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| Re: KES, 18 [message #50316 is a reply to message #50312 ] |
Thu, 14 June 2012 09:54   |
sarahkay
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Hmm...Hayley just got a lot more interesting! She might be a real person after all...
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| Re: KES, 18 [message #50317 is a reply to message #50312 ] |
Thu, 14 June 2012 10:17 |
Katsheare
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Maybe it was an enchanted enchanted sword. Hmm. Flowerhair hadn’t been cursed to be a realtor yet. It could happen.
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Do authors hate their characters enough to make them realtors? Oh, wait.
Part of my glee over the last two eps is that they do have that sense of "Hey, I'm just going along with this, okay?!" that is the mark of a fun Storyteller (as in Game Master). I don't know that Robin is the one we need to bribe. What we need to do is find out what kind of chocolate Cathy likes or get her drunk or something so she'll show us her notebook.
Actually, no. That would spoil the fun of waiting. It's actually pretty cool imagining what'll come next (middle-of-the-night wakefulness notwithstanding. Now my 21 month old has taken to waking up 3-5 hours earlier than his standard, so instead of 3 am and 'oh no we're spoiling the surprise about the wonder dog' it's 6 am and 'this is actually not a valid hour for waking, I don't care what that light outside and those cars driving by suggest.') and discovering this world.
But man is this making me want to do some serious roleplaying. Maybe some of my soon-to-be-bellringer-cohorts carry their dice at all times, to lure in off the wagon gamers...
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| Re: KES, 18 [message #50319 is a reply to message #50312 ] |
Thu, 14 June 2012 13:24 |
sarahkay
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The RPG aspect of KES is the most fun part, I think, because we get to see how Robin reacts to Cathy's inserts. I like to think about how fun this is for Robin as she gets these different aspects thrown into her narrative and she has to deal with them.
I played a little bit of oral RPG with my brother when I was little, but all my life I've loved playing RPG video games. I must admit that when Robin started talking about RPGs I immediately thought of video games. I'm wondering if anyone else on the blog is a video gamer. I love the ones with the best stories and characters...the early Final Fantasy games, Dragon Quest, Lufia, Golden Sun, The Legend of Zelda, etc. etc. Love them and still play them all.
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| Re: KES, 18 [message #50345 is a reply to message #50332 ] |
Sat, 16 June 2012 06:48 |
Katsheare
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| AJLR wrote on Fri, 15 June 2012 16:35 |
| Black Bear wrote on Fri, 15 June 2012 04:39 |
I like chocolate and beer
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Hmm.... how about some (award winning) chocolate beer?
Not that I'd dream of attempting to bribe you or anything. 
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Young's Double Chocolate Stout is what we buy to go with our chocolate whilst playing cribbage, as a treat. Usually we do something like water, but the Double Chocolate is such a nice treat. Excellent call, AJLR.
Black Bear, you sound like my favourite kind of GM. I'll never forget the delight (and satisfaction, and a little fear) our party felt when a couple of us figured about three sessions worth of plot points out in something like five minutes and the GM closed his notebook and said "Ladies and gentlemen, I have no idea what happens next." Such good times.
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| Re: KES, 18 [message #50346 is a reply to message #50312 ] |
Sat, 16 June 2012 08:34 |
EMoon
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I am heading into a long, loonggg rehearsal of several Britten pieces that the Hellgoddess might like but I don't. (Rejoice in the Lamb. Ick. Britten wants us to divide one section of an already peculiar tempo into fifths? Yes. And we have that blasted "inimitable" to sing.) I return to my original thesis on Britten, that the man hated choristers and wanted to render them voiceless by torturing their ears and vocal chords.
And so I get a chirpy exchange between the Kes-conspirators to buoy my spirits for the day? That ends THERE?
UNFAIR, she cries, waving her hands, then tugging at her hair.
(Rats, it's 7:33 and I need to be in the car and rolling by 8 am to make rehearsal in the city on time. Rats, rats, rats.)
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| Re: KES, 18 [message #50355 is a reply to message #50354 ] |
Sun, 17 June 2012 21:27 |
EMoon
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So glad to find a new KES! Yes, yes, yes, and thank you!
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| Re: KES, 18 and 19 [message #50358 is a reply to message #50312 ] |
Mon, 18 June 2012 06:31 |
Katsheare
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I can't help but wonder if Hayley is just a fan and doing her best not to totally fan-girl geek-out. Matching accessories notwithstanding.
The house my family has been living in is the one my partner grew up in, his mother (who's father built the house) lived here about 80 years, and it's just young enough to not be old enough and just old enough to be out of date. Not to mention that the last time the furnishings were updated was sometime around the 1970s. Which means that a friend (who lives in London and has lots of cool London-y friends himself) was beside himself with the kitch of it and we're beside ourselves with the... well, it's not quite old enough for us. When we talk about maybe moving, we talk about half-timbered and thatched, and oddly built and rambly. Older than this. Neither of us are the kitchy, 70s all over again type.
I had to laugh at the showerlessness description: our shower isn't even made anymore. It's a Dolphin (can't find an image...), perfect for places with not enough room for both a shower and a basin, as it folds down from one to the other. It looks like it could have been in Star Trek TOS.
Like so many others, I'm drooling over Kes' new home. The nether creatures would be good toddler playmates, right?
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| Re: KES, 18, 19 and 20 [message #50377 is a reply to message #50312 ] |
Wed, 20 June 2012 21:15 |
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Yes!! !! OF COURSE Hayley is a fan. Thank you! Can't wait for #21.
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| Re: KES, 18, 19 and 20 [message #50383 is a reply to message #50312 ] |
Thu, 21 June 2012 00:01 |
EMoon
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YAY! YES!!! Hayley, I love you! Kes, I feel you standing there gobsmacked!
This is SO VERY MUCH what I needed tonight!!!
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| Re: KES, 18, 19 and 20 [message #50393 is a reply to message #50312 ] |
Thu, 21 June 2012 17:50 |
sarahkay
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No way! That is too awesome. I can totally see myself in Hayley's shoes now (not literally of course--four inch heels sound painful). I wonder if something similar to this has ever happened to Robin...?
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| Re: KES, 18, 19 and 20 [message #50397 is a reply to message #50312 ] |
Thu, 21 June 2012 19:28 |
 susancassidy
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PERFECT ending! I really want to know how many times this has happened to Robin, but, luckily for me, I even more want to know what happens next. That, I'm confident, I'll find out.
Susan Cassidy
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| Re: KES, 18, 19 and 20 [message #51442 is a reply to message #50312 ] |
Wed, 22 August 2012 16:55 |
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3rdragon
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I haven't been reading the blog for a while,* so I was a bit out of touch, and wandered into . . . maybe it was Kes 32. I was horribly confused, because it didn't make sense for Robin, so was it a guest post, only it felt like Robin . . .
A few links later, I found myself on page 9 of the New Thing tag, and after reading the first installment, the world began to make slightly more sense. So I read that page, and then life called, and, long story short, it's been sitting in a spare tab on my browser for a couple of weeks now.
I was ONLY going to read maybe a page today.
I just finished episode 20, and laughed out loud. I don't mean the big grin that I usually mean when I say "laugh out loud" on the internet. I don't even mean a restrained laugh, or my usual response to things that are somewhat funny. I mean absolute whooping gales of laughter.
* I've been in Zambia, and after they fired all my coworkers, there wasn't any point to sitting in an empty office all not doing anything,^ so I spent less time wandering the internet.
^As opposed to the sitting-in-a-not-empty-office-not-doing-anything I'd been doing before that
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My mom's a realtor, as is my grandma. My brother dabbled in it, took his exams and all. None of them are overly put together nor are they fakey salesperson types 
(And then the author chuckles evilly...? 
