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babelfishwars wrote:
I think I was fourth. VERY DISAPPOINTED.
Take comfort, friend: that means you have less time to wait between your pledge and the delivery of the goods than I do. Like, what, most of a minute less? YOU LUCKY DEVIL.
...IS IT MAY 2014 YET?
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Flyte
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babelfishwars wrote:
I think I was fourth. VERY DISAPPOINTED. Four is an auspicious number. You beat me by a couple of minutes, I reckon.
Miss Strangeweather wrote:
Thank you for this info. My ferrets decided to throw a surprise party shortly before dawn, perhaps in anticipation of this very Kickstarter. (More likely just because they're ferrets and being awake makes them happy, though.) Anyway. Since I was up, I loitered aggressively until the KS went live and was one of the first (possibly the first?) to pledge. Now I'm all IS IT MAY 2014 YET? Good times. Ferrets are awesome. I have never seen one, but all the reading I've been doing about rats, mongooses and mustelids has convinced me. I thought I wanted an African Pygmy Hedgehog, but I'm not sure any more...
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Alexis Kennedy
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When your names are inscribed on that notional basalt monument, Miss Strangeweather's will be at the top: which means the beachcombers of Whither will find her first. My condolences.
EDIT: incorrect rock
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Flyte wrote:
babelfishwars wrote:
I think I was fourth. VERY DISAPPOINTED. Four is an auspicious number. You beat me by a couple of minutes, I reckon.
Miss Strangeweather wrote:
Thank you for this info. My ferrets decided to throw a surprise party shortly before dawn, perhaps in anticipation of this very Kickstarter. (More likely just because they're ferrets and being awake makes them happy, though.) Anyway. Since I was up, I loitered aggressively until the KS went live and was one of the first (possibly the first?) to pledge. Now I'm all IS IT MAY 2014 YET? Good times. Ferrets are awesome. I have never seen one, but all the reading I've been doing about rats, mongooses and mustelids has convinced me. I thought I wanted an African Pygmy Hedgehog, but I'm not sure any more...
Seventeen years ago, a ferret showed up on my doorstep. Literally. She walked in like she had lived with me since forever and, although I had never seen one until that moment, I fell in love on the spot. I've never been without at least one ferret (with an all-time high of seven, currently holding steady with four) since. They are my heart, my joy. That said, on mornings such as this, I occasionally consider eating their little brains with an egg spoon. I will confess, too: the weasels of Fallen London are what sold me on the game. (Alexis, now you know who to blame. Besides yourself, that is.)
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babelfishwars
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Miss Strangeweather wrote:
Seventeen years ago, a ferret showed up on my doorstep. Literally. She walked in like she had lived with me since forever and, although I had never seen one until that moment, I fell in love on the spot. I've never been without at least one ferret (with an all-time high of seven, currently holding steady with four) since. They are my heart, my joy. That said, on mornings such as this, I occasionally consider eating their little brains with an egg spoon. I will confess, too: the weasels of Fallen London are what sold me on the game. (Alexis, now you know who to blame. Besides yourself, that is.)
Been considering getting a pet. Was thinking a rat (had before, lovely creatures) ... but might investigate.
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Alexis Kennedy wrote:
When your names are inscribed on that notional basalt monument, Miss Strangeweather's will be at the top: which means the beachcombers of Whither will find her first. My condolences.
I am more amused than I should be at the prospect of offering my non-Fallen surname to Sunless Sea. I had a professor once who wound up in a competition with another grad student: they had found some OL religion site where, if you got five people to join, you were automatically beatified and canonised, and they were racing to see which one could become a saint first. My professor very much wanted to be Saint Leon the Conservator and to rename our lab (we're archaeolgists) the Lab of the Immaculate Conservation, so he signed me up. Then he saw he could pay some little bit of change to buy an honorific, which he did for me and me alone because of said surname. The price I paid for that was Donny insisting all the undergrads refer to me as 'Rector Rector' and occasionally 'The Right Righteous Rector Rector' for the rest of the term. It was a long year.
What I'm saying is (wait for it), Whither or not those beachcombers come looking for some Strange (ha!), you'll have some work ahead of you to beat that. But don't worry: I have faith.
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Corran
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I knew falling asleep at five would possibly make me miss the very start...
Oh well, I got 14, I think.
Now, who got seven?
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babelfishwars wrote:
Been considering getting a pet. Was thinking a rat (had before, lovely creatures) ... but might investigate.
For those considering having the ever-fashionable weasels as pets, allow me to share my most recent update. (And just so you know, Rollo, Sadie, and Finn are all morning weasels, while Bowie is most emphatically not.)
>>I was awakened this morning shortly before dawn by a few thumps against my hamstrings and the baby screaming like Death itself had come for her. On autopilot, I twisted and swept her toward me. In the same second my brain cleared enough to register that Childe Roland had had her pinned and had been grooming her head in those little nibbly-bites I am positive are the ferret version of noogies, the baby immediately pounced ME then flopped back, popped up, and started weasel war dancing at both Rollo and me. I valiantly ignored the look he gave me and settled back in. Within a few seconds, there were a few more thumps against my butt and hamstrings, followed by the baby screaming again. I didn't intervene because if anybody deserves to be sat on and given ferret-noogies, it's the baby. (Just as Finnegan is the Hagrid of ferrets, the baby can ONLY be Peeves. TRUST ME.) Only Finnegan came to see what the ruckus was all about, then he got so excited he had to start doing those little itchy bites on MY leg. WTF, FINNEGAN. Bowie pretty much thought we all sucked because they were playing and I was flailing exactly where she likes to build her pre-dawn Fortress of F*ckoffitude (behind my legs), so she took up residence in the knitting bag I have made the executive decision to give her. Were she able to thrust up one tiny paw to give us all the finger before going back to sleep, she would have done. Oh, ferrets. Ferrets. Ferrets.<<
Honestly, once you've lived with weasels for a little while, the Neath seems quite sane.
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Corran wrote:
I knew falling asleep at five would possibly make me miss the very start...
Oh well, I got 14, I think.
Now, who got seven?
Seven is the number of backers. Seven the contributions to the game. Seven the pledges for the Panther. Seven light the way to the game.
(I napped through the start of the 'starter too - long morning spent digitising 1880s property records! But I think I got in in the early teens or so.)
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Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Alexis Kennedy
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>Rector Rector
My condolences.
As some of you may know, our senior developer's name is Henry Senior.
Except when he visited South America, when he became 'Señor Senior'.
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Diptych
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...does he have a son?
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Spacemarine9
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Oh lord I slept in and missed the start of the kickstarter by a whole hour and a half. I'm both shamed and disgraced! I blame the antihistamines.
Time to scramble wildly and find the "send life savings" buttons on kickstarter, then
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Alexis Kennedy wrote:
Except when he visited South America, when he became 'Señor Senior'.
Nice. At my least tautological redundancy was contained within the cloister of academe.
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Ewan C.
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I believe - but had not yet had coffee - that I was #7 at the pathfinder (have-name-in-game) level. I should probably be slightly nervous now.
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babelfishwars
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Corran wrote:
I knew falling asleep at five would possibly make me miss the very start...
Oh well, I got 14, I think.
Now, who got seven?
They aren't listed in order of 'got' are they? That puts me not even in the top ten. :-S But about 20 before Rector. HOW CAN WE TELL WITHOUT A SYSTEM?
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Alexis Kennedy
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So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
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babelfishwars
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Alexis Kennedy wrote:
So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
I was always the last person left for sports at school. I was not chosen. You've brought back traumatic memories, you git.
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babelfishwars
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Oh. Here: http://sunlessseagame.com/ I want the Star sticker to link to the kickstarter as I hate scrolling down. Make it so.
Oh no, wait, it's your kickstarter not mine (it's mine).
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Diptych
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Surely the green banner, which is slightly higher than the star sticker on my screen, already links to the Kickstarter.
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Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:
Surely the green banner, which is slightly higher than the star sticker on my screen, already links to the Kickstarter.
It's right at the very bottom of mine. Old version of firefox, can't update as work. :-(
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