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Topic: GenCon and Other things
Subject: Professional booth bunny here...
It really depends on what's your objective in having the booth. Spreading awareness of your company and it's products? Then an attractive both is nice, but what will draw people closer? Who are you trying to meet? Do you want them to linger? Live demos and/or author chats at pre-announced times will bring people back, and give you time to deliver your message. Giveaways with your logo can remind people of your company website and name after GenCon, but the important thing to anything you try is make it relevant to what you want to achieve with the big expense of being there.
I was just at retail's biggest show (aptly called The Big Show) in NYC and the company beside us had Jabberwockee performing live on a huge stage every hour on the hour. Hideously expensive, attracted huge crowds, but in the end, not too many CIOs were impressed. The convention maintenance crews loved it, however.
Posted on 2010-02-18 at 01:57:42.
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Topic: New Spores of Itanlok ~ 2 ~ A Short Adventure in Audalis
Subject: Short post during the Olympics!
Rerra watched the scene unfold before her as her heart raced and her stomach dropped. Part of her thrilled to the battle, and part of her wailed with every cry of pain from the fighters ahead of her. She could see that her stones affected the monsters, but not enough, and not quickly enough.
Better to change the odds on our side, then, she thought and tucked the sling away while stooping quickly to snatch up a couple of stones from the rubble at her feet. With all of her strength, she crushed them together in the palm of her hand, feeling the strength of the rocks in her hands pull at the strength of her heart. Chanting to Gamultindar, Rerra began the prayer to bless herself and her companions. Dimly, she heard another female voice begin to sing nearby, but the God of the Khordaldrum had already begun to respond, the strength of the mountains pouring into her and making her feel ageless and immutable.
OOC: Almerin, you’ve asked for the intentions for two rounds. After casting Bless, Rerra will then draw her warhammer and fight her way to whomever she judges to be most injured, looking for her first opportunity to heal.
Posted on 2010-02-15 at 00:32:22.
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Topic: Voyages of the Rocinante - Firefly RPG QnA
Subject: "Let 'er rip, boys!"
The room suddenly stills as a most unladylike rebel yell comes from Willow's vacinity. All eyes turn to the silk clad doctor, as she pumps a fist into the air. The petite woman colours prettily, eyes dropping to the floor as she tucks an errant lock of hair back into place.
"Ahem, what I mean to say is: Ready whenever you are, Captain-san."
Posted on 2010-02-15 at 00:01:30.
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Topic: New Spores of Itanlok Q/A ~ 2
Subject: Glad you are feeling better
The comment on magic was just to be sure. I have known some DM's to penalize you for changing your mode of combat, adding a segment to put away what you were using and ready what you'll be using next. When you consider how long casting takes, that's a real "unmotivator" 
Only two posts...where is everyone?
Posted on 2010-01-30 at 15:12:17.
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Topic: New Spores of Itanlok Q/A ~ 2
Subject: Marching order
Works for me, DB
Almerin, I mostly game with Alacrity, who admittedly has his own rules about magic, and I'm new to 3.5, as well, so I am unsure of how and when to share declarations within combat. I started combat with a missile attack, but my intent is to move to cast next round unless I am forced into melee.
Posted on 2010-01-26 at 00:40:54.
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Topic: Another Newbie
Subject: Hi Mahargrave!
Welcome! Always happy to have new people aboard!
Posted on 2010-01-23 at 14:32:47.
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Topic: Fates of Fortune Art
Subject: Nice work
I'm beginning to wonder if all the good writers here also draw
Posted on 2010-01-23 at 14:28:04.
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Topic: New Spores of Itanlok ~ 2 ~ A Short Adventure in Audalis
Subject: A body in motion ...
"Waitwaitwait." Bohen, head cocked far to one side, looked up from the tracks he'd been studying to regard Odin and Rerra with a look of confusion on his face. "You both attended an art exhibit fully prepared to chase an unknown number of insect-like creatures down a recently discovered tunnel in order to recover a priceless gem, its owner and several of his hired guards?"
Rerra beetled her brows and was prepared to answer gruffly that she’d just arrived from a long journey and hadn’t found lodgings before reaching the museum, thank you, young pebble, when Bohen returned to his tracking, leaving the Khord female gaping.
This one has a gift for getting people’s backs up, and you’ve been backed into too many corners, she told herself as Bohen talked nearly as much as a Pick. don’t be looking for offence when none’s been intended, or you’ll be fighting battles you don’t need to.
She settled for shifting uncomfortably and waiting while Bohen looked at what looked to her to be meaningless scrabbles among dirt and rubble. When he started to head down the tunnel, Rerra gestured to Odin to go ahead of her, saying,” When we meet with these beasties, I’ll need time to work the runes and pray. I think that crossbow and blade of yours will manage that nicely,” she concluded with a wink. If Odin’s scars or reputation bothered her, she showed no sign of it, wanting only to get on with the task at hand.
When the monsters appeared from ahead, insectoid bodies covered in spiky plates, Rerra stopped dead, not in fear, but to keep as much distance between her and the creatures. One hand pulled her sling from it’s place in her belt, the other nipped into her pouch of stones, deftly feeling for the rune of Power inscribed on some, and pulling those out. She set the first into the seat of the sling and began whirling it, watching the tableau before her as the sling picked up deadly speed.
She’d have to predict where Bohen and Odin would be when she cast in order to avoid them, and know where her target would be, but that’s what she had trained to do. Her decision made and target acquired, she let the stone fly, sending two more after it in quick succession.
Posted on 2010-01-23 at 14:26:13.
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Topic: New Spores of Itanlok Q/A ~ 2
Subject: *smiles*
I'll be posting tomorrow night or Friday.
Posted on 2010-01-19 at 23:43:17.
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Topic: RDInnsider - The March Issue Is Here!
Subject: I'm no poet...
...but sending people to read the archives would be good, too, right?
http://www.rdinn.net/poetry/1/musings_on_godhood.html
Posted on 2010-01-17 at 21:23:03.
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Topic: New Spores of Itanlok Q/A ~ 2
Subject: I'm back...just waiting
Are we waiting on Loki? Is he still playing?
Posted on 2010-01-14 at 23:02:14.
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Topic: New Spores of Itanlok Q/A ~ 2
Subject: Short absence
Yes, the professional hobo is packing her bags again. Tgis time, I get to find out how painful it will be to fly into the US with the new security measures. In any case, I leave extremely early tomorrow morning and won't be online again until Thursday.
Posted on 2010-01-09 at 12:47:41.
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Topic: Gamer Stigma
Subject: Yep
Personally, I blame the current economic crisis on the generation that grew up playing Monopoly and thought it was real.
Posted on 2010-01-02 at 19:35:23.
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Topic: New Spores of Itanlok Q/A ~ 2
Subject: No worries
I think you are both handling character interaction well, and if there are initial misunderstandings...well, it's combat, after all
Almerin, can you clarify something for me? You mention numerous mandibles reaching out and grabbing the curator and several guards. Mandibles are jawbones, and/or the moving mouthparts of insects, so are we dealing with one spiderlike creature, or several?
Posted on 2009-12-31 at 04:23:27.
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Topic: The origins of the facelick
Subject: Colour me happy...
... that I was here before Eol, and so didn't have to be "licked-in" 
Posted on 2009-12-30 at 03:55:44.
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Topic: New Spores of Itanlok ~ 2 ~ A Short Adventure in Audalis
Subject: A party forms
“Hello, ” Ikamor’s glance eventually landed on Rerra, and she nodded politely in response, “I must say that this is the first time I have the pleasure of seeing a female Runemaster, if my guess is right.”
He smiled. “You people are basically the only customers I had back when I didn’t find this beauty.” He patted the gem lovingly. “So I should ask you, did you come here to marvel at it, or is there anything else…”
Rerra was never able to answer with her heart’s desire: a chance to look among the historic collection. The wall behind them both suddenly gave way in a burst of dust and sand, the wooden wall splintering outwards into the crowd.
The Runmaster whispered a word of command to the seemingly simple ring worn over her left guantlet, and although the force shield it produced was invisible, the swirling dust shimmered as it touched, and was repelled by, its power. Rerra placed herself between the apparent explosion and the teeming crowd behind her, the shield protecting as many as she could.
Alas, she was too slow to protect the man in front of her, as a monstrous clicking and scarabbling sound preceded the sudden attack of two enormous mandibles protruding from the clouds, which grabbed Ikamor and started pulling him back into the cloud of dust. More mandibles came out of the clouds, and snatched the nearest Khords up, and dragged them away. At least five Khords had been attacked so far, including one of the guards.
“I don’t think so, laddie-my-buck, “ she muttered, even as her heart pounded in her throat. Kobolds and goblins she’d faced, earning her beard braids (over the protest of the elders), but she had no idea what this creature could be. Still, if it lived, it could die, and Rerra was willing to find out. She whipped out her sling and sent two stones winging towards the mandibles, each stone carved with her rune of Power.
“You three!” Another Khord shouted, and Rerra realized that he must have included her, as he was waving at her, “Here!” This was an older Khord, his beard white and spotty, yet wearing fine Sylvari armour, and two other Khords, moved to join him.
“Ha!” Rerra laughed despite her fear,” you lads have lava in your veins, not the glacial melt of our fleeing brothers. What would you have us do, old rock?”
“We havff to act, ” the older Khord spoke with some difficulty, and Rerra noted the horrific scars. “Do we havff a map? Do we know what that…” He paused, seemingly struggling for words “thing?”
One of the young Khords who’d joined them, dressed in traveller’s garb, replied first, "I don't believe any of that thing's tunnels will be on any local map. Unless it's taking measures to conceal its passage through the tunnels I can track it, though I'm not sure what "it" is just yet. I've arrived back home this very morning from... an extended time on the surface and I've got all my gear with me so I can head out right now. Irondock just offered me a job, and I fully intend to keep my employer alive. If any of you would like to join the hunt, but need to gather proper gear, I can mark tunnel any time it forks so you'll be able to follow."
"Oh. And my name's Bohen." he added, peering down the recently exposed tunnel.
The older Khord responded with his own name, Odin Foxblade, and indicated he was ready to go. Rerra saw this as her own chance. “I am prepared to follow, too, friend Boren, friend Odin. I am Rerra Stoneheart, daughter of Balric. I’ve only just arrived, and have all my gear with me,” she continued, turning slightly so that they could see the warhammer strapped across her back, the handle protruding over her left shoulder.
Posted on 2009-12-30 at 03:24:34.
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Topic: Save the Princess Q and A
Subject: Hmmmm...I once knew a character named Crow...
Died of Foot in Mouth Disease, if I recall. Didn't even make it out of the tavern at the start of his adventure.
Tragic, really
Posted on 2009-12-30 at 02:41:24.
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Topic: New Spores of Itanlok Q/A ~ 2
Subject: Postage due
The holidays with a 2 year old just make everything take longer, it seems. Just got my character sheet off to Almerin and he's approved of it, so I'll post tonight. Today, MMV and I are off to the King Tut exhibit at the art gallery 
Posted on 2009-12-29 at 14:59:05.
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Topic: Merry Christmas!
Subject: Happy Holidays to all!
However you celebrate, and where ever you may find yourself, may your days be filled with light, love and laughter!
Posted on 2009-12-28 at 03:25:43.
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Topic: New Spores of Itanlok Q/A ~ 2
Subject: Ack! I'd better get that character sheet done!
It's been kinda crazy with holiday prep, and anyone who knows me knows that the character's personality and background come first, then i get around to silly little details like armour, weapons, spells/prayers, etc.
As for all of us being Khord "outcasts" or misfits, to me, it only makes sense. If you read up on the culture (particularly the place of women), they are so centered on the good of the tribe and the rules of society that any Khord how adventures has a whiff of "different" about them.
And I have never played a typical anything
Posted on 2009-12-15 at 23:46:17.
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Topic: New Spores of Itanlok ~ 2 ~ A Short Adventure in Audalis
Subject: A Song Sung in Stone
The crowd in the Museum of Arts and History were pressed in tight, excitement thrumming through the air, but in the midst of it all, Rerra Stoneheart waited calmly with the patience of rock. She knew what it was to wait for something you desired greatly, and she knew that being strong simply meant being solid. She shifted her weight slightly and smiled behind her auburn beard as the people around her started to protest, then subsided as they glanced at her armour. Almost complete, the scale armour fit her well, and every flat inch of surface was carved with runes: some simple and almost childlike, from her early days, others so deeply mystical that the untrained eye could not make out the shape, seemingly writhing and re-writing itself upon the armour.
Such armour marked her as a Khun-kharad , or Runemaster, a testament to patience and long study in of itself. No matter that it had taken her ten years of logic and persuasion to convince her father to teach her the ways of the runes. They had been so many reasons why her gender prevented her from being a Runemaster, and slowly, one by one, she’d defeated them with sound logic and endless conviction.
“Khordaldrum women are more rare and precious than the finest gems,” he’d begun,” they must be protected and cherished.” She’d countered that in order to carve her very first rune, she’d spend long days in the Library, learning and studying, so where else could possibly be safer? “Men are made for the big matters, and women for the small. Surely the keeper of secrets is a big matter!” Rerra had taken some time to think this through, before responding that secrets were very small things indeed, to be stored in the heart and mind, and became big only when they were loosed upon the world. “You are betrothed to Agnum Bonebreak – have been since before birth, and it would dishonour both him and us if you turned your back on him.” Rerra pointed out that she was yet a fair number of years from being ready for bearing children, so there was no point in rushing into the marriage. Agnum was not the hasty sort, either, and since he didn’t want to lose out on a bride, he was willing to wait on the one arranged for him.
Her father had finally come to the last two points, ones that he would close the matter for good. “Runes must be sung during their crafting, and those of the deepest power need the deepest notes. A female will never be able to reach those tones…and who under earth would train you? A female Khun-kharad is unheard of, the others will not accept you.”
“I have been singing songs of hearth and home, father, but also that of forge and mine. The rock sings back to me, and guides me deeper into my soul, where the music is. (Her father had closed his eyes at this, recognizing that Rerra, indeed, had the calling). As for training, “ and here Rerra had hugged her father, placing her head against his barrel chest as she had done so many times as a child, “who would best be able to teach me than you, old boulder? As one of the finest Runemasters around, if you accept me, the others will do so, as well.”
Rerra’s smile faded behind her braids at the memory of her younger, brasher self. Indeed, she’d studied hard, and some songs had been harder to master, her very bones humming with the deep notes, but once her father had passed away, no other would recognize her status, nor would they train her any further. She’d travelled here to look among the forgotten tomes of the Museum for the next rune she needed to complete her armour, only to find that some special gem would be displayed. After the crowd had their fill of the gem, surely she’d be able to speak with the curator.
“And so I present to you, the Irondock Sapphire!”, Ikamor Irondock concluded, and Rerra was torn from her thoughts by the gasp that rolled through the crowd. Her own eyes widened and she could barely breathe; the sapphire sang its song and she was caught in the notes. What would be the best rune to carve upon this magnificent gem? How much power could be held within such a crystalline cage?
The crowd swept her forward and around the sapphire, depositing her by Ironforge’s side. A young Khord warrior was speaking to the curator, so with her customary patience, Rerra waited.
Posted on 2009-12-13 at 04:38:41.
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Topic: New Spores of Itanlok Q/A ~ 2
Subject: Understood!
It's the character sheet that's holding me up, but I should be able to post before Sunday. Once that's done, regular posts should not be an issue.
My apologies to the group! 
ETA: Done! Character sheet yet to be done, but I saw that only an introductory post was required. Hope y'all like it!
Posted on 2009-12-12 at 03:52:10.
Edited on 2009-12-13 at 04:42:19 by Vanadia
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Topic: What good is my education in England?
Subject: What else can you do?
In many cases, a university degree is a standard requirement for any job, even it it is unrelated to the position at hand.
Look instead to your total skill set: what computer skills, what communication skills, do you have any experience managing people, etc.
And, in case you were wondering, your use of the English language is amazing  I know native speakers of English that are not nearly as articulate as you.
Posted on 2009-12-05 at 21:17:24.
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Topic: Loaded Dice #36: What Took You So Long?
Subject: Don't let it bother you
Those who can, do; those who can't, sit back and criticise while acting all superior.
Don't Feed the Trolls, feed the Grugg
Posted on 2009-12-04 at 16:41:51.
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Topic: Audalis - Leeway
Subject: Sage?
I prefer "well-seasoned".
Posted on 2009-12-04 at 13:33:19.
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