Campaign Journal
This is the discussion area for the Ansalea game
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On Sunday, 07-Jan-01 18:57:04 EST, Steve said- As far as it goes, I'm an Anglophone, not a Francophone. None of my recent ancestors are of French descent; closest I come is one uncle who married into the family.
On Sunday, 07-Jan-01 18:04:52 EST, Anonymous said- wasn't sure, thats why I put it in a footnote.
On Thursday, 04-Jan-01 23:42:36 EST, Steve said- Sorry, I'm not Webster.
On Thursday, 04-Jan-01 19:11:52 EST, Anonymous said- And I stand by my statement that anyone who feels the need to use a spell checker on a bullitin board post is anal retentive.
It strange that you feel the need to defend you self from being call anal retentive based on your fluentcy in your native tongue, (1)since I did not even hint at that being your problem.
This seems to indicate that you are over defencive about being called anal-retentive.
Is this a case of the lady protesting too much?
(1) NAtive tounge?, your french candian, french is your native tounge, not english, and I know you aint fluent in french.
On Wednesday, 03-Jan-01 01:20:22 EST, Anonymous said- The horse appears to be receiving a thorough beating from both sides, dead or not. I stand by my statement that being fluent in your native tongue is not anal-retentive. I would further suggest that spelling and grammar checkers are tools not for the fluent, but for the less skilled, meaning that those who know about punctuation, spelling, and grammar are actually less likely to use them.
If, as you say, your errors are caused by dyslexia (interestingly, www.dyslexiaonline.com mentions a raft of reading issues, but suggests that the only writing issues are likely to be crappy handwriting and changes in letter order/sequencing), then it seems you would be a prime candidate for using such tools, regardless of your competence in our language.
On Tuesday, 02-Jan-01 18:02:18 EST, Anonymous said- The commen discription of dyslexia is that of a perception problem that causes people to reverse the order of the letters, this should more properly be described as -reading- the order of letter backwards. Dyslexia and dyslexia related problem can cause a wider verity of spelling and grammer mistakes then would normally familiar to the advarage anal-retantiveish laymen who seems incapable of stopping himself from beating a dead horse.
On Monday, 01-Jan-01 17:48:43 EST, Anonymous said- Calling someone who has bothered to become fluent in their native tongue "anal-retentive" seems more than a little extreme. Last time I checked dyslexia caused you to reverse the order of letters, not to invent entirely new combinations of letters and try to pass those of as words. Bastard, spelling, entirely, and intentional are all spelled incorrectly and none of them have only reversed letters. I'll leave the various problems with non-hyphenated hyphenated words, subject-verb agreement, and your near complete inability to distinguish homonyms for a later discourse. As a hint though, on most keyboards, the apostrophe (or single quote) is immediately to the left of the enter key. I'd also like to point out that you may not be the proper person to discuss what is and is not normal or normally done.
On Monday, 01-Jan-01 14:22:00 EST, Anonymous said- Calling one who is anal retentive a sorry basterd is not normally termed mockery, its more of a expression of pity. Now saying that "I'm surprised you were able to type all that one handed, but then I guess your use to working at the computer one handed", now thats mockery. Note any speling or grammer errors in this flame are enterilly intensional or the result of a minor case of dyslexia.(In yo face Webster)
On Monday, 01-Jan-01 09:13:09 EST, Anonymous said- Strange as it may seem, there are some who, when attempting to communicate their thoughts to others, find it easier to use a standardized set of symbols and rules for their usage to do so. Those who do so will, in some cases, make an effort to understand those symbols and rules. Others, less concerned with communication, find the rules abhorrent and instead persist in mocking those who would see the rules applied. Stranger still, many of these people share the same attitude towards the rules of games.
On Sunday, 31-Dec-00 17:05:52 EST, Anonymous said- While its clear you yourself are beyond help, since you are apparantlly the sort who spell checks quick notes joted down on a bullitin board. Dam, you are one sorry basterd.
On Friday, 22-Dec-00 00:12:48 EST, Webster said- Spellcheck maybe? It's kind of a new innovation, but it does help some people.
On Monday, 18-Dec-00 16:35:26 EST, Joe said- Your analitical skills seem equall to both your originallty and articulation. Your distorted recolections make it clear that in any arugument you would be left with no leg to stand on.
On Friday, 20-Oct-00 16:05:25 EDT, Asmodeus said- For trying immediately kill two people, I name you bloodthirsty.
For assalting a Marshall of the King and also the Mayor, I name you criminal.
For holding (Truthfully trying to break) the sword of sharpness, I name you petty and decietful
For training men to deal death (who had never really stood down), I name you evil.
For trying to raise yourself and profit by any means, I name you greedy and treacherous.
For your acts you have comitted, while claiming the title of Justicat, I name you without honor, without truth, full of hipocrasy.
You are without honor, courage, or any morality as seen by any man's judgement. (Perfect self analysis Harkonnen!)
For sending two wands which you stole and swindled the rest of the group out of (again greed and deciet).
Afterwards(very shortly) Harkonnen will stand ready to meet with you in a neutral ground (with other assassins certainly nearby)
Harkonnen, you are the very embodiment of pure Lawful Evil: Greedy, decietful, treachous, schemeing, without honor....
Welcome to my world.
On Monday, 16-Oct-00 22:35:52 EDT, Steve D. said- On that considerably less than concilliatory note, I think it's safe to say this campaign is over.
Based on my understanding of the positions of various players, only Joe and Tom seem interested in continuing with their current characters and Joe only seems to want to play once or twice more, long enough to finally bend the Spire of Lies to his will, er overcome its evil influence.
On Monday, 16-Oct-00 00:24:32 EDT, Sir Urban Harkonan, Knight Justicar, Cardinal of Ansalea. said- From a message written on a parchment containing two wands:
Androth.
For trying to stop the just exacution of two condemmed men, I name you traitor.
For assalting a knight in the exacution of his duties, I name you criminal.
For attacking me with a sword of sharpness, and then standing back to shoot arrows at me when I held it rather then met me in melee with your "other" magic sword, I name you coward.
For threating men with death who had already stood down, I name you evil.
For trying to kill a man who has stood by your side fighting the forces of darkness, I name you enemy.
For your acts you have comitted, while claiming the title of Cavilier, I name you without honor.
You are without honor, courage, or any morality as seen by any man's judgement.
And yet I send these two wands to you. You may use them to pay for the repair of your injury. And if their is any shred of honor, courage or even a sense of decency within you, you will join me in the assault on the tower of lies, putting aside our differences until an evil that endangers both our peoples is destroyed.
Afterwards I will stand ready to meet with you in a neutral ground, with witnesses to prevent the interference of others, I will forego the use of spells if you forego the use of your sword of sharpness, this would put us on an even level, or you can continue to plot and cower until you can kill me with the same lack of courage and honor you have show so far.
No matter what your decision, I beg you to restrain you petty vengeance untill I can deal with the matter of the spire of lies.
On Wednesday, 04-Oct-00 09:11:12 EDT, Lou said- Curses to those 9:00 am staff meetings. Foiled again.
On Wednesday, 04-Oct-00 08:53:13 EDT, Steve said- Tom was first at 9:32am, followed shortly by Lou (9:46am), John (10:59am), Dave (4:00pm) and finally Joe (6:02pm). On the other hand, I was pretty happy to find out the chronicles were so well read.
On Sunday, 16-Jul-00 18:55:01 EDT, Steve said- Excellent! Why, that would give me a full hour and a half to prepare if I'd been more thoughtful and eaten dinner earlier in the day. Curse my procrastinating hide!
On Sunday, 16-Jul-00 18:07:18 EDT, Lou said- Sent
On Sunday, 16-Jul-00 17:52:56 EDT, Malz said- Mine is on its way!
On Sunday, 16-Jul-00 01:05:22 EDT, Dave said- I'll send you an additional copy of mine, if it'll do something for ya?
On Sunday, 16-Jul-00 01:04:33 EDT, DaveM said- I'll try and kick Howey into getting one prior to the game...I'm sure he knows nothing about it.
On Saturday, 15-Jul-00 20:45:28 EDT, Lou said- I'll e-mail it to you tomorrow.
On Saturday, 15-Jul-00 19:24:27 EDT, Steve said- Okay, so it's nearly a week later. Guess how many additional character copies I've received?
If you guessed zero, congratulations.
On Sunday, 09-Jul-00 20:26:22 EDT, Lou said- Unfortunatly, I was not aware of the request for character sheets. If I just missed the request my apologize. As for the time passing, it doesn't really make a difference for me. I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to play (what with it being summer, and that goes for just about any game.)
On Sunday, 09-Jul-00 16:30:06 EDT, Dave said- Yep...we could tell Mike and Lou (the only other two who are likely to show (Howey's in Cali)) to send you copies of their character.
Tim & Mick are unlikely (as most B teamers are) to show anyway....
On Sunday, 09-Jul-00 15:51:42 EDT, Steve said- My apologies to Joe and Dave, the only two players who bothered to comply with my simple request for a copy of character sheets before the next time I ran.
Since I'm not eager to run with only two players (particularly two players whose characters get along so well), I'm not running tonight. I'm open to alternative suggestions.
On Thursday, 06-Jul-00 23:25:50 EDT, Steve said- So far, I've heard from Dave and Joe. If they're the only ones interested in the game, the whole thing just got easier for me.
On Tuesday, 04-Jul-00 22:07:45 EDT, JOE said- Well Im pretty sure I made 9th by the end of the last adventure, so I got up to 200 followers due to show up, haveing a monestary built to house and feed them be treated as a done deal would be easier, as well as having the rest of town building done and over with.
On Tuesday, 04-Jul-00 15:50:36 EDT, Steve said- I'll leave that up to the players, but I guess I need to know your thoughts by tomorrow night.
On Sunday, 02-Jul-00 21:29:22 EDT, JOE said- So is the next game gona be one year later game time?
