Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Guile's Island

Welcome to Guile's Island! This is a site that Bret Hutchinson and David Clark have set up in order to test a method of gaming (roleplaying games) long-distance. To begin with, it will host only one game, the two-person Lunar Exalted story that David is running for the two of them. With time, however, perhaps more games will appear on the site, and more people will get to participate. (Participation is by invitation only, and after this post, comments will be allowed only for those who are playing in one of the site's games, if the site administrators can figure out how to do that. However, feel free to read the posts and comments even if you aren't involved in a game.)

Posts on the site will mostly consist of game plot/character summaries and in-game description/narration by the storyteller. Characters will post responses to actions in the Comments section of each appropriate post. Dice-rolling will take place in the privacy of each player's home, and will run on an honors system, unless site administrators find another way to do things.

Also, "Guile," though spelled like the word "guile" (pron. gile), is pronounced "goo-lee." Guile is the legendary fremlin (friendly gremlin) illusionist-thief that Bret played in a game ran by David many years ago. Guile ultimately achieved tremendous power and stature and saved the world quite a few times. (Most of those times, he saved the world after initially damning it in the first place. We think the multiverse is pretty much intact now, though.) Guile retired quite happily to his magical island some time ago, but it is reported that he still makes occasional forays into wider realms to guide (read: harass and hornswoggle) younger adventurers on their quests.

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