Kamau
Adolescent
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Post by Kamau on May 12, 2012 11:19:15 GMT -5
Hi Ewali! You were pretty much gone by the time I came around, but all reports say you're awesome, so I'm sure I missed out.
I was thinking about RP while going to work the other day, and about how there was a time in my life where I couldn't picture a world where I didn't RP. I used to wonder how I would find time when I was married and had kids, and is it something I would share with my future husband, etc. etc., and now I don't RP anymore and don't really mind... and that's kind of strange, how things have changed. But I guess I got old? Or something. I may actually be the youngest one here so not old PER SE.
And at the same time I really miss pretending I'm a student at Hogwarts. Pottermore only goes so far.
The last time I RPed was at Soulfire, and I signed on and was like YEA LET'S DO THIS and then got into a scene where the characters were just having a picnic and I looked out my window at the Golden Gate Bridge and wondered why the heck I wasn't outside FOR REAL and peaced out asap. I think if I am going to start RPing again, it needs to be kind of epic.
In other news I had a dream last night where everything fast-forwarded two years into the future and I was married with a kid and a second kid along the way, but had no memory of the past two years and couldn't figure out what was going on and why I'd gotten married and two kids plus a husband in two years seems a little fast doesn't it?! And then I woke up really relieved that my only responsibility for keeping anything alive is my two bunnies.
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Ewali
Juvenile
King of the Past
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Post by Ewali on May 14, 2012 12:18:22 GMT -5
ELIM! <333333333
AND KAMAU! Hi. I didn't get to know you that well, which is a shame, but I definitely remember you!
I have to write more later because not much time right now but I just wanted to write something to let you know I haven't forgotten or anything!
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Ewali
Juvenile
King of the Past
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Post by Ewali on May 16, 2012 7:32:20 GMT -5
DOUBLE POST. Also why would Audrey lie about such a thing? Haha, all the caps cracked me up. I missed you guys. *HUGS* Okay, so. How long has it actually been? I really haven't talked to you guys since before I got married? Wow. That was summer 2008, nearly 4 years ago. I work for the government, currently, which is... eh. Let's not get into it. I may not stay until the end of the year, at this rate. I have a simming livejournal (meetme2theriver.livejournal.com, the silly name is a mishearing of the "simlish" lyrics of a song in the game ) if you care to have a look, it's where I'm most active online these days. It's all Sims 2, though. The game is my creative outlet/escapism. I've tried TS3 a couple of times, but I feel like it would be such an enormous amount of work to convert, get everything working to my liking, make sure my neighbourhoods don't blow up, collect CC, etc. Anyway! Yeah, no RP for me either. I don't think I'd have the time or energy, either, but I miss the atmosphere and excitement and all from how it was back in the day. *grins* Elim, I can't judge you for Glee-RP. I haven't even seen Glee! That's so cool that you guys are in touch with so many of the people from the MUCK. You should totally talk them into coming back here for a, I dunno, reunion party! We could all just chat. It'd be awesome. Anyone heard anything from Mguu? Did I tell you guys I saw TLK in London in 2009? It was AWESOME. I hope I can do it again. So many emotions indeed. Shadowland is just... wow. And god, the opening, with all the animals. <333 Kamau, it's hard to imagine what the future will be like, isn't it? Things always seem to end up different from how you thought they would. And something that once seemed so important... suddenly isn't anymore. Growing up and getting older is part of it, just experiencing more, thinking differently... but yeah, often I find myself missing the time when things were simpler. ...(I can't believe I'm 30 next year. ;_;) Edit: I hate it when my emoticons turn into actual little icons. *shakes fist at forum software*
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Post by Msasi on May 17, 2012 0:59:50 GMT -5
It's OK, Kam. You are awesome and made the later period of the MUCK awesome too (it wouldn't have been the same without Kam, Ona and Sunny being together in Tyne)! <3
It's funny, because I used to think I'd just... always RP. Yeah, get married and have kids and everything and RPing would just be one of those things that I'd do to relax... just like reading books or playing video games or watching movies. I knew I may not be able to keep up the HOURS AND HOURS that I did when I was still in school, but I never thought I'd NOT RP. But now I don't RP and, like you said Ewali, I miss the atmosphere and the excitement and the PEOPLE and my characters and the stories... but... I'm an adult, I have other responsibilities, and I just get drained and don't have the energy to put into being as creative. And if I did RP, I don't think I'd be able to do it very often, to the point I don't think stories would actually be able to ever go anywhere and then it'd just feel boring.
Like with you, Kam, if I was going to start RPing again, it would have to be kind of epic. But then, it always felt to me like it was random little things that would end up being epic feeling, while the things I thought would be huge awesome great epic sometimes fell short, so it's always hard to tell what would/would not work!
I have not heard from Mguu! In... quite a very long time, wow. Aw, I miss her. If I can remember next time I'm on Facebook, I'll try messaging people to try and get them to come chat!
And I am so jealous you got to see TLK in London! It came to my city in.. I don't even remember now, a few years ago.. and it ended up coming right at a time when I was out of work and couldn't spare the money to go. I was so upset! Hopefully it comes back at some point so I can see it. I do watch the movie itself once a year, though. Circle of Life STILL gives me goose bumps even after all these years (although I've become really fond of the Broadway version of that song because it is freaking gorgeous). It's actually STILL my favorite Disney movie, too (although Princess and the Frog came REALLY close to finally knocking it off the top spot).
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Post by Msasi on Aug 13, 2012 15:45:29 GMT -5
So, we've all been kinda dead for a bit. Thus it's perfectly acceptable to come back and have your post be about incest, right? RIGHT? NO DELILAH NO THAT IS YOUR BROTHER WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! (Msasi, keepin' this forum classy since 2012).
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Kamau
Adolescent
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Post by Kamau on Aug 25, 2012 16:22:56 GMT -5
Hahaha WHAT!
I haven't played in ages. I should, though!
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Post by Msasi on Aug 26, 2012 0:05:09 GMT -5
Yeah, my interest comes and goes. I play for a bit... and then my interest gets snapped up by another game or something. Like now. I am playing Crusader Kings II. For this play through, I decided to name characters after my lion characters from Sunrise! This was a good idea until I discovered that I really can't remember all of my characters, so I started using OTHER PEOPLE'S characters. Oh yes. So I started with my first guy, Anubis. He was the Earl of Dublin (we're trying to control Ireland, dudes). And all was going well, he was conquering away, became Duke of Meath and Duke of Ulster and was well on his way to uniting everyone in the Kingdom of Ireland and becoming King. Well. He died suddenly and I was all WHUT? So play immediately switched to his son and heir, Kiet, and I get this popup. Apparently Annie's wife and Kiet conspired to have him murdered. How rude! Kiet went on to live quite a long time. He got control of the Kingdom of Ireland and started working on Wales (can't go into Scotland just yet, since Norway likes to beat the crap out of them and Norway is too powerful for us just yet). I had Kiet carefully train his son, Xian, to be the perfect little heir... and then realized (when Kiet was all old and such) that I'd set the succession laws wrong, which meant Xian was waaaaay down the list of those in line for the throne. So, Kiet had to go on a stabbing spree. Oh, he had a lot of people stabbed. But eventually Xian was properly listed as his heir, so when Kiet finally died (in a battle, trying to snatch up more of Wales), Xian became king. Hooray! You can also see Binstari listed as one of the pretenders to the throne. Bins was Xian's... brother or half brother, I don't remember which. Bins was ALSO upset that Xian became king and not himself so he kind of hated Xian's guts. But Xian was nice and gave him a bit of Wales and Bins liked him again. And then Bins died of some disease or other and we had to give that land to some stupid ugly distant cousin. BINS. But. Uh, then this happened. It says Xian died "in an accident" but what it DOESN'T say is that he died - I KID YOU NOT - having sex with his wife. Yeah. I'd gotten a popup just before this that said his passion was re-ignited by his new wife (I had him divorce his old wife, because she was past her child-bearing years and I needed him to have a son). It said he had, like, a 50% chance of gaining the "lustful" trait (which would be good, just in case his new wife keeps popping out girls or something) and something like a 5-10% chance of dying from the passion being too much for his heart. And... he died. I laughed. XD Of course, I wasn't able to change the succession laws just yet (he needs to rule for 10 years, first) and Bins was dead (BINS ) so this stupid GUY who is some sort of cousin to Xian became king instead... and those next in line don't look all that great stat-wise, either. So I may just see if I have a quick save from before Xian died so I can... have him not die. At least not until he pops out a son and I get the succession laws changed. THE END. FOR NOW.
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Post by Msasi on Aug 26, 2012 0:41:14 GMT -5
Oh hay look Xian lived and had a son: Hoping Xian lives long enough for me to change the succession laws, though. I didn't know none of his vassals higher than counts could have a negative opinion of him, and one dude is being a real douchebag for whatever reason. I don't want to have to have Xian go on a stabbing spree just to get Kam as his heir, but if he does, that dude is the first to go.
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Kamau
Adolescent
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Post by Kamau on Aug 26, 2012 11:51:09 GMT -5
Kam Dude this game looks super fun. I actually DID play Sims yesterday. I'll try and write about it soon. Also, I don't know if anyone's interested, but a friend of mine and I decided to make a Hogwartsy game: hogwarts-histor.livejournal.com/376.htmlIt's set around Grindelwald's time and Voldemort will open the Chamber of Secrets in a few years, and we're doing it on LJ because we don't have time for hours-long scenes and such anymore. If anyone IS interested you should totes join.
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Post by Msasi on Aug 27, 2012 21:47:33 GMT -5
It is pretty fun! Although it can actually be incredibly frustrating, too, as it has a pretty steep learning curve and some of the interface/UI design choices aren't the best. I hda to read a whole Let's Play about the game AND a general game info thread and I STILL don't quite understand everything. Like right now, one of the counties in Ireland is a republic. So Xian (and now Kamau) get negative penalties for "wrong governement type" since we're a monarchy. I have no idea how it came to be a republic. And I can't figure out how the hell to turn it back. I tried having Kamau revoke the dude's titles, but the dude has some powerful foreign allies that kicked the heck out of our army, so I just reloaded from a previous save and will have to just eat that penalty until I can figure out... how to make the republic go away. And your Hogwarts game looks interesting! I wish I had the ability to RP on LJ or on forums, but for whatever reason I can START to RP on them, and then after a day or two I lose interest and my mind wanders and then everyone is waiting for me to pose. But I will keep it in mind if I ever get the RP itch! Anywho. Xian became known as King Xian the Troubadour. I have no idea why. Neat, though, since the titles I've mostly seen are "the Great" or "the Wise" (Kiet, Xian's dad, was King Kiet the Wise). And once I get the succession laws all straightened out and Kamau set up as the heir, Kam gets betrothed to this little Princess from... Sweden, I think. She has the genius trait, so she is good marriage material. Oh, no. Waset, no. No no. Bad. You do not want to do this to your brother. Luckily, she stopped when we asked her to. Crisis averted! Xian dies, and Kam becomes King! Hooray! He had a son before Xian died, though, so I didn't get to name him and he got called Sean. BORING. You can also see Kam's younger brother Onaedo listed as one of the pretenders. Like other family members who weren't able to be heir, Ona was upset that Kam was heir and became King. Ona already had a bit of land in Wales, and Kam took over in the war to win the last little bit of Wales, so that was given to Ona as well to appease him. Although now that I think about it, I may have given Ona too much of Wales, and he may be able to usurp the King of Wales title from Kam. If he does, I'll probably just let him have it, rather than going to war with him to get it back. Then Ona can deal with England, Scotland and Brittany all knocking on his door and wanting Wales and see how far he gets without the rest of Ireland's might behind him.
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Kamau
Adolescent
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Post by Kamau on Aug 30, 2012 23:56:53 GMT -5
All hail King Kamau I!
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Ewali
Juvenile
King of the Past
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Post by Ewali on Sept 6, 2012 15:22:43 GMT -5
I've never heard of this game before, Msasi, but now I must see more of your adventures in it. I am much amused.
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Post by Msasi on Sept 7, 2012 16:00:53 GMT -5
I'll try to post more soon! The thing is, you can only name your character's children... so if your character lives for a long time and his kids grow up and start having kids, the game names those kids itself (and tends to repeat names. a lot). So it's just not as fun watching the seven billionth kid named Mael-Martin be heir and do dumb stuff as it is watching Kamau trying to aid Onaedo in a battle (only for the game to tell me you can't aid your own vassals... WHOOPS SORRY ONA).
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Post by Elimnyama on Oct 2, 2012 13:31:22 GMT -5
Heyyyyyyyyyy. So remember that time I wasn't a total thingy-bag and forgot about this forum? .... that was a good time.
ANYWAY. I'M BACK. I'M SORRY. LIFE GOT HECTIC AND WEIRD AND OH YEAH I'M GETTING MARRIED BUT WHATEVER I MISSED YOU GUYS.
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Post by Msasi on Oct 2, 2012 19:23:00 GMT -5
You thingy bag how could you just go and IGNORE US it's just a wedding it's not like that is more important that goofing off on the internet PFFFT (no really congrats! again! <3). Oh hey maybe I should stop ignoring the forum too. But I don't have a nifty wedding excuse. I.. uh. Fell. And hurt my... uh... hair. Tragic. Yep. I was in a coma for several years and just when my family was getting ready to pull the plug I woke up and was fixed and my hair is ok it's a Tuesday miracle! ...OK no the link to the forum just got shuffled down my bookmark list which means it's time to clean out my bookmarks so I'll see it and remember OH YEAH I SHOULD CHECK THAT THING.
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