2013.06.09 01:00 - It is Natural that Things Change

eliza posted this session from the auto-listener database, and while she did, the following came on a playlist she had on in the background: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M-cf...61E6BE9A043311 ...

[01:06] Agatha Macbeth: Guten Morgen ♥
[01:06] Wol Euler: buenos dias! ♥
[01:07] Agatha Macbeth: 2001 today eh
[01:07] Wol Euler: mmhmm :)
[01:07] Wol Euler: ancient :)
[01:07] Agatha Macbeth: :)

[01:07] Agatha Macbeth: 2001 a Wol odessy
[01:07] Wol Euler: ha!
[01:07] Wol Euler: what a long strange trip it's been

[01:08] Agatha Macbeth: Yes, don't piss off the computer :p
[01:08] Wol Euler: heheheh
[01:08] Agatha Macbeth: Why can I not see our cushions?
[01:08] Wol Euler: it happens to me sometimes, today I can see them all but often half are missing
[01:09] Agatha Macbeth: Well I see all but the ones you and I are on
[01:09] Wol Euler: freaky
[01:09] Agatha Macbeth: (see mine now i moved)

[01:10] Agatha Macbeth: What are you observing?
[01:10] Wol Euler: my inventory :) doing some cleaning up
[01:10] Agatha Macbeth: OMG

[01:10] Wol Euler: oh, that :) I was in a RP sim last night, observing
[01:11] Agatha Macbeth: Ah
[01:11] Agatha Macbeth: Bart?
[01:11] Wol Euler: yep
[01:11] Agatha Macbeth: Heheh
[01:11] Agatha Macbeth: Book him Danno
[01:11] Wol Euler: actually no, this was yet anohter new one, post-apocalyptic dystopia
[01:11] Agatha Macbeth: Oh
[01:12] Agatha Macbeth: Nice
[01:12] Wol Euler: yeah )

[01:12] Agatha Macbeth: More Blade Runner then
[01:12] Wol Euler: pretty much, yeah, but with lower tech and fewer people :)
[01:12] Wol Euler: and paragraph RP
[01:12] Agatha Macbeth: Hah
[01:12] Wol Euler: it takes *ages* my god for anyhting to happen

[01:13] Agatha Macbeth: I'm afraid you would need to explain what paragraph RP is
[01:13] Wol Euler: they talk in paragraphs, and take turns to do so
[01:13] Agatha Macbeth: 0.0

[01:13] Wol Euler: your turn: you describe in as many words as possible what you think about what just happened, and what you are about to try to do
[01:13] Wol Euler: then my turn: I describe etc
[01:14] Wol Euler: then your turn again
[01:14] Agatha Macbeth: Wow
[01:14] Wol Euler: yeah
[01:14] Wol Euler: everyone else stands and waits
[01:14] Agatha Macbeth: Guess it must be like climbing mountains
[01:14] Wol Euler: dunno how they really spend their time, perhaps they are all doing sudoku
[01:14] Agatha Macbeth: Or something
[01:14] Wol Euler: right
[01:14] Wol Euler: perhaps they are all IMing a secondary eRP :)
[01:15] Agatha Macbeth: Could be

[01:17] Wol Euler: it seems a very longwinded way to spend one's time
[01:18] Wol Euler: but they would probably find WoW too frenetic, too frantically *active*

[01:18] Agatha Macbeth: Guess if you're not into something yourself it often seems mysterious to the outside
[01:19] Wol Euler: like cricket :)
[01:19] Wol Euler grins.
[01:19] Agatha Macbeth: Yah
[01:19] Agatha Macbeth: Good example
[01:19] Wol Euler smiles.

[01:19] Wol Euler: and they would say that their RP is more creative than WoW, and they'd be absolutely right
[01:20] Agatha Macbeth: There is something a bit mindless about orc slaying, true
[01:20] Wol Euler: but I arrived in the middle of a fight, and spent 75 minutes there, and left before it ended
[01:20] Agatha Macbeth: Erk
[01:20] Wol Euler: yep :)
[01:20] Agatha Macbeth: Guess if there's tactics involved, then not so much
[01:20] Wol Euler: the dungeons get pretty tactical, yes
[01:21] Wol Euler: and the PvP bits are creative, fighting against other human players
[01:21] Wol Euler: there's a lot of thinking in those :)
[01:21] Wol Euler: but again: very fast
[01:21] Agatha Macbeth: As long as your connection is up to it :p
[01:21] Wol Euler: a battleground encounter takes a quarter hour or so
[01:22] Wol Euler: well, fast-paced
[01:22] Wol Euler: people run all the time

[01:22] Agatha Macbeth: Mira is on about her holodeck again
[01:22] Wol Euler: no standing around talking
[01:22] Agatha Macbeth: Right
[01:22] Wol Euler: eh?
[01:23] Agatha Macbeth: Just got two GNs
[01:23] Wol Euler: this is PP news?
[01:23] Agatha Macbeth: PP seems to be becoming another PaB
[01:23] Wol Euler: heh

[01:23] Wol Euler: "activity expands to fill the attention available"
[01:23] Agatha Macbeth: They'll be doing Art of pardadise next
[01:23] Wol Euler laughs.
[01:23] Wol Euler: suggest it :)
[01:23] Agatha Macbeth: Hm
[01:24] Agatha Macbeth: There's never anybody there these days except for friday night
[01:24] Wol Euler: hmmmm
[01:26] Agatha Macbeth: Wonder where QT is this morning
[01:26] Wol Euler: he sometimes only arrives at the second bell
[01:26] Agatha Macbeth: Ah
[01:27] Agatha Macbeth: He is unobtrusively ubiquitous it seems
[01:27] Wol Euler: really? where else have you met him?
[01:27] Agatha Macbeth: Only here
[01:28] Agatha Macbeth: But he's been here since my first session
[01:28] Wol Euler: a rather limited ubiquity, then :)
[01:28] Wol Euler: ah :)

[01:28] Agatha Macbeth: He's ubiquitous here...
[01:28] Wol Euler: yes, he's pretty old in the group
[01:28] Agatha Macbeth: Only many others who have fallen by the wayside
[01:28] Wol Euler: not omnipresent but monopresent
[01:28] Wol Euler nods.
[01:28] Agatha Macbeth: Or both

[01:29] Wol Euler: oh, boxy was in SL last week!
[01:29] Agatha Macbeth: He's still here let's say
[01:29] Agatha Macbeth: He was?
[01:29] Wol Euler: Yaku mentioned it, he was at somebody's session
[01:29] Agatha Macbeth: Great
[01:29] Wol Euler: I haven't checked the logs to see what actually happened
[01:29] Agatha Macbeth: Hope he'll come back
[01:29] Agatha Macbeth: Hm, if it was Yaku probably a 7AM one
[01:31] Wol Euler: on the fifteenth of may, there can't be many sessions to look through
[01:32] Agatha Macbeth: Try 7AM
[01:32] Wol Euler: k

[01:32] Agatha Macbeth: Hello darren
[01:32] Darren Islar: hey there
[01:32] Agatha Macbeth: Leap in! :p
[01:33] Darren Islar: hehe
[01:33] Agatha Macbeth: How is Lisa?
[01:33] Darren Islar: Liza
[01:33] Agatha Macbeth: Ah yes
[01:33] Darren Islar: I hardly have her online anymore
[01:33] Agatha Macbeth: Sorry
[01:33] Darren Islar: np
[01:33] Agatha Macbeth: Yeh, so long since I saw her
[01:34] Darren Islar: sl has become about me being male
[01:34] Agatha Macbeth: Right
[01:34] Agatha Macbeth: Sounds good
[01:35] Agatha Macbeth: Wol is investigating the logs for signs of Boxy
[01:35] Darren Islar: oh?
[01:35] Darren Islar: something wrong with him?

[01:35] Agatha Macbeth: Apparently he was at a session recently
[01:35] Agatha Macbeth: He hasn't been here for months
[01:35] Darren Islar: I see
[01:36] Agatha Macbeth: Glad to see him back tho if it's true
[01:37] Darren Islar: yes
[01:37] Darren Islar: I'm not aware of course of who is still coming here and who not
[01:37] Agatha Macbeth: Pretty much the usual suspects for the most part
[01:38] Wol Euler: that's odd, not in either of the sessions on the 15th
[01:38] Wol Euler: ah. hello LP
[01:38] Agatha Macbeth: Oh
[01:38] Agatha Macbeth: You're sure it was the 15th?
[01:38] Darren Islar: hey Wol
[01:38] Wol Euler: well, the group info just shows his most recent login, he may have been in a dozen times before that
[01:38] Agatha Macbeth: True
[01:39] Wol Euler: I'll do that another time

[01:39] Wol Euler: and come to think of it I never asked yaku why he thought Boxy had been at my session
[01:39] Agatha Macbeth: Is Moscow GMT +3 or +2?
[01:40] Darren Islar: you need to enlarge it to see the effect
[01:41] Agatha Macbeth: They all say that :p
[01:41] Wol Euler: ty!
[01:41] Wol Euler: not sure, I think +2
[01:41] Agatha Macbeth: Wow I'm taking a shower!
[01:41] Darren Islar: I was a bit lazy, so didn't cut it, but sent it straight to my invent
[01:41] Agatha Macbeth: Cute
[01:41] Darren Islar: hehe aggers
[01:41] Agatha Macbeth: TY
[01:41] Darren Islar: yw

[01:42] Darren Islar: are you worried about boxy, I mean do you think something happened to him?
[01:42] Agatha Macbeth: Well he had a big blow up with Pema
[01:42] Agatha Macbeth: and i think it upset him
[01:42] Darren Islar: ah ... I see
[01:43] Agatha Macbeth: Quite silly really
[01:43] Darren Islar: it never is about what is at hand at that time
[01:43] Wol Euler: I did worry about that for a while, actually, until he reappeared
[01:43] Darren Islar: mostly things that have been there for quite a while
[01:43] Agatha Macbeth: Yeh
[01:43] Wol Euler: because people do die out there in RL
[01:43] Wol Euler: even young people
[01:44] Darren Islar: I know
[01:44] Agatha Macbeth: True

[01:44] Darren Islar: I lost track of someone, and not only me, that would never just stay away like that ... she never returned
[01:44] Agatha Macbeth: Oh dear
[01:45] Agatha Macbeth: Hope she's alright
[01:46] Darren Islar: I hope so too
[01:46] Agatha Macbeth: I wonder about Sharon a lot too
[01:47] Agatha Macbeth: Haven't seen her for ages either
[01:47] Wol Euler nods.
[01:47] Darren Islar: not long ago she accepted my friendship on fb
[01:47] Agatha Macbeth: Oh, great
[01:47] Wol Euler: ah, good
[01:47] Wol Euler: then she is still around (sort of)

[01:48] Darren Islar: I think you have people staying away and people staying away, when it is from moment to another while she has been around a lot, vanishing without clear reason.....
[01:48] Darren Islar: from one moment*
[01:48] Agatha Macbeth: Hm, yes

[01:49] Agatha Macbeth: But there are definitely many ex-PaBers who I miss
[01:50] Darren Islar: it's natural when things flow
[01:50] Wol Euler: agreed
[01:50] Agatha Macbeth: Yep
[01:50] Wol Euler: with both :)
[01:50] Agatha Macbeth: Ebbs and flows

[01:50] Wol Euler: it is natural that things change, and also that we regret and miss the changes

[01:50] Darren Islar nods
[01:52] Agatha Macbeth: How is OF doing?
[01:53] Wol Euler listens.
[01:55] Darren Islar: doing well, a solid group (sorry was distracted)
[01:55] Agatha Macbeth smiles
[01:55] Agatha Macbeth: Every time it goes quiet, I think I might have crashed
[01:56] Darren Islar: and it certainly gives me what I needed ... all my fighting in PaB had a lot to do on missing out on something that was essential to me and as it turns out, not just to me
[01:56] Wol Euler smiles.
[01:56] Agatha Macbeth: Ah
[01:56] Wol Euler: I'm glad you found that
[01:56] Wol Euler: and sorry that you didn
[01:56] Wol Euler: didn'T find it here
[01:56] Agatha Macbeth: Right
[01:56] Darren Islar: nods at both statements

[01:57] Agatha Macbeth: Maybe we don't know what we're really looking for til we find it
[01:57] Darren Islar: true
[01:57] Wol Euler: very true
[01:58] Darren Islar: I did realize though I was somewhat on the 'wrong' place, but if you cant' find what you're looking for and it's essential to you .... it's a hard bargain
[01:58] Darren Islar: sounds somewhat dramatic :)
[01:58] Agatha Macbeth understands
[01:59] Agatha Macbeth: Maybe it sounds more dramatic than it actually is ;-)
[01:59] Darren Islar: :)
[01:59] Agatha Macbeth: But glad you still look in all the same
[01:59] Wol Euler smiles.
[02:01] Agatha Macbeth: Ah well
[02:01] Agatha Macbeth: Shopping calls
[02:01] Wol Euler: heheh
[02:01] Darren Islar: but one of the reasons I'm in PaB here now is to see how everyone I know is doing
[02:01] Wol Euler: lucky you, shopping on sundays
[02:02] Agatha Macbeth: Is there a GM today?
[02:02] Darren Islar: so I know that feeling Aggers
[02:02] Wol Euler: take care, aggers
[02:02] Darren Islar: see you around Agg
[02:02] Wol Euler nods to LP
[02:02] Agatha Macbeth: Or was it last week?
[02:02] Agatha Macbeth: Anyway
[02:02] Agatha Macbeth: Have fun
[02:02] Darren Islar: you too
[02:02] Darren Islar: I need to go as well
[02:02] Wol Euler nods.
[02:03] Darren Islar: see you around Wol
[02:03] Wol Euler: take care, enjoy the day
[02:03] Darren Islar: you too