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Missed Connections.

Posted by truemane
truemane
member, 1992 posts
Firing magic missles at
the darkness!
Thu 13 Aug 2015
at 17:16
  • msg #1

Missed Connections

As this is not only an on-line community, but a doubly anonymous one (as most of us don't even know the usernames of the people we play with), sometimes there are people with whom we lose contact and would like to find again.

So, this thread is for posting Missed Connections. Just like Craigslist. But not really like Craigslist.

I'll start.

A few years ago I played in a Hunter: the Reckoning game with someone whose character name was Sam. This was one of my favourite games of all time and Sam was an excellent player and in our private conversations she seemed like an excellent person as well. She (character was female anyway) disappeared on us one day and I've always wondered what happened to her, if she's okay. If she reads this, please rMail me. I'd love to get back in touch.


Not even a few years ago I was engaged in one of the most satisfying RP experiences in my life with a character named Raisende. And she (female character again, can I drive 'em away or what) also disappeared on me, although this time it was after I myself vanished for two months. I came back and she was nowhere to be found. Raisende, if you're reading this, I'd love to know how things are going, get in touch, all that.
This message was last edited by the user at 19:54, Sat 15 Aug 2015.
Eggy
member, 607 posts
Thu 13 Aug 2015
at 17:30
  • msg #2

Re: Missed Connections

I've got one. Years ago, I was in a Changeling the Dreaming game playing a Boggan named Minerva. I had a great time, I've kept in touch with most of the other players except one: the player of an Eshu named Tristan.

Tristan, I hope you're still out there playing Changeling!
bkwrm79
member, 103 posts
Thu 13 Aug 2015
at 17:42
  • msg #3

Re: Missed Connections

Great idea!

I'd love to look up the people from Angel Investigations, many years ago - the Director and the player of Jessica.  We had a lot of fun.  :)  I think it was my first game on RPOL.

(I played Daniel, Vampire-at-Law.)
Gaffer
member, 1292 posts
Ocoee FL
40 yrs of RPGs
Fri 14 Aug 2015
at 14:12
  • msg #4

Re: Missed Connections

This is a great idea.
Retias
member, 145 posts
Mon 5 Oct 2015
at 15:27
  • msg #5

Re: Missed Connections

I'm hoping the player of Quincy Geier sees this. We'd love to see you return to our werewolf game if you're still interested. :)
V_V
member, 483 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Fri 16 Oct 2015
at 05:55
  • msg #6

Re: Missed Connections

Long way back. I remember a female duelist who was in an epic D&D 3.x game under a GM named Shaman. Not sure if the player was male or female, but the character was female. I played a grey elf, that was actually neutral in game that was supposed to be evil inclined. This duelist was "foiled" by a twink min-maxed war-troll black half-dragon, blah, blah blah. That had an amulet of retribution and stupidity...and so on. Basically the troll was a misogynist and the player made no qualms about it just stated his build was just better and his character was evil. "Live with it, or just die trying to deny it."

Well the duelist (probably not the actually class, I think it might have been dervish, but I have no idea) soon after quit the game. I asked after her, to the GM, and he just said "She had RL come up" which is fine. That's a huge problem on RPOL. Rmail wasn't around back then and I felt really bad. The GM and this duelist were fun to play with, and then this wartroll sort of soured it, at least for me and at a time this duelist's life was difficult. The player of the duelist called him out, asking why he was being so antagonistic and attacking us, and then basically the duelist player finally just said "okay" to spare a nasty player fight when the troll's player was getting snide and just citing source books for his cheese.

I wish we could have gone on so the troll could have been thwarted, but moreover just because it was fun game and this player seemed like he or she had an interesting back story and wanted to play evil in a way that was original. The game stopped with my wizard and this duelist just shopping for scrolls. Very mundane actually. We were shopping mostly because we were epic and could go to Sigil, but also to figure out a game plan for the rise of 'doom'.

I recall not the duelist's character name. Nor the wartroll pin prick's. I'd love to have the player of the duelist in my game, or join another GM's game alongside him or her. System irrelevant. It was a good game until it became a contest. Honestly I'd love to know if Shaman is still on here, but I have his Rmail, so I could just Rmail him if I was so inclined. This duelist? No idea if I already met back up with them and didn't realize it, or they left RPOL and never came back.

I can give details if someone thinks they might be the duelist. Or knows who the player was.
jait
member, 339 posts
Mon 2 Nov 2015
at 11:56
  • msg #7

Remembering Seavan... 

Long before I started up on RPOL, I ran a handful of White Wolf old world-of-darkness play-by-email games set in the fictional city of Seavan.  We played via Yahoo Groups, if I recall...

I probably ran forty or fifty PCs from approximately 1996 through 2004 or so, with games for Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse and Mage: The Ascension.  I even had a crossover game, though I'm pretty sure that didn't last long.

The names of the games I've been able to dig up were:
The Children of Dana (Crossover, Werewolf, Mage, Vampire)
The Blood Dawn (Werewolf: The Apocalypse)
The Dagger's Promise (Werewolf: The Apocalypse)
Blood of Innocence (Mage: The Ascension)
Blood of Vengeance (Mage: The Ascension)
Heart of Redemption (Vampire: The Masquerade)

I'd love to touch base with some of the folks I played with way back then...

If any of this sounds even vaguely familiar, drop me a rMail...  The game-logs are long since gone, but I've got a fair bit of background information saved away...
Orklad
member, 5 posts
Tue 10 Nov 2015
at 15:53
  • msg #8

Oh so many moons ago

A while back I was the head Storyteller for a non RPOL Vampire The Masquerade game called Hollow City...sorta wondered if any of those folks had found their way to RPOL after we folded up shop.
Lauriebear
member, 2 posts
Sun 15 Nov 2015
at 23:18
  • msg #9

My first game on RPOL...

...I so wish it would be revitalized
 [game name removed] members....  I know you might still be around...if you are plz let us connect.  Maybe we can create a spin off of sorts?  I miss Cat!  Chris!  Aesis where are you????  Rhawon  Dhorinshyl...so many...where are you???  Let's make a spin off as I believe the GM became very ill and could not continue.
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was in need of a minor tweak, at 13:20, Mon 16 Nov 2015.
V_V
member, 505 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Mon 7 Dec 2015
at 23:58
  • msg #10

My first game on RPOL...

It occurred to me, when I was reading a post in good stuff, that sometimes you just never actually have a connection at all. You never aim for one, and so the shot is never taken. You basically still never hit it off. Same end effect, but you never tried. Never got fired, up or off. Basically same effect though, you end with zero.

I know better than to write an awards of RPOL post. I have my favorites, I have friends I have an old buddy from back in 2003 (I think). I have no idea what his real name is. I think it's Tom though. I know nothing about him, except that he tells everyone when he's taking holiday. I think he lives in the U.K. No idea though. I share a lot of personal info, a lot of baggage. He's just sort of main staple wihout ever telling me much about himself. I like him. I sometimes find myself daydreaming about his holiday. I have this image in my head, of what he looks like. I've played with this guy since 3.0 was the D&D to be the e.

Today I thought about the fact I know so much about so many people. People I recognize by name. People I also make up faces to. People I could never game with, but that I like, actually enjoy reading their posts. They are like characters in this meta-game of life. It's game I'm not very active in, but they're like the actors in the shows I watch a lot of on this t.v. I have netflix and barely watch an hour a month (my roomate does though).

I like these people, the actual people, what little I know them. And I think they have no idea how much I appreciate them.

There's a woman with some mobility issues. She was scammed by an automotive mechanic (well, not just ONE too many) and thereafter she made sure she chnaged her own oil in all her vehicles did it, mobility issues be damned. I see her being dedicated, but none too solemn. It's enough to remember, put a name to face. She doesn't like grammar errors, and notations being improper. It bugs her. Little things, as if I could place her in a who's who game of the site's life.

There's a guy who loves to talk about shows I've never seen and never will. He works on stage, as in does the crew work. If I was ever to be an actor, he'd be the best crew team lead I would hope for. He's been called a dog, at least once with endearment, and has had long streaks of vents that I wished sometimes I had more than words to offer him. So I give nothing instead.

There's a special needs gal, not sure how, but she was homeless. Sad story. Made me actually cry. Helped me get through my own forms of homelessness.

The list does go on. From the ones that make me angry, but whom I agree with. Very smart, albeit argumentative, people that explain things to me without ever knowing I took a page from the book, to the people who make me glad I have what I do, even though they have so much more than I ever could if I were them.

Evil GMs aren't always evil people. Often the ones that say they are won't ever tell you they're perfect. I like her.

People put on a face when they get on stage. That doesn't mean that makes them all of who they are. Even if they made the mask by hand. I like him.

Sadly, sometimes people I like, whom helped me never knowing it, go without their name remembered. That's what's like sand falling through my fingers. I could comb the base for years and never again will I have a grain again in hand.

Even the prideful lion, has mane, and that is not what makes the lion truly a lion. He is what he is. He's smart, and he's a king of games in some circles.

I often regret most, the the times I never aim, never shoot, never drive to the match and never learn how to shoot an arrow. I think about it though. If I can say any truth, it's that so many people will be remembered as long as I have memory. When that's gone, I hope they aren't. I really won't care, and that won't make me sad, I won't even remember who I am or what a game, life of otherwise, is.

It just makes me happy now. Maybe that's excessive, maybe that's not wise to be so bold. It just makes me happy the journey isn't over, not yet. The game will go on, and sometimes you have to drop out. Sometimes...the game just...dies.
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