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Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: Ben Lehman on April 05, 2005, 06:17:27 PM
Seth!  Finish Alyria already.  What's your problem, man?

*Can also be used for Otherkind, Sorcerer in Space, or any other delayed game you want to have right now.
Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: hix on April 05, 2005, 07:25:58 PM
QuoteSeth! Finish Alyria already. What's your problem, man?

Totally. I want to see it with the pretty pictures!
Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: coxcomb on April 05, 2005, 07:40:26 PM
Count me in for bugging Vincent about Otherkind. The game as written opened my eyes and knocked me on my ass. But it's not finished. I want it fleshed out! ASAP!

Please?
Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: Andrew Cooper on April 06, 2005, 08:39:49 AM
Seth,

Finish Alyria... or else!

I'll figure out that "or else" part later.
Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: Marhault on April 06, 2005, 10:19:15 AM
I need Alyria.  I need it soon.  I even made Clock dice to replace the now useless Moon dice.  In fact, I made them so long ago, that they are literally collecting dust, sitting on my telephone stand.  I wonder if the manuscript is doing the same thing. . .
Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: shreyas, login < lazy on April 06, 2005, 10:57:43 AM
Today is the day I am done bugging designers to finish their games.

Instead, I will discuss their designs with them, offer to playtest with them, read their drafts, write my own games, and otherwise offer a much more valuable service than pestering.
Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: Ben Lehman on April 06, 2005, 11:00:15 AM
Quote from: shreyas, login < lazyToday is the day I am done bugging designers to finish their games.

Instead, I will discuss their designs with them, offer to playtest with them, read their drafts, write my own games, and otherwise offer a much more valuable service than pestering.

Or you could, you know:  WORK ON YOUR OWN DAMN GAMES!

Slacker.

yrs--
--Ben

p.s.  Yes, I'm aware of the irony.
Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: GreatWolf on April 06, 2005, 11:02:41 AM
Ah, my adoring fans.

I have received the mandate from the masses, and I will pursue it with vigor.

Or something like that.
Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: Jason L Blair on April 06, 2005, 11:09:33 AM
Quote from: GreatWolfAh, my adoring fans.

I have received the mandate from the masses, and I will pursue it with vigor.

Or something like that.

HE'S LYING!
Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: Valamir on April 06, 2005, 11:41:39 AM
I game with Seth regularly...for the right price I could be persuaded to bring a louisville slugger to our next session...

...of course, after I was done "encouraging his artistic talent" I have to hand the bat over and give him a turn at me...




...hey...that sounds vaguely kinky...
Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: joshua neff on April 06, 2005, 11:43:59 AM
Quote from: ValamirI game with Seth regularly...for the right price I could be persuaded to bring a louisville slugger to our next session...

...of course, after I was done "encouraging his artistic talent" I have to hand the bat over and give him a turn at me...

I was about to offer the same thing regarding Mike Holmes and "Sorcerer in Space," but...

Quote from: Valamir...hey...that sounds vaguely kinky...

...now I feel a bit weird and uneasy about the whole thing.
Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: Andrew Cooper on April 06, 2005, 11:45:08 AM
I have $10 in my pocket.  Where should I send it?
Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: Ben Lehman on April 06, 2005, 11:46:54 AM
$20 towards Seth's beating.  $10 towards Mike's.

yrs--
--Ben

(edit: I have already committed to administering a shinkicking to Vincent, for other reasons.  Perhaps it could be repurposed into an OtherKind shinkicking?)
Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: lumpley on April 06, 2005, 12:21:49 PM
Speaking for me and my shins, I can't really get behind this thing where "bug" has become "administer violence unto." Bad trend. Bad, scary, bad trend.

I go now to buy hockey padding.

-Vincent
Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: GreatWolf on April 06, 2005, 02:17:06 PM
If I give myself a solid thrashing, can I have the money?
Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: Marhault on April 06, 2005, 06:45:51 PM
How's this sound, Seth?  I'll send you $20 for a finished version of Legends of Alyria in .pdf form.  No beating necessary.
Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: Gordon C. Landis on April 06, 2005, 06:48:56 PM
I second (or whatever) the aversion to violence, and the appeal to greed.  Seth, money comes your way not for beatings, but for a completed Alyria.

Gordon
Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: xenopulse on April 06, 2005, 06:57:40 PM
I know nothing about Alyria, but I am a herd animal being running along with the mob, so...

Finish it! Before I, uh, fart in your general direction!
Title: Help! The real Ben is trapped up in the subject header!
Post by: Ben Lehman on April 06, 2005, 06:59:42 PM
I'm down with bribery.

As soon as the Alyria book is finished, totally ready to head off to the printers, I will give Seth $20 to help with printing costs / beer money / whatever.  In addition to buying a copy.

Mike just needs to get off his lazy ass.

yrs--
--Ben
Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: Marhault on April 06, 2005, 08:38:11 PM
Xenopulse:  Do yourself a favor.  Check out Legends of Alyria.  The game (unfinished though it is) is well worth the time.  This advice goes for anyone else that is just idly checking out this thread.  There is a reason we all want this game finished!

There's a Forge Forum (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewforum.php?f=9) which is probably the best place to start.  I managed to dig up the Quickstart Rules, Dreaming Out Loud columns, and the sample scenario, about a year and a half ago, but I have no idea where these are posted or if they're still available.
Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: GreatWolf on April 06, 2005, 08:54:12 PM
Thanks to my friend Jason Blair, you can find the Quickstart, etc. at http://www.hekeba.com/others/alyria/
Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: GreatWolf on April 06, 2005, 09:01:33 PM
If you're interested in helping Alyria get to press, please check out this thread (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14991).  Thanks.
Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: GreatWolf on April 06, 2005, 11:53:19 PM
Oh, and I will take all of you up on your bribes.  Be prepared.  :-D
Title: The Official "Bug Seth about Alyria" thread*
Post by: Jonathan Walton on April 07, 2005, 03:54:01 AM
If we're done beating on Seth and Mike, can I just say that, as badass as Mridangam (http://www.livejournal.com/users/unrequitedthai/64923.html) looks to be, Shreyas needs to finish Torchbearer or our first meeting may turn into a contest between my dancehall-fu and his Classical Indian Dodging Technique.

(Don't even LOOK my way and mention Argonauts, okay?!  Completely different situation.)