MTG Salvation

Quote from Nai

Part of the gay society that I didn't know. That's really cool.

You... didn't know we couldn't marry?

I was gonna ask, but didn't know if I should touch on that ground.

Why? It's not like I have this history of getting wildly offended by seemingly innocent comments and then erupting into a tirade of wrath and spittle... oh wait...

I have always wanted to marry this boy. But, like a lot of things in my life, I sort of gave up the notion of it ever actually happening. Same with ever having a family. However, recently I've become somewhat empowered by some things, and I'm feeling more hopeful for the future. Well, hopeful and capable. The sensation that I was unable to decide how my life would play out at all has faded somewhat.

Quote from Sakura

Brother? i thought you were a family pet O_o

My family has no pets, only the livestock of those we slaughter as we sweep the plains with our warbands.

I've actually never heard of people combining last names like this without marriage or birth/adoption. Huh.

Well, considering most gay people can't marry, it has to happen outside of marriage most of the time. Of course, there is usually a ceremony. Thing is, most gay couples have a ceremony after the fact- it ends up being more like a re-commitment ceremony, since most long term gay couples are partnered and cohabiting for a while before they seal the deal, as opposed to the traditional heterosexual union which typically places the ceremony as the starting point, denoting the beginning of the union.

Quote from Sakura

You should go with Mr and Mr Lastname...or Mr and Mr Surname (you seem Surly enough for two people, so may wanna avoid that one). Mr and Mr Mister would be cool too, but the 80s might sue you. You could go real epic as Mr and Mr Mamelon

Love the Elfquest avvie

It's not Elfquest actually- it's Mialee, the iconic female Wizard from D&D 3.5. And the villain of my joke campaign, Freaking Elves. Which, ironically, featured an NPC named Kain Lastname.

And no, I'm basically just "Mamelon's brother" to so many people as it is, I'm not about to base the name my family is built upon around that. (seriously- isn't it supposed to be that the younger sibling ends up being constantly compared and associated to their older sibling? Like so many other things in my family, what the hell happened THERE?)

Quote from Alacar Leoricar

Awesome news, Photon. It's a big step, and I'm glad to see you and Joshua making it together. Here's hoping the backlash is minimal, at most.

Oh no, it will be totally huge. I'm sure of it. Bones will be broken, financial connections will be severed, wills will be revised. A small dog may be trained to attack at the mere sight of me. And that only covers the name change. My eventual marriage will be absolutely steeped in tears, tragedy, and given my mother, probably bloodshed. I probably shouldn't wear white. Or perhaps I'm just overly afraid of my mother, from whom I inherited my Photon powers and unrelenting rage.

Quote from Omna15

No.


That is enough of that. I will not tolerate it.

This is seriously the funniest thing I have seen in here since Ryan went all "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!! *staff thump*" against TFE waaaaay back in the day.

Seriously. I'm roffling so hard there's blood.


So, I'm not going to ask about all this Psi-in-Technical-Thread drama, except that it seems like it's pretty much par for the course. This is MTGS, people. It's like Battle Royale, only instead of violence, it's petty, girlish snarking and no one would ever be remotely interested in watching it.
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So, not much going on with me. Had my vacation, it was boring, I'm broke as per usual, and I've learned never to take a vacation again because once you get back, everything has fallen straight into Hell.

However, it's nice to know my presence is a stabilizing factor, to say the least. It would have been nice to learn that without there having been 12 med errors, but I'll take what I can get.

OH!

In news no one will read:

Josh and I have decided to change our names and take on a new last name. As some of you may know, his legal name isn't actually Joshua- he's named after his father. We've always assumed that he would someday change his name and symbolically remove all attachment to his father, but it always provided some confusion on what would happen, then, if we decided to share a family name, since we would both be Joshua Lastname.

However, he stated recently that since he has been going by an alias pretty much his entire life, he could go halfway and legitimize his name by making it his middle name. So, in some time here (not sure when yet- name changes are expensive), but he'll become Patrick Joshua Lastname, and I'll become Joshua D. Lastname (I'm a bit uncomfortable sharing the new family name yet- not because I don't like it or anything, I actually really like it, but I'm just never comfortable stating my full identity in a place like this.) If anyone wants to know what the new name will be, PM or IM me. I will await a sole PM from Joyd.

I'm excited, though. I'm pretty sure my parents will hate it, though. But that's another huge, tangled mess of a situation I don't feel like getting into at the moment because emo is a bad color on me.

The price for the PDFs are 12.50 and 17.50 for me. Is there something you need to do to get the free PDF download?

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Okay, so while I'm sure no one is sitting on the edge of their chair, stomach knotted in worry over his absence, there is a reason why Alacar isn't here anymore.

I've kidnapped him, slapped a wig on him and plastered him in makeup and cheap perfume, and sold him for 28 bucks to a particularly creepy masked wrestler who posted an ad on Craigslist looking for a "slender young American woman who has next to no dignity and double jointed knees. I doubt we'll ever see him again.

He's among a few who have been unable to access the site since the most recent bout of maintenance, and his router is making it impossible for him to access MTGS. He basically has to wait it out. It could be a few hours, it could be a few days. But there you have it. Your leader is dead. Fall into fiery ruin and let the sounds of your screams echo across the abyss like a dire song of madness, Magic Coffeehouse.

The bullets tear right through the ghost, blowing quasi-real viscera all over Grant's clothing. One of the bullets also passes through the spirit and into Grant's shoulder as it flies, causing the false blood to mingle with real as it splatters on the pavement below.

The ghost heaves with labored breathing, glaring directly at you. It shoves itself free from Grant's grasp, and then leaps into the air, grabbing onto the angel statue and hanging from it.

Just then, both the spirit and the two mortal combatants notice three other people heading towards them. James and Grant recognize them as Eugenia, Alex, and Adam.

"Well, it looks like we have to share, eh James?" Grant quips as he attempts to dig the bullet out of his shoulder with his finger. He hisses slightly for a second, and then drops the bloody metal to the ground next to him.

My 4th was so-so. My family and I have never really celebrated it- not for any political reasons or anything, it's just that since my father is the on-call RN for the summer camp, summer events just didn't really happen with our family. Working 24 hours a day, 6 days a week sort of puts a damper on your interest in a lot of things, and my mother was usually too busy wrangling not only my 1600 siblings but most of the kids of the other camp staff all summer long. The camp would always do some rinky-dink little thing for the clientele, and we would usually sort of half-assedly participate, but it was never really much different from any other day. So, needless to say, we didn't really feel the need to make any big plans this year, either. We went and saw Get Smart, which I thought was pretty good, although I'm not really a great judge of movies, personally. Then I bought some new pants and a tuxedo shirt that ended up being too short ( ), and then we stopped by our parents to visit, and that was about it.

I'll be honest- I'm not a huge WoD fan by any means, nor am I a fan of vampire romanticism in contemporary fiction (Anne Rice :swear:). However, years ago, I had a friend who was very into Vampire: The Masquerade, and educated me on all the various clans and such, and it intrigued me. With the right GM and game, I could probably get into it, I think (God knows emo supernatural dead people get a rise out of me, given my own game design projects), but having never really had the books myself and with everyone else I know being highly d20 oriented, I've just never had the chance, and probably never will.

Speaking of other games and systems- any other favorites?

I'm a fan of In Nomine, from Steve Jackson Games. Only been in one campaign, which sort of flopped, but I really love the rules system, flavor, and overall style of the game. I played a Cherubim of Jean, who was posing as a sort of Van Wilder-esque campus legend, had an unhealthy interest in both peppercorns and the Nintendo Wii, and was an expert in all varieties of homoerotic ancient Greek martial arts. I couldn't play it anymore if I wanted to, though- all my PDFs are on the hard drive of the system that crashed in January.

Do you mean the PnPI Vampire game that just started?

Quote from TheInfamousBearAssassin

I'm told it happens fairly often during Airborne School.

Anyone play White-Wolf systems in here at all, by chance?

I think there have been a few people who were into White Wolf here who haven't been around in some time. If anyone else is, they haven't been very vocal about it. Joyd is playing a VtR campaign currently, only it seems more like he's less playing and more sticking around out of morbid curiosity based on his accounts.