LOL! I have a feeling that there will be a lot of cyan coloured thingies going on in my thread

I don't mind. Cyan = helpful stuff for noobs !!

Yes, indeed. And, as always, if you have any OOC questions, feel free to ask. Don't forget the little OOC parentheses, unless you opt to ask either in this OOC topic or via PM.

Also, I've had a few slight issues with a piece breaking off of my computer desk (namely the keyboard tray, which I was using as a very convenient place to keep my D&D books and House of Ainsley material), as well as continued issues with our houseguests' slobby and imposing behavior (according to which I'm a servant in my own house, apparently), a coworker who thinks it's perfectly okay to show up for work and relieve me at least a half-hour late everyday, a leak in the laundry room and various wildlife running around making a mess of things. I'll do my best to get these prologues posted and replied to tomorrow morning...whenever Melissa and her "workplace rules apply to everyone but me" attitude show up and let me go home, that is.

I'd also like to copy over and tinker with a couple more topics regarding actions which characters in D&D 3.X (and, therefore, this House of Ainsley campaign) may take, as well as a standing status thread regarding our party's characters, their whereabouts, Hit Points, Armor Class and so on.

I'm getting ready for another fun-filled night on Third Shift now. See you all tomorrow!

Don't worry overly much about it Ainsley, though I am more than grateful for the constant updates. I for one know what it's like to have people just up and disappear for god knows how long.

(lol, i did it myself over in lit for about a year hahaa)

Anyway, hope things get better for you. And don't you guys have like timecards at work or something like that?

We do. In fact, I've reminded our bosses to check Melissa's timecards (on more than one occasion), since I suspect that they're just tallying up our work hours and not thinking too deeply about whether or not their workers are punching in and out according to the schedules. Of course, it helps Melissa's case that she's friends with one of the bosses, but even that sort of compassion has a limit, and the other boss despises Melissa. Did I mention that our two bosses are married? Yeah, I wonder what they have to say about all this at home....

Anyhoo, I'm back to work here; just let me grab my dinner and I'll get started. Also, for no particular reason (truly, honestly, youbelievemeright?), I just made some golems!



Enjoy!

LOL, the Golems look cool
EDIT: I'm writing this on my phone! How cool! IV looks great on my phone. I didn't think it'd actually work

I live to LOL....

And for phone kewlies, evidently.

Okay, back to the prologues I go!

There. That took a bit longer than I thought, didn't it?

Aside from my usual tasks around the house, I ended up making about eight more pogs (six of them for Palemare's population of diseased lunatics) and assembling the map for Sylvea. But the real work came when I decided that it was time to change the music. I thought of the perfect three songs for the setting, but unfortunately neither Google search, Yahoo search nor Limewire search turned up any MP3's for tunes from Gauntlet: Dark Legacy, one of my favorite multi-player arcade games. However, someone on YouTube apparently did come across--or create--the needed MP3's, but he wasn't telling anyone where he got them. Fortunately, I have a working copy of the digital-audio-editing program Audacity; after setting the input device to Mono Mix I set Audacity to Record while I played three of this guy's soundtrack videos, ripping the audio directly from YouTube and exporting them into the MP3's I need.

"But Ainsley," you ask, "you mean to say that you ripped all three of these background tunes for Palemare from Gauntlet: Dark Legacy?"

Sure did! Have you ever played the game? The theme tunes from the Forsaken Province levels are immensely fitting for a city like Palemare, don't you think? Just be thankful that I didn't find places in Palemare to fit all five of the tunes in....

"Including the Lich's theme, a tune which could only befit the approach of a boss monster, like some super-psychopath running Palemare as the self-appointed mayor or something?"

Yeah, something like that.

Anyway, apologies for the one-more-day delay, SEAMUS. But for what it's worth, I have an idea how much Experience those wolves are worth. But calculating the Experience for Captain Sharper and his crew is going to be the biggest hellbeast, let me tell you....

Okay, off to bed so I can function at work tonight. Toodles!

Okay, checking back in again. I finally get tomorrow off! Time to play catch-up with the three prologue chapters and get ready for this coming Gametable Saturday....

Also, the TVTropes site is addicting for many a "Wiki Walk" (where clicking one thing leads you to another compelling link, then another, then another...), and in the spare minute here and there I somehow found their Wraith: The Oblivion entry. Apparently the TVTropes site doesn't limit itself to television, despite the name. And the Wraith article illustrates quite nicely all the things that I have long loved about Wraith but have never had the chance to exercise. I keep telling myself that I'll get the chance to run a Wraith game one day.

One day.

I also happened across the extended version of the theme from Clive Barker's Undying, a superb horror game which I have had the privileges of owning and playing through. I think that the game's Covenant family gave me a healthy dose of fuel when I drew out the House of Ainsley family, at least as far as an evil and obscenely dysfunctional family saddled with a curse which leads them to undeath and a potential of struggling with each other for all eternity goes....

(Huh. It seems that Undying has a TVTropes article too! Hmmm....)

Anyway, I'm off to work now. See you tomorrow. Toodles!