Thread: Questioning chirine ba kal

Originally Posted by Spinachcat

Have you done YouTube videos showing off your artifacts / documents collection and discussing them? I am sure many hobbyists would be interested, and then you could point people at the videos instead of being asked to perform.

I saw bits of your minis events online. Your temples look good. My buddy did a set up like yours for his Warhammer Lizardmen and its a fun difference from the usual faux-Europe terrain.

Chirine the Performing Monkey isn't the worst tag line

I have, but I didn't know if there would be any interest. I'm not sure that my play style, which is admittedly heavy on miniatures and props to hand players, is at all of interest to people; I've gotten enough negative comments over the years that I kinda want to keep a lower profile. The performances are all about the enhancement of the various peoples' prestige, I've found, and are very little about the actual collections or myself. It's all about 'enhancing the brand identity', and I am a marketing ploy.

Thank you! I try; this is all easily available or makable stuff, and all I do is think a little outside the box to do the games.

Could be, unless you're the one spending the money and vacation time (and the legal bills) to serve the people who are entitled to my time and house. I lost two days of overtime, worth over three hundred bucks, to a guy who insisted that he could only bring his friends over for a tour on a very specific day. It gets old.

Originally Posted by Shemek hiTankolel

Saw this after I posted the previous message. In light of this ignore what I wrote earlier, and stick with your gut instinct. I also would probably prefer to go to the other thing instead, especially if I were being invited only to serve as the "help". Again, just my 2 bits.

Shemek.

Yep. And again, sorry about the confusion; this is one of those deals where I can't be too specific, in order to protect someone's business interests. My other option is seeing some very old friends, and playing in a guest star role as the bandit chieftain they are trying to arrest. The GM in the campaign had a great laugh telling the players - all very old friend of mine - who he'd gotten to play the bandits, and pandemonium broke out.

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

Well, it was really funny; the entry into Khirgar was right out of the movie. It was brilliant role-playing, and wonderful to have even a small part in. Yeah, it's all in the book...

"STAND ASIDE, EVERYONE, I TAKE LARGE STEPS!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN-ttCBHyx8

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

"STAND ASIDE, EVERYONE, I TAKE LARGE STEPS!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN-ttCBHyx8

"I, Miles Gloriosus,
I, slaughterer of thousands,
I, oppressor of the meek,
Subduer of the weak,
Degrader of the Greek,
Destroyer of the Turk,
Must hurry back to work."

Shemek.

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

"STAND ASIDE, EVERYONE, I TAKE LARGE STEPS!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN-ttCBHyx8

The look on Phil's face when you did this line - in the right voice and all! - was truly priceless, and set the tone for the next decade plus of our games. This was back long before VHS or DVD, and it took Phil simply ages to finally see the movie. He said he laughed his head off, and I noticed bits like "I am saying the sooth!" creeping in over time...

It was wonderful...

Originally Posted by Shemek hiTankolel

"I, Miles Gloriosus,
I, slaughterer of thousands,
I, oppressor of the meek,
Subduer of the weak,
Degrader of the Greek,
Destroyer of the Turk,
Must hurry back to work."

Shemek.

Yes! Yes! Blue tunics and all!!!

I played the officer waving to the adoring crowds, he said modestly...

Phil's parades where never quite the same, after this...

Originally Posted by Shemek hiTankolel

Thank you. It really was great. I find myself eagerly looking forward to future gaming sessions. Let's hope the group's creative energy keeps flowing.

We all hope for the same, don't we?

Maybe there's something in the air? Are May 13 or May 14 auspicious days on the Tsolyani Calendar?

Good question!
Chirine, can we work out which days correspond to May 13-14?

This sounds like the beginning of some great adventures. Can't wait to hear more!

I really am going to write an actual play.

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

I'm sorry about the confusion; I should have been more clear. The people doing the game session have no idea that I'm supposed to show up, and most (if not all) have no idea who I am. I'm being booked by an 'outside third party' to bring one of Dave's original plastic toy monsters that he used in the original Blackmoor games to show the group. It got mixed in with my miniatures when AGI folded, but I was able to get the rust monster and the pterodactyl back to Dave about a year before he passed away. I have no idea what happened to them after that. Other then the show and tell, I have no part in the thing.

Very good game, from the sound of it!

OK, the most straightforward option is to cut them off.
The other option is to ask the guy to speak with the GM, and ask the GM whether they're looking for a player with some experience - only 40 years or so...
Your call which one to use. The most straightforward option might well be better!

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

I have, but I didn't know if there would be any interest. I'm not sure that my play style, which is admittedly heavy on miniatures and props to hand players, is at all of interest to people; I've gotten enough negative comments over the years that I kinda want to keep a lower profile.

We have a proverb about negative comments in my country. It translates roughly as "dogs might be barking, yet the caravan is still going its way".

The performances are all about the enhancement of the various peoples' prestige, I've found, and are very little about the actual collections or myself. It's all about 'enhancing the brand identity', and I am a marketing ploy.

Unless that people that get prestige is you... just cut them off.

Thank you! I try; this is all easily available or makable stuff, and all I do is think a little outside the box to do the games.

Yeah, right, nothing more.

Could be, unless you're the one spending the money and vacation time (and the legal bills) to serve the people who are entitled to my time and house. I lost two days of overtime, worth over three hundred bucks, to a guy who insisted that he could only bring his friends over for a tour on a very specific day. It gets old.

Well, if he was bringing friends, they surely could have gathered $300 between them, right?
I'm not sure you should make paid tours...but it might be worth considering.

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

The look on Phil's face when you did this line - in the right voice and all! - was truly priceless, and set the tone for the next decade plus of our games. This was back long before VHS or DVD, and it took Phil simply ages to finally see the movie. He said he laughed his head off, and I noticed bits like "I am saying the sooth!" creeping in over time...

It was wonderful...

And with his knowledge of the classics I'm sure he recognized the old Roman era farces that they threw into a large pot and stirred, which would tickle him even more.

From AsenRG:
Good question!
Chirine, can we work out which days correspond to May 13-14?


I'll look it up, and crunch the numbers. I'll be bask as fast as I an; our Internet provider is having issues.

OK, the most straightforward option is to cut them off.
The other option is to ask the guy to speak with the GM, and ask the GM whether they're looking for a player with some experience - only 40 years or so...
Your call which one to use. The most straightforward option might well be better!

Understood. This is not a regular game group, though; this is a one shot, and not likely to repeat.

We have a proverb about negative comments in my country. It translates roughly as "dogs might be barking, yet the caravan is still going its way".

I like that - and I can guess what it stems from, too...

Unless that people that get prestige is you... just cut them off.

Which is what I've been doing. A lot of thirty-year friendships ended this past spring, and I expect we'll see a lot fewer people in the coming decades. But, on the other hand, I also expect that the people we do see, will be a lot better people...

Well, if he was bringing friends, they surely could have gathered $300 between them, right?
I'm not sure you should make paid tours...but it might be worth considering.

The guy who scheduled me for his events on the two working days simply didn't care. He's so wrapped up in the wonderfulness of being him that any 'external' concerns simply don't register. This is the guy who left his guests with me, as he had his own appointments to keep, which I thought was kind of rude to both myself and to his friends. In both cases, I would up entertaining both sets of his guests for another couple of hours, each time. And I'd warned him about all this the first time, and he went and did it again. The only reason why I've put up with this kind of thing over the years is from a desire to promote Tekumel, and encourage people to discover Phil's amazing creation.

However, as a lot of these guests to my home have been part of one faction or another - people convinced that there's millions to be made in the game hobby - they've been at pains to inform me just why I am not suitable to be part of or represent 'their' Tekumel. Bad hair, unsuitable shelving, being a straight white male, all sorts of very important business concerns like that; I am not 'metrosexual' enough for them. However, if I would only give them my collections and work, however...

So, while I don't charge for entry, I do toss the ball back in any potential tour organizers' court by letting them organize their own package tours. And, since gamers usually can;t organize their way out of a wet paper bag, the problem solves itself. Unless I get a call or e-mail from this weekend's booking, I'm going to proceed with my original plans.