I'm going to try to shift the social conversation here instead of the OOC thread to allow the observers to participate without feeling left out. Let's save the OOC thread for game related stuff like announcements, plans, joint post warnings, and the like. We can still chatter away about our characters and RL, but maybe we should do that here.
Anyway, funny story to relate.
Fiance and I are both longtime tabletop gamers, and as it happens, Play-by-Post actually predates the internet. Ages ago, people used to play by mail, if you believe that, or by elevator, as the case may be.
Fiance and a lot of his friends were working as security guards in a shuttered office building. It was slated for demolition, but it hadn't happened yet, and they needed security guards to protect the assets that remained in the building prior to removal. With no staff in the building apart from security, they were hella bored, but they had to remain on their assigned floors, and they were not allowed to use their radios for personal communication. The DM was on the first floor, so he'd write out the game events on a legal pad, drop it inside the elevator, and send it up to the person on the second floor. That person would read the "post" and write down a response and send it up to the third floor. And so it went, for about six months. It was faster than Play-by-Mail, but it was still tedious. But that's what we did, back in the day.
Get off my lawn. 