Steps taken forward...

This comes to you from mzrowan by way of lovecraftienne.

I bring you, the Internal Dialects of English Archive. This site has a ton of sound archives of different english dialects.

Very cool indeed!

April game is rescheduled!

We had to reschedule the April game to the 19th to avoid a collision with the Norwescon Post-Con meeting.

We hope that this does not cause too many problems for people.

Thanks!

What: Ji Dian Station: Lights Out, Live Action RolePlaying in the Firefly 'verse
When: Friday, March 21st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Where: At Norwescon 31
How Much: Free! well, you do have to have a membership to the convention, but you were planning on going anyways, right? ;)

How do I sign up to play? Easy, go to jidianstation.org/cons/NorwesconSignup.aspx and fill out the form.

We are one month away from the game and will begin assigning characters next week!

( More information below... )

gypsiequeen to her back and she's been trying to manage it at home, but the vicodin hasn't been touching it and there is only so much she gets for every 45 days. When chronic back pain is your constant companion, you learn to go sparingly on the good meds.

Anyway, she has gone back to a bed and I'm out in the lobby with the Girly Girl. I will try to work on the game from here, without my notes and doing it from my phone, I don't know how far I'll get. I figure I can apply XP and character updates in the morning.

But now, I cope by thinking up stories and down the down the ideas.

After being frustrated with the limitations of the current implementation under VB6, the GV2Web object is being redesigned and rewritten using .Net and C#. One of the underlying design goals is for a plug-in architecture to read various character store formats. I was very happy when it worked as I had not done anything remotely like that previously.

As it stands now, I'm building 3 plugins for it that handle different character store formats: the GV2DataAdapter for Grapevine 2.3, the GV3DataAdapter for Grapevine 3.0, and the GoSqlDataAdapter for the yet unbuilt SQL Server character store that will be used in the PlotEngine at some future date. The design has hence forth rechristened as GVWeb, though the Grapevine moniker is likely unneeded because of the plugin model, but I'm sentimental and it's a natural progression.

Now I'm playing NUnit because VS2k5 Pro does not include unit testing tools. :(

Ji Dian Station: "Lights Out" at Norwescon 31

The gas giant Heinlein continues in it's elliptical orbit through the black and the years continue to roll forward. Aboard the skyplex that orbits the planet, Ji Dian Station, the Companion Guild hosts a reenactment of Yuen Siu, the lantern festival, in honor of the spring season of the Earth That Was.

You are invited to come meet the local color of the station. Rub shoulders with members of Parliament. Spend time with the beautiful ladies and handsome gentleman of the Companion Guild. Enjoy the delights of the festival. Join in the contests and merriment. It is a festival of creativity, romance, and murder!

There is a killer on the loose. He has struck once and may strike again. That's right, besides solving riddle competitions, entering lantern-making contests, and advancing your character's own agenda, there is a murder mystery to solve! Come join us a special event our month-to-month live action role-playing game set in Joss Whedon's Firefly universe; "Lights Out", part of on going story of Ji-Dian Station. This session will occur from 6:00 P.M. to midnight on Friday, March 21st, at Norwescon 31. While this is an ongoing LARP, this special event is open to a limited number of interested convention members. There is no need to have played previously. The plots of this session will be centered on this event and convention members who are not part of the ongoing game will play pre-generated characters that have specific goals and priorities related to this session.

For more information on the game and to sign up, visit http://www.jidianstation.org/norwescon or you can send an e-mail to norwescon@jidianstation.org.

We look forward to role-playing with you!


Jim Sullivan and Rory Clark
Game Marshalls of Ji Dian Station

Yesterday we did episode 7 (aka game 7) of Ji Dian Station, the Ace Space Race, and we did the big reveal to the players and we firmly established when the game was happening in the minds of the players.

It was great watching the realization dawn on the faces of players as they figured out what they were listening to that interrupted the broadcast of the race. And then watching the characters react to the scientists monologue as it is interrupted.

I am very pleased with the way things went.

(Cross posted in activegnome and jidianstation and a handy e-mail sent!)

Have you made your Norwescon preference known yet? I am closing out the poll on Friday and spending time working with sylvan to figure out all of the details and get those details to the Programming, Special Events, and Gaming so we can get on the schedule.

Here is the poll: http://community.livejournal.com/jidianstation/1299.html

...still working.

Fortunately all of the big things for the game are done and all I have to do really is clean. Anyone want to help? :D

I will have to pick up a set of these for use as props in the LARP.