.
Posted on 2010-02-23 at 13:57:36.
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