Thread: Questioning chirine ba kal

Originally Posted by Bren

Oxygen deprivation. That explains so much...

Yep. Too much laughter in our games; "We made stuff up, and we had fun."

Ask Gronan about The Pink Tree Of Death. C'mon; I dare you!

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

Yep. Too much laughter in our games; "We made stuff up, and we had fun."

Ask Gronan about The Pink Tree Of Death. C'mon; I dare you!

BWAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HAAAAAA HA HA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAAAAAAA HAHAHAHAHAHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAA HA HA * SNORRRRK * AHAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAA HA HA HA HA HAAA ha ha ha ha heee heee heee heee heee heee hoo hoo hoo hoo * giggle *

QUICK!!! THE OXYGEN BOTTLE!!!

*snicker*...

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

QUICK!!! THE OXYGEN BOTTLE!!!

*snicker*...

My wife thought I'd lost the tiny fragments that remain of my mind, because I literally burst out into raucous laughter.

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

My wife thought I'd lost the tiny fragments that remain of my mind, because I literally burst out into raucous laughter.

Well, I do try to bring a little happiness into our dull, drab lives.

Could we even get away with that sort of thing, these days? Or are things just too 'serious', 'artistic', and 'academic' for the likes of us and the happy anarchy we had?

Well, as Qui-Gon Jinn said, "Your focus determines your reality." When I was in the cities I was still gaming with David T., and GaryCon very, very much feels like an old-timey gaming convention.

And once you get away from the "leading lights" of almost ANY trend, there are still a lot of gamers who just want to play games.

I had a LOVELY time with a bunch of chaps in New York, for instance.

http://blogofholding.com/?series=mornard

Telling the story of how Gary used to pull out his filing cabinet drawers to run the game so all we had was his voice, is a useful anecdote. Some people hate the idea; some think it's awesome.

Game with the latter.

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

Well, as Qui-Gon Jinn said, "Your focus determines your reality." When I was in the cities I was still gaming with David T., and GaryCon very, very much feels like an old-timey gaming convention.

And once you get away from the "leading lights" of almost ANY trend, there are still a lot of gamers who just want to play games.

I had a LOVELY time with a bunch of chaps in New York, for instance.

http://blogofholding.com/?series=mornard

Telling the story of how Gary used to pull out his filing cabinet drawers to run the game so all we had was his voice, is a useful anecdote. Some people hate the idea; some think it's awesome.

Game with the latter.

Oh, I agree. And the series of blog posts really should be on everybody's reading list for the flavor of what used to go on at the game table. I like Gary's 'radio theater approach', too - wonderful!!!

I also agree with you about Gary Con - it's a great convention, and a wonderful opportunity to get the feel of what Gen Con used to be like back in the day. I've enjoyed your own posts on this past one - it was a lot of fun, if a lot of work. I'm looking forward to your post on my EPT game in the Jakalla underworld - you guys gave me the fight of my life down there, and I didn't think I'd be able to stay ahead of you for much longer. Wow; incredible game play - and by a 'scratch crew', too.

I will miss things like that; I will not be at Gary Con in the future. Luke had asked me to run an all-Tekumel room this coming year, with lots of displays about Phil and our games back in the day. What he had in mind was an all-Tekumel show like what Paul Stormberg does with the 'Legends of Wargaming' area; Luke specifically asked me to include the Tekumel Foundation in my programming, so as to give them some exposure, so I did.

The Foundation came back with all sorts of objections to my being allowed to appear at the convention and speak in public about our times with Phil. After six months of increasingly bizarre goings-on and threats being made, I simply pulled the plug on the thing; the 'terms and conditions' that were being imposed by the Foundation were such that Gary Con would have had some very real problems; and once the people who had volunteered to help me with running games, setting up displays, and general logistics found out that the Foundation was involved, they all refused to participate - too many of them had gotten burned by the Foundation over and at Phil's memorial event, and simply refused to have anything to do with them.

I couldn't do it all by myself, and after I'd invested the six months worth of work and over $800 in technology assets (remember how the little LCD projector tried to cope? I got some large LCD screens to solve the problem) we just had to cut our losses and give up.

So it goes. I hope Gary Con does well - Luke and Ernie deserve a few good breaks.

So, when you go to write up the story of your adventure, be aware that it's my last - and quite possibly best - time out at a convention. I am not willing to put anyone through what Luke went through at the hands of the Foundation; this is supposed to be a fun hobby, after all...

Double plus ungood.

You know, you could always go to GaryCon and just PLAY.

I for one would gladly join you in a game of Herbert George's "Little Wars," complete with Authentic-By-Gad BRITAINS' 4.7 inch naval rifles.

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

Double plus ungood.

Yeah, that's a good summary of the past months since March's convention. I wasted a lot for time and energy, as well as lot of blood pressure and money. Things just kept getting more and more bizarre, and it was just too much for a lot of people. The Foundation didn't make any friends, sorry to say.

Sigh.

What really made it sad was that during the research into the files for the lawyers, I found a letter from Tadashi to Phil, telling Phil why Tekumel needed me to be involved with the thing - as you pointed out, over the years I've done a lot to promote Tekumel as a world setting and as a place where we had a lot of fun. He pointed this out to Phil in quite explicit terms, and predicted what was going to happen in the future to Tekumel as a product line. Sadly, all of his predictions came true in the middle to late 1990s, which is why we're where we are today.