I've been looking around the Triad Weyrs site and I've read practically every FAQ and information. I'm really interested in joining this club, but there's a slight problem...I've never PBEM before. I know there is a mentor program on this site, but am I allowed to get mentored to see if I am comfortable or can even PBEM?
You can certainly use your mentorship as a trial period. Or you may wish to join as a lurker for a while to see if the story line and mail load is something you want to make a commitment to.
If you think that joining is the best way for you to get a feel for the club, be welcome. We know that different people have different needs and we would certainly not hold it against you if after a short time you decided that this was not the club for you.
I hope that you do decide to join us, and stick around for a while.
Mikel~
Thank you for the advice. I've gone ahead and signed up as a lurker. I hope that I will get the hang of PBEM. ^^
Glad to help. If you have any questions please feel free to ask.
This may sound like a stupid question, but I know the Turn/year but what month and day are we in? How are the days to be charted?? Are there 12 months and 30/31 days? or is it different?
Month 6 d1-14 is usually what's being posted now, although it can be any day in m6.
There are 28 days in a month on Pern.
Hope this helps.
Roxanne
Welcome to Triad! I was going to answer your questions, but Mikel and Roxanne beat me to it! I hope to see you posting in Triad soon! ^_^
:D
Thank you Roxanne for answering my question. I've been wrecking my brains trying to figure that stuff out >.<
Another thanks to Trilby for the welcome. I'll join the postings...as soon as I learn how to PBEM ^^;
In the evening's I am on-line on AIM as MIKEL47091. If you have AIM, please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.
We are a friendly bunch, and more than willing to help a new friend join the fold.
Aight...but by evening do you mean by the time that the forum goes by or what? Cause I live on the East Coast and its presently about 11:18 AM...my AIM sn is asianladyknight, but I'm not on it right now cause I'm at school at the moment.
I'm trilbymccain! Email me if you see me! I think Mikel's on the East Coast as well. I'm in Central time so an hour behind you two. ;)
Oh..ok. Thanks again and I'm sorry for the flood of quesetions >.< Also, if I'm away from my AIM [which I am sometimes] just leave a message and I'll get off the away message or just e-mail me. I check my Inbox about a hundred times a day...lol.
Oops! Forgot to post my e-mail addy ^^;
krntomboy@hotmail.com
I live in the Central Time Zone (right outside of Memphis). I am on-line in the evening from about 7pm to 11pm (Eastern).
Of course, now that you let us know your AIM nick, we can be all over you like a litter of puppies. Watch out, some of us drool
LOL..you guys can't be as bad as my old puppy!
HEY GANG! Did that sound like a challenge to you?
And I'll hand out mine.... I'm ThellaofTriad on AIM, but lately my rare appearances on chat seem to be in the hours when no one else is online except those who forget to log off their computers or have broadband (aka 5-7 am CST).
A slight warning - hotmail likes to eat the mailing list's emails at times, or just reject them, so if you seem like you aren't getting mail (there are usually 2-3 per day minimum), then Hotmail may be going haywire.
Feel free to sign up for a username for the message forum and start hatching your egg (*laughs* you'll just have to watch your user avatar for that one to make sense).
Oh, and for the question no one answered earlier: There are Thirteen months in a Pernese Turn, plus two extra days for Turnover - 366 days. Leap Years occur every 6 Turns, to give us 367 days.
Welcome to Triad!
The Lady Ang is an elf. Not nearly as trust worthy as a Dwarf.
But, of course, everyone knows that
Okay, I've registered...but there's a slight problem. I can't seem to be able to log-in to my account. Why is that? I've sent for my password and even then I can't seem to get into my account. I don't get it >.<
I have a username now...I am no longer Anonymous! But please if you could, call me Patty [nickname] or Young [middle name]. I was never fond of my first name >.<
Oh, is there a way for my to change my password? Cause the one I have right now is only a collection of letters.
Ooh! I have weird little baby smilie face as an avatar...where'd that come from? [shrug] its cute!
Fear not, Patty. You will grow out of the diaper soon enough
While logged in, go to your Control Panel/Options (up in the top right corner of the screen).
Then go to Edit Profile.
Fill in whatever password you'd like in the first field (the one for password), then click the Save Changes button, and that should change your password.
If that doesn't work, send a PM or an email to either myself or Lexy and we'll reset it to whatever you specify.
Mikel you were wrong!!! Hehe...aight, enough of the giggling.
Anyways, thank you Angelina for the tip ^^
Oh, now I have another question...sorry I'm just bubbling with questions [I'm worst in school amazingly!] well, how do I sign-up for a mentorship?
Cause I'm not a member of Triad Weyrs or Dreams End...cause I don't know how to PBEM. Or do I have to be a member in order to take the mentorship?
Hmm...strangely this question sounds offly familiar...lol.
When you submit a persona, you're assigned a mentor as part of the persona approval.
However, you can request one even as a lurker. They can answer all questions via email privately.
And there's always the message forums. No question is too mundane here (aka How do Pernese wash their socks?) or too strange (aka anything Mikel asks :rofl: ). You may end up with a quick answer, or a rowdy debate until we find an answer b/c no one ever thought to wonder about it before.
And the end result will go into our Revised Website's FAQs whenever I get off my lazy backside to complete the revisions.
Don't worry about not knowing how to PBeM. You'll learn as you go, and in a way, chatting on the message forum is similar. The difference for PBeM coposting (story-writing) is that you write for your persona and their speech, thoughts, actions, etc. You jot off a paragraph (or two, or three, or five...), then the co-writer takes their turn to write for their persona, and back and forth until all writers agree that the story's finished.
Then the final shiney story goes to the mailing list for all to enjoy.
Oh aight. Hmm...debating with myself if I should just join or if I should remain a lurker awhile longer [shakes head] hard decision.
Do you think a mentor would be willing to teach me how PBEM? I know how to roleplay on forums and other types [I dislike MUDs!!] is that anyway similar to PBEM?
PBEMing is easy! It really is! It's basically like writing short stories with one other person (or two, or three, or more...) as a cowriter! Or even just by yourself! They're called 'coposts' here. It's really fun! All you have to do is ask me for a copost and I can almost guarantee you I'll say yes!!! I'm addicted to them, you know. :)
LOL! I see...if they're that easy, maybe I will make a persona and see how it goes ^^ Afterall, experience is part of the learning process!
OK, back off folks, she's mine. I saw her first! I think she will fit in wonderfully in one of my locations.
Lexy! Look what I found! Can I keep her?
Do I have to get the NPC's of my persona approved first? Or can I just go ahead and make-em up?
No, NPCs don't require approval, although they have to stick to canon like the PC does. Names are the biggest issue - don't use anything Terran (Earth-like), such as Bill, Edward, Michelangelo, Juan, etc. Non-English, Spanish, or French based names are usually passable. We had a member once who named all of her personas and NPCs with obscure Russian names, and another who liked Maori ones.
NPCs aren't fiercely regulated, simply b/c you could never write for all of your persona's family without probably getting bored.