Character Page - Normal Updates
Recent Events - Updated Rumors
Character Page - Normal Updates
Recent Events - Updated Rumors
House Rules - Several minor tweeks have been made to Disciplins.
Down Times - We have added some new actions to the Influence Charts
Places of Interest - New Locations have been added.
The plan is to get this updated again later in the week with some House Rules and Down Time stuff. Here's what we've actually accomplished so far:
Character Page - Normal Updates
Recent Events - Updated Rumors
Click here to see the old News Archives.
Character Page - The usual updates have been made. We didn't get all the photos up there but don't worry they will be soon!
Recent Events - Updated Rumors
Recent Events has a new New Orleans Daily article and Candy's point of view on the events of last game.
Just about every page has been updated this month.
Please check out the House Rules page. We have added a bunch of new rules for Abilities, Disciplines, and a few general House Rules.
The Character Page has also been updated with the new positions, photos and, status.
Recent Events has a few new things have been added here.
Down Time has been updated with new rules for creating NPC Ghouls and Retainers.
Hi all! Check out our House Rules page. We've made a number of changes to it (including posting some rules that are currently in effect, but are outdated enough that we're considering revising them again). Also, see the Down Time page for some revisions on how Retainers and Military Force work.
We're working on crerating some rules for Haven, a potential new Background Trait (or Traits). We were inspirde by White Wolf's new system to come up with something for Laws of the Night play. If you have any suggestions, please e-mail us at SmokeandMirrors-ST@hotmail.com
The Character Page has gotten an update. New Players are on there and Status has been updated. Also, we're starting to do photos for NPC's as well. You'll be able to recognize them by their being in black and white. Cool huh?
New Players has finally been updated. There's now a section that talks about where we get our inspiration for Camarilla politics.
House Rules has also seen a couple of updates. In the Character Submission section, you can now download the PC Background Questionairre and print it so that you have it ready to turn in at game. Also, we have house-ruled the way that Fortitude: Aegis works to make it fit in a bit better with the power levels of Fleetness and Puissance. Check it out.
A typographical error was corrected on the Down Time page that was causing some confusion for staff and some players. Can you guess what it is?
A number of changes to this here Home Page have also been made. We now have a parental consent form that minors must submit signed by their parents in order to play. Sorry kids. We're also in the middle of changing around the color scheme a little bit. I, Rich, was under the impression that blue was one of the Mardi Gras colors. It's not. That being the case, we're switching over some of the blue stuff on the site to purple. Check out those shiny new nav buttons, eh?
We're going to have more and more photos for NPC's as time goes on. There will also be continual work going on for the color scheme.
What might be of more interest, however, is the fact that we're soon going to add on some sort of picture gallery to give your eyes something to chew on when you've got time to kill.
Also, I want to add some sort of web-exclusive content; something like a "On-line Rumor" or whatever. Basically, whatever it ends up being, there will be information on the web-site that will be pertinent to game (ICly) that will only be available here on the site. Give you rascals a reason to check back from time to time. If any of you have any suggestions as to what this should be or how we should implement it, toss me a message at SmokeandMirrors-Narr@hotmail.com.
House Rules has been updated with our super cool rules on the Thaumaturgy ritual "Pavis of the Foul Presence."
We changed the crap out of Recent Events. It now only has the last few entries and we've added an archive page for you to look at if you want to see the old stuff.
There have also been a number of changes to the Characters Page. Stauts has been updated. Boons have been updated. Yeah.
Recent Events, Public Knowledge Rumors for November 25th were added along with an entry in Important Recent Events.
Characters was updated. We have a few more pictures and bio's. Also Status and Positions were updated.
House Rules has had a facelift and a few new things have been added. Check it out.
Recent Events Same ol' Same ol'
Characters was updated a littlbe more but isn't entirely up to date. We had some minor computer trouble the last few weeks. It will be done after next game.
History was also updated with some new Camarilla news.
House Rules was updated. READ IT! I'm especially proud of what we've done with Two-Gun Mojo.
Recent Events also got updated. Pretty much same ol' same ol' but Spoons' rant about what went down last game should be at least mildly entertaining.
Characters was updated a littlbe bit but isn't entirely up to date. Rather, it's not going to be up to date after the next game or two. That said, this page will get another huge update.
Characters - Same old
Recent Events - Same old
Down Time - On-line scenes rules are here. 'Bout f-in' time, eh?
That's all for updates. You should also know that our next game is October 14, 2006. We're down to second and fourth Saturdays. I e-mailed details to the list. If you didn't get them, e-mail us at SmokeAndMirrors-ST@hotmail.com.
Characters - Same old
Recent Events - Same old
House Rules - We have new rules about character submissions. Read them. They're important. And rerad the whole thing, please.
That's all for updates. You should also know that our next game is September 9, 2006. We're going down to second and fourth Saturdays. I e-mailed details to the list. If you didn't get them, e-mail us at SmokeAndMirrors-ST@hotmail.com.
Here's what's new:
Characters - We have a few new photos and bio's. Thanks guys. It's looking good!
Recent Events - The last public knowledge rumor has been added.
Places of Interest - The new feeding grounds have been posted.
So, there are a handful of updates for you to chew on. They are:
Characters - A couple of Status changes were made, Clayton's in the NPC format now and a handful of characters got added/removed.
Recent Events - The last public knowledge rumor has been added. It's a juicy one, too.
House Rules - We added our new two-gun mojo system here.
Down Time - The new system for INF monopolies has been posted here. Also, our current rules for Military Force, Spirit Slaves and Retainers can be found here now, as well.
About Us - Please welcome our new Assistant ST, Taran Ivy
That's all I've got for now. I've been coding all day so I'll get to Polls and other stuff another day. And I'll probably mention our new e-mail lists, too.
The web-site's laid out a little differently. I figured that this made a bit more sense. All of the junk that doesn't get looked at too often is a little less visible. I cleaned up the home page a lot, too, as you can see. If anything doesn't work or you think that something should be laid out differently, as always, let me know.
The following pages have been updated:
History - An entry about the Praxis beig turned over to the Chemist, now known as Joseph Spoons.
Places of Interest - Mags' stuff has been taken off.
Recent Events - The new public knowledge rumor is on there as well as the Chemist/Spoons' take on what just happened.
Characters - A little bit of clean up, here. I took some out of date characters down and switched the existing characters around to where they're supposed to be. I haven't added any of the new characters, yet. I owe you about six of them right now.
Also please notice that there is another poll on the page. It's about e-mail lists.
Next time I'll have the new characters put up and I also intend on ranting a bit about somethings that I've been thinking about lately. Should be good times.
As always, thanks for tuning in.
I just wanted to clear something up. I was working on trying to collaborate with all of the games in the area to try to put a schedule together so that all of us could avoid competing with each other and also make it easier for people to attend all of the games that they wanted. However, due to people's schedules and not being willing to dedicate every weekend night of their lives to role-playing (I personally don't get it), it doesn't look like it's going to work out. That being the case, Smoke and Mirrors is going to continue playing the same schedule we always have (every Saturday except the last one of each month). I don't want to speak for others, but I'm fairly certain that, at least for the time being, the other games around aren't changing their schedules either.
The Characters page has been updated and slightly redesigned. Also, the Recent Events page has the current rumors on it. I'm still looking for someone to give us an IC-perspective update. Like I've said, writing from the same three characters' perspective's over and over again is getting tiresome.
I think that that's all that we've got for now. Thank you everyone.
Characters and Recent Events have been updated - Usual Stuff
Just a reminder, there is game on May 27, 2006 for the one-year anniversary of Smoke and Mirrors. We will be starting game at 7pm and will be running late (past 1:30am). Feel free to bring new players and new characters for this event (house rules still apply).
Characters and Recent Events have been updated - Usual Stuff
Chacters and Recent Events have been updated - Usual stuff
Houes Ruels has also been updated. We added a few things about Merits, Flaws,and Disciplines.
This is about the fastest that this page has been updated in around nine or ten months. HA! Anyway...
We added a Links page. For now, it's just got a link to Ashes and a link to ChiWhite City. I couldn't think of anything else that needed to be on there. If you think of anything, let me know. The link to the page is at the bottom of this here home page.
Characters, Recent Events and Places of Interest all got updated. I only put the public knowledge rumors on the Recent Events page. I'm still hoping that someone submits something cool (read: something anything). The next thing that I'm going to work on is getting House Rules updated with our Wraith Retainer/Spirit Mentor/Spirit Slave rules. We just have to make up the rules first. I'll get it up ASAP. Thanks for the patience.
Terribly sorry, folks. It happened twice that I coded all of the updates and then neglected to post them. I know, I know. Bad StoryTeller! Anyway, Characters and House Rules both got some much needed updates. Recent Events is slated for an update this week but, like anything that comes out of Sony, will likely be pushed back a few times before it's actual release. The Characters page is due for more updates very soon as well as Places of Interest and House Rules.
That's about all I've got as far as site updates go. Please remember that the April 13, 2006 game will be an event game (Prince Bourdon's Deathnight Celebration) and we would like to have as many of you there as possible. Also, May 28, 2006 will be Smoke and Mirrors' one year anniversary. That falls on a Sunday and the night before is an Ashes game so we're not entirely certain what we plan on doing to celebrate. If anyone has any suggestions, please feel free to e-mail us at SmokeandMirrors-ST@hotmail.com.
We're still considering possible fills for Narrator and StoryTeller positions. If you have any comments one way or another, please let us know. We would like to know if you are interested, if you know someone who might be, who you personally think might be a good addition to the team and who you think would be a prro addition to the team. Obviously, any of this information would be between the StoryTellers and the person giving it. We do need your input on this, though, because the game belongs just as much to the players as it does the StoryTellers and we don't want to make a big decision like this without giving considerration to what those players want.
Let this be a standing invitation to anyone interested. Anyone who submits an IC recap of the last game for use on the Recent Events page will get a blue ticket whether it gets used or not. We'll use a sort of rotary system to pick whose get used on any given week.
Finally, if any of you ever feels that there is something that should be on the website that isn't, please let us know. There have been a couple of suggestions in the past and we've done our best to implement them. For instance, I'm going to try to do small mini-articles on here to meditate on some of the rules/systems interpretations that we StoryTellers have come up with. Anyway, I can't think of anything myself because I try to make his the most comprehensive site possible for our game but I'm sure that there are some things that I haven't thought of. Just let us know if you think of anything.
Thanks for reading my ramblings,
-Rich
~Assistant StoryTeller
Alright, these updates are important so please read them. Mainly, a bit of a disclaimer was added to the House Rules page under character creation rules. READ IT! Also, the Characters page and the Recent Events page have been updated. I will soon put all of the bios, pics and e-mails on there. I just need to put all of this information together.
By the way, a Blue Ticket goes out to the first person to submit to me a recap of what's been happening the last couple of weeks from there characters perspective for me to put on the Recent Events page. I just haven't had the juice to do this myself. Also, hearing from the same couple of characters over and over again gets stale after not too long.
I updated the Characters page. It now has every active character on there. Players: Please submit bios for your characters! The page looks kinda bare right now. Also, we try to remember to take photos at game but sometimes we forget. Also, we usually try to take them after wrap but sometimes you leave before we wrap. If you don't have a pic on the site, please remind us to take one and if you don't plan on staying until wrap (usually between 1a and 1:30a), please let us know when you sign in so that we can take one then. Also, some players have a tendency not to stay in costume until the end of the night. If you are one of those players, please remind us to take a picture of you at the begining of the night. Thank you.
Just a list this time:
House Rules - Generation Cap
Recent Events - Pretty much just the Public Knowledge rumor from last game.
Characters - New characters added, old ones removed, the usual.
The only real update to the website this time is the Recent Events page. There are a few more updates coming soon. As the game continues to grow, the Characters and House Rules pages are going to be updated as they need to be.
Not Website Related!
First, the staff of the game has gone through a few changes recently. The roster now looks like this:
Head StoryTeller - Allison Rockwell
Assistant StoryTeller - Richard Quaid
Narrators - Adam White, Sean Conwell
Finally, we wanted to mention that we will not be playing on February 26. Staff (and any players interested in attending) will be attending Ashes of the Night, a network game with chronicles in Cook, Lake and McHenry counties (and a few others across the country). The Cook County game runs on the last Saturday of every month and we will be attending all of them in the near future. This means that Smoke and Mirrors will not be running on any of these weeks. Also, as many of our prospective new players also play in this network, we may be dropping the first week of every month as well in order to allow for the Lake County Ashes game. This has yet to be decided, though. When anything concrete is decided, we'll let you know.
Almost every page of the site has been updated:
House Rules - No Sabbat. That's about it.
Down Time - Influence descriptors are no longer required. And the peasants rejoice!
New Players - The "New to Smoke and Mirrors" info was a little out of date.
Places of Interest - Feeding grounds specifications (by clan), the Underside and the Gentle Repose were all added to this page.
Recent Events = The usual.
Characters - Just plain updated with new characters added and old ones removed.
Not web-site related!
We are taking this week off to take a field trip to Ashes of the Night Cook County game. So the recruiting campaign begins. We will also be visiting the McHenry chronicle of Ashes as well as the Requiem game in February though this won't affect any scheduled games of Smoke and Mirrors.
We have a site! A real-life site! Giddyap, li'l darlin'!
St. John's United Church of Christ
1136 Wesley - Evanston, IL 60202
Directions:
From I94:
Exit on Dempster East
Take Dempster east to Florence (three blocks past Dodge)
Turn right onto Florence
Take Florence to Crain
Turn left onto Crain
Take Crain two blocks north to the church
From Lake Shore Drive:
COMING SOON! (I forgot exactly how this works)
Many thanks from Smoke and Mirrors to St. John's United Church of Christ. You have our undying appreciation.
Site Updates:
Recent Events - Updated with the usual
History - NPC commentary is finally here! I can't even bring myself to look at when I first mentioned that I planned on doing this.
Just so everyone knows, Smoke and Mirrors won't be running on December 24th or December 31st.
That said, the updates are:
Recent Events - Public Knowedge rumors and a recap of the last two weeks have been added to this page.
Characters - Status and positions have been updated on this page. Also, Clove has been added to the page, though a photo and bio have yet to be submitted.
It's been over a month and a half since I've updated the site. Sorry about that. Well, at least you get a complete update of the entire site! It's true! Very little of the site has been left completely unchanged. Take a look around. Explore. Enjoy.
History - A couple of events have been added to this page. There was some stuff that we discovered while doing some general research that we figured should be in here as well as some stuff that has happened IN GAME!!! Check it out.
House Rules - There are a couple of additions to this page as well. Some restrictions as far as character creation goes for new players (sorry, we just can't allow ourselves to trust a brand-spankin' new player with a koldun) and some stuff about Background Trait Refresh Rate.
Down Time - Just a few more details on the whole Background Refresh Rate thing.
Places of Interest - A new feeding district as well as some notes about what districts have been claimed as certain individuals Domains.
Recent Events - Obviously, the recent events have been added to the Recent Events Page. Also, though, check out the new expandable/collapsable archives. Pretty suite, huh? The rumors archives work just fine, however, the recent events archives are a little buggy right now. Same exact code used to do the same exact thing and it just doesn't want to work properly. Programming is a real pain sometimes. If anyone has any ideas, toss me an e-mail, eh? Anyway, enjoy the show.
Characters - The Characters page has gotten a big face lift, too. Since the Camarilla is officially back, I figured I'd lay out the Characters page to reflect that. The Prince and her Court are separated from the Primogen are separated from everyone else. Also, everyone's status has been added.
By the way, I still need Bios and Pics for a bunch of people. If you are on that page and you don't have a bio or pic yet, either submit me the bio or give me a shout at game to take your picture. Besides the long drought periods, I do really put a lot of time into this site and I really want it to look as nice as possible. Thanks, in advance.
Also note that I did the same archiving bit here on the Home Page. I'm a fan. I hope that you like it as well (since I'm not changing it back now, anyway ;) )
Old NewsLetters
Here are a bunch of old newsletters that never got uploaded in case anyone was interested in reading them. Remember, if you want to save them to disk, Right-click the link and then click "Save Target As..." They are all in MS-Word Versions because it's easier to do that way and I don't know anyone without Word.
September 3, 2005
September 10, 2005
September 17, 2005
September 24, 2005
October 8, 2005
October 22, 2005
November 19, 2005
Finally, in some not-web-stie-related-news, Smoke and Mirrors has a couple of weeks off coming up. First, we won't be playing on Christmas Eve. I know, what kind of Santa denies kids game on Christmas? puh Secondly, we won't be gaming on New Year's either. Two week off in a row? No way! How are we supposed to live? Finally, we don't have a date planned, yet, but it's likely that we are going to take a field trip to Ashes of Night a local network game that runs on occasion. It's likely that we'll be going in either January or February.
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