Patient Counseling - OOC Topic

[shadow pridak money gang]

the character Ghost Buster was created only as spam and to annoy the GMs.

 

looks like you're doing that more efficiently than i ever could these days

 

-Tyler

[Dane-gerous]

#shotsfired

[shadow pridak money gang]

i would like to apologize for my conduct in this discussion topic. i was unaware that dane would agree with it or find it entertaining and now i feel true remorse for encouraging his presence here

 

-Tyler

[silo]

I laughed way too hard at this
Anyway, I'll just leave again now.

Edited April 15, 2015 by 000

[Timageness]

Well, if the majority of the characters who know that the asylum's going to explode suddenly find themselves not caring about it, then you guys would effectively be bringing about a premature ending to your own game, considering that the primary setting would be completely and utterly destroyed.

[Kovika: Visorak Lord]

Welp, we're all gonna die.

[IcarusBen]

Well, if the majority of the characters who know that the asylum's going to explode suddenly find themselves not caring about it, then you guys would effectively be bringing about a premature ending to your own game, considering that the primary setting would be completely and utterly destroyed.

I don't plan for the place to go BOOM anytime soon, so... yeah.

 

Although, it could allow us to timeskip to a point where the Asylum is rebuilt to fulfill it's actual purpose rather than secret-conspiracy-stuff, but the monster's still lurking around...

 

Eh, maybe not. Conspiracy is fun!

[Kovika: Visorak Lord]

Anyone got a plan or fail safe?

[Timageness]

Spread panic amongst the guards in the hopes that they'd evacuate the patients in order to watch what I'd assume to be a pretty spectacular fireworks display from a safe distance?

[Ghidora131]

My dear Timageness! you can't have a fireworks display without fireworks.

[The UltimoScorp]

So, are we gonna get an edit on the monster No selling everyone's attacks, or what? Cause... frankly I'm only here to Have Kotak use all of his Toa Energy in a grand finale sorta deal and then go Turaga.

[IcarusBen]

So, are we gonna get an edit on the monster No selling everyone's attacks, or what? Cause... frankly I'm only here to Have Kotak use all of his Toa Energy in a grand finale sorta deal and then go Turaga.

If you mean just blast away at the thing until you go Turaga, then approved 1x, but wait for Ghidora.

 

My PMs with Ghidora are implying, to me at least, that the monster only looks like it's shrugging off attacks. You'll see what he means if he means what I think he means. It's mean.

[Ghidora131]

It's mean.

 

Basically, yeah. The Monster is not shrugging off a single attack... It's dying from them.

 

And about going Leeroy Jenkins Turaga... I'm fine with it, but not yet. That's actually something that I'd like to see, but if he uses it now, all that will happen is... Move the story faster and uncontrollably. When the time comes, though, it'll be perfect.

[Timageness]

So are the changes in its appearance supposed to be some sort of sign that it's constantly degenerating or something with every attack made upon it?

[Ghidora131]

More along the lines of "this is why it didn't kill everyone in the first place". After all, it would lose all its Toa powers... But it might not need them much longer.

[Not Quite Dead]

What happened to the monster eating people, rather than anticlimactically delegging them.

[Nato G]

I'm still very confused as to how the monster went from "slowly decaying and becoming vulnerable" in the posts before this, and suddenly "I'm intangible and have Olmak powers". It really feels like you've railroaded us, and given all of these extra powers to the monster with no explanation, just to stop us from being able to so much as hurt it. 

[Ghidora131]

Oh you are hurting it. Well... It's hard to understand now, but that's really the reason why it's playing a goose chase now. Not because it's afraid, but if you kill the Monster, it kinda ruins its plans. So, it toys with you, doing as much as it can until it risks getting serious damage until it portals away, waiting at a new location. And if you recall, it always used portals.

 

Oh, and if you intend to go into that hole (honestly a wise choice) do it slowly. It's much, much deeper than it looks.

Edited April 17, 2015 by Ghidora131

[Not Quite Dead]

What happened to the monster eating people, rather than anticlimactically delegging them.

Retweeting.

[Nato G]

Retweeting.

 

Upvoting. 

[Ghidora131]

Well, you see, it'll get back to that... It's kinda busy at the moment for some appetizers.

[Ghidora131]

Okay, things and soon-to-occur story have been cleared up, so we need some IC action here!

 

Oh yeah, and go ahead and play Nyhe again, Locus. IcarusBen is gunna be busy, so until then, just go with the flow(of murdered patients ).

[Nato G]

I was happy to temporarily bunny Nyhe for IcarusBen during that one week while he was away, because she wasn't doing anything particularly important and I only wound up having to make a handful of posts. 

 

But now, with your characters: the monster and Halmos apparently gone, you're basically asking me to carry the entire plot of this game - since Nyhe and Fade are pretty much the only Asylum staff PCs left - when I have absolutely no idea what's going on.

 

So yeah, I'm not cool with that. 

[Ghidora131]

Are you kidding? I wouldn't throw then entire procession of the game onto one person, especially a non-GM. I have set things up so that, when actions resume, the plot shall still continue, despite the monster's disappearance. Oh sure, it not there currently staring into people's souls(R.I.P. Caetus), but that doesn't mean it can't influence actions and kill from a distance.

[The UltimoScorp]

Okay, first off, if Nato doesn't want to GM your game for you, that's his right. It's not his responsibility to run your game when it's not convenient for you guys to do so. 

 

Also it's kind of unprofessional to just shove responsibilities of GM characters onto non GM players.

 

Secondly, all of us are still waiting for you to edit that Monster post like Ben told you to before we actually move forward.

[Ghidora131]

As I said, it's been resolved.

[Timageness]

So, are we gonna get an edit on the monster No selling everyone's attacks, or what? Cause... frankly I'm only here to Have Kotak use all of his Toa Energy in a grand finale sorta deal and then go Turaga.

As I said, it's been resolved.

Still doesn't change the fact that the post needs to be edited for us to continue.

[Snelly]

Yeah, it doesn't look like anyone is gonna post till it's edited. Might want to get on that.

[IcarusBen]

Yeah, that's right.

 

Also, I never asked you to ask Nato to post for me. I just said that at that moment, I was busy and couldn't post IC. 

 

Remember, when you assume, you make a... donkey out of you and me.

[Ghidora131]

So, you're saying a donkey is two entities?

[IcarusBen]

It's an easier metaphor to use when you're not limited by a word filter.

 

I'm still a little worried that my use of "donkey" is a bit cheaty. But, until a mod tells me otherwise, it will stay.

[Nato G]

Oh, wow.... this is awkward. 

[Timageness]

Yeah, it doesn't look like anyone is gonna post till it's edited. Might want to get on that.

It's been seven days since the last post in the IC Topic, and it seems that these words still hold true.

Edited April 21, 2015 by Timageness

[Nato G]

Indeed. RIP Asylum. 

[Timageness]

Yup.

Time to revise Sal heavily and port her on over to Infinite, I guess.

[IcarusBen]

Okay, guys, we've got a problem. It's been seven days and Ghidora still hasn't edited the post. I sent him a PM, so I'll give it one more day, but if it doesn't work out, I might have to call in a mod or something to sort things out. 

 

Don't give up on Asylum yet. Just point and wag your fist angrily at the people running it all.

[Not Quite Dead]

Did someone ask for angry fist waving?

 

Because I'll do so ; You guys, Ghidora in particular, have basically killed your own game. I say this more as an outsider looking in, than as a player, as I realize I've only posted a handful of times, most of those being illegible gobbledygook.

 

But really, an RPG is a collaborative story. Stories require writers, ie : the players. If you don't have writers, nothing gets written. The GMs do have some say in how things progress, but rolling with the punches of the players is simply part of the game with TBRPGs. If you introduce a plot point and your players say, "nah, I don't want to do that." You have two options, try and sell it to them or drop it. In this case, literally every single active player has asked you to edit a post because they felt it invalidated their actions and effort.

 

Not having fixed it an entire week later is completely stupid and completely selfish. You have people that want to play your game, want to post and want to tell their stories, but YOU, the people that are supposed to foster those three things, are actively preventing this.

 

So yeah, basic point here is that you have people that want to play and you are preventing this. That is the complete opposite of what a GM's job is. If you have to bend over backwards and tame your own wild plot desires to give the players what they want, then that is exactly what you need to do. Being a GM is a self sacrificial job.

[IcarusBen]

Ghidora's edited it, but I'm certain it's too OP. He hasn't gotten back to me about 135's legs getting blown off, or the fact the monster appears to be invulnerable...

 

I gave him a suggestion, so when he gets back to me, hopefully we'll be able to sort things out. If he doesn't edit it though... ugh. I'd hate to have to get a mod involved, but technically, Ghidora is the lead GM.

 

So, yeah, I agree with everything you said except... I asked for fist wagging, not waving. Wagging is clenching the fist, letting the wrist go limp and moving the arm. Waving is completely different.

[Timageness]

 

Don't give up on Asylum yet. Just point and wag your fist angrily at the people running it all.

I'll be professional about the whole situation and give it another seven days to get fixed, but if it's not done by then, I'm definitely going to implement a whole new spin on the "two weeks notice" principle and take my leave. Due to the monster's insane amount of toughness, Ghidora's hold-up of the entire IC Topic, and the fact that almost everything everybody's ever tried to do is countered in the most ridiculous manner possible, I find that to be a more than reasonable response to what's been going on lately.

[Snelly]

In my mind if the monster doesn't either die or get serious injured instead of the bullpucky we're getting right now, I'm done. I've been done for seven days honestly.