[OOC] Wolf Manor

[Jig]

Ahh, you guessed the ending. Sol is a Were-kitten.

[AuntFlavia]

Ahh, you guessed the ending. Sol is an amphibious Were-kitten.

@Jig

Fixed that for you.

[MyCatGinger]

@AuntFlavia

Holmes, I think you've cracked the case!
How did the exam go? I'm so out of the loop, but I know I'm infinitely jealous of @Callthecops! I've got a cat at home myself, but he doesn't quite enjoy playing and would much rather curl up at the foot of my bed and sleep.
Always wanted a dog, though! Lucky @corneredbliss... :c

I'm alive, and I've got nothing bad to report! Well, except my terrible immune system and being sick as a dog, again.
And the most terrifying night of my life last night.
It wasn't a nightmare, but I still woke up at 6 in the morning (usually I'm up by past noon) nauseous and sweating because I couldn't fully get to sleep and had spent the past three hours in a tormenting kind of microsleep.
...I woke up unable to drag my mind out of the dreamworld it had created and even sat up with my head in my hands, but I swear to you, I couldn't for the life of me convince myself that I was me. And I was in my room. In my bed.
Prior to that, I couldn't move my body at all though I could feel the bed underneath me and oh god was it terrifying.
Identity dissociation? I had trouble even trying to convince myself that I was me in reality and not the me stuck in my dreams! <<
It sounds silly now, but that is how I've been going, folks.

Continued well wishes to everyone in a hard place! (COUGH @Jig) I send my love to you all (and hopefully not lots of icky flu germs)!

Also. @Kirah, you need to teach us your ways. Pls. I literally need to learn how to be that proactive to advance anywhere from where I am now.
And @TheMaster99 you're like a ghost oh goodness. << Praise be.

@MyCatGinger I'm like a ghost? In what way?

[AuntFlavia]

@MyCatGinger Sorry to hear about your scary night. Hope it doesn't happen again. I haven't taken my state exam yet, I'm at work now and will be starting my exam about 8 hours from now. I am studying instead of working, though. ;)

Also congrats on being bumped higher on my 'awesome people who I love' list along with Kirah for mentioning Holmes. I freely admit that I own a deerstalker, a magnifying glass, the complete original short stories, too many Dvd's to count (including the Soviet Union series starring Livanov and Solomin, my very first intro to the great detective) a region free Dvd player, and even more books than Dvds, including my pride and joy; a hard cover copy of Bending the Willow: Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes. Ahaha I'm obsessed I have an addiction oh god please help me

[corneredbliss]

@MyCatGinger Oh man, sounds like sleep paralysis to me. Had one episode similar during a nap I took in broad daylight, where I was conscious but asleep and couldn't move, and I was hearing all this crazy shit threatening to break down the bedroom door, and when I woke up I wasn't really sure if I was actually awake or not for a good four hours after. Absolutely wrecked me for sleep for a good week because I'm a paranoid android. Sorry that you had to go through it love, I wouldn't wish that crap on anyone.

And @AuntFlavia you cutie!

[Kirah]

@MyCatGinger My proactive-ness will probably save me. I also have a temp agency telling me that if I don't get something before the company here fails they'll find something for me so \o/

I'm going to calm down a bit about it all now. I think I'll be okay.

[Callthecops]

@MyCatGinger I had weird things happen to me like that a year ago where I thought my bed was flying through space and time and just weird sensations and dream elements that were just flooding my awake brain. I'm pretty sure it has to do with the transition from REM sleep to awakeness, and theres a stage with Theta waves or some shit. I forgot exactly what it was, but basically it makes stuff like that happen and it's totally not indicative of any serious mental health problems so don't worry about it :)

[Jig]

Is anybody not fucked up here in the dream department?

I once had a dream in which I remembered that I killed someone - and when I woke up, still completely had those fictional memories. That was a pretty weird week for me.

[corneredbliss]

DUDE. Dude. That's crazy. Shout outs to deja vu and past lives and all that.

[Jig]

Yeah, it was pretty crazy.

It's a shame, because I used to be able to lucid dream by working out I was in a dream (my totem is a jigglypuff doll that, when you squeeze it, it blasphemes) and waking myself up and going back in, and being able to control it from there. The sad thing was, I would be aware it was a dream, which takes the fun out of the experience entirely, and check my emails. While dreaming. So I would sit there, able to physically explore my own imagination, and I would just be trying to load emails I knew I was imagining (and were therefore blank).

Fuck sleeping, man. Waste of time.

[AuntFlavia]

For me, Mary Jane always gives me weird dreams. (The candy, not tree you kidders) Once I had one where my backyard was made of maggots. :S And I was a murderer running away from the characters from Criminal Minds (which I used to watch). But then a different episode in my dream started so then they were fighting aliens on a different planet and a giant pizza fell on them.

[corneredbliss]

and a giant pizza fell on them.

@AuntFlavia

Wow. Lucky.

[AuntFlavia]

Tell me about it.

Edit: Yknow, a week or so ago I was freaking out about lack of a creative outlet, so I skimmed through some interest checks and dear and fluffy lord none of them looked interesting to me. Is it me? Am I picky, or has the awesome power of Wolf Manor spoiled my standards?

[corneredbliss]

Nah it's not just you. I'm witnessing the same thing in the interest checks, which I find is really strange and slightly upsetting. But eh, what can ya do. I'm sure it's just a lull because it's summer.

But of course this game and all of our lovely selves are sucking up most of the awesome anyway, so there's also that…

[Jig]

Wolf Manor has spoiled your standards.
Definitely.
Bliss is talking shit. :P

When to Use Félix

I just had a preview of a collab that's coming, and, without wanting to seem like I'm telling anybody off (I'm not), I just want to clarify when you should feel free to use NPC's (typically Félix) and when not to. Basically, it's only to use them as plot devices to make scenes easier to flow. If Billy-Bob or Sally-Ann would like a drink to facilitate the scene they're in, then Félix away. However, you shouldn't use him (or mention him) doing anything that might be related to the plot or your own/characters' suspicions about WTF is going on at Wolf Manor.

Generally speaking, Félix's personality is passive, awkward, and a little bit cold/shy (depending on interpretation). Flashes of either a really deadpan sense of humour/complete social retardation (again, interpretation) may also emerge if you're feeling adventurous.

Again, if you're ever uncertain, you know how to get hold of me. I'm logging on much more frequently now, so no sweat.

[corneredbliss]

Bliss is talking shit. :P

@Jig

;)

And roger that ^

[AuntFlavia]

I return from my journey. I have traveled over mountains of legal information and trained in a 6 day crash course of supreme learning, battling against the insurance world's logic and language. I've toppled the giants of subrogation, indemnity, licensing agreements, and even the titan known only as the dwelling policy. I have fought tooth and nail, and I have emerged victorious.

Uh, in other words, I passed my state exam. By the skin of my teeth.

Time to get used to working full time.

[MyCatGinger]

@TheMaster99

GHOSTLY SPOOKY PRESENCE SILENTLY JUDGING AND WATCHING US LIKE BIG BROTHER.

I'm awake at 3:30am because I was happily asleep and then the fire nation attacked My meds stopped working and I started sneezing and woke myself up because runny nose what is life

@Auntflavia
I am also insanely jealous of your Sherlock Holmes collection. I remember at some point studying a collection of shorts (Ninth grade maybe?) and it was delightful though my whole class thought he was a horrid bore.
Shun the heretics. Shun.

We are also most definitely one of the better best RPs out there I've seen for a long long time and I'm so honoured, yet again, to be able to jump into it with you wonderful lot. <3 Hugs!

@Jig
I-I...
Félix was going to be Lynn's one true love oh my god you just sank my ship.
Really though. I can't screw romance an NPC because they're an NPC?
Presuming he's any better at romance than showing his non-existent feelings, of course.

EDIT: Aaaaaahhhh I'm so proud of you Flavs! <3 You have done well, comrade!

[Jig]

@Jig
I-I...
Félix was going to be Lynn's one true love oh my god you just sank my ship.
Really though. I can't screw romance an NPC because they're an NPC?
Presuming he's any better at romance than showing his non-existent feelings, of course.

@MyCatGinger

No no no, you can totally arrange in-depth conversations and interactions with me, but, if you want to use him to facilitate a post, I'm just saying don't try to give him emotions/reactions to stuff that might hint at stuff you think is going on, because you might be wrong. If I haven't seen it, just keep him sterile (in all senses, Lynn!). :)