Conversations with BAD people

(Pieced together from emails with You Know Who)

I thought of my BAD character months ago and immediately jotted down some notes. Very few of them make sense now...

Female

Beneficient, nanny state

1984?

Wedge!

Dopey well-armed bodyguards

Tearing down their faith?

Churches into gyms?

Wedge? Seriously... what?!

> Bwaha! Well, obviously it was important
> to you at the time - you
> exclamation-marked it and everything...
> I'm guessing you are out to be especially
> you-ish this time, as you were
> unfairly forced into clone shapes last time?

Well I am certainly not going to change writing styles when I know all that does is take away the fun. Though I toyed with what I did before- write in script format. But I have to be dialogue heavy. It's just more fun.

> Guessed me yet? *grins*

Yes, Morvie. I mean, Morty. Damn. And he is sooooo going to be amused at what I have planned for him.

> If you are suspecting me of being Morty, btw, stop.

Oh? But Morty and Morvie are so close... hmm.

Did you like my rhyme? I didn't know I had it in me.

> And yes, you rhyme impressively.
> Better than Zothar, certainly...

Thank you indeed. I once tried a rhyming BAD character. I was awful at it.

> I think it's fun to play around with other rhyming
> characters (or pig-latin characters)
> but to be one yourself would just get tedious.

Loving the BAD. Wish I wasn't too busy to play much today beyond a few minutes this morn! But I think my hide was well covered. Unfortunately, most players seen to be in a timezone that plays when I sleep... I am impressed with the synchronicity of the sheriff and granny.

I do have a kind of plan for the queen... but do you think I should implement it? At the moment I think people are actually coping without an evil dictator. In a way. Usually we need some evil plan but at the moment... well... I dunno. It's a tough balance to strike between letting the board work together for a plot and inserting a plot. You need to do both at the same time in a way. I usually opt for a character that doesn't have plot-creation responsibility. This is my first time as the main evil person... and I am not sure I am actually needed! The initial premise offers enough to rally against.

Whatever- I should be experienced enough by now to deal with this.

Rosie is reading along... that please me.

BAD is GOOD. In a kind of random and not trying too hard way. If you see what I mean.

> Yes it is. Haven't really taken in what's happened
> in it since last night,
> although I did read it quickly before leaving home.

Maybe not too much. I guess I haven't been checking in all that regularly... but it seems to be a good pace. A page a day is what I would hope for. We are beyond what I hoped for...

> But fantasy does seem to be our natural milieu.
> Having a lot of fun.

Yes, it does seem to work so far. In the past it seems to me that we either have people that never meet or we have people so keen on meeting up that they get stuck in groups that never progress. We have a third way going at the mo which is people crossing paths all the time but never actually grouping up. Which is... well, I hope it is successful. Certainly interesting.

> Hadn't thought about that. But yes, that's exactly
> what's happening. I wonder if it's because we do
> seem to have a slightly higher complement of
> bad guys than normal? It's the goodies who always
> want to stick together...but so far the goodies seem
> to be forming mini clumps quite happily.

Clumps? They meet for a post and move on...

Oh, it seems odd as well that we are actually having _days_ in this BAD as usually it is just one endless night.

> Heh. I admit to hating that tendency. So I
> take most opportunities to move
> the timeline along...

Were you Morning Gazette then? I was so happy to see that post. It really worked to stop us falling into the endless night problem.

> I also think we've got a lot of experienced players
> who know what they're doing and want
> to dictate their own plots - ie don't want to
> just find a group to tag onto.

Hmm, is that a sign of experience? Because it seems to me that they really should band together and do something! But early days, early days. I personally think that Alex should have stayed with Granny (not just for the seamstresses) because she was really doing good plot work. That female warrier thing, not so much.

> Yeah. I'd have stuck with Granny if she was
> trying to stick with me. The
> witch writes well...

Yes. I guess that you needed to include the warrior somehow though as she obviously needed some help getting involved in things but Alex isn't the player to do it. Not really. Not that I am helping involve people... I am more than happy creating characters and killing them in the same post and not helping anyone.

> I have no idea if we actually do have a lot of
> experienced players or not. Damn I wish I
> knew who was playing. Although, by the quietness
> of non-Hobb, I'm guessing most of the
> regulars who are around at the moment.

Yeah. I am guessing that Apa and recently nadine are the only newbies. Guessing. I am wondering if Craig is playing. It has been a while for him...

Oh btw- Rian sent me an email earlier asking whether I was the Sheriff. So I am not obvious to everyone. But it made me wonder that if she thought that was me it could very well be you. Though I honestly haven't spotted your style creeping into anyone. Which is most disturbing since usually your style is... very you. Extremely you.

> Love the turkish delight. But um what is it
> with you and nekkidness in BADs?

When have I been nekkid before?

> well, I found myself nekkid as bobO. That would never
> happen to me...not me me.

> Heehee. Well you have got yourself in a position
> for someone else to write you in, at least,
> which is more than you'd managed up to now.

Hey you make it sound like a bad thing. Why would I want someone else to write me?

> All depends on whether you
> trust your fate in Nancy's hands...

Not really. But I want him to hurry with his sub-plot.

> Oh, obscene doctor who referencing.
>
> But very funny.

Hey, I didn't actually do the lines verbatim. Give me credit for avoiding that.

Plus... making fun of you. And Em or jes or whoever. Many birds.

> we have guards and merry men and laydeez and so many other
> bystanders who we've never really had before.

I think I introduced all of them... Well, certainly the guards. Don't forget the aides.

The potato gag is wearing thin... didn't stop me from using it but still. e4e would be proud.

Not...

>E4E would be horrified by such usages for her taters.

*sniggers*

>We really are in the middle of one of the lewder BADs ever.

I am soooo sorry.

Actually I am. I didn't mean it to go like this... it isn't really a very funny BAD. It is fun though.

> Oh just guess me already. I hate that you don't know. It's really weird.

It depends on this next post... you see, style-wise I have nada. But by doing it the old fashioned way of picking up on times and things referenced, I am pretty sure I know. But seriously, I can usually tell you because it is sooo obviously you. And this time I can't.

>I am having a bloody hard time trying to write said next post, though.

Well I could do it for you. You are lucky I didn't continue... I want to get on with my evil plot but am aware that we are only half way through and well, I could probably cover all my points in one post. So, yeah. Let's have some fun for a while.

>Hmm. Sigh. I seem to be lacking in enthusiasm or something.

Or something. Maybe it is just that this is a serious BAD not a mini (Hobbling) one. They are more fun whether real or clones.

Oh, I thought I'd give post titles a quick glance as I try to change mine but forget to read everyone else's. Just read Awakening. Next time I see that sort of thing I will have to play along though Soulless wouldn't have fit the next post...

Taste the rainbow.

> Oh. I didn't get that...loved the shampoo line though.
> Heehee. Talk about specialised references...

> Heehee, loved the Colour of Magic question.

Thanks. At least that should be appreciated by more than just you.

Except it almost became "easier to get into than Wolfram and Hart".

So what was the chamber joke?

> Heehee. It was one of those that was obvious
> in my head, but I couldn't find a way to put
> it in without making it dull for everyone else
> or just way too obvious.
> Two words scribbled on a floor. (For some reason
> in my head it was always two words).
> Schlechter looks a leeetle like Sheriff...

> Right. Now where did I leave my sheriff?

I'd put that in the quotes thread but there are probably people who
still don't know who you are.

Barguy is more fun... he has a friend. I like friends.

> His friend is odd.
>
> But I bet you like odd friends too.

You know I do.

Jon is only a little queer.

> Heh. Which makes him fully normal by the standards
> of everyone else in the BAD.

It has got a bit cleaner recently... Which isn't saying much.

Incidentally, I am proud of nadine. I think that she did well.

> I am a little worried (given synchronicity of posting
> if my Nancy guess is
> right) that Zothar was also Apa.

Huh. Would a newbie do two?

> If so he has been responsible for a lot of
> the crudeness and that may get people annoyed.

Alas it was me that started the potato thing... I was not aware of my own power...

And I did make quite a few people nekkid.

I really can't cast any stones.

> Eh, that was fun. I always enjoy BADs most when
> I don't make any attempt to write plot...

Ah yes, me too.

> What?! You're a plot whore and you know it.

Hey, who takes a break from a BAD to talk about making aeroplanes out of cardboard boxes?

> Heehee. True. But then you weren't enjoying that one...

Yeah but I do appreciate pointless posts. I like Jim for that reason. He really doesn't do all that much... but I was really pleased that when Jim asked Jon what was going on, Jon told him and let him in and became friends... Aww.

Hmm, unmasking will have to start soon. Maybe tomorrow or Saturday. Will be interesting.

Really couldn't think of anything to do with Gertrude. Maybe the cat will kill her later.

You know, her plan really was flawless. She'd have got away with it too if it weren't for the pesky BAD players.

> The sheriff had no plan at all. Although he did
> considered discovering latent magicakal talent
> in himself. But these days I think it make him more
> special to be non-magickal...

Indeed. I know. But... yeah.

> I think it [ending early] was a reaction to us all
> being so independent earlier on. When the urge to
> group finally did hit, and everyone tagged along, I think
> everyone was thinking that this was the start of the end.
> Cos usually we look like we're going to have an end and
> then half of the characters decided differently...but this
> time it just seemed like everyone wanted to be
> involved and was happy to start pulling all the threads together.

Yeah, I guess. But it is odd. Very.