Ah, May.
The month where most universities start closing up shop, finals are had, professors celebrating that they don't need to show up for the five minutes they do in their paid classes, and penned college students are let free to wreck horrors upon modern society. Truly a wonderful month, depending on your perception of course.
What in the world does May have anything to do with a game that's been silent for three months?- Because being penned behind a cage and having text books thrown at my head in an attempt at learning through osmosis is rather distracting, I've found. While I've had time to pander about on a few games on the forums, sadly I've vastly underestimated the amount of time needed to run a game (even with the knowledge that I probably would), and simply had to make a choice of college or this game.
Why now? Why not earlier?- I've tried to rouse the game sooner but fate has stopped me at every turn. Attempts to punch fate in its snout to establish who's the boss has unfortunately failed, turns out fate is a bit of a martial artists unfortunately. Losing internet providers, long projects, broken power supplies, and dying operating systems, and all the lost notes and rules I was keeping were some of the punches thrown my way.
But enough belly aching and excuses, as things are turning my way again. I'll soon find myself with ample amounts of free time (compared to the prior three months) in which I can actually and thankfully run this game. That's right, SAIF is going back on after a three months hiatus, and I'm personally excited! I just hope you all are still around and willing to join back in though, is all. I understand if things have come up and you've given yourself a full enough plate that you can't handle another game, three months have passed and by all accounts the game looked dead for quite a while.
Alright, alright, but why is this post even here? Is there a point beyond the excuses?- To serve as both a warm up period to let people know that this is back on soon(ish) and as a Q&A period.
Why Q&A? - The honest answer is that I can't start the game right away sadly, I have to remake my notes and I'll soon find myself in a two week period without internet beyond a phone. So even with this post the game won't actually have another turn till about fourteen to sixteen some days from now. By then though, I'll have my notes all remade and the rules written again.
So, due to the wait, and the long hiatus, I know that people won't probably notice the game is back on until a bit has passed, so I figured that I owe you guys some answers to some questions you might have about the setting or characters in the game. Hopefully it'll also serve as a refresher in what's going on in the game, but I'll also include a 'what's happened' post before the end of the week to give a laconic synopsis. Note that I won't always answer truthfully depending on the questions however, part of the game is investigating after all.
So what now?- Ask questions about the setting, characters, anything! Just post to let me know that you're alive and still interested even if you don't have any.
Do I really have to read all of this?- I do have a habit of long posts, don't I?