Thread: Questioning chirine ba kal

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

Yep; never mind that new-fangled Gregorian calendar!!!

Ave Julius!

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

The forum just burped, and I lost my first try at a reply...

The old capital is pretty much abandoned; it was badly trashed by the Lords of Humanspace and then again by Lord Gamalu. About all that's left are waist- and knee-high concrete rubble piles; there is a tubeway car station, one of the ones that will take a troop carrier, and evidence that the Lords of Humanspace had had a garrison there. The Ssu regularly send parties into the ruins to see what they can find; supposedly, the underground levels have some pretty rich pickings, but you're likely to run into a lot of Ssu.

The new capital is all mostly underground. There are some 'warehouse' buildings on the surface, and the triangular pyramids that cover the tops of the lift shafts that lead downwards. Some of these are mechanical elevators, and some are real honest-to-Heinlein Sword and Planet drop shafts. The city is mostly tunnels; laid out in 30 and 60 degree patterns; they seem to like triangles and hexes in their planning. There is supposedly a aircar 'hanger', but we didn't see it; likewise, there's a rumor that they have an in-system space ship in a hidden dock. We did find some Lightning Bringers, and these had a nasty accident, on the theory that it's often better to spike the other guy's guns before he can use them on you...

Does this help any?

A tremendous help indeed. I was looking at my old notes the other day and I realised that I never actually sent a group to the city of Ssu. I'll have to remedy that soon. I've had parties roam over large parts of Ssuyal, I've even had a group explore a bit of Ssuganar, but not the city of Ssu. Nice to know what's there.

Shemek.

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

Yep; never mind that new-fangled Gregorian calendar!!!

Happy Easter from a Western schismatic!

Originally Posted by Bren

Companies that make money by selling products are forced to produce some kind of product so that they can have products to sell.

• Since RPG rules are durable i.e. they are not consumed in their use (in contrast to items like soda, pizza, pencils, and graph paper), once a customer has bought one copy of a set of rules they seldom need to buy a another copy of the same set of rules.

• The market size for purchasing TT RPGs is small and doesn't grow at an appreciable rate. Arguably, it may not even grow at a rate fast enough to replace customers who exit the market. So producing more copies of the same rules doesn't provide a sufficient source of revenue in perpetuity.

• So for companies to continue to earn money for shareholders they have to produce new game products of some kind, e.g. game supplements and rules expansions, canned adventures or scenarios, and of course, new versions of rules.

Oh, I know why COMPANIES do it. I've just been amazed at the hostility I've encountered from fellow gamers when I say I have no interest in buying something.

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

Oh, I know why COMPANIES do it. I've just been amazed at the hostility I've encountered from fellow gamers when I say I have no interest in buying something.

I knew you knew.


I blame the entitlement of our youth. Who should get the hell off my damn lawn.

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

Yep. Had the thing pretty much up and running, and when I called around and told everybody who'd wanted to run trains that it was time to come on over - and maybe help out a bit - there was this resounding dead silence. The layout eventually got demolished, to make room for the first two daughters. You can see what was at:

http://members.bitstream.net/minetyoo/

Had a lot of fun building this; took a trip to Weymouth to see the Quay Tramway, and several visits to be with friends in Minety. The pride and joy of the layout were the working semaphores from Ratio, in the UK; these have miniature lever frames, and work just like the real thing in mechanical signaling - no electrics at all! It's now all in storage, awaiting better days...

Holy CARP that's sweet!

Originally Posted by Hrugga

Greetings Uncle,

I hope all is well. Sorry to be a pest(I know you understand), but how long more or less till the tome is finished(estmates are fine)...?😊
Hope to hear from you soon.

H:0)

Thank you; I had a good day yesterday, sorting my stocks of scale lumber - I have a pontoon bridge to build - and the foot is in decent shape. I try to stay off it on the weekends, and this - plus lots of water - seems to be helping.

Time estimate. Hmmm. Well, it all depends on my health and that of the Missus; as the only-able bodied person about the place, I have to do a lot more then I used to to keep things running. When I'm down, things come to a complete halt, sorry to say. Morale is also an issue, to be honest. I lost most of the past year, what with all the drama, but this thread is a large part of what keeps me going - I love to answer questions, as they let me tell stories, which in turn get me back to the writing. Same with my model building; I'm getting back onto several fun projects, scrapping out the remains of several abandoned ones, and generally having a pretty good time. Building things really recharges my batteries, which in turn feeds the writing.

So, an estimate? "God willing and the water don't rise", I'd expect some time this year for the final manuscript. Things are moving along very quickly, I am happy to be able to say.

Originally Posted by Hrugga

Wow!!! You never cease to amaze!!! Good stuff.

H:0)

I try, he said modestly.

Originally Posted by Shemek hiTankolel

Ave Julius!

Agreed! And it's been a great day, too...