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Eol Fefalas
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~ Take that role, tonight...

...Don't wanna let you go till the final fight,

Take that role tonight

It's just like Olan said;

Be my little Khany!~

 

Bloop! End pointless Eddie Money tribute!



Posted on 2019-09-25 at 11:02:48.

t_catt11
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it is done!

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

I'm am beyond stoked! 



Posted on 2019-09-26 at 10:04:15.

Eol Fefalas
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Fantastic!!!

This is exciting news! Welcome aboard, Reralae!



Posted on 2019-09-26 at 10:13:05.

t_catt11
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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.



Posted on 2019-09-26 at 10:18:31.
Edited on 2019-09-26 at 11:48:06 by t_catt11

breebles
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Yeeesss!

Welcome to the fun and horror, Reralae!



Posted on 2019-09-26 at 10:24:56.

Reralae
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Butterfly present,

And happy to be here

For the record, I may have to swap Arancon's gender, just because one of my limitations I've found is getting into the headspace of a male character. It's like trying to use a zip disk in a cd drive for me.

Easiest thing to do might be to just do the 'character was always this way' retcon, unless Olan would like an opportunity to have Aranwen claimed by something spooky and replaced by his counterpart in the same event (mirrors and shadows come to mind...) I imagine that doesn't fit in this flavour of spookiness though.



Posted on 2019-09-26 at 10:27:48.
Edited on 2019-09-26 at 11:46:57 by t_catt11

t_catt11
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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. 



Posted on 2019-09-26 at 10:33:26.
Edited on 2019-09-26 at 11:47:34 by t_catt11

Reralae
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Ahead of you there, Olan; according to the name generator you have, 'Aran' is a first part that is used in both male and female names. So the easist thing to do is switching the second part.

If I go by second parts I see the generator using, Aranwen seems to be the most visibly similar to Arancon.



Posted on 2019-09-26 at 10:38:12.
Edited on 2019-09-26 at 11:47:18 by t_catt11

t_catt11
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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. 



Posted on 2019-09-26 at 10:41:26.
Edited on 2019-09-26 at 11:48:51 by t_catt11

Eol Fefalas
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No objections, here...

...the only thing it will influnce where Ch'dau is concerned is in the way Aranwen is addressed... Khatun as opposed to Khan and such.



Posted on 2019-09-26 at 10:52:59.

t_catt11
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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.



Posted on 2019-09-26 at 11:00:10.

Reralae
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Not to mention you might clobber some poor Aranwen in another game on here, if there was one

I've seen SQL databases. I know how easily they're clobbered!



Posted on 2019-09-26 at 11:02:06.

breebles
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You had me at dope lady bladesinger leader bad ass.



Posted on 2019-09-26 at 11:04:03.

Eol Fefalas
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FWIW

Captain Backup just performed a find/replace on the word document and, to this point in the game, there are 289 instances of Aranwen. Only 15 instances of Khan (two of which appeared in the word backhanded and two more not relating to Aranwen, at all).



Posted on 2019-09-26 at 11:10:58.

t_catt11
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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. 



Posted on 2019-09-26 at 11:16:22.

   


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