At The Gates OOC

Hey guys - Lis here.

This is a hiatus for the week - am working at a place that a) requires an eight am start in the morning and because of location, means a five thirty am wake up call, b) has no internet access during the day and c) is busy and 'all the new things!' enough to suck up what energy I do have by the time I get home at six. I owe some people tags (J, Dora, Beth I'm aware we're in a log) and I appreciate that as a mod, my disappearing is difficult. I'll be semi-responsive to email this week, but very slow and very much on GMT as standard. Work finishes beginning of next week and I will return for however long to my standard ridiculousness, but please be patient with me til then, I currently could sleep for a million years.

Be brilliant and dastardly in my absence, all of you (that includes you, RM)

For one brief shining moment I was back. But then Stuff packed on me again. And now I'm moving. Starting tomorrow. To be completed by Saturday. (Though I anticipate needing a period of adjustment from the move for a couple days after that.) If that seems a bit sudden, well, it is and it isn't. (Okay, fine, I do enjoy making my life sound more mysterious and interesting and complex than it necessarily really is. But in my defense, at least 99% of my ambiguity is necessitated by someone else entirely.) And either way, I promise it is a good thing.

so here's the scoop:

i'm finally getting housing on base and so i'm moving from my temporary lodging to the aforementioned tonight; having to set up internet immediately, of course. since i can't live without it. anyway, this may throw a wrench in my plans to dive into the wonderfulness that is this awesome game. gimme a few days? i'll be on top again... or else i SWEAR i'm strangling someone at verizon.

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Hey guys, Lettie here.

I'm about to get even busier than I have been in the past ... month or so, so I'm going to have to take a hiatus. I know I haven't been involved much in the past month, so this might end up turning into a drop ... but maintaining 3 jobs + studying for LSATs is going to murder me as it is, so for now it's just a break.

Hi guys -- as you might have gathered in the last few days, I've not been around/answering stuff as much as usual. This is because the almighty job hunt of 2011 has fully kicked off and I'm either running to interviews, revising for interviews or writing job applications. Because life hates me. I've p. much switched back to GMT proper - which means weekends, I'm around more but not all the time as per usual - and during the week, I'm afk from midnight, GMT. (7pm, other-mod time)

What this means! I will try and keep up with what I've got going/comment spam/tag logs etc but I'm going to be slow for the indefinite future. I have to remember how to do math, go to various interviews, all the RL stuff that is involved with ~graduating university and then y'know, eventually have a job :P Only a semi-hiatus as I need SOME downtime, but less 'all the things' than usual.

Stay disgustingly wonderful in my not-really-absence.

I'm sorry, my dears, but I'm going to continue to be a bit slow. (I'm also horrendously behind on reading all the new and lovely things...) But my so-called professional life has kind of exploded and I'm in a bad place now that makes it pretty hard to write either Domni or Eddie. Don't worry. If I'm already in stories with you, I'll continue! It just might take me a wee bit longer than you're used to.

I just beg your indulgence a bit longer. It's... Yeah, bad.

Hello, all! I'm going to be only semi-here for the next few days. I'm deep in the bowels of Baltimore, sweltering in the name of geekdom. But, hey, getting to meet Peter S. Beagle again is always worth a little heatstroke, right?

I still have connection here but won't be quite as perky and prompt until Sunday night at the earliest. <3

So, it's that time of year again.

What time of year, you ask? The time of year where I torture myself by working 60-70 hours in 5 or 6 days for monetary gain.

I'm going to be working at a country music festival from this Wednesday night until Sunday or Monday evening -- which means I will be MIA from the internet, basically. Hopefully when I get back I can get some plot on the roll again.

-Lettie (this effects Mombot, Olivia Leonard, and Jamie Ward)

Hello lovelies! I've been logging with a ton of you (& tonight I hit up all the tags I owed!), but unforts I'm off on TOTAL HIATUS this time, due to jetting to San Diego & Comic Con with a few friends. I'll be back on July 26th/27th, at which point I will be all up in your hair again and commentbombing properly. Do behave while I'm gone, now. ♥

Hey darlings. I'm jetting off to Mexico City tomorrow morning, and I won't be back until the 24th (and then it is up in the air as to how long it will take me to recuperate because, um, yeah). The internet situation when I get there is questionable, but if you DO see me online, it definitely won't be for plotty rp or tagging purposes, but just to make sure nobody spontaneously combusted in my absence. If you do have any plotty type things to pass by me, throw 'em at my email and I will get to them upon my arrival home.

Also I am so gonna nerd out at Leon Trotsky's house, k.

This affects Balthazar (feedthefire) and Vasya (leanmean)

<3 Mars

Just letting folks know, I'm going to be away until about the 18th. Hopefully I survive all that time without Internet. Wish me luck!

Head's up that I will be gone all weekend at a con, prancing around in costume and making an asshole of myself in front of celebrities. Won't be around for tagging or plottage until about Monday.

But seriously when I come back hit me up for it, you bamfs you.

~Marrrs (Vasya leanmean, Balthazar feedthefire)

P.S. I'm abducting Lettie at the same time, too, 'cause I don't do this shit half assed.

Hello, my tiny hellions. Heads up that the move has been kinda-sorta completed, so while I'll still be a touch on the slow side as I get settled, Daddy's home! I hope you were all very good in my absence. Lacking that, I hope that you all have excellent stories to tell me about how not-good you were.

In actually relevant news, it's still going to be 'til the weekend or thereabouts until I can get properly IC and move forward with plotty bits (and respond to tags), but if anyone's jonesing in the meantime, sing out and I'll see what I can do to accommodate.

bbl, gates. e-mail is your best bet, but only after sunday.

Fresh blood for the bloodsuckers! Get it while it's hot!

Or, yes, something. Hello, new friends! My name is Sara- original, I know! Thank you, Mummy, for giving me a name that never gets confusing at all- although since Daddy wanted me to be called Katebush, all one word like that's a name any girl could live down, that gratitude is only half sarcastic- but I digress- and I have been guided hence by the wonderful, the magical, the beauteous Julie, whom I'm assuming/hoping you're familiar enough with to realize who I'm referring to, because if not then this whole paragraph has just gotten too awkward for even me to handle.

AT ANY RATE HELLO. My CDJ is at loveologist and every new friend makes my heart swell two sizes, so do it. If you don't want to for some reason, reach me at SavageFlight on AIM (usually) or xgirlxanachronismx@gmail.com (constantly.) I'm 24 as of last Sunday (and OMG HORRIFIED AT TYPING THAT; it's the first time I've had to admit IN WRITING that I'm now mid-twenties; truth be told during those first few moment upon waking in the morning I believe I am still twelve, or at most sixteen, which were both incredibly painful ages so why do I wish to be stuck there? I don't know; the mind is a bizarre thing; I am rambling now because I am NERVOUS because this game seems AMAZING.) I'm in school part time (for Elementary Education, though I used to, in the wayback times, be an English Honours major, so I have some credibility? I think?) and I work part time and I will hopefully be getting a more reliable job soon, but for now I am pretty consistently avaliable any time that is not MWF mornings, and even then sometimes, or WF evenings (which are reserved for Dreamy Boyfriend, who, if you get to know me, you will hear a lot about, I apologize in advance.)

Also I love parentheses. Also capslock. You'll see.

AHEM. As I said, I've been brought in by Julie, so just...ignore everything I've written here and ask her, she likes me, she'll tell you I'm great, please believe her, kthx. I'm coming out of a lot of Harry Potter RPGs (SHUT UP I LOVE MY HP) so I'm a biiiit nervous to be joining by first OC game in...probably two years...so please be patient?

AT ANY RATE, this is Alice Munroe. She is more or less your typical brought-up-by-Occultists-but-still-pretty-average seventeen year old girl. She likes cute boys and fashion magazines and being self-indulgent, and she is fairly naive about the Real World (either flavour of it,) and more or less trusting and cheerful and concerned with teenage-girl things. She is also dead. It's very unfortunate. She's been dead for nine years, following her murder and the binding of her ghost at the hands of an old family acquaintance who had intended to do the aforementioned to her father but, uh, didn't realize Daddy was out of town that week. Oopsie. Alice is a ghost who is bound to an amulet which allows its wearer/owner to control her behavior. She comes when she's called, and she goes where she's told, and she has absolutely no control over this; it's more like a reflex than anything else. If you're wondering why anyone would want their own little ghost slave, it's partly because she can be invisible and thus spy at will, and can be tangible for short periods- aka, she can find out the combination to the safe and then actually turn the dials for you- but mostly because she can also possess people. There's a lot more detail about that in her profile, but long story short- if ordered to Alice can move into the average person and control their physical movements as well as implant/hear their thoughts. It's a good skill for crime!

Currently Alice is owned by...some random shop/store/Merchant, but I encourage any and all comers to buy or steal her amulet ASAP, because that is where the plotty fun starts. Think of all the ways you could use a magic spirit slave who can possess people against your enemies!

She also happens to be the younger sister of Dominic Munroe, who Julie should be introing any second now. The Munroe family has the worst luck with talismans, I'm telling you. At any rate, Dom wants to buy Alice's amulet and let her go before he himself dies. WE WISH HIM LUCK IN THIS AMBITION. Now everyone try to thwart it, s'il vous plait.

At any rate we think there's a lot of potential plot there and I am really, really, really super dying to get involved here SO. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ASK FOR/DEMAND/WHATEVER YOU WANT.

I apologize for the tl;dr. Can't help it, this is how I roll, learn to deal. <333

-Newbie Sara

Hi guys, Lis here --

Just saying I have about 6000 words to write before next Monday, two essays, a seminar log aaaand I'm on a down-swing so I am pretty much AWOL for the immediate future. Those people I am in logs with -- I will pick them up as soon as I can but consider this a mini-hiatus. I'm likely around on AIM but try to keep mod-biz to mod-mail if at all possible as the ability to string sentences together right now is somewhat ....limited.

Thanks! Good playing.

Hey hey, kids. Just a FYI that I have some super fun, time-consuming work shenanigans going on (and due by Monday), so I will be either a) exceptionally slow or b) MIA for the remainder of the month (more likely b than a). Everyone will get spammed upon my return, so feel free to misbehave in my absence.

Gotta take a break due to sickness and some uni stuff - office hours, papers and so on. Apologies to the people I'm in logs with - will get to them when I come back. Emails/plotting are put on hold until then.

Take care and I'll see you later.

Characters affected: Cal Bishop, Archie Valerian, Ces Corrino, Daniel Lee, Loki Hughes

-- Ling

I'm not dead, I swear!
And I promise I'll be back soon.
PROMISE.
Pinky swears and all that.
Much love,
-B

HALLO GUYS. Dora here having only just remembered to post an 'I'm going on vacation' notice a couple days late. I'll be out of town starting Tuesday (2/8) and returning the following Monday (2/14), so shall be about... well, less often than currently, and only in the evenings. E-mail is the best way to reach me in general, so if anyone needs anything, info is on the contact list.