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Message no. 1
From: Zixx <t_berghoff@*********.NETSURF.DE>
Subject: Gurth Con (was:Re: GMing 101)
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 02:25:13 +0000
On 24 Dec 97 at 20:21, Gurth wrote:

> David Buehrer said on 8:01/24 Dec 97...
>
> > Eh, that's a common first time GM mistake. Thankfully he's got a
> > master to show him the ropes :)
>
> Why does everyone think I'm such a great GM? None of you has ever even met
> me, let alone played in a game I GMed! :)

Ahhhhhh!

So here we have it:

The GurthCon plan:
1)We all write awefull chars and Gurth GMs. SO we see how good he really
is.
....let's say fom 1800 till 0600....(to see hoe good he his after 12 hours
without coffee or coke!)
2)Hmmm....dunno...Anybody got an idea?

<runns away, hiding and waiting for Bull to take the bait>


Tobias Berghoff a.k.a Zixx a.k.a. Charon, your friendly werepanther physad.

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Message no. 2
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Gurth Con (was:Re: GMing 101)
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 1997 21:14:24 -0500
At 02:25 AM 12/26/97 +0000, Zixx wrote these timeless words:

>The GurthCon plan:
>1)We all write awefull chars and Gurth GMs. SO we see how good he really
>is.
>....let's say fom 1800 till 0600....(to see hoe good he his after 12 hours
>without coffee or coke!)
>
Hey man, I can;t even sit up straight without Coke (Mt. Dew preferably
though) after 12 hours of anything :

>2)Hmmm....dunno...Anybody got an idea?
>
><runns away, hiding and waiting for Bull to take the bait>
>
Don't look at me... i'm behaving... really I am... I promised Dvixen I
would behave for a few days now... besides it's Christmas (Speaking of
which, I finally upgraded my old 47 MB Hard Drive to a huge, SOTA 330 MB!
<grin> that also means I have ICQ now :])

Bull
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Message no. 3
From: Zixx <t_berghoff@*********.NETSURF.DE>
Subject: Re: Gurth Con (was:Re: GMing 101)
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 17:01:47 +0000
On 25 Dec 97 at 21:14, Bull wrote:

> At 02:25 AM 12/26/97 +0000, Zixx wrote these timeless words:
>
> >The GurthCon plan:
> >1)We all write awefull chars and Gurth GMs. SO we see how good he really
> >is.
> >....let's say fom 1800 till 0600....(to see hoe good he his after 12 hours
> >without coffee or coke!)
> >
> Hey man, I can;t even sit up straight without Coke (Mt. Dew preferably
> though) after 12 hours of anything :

Well I never said *we* would be without it. All I know is that *I* stop
GMing every time even a 1L-bottle of coke and two cups of coffee (Carnial
catastrophe(tm)) can't stop me from falling asleep...

> >2)Hmmm....dunno...Anybody got an idea?
> >
> ><runns away, hiding and waiting for Bull to take the bait>
> >
> Don't look at me... i'm behaving... really I am... I promised Dvixen I
> would behave for a few days now... besides it's Christmas (Speaking of
> which, I finally upgraded my old 47 MB Hard Drive to a huge, SOTA 330 MB!
> <grin> that also means I have ICQ now :])

<cough> SOTA? I mean last week I worked (read: played service-dude for my
father's "corp") on a server with a 200GB raid-system. That's SOTA...
BTW, you get along with 330 megs? I got myself Wing Commander 5 a few days
ago (great game) and it took 450MB....(everytime you thing you have hugh
amounts of diskspace, you install a few OSes, Watcom C++ and a few Origin
games....that should take care of your disks)

....ermmm....Hi Dvixen, how'ya doing....errrmmmm....
<hides in the Gurth's Stairs Building(tm)>


Tobias Berghoff a.k.a Zixx a.k.a. Charon, your friendly werepanther physad.

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Message no. 4
From: "Leszek Karlik, aka Mike" <trrkt@*****.ONET.PL>
Subject: Re: Gurth Con (was:Re: GMing 101)
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 02:47:11 +0000
> The GurthCon plan:
> 1)We all write awefull chars and Gurth GMs. SO we see how good he
> really is. ....let's say fom 1800 till 0600....(to see hoe good he
> his after 12 hours without coffee or coke!)

>2)Hmmm....dunno...Anybody got an idea?

Well, I'm no Bull, but how about that:
Gurth gets to run his Speed Sam and Troll the Wall, and we GM. All of
us. At the same time. Whoever kills them both first wins. ;>

(BTW: Gurth, do the newest versions of Speed Sam and Walltroll use
Edges and Flaws? I mean, Speed Sam could really use Lightning
Reflexes +3, Exceptional Intelligence and Quickness and all that
stuff... Or Toughness, Exceptional Body and Will to Live 3 for the
troll... <grin> )


Leszek Karlik, aka Mike - trrkt@*****.onet.pl; http://www.wlkp.top.pl/~bear/mike;
Star Wars fan and Amber junkie; FIAWOL; WTF TKD TOO;
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Message no. 5
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Gurth Con (was:Re: GMing 101)
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 11:54:23 +0100
Leszek Karlik, aka Mike said on 2:47/27 Dec 97...

> Gurth gets to run his Speed Sam and Troll the Wall, and we GM. All of
> us. At the same time. Whoever kills them both first wins. ;>

How long do you have? :) Oh, and I already tested the Speed Sam in a game
once. He was... fast :)

BTW, Wally the troll isn't my creation.

> (BTW: Gurth, do the newest versions of Speed Sam and Walltroll use
> Edges and Flaws? I mean, Speed Sam could really use Lightning
> Reflexes +3, Exceptional Intelligence and Quickness and all that
> stuff... Or Toughness, Exceptional Body and Will to Live 3 for the
> troll... <grin> )

I've thought about adding edges and/or flaws to the speed sam, but I
haven't so far. The only problem is that the ones worth having add up to
10 points, so I'd have to add the same amount of flaws. Still, his
Initiative would be up to 25+4D6, I think...

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Message no. 6
From: Sascha Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@**********.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE>
Subject: Re: Gurth Con (was:Re: GMing 101)
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 19:41:10 +0000
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Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 12:21:22 -0600
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From: Russ Myrick <ceedawg@*********.COM>
Subject: Re: Bull - in - the - box
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Steven A. Tinner wrote:

> By now, I'm sure most of you know about the curse of Wendigoism that I
> have
> placed on our good friend Bull.
> After months of research, Bull has finally embarked upon a cure.
>
> I'll spare the details, but it basically comes down to this.
> Bull wants to upload his brain to online storage - essentially place
> his
> mind inside a computer.
>
> Now being the fun-loving, good-natured GM that I am (Stop snickering!)
> I
> have generously allowed this action.

I'm not snickering (snort, cough, cough, grin) Now as to your question
....

> My question now is this ... how many MP's is a metahuman brain gonna
> need
> for storage space?

200GP to 400GP for starts, say average age & experience of a typical
16-17 year old individual. Just to hold the memories. This is based on
studies performed by MIT & Johns-Hopkins in RL. Current Memory
retrieval emulations are utilizing 5 Cray 2k's .... my u

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