Shared AAR Experience (pre-thread) (game initiated- see game thread)

[Excist]

Okays, I've been successfully bribed to fill out the final slot here (nation tbd).

The one thing I'll ask for is a sample AAR that can be used as a style guide for our AARs so that we are consistent in what we're documenting and how we write our AARs.

[jotwebe]

Hmmm, I was going to employ a idiosyncratic style -- not only using hoary and ancient words and phrases reminiscent of certain unspeakable works, but even echoing the very structure and literary techniques used in those damnable stories. Yet only instead of a wholesome letter or the mumblings of a wizened mariner it shall be the very format of the AAR that becomes the vehicle of horror, mockingly chronicling my descent into madness. I fear I have no other choice than to continue on this path. My one remaining hope is that it is yet time for others to seek refuge in whatever different formats they prefer; alas it is a fleeting hope, for in the end THE STARS SHALL ALIGN!

Iä! Iä! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Yöt-Webbogoth R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

[Immaculate]

This is gonna be awesome.

Yeah- i'll post an update zero article soon after we start, if you want an example. You are free to do whatever you want though.

[Warhammer]

Originally Posted by Immaculate

I can't quite get my SP play-testing with sauromatia where i want it to be so i think i'm going to try acrosephalae instead.

I may wind up switching to T'ien Ch'i, if that is ok. Still trying to get my Caelum build to work though.

[Immaculate]

OKay. I'll probably but the game up tonight. No one had any difficulties downloading the map?

[Immaculate]

http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=SharedAAR

there is the game link.


again, the map can be found here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?apv3ewcsvi1f7p4

[jotwebe]

It was in one of the most open and least frequented parts of the encircling ocean that miles beneath the wind-whipped waves a fateful change took place. Mermen and atlanteans shunned the region, fearful of what lurked in the lightless depths. For in the ancient aboleth city of R'lyeh vast and ageless fish-creatures move sluggishly on the shores of the benthic brine-lakes, served by slaves that their loathsome and mercyless minds have bound in unbreakable fetters. Beneath the dark and cyclopean towers monstrous polypal growths squat, spewing forth a disgusting stream of writhing, tentacled spawn, eel-like scaled things that burrow into the rotting flesh and decaying bones of whales that the detestable aboleths lured into the abyss, singing mindless ditties alone in the cold and crushing deep. Since long before man has stared in slack-jawed wonder at his first flaming torch or raised his dull gaze to the uncaring stars, the aboleths have lived in their unbreathing city, disdaining the lesser godlings of the sea and land and even the Pantokrator Himself. Yet now a terrible emptyness yawns in the heavens, and even as the aurora proclaims the Pantokrators disappearance in sickly colours, a chill wind blows from the gaps between the constellations. And in the deepest recesses of the hadopelagic zone, something vast and monstrous stirs.

The reign of the aboleths is at an end, yet perhaps their time has just begun.

[Immaculate]

here is the game thread:

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showt...807#post799807

jotwebe- i suggest you repost your story there.

[jotwebe]

It was more of a roleplayed announcement that my pretender was uploaded, so I'll go over it after it had a chance to settle again before posting in the AAR thread, I think.

[Roland Jones]

Putting the finishing touches on my pretender, should have it in tonight or tomorrow. Sorry for the delay.