Post by Barnaby Cuthbert on Oct 26, 2009 12:05:15 GMT -8
Do you love this game? Do you spend all week talking about it or planning for the next one? Have you ever built custom props or costumes for the game? Ever been a staff member? Are you gaming or partying this Saturday instead of playing a character at the Boys & Girls Club Haunted House this Saturday?
That's f*cking dumb.
This may be the best hope you have of a warm, free place to play for the long term of this game. Not the vampire game - all of the games. It's indoors. It has bathrooms. It's just a mile down the road from where we normally play on the same street.
All that is needed may be your participation to prove to these guys that we'll help them out when they need it. If we do, they might offer us a place to play in exchange for the occasional volunteer hour here or there - doing things you'll probably like - such as role-playing that you're a monster for their haunted house.
I don't care what sphere you play in. I don't care if you hate one sphere and would never play in it. I don't care if you identify as male, female, furry, fuzzy, fairy, femme, fangdork or f*cking were-aardvark. Get off your @ss.
This is your chance. This is the house that you built -or the one you burned.
If you can't make it, if you can't step outside of what you want for your character for one Saturday - that's cool - except this fails. You fail. We all f*cking fail.
There are no guarantees that if you show up to help this Saturday that we'll get the space - the only guarantee is - if you and others don't, and EC presents a lackluster showing we definitely won't.
It is on your shoulders. Step up. Show up. Make a commitment.
If you won't, then you are saying something - inaction is an action. Apathy wins. It says, "I don't care." "Someone else will do it." "Someone else will take care of it."
F*ck that. No one can fix it for you, beause the only way this is going to happen is if a lot of people roll up their sleeves and help create a relationship with this place. Is this news to you? Did you not realize that this was the plan? Have you been living under a rock? This is your wake-up call.
It's not about paying for the Vampire party - it's about this community getting the opportunity to become a part of a community center.
What do you plan to do this Saturday? And when you show up to game one night in the snow and you find everyone's gone home already, tell me again.
That's f*cking dumb.
This may be the best hope you have of a warm, free place to play for the long term of this game. Not the vampire game - all of the games. It's indoors. It has bathrooms. It's just a mile down the road from where we normally play on the same street.
All that is needed may be your participation to prove to these guys that we'll help them out when they need it. If we do, they might offer us a place to play in exchange for the occasional volunteer hour here or there - doing things you'll probably like - such as role-playing that you're a monster for their haunted house.
I don't care what sphere you play in. I don't care if you hate one sphere and would never play in it. I don't care if you identify as male, female, furry, fuzzy, fairy, femme, fangdork or f*cking were-aardvark. Get off your @ss.
This is your chance. This is the house that you built -or the one you burned.
If you can't make it, if you can't step outside of what you want for your character for one Saturday - that's cool - except this fails. You fail. We all f*cking fail.
There are no guarantees that if you show up to help this Saturday that we'll get the space - the only guarantee is - if you and others don't, and EC presents a lackluster showing we definitely won't.
It is on your shoulders. Step up. Show up. Make a commitment.
If you won't, then you are saying something - inaction is an action. Apathy wins. It says, "I don't care." "Someone else will do it." "Someone else will take care of it."
F*ck that. No one can fix it for you, beause the only way this is going to happen is if a lot of people roll up their sleeves and help create a relationship with this place. Is this news to you? Did you not realize that this was the plan? Have you been living under a rock? This is your wake-up call.
It's not about paying for the Vampire party - it's about this community getting the opportunity to become a part of a community center.
What do you plan to do this Saturday? And when you show up to game one night in the snow and you find everyone's gone home already, tell me again.
