Live Effects

Introducing the 2010 Plot Staff

Joslyn Field
Ira Ham
Fei Leung
Lisa Schaefer

Presenting: Event 18 - Alternatives

Location: Malibu Creek State Park
http://www.parks.ca.g...

Date: Friday, March 5th - March 7th 2010

Time: Game begins at 7 PM on Friday. Game ends at noon on Sunday.

PC Game Fee: $30 for new players, $80 for current players.
NPC Game Fee: $10.

***Basic food is provided for this event. It is also recommended that firewood be coordinated, given the cold winter nights.

Event Description:

Mistakes happen.

Thinking you can challenge the higher powers... that gets you in trouble.
Some will believe that you have died, others vanished without a trace.
If you had a follower they would believe you have ascended.
However the truth is far worse than that. You have achieved absolute freedom.

Think it's fun? Greatness comes at a price.
You may be heroes, but you have seen nothing. Let us remove the haze.
You have achieved freedom, but the cost to truly be free is much higher.
Now, you are children again, and I will try to help you.

What little I know and have seen I will share. I hold nothing against
any of you for letting me die, it was foolish to think that such an
existence was all that remains.

Welcome to the beginning and the end. For such concepts no longer apply to you.
Maybe next time the simple life a turnip farmer will be more appealing.

Welcome to this week's semi-annual 10 pm front page update! (and by semi-weekly I mean it won't be happening again). A couple of important updates to make.

The pictures from Laneque's Chaos Game III have now been posted here . A lot of them are very professional, so my compliments to the photographer. If you feel like you should be there, you can make sure to show up at any of the upcoming games.

Sorry for the recent lull in updates; however, I will try to make them a bit more frequent from now on.

On Tuesday Jan 12 Messina will be having a plot meeting that will be planning out the next two games. Game 2 which is the upcoming game and some aspects of Game 3 which be at wyrdcon Friday night. If you would like your personal plot or backgrounds to become apart of the story in these upcoming games, please send us writeups or plot requests. Writeups that have already been sent will be worked into the plot and story. If there is anything new that needs to be added please don't hesitate to do so. This will not be our only plot meeting so not all is lost if we don't have your writeup before Jan 12 but the sooner we get your writeups and plot requests the more time we have to weave them into the world.

Writeups, backgrounds and plot requests should be sent to Messina@photonmoon.com

Yes, my friends, you read the title correctly! The Shades of Ruin rulebook has been updated. It can be found on the forums. Make sure to scroll to the bottom of the page for all the correct info: if you got the correct update, it should have subdivisions of the thievery skill. The link should be right about http://www.onlineeffects.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=2701.

First off: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! well, almost...

Dave Barry
Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space.

Ogden Nash
People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December. 

Katharine Whitehorn, Roundabout
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

Frank McKinney Hubbard
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?

Dave Barry, Christmas Shopping
In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukka' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukka!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!'

And now a nice reminder from our "gay little friends" http://www.photonmoon.com/photography/index.php?album=Wyrd+Xmas/z+is+for+zombiesℑ=1.jpg . Hopefully this is something that will never be forgotten, no matter how much brain bleach is used. I do not currently know all the authors, but feel free to comment and I will put up your name for all to shame you. Just kidding.

If I may direct your attention to the left, you will see that some of the division/chapters of Live Effects are up. Make sure to check them for information and dates we might miss. We know we are amazing, but sometimes even we miss things. Seriously, I know it is hard to believe.