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Taymist

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  1. On 2/19/2024 at 2:24 AM, Cross said:

    Dearest @Taymist

     

    It's really great to see you again! I have fond memories of you being there when I first joined the Whites and I am so glad you still come 'round. I hope to keep seeing you on the boards! 

     

    Love, Del~ 

     

     

    Bless your cotton socks, that's adorable. Thanks, Del. Sweet of you to think of me. I have super fond memories of you, Min and Nae joining DM...and then causing mayhem! Plus of course, your time when you first joined the Whites. 🙂 Glad you're back too. ❤️

  2. On 1/20/2024 at 2:01 AM, Wayward_fool said:

    Wait.... wait... wait.... TWINFLOWER PASSED AWAY??? *jaw drops* When? How? Wby? (I didn't know WhiteWolf and Kristine but I mourn for them too)


    I... *heartbroken*

     

     

    On 1/20/2024 at 6:35 AM, Delenn said:

    We (staff) don't have all the details, and have only ever been notified via Facebook. I'd say @Taymist is a reliable verification. Perhaps she has more information?

     

     

    Yeah, really sorry you weren't aware, Boopsy. *hugs*

     

    Manny (Twin's banded and Warder) and I were in touch with Twinnie's husband, Bill, offline and he kept us updated once she was no longer able to communicate with us herself. She was 59 when she passed in October 2020. I'm not at liberty to share details but suffice to say it wasn't really a shock. She'd been ill and in pain for quite some time, and had had complex health issues for many years which resulted in hospitalisation several times.

     

    Kristine was only ever an active member at the Band as far as I know, and predominantly when we were based at our offsite proboards. She wasn't so well or widely known on the main DM site. She died of sudden cardiac arrest in September 2017 leaving a young son and daughter behind. She was very good friends with our Twinnie too given the Band was generally a very tight knit group.

     

    WhiteWolf aka Owen was the RP Admin for many years and he passed, also unexpectedly, in December 2021 after a brief undiagnosed/misdiagnosed illness that got out of hand. His partner 'phoned me to break the news in the January. He wouldn't let her tell me that he'd been ill or how bad it was prior to that because he didn't want to spoil my Christmas.😭

     

     

    Lily that sounds really rough, I simply can't imagine shouldering that.

     

    Rhea, my sincere condolences. *big hugs*

  3. Aww it sounds as if the divorce was the best thing for you and the young lad. Much healthier. Seattle looks like fun. I have a dear friend from there and she's forever sending me info about it and postcards. 

     

    Well, I did the opposite lol. I got married at the start of November. So between that and Christmas, the last 6 months have been hectic and crazy. Settling down into a normal routine again now but still caring for Mum which doesn't leave a lot of time to breathe. 🙂

  4. On 1/18/2024 at 11:00 AM, Matalina said:

    I like the idea that ALL the world is changing.  but I think we need to focus on ONE story in one area.

     

     

    Borderlands Divided: Malkier's Triumph and Kandor's Fall  This one gives us a conflict, it a two sided conflict.  We can have PC sides and there is a third Dark element with the Blight so inherent evil conflict to go with the personal sides.

     

    You can have every known class of character, every nationality participating in the conflict all they need is a reason to be there.  A fresh start, a military man, got stuck there after the last battle and just stayed.  

     

    I favor the borderlands story because it has the potential for the most 'story' to dive into so others don't feel so lost and flounder.  Set up would require setting up two 'camps/towns/cities' one in Malkier that is newly built and still under construction I'd imagine.  And one in Kandor that is threatened by the Blight and has an active military/fight against it. 

     

     

     

    This. Same area, same reasons.

     

    On 1/18/2024 at 6:06 PM, Arie said:

    I think I am dead-set on the 25 years after the Final Battle, if there are no serious objections.

     

    Makes the most sense to me. Not the immediate aftermath but soon enough after for a lot of flux and tension.

     

    On 1/18/2024 at 6:06 PM, Arie said:

     

    So there is an area in the map below Kandor, above Aridol in carlain grassland (I'm not looking up spelling.. but eh) that would be idea for a new 'borderland' settlement and a potential for all sorts of shenanigans. 

     

     

     

    Sounds like it could work.

     

    10 hours ago, Wayfarer said:

    It may be worth heavily butchering both the WT and BT numbers. 

     

    I think this would go without saying. Their numbers were culled greatly. I'm inclined to prefer the idea that on the whole the Towers have decided to become one operational unit. It just makes sense. But obviously, people being people, there will be factions who don't like it or agree with it. Whether that's as suggested with the Reds, or angry BT folks, or both... and the tensions between older and younger generations is just natural within any body of folk.

     

    Admittedly I'm looking at this from the point of view of what would persuade me to make an effort to actually come back and write given my time is sorely limited. Lean more on the Books than the Legacy RPs. If you're having an effective clean slate, there's little point dragging over complications from the old stuff. Would you be allowing Legacy characters to be transferred over, given some of the lifespans involved, if people wanted to? 25 years is nothing to a Sister for instance.

     

    Quibster 😎 good to see you.

  5. On 1/15/2024 at 2:39 AM, Wayfarer said:

     

    You could also do the old Broken World format.  10-20 years after Tarmon Gaidon, cataclysmic aftermath that allows you to limit the areas of play (they turned northern nations into a New Blight), with the major characters lost in the cataclysm there isn't anyone to weld people together into a united front so you have new conflicts in the aftermath.  It gives you the following plot points to run with:

    - Surviving nations and their status

    - Seanchan remnant

    - What is left of the surviving Shadow followers (possibly without a Shaitan)

    - WT/BT relations

    - Exploring a new world (new factions/nations rise)

    - Exploring the transformed nations (finding remnants of the old nations, trying to find families, survivours, new creatures, etc)

     

    Love this idea. Gives lots of freedom for creativity. Also provides real possibility for tensions between those who yearn for what was and those forging new paths into the future. It also plays well with what Mat said below. If much of the land is damaged/destroyed/warped, then we can legitimately corral characters of many different types in a much smaller area together.

     

    On 1/16/2024 at 8:37 PM, Matalina said:

    [...]but I think everything needs to be centralized, so that we aren't all scattered around the wot world.  I'm not saying make it WT centric or something, but something that is 'everyone is here' you can play someplace else, but you won't have many people to play with cause we are all 'here'. 

    And I think no matter what time line you choose it should be someplace made up.  Something we can build and riff off of without messing up canon lore or getting called out on that's not how it is in XYZ place.

    [...] Or set afterwards where we have much more freedom in where the story goes.

     

    [...]And the last battle afterwards gives us all our main players we might want to play where as a time before doesn't necessarily.

     

    Agreed. I definitely like the "after" concept. Everything we're familiar with still happened but it frees us up to write without so much restriction because the whole world has essentially changed.

     

     

  6. On 6/27/2019 at 1:24 PM, Jeannaisais said:

     

    Well, it was once a common drink consumed by members of the Band (not pre-21 me though lol). There's also a stash of MG Battle Brew somewhere....that or Corki and I gave it all away *shrugs*

     

    I may have a stash of that from Corki and I may have some from Horn... I can't confirm that though *shifty*

     

    On 1/7/2024 at 4:46 PM, Cairos said:

    The brew and the flaming shot right after lol. Kinda like an Irish car bomb or soju bomb. 

     

    I'm with Heavy on this one... never use that term in Ireland. Dear heavens. 

     

    On 1/9/2024 at 3:14 PM, Cairos said:

    YES SANGRIA!!! I can't wait to drink on my vacation and on the cruise. 

     

    Where are you going for cruise, sweetie? I need a vacay... I can hide in a suitcase, honest.

     

    *hops up on the bar and leans over to pour a Bandy*

     

    Long time since I had one of these.... I miss my Cav bandeds.

     

    How's life Jea? 

  7. Gosh, this thread. So many nails hitting things on heads. I've been dwelling and moping the last wee while thinking about friends lost. From DM in particular. It's just over two years since WhiteWolf passed away and that especially guts me every time I think about it. Likewise with Twinflower and Kristine. Hard to think they're no longer living in this world with me. But all of that sort of helps me be less sad about the people who've just not been on DM, as I know they're still living their best lives out there somewhere and maybe one day they'll return. And then familiar faces like Del pop up once more and that's just wonderful. ❤️

  8. @Cass or @Kathleen

     

    DM Handle: The Purple Ajah

     
    RP Section: Tar Valon
    RP Group: White Tower
     
    Character Name: Zoraya Mayrit
    Returning character: No
    Total PSW Character Count (max 24): 0 (1st character)
    Rank: Novice
     
    Age: 17 (entering the White Tower)
    Gender: Female
    Place of Birth/Raising: Darluna, Arad Doman (later Bandar Eban, Arad Doman)
     
    Physical description: 5'3" (161 cm), 148 lbs (67 kg), dark hair, dark eyes, a somewhat ordinary-looking woman with a slightly plump figure
     
    Strengths/Weaknesses 
    Strengths: Deferent, polite, calm, quick learner and researcher
    Weaknesses: Unorganized, procrastinator, heavy sleeper, shy
     
    Character History 
     
    Zoraya was born to a well-to-do Domani merchant woman, Zonene Mayrit, in the southern town of Darluna. Her mother’s family owned a decent-sized abode, with two servants to do the chores around the house. When she was three years old, her father, Binrim Garnade, passed away from a fever, leaving her with a modest personal inheritance of four hundred crowns.
     

    When her mother married again, it was to a son of one of the grander merchant families of Bandar Eban, Nadris Saraqusta. Her step-father’s mother, Cadiya Saraqusta, employed twenty servants in an estate to rival lesser nobles in other nations. Four daughters were born to her mother and step-father, Zoraya’s half-sisters: Antaena Mayrit (5 years younger), Maleane Mayrit (7 years younger), Parvena Mayrit (9 years younger), and Delciane Mayrit (11 years younger). As daughters traditionally run the ledgers in Arad Doman, they were all groomed to succeed her mother.

     

    Zoraya had a decent head for numbers, but it was never her passion. She often became known in mercantile circles as a daydreamer who was always sticking her nose in a book about the faraway lands of Shara, or the history of the Free Years. Nevertheless, she was still expected to continue her mother’s business as a cloth merchant.

     

    Her position in the family was complicated in her adolescence when her step-grandmother (a famous merchant in the trade of the razor horses of Arad Doman) was raised to the Council of Merchants that has a part in the election of the nation’s king. Since her step-grandmother had no daughters or close female relatives, this meant that the Mayrit family would likely possess the wealth and standing of the Saraqustas in time: and the elderly woman became more aware that this meant that her own trade may not pass to a granddaughter of her own blood, but the inconvenient, scatterbrained step-child from her daughter-in-law’s first marriage.

     

    Zoraya’s awkward standing in society was made a little more prescient by her rejection by other genteel girls of a similar age. They would always be polite with her, and she to them, but she always felt rather shy of engaging in conversation. When she reached an age of maturity, she was still somewhat apprehensive about speaking to other traders, and preferred to quietly sleep in and balance the family ledgers from time-to-time, between her own reading for the sake of pleasure.

     

    The Mayrit family was not cruel, so they did not wish to cast their own daughter out, but they both agreed that the mercantile profession was not for her. A suggestion was made that she could go to the White Tower and see if she was able to become Aes Sedai; if not, she could use her father’s inheritance to tour the other nations of the world, and perhaps marry well in another country. After setting off by caravan through Ghealdan, Murandy, and Andor, Zoraya finally reached Tar Valon. To her great joy, the Aes Sedai present at the White Tower determined that she was a channeler (a learner, like most), and as such, Zoraya gladly burned her too-tight Domani gowns and her link with her old life, now ready to enter her name in the Novice book and begin her journey on the way to being an Aes Sedai.

  9. Welcome aboard. We love seeing new members joining. Hopefully our WT & Warders Group Leader, @Kathleen will be free to come chat with you too. I did see the email that arrived earlier, either Kath or I will check it out. ? I'm away from home at the moment so bear with me. 

  10. A belated welcome, @Ranch Doritos. Hopefully Cass has sorted you out and you've found the RP channel in the DM Discord. As I'm sure she's probably explained, there's no need for you to add your bio anywhere. All you have to do is email it so Cass can approve it and post it to the bio board for cross checking. If you need to ask anything else, feel free to drop me a PM as I get an email notification that way.

     

    @Cass if you need me to CC just poke me on Facebook would you, please? ? 

     

     

     

  11. Lii is correct. We don't use objects of power that way in the PSW. It was very clearly explained in the Books why the One Power isn't used for menial tasks and we extend that to utilising objects of power for the same purpose. Menial tasks are character building for Novices so we're not looking to make their lives easier. The existence of ter'angreal and their ilk isn't widely known outwith the channeling communities. Saying that, I'm not against the use of certain items for big projects on, for instance, a city wide scale. So if the Black Tower decided to use something found in their cache of objects to better their community overall, that would be cool as long as it's cleared with the Group Leader, Cass.

  12. On 10/23/2020 at 4:28 AM, Delirium said:

    Have you seen the Going Postal miniseries?  I think casting Charles Dance as the Patrician was perfect.  Also with a cameo by Terry!

     

    I also highly recommend the animated TV series from the 90s of Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters, also starring Christopher Lee as Death. 

     

    Oh, and the HogFather movie (sadly without Christopher Lee, but an admirable performance from Ian Richardson).

     

    I've seen Going Postal and Hogfather, yes. Both brilliant. I'm not aware of the Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters but I'm not a fan of animated TV generally speaking.

  13. Hi Alin, welcome back and nice to meet you. I don't believe I knew you before, I started RP'ing in late 2006, mainly with Owen, but certainly seen your name on many posts. ? Been a few board and staff shuffles in the last couple of years so instead of being the RP Admin, I'm now the RP Club Leader. Different title, same job lol. Any questions just give me a shout. A PM will notify me via email so that's usually best. Let me know character details and I can check various sources to see if I can dig up bios/scores. Can't imagine policies and rules have changed too much but I'm sure we can work something out if there are any contradictions. 

     

    Edited to add: There's this Warder one on the wikia, guessing it's yours HERE.

  14. The highest annual death rate in the UK from flu related illnesses over the last 5 flu seasons stands about 28 thousand. The average over that whole period is roughly 17 thousand per annum. 

     

    We're currently over 44 thousand deaths, and still rising, from coronavirus. After only 4-5 months of the year. It is not comparable to an extra bad flu season by any stretch of the imagination.

     

    And from the various sources I can find regarding the US, the same is true there. The MD of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease told Congress that the US annual mortality rate from flu is only about 0.1% and that coronavirus is 10 times more lethal.

     

    The most abhorrent attitude throughout this entire episode for me, so far, both from the general public and the media/Government, has been this dismissal of anyone in so-called" high risk groups". Making out as though they are acceptable collateral damage and "just to be expected/accepted". This back slapping, "I'm alright, Jack", approach from anyone not in those groups is simply sickening. As always money/greed/economic concerns are used as a justification to ignore simple common sense. Elgee is absolutely on the nail with the WoT/GoT analogy. People in power or positions of privilege will always do whatever it takes to safeguard themselves first and foremost and screw the rest of us.

     

    I'm completely with Liitha on this one and thank heavens we have a First Minister who uses her head and doesn't just follow the UK Government like a sheep. 

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