Turn 10.9 comes in 5 parts. Part 1 is this admin note. Part 2
covers days 3 & 4 of the jump. Part 3 covers day 5. Part 4 covers
day 6. Part 5 covers the re-emergence into normal space.
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PBEM Admin
General Admin:
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'Vouf (Mike Metlay) is partially out of commision.
Mail to [email removed] --- SHORT, INFREQUENT messages only.
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Iain Fogg is temporarily, but completely, out of commision. We are
dragging along his character (whose name I do not remember just now)
until that fine day he gets to return to the fray.
(I remembered today - It's Slide Wrinkley. RJ)
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Peter Bergholm is out for ~ two weeks, as is Nick Sylvain.
Mark Cook, after next week, will be out for two weeks.
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Purdue is shutting down for the summer this week.
Berkeley is shutting down in ~ two weeks.
All players from there are to soon have e-mail problems.
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Contrary to my instructions, many of you have written short explanations
of WHY we should continue to play, or should shut down for the summer.
A lot of good reasons, a lot of good responses. It turned out some of
us already have real lives to deal with, too...
And so the answer is ---
A Partial Shutdown
PBEM - convalescing, niether dormant nor hibernating
We will have one more SHORT! turn period and posting, then PBEM will go
on short rations. I will use the time to catch up on admin work, fix
mailers, get new players introduced, and (possibly) work out a PBEM
alias-echo system that has been proposed.
I feel especially bad about shutting down R-alpha just as it appears, so
those of you who want to continue to be "in character" and become a native,
take care of little things, play semi-out-of-time, or whatever can continue
to do so.
This means that we have a wonderful opportunity to build useful old-turn
archives, set up people's mailers and so forth. Anyone who needs to shut
down can do so. I will still be available (for the most part) to handle
things, but play will be a little different, if at all.
About this next short! turn period. I *WILL* finish and post the turn
on the weekend of May 18 (between Mother's Day and U.S. Memorial Day).
This means I must have stuff to go in the turn received by May 16 or so,
so you have ONE (1) week to say something. If it doesn't work out --
Oh well. We'll probably have torepeat all this information next fall.
My deepest apologies to all for this deuced inconvenience.
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Turn 10.9 Admin
In keeping with our very liberal, batch-oriented, philosphy,
I have once again placed words into the mouths of various characters,
hopefully not making them say anything their owners would want to
shoot me for. Also, in keeping with tradition, here are my favorite
off-line quotes for the last three weeks:
. We can role play this, or just say it happened ... Ok Richard?
. So what DID cause the fuel-line to break? - We're all dying to know.
^^^^^
. At this point, Xxxxx spontaneously combusts. Only his boots and a
small scorch mark on the deck are left.
"Oops, there goes another one."
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We awakened a doctor last turn. His description engendered a few questions.
The most frequently-asked question has to do with Yorblin's hair style.
>From the belter's mouth:
"A belter cut, for all intents is a mohawk, except that it continues
down the back in a ponytail. As one could guess from the name it is
popular amongst belters (per Larry Niven's world)."
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A major concern at the tail of this posting period was time slew. You know,
the thing that happens when the thyroid-case posters meet the lethargic
GM. :=) Most of you will quickly notice that we have a truly severe
case of time-dilation between R-alpha and Alcyon. In the 3 days or so this
turn covers, the Aslan are down, refuelled, and have explored some,
unless they are as slow as I am.
We finally all get together this time, so this should end. (I hope)
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******** PBEM Last Time *******
Last turn, the Alcyon was in jumpspace somewhere on the rim of the
imperium. There was minor speculation as to whether the fleet you
just ran from belonged to Lucan or Margaret or Dulinor or the Solomani.
Bishop was high as a kite (the bird kind, not the paper kind). 'Vouf
announced his paws were working again. Silvmane recovered from deep
freeze really fast. And, in general, things were cooling off.
The Aslan ship Trakh (I can never spell kitty words) arrived at an
unknown sector and discovered a ringworld with inhabitants. It started
chasing a small shuttlecraft toward the inner surface of the ring.
and now, without further interruption:
<continued in part 10.9b> :=) couldn't resist