[When the Crowd Goes Home] Discussion and Cast
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		<h2 id="linktree">Play-By-Post: Bondage, D/s, S&amp;M =&gt; Bondage: Human Small Groups =&gt; Topic started by: MechanicalImpulses on 30-01-2007, 03:15:31</h2>
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				Title: <strong>[When the Crowd Goes Home] Discussion and Cast</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>MechanicalImpulses</strong> on <strong>30-01-2007, 03:15:31</strong>
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				&nbsp; &nbsp; I'd like an archive of the characters that everyone is planning on playing.&nbsp; This doesn't have to consist of much,&nbsp; just an appearance and a brief background.&nbsp; 
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				Title: <strong>Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>MechanicalImpulses</strong> on <strong>30-01-2007, 03:40:31</strong>
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				The first thing on the agenda should probably be the band name.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Cast of Characters</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>30-01-2007, 04:28:37</strong>
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				(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/e/ea/Rocker.jpg)<br><br>Valerie (Storm) Delacroix<br><br>Keyboard/synthesizer player and backup vocalist<br><br>5'1" (usually wears 3" heels)<br><br>Black hair, greenish hazel eyes. Curvy and hates it, would rather be tall and slim.<br><br><br>Valerie discovered rebellion when her parents moved from Quebec to San Francisco. She didn't care that her Dad got a great job with a tech company, not when their house was smaller, and it seemed money was tighter than before they'd moved. The kids at school made fun of her because she didn't speak English all that well, except for the boys who thought the French accent meant she was easy. She had to resort to extreme measures on a couple of them, and one had tried to claim she'd attacked him for no reason. Thankfully, a teacher had seen the way he'd grabbed her first, but it was still enough to get her grounded for a month. While she'd been moping about that, a kid she'd only thought of as having a bunch of piercings told her it was cool the way she'd handled the boy she'd punched, and that led to a friendship she kept carefully hidden from her parents. Beth introduced her to modern music, and they hit some raves when they were supposed to be studying at Beth's house.<br><br>She got high with Beth at one of them when she was seventeen, then lost her virginity to the guitar player of the band that had been playing that night. That started more sneaking around, first just for sex and drugs, then Ricky found out she could play the piano, like really play, Mozart and Beethoven and Rachmaninoff. It wasn't hard to learn to play rock, and then he'd bought her a used Kurzweil, and she'd discovered how much she could make an electronic keyboard do. Her grades dropped, and the kind of clothes she wore changed from prim to tight, flashy and revealing. The fight when her Mom saw the navel piercing had about blown the roof off the house, ending when her Mom slapped her. In the ringing silence that followed, Valerie had stared at her Mom, then turned and walked out of the house. <br><br>That was six years ago. She floated from group to group for a while, as a playtoy at first, then as a band member when she'd proven herself on a few gigs. None of them had seemed like they were going anywhere, though, so when she saw an ad in the newspaper, she did that Gallic 'what-the-fuck' sort of shrug and called the number. Murmur answered. That was when life started turning around. It stayed small gigs at first, but Dionysian Tendencies was going places. A PI contacted her not long after the first album to hit wide release came out, said he was from her parents and they missed her and all that shit. She's had their phone number ever since, took it out sometimes, but hadn't ever called. That just wasn't her life anymore. She was Storm now, not Valerie, and she loved what she did. It doesn't matter now if she's arrogant, or sounds funny, or doesn't get a joke. She can sneer and somebody else does the apologizing. It's rare for anybody to see her out of 'rock star' persona, just the band, mostly, their business manager and the long-term roadies.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Cast of Characters</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>MechanicalImpulses</strong> on <strong>30-01-2007, 05:26:51</strong>
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				Name:&nbsp; Murmur (A reference to one of Solomon's Goetic Demons)<br><br>History:&nbsp; Murmur seems to have just appeared from nowhere one day…&nbsp; no records on it’s past life,&nbsp; no real first or last name.&nbsp; And no one seems to be able to actually pin down it’s identity.&nbsp; &nbsp;Even its gender is disputed…&nbsp; but it claims that it’s a male,&nbsp; though with that face and beauty it was hard to believe him. Everything known about him comes directly from his mouth…&nbsp; and how often can you believe anything a <br>musician say, its more then likely a gimmick.&nbsp; <br><br>He claims to be a demon manifested in physical form.&nbsp; Why did he come to earth?&nbsp; It was simple,&nbsp; humans had music… something his kind only dreamt about.&nbsp; So he broke free,&nbsp; it was a simple enough process once he understood the loopholes involved.&nbsp; When asked to prove this,&nbsp; he simply shrugs his shoulders and said that he had to forsake his powers in exchange for his freedom.&nbsp; <br><br>To him… it was well worth the sacrifice.<br><br>Well, after his escape he couldn’t live the life of a human,&nbsp; his appearance was far to strange for something like that.&nbsp; He really only had one choice if he was going to survive,&nbsp; he turned to music…&nbsp; Why not experience his passion first hand?<br><br>So he did what any good potential lead singer would do,&nbsp; he put out a classified add…&nbsp; and the rest is history.<br><br>Recently he seems to have been sliding into vice....<br><br>Appearance:&nbsp; <br><br>Murmur was tall and thin,&nbsp; standing about 6’2 in height.&nbsp; Now,&nbsp; that’s where things kind of got strange, that skin of his was literally white as snow and completely untouched by any blemishes.&nbsp; His hair was long pale blue and fell well below his mid back.&nbsp; His features were sharp,&nbsp; his bone structure perfection,&nbsp; his blue tinted lips were full and set in an eternal pout.&nbsp; What was strangest though, was probably his eyes they were large, yellow and slit like those of a feline.&nbsp; Everything about him screamed androgyny. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Cast of Characters</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Apple of Eris</strong> on <strong>30-01-2007, 05:35:09</strong>
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				(http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j106/renthas/nina3.jpg) (http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j106/renthas/ninagordon.jpg)<br><br>Rena Norcutt<br><br>Bass Guitar (and sometimes backing vocals as well)<br><br>Height: 5'5"<br>Weight: On the thin side<br>Hair: Blonde (natural)<br>Eyes: Blue<br>Age: 22<br><br><br>Rena Norcutt was born to an old-money New England family as the oldest of three sisters. Her childhood was fairly typical, though being privledged to have been raised by monied parents she recieved a private education away from home in which her musical talents were discovered and encouraged. She had a natural feel for music and picked up piano and guitar quickly. When she was fourteen and playing guitar in her school's jazz band. She switched to electric bass after the bassist broke her playing wrist, and Rena quickly became accomplished at the instrument. When the bassist graduated, Rena switched instruments permanently and found she preferred bass to guitar. At sixteen she entered a statewide competetition for female guitarists and took first in the female bass category, winning a Rickenbacker 4001S signed by Roger Waters which she still uses to this day, though she more often uses a Fender P-Bass nowadays. <br><br>After private schooling Rena left for the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in California, where she planned a major in music - Stringed Instruments (much to the chagrin of her parents, who wanted her to study something useful). While in her freshman year she really began to make a name for herself locally as a player, and quickly found herself in a punk style band named Somatic Picnic playing Bass and doing some of the singing. The group lasted only a year and a half before breaking up following in-fighting between the five members over stolen boyfriends and other nonsense. The group had managed to build up something of a local following and Rena recieved a number of offers to join other bands. Instead she spent a few months staying out of the scene, instead listening to a lot of older music, especially the blues, and picking up harmonica to add to her list of instruments. While in college she tried a class in violin, but quickly grew bored with that until her roommate introduced her to a fiddle player from Quebec named Shelly. Rena eagerly took some lessons and became competent, though not an expert, in playing the fiddle rather quickly. In return for the lessons, Rena sat in with Shelly's band for some recording sessions, and played a variety of instruments on their first album, the self-titled Greenwich Meantime.<br><br>Bored of not playing in a band, Rena began to spend a lot of time hanging out at live shows and scoping out various bands. She was too shy generally to talk to any of the band members, and she didn't have the guts to try and form her own. Finally, at a show featuring an up and coming band named Dionysian Tendencies, Rena managed to drink just a few too many Long Islands and approached the frontman for the band during a break. She had been really quite impressed by their sound and talked with him for quite a long time. To this day, she doesn't actually remember the conversation, but Murmur called her not long after and offered her a place as bassist in the band after the original bass player had called it quits. Rena jumped at the chance, and with the band playing relatively local for a while, she was able to finish up her college degree (BA Stringed Instruments) while performing. While still new to the group, Rena picked up a recorder at a local music store on a whim and began to mess around with it when she wasn't working on something else. Within a few months she had found another instrument she could play decently, bringing her number to six, though her confidence in anything other than Bass was minimal. <br><br>Rena now, is still painfully shy at times, and somewhat quiet. She dresses only in the glam outfits when performing, otherwise preferring more normal clothing. At times, people don't even recognize her off-stage without all the make up and hair spray. She writes a lot of music, most of it not really appropriate for Dionysian Tendencies. She writes many heavy, moody bass lines, though she also has a fair bit of gentle melodic tunes, as well as a few funk and blues influenced pieces she's written. She prefers not to write lyrics, finding it more difficult to express herself lyrically than through music. When she does write lyrics they are often dark and expressive, full of her own inner emotions. Shy as she is to begin with, Rena doesn't really like to open up about her feelings and so tends to not share her lyrics, good or bad, with anyone.<br><br>Her parents are disgusted and horrified by their daughter's choice of career, hoping she would have settled down to marry some fine doctor from an appropriate family by now. Since they disapprove, Rena rarely visits home or sees her sisters (now 16 and 12). Her parents are fine with her not being home too often as they are afraid of the influence Rena might have on her sisters, both of whom show musical talent as well. They are especially afraid of the lifestyle they imagine Rena is leading, a life of Sex, Drugs, and Alcohol, rubbing off on her sisters (Rena does the first and last, she avoids drugs). Rena occasionally manages to meet up with her siblings at one of her parents properties in Washington or Florida when her parents are not around.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Apple of Eris</strong> on <strong>30-01-2007, 06:57:37</strong>
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				Okay, I suck at band names, but I found a random band name generator! I got the following:<br>Laundry Scoop<br>Unforgettable Dive of the Tenth Trip<br>Futile Prophetic<br>Plumber Looker<br>Bull Match<br>Genetically Goon<br>Itchy Unknown<br>Epic Woman<br>Heed of the Guarantee<br>Somatic Picnic<br><br>Its at http://www.bandnamemaker.com/generator/ (http://www.bandnamemaker.com/generator/)<br><br>I kind of like Somatic Picnic though, sounds weird :)
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Cherri Tart</strong> on <strong>30-01-2007, 18:19:01</strong>
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				Frywire<br>Acquittal by Mirrors<br>Xpander<br>Iconograpy<br>Atom Shop<br><br>:)
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>MechanicalImpulses</strong> on <strong>30-01-2007, 18:29:11</strong>
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				Unforgettable Dive of the Tenth Trip and Acquittal by Mirrors are both interesting enough.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Cast of Characters</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Cherri Tart</strong> on <strong>30-01-2007, 19:24:18</strong>
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				Pandora walked into the room, surveying it like a queen.&nbsp; Tall and willowy, 5'7" of pure energy, brilliant emerald eyes glittering with mischief, her tangled blonde hair dyed with steaks of red, and pinks and looking like someone had tossed a handful of glitter over her.&nbsp; black leather mini, thigh high boots with a 3 inch heel, and a sliver sequioned shirt, two buttons barely holding it closed, revealing her belly button piercing.&nbsp; Her tongue and nose were also pierced, and there were rows of studs, rings, and glittering stones lining her ears.&nbsp; <br><br>She was 21, and on top of the world, knowing that she was the hottest thing to ever play an A minor chord through a Marshall amp.&nbsp; To say she had an ego might be an understatement.&nbsp; Blunt to the point of rudeness at times and full of impatience, she could be a hard pill to swallow.&nbsp; Still, she had talent, there was no denying that.&nbsp; And usually, given the chance, she could be a loyal and caring friend... but the music came first.&nbsp; Screw her boyfriend, she'd eventually forgive you, but fuck up the show?&nbsp; Don't even think about it.<br><br>Her real name was Alexandria Noble, but she'd long ago shed it.&nbsp; Now she was simply Pandora, a force to be reckoned with.&nbsp; She wrote, of course.&nbsp; Not words, just music.&nbsp; She let her guitars do the talking for her.&nbsp; A Cherry Red Strat or a Black and Silver Les Paul, run through an array of pedals and and into her Marshalls, usually at full volume.<br><br>Living the rock and roll life style, she was no stranger to booze, sex, and pills, but never during performance.&nbsp; That was time to be pure, to revel in the power and beauty of sound.&nbsp; Afterwards, perhaps, in an attempt to prolong the feeling of ecstacy, but never before.&nbsp; <br><br>She'd grown up in NYC, daughter of third generation greek immigrants, her father the owner of a deli.&nbsp; That wasn't for her... ever since she'd picked up a guitar at the age of 5, she'd known what her destiny was to be... rock goddess.&nbsp; Now, she was on the road to acheiving that dream...&nbsp; <br><br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Cherri Tart</strong> on <strong>30-01-2007, 21:01:39</strong>
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				Elliquiy of the Ambient Orb &lt; - made with the band name generator :)
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>MechanicalImpulses</strong> on <strong>30-01-2007, 21:08:15</strong>
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				Another wicked one,&nbsp; I've got a couple myself<br><br>"Testament to a Lost Generation."<br>"Dionysian Tendencies"<br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Apple of Eris</strong> on <strong>30-01-2007, 23:12:30</strong>
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				Hrm... I'm really liking Dionysian Tendencies and Acquittal by Mirrors
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				Title: <strong>Re: Cast of Characters</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Elvi</strong> on <strong>31-01-2007, 01:04:29</strong>
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				(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/Elvi123/Charlie.jpg)<br><br>Charlotte Watson, known as Charlie.<br>British and working class aged 25.<br>At almost six feet tall she towers over the rest of the women in the group, is mentally and physically strong.<br><br>Charlie has played an guested with many of the top bands and is a much sorted after drummer, but had never quite found her place until now.<br><br>She was given her rather ironic stage name of Angel eyes, because of her almost unaturally bright sky blue eyes, by fans.<br><br>Angel she is not, she is a hell raiser, she can pound away on drums for an eight hour stint only to get up and ask where the nearest party was only to return the next day for anopther eight hour set.<br>She has a very short fuse, a straight talker and violent when pushed, especially if she is not working. (Drumming seeming to be her aggression therapy)<br><br>Like most drummers, when in the public eye, she says little and keeps in the background, but is not only a good musician, but a shrewd business woman and off stage she has invested wisely, not intending to die in poverty as many seem to do.<br><br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>31-01-2007, 04:56:54</strong>
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				Dionysian Tendencies sounds so very... appropriate.&nbsp; *laughs*<br><br>Bacchanal, anyone?&nbsp; ;)
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>MechanicalImpulses</strong> on <strong>31-01-2007, 05:01:08</strong>
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				Hah...&nbsp; to be truthful I love it.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Apple of Eris</strong> on <strong>31-01-2007, 06:29:17</strong>
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				So what about other stuff, like where the band forms, has it been together long and how famous are they when the game starts? <br><br>And I'm casting my vote for Dionysian<br><br>I think Acquital by Mirrors would be a hell of an album name though. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>MechanicalImpulses</strong> on <strong>31-01-2007, 06:45:31</strong>
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				Well,&nbsp; I was thinking that the band has been together for about three of four years,&nbsp; and that they've been famous for about one or two of them.&nbsp; This keeps with the youthful image and the like,&nbsp; and it also provides times for their ego's to start to increase...&nbsp; but not going completely over blown.<br><br>as for the city of origin I'd say somewhere in Cali...&nbsp; Las Angles or San Fransico
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Cherri Tart</strong> on <strong>31-01-2007, 07:47:53</strong>
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				my vote is for Dionysian as well :)&nbsp; lol - i think the music vibe in SF for a band like this would be more fitting... LA bands really are so... LA...&nbsp; NYC would be a good choice too, tho :)
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Apple of Eris</strong> on <strong>31-01-2007, 20:55:00</strong>
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				Okay cool, I'm gonna work on my character's bio/description a bit. What's up now is just basically brainstorming and needs to be fixed up. Besides, it gives me something to do, and I desperately need something, anything to do today. Heh.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>MechanicalImpulses</strong> on <strong>31-01-2007, 20:58:28</strong>
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				I know where your at...&nbsp; since were both on perhaps you'd like to try and work out the details of our characters characters combined history?
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Apple of Eris</strong> on <strong>31-01-2007, 21:07:29</strong>
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				Sure, feel free to PM me if you like. I'm doing a half-dozen things at once now, so if I'm a little slow answering at times, please be patient with me :)
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>01-02-2007, 05:49:46</strong>
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				I like the sound of SF, too.&nbsp; What decade are we talking? Woodstock rock? Disco era? Glam rock? Grunge?<br><br>My vote would be for one of the first three...
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>MechanicalImpulses</strong> on <strong>01-02-2007, 18:18:42</strong>
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				I was thinking modern times playing Glam/Industrial fusion.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>MechanicalImpulses</strong> on <strong>03-02-2007, 01:30:18</strong>
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				anything else people feel the need to discuss, or should I type up the first IC thread.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Apple of Eris</strong> on <strong>03-02-2007, 22:31:37</strong>
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				I'm ready to rock&nbsp; ;)
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>04-02-2007, 03:34:48</strong>
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				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=8680.msg309428#msg309428">Quote from: MechanicalImpulses on 01-02-2007, 18:18:42</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I was thinking modern times playing Glam/Industrial fusion.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Works for me!<br><br>{Edited to add the following}<br><br>And I'm ready to start when everybody else is... though I may be slow at posting other than weekends through April.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Cherri Tart</strong> on <strong>04-02-2007, 06:31:31</strong>
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				all fired up and ready to ROCK and ROLL!&nbsp; ;)
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>23-03-2007, 07:33:12</strong>
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				So.... are we DOA on this one?
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Cherri Tart</strong> on <strong>23-03-2007, 17:38:31</strong>
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				yeah, 3 posts isn't much to hang a game on, and Mechi has gone AWOL for a bit.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Apple of Eris</strong> on <strong>23-03-2007, 18:47:02</strong>
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				Yeah, died before it even really started.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Game Discussion</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>24-03-2007, 03:59:46</strong>
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				Okies. Taking it off my list, then.
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				Title: <strong>Re: [When the Crowd Goes Home] Discussion and Cast</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Elvi</strong> on <strong>24-03-2007, 22:28:39</strong>
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				Awwwww....funnily enough, I was looking at the picture of this character just before I came onto the site and thinking....."What the hell game was that for?"<br><br>Ah well, I guess she will pop out in another game some time, most of them do....<br>*wanders off to find out who needs a drummer* 
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