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Please Excuse Me

A quick note to those concerned:

So, uhh, shit exploded here. I'm kinda fine (things are still exploding and it's going to get worse but my mental place is really great, so I'm still pretty good) but basically I needed thoughtspace for things that are more important over here. I pretty much literally had to officially freeze RPG out of my life in order to get enough space in my brain for all the things that are in there. Sorry I didn't get back in touch but hopefully you at least understand. You're not the only people to have bitten the contact bullet; there are random holes in my timetables and remote old friends on Facebook that have been removed simply to clear mental processing space for myself.

The good news: I'm happy to continue projects I started if people are still kicking around and would still like to be involved/to have me on board.

The bad news: You tell me? I don't know if people are still in touch. I'm expecting that any games that I abandoned as a player to have died or moved on accordingly, but I'm writing this before I've even checked in with my games. Further bad news is that I can't guarantee any great return immediately. I'll be in touch with the games I'm GMing, if they still stand, to see if I can somehow arrange for somebody else to GM.

I'm about to check my PMs (a chilling prospect) and get back in touch directly.

Sorry, kids.

Edit:

Double and triple sorry to @AuntFlavia who has without my asking kept an eye on my games and didn't even get a mention first time I wrote this.

Wink Murder

I know the format is shitty but can't we just post it in the format it is and go back to the original for the sake of moving on???? We van always go back to it and pretty it up later

@ReaptheMusic

Actually, uh, yes we can.

@Gowi @Wade Wilson alive yes-yes?

Wink Murder

Everybody still here?

I'm still here and still shit at writing this post and generally getting time but this is still definitely a thing?

right?
^{or else}

Wink Murder

Nope, I haven't forgotten about you, my lovelies.

This is just a very big chunk of text and it's hard to write in an impersonal style for so many characters and somebody needs to run a course in 'save your work, dipshit' because that same somebody has to write the same whole goddamn thing again ^iSn'T _Tha_{T j}u^st swell.

PS: If you could check in just to say hi that'd be lovely. :P

The Curious Sky.

Oh my. Maybe. Just gotta consider schedules and commitments.

Wink Murder

Sorry if I've been quiet but HAVE YOU SEEN THE SIZE OF THAT GDOC.

Wink Murder

Yeah, I found that bit a bit out of character but the trajectory:

SPOILERS

Skaro and Davros to Snakeface skating around places of space-time significance to the planes have stopped in 21st century to Unit to Missy to the Doctor is dying to Medieval Essex to new Skaro to (probably not) dead allies to shooting a child in the face with a dalek weapon.

Wink Murder

Yeah, gotcha. I'm just literally still blazed from last night, so I can't quite even right now.

Speaking of not being able quite to even, did anybody catch Doctor Who last night? I was pretty wasted, but I sat through the whole thing enraptured.

Wink Murder

The more you know.

Mr.Cyan (sorry, it's stuck) has put the locket down on a shelf/table that isn't there.

Pre-planning vs Spontaneity - Which Are You?

In the games I GM, I'm very much a planner; I set the environments, the NPCs, basically everything beforehand, and don't tell my players until they go to explore them. Then, my games are mystery games, so perhaps that comes with the territory.

When playing, I like games that have clear, up-front environments and settings as well; I don't find it limits imagination, but simply gives me something to springboard from.

Both as a player and as a GM, I always make sure that the game/character was built with a few general plots in mind, into which to specialise as the game unfolds.