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Topic: Star Trek: the Edge of Duty Q&A
Subject: Star Trek
I’ve been reading this game and I love Trek, so I guess I want to say is that I would be interested if you need a body in this game or in a new Trek adventure.
-G
Posted on 2018-09-18 at 16:29:48.
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Topic: Tell a Tale of the Golden Age of the Inn
Subject: Not Golden age
While I’m not a member of the Golden Age of the Inn, the email did get my attention and make me think of this place again. Glad to o see it’s still going and who knows, I may come back to play. 🤪
Posted on 2018-09-16 at 19:39:40.
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Topic: Happy New Year 2018
Subject: Happy New Year 2018
A very Happy New Year to all!
My resolution is to try and spend some time here and attempt to get into a game. I have been reading here and there, but I hope to have time in 2018 to actually participate.
Wishing you all a Wonderful 2018!
-Bear
Posted on 2017-12-31 at 10:41:41.
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Topic: A Grumpy Old Bear
Subject: I really am
I'm trying to make it back here, really I am.
As proof, I'll throw out a request to any open games to drop me a line and I'll check it out. I'm an old school AD&D guy, so anything above 2.0 is new to me. Never learnt that new fangled stuff; I mean why mess with perfection. But I'm open to most anything and will give it a try, if it strikes me fancy.
Hope to be around and posting soon.
GOB
Posted on 2017-10-01 at 08:07:25.
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Topic: Voyages of the Rocinante - Firefly RPG QnA
Subject: To all you Browncoats out there
Happy Unification Day! 
Posted on 2017-09-20 at 17:49:16.
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Topic: Alacrity to have surgery
Subject: Best wishes
Even though I don't really know you, I send my best wishes and prayers for a successful operation and a speedy recovery to you, Mr. Alacrity!
Posted on 2017-09-20 at 08:26:38.
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Topic: A Grumpy Old Bear
Subject: FYI
Well, after dealing with family issues, I am slowly making my way back towards the Inn. I'll be looking around to see what is available and into how much time I'll actually have to RP. If I see something I like, I'll drop a post when I'm ready to give it another try.
-Jon AKA Grumpy Old Bear
Posted on 2017-09-16 at 14:17:02.
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Topic: Voyages of the Rocinante - Firefly RPG QnA
Subject: Ahhh
Yo Saff Bridge. That's one fine filly there!
Posted on 2017-06-23 at 13:53:53.
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Topic: A Grumpy Old Bear
Subject: Regretfully
I'm sorry to tell you this, but due to a family situation involving the death of a son-in-law after a year long battle with leukemia, my daughter and her children need me to be around to help them get through this tragedy. Therefore, I won't be able to spend any time at the Red Dragon Inn right now. It seems like a nice fun place and I will return if I can once this get a little easier. Sorry for any inconvenience this will cause to the games I am playing, or about to play in, but it can't be helped. Family comes first! I hope to see you all again.
Jon
Posted on 2017-06-16 at 07:55:13.
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Topic: The Bleeding Lute Q&A : Where everybody knows your name
Subject: We done here?
Well I haven't see any posts so I guess this game is dead for now I will keep an eye open for anything to pick up again.
Posted on 2017-06-11 at 10:17:33.
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Topic: The Bleeding Lute Q&A : Where everybody knows your name
Subject: Just checking..
To see if anyone is interested in continuing this little chat? I'm just getting warmed up and everyone disappears. I saw that one person was tied up with moving people and setting themselves on fire, but there was 2-3 other people posting and now it has gone silent. If it was because of my intrusion, just say so and I can exit as quickly as I entered, though perhaps without damaging the furniture this time.
Posted on 2017-06-05 at 12:54:03.
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Topic: The Bleeding Lute - Come on in and Play!
Subject: a little addition while we wait..
The old man sat in his chair sitting against the wall; the cat sat at his feet looking out at the room. The man absently stroked his long white beard and stopped with a start. "I don't know if I can get used to this." He sighed and looked down at the cat, giving it a suspicious look. "Are you sure that you aren't responsible?"
The cat looked up at him with narrowed eyes, "It was not me," it told the old man, "besides you have many enemies whom don't exactly like it when you travel through their realms without permission."
The cat tilted it's head to the side as it studied the man closely, "Well at least your still human this time."
The old man nodded with a sigh and looked out at the room once again. This Inn, The Bleeding Lute, looked just like any other Inn in any other town. It was surprising packed it seemed, and the destruction of one of their tables didn't do anything to help the seating situation. He considered moving to the bar, but there wasn't much room there. The bar was taken up by a male elf, a dwarven female, a human female, a female halfling and the dirty human, who had been startled earlier by his sudden and disruptive entrance. He figured he would just sit here for a few moments; let the wine sooth his nerves after the ordeal that brought them here. After that, he might just see about getting a room; it had been a few days since he had gotten a good night's sleep.
(OOC: I probably don't need to explain, but I want to mention it just in case anyone isn't aware. The old man is talking aloud to the cat, but the cat's replies, in italics, are mental communications only received by the old man. I hope that's clear.)
Posted on 2017-06-02 at 17:41:55.
Edited on 2017-06-02 at 17:42:54 by Grumpy Old Bear
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Topic: The Bleeding Lute Q&A : Where everybody knows your name
Subject: Posts?
I do believe there are some posts due. Anyone?
Posted on 2017-05-30 at 15:38:55.
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Topic: Voyages of the Rocinante - Firefly RPG QnA
Subject: Who me?
Awww you gave away my character's name. Well I look forward to RPing with you all.
Posted on 2017-05-29 at 09:26:47.
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Topic: Voyages of the Rocinante - Firefly RPG QnA
Subject: Commitment
I will commit to play. I'm willing to take over a character if there is one that needs a player, or if you can bring in someone New? I have the Firefly RPG rule books somewhere.
Posted on 2017-05-27 at 20:11:46.
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Topic: Memorial Day
Subject: Amen
Respect to all those who serve, and especially to this who gave their lives so that we all may live free! I will never forget!
Posted on 2017-05-27 at 20:07:42.
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Topic: Voyages of the Rocinante - Firefly RPG QnA
Subject: Interested
I love me some Firefly and if a game was to start up on here then I would be very interested. I've gone and read some of this Rocinante game and I like what I see.
Drop me a PM if this game starts up again.
Posted on 2017-05-26 at 15:35:48.
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Topic: The Bleeding Lute Q&A : Where everybody knows your name
Subject: Short post
I posted a short continuation post and addressed things in Finn's post; but the old man didn't respond directly to Finn since he didn't really address the old man.
As to the Cat, he isn't Black and White. This pic is what he looks like:
FYI, this is an Egyptian Mau cat. Not that it is important, but he would be a very rare breed in these parts I would imagine.
Posted on 2017-05-24 at 17:05:09.
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Topic: The Bleeding Lute - Come on in and Play!
Subject: a short one
The old man sat and looked at the patrons of the Bleeding Lute; for the most part they seemed to take his unusual method of arrival in stride. The destruction of the table seemed to be the main focus for the Staff, but the monetary compensation seemed to quell that issue. He took note that most seemed to be simple folk, but there were a few, sitting at the bar that appeared to be the more adventurous type. There was a Elf, who he would have bet good gold that he was a tracker or some similar profession; a dirty looking man who smelled like he might be a drifter or .. *sniff* .. or a druid of some sort, one who took to his work a little too closely. A dwarven female, a human female, and a halfling female; the old man patted down his robes briefly to confirm the presence of his purse.
"WHAT IN THE BLUE BLAZES?!?!" He recalled the dirty human had cried aloud at his entrance; he seemed to have calmed down somewhat now that he had seen the apparently harmless looking old man and his cat. His thoughts were again interrupted by another cry coming from the stairs.
Henry the Owner, dressed only in a nightshirt and cap comes bellowing down the stairs,,
"Oi, Wots all dis then! Oi swear, I takes one evenin' off fer once in me bloomin' life an' th'whole world comes crashing in through my roof! Maria wots going on down ‘ere!"
Henry is red in the face, this thick frame heaving with extreme agitation. "This is why we can't ‘ave noice tings!" He shouts to no one in particular.
Maria walks over to Henry and places some gold coins in his hand. "It's alright Boss, I've got it handled"; she says, her voice cracking slightly as she gathered her wits. "Really, It's been settled, you can go back to bed".
Henry looks at the money and then looks at the patrons and then looks at the strange old man sitting in the corner with his black and white cat.
‘Well,, it better be,,"; grumbled Henry. "Oi' won't stand fer it!"
At Maria's firm insistence he begrudgingly turns to ascend the stairs.
Halfway back up the stairs he turns and calls down to Finn.
"Master MacCuel, Oi knows ‘ur aware of my weapons policy. Put ‘em away a'fore I ‘ave Murph confiscate um. I runs a respectable establishment not a Brawlers Pub!"
With that Henry disappears up the stairs and back to bed.
The old man had been about to apologize again for his rude interruption of the festivities, but before he could the proprietor had been satisfied and returned upstairs.
"Well now," he said, "I have caused quite a stir eh?" He looked down to the cat, who looked up at him and replied, "You do that quite a bit, Aticus." The old man sighed and reached a hand up to rub his head absently and then stopped and felt the top of his head as if searching for something.
"By the Gods," Aticus exclaimed, "not again!" He looked down at the cat, "Why did you not tell me?"
The cat appeared to give a little shrug, "I knew you would realize it eventually."
The old man felt around his head and face and tugged at the long white beard and then sighed. "Well, it has been worse." The way he was acting, was as if his appearance was not what he was expecting. He leaned back in the chair against the wall and sipped his wine again as his eyes took in the common room.
Posted on 2017-05-24 at 16:52:27.
Edited on 2017-05-24 at 16:54:12 by Grumpy Old Bear
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Topic: A Grumpy Old Bear
Subject: Facelick?
I'm not sure how to respond to that. I don't recall every having had my face licked, and definitely by something that likes like a cross between a leprechaun and some creature from the Resident Evil franchise. So, I will just say, Thank You, I guess! Now I know why people were talking about a towel. (Uses towel to dry off face)
Tann - I will post all further questions and such to the game Q&A thread. I should have a post ready by this weekend; even if I haven't finished the backstory. I look forward to joining the game, it seems quite interesting to me.
Posted on 2017-05-22 at 19:02:06.
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Topic: A Grumpy Old Bear
Subject: Yes
I got your PMs, thanks. Give me a couple days to read them over and I should be ready for a post. If I have any questions, I will ask here or more likely PM you.
What is the frequency of posting, once/wk? When do you do your DM update?
Grumpy will do, if you please. That's me, at least as far as my kids are concerned.
Looking forward to RPing with all of you!
Posted on 2017-05-22 at 05:45:15.
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Topic: A Grumpy Old Bear
Subject: Yes
It is best to keep your plans from the DM sometimes, it keeps him guessing and less time to plan your eminent demise.
I'm going to sent a PM to Tann so he knows I am interested in playing. He might miss my posts here.
Posted on 2017-05-21 at 16:14:00.
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Topic: The Bleeding Lute Q&A : Where everybody knows your name
Subject: Entrance
Ok, I have posted an entrance to the Bleeding Lute. I hope it is satisfactory. I am a bit rusty at this sort of thing. Anyone there may interact with me, if they wish. If not, he will do his own thing.
Posted on 2017-05-21 at 16:12:30.
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Topic: The Bleeding Lute - Come on in and Play!
Subject: Unexpected Entrance
The air of the Inn seemed to suddenly become a little electric, and some of the patrons noticed that the hairs on their bodies stood on end as if a static charge had grown in the air of the Common room. The wind then picked up, out of nowhere and seeming to swirl around the room, growing slightly in velocity. Some people grabbed on to light items as they started to vibrate and move as the wind continued. Suddenly a crackle grew in the center of the room near the ceiling and it looked as if a some small clouds had impossibly formed and were starting to swirl in a circle. Within seconds, the swirling clouds crackled with lightning and people seated beneath the sudden storm rose from their seats and fled across the room. With a sudden brilliant flash of lightning, something large fell from the center of the storm and crashed into the now empty table below. The large thing was a body, it crashed into the table, causing it to collapse to the floor. A smaller body fell from the storm and landed atop the larger body. With a sudden loud 'pop', that caused some patrons ears to pop as if the pressure in the room had suddenly changed, the storm vanished with a flash.
In a tangle amid the destroyed table, lay a human looking old man and atop him a medium sized cat. The cat was the first to recover and hop from the chest of the man to the floor. The old man was a little slower getting to his feet. He rose to his full height, of about 6', and his back cracked loud enough for those nearby to hear it as he stretched. He was a typical looking old man, though his exact age was hard to determine; he could be anywhere from 70- 120 years of age. The top of his head was bald, yet his chin sported a full white beard stretching down almost to his waist. He wore simple tan-colored robes, a rope for a belt, and he carried a 7' gnarled wooden staff that was scorched black on the upper end. The cat at his feet had smoky fur with black spots all over it's coat; it was currently busy grooming itself as if nothing had happened.
The old man looked around the room and blinked, "Well this wasn't where I meant go." The cat stopped grooming long enough to look up at the old man; it seemed as if some sort of silent communication had passed between them.
"Yeah well, you were in a bit of a hurry!" the cat communicated by Telepathy with it's 'master'.
The old man looked down and frowned at the cat as if it had just said something to him, "I know, but this place doesn't look at all familiar to me. I would think I would go someplace I knew." He spoke to the Cat apparently.
Just then, Maria burst from the kitchen and looked at the mess in the middle of the common room.
"What's going on here?" Maria exclaimed loudly.
"I'm sorry, my dear," the old man said as he stepped from the rubble of the flattened table and approached her, "totally my fault. I didn't mean to appear here, and well, I was a little off target. I will pay for the table." He reached into the sleeves of his robes and came out with a small sack and withdrew a couple of golden coins and handed them to her.
Maria was dumbfounded for a second as she looked at the table, the old man, the cat looking up at her now, and the gold coins that the man was offering her. She put out her hand and the old man placed the coins in her hand. She looked at them, the imprint in them were unknown to her, but they were gold and would more than pay for the table.
"Well," she said finally, "I guess it's ok. Please, no more disturbances, ok?"
"Of course, my dear," he said with a smile and having handed her the coins, he took her hand and turned it over and gently kissed the back of her hand, "my sincere apologies."
The Cat let out a chortling sound, which seemed unusual for a cat. As the old man let go of the woman's hand, he turned a disapproving glare at the cat. Maria blushed a little bit and then composed herself and mumbled something and went back to the bar.
The old man turned to the pieces of table and with a gesture and some muttered words, a thin beam of green light came from his finger tip and hit the broken table and it turned to dust which then seemed to blow away by a strange breeze and was no more.
The man looked about at all the other patrons in the room, most looking at the strange man and his cat. The man smiled apolgetically, "Forgive my untimely, and unorthodox entrance, it was as unexpected for me as it was for you."
He chuckled and grabbed up one of the chairs from the, now disintegrated table, and moved to sit it against a blank spot by the wall where he leaned his staff against the wall, then sat down with a sigh. The cat looked about the room and then moved to sit at the old man's feet, and looked at the room as if it was standing guard over the man.
"You know this is all your fault."
"What?," the old man exclaimed and looked down at the cat at his feet, "it was you that angered that dragon. I tried to reason with it."
"You know that was never going to work."
"Well you could at least you could have let me try." The old man said with a shake of his head, "you are just so impatient."
The cat made some sort of snort that sounded like a sneeze as it continued to watch the other patrons of the Bar. The old man sighed and looked up at the room; taking note of the people here and trying, unsuccessfully, to determine his location.
"My dear," he finally said gesturing a hand at Maria who looked up at him, "could I get a glass of wine over here?" The cat looked up at him then, and the old man added, "and a bowl of milk?"
Maria, poured a glass of wine and then went into the kitchen, returning a moment later with a small bowl of milk and walked over to them.
"It's not much," she told him as she handed him the glass and bowl, "but I hope it will do."
The old man snapped his fingers in the air and produced a silver coin which he handed to her, "Thank you, my dear. I am sure it will be fine." As she turned to return to the bar, "Oh, could you tell me what is this place?"
"This is The Bleeding Lute, sir!" Maria said before she returned back behind the bar.
"Hmmm," the old man said as he leaned over in his seat and set the bowl of milk by the cat who immediately began to lap it up, "that sounds inauspicious!" He began to sip at his wine and nodded his approval. He didn't know if it was really that good, or if he just had been deprived of wine for so long that his senses were skewed by it's absence. It didn't really matter; they were both safe, for now.
Posted on 2017-05-21 at 16:06:49.
Edited on 2017-05-21 at 16:08:52 by Grumpy Old Bear
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Topic: The Bleeding Lute Q&A : Where everybody knows your name
Subject: Thank you
I had been reading back and noticed that the NPC staff did appear to be available for play, so I took the liberty. I plan to have a post up shortly for my entrance.
Posted on 2017-05-21 at 15:51:59.
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