This sounds like a wonderful start for an adventure!
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6 yrs ago
Being a GM in tabletop can apparently mean driving your players insane - I was surprised how "well" everyone repsonded to being surrounded by crazies and care takers. Hope they get out in the end...
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6 yrs ago
My love-hate always kicks in when learning words without an equivalent in other languages, and complex meaning. It is amazing the word exists, but hard to grasp its usage.
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6 yrs ago
The strangest thing about learning new languages is still that they have words your language can only desribe and vice versa: Torschlusspanik, dépaysement, l'appel du vide, madrugar.
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I am out on a tournament for the next two days - so less answers, but hopefully a fun weekend!
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I have some experience (well rather some years of experience) in roleplaying, but I am rather new here.
This will most likely not turn out to be the most helpful Bio, especially as I am currently blissfully unaware and somewhat apathetic to everything concerning cosmetical possibilities. It is partly due to the fact that there is no fascinating, wonderfully rounded and polished characters - I just fought I would share some insights about the things I like.
For the roleplaying part I came here looking for something rather relaxed in a classical fantasy environment. More or less along the lines of a typical tabletop adventure or classical side quest (or row of side quests) in gaming. I am also fairly interested in longer, more elaborate plots but currently not in the position to think one up and keep it running.
Apart from that there is a broad variety of settings I am interested in. It ranges from historically themed ideas over to our current time and world up to futuristic scenarios, including post-apocalypting settings in this range. Any of those might be high or low fantasy. In short it is not one specific slice of things that is fascinating me, it is the possibility to dive into another world. That is the reason why there is also a small set of fandoms I like.
I prefer creating my own characters for a roleplay. This means that I can easily create characters requiring a set of skills, sometimes even character traits, but I often have a hard time to fill a pre-shaped role already described with character traits and (parts of a) backstory. For me this creation process is an important step when immersing into a new world.
Before finally concluding I should mention that the better part of my characters has at least dark spots in their history or behaviour. Many of the topics touched are mature, so if you feel unconfortable (or just aren't mature) please inform me beforehand. I usually also try to outline the problematic traits beforehand.
To round things up: If you found something interesting here, or have an idea that you want to share, just send me a message. It would surely make me happy!
Avatar is from Rogier Hoekstra on Pixabay - very nice side for free images.
This will most likely not turn out to be the most helpful Bio, especially as I am currently blissfully unaware and somewhat apathetic to everything concerning cosmetical possibilities. It is partly due to the fact that there is no fascinating, wonderfully rounded and polished characters - I just fought I would share some insights about the things I like.
For the roleplaying part I came here looking for something rather relaxed in a classical fantasy environment. More or less along the lines of a typical tabletop adventure or classical side quest (or row of side quests) in gaming. I am also fairly interested in longer, more elaborate plots but currently not in the position to think one up and keep it running.
Apart from that there is a broad variety of settings I am interested in. It ranges from historically themed ideas over to our current time and world up to futuristic scenarios, including post-apocalypting settings in this range. Any of those might be high or low fantasy. In short it is not one specific slice of things that is fascinating me, it is the possibility to dive into another world. That is the reason why there is also a small set of fandoms I like.
I prefer creating my own characters for a roleplay. This means that I can easily create characters requiring a set of skills, sometimes even character traits, but I often have a hard time to fill a pre-shaped role already described with character traits and (parts of a) backstory. For me this creation process is an important step when immersing into a new world.
Before finally concluding I should mention that the better part of my characters has at least dark spots in their history or behaviour. Many of the topics touched are mature, so if you feel unconfortable (or just aren't mature) please inform me beforehand. I usually also try to outline the problematic traits beforehand.
To round things up: If you found something interesting here, or have an idea that you want to share, just send me a message. It would surely make me happy!
Avatar is from Rogier Hoekstra on Pixabay - very nice side for free images.
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Forum: Advanced Interest Checks
Alright, I am going to head over, would most likely be interested. I am just trying to make sense of the rolls.
Name: Jonathan Cruise
Age: 28
Gender: male
Beliefs: Agnostic, to mostly any form of believing
Reason for joining this company: Boredom and interest in the investigation.
Personality:
Calm and rational, rather reflected. Jonathan is usually very well-mannered and tries to be polite and helpful around people. Furthermore he is quite generous.
Appearance:
Other:
Jonathan collects fountain pens and notebooks. He has a love for Gin and can be made to talk about it for quite a while.
History:
Jonathan is one of the young folks who highly profited from the internet. At the rather young age of 12 he began fiddling with programming and started to learn the ropes. For the most part it was just a hobby of a boy from a nice suburb family. It changed when he decided to do a trip around the country at 16. One of his cousins has snatched him for something similar half a year before and now that he had a car he wanted to do the same. Finding people to ride with him for a while was no problem, there were websites for this. But it turned out to be difficult to just meet up with people to have someone to talk, or go to the city together, or take a tour that required a specific amount of people. Sure you could do this over social media, but even there multiple starting points existed. He decided that a better solution would surely be accepted very well, if well known. So he build up a website and fleshed it out with the possibility to find meetups around you, somewhat like other websites find rooms, added the possibility to define routes people would like to travel together and made his newly made friends take a look and give there opinion.
The website soon took off between the travellers who regularly roamed the country and bit by bit got somewhat popular over social media and such. So popular, that after college having done a mixture of forensics and computer science classes, Jonathan decided to go a step further from his really small team of him and a friend to actively advertising and building a company. The site took of really well after that. At the age of 25 Jonathan and his co-founder got a rather generous bidding for their small start-up. Albeit nobody knows the exact amount both accepted. Jonathan stayed with the company a few more months, bringing everything to order before he left them. It was well known to his friend that he wanted to do different things and that's what he did. He made his mother show him the ropes in real estates and bought apartment complexes to renovate and them rent them to people, not making a whole lot of money (he still does not certainly like the idea of luxury renovations) but saving him some income. He travelled again and in the end decided it was time to do something else.
By luck he found the small company in Michigan, where he was actually visiting a friend, and decided to give it a shot. He was no one to plainly believe or deny things and the idea of finding the truth seemed interesting enough for a while.
Age: 28
Gender: male
Beliefs: Agnostic, to mostly any form of believing
Reason for joining this company: Boredom and interest in the investigation.
Personality:
Calm and rational, rather reflected. Jonathan is usually very well-mannered and tries to be polite and helpful around people. Furthermore he is quite generous.
Appearance:
Other:
Jonathan collects fountain pens and notebooks. He has a love for Gin and can be made to talk about it for quite a while.
History:
Jonathan is one of the young folks who highly profited from the internet. At the rather young age of 12 he began fiddling with programming and started to learn the ropes. For the most part it was just a hobby of a boy from a nice suburb family. It changed when he decided to do a trip around the country at 16. One of his cousins has snatched him for something similar half a year before and now that he had a car he wanted to do the same. Finding people to ride with him for a while was no problem, there were websites for this. But it turned out to be difficult to just meet up with people to have someone to talk, or go to the city together, or take a tour that required a specific amount of people. Sure you could do this over social media, but even there multiple starting points existed. He decided that a better solution would surely be accepted very well, if well known. So he build up a website and fleshed it out with the possibility to find meetups around you, somewhat like other websites find rooms, added the possibility to define routes people would like to travel together and made his newly made friends take a look and give there opinion.
The website soon took off between the travellers who regularly roamed the country and bit by bit got somewhat popular over social media and such. So popular, that after college having done a mixture of forensics and computer science classes, Jonathan decided to go a step further from his really small team of him and a friend to actively advertising and building a company. The site took of really well after that. At the age of 25 Jonathan and his co-founder got a rather generous bidding for their small start-up. Albeit nobody knows the exact amount both accepted. Jonathan stayed with the company a few more months, bringing everything to order before he left them. It was well known to his friend that he wanted to do different things and that's what he did. He made his mother show him the ropes in real estates and bought apartment complexes to renovate and them rent them to people, not making a whole lot of money (he still does not certainly like the idea of luxury renovations) but saving him some income. He travelled again and in the end decided it was time to do something else.
By luck he found the small company in Michigan, where he was actually visiting a friend, and decided to give it a shot. He was no one to plainly believe or deny things and the idea of finding the truth seemed interesting enough for a while.
As it is not mentioned anywhere: Have they already found paranormal beings/objects that are at the hands of the business?
Or have they so far only ever disproved things?
So is this group a group which follows up things that seem unbelievable even with knowledge about the paranormal, or is it something akin to a ghost hunter group in the real world?
Or have they so far only ever disproved things?
So is this group a group which follows up things that seem unbelievable even with knowledge about the paranormal, or is it something akin to a ghost hunter group in the real world?
I posted a finish version with description ~2 days ago, as a new post.
7 o'clock in the morning. The perfect time to start up the machines and get to work - or something like this. At least her rather fucked up real world schedule made it harder to track her on a world map. On the other hand her real world attacks did not, so... whatever.
Attacks. The zero days still laid as an explanation in front of her. She had agreed to leave the insulin pump - bricking hers would either way be a pity - and take up the CareWatch. So first a little searching. On the normal web and Shodan and what else came to her mind.
The results were interesting, but not amazing. It really was a 0-day. There was next to nothing about this watches - because they were still brand new. A small startup from the Netherlands. A successfull startup, having already created cooperation with two whole regions and the insurances in both for a bigger roll-out and selling individual devices outside of those zones.
The watch itself was actually interesting enough. A nice, modern website with some beautiful pictures and simple graphics.
We care for you. A nice message to take home. In the end albeit the exploit apparently aimed at the watches, Care Watch was designed as part of a whole network, connecting the watches and aditional sensors to cloud based services for monitoring and alerts to a central where professional aid workers were constanly available for live speech connection or further actions.
Her senses tingled. This sounded like an invitation for privacy violations - even if the whole thing was secure and apparently it was not. She scrolled around a little more, apparently the thing connected to firealarms and other interesting devices. Nice idea, but what she was more interested in was the question what the watch itself recorded.
Click.
The side took a moment to load, but she had found the watches features:
Alarm button
blah blah ..
Temperature and heart beat measurement
More interesting and not bad.
Zero gravity/drop down detection
She grinned. It was a nice way to determine a fall.
Irregular movement patterns
Her eyebrow arched. She read and found it was to find signs of a stroke or similar happening, but the amount of data needed for this made it very interesting.
Location tracking
Again understandable, but she slowly worried about some of the data.
Live speech connection
Sweet! That meant the thing had a microphone. That made the hijacking possibility even more interesting.
She read on a little about the possibility to to program individual reminders for medicines, birthdays and so on. Also not bad...
What caught her a little off-guard was the fact that there was not too much written about security. Something about privacy and using private networks at home, which she even believed to be secure, and mobile telephone connections outside.
A little read on also detailed how the watch could also be used by children and people often working alone. That was it.
For a while she just sat in her chair, thinking. This was a real 0-day, the watch was not even widely deployed yet. Most likely whatever she did would not get into the big news. And apart from some security concerns the idea was really nice. The question was what would she do with it? she starred at the Discord chat for a while again. She did not trust that any of these people had enough brain to be trusted with medical information (but to be fair - she did not trust mostly anyone with that). And it would not even be too useful for them... she sighed "Apparently I am going to do some people a favor..."
She stood up again and grabbed her things. The Netherlands were not out of reach, but the test village/city she wanted to go to was still a few hours drive away. But hey! Fries for lunch!
When she parked her car lunch time had swung by (well, for her. the clock said it was 11:30 AM). She trolled through the pitoresque small streets and grabbed fries at a small stand. She then proceeded into the direction of the retirement home she had found to be a cooperation point. It looked nice. And had a little park outside. She unpacked her equipment and started getting to work, at first just scanning her environment. After a while she could make out the watches and followed the probing procedure laid out. It... worked. Surprisingly well even. The shell on port 1 blinked slowly.
> _
She started to look around a little. Linux system, albeit adapted.
drwxr--r-- 1 usr home 4096 logs
-rw-r--r-- 1 usr home 30405 birthday
-rw-r--r-- 1 usr home 30405 alerts
Logs. Logs on that device were surely interesting!
> cd logs
> ls
A list of names washed over the screen. She could literally have a look into any log of motion and so on. Not good! The only pertially good thing was, that she could not easily send it out without leaving traces. She could just write herself into the receivers list, though.
She decided against it. She liked the project - so she started with a small one. Just altering an alert on any watch she could scan. And it were... enough to surely create some irritation for the day they would all just chime up.
Je verpfleegster is op haar verjaardag. Je zou haar appeltaart moeten brengen!
After she had inserted the alert into a good amount of watches she just picked up and stretched. Before returning home she grabbed some sweets from the supermarket and a koffie verkeerd.
The message in the Discord was rather short Port probing worked. The rest was either way most likely not too interesting for them, as long as they were not in the region.
She turned to her computer and flicked it on, navigating to a news site for technology enthusiast. She nearly fell back laughing when she read the news. Every patients heart just stopped. Out of an "error". She giggled. There were a few details about the chaos this had lead to, about doctors calling up on multiple patients before understanding what went wrong. Her site circled about how the hacker could have gotten in and apparent security failures. Listed a few other occasions were e.g. high-ranking persons deactivated communication out of fear. Well... all wonderful. She sighed, shook her head and turned to something else. Today was not so bad of a day.
Attacks. The zero days still laid as an explanation in front of her. She had agreed to leave the insulin pump - bricking hers would either way be a pity - and take up the CareWatch. So first a little searching. On the normal web and Shodan and what else came to her mind.
The results were interesting, but not amazing. It really was a 0-day. There was next to nothing about this watches - because they were still brand new. A small startup from the Netherlands. A successfull startup, having already created cooperation with two whole regions and the insurances in both for a bigger roll-out and selling individual devices outside of those zones.
The watch itself was actually interesting enough. A nice, modern website with some beautiful pictures and simple graphics.
We care for you. A nice message to take home. In the end albeit the exploit apparently aimed at the watches, Care Watch was designed as part of a whole network, connecting the watches and aditional sensors to cloud based services for monitoring and alerts to a central where professional aid workers were constanly available for live speech connection or further actions.
Her senses tingled. This sounded like an invitation for privacy violations - even if the whole thing was secure and apparently it was not. She scrolled around a little more, apparently the thing connected to firealarms and other interesting devices. Nice idea, but what she was more interested in was the question what the watch itself recorded.
Click.
The side took a moment to load, but she had found the watches features:
Alarm button
blah blah ..
Temperature and heart beat measurement
More interesting and not bad.
Zero gravity/drop down detection
She grinned. It was a nice way to determine a fall.
Irregular movement patterns
Her eyebrow arched. She read and found it was to find signs of a stroke or similar happening, but the amount of data needed for this made it very interesting.
Location tracking
Again understandable, but she slowly worried about some of the data.
Live speech connection
Sweet! That meant the thing had a microphone. That made the hijacking possibility even more interesting.
She read on a little about the possibility to to program individual reminders for medicines, birthdays and so on. Also not bad...
What caught her a little off-guard was the fact that there was not too much written about security. Something about privacy and using private networks at home, which she even believed to be secure, and mobile telephone connections outside.
A little read on also detailed how the watch could also be used by children and people often working alone. That was it.
For a while she just sat in her chair, thinking. This was a real 0-day, the watch was not even widely deployed yet. Most likely whatever she did would not get into the big news. And apart from some security concerns the idea was really nice. The question was what would she do with it? she starred at the Discord chat for a while again. She did not trust that any of these people had enough brain to be trusted with medical information (but to be fair - she did not trust mostly anyone with that). And it would not even be too useful for them... she sighed "Apparently I am going to do some people a favor..."
She stood up again and grabbed her things. The Netherlands were not out of reach, but the test village/city she wanted to go to was still a few hours drive away. But hey! Fries for lunch!
When she parked her car lunch time had swung by (well, for her. the clock said it was 11:30 AM). She trolled through the pitoresque small streets and grabbed fries at a small stand. She then proceeded into the direction of the retirement home she had found to be a cooperation point. It looked nice. And had a little park outside. She unpacked her equipment and started getting to work, at first just scanning her environment. After a while she could make out the watches and followed the probing procedure laid out. It... worked. Surprisingly well even. The shell on port 1 blinked slowly.
> _
She started to look around a little. Linux system, albeit adapted.
drwxr--r-- 1 usr home 4096 logs
-rw-r--r-- 1 usr home 30405 birthday
-rw-r--r-- 1 usr home 30405 alerts
Logs. Logs on that device were surely interesting!
> cd logs
> ls
A list of names washed over the screen. She could literally have a look into any log of motion and so on. Not good! The only pertially good thing was, that she could not easily send it out without leaving traces. She could just write herself into the receivers list, though.
She decided against it. She liked the project - so she started with a small one. Just altering an alert on any watch she could scan. And it were... enough to surely create some irritation for the day they would all just chime up.
Je verpfleegster is op haar verjaardag. Je zou haar appeltaart moeten brengen!
After she had inserted the alert into a good amount of watches she just picked up and stretched. Before returning home she grabbed some sweets from the supermarket and a koffie verkeerd.
The message in the Discord was rather short Port probing worked. The rest was either way most likely not too interesting for them, as long as they were not in the region.
She turned to her computer and flicked it on, navigating to a news site for technology enthusiast. She nearly fell back laughing when she read the news. Every patients heart just stopped. Out of an "error". She giggled. There were a few details about the chaos this had lead to, about doctors calling up on multiple patients before understanding what went wrong. Her site circled about how the hacker could have gotten in and apparent security failures. Listed a few other occasions were e.g. high-ranking persons deactivated communication out of fear. Well... all wonderful. She sighed, shook her head and turned to something else. Today was not so bad of a day.
I might have overlooked it but any comments on my character
Sounds interesting, I could imagine myself playing either a believer or an agnostic
Sounds pretty nice
I have at least two - but I do not want to get in the mood from the first one.
So back to the time when I was working in a bakery as a seller. Where I come from some pasteries have different names in different regions. As if this was not already irritating enough, sometimes the same name exist in different ragions but mean other pastries.
This was the case for the pastry in point. Let's call it X - a filled pastry. In other regions it's called Y, but in our region Y is a smaller pastry, unfilled and roled in cinnamon and sugar.
A costumer strolls in "I would like to have 5 X."
My colleague is packing up and ringing her up "4 $, please." This is already a good price.
She lost it, saying that they were not 4 $. We checked and it was the correct, reduced price for that amount. She argued that 5 X should cost 2.50 $ and that we needed to sell it for that price. After a little back and forth my colleague asked why she thought it was that amount and she pointed at the little tag in front of an empty display row (left to the row of X) 5x Y for 2.50 $
My colleague apologized profusely that there were no more of Y and she had not yet had the time to take the tag out. But X were in fact 4 $ - pointing to the tag directly IN FRONT of the line of X.
The customer threw another small fit and complained, but in the end I think she took the pastries home (like I said 4 $ was already a good price). I think she said something about talking to our superior, but honestly they were used to irate costumers and as long as we stayed polite would just apologize again.
My colleague was crushed, having been berated in that way and looked at me as if she wanted to apologize again. I calmly pointed out that the woman knew perfectly well that her pastries were called X in this region and could have just ASKED for Y, making things easier for everyone. And that my colleague did nothing wrong as the last few of Y had been sold earlier in the line - and making people wait to remove a tag is really bad service.
So back to the time when I was working in a bakery as a seller. Where I come from some pasteries have different names in different regions. As if this was not already irritating enough, sometimes the same name exist in different ragions but mean other pastries.
This was the case for the pastry in point. Let's call it X - a filled pastry. In other regions it's called Y, but in our region Y is a smaller pastry, unfilled and roled in cinnamon and sugar.
A costumer strolls in "I would like to have 5 X."
My colleague is packing up and ringing her up "4 $, please." This is already a good price.
She lost it, saying that they were not 4 $. We checked and it was the correct, reduced price for that amount. She argued that 5 X should cost 2.50 $ and that we needed to sell it for that price. After a little back and forth my colleague asked why she thought it was that amount and she pointed at the little tag in front of an empty display row (left to the row of X) 5x Y for 2.50 $
My colleague apologized profusely that there were no more of Y and she had not yet had the time to take the tag out. But X were in fact 4 $ - pointing to the tag directly IN FRONT of the line of X.
The customer threw another small fit and complained, but in the end I think she took the pastries home (like I said 4 $ was already a good price). I think she said something about talking to our superior, but honestly they were used to irate costumers and as long as we stayed polite would just apologize again.
My colleague was crushed, having been berated in that way and looked at me as if she wanted to apologize again. I calmly pointed out that the woman knew perfectly well that her pastries were called X in this region and could have just ASKED for Y, making things easier for everyone. And that my colleague did nothing wrong as the last few of Y had been sold earlier in the line - and making people wait to remove a tag is really bad service.
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