House of Cards OOC

So, I am unfortunately following Song's lead here. I too have had a wonderful time playing with you all, but have come to realize I don't have enough interest in keeping anything in particular going these days. And with my work schedules and work demands having increased in the last five months, and only likely to get more hectic as the spring season start? Well, this is really the best thing for me to do.

As such, I am backing out of things. My people will always been around, in their NPC glory. Victor will still be Spade head of security until someone else comes about to replace him. Hadyn will when his counter challenge with Jo, but if someone likes they may challenge him for Jack afterward. Addy will pester Elisha to death as his bodyguard, still. Devon will run the library in Hearts Castle, and continue to be sweet on Jordan. Pip, ah...he will be forever a little sad, but happy to work with Avery and the other Diamond faces.

And, will this is goodbye- you guys are always welcome to tag any of my people you see in Memes/AUs/House of Crack...etc. I have a musebox thingy that I'll poke about as I feel the need to RP, and as always- you are welcome to chat with me on AIM whenever you like.

With that, I bid you all a fond farewell, and until next time- adieu.

I've had more fun here than I have at any other game. Even so, all good things must come to an end. I feel like I've done everything I can do with my HoC characters and I don't feel a great interest in starting up a new one. It's time for me--and them--to leave (or at least drop from sight).

Sophie Berthier-Fitzgerald remains happily married to that peacock Adrien (who she loves to pieces). She continues to enable Sitara's efforts to become the first modern day Deck pirate, fret over Cadogan, get the museum up and running and to mend broken fences with her sisters. She'll remain derpy and blushy and surprisingly capable. She'd planned on challenging to Ten. Up to anyone if she achieved that or not. She remains wife, mother, sister and adopted sister and above all Diamond.

Drew Montgomery remains as master of horse, handyman and sometimes spy. He continues to court Blythe and plans on taking a Paper Moon style road trip with Eileen soon.

Tess continues on as your animals' favorite vet (okay, I know that's an oxymoron) while slowly and carefully convincing Cadogan it's okay to have a relationship with one hand and fending off her father's crazy with the other.

Katya, ah, Katya. I always said Katya took her position to seriously to up and leave or resign. (As she says it, she expects to leave feet first.) OTOH I don't really want to kill my character. I thought (with mod approval) she could stay on as an NPC Queen until such time as a new one gets apped in. If so, she'll remain your perpetually smiling Spade Queen.

I will link to my musebox on Sophie's journal (post locked to those who are in her circle). I am more than willing to play them occasionally for fun, in memes, AUs, House of Crack, etc. I'll still be around hither and yon (including AIM). I've made a lot of great friends here and aim to keep them. Thank you everyone for all the wonderful memories. ♥♦♣♠

Except just kidding she's adorbs.

Her name is Eun Ji Park, though her anglicanized name is Enya, and either works really. She's lived on the Deck for all 15 years of her life. Yes for the first time I'm playing a character younger than I am. This is really weird. Her bio is here and she's basically really into maths and biology and poetry. She's a bit of a dreamer but people who know her knows that she has a sharp mind.

Basically hey it's a bitty. Come pat her cute cheeks.

Hey kids!

So I know Eileen's still got a year and Cynric can't move up or down and Declan is absolutely not going to stop being a Five for the rest of his life so help him Butler God, I -do- have some Cards who want to Challenge--and Cards I think ought to -be- Challenged.

Evan and Aleksei can probably Challenge NPCs, because there aren't good candidates who make sense within striking distance, but I feel like Cadogan and Rita--as an Outsider Face and Outsider Nine respectively--should probably get a bit of flak and such for this whole 'in and out' debate. They're also both currently in moderately weakened positions--Rita because of the accounting mess and Cadogan because of the related murder mess, both of which seem like legitimate reasons for them to be Challenged even before you get to the fact they're not Deckborn.

They can also be hit by NPCs, of course, but if anyone wanted a swing at them (or for Evan or Aleksei to take a swing at them), let me know!

So a quiet day on the range has inspired me to drag Davin back in. This might mean I end up dropping Justin but since he doesn't post a ton anyway, he can stick around for now.

So for those of you who might not recall, Davin is a member of the Bernard clan and thus uncle to Jordan and Hadyn. He used to have something of a relationship with Avery but they broke it off a while back amicably. He's an Eight of Spades and is in the business of getting unusual and rare items from Outside.

If you'd like to renew old CR or strike up new CR, just let me know. He's not a bad sort, really. :)

So, you may have heard through the grapevine that I have a slight Polyvore obsession. And with RP and RL being relatively slow the last few weeks, I spent some spare time making present polyvores for my characters. Not all of my characters, though, and not for everyone they have CR with, because after a while I ran out of ideas.

SAYING THAT....here we go. Feel free to add any gifts you found to the comments. Or feel free not to, since this is just one of my ways of nerding.

Avery

- Vincent
- Säde
- Adrien
- Hadyn
- Katya
- Cadogan
- Evan
- Ethan

Zoe

- Evan & Riley
- Annie & Chives
- Blythe
- Hadyn
- Sophie
- Victor

Elisha

- Eileen
- Katya

Jordan

- Devon

Alasdair

- Elani
- Riley
- Evan
- James-McCartney Puppies
- Cordelia

This probably isn't strictly necessary since, you know, no AC - but in an hour or so I'll be heading to my family's house for the Christmas holiday, and I'll be there for a week. They have wireless, so it's not like I'll be cut off, but tagging will probably be relatively slow.

Have fun guys!

~Muzy

Figures the week I return I get hit with a rotten infection and holiday things ramped up. I'll be replying to EVERYTHING and I apologize for dropping off the face of the earth. :(

Ding Dong, bells are gonna chime!

Or something like that. Vi and I discussed the repeatedly postponed Berthier-Fitzgerald nuptials and decided (even though they were rescheduled to January) we'd just go ahead and do it because RL and RP plot insist on keeping them apart. That said, a post will go up sometime Sunday. Consider your characters invited if you want. It will be a formal morning wedding because Sophie wants to see Adrien look like Prince Harry spiff in his morning suit.

Thread-jacking and back-tagging will be more than welcome.

Yes, they will be sharing Cadogan.

So apparently when life gets rearranged and I earn free time I didn't think I'd have, I get impulsive. So here is Alyosha, the adorable cuddly spawn of the former Ace of Spades. Because that doesn't sound like a bad plan that sounds like a good plan.

Aleksei is a super new arrival to Spades, and is generally a charming normal 16-year-old boy from Outside who's been sent here to get trained up to be a Spade. More about him here, but clearly CR is going to be made shiny and new.

Yes. Just. Hi again.

o/

Hi guys!

Posting on behalf of Drea, who is safely in her holiday spot (huzzah!) without actual proper internet connection (boo!). Once things have settled in the whirlwind of family and setting things and holidays, and she's got some steady internets again, she'll be back. Lots of love is sent!

Also posting on behalf of Qi, who... is me. I'm heading back to the States on the 28th, so there's a lot of mad-dash running around between now and then, and a lot of "maybe internet, maybe not internet." We've also been having an unusually weather-y winter (THERE WAS SNOW IN MY PROVINCE'S CAPITAL GUYS THIS IS SOME CRAZY SHIT) so there've been a lot of power outages. If I vanish for a few days here and there, I'm probably huddled in the dark under 50 blankets and/or on an internet-less mountain.

We'll see y'all on the flip side! And hopefully a little in between before the flip side!

Heeeey everybody,

Now while Henshaw is wreaking havoc on the castle through the mistletoe invasion, she's also plotting up something special: a Deck-wide White Elephant. For those of you who don't know, a White Elephant is sort of like a Secret Santa except more ridiculous. Everyone who participates gets a gag gift - anything from a pet rock to an onion to a thong. These gifts are given to the host of the event - in this case, Henshaw. Over the course of a party one night, the gag gifts are redistributed to different people, and laughter (or horror) prevails as people unwrap their gifts.

I thought it might get a little tedious to play out the "asking to be a part of it" and "sure you can be a part of it" ICly for each character that wanted to participate, so instead, we have a lil OOC survey right here. :D If any of your characters wants to participate, just click the link and type in their name and what gag gift they would give. Unfortunately, in order to make things easy for me, you'll have to fill out a survey for each character who wants to join - combining them makes the whole reassigning thing a little difficult. 

Here's the survey: http://tinyurl.com/lo9vpfn !

I hope to see responses soon! :D

So. I kinda. Watched too much of Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy and started to miss people. So you can blame Bryan Fuller and Thomas Harris, yo.

For those who don't know, I'm Marie and I moseyed out here about a year ago due to ... stress and I'm very glad people have welcomed me back.

I'm bringing back Meghana (and knocking around the idea of Vasiliy but that's another week or three); who left a year ago to get money and a job to help her nephew on the outside. She's recently returned after an accident that cost the life of her brother and sister-in-law. Now if it was Meghana, she would have sucked it up and stayed but now she has said nephew in tow (about 1 1/2). She's come back and ready to deal with... all her issues.

For the newer players I don't know: Meghana comes from a 4th generation family in the Spades who had a spectacular mess while Meghana was growing up. Everyone on Deck assumed someone tried to kill her father and her; turns out she had to defend herself against her father and kill him. Because of this lie, she's alienated herself from her family and society at large. Now it's time to face the music.

She's kinda foul mouthed, arrogant, and emotionally confused because of the incident and her CR is somewhat lacking because of how she was. She's aware that she can't be the social outcast anymore by choice. So she's not quite the same lady who left the Deck.

It happens to all of us. We build CR for a character, and slowly that CR disappears as characters get dropped or new ones are added. Or, we have a character we really love who has always had trouble developing relationships with other characters. This post is basically an opportunity to list the characters you'd like to do more with. There are no rules on how to do this, but it might be helpful to:

• Tell people a little about the character


• Talk about what's going on in their lives


• Specify the kind of CR (romantic/platonic/enemy) you're looking for

Have fun!

So me and my computer have been battling out. Every time I try to tag (anywhere) Jacktop throws a fit. I'm learning its mostly from firefox so I'm slowly moving to chrome. That being said...

...anyone want to develop some cr with Greylan? I have no plan to up his card rank until I can be solidly active for 3 to 4 months but he needs peeps to call friends as well as bosses. <3

I am overseas for all of December and don't expect to be back until the second week of January. This affects all your fathers Michael, Iollan, Caleb, Lucas, the unofficial but very much in-your-face Marc and your resident troublemaker Christian.

I'll still have internet access but mostly won't be around.

See you next year =)

-- Scy

Er, apparently.

This is Muzy, and this is Dr. Joanna O'Neill, Ten of Hearts. Born and mostly raised by her single father at the Heart outposts, Jo spent the first twelve years of her life happily going to the outskirts school and managing the tiny O'Neill household until her father decided she should take advantage of the better opportunities in Town, and he shipped Jo off to live with a distant cousin and finish up her compulsory education there. As is often the case when you start a new school at the awkward cusp of puberty, Jo had some trouble making friends, and instead she developed serious observation skills, watching her classmates as much as she ever played with them. As a result, it wasn't such a surprise when she decided to go Outside to college on a scholarship, studying first psychology at the University of Notre Dame and then going to medical school at the University of Washington, eventually qualifying to become a psychiatrist. The surprise was that she came back, and relocated to Town after her father's death.

She has a small practice in Town and coordinates with the other NPC therapists, including Milo and Suzanne. Hadyn has recently been nudged into seeking out her services, but she's always looking for more clients. Or if not clients, because this is the Deck and who seeks out psychiatric help really, friends and acquaintances would also be awesome.

:D?

Meet Sarah Gordon, Ten of Hearts. She's not the Queen, though she certainly expected to be rather than some Outsider with no history. If you think that sounds like someone with old blood, you'd think right. Sarah quite likes Outsiders so long as they stay in their place. It takes time to fully acclimate and understand the Deck. Someone not raised there can't begin to understand. That doesn't mean Outsiders are bad, only misguided. Why some of her best friends are Outsiders.

Sarah heads the Heart Public Relations Department. As you might expect she's outgoing, friendly and utterly charming (far more charming than her player). She's accustomed to the limelight and likes to keep herself there. She's played every card in her hand to accomplish that. You can read more about her here.

Hi guys, I made up a tag to cover the current plottiness happening: *outside vs in. Please try to use it when you make posts that will be involving it so we can try and keep things straight.

Or if you can think of a more clever term, we can change it, that's just what I made up after two minutes of thought.

Was also thinking of making up one to cover all the posts relating to the embezzlement plot and lotty and nicholas' unfortunate demises. If somebody wants to help me find them all and give them a good name, feel free. :)

So, Pip is back. Why? Because Everyone needs a Jude Law in their life. More importantly, because Avery needs her stylish PA who knows all the right things to say about any outfit she puts on. (And Sade, when she wants it).

Also, he's quite good with Law. Less so with order, unfortunately.