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Category: Actual Play

Life in a Wormhole: Fall Down Seven Times, Stand Up Eight #eveonline

2011-08-19 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 6 comments

“New rule,” says Gor. “When one of use loses over a half-billion isk in ships in one go, everyone gets

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Life in a Wormhole: “Don’t Go After the Frisbee” #eveonline

2011-08-18 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 9 comments

This is one of those stories that makes people who don’t play EVE swear that they’re never going to play

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Life in a Wormhole: Worst Case Scenarios #eveonline

2011-08-17 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

Gor really shouldn’t feel bad about struggling with fittings for his ships in the wormhole; sleeper combat is a bit

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Life in a Wormhole: All Alone #eveonline

2011-08-16 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

The Germans, it appears, are moving out of the system we’ve been sharing for the last month. One of their

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Life in a Wormhole: Windfalls #eveonline

2011-08-15 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 4 comments

I return from South Dakota to find our tower brimming with loot. None of it’s mine, but that doesn’t mean

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Life in a Wormhole: Making room and Settling In

2011-08-12 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Bree is back in the wormhole, albeit only with one of her Buzzard cov-ops ships and not her entire fleet,

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Life in a Wormhole: Escape from Nullsec #eveonline

2011-08-11 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

The home system is quiet the day after the destruction of the Drake, and even two days later the sleepers

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Life in a Wormhole: Parasite EVE #eveonline

2011-08-09 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Sean wakes me up right after the daily downtime; I log in to email both the corp and our German

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Life in a Wormhole: the Tapeworm #eveonline

2011-08-08 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

The interesting and wonderful thing about wormholes is that situation changes constantly. The day after Gor and I blew up

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Life in a Wormhole: “Want to Ruin His Day?” #eveonline

2011-08-05 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Enough moping about nullsec dissatisfaction! Yes, Bre is somewhat stuck in Curse. Yes, the rest of our alliance is moving

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Life in a Wormhole: A Miner’s Tale

2011-08-02 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

The next week is a whirlwind of activity, and very little of it involves EVE. We’re in Orlando for a

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Actual Play of Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple with my family

2011-08-01 doycet Actual Play, Diceless, Musing, Table Top 5 comments

I grew up in central South Dakota and, as a gamer from an early age (I convinced my folks to

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Life in a Wormhole: Germans, Planets, and Gilas

2011-08-01 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Our relations with our German neighbors continue to improve from our original neutral baseline. We started off with an agreement

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Life in a Wormhole: Exploiting the Neighbors #eveonline

2011-07-30 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Wormhole systems are categorized into six classes. The differences between these classes is primarily in the relative strength of the

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Life in a Wormhole: If you’re going to be a Criminal, be a Smart Criminal #eveonline

2011-07-22 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

Over emails the next day, CB points out that instead of a floating tower in space with guns, e-warfare modules,

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Life in a Wormhole: The Moving-day Hangover

2011-07-21 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

It’s one of those days you remember from college; everyone’s moving a bit slowly, trying to make as little noise

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Life in a Wormhole: … if it is possible to avoid hitting. #eveonline

2011-07-20 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

I drafted my evemail, aiming for a mix of “we’re all just trying to get along” and “we have no

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Life in a Wormhole: What do you mean, “Neighbors?”

2011-07-19 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

There was a moment of stunned disbelief following CB’s question. I hit d-scan several times on several characters and got

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Life in a Wormhole: Time to Get Lost

2011-07-18 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

Gor has advocated for starting the trip further into the evening, so as to avoid the prime hours of activity

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Life in a Wormhole: The Adventure Begins… with shopping.

2011-07-18 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

A flurry of communications followed my initial email about the empty wormhole. Questions. Queries. Calculations. A whoooole lot of calculations.

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“My name is John Crichton…”

2011-07-06 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

I haven’t been compelled to write about the sorts of things going on with my time in-game with EVE up

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Actual Play of Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple — “Swallowed Whole”

2011-03-11 doycet Actual Play, Diceless, Table Top 2 comments

Despite crazy schedules and a newborn to deal with, Chris and Tim and I managed to get together last night

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Burning Wheel, in Review

2011-01-07 doycet Actual Play, Musing, Table Top One comment

With holiday schedules, an incoming bearcub, and all the other insanity that seems to surround the end of the year

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A long time coming.

2010-11-04 doycet Actual Play, Links & Resources, Table Top One comment

Back in 2006, I wrote this short post: You know what I’d like to do? I’d like to make up

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The Library of Worlds, Part One

2010-10-26 doycet Actual Play, Table Top One comment

[Full disclosure: about 80% of this was designed by Alexander Newman for 10.10.10.  He was a great helped while I

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Burning Wheel (finally)

2010-10-21 doycet Actual Play, Musing, Table Top One comment

I got a copy of The Burning Wheel… hmm. My first mention of it on the blog was early 2004,

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A funny thing happened on the way to the Ruins

2010-08-17 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

So I’m on my little loremaster last night, just poking at a few quests, and find myself in the Chetwood,

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Wrapping up Diaspora, Shakespeare-Style

2010-07-23 doycet Actual Play, Table Top

So quite a little while ago, we started out a Diaspora game. Our schedules have been a little crazy —

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Diaspora Hacks, by way of Dresden Files

2010-06-25 doycet Actual Play, Musing, Table Top One comment

After a series of scheduling problems, we finally got back to the Diaspora game last night for the first time

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In a Wicked Amber

2010-05-23 doycet Actual Play, Musing, Table Top 7 comments

I don’t listen very well, even to myself. Short version of that post — following a session of In a

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Mostly actual play from online tabletop games, played on Roll20. Also random other stuff.

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"Let's try out the combat system," they said.
"What could go wrong?" they said...


2026 05 26
Session 09 of our co-op playthrough of Ironsworn: Starforged.

We pause long enough to trade supplies with an old and deeply unsettling acquaintance: Anora Talin, a razor-sharp trader with too much insight and no hesitation about using it. What starts as a resupply stop turns into one of the biggest lore sessions of the campaign so far.

In this episode:

- the precursor map/tablet reveals more strange behavior
- Cole’s importance becomes clearer
- secrets about the Balefire and Cobalt Reach emerge
- a new faction concept appears: The Tethered
- Tinker risks deeper contact with the symbiote
- navigation experiments go very, very wrong
- we end with one of our favorite cliffhangers yet

Thanks for watching/listening along with our little corner of space.

2026 04 14
Sometimes, the story tells you it wants to be something else.
Timefoolery finds us once again.

2026 03 10
See the thing is, I called episode six "Crystal Snails", and then I got Vulfmon's Disco Snails stuck in my head, and then this happened. I'm so sorry.

I'm sorry if you've never heard of Disco Snails.
I'm sorry if you HAVE heard of Disco Snails.
Mostly, I'm sorry to Vulfmon.

Inside every snail shell is a tiny glowing gastropod
Precursors might be dead, or fled: transcended into spacey gods
But here they left behind these shiny slimy buggy bodies
These super freaky guards will slime and kill you as a hobby

Crystal snails, they’re on the walls and closing in on you with glowing trails
Their slime is poison that will make your nervous system FLAIL
They crawl into your suit and lick your face until you fail
To breathe! Because you cannot fight these snails

[Chorus]
Crystal what?
Crystal snails, they'rе leaving deadly trails
Crystal wherе?
Current position's in your engine
Crystal how?
They're on your ship, they've got the Drip
Crystal why?
They’re not ill-willers, they’re just killers.

There's bodies in the airlock, for the snails are on the loose
Watch your step, they're only one inch tall and they crawl right at you
They've synthesize deadly toxins up in their buggy bodies
This downright funkadelic bunch have come to start the party (P-p-p-party)

Crystal snails, they’re on the walls and closing in on you with glowing trails
Their slime is poison that will make your nervous system FLAIL
They crawl into your suit and lick your face until you fail
To breathe! Because you cannot fight these snails

[Chorus]
Crystal what?
Crystal snails, they'rе leaving deadly trails
Crystal wherе?
Current position's in your engine
Crystal how?
They're on your ship, they've got the Drip
Crystal why?
They’re not ill-willers, they’re just killers.

[Chorus]
Crystal what?
Crystal snails, they'rе leaving deadly trails
Crystal wherе?
Their location? In your station
Crystal how?
They're on your ship, they've got the Drip
Crystal why?
They’re not ill-willers, they’re just killers.
(With apologies to Vulfmon.)

Inside every snail shell is a tiny glowing gastropod
Precursors might be dead, or fled: transcended into spacey gods
But here they left behind these shiny slimy buggy bodies
These super freaky guards will slime and kill you as a hobby

Crystal snails, they’re on the walls and closing in on you with glowing trails
Their slime is poison that will make your nervous system fail
They crawl into your suit and lick your face until you fail
To breathe! Because you cannot fight these snails

[Chorus]
Crystal what?
Crystal snails, they'rе leaving deadly trails
Crystal wherе?
Current position's in your engine
Crystal how?
They're on your ship, they've got the Drip
Crystal why?
They're not ill-willer, they're just killers...

2026 03 03
Tinker and Quin engage in a time-honored spacer tradition (drinking and conspiracy theories) followed by another time-honored ironsworn tradition (fighting for your life).

2026 02 24 timebolted
We meet Quintin's daughter, and then head out on our main mission. Both of these go exactly as we expected, as usual.

2026 02 17

Music by Kevin MacLeod. Intro by kleber-kgf.
This game, man... this game....

A few notes: the audio is still uneven. I tried a few things, but I need to try a few more. Stay with us and I'll get it sorted, I promise.

2026 02 13
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