OK revelation #3 I guess will be my choice- this is the one that I think will perhaps surprise some or most of the players who know Roled in game.
And again the caveat- read or not, as you will. I do contend, in the discussion of what is OOC and what is IC- and since Roled has been accused of speaking OOCly, I am substantiating the point that Roled was being Roled then, quite different from me being me now. Similarities- of course. Off topic? - when game powers make accusations that are unfounded and inaccurate, well, perhaps something may be gained from examining some of the assumptions on which such accusations rely.
As if I need to justify this point to .. well never-mind.
So.
#3
I am 62 years old- by the Gregorian calendar not by Yliakum's cycles.
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[Me asks, Is anyone surprised? Me answers myself, maybe not... you old coot!
It does however raise my curiosity if age will make any difference to the folks I've been rping with for the past 8 years in PS...
But apparently the more shocking thing is the pie admission!
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Corollary- After a 30+ year career as a live theatre director, touring performer and playwright, I moved on to teaching, writing and research. Now I teach graduate seminars in philosophy, the history of social justice movements, directing for the theatre, research methods and interdisciplinary inquiry approaches as well as giving writing assistance and providing editing services to people writing undergraduate senior and master's degree papers and to playwrights. Oh and I've written a good handful or more of the newer quests in Planeshift- Venalan did the technical scripting part. I wrote the storylines and dialogues.
Perhaps these life experiences performing as characters in plays, writing characters in plays and screenplays and directing actors in full length shows has given me some confidence in my abilities to create and sustain nuanced characters.
Maybe. But heck I'm not a celebrity... just an artist.
Because of this controversy, I dropped out of the Shindrok project after writing several characters and quests and a long position paper on the world of the "bosses" and out of another full sequence of new quests in Amdeneir. I would certainly like to contine that work, but until I can feel that I am being treated fairly by the powers, I cannot support adding my work to their control. I told each of the people I was working with on these projects that this disrespectful treatment of me is the reason I stopped contributing.
But on to the last revelation.... as this thread perhaps nears its end...
NOW WHAT IN THE WORLD IS #4???
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