I don't understand what you're saying or asking. As far as I know, Donald always refers to himself as Donald.

The examples I listed above represent 13 times that Brian referred to himself as "Brain." Once or twice is not a big deal. But after 13, I thought the request to go ahead and officially change his name to Brain was reasonable.

I assumed he was Brian “The Brain” O’Maley. Is Brain a typo or does he actually go by “Brain” in the group? I too am confused.

I concur, he should just change his name to “Brain” for consistency.

In reply to Randolph Barton (msg # 38):

His name is Brian, asking the GM to change it to Brian moot. Unless you mean Brian, Brian as 1st & last names
This message was last edited by the player at 10:59, Fri 15 Mar.

Ok, now the psychological warfare just went next level. If you're telling me that B-R-I-A-N and B-R-A-I-N are the same word, then I'm seriously done here. For the sake of my sanity.

Donald, do you go by a name other than “Donald” too?

Does no one but Randolph see Brian misspelling his own name in every post?

In reply to Harris Barton (msg # 42):

Yes Davison is his 2nd
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And with that comment... I'm going to sign off.

I'll give this 24 hours before quitting.

In reply to Randolph Barton (msg # 44):

Please don't do that, allow me as I wouldn't want another Player drop because of my comments.

Dude, I don't want you to quit either. I just don't understand WTF is going on.

Donald (or “Davidson”): The only question on the table is whether O’Maley’s 1st name is “Brian” or did he officially change it to “Brain.” (And for the record, in case you cannot tell, those two words are not spelled the same). 🤣
This message was last updated by the player at 11:30, Fri 15 Mar.

Bingo! And if Donald would acknowledge that he understands that one simple fact, then my sanity will be restored.

In reply to Harris Barton (msg # 47):

Oops Davison

In reply to Randolph Barton
Noted
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Deleted.
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I am going to nip this in the bud right now.  This is not the first time the player running Donald has caused problems in this game.  He has a very bad habit of rubbing people the wrong way and a tendency to meta game.  If it happens again he will be banned from all of my games permanently.  I don't mind a bit of lively discussion but this type provocation, no matter how subtle, will not be tolerated here.  If you don't have something constructive to say then don't say anything.

Randolph has the right of the situation.  Hinsen is in the camp, the guard calling out for the sergeant is on the perimeter.  Two separate locations.  Donald said he walked to the perimeter but then spoke to Hinsen who is back in the camp.  You need to pay more attention to details.

As for Brian/Brain thang, I think this is a case of auto-correct, again attention to detail folks and a little bit of common sense.  Not all gamers have good sentence construction or punctuation but I try not to penalize anyone for that if they are adding to the game and not causing trouble.

If anyone has any issues, just stop posting and message me until it can be resolved.

Sorry even when i try i keep messing it up. Its not on purpose and even my friend who is actually called Brian has relented to the fact that i give him the smart name of brain in chats. I guess i just didn't really think that one through when i picked a random Irish name. Hell i do not even see the difference between either way of writing them so if its a serious problem i just got to get a whole other name.

Don't sweat it Brian.

The autocorrect on RPoL is a bit wonky. It often makes weird corrections, and it tends to do it in a way that you don't even notice. For that reason I always use the "preview" button to review everything one last time before hitting "post message." If I didn't take that step, all of my posts would have typos.

Hopefully the brain thing will be easier to spot now that it's all discolored and misshapen from being beaten to death! :)

No its actually not the auto correct. Its the user that keeps typing Brain. Seems i am dyslectic around ia/ai and ia keeps feeling wrong. I even correct it when i accidentially type it right.

I come from a family of dyslexics, so I understand.

Bad Spellers of the World, Untie.

Pace seems good enough so far to me. Only thing that's a little different about this game is that it's a harder to know when it's an appropriate time to post, versus when we're supposed to sit back and let you continue to set the scenes via NPC's.

This is not a complaint. More like a head's up. In case one of us steps on your toes at any point.

See, for example, the post I just made in the game thread, #91. Hard to know if that's a welcome contribution which furthers the story, or if you'd prefer that I keep quiet and wait for more obvious/direct cues to act or speak.

What does DNA stand for?

National Dyslexics Association :)

The only thing wrong with that post is you gave Private Campbell a promotion and I put him in the wrong company.  He is actually from D Company (please refer to the Game Wiki).  Oh and you called him a Corporal AND an officer.  An NCO is never referred to as an officer.

But besides that…

Geez, you're a tough cookie.

If you click on Campbell's character, he is identified as a corporal. That's why I addressed him as such.

I was careful not to address him as sir.

And I only used the term officer one time, for narrative purposes. (He is a non commissioned officer, so it's perfectly appropriate to do so in narration, just as long as the character doesn't use the term.)