[19:00] <+Tsofian> My name is Terry Sofian. I’m the originator of the Hive, Queen and Country Game Universe
[19:01] <+Tsofian> Our games include The Hive and the Flame, a miniatures game
[19:01] <+Tsofian> And Stars of Empire a Table Top RPG
[19:01] <+Tsofian> here is my bio
[19:01] <+Tsofian> Terry Sofian describes himself as a generalist in a world of specialists. After starting out as a naval architecture student at Michigan he (finally) earned degrees in anthropology (BA) and biology (MS) both from the University of Missouri at St Louis. He has worked as a genetic engineer, a radiopharmachemist, in disaster preparedness and homeland security ma
[19:01] <+Tsofian> or part of it!
[19:02] <~Dan> (Cut off at “homeland security ma”)
[19:02] <+Tsofian> I noticed!
[19:02] <+Tsofian> The rest just yaps about being in the National Guard and suchlike
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[19:03] <+Tsofian> and says nice things about my wife and daughter-which is important
[19:03] <+Tsofian> and mentions cats!
[19:03] <~Dan> 🙂
[19:04] <+Tsofian> All game designers need cats
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[19:05] <~Dan> (Howdy, SirGene!)
[19:06] <+SirGene> Hey Dan glad to be here.
[19:06] <~Dan> What can you tell us about your game? 🙂
[19:06] <+SirGene> Some Vampires putting the bite on us tonight?
[19:06] <+Tsofian> I write Hard Science Victorian Science fiction
[19:06] <+Tsofian> No Vampires in HQC at all!
[19:07] <+Tsofian> I used to write secondary material for Space 1889, for Challenge Magazine
[19:07] <+Tsofian> Other fanzines and semi pro mags
[19:07] <+SirGene> sorry I misread
[19:07] <+Tsofian> When GDW went under I still had stories I wanted to tell
[19:08] <+Tsofian> I formed a Yahoo! Group to explore the ideas
[19:08] <+Tsofian> and ended up with enough material to have a distinct and distinctive game universe
[19:08] <+Tsofian> I shopped it around and ended up getting the RPG Stars of Empire published by Black Pigeon Press
[19:09] <+Tsofian> Then they went under
[19:09] <+Tsofian> So I formed an LLC-Aerolyth Enterprises
[19:09] <+Tsofian> we have three books out right now
[19:09] <+Tsofian> The Hive and the Flame
[19:09] <+SirGene> It looks like SciFi based on science as it might have been understood in 1880?
[19:09] <+Tsofian> Flying Machines of the Worlds 1902
[19:10] <+Tsofian> And The World Beneath the Clouds
[19:10] <+Tsofian> We have a currently live Kickstarter to fund three additional books!
[19:10] <+Tsofian> Two core RPG books and a land machines book
[19:11] <+Tsofian> (Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/759107276/stars-of-empire-a-vsf-steampunk-rpg)https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/759107276/stars-of-empire-a-vsf-steampunk-rpg
[19:11] <+Tsofian> What else would you like to know?
[19:12] <~Dan> Would you like to open things up to questions?
[19:13] <+Tsofian> absolutely!
[19:13] <~Dan> What’s the game about?
[19:14] <+Tsofian> Exploration! Inventions! War!
[19:15] <+Tsofian> Since its an RPG it covers a lot of ground, on several worlds
[19:15] <+Tsofian> and can you cover ground in space?
[19:15] <+Tsofian> ’cause we do have space travel
[19:16] <+Tsofian> One of the main events is an invasion of England by alien arthropods
[19:16] <+Tsofian> BUt there is a lot of other things going on
[19:17] <~Dan> What year is it in the game?
[19:17] <+Tsofian> The Victorian was an era when a lot of things happened, so adding a few extra planets, air and space travel and a pair of alien races is just going to stir the pot!
[19:18] <+Tsofian> We set most things around 1892 but run the timeline changes from 1800 to around 1950 so far
[19:19] <+Zond> Victorian sci fi is a broad label. Is the setting inspired by Wells and Verne or is it more of a hard look at an extrapolated Victorian society complete with colonialism and class inequality?
[19:19] <+Tsofian> Referees are welcome to set their campaigns anywhere after 1800 but probably 18570 or so
[19:19] <+Tsofian> We certainly are inspired by period writers
[19:19] <+Tsofian> We are alos inspired by actual persons and events
[19:19] <+Tsofian> Classism, sexism, racism and all the other ills of the period are included
[19:20] <+Tsofian> we do try and concentrate on the possitive aspects of the period without ignoring the negatives
[19:21] <+Tsofian> We also run large miniatures games like this one at Origins (Link: http://hivequeenandcountry.com/2016/06/origins-after-action-report/)http://hivequeenandcountry.com/2016/06/origins-after-action-report/
[19:21] <~Dan> What is the source of the anachronistic technology?
[19:22] <+Tsofian> There are serveral
[19:22] <+Tsofian> The prime “conceit” of the setting is Aerolyth. This is a mineral that allows air and space flight
[19:22] <+Tsofian> There is also multi oxygen discovered by the Russian scientist Mendelev
[19:23] <+Tsofian> Plus Babbage is less of a pill and his machines work
[19:24] <+Tsofian> Also George Cayley is much more active in aviation and hang gliding is widespread by 1850
[19:24] <+Zond> As the setting spans roughly 150 years could you possibly summarise the various eras of play, what perhaps a typical player group might be doing and the themes they would be exploring?
[19:24] <+Tsofian> Goldsworth Gurnsey perfect his steam omnibus and is able to commercialize it
[19:25] <+Tsofian> We really do generally concentrate between 1885-1900
[19:25] <+Tsofian> This period includes two wars with the alien Hive
[19:25] <+Tsofian> colonization of Venus
[19:26] <+Tsofian> Diplomatic efforts with the aliens and their human servants on Mars
[19:26] <+Tsofian> There are several wars on Earth between the various nations
[19:26] <+Tsofian> Characters can do just about anything a period personage could do
[19:27] <+Tsofian> The basic idea was to have a “sandbox” that players and referees, artists and writers and any other creative types could explore and expand upon
[19:27] <+SirGene> Can we see a character record sheet
[19:27] <+Tsofian> We have written adventures set after a spacecraft crash on Venus
[19:28] <+Tsofian> Dealing with strange animals in Africa
[19:28] <+Tsofian> A murder mystery in period San Francisco
[19:28] <+Tsofian> How do I load a character sheet?
[19:29] <+Tsofian> This is something we would like to do better
[19:29] <+SirGene> Provide a link to one on line
[19:29] <~Dan> You’d have to post it somewhere and link us to it.
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[19:30] <+Tsofian> Give me a few
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[19:30] <~Dan> No problem!
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[19:32] <+Tsofian> so while you are waiting let me say the character sheet is something we really want to improve
[19:32] <~Dan> No problem. We just find that looking at a character sheet of some sort helps guide discussion of the system.
[19:34] <+Tsofian> I loath Windows 10 btw
[19:35] <+SirGene> Dan I actually find this one of the most interesting games you have had featured here. It looks well thought out and I like the period and the “Science”, but I am going to have to run and be daddy.
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[19:36] <+Tsofian> OK
[19:36] <+Tsofian> Here is a link that might work! (Link: http://hivequeenandcountry.com/2016/06/character-sheet/)http://hivequeenandcountry.com/2016/06/character-sheet/
[19:37] <+Tsofian> There is a link to the sheet there
[19:37] <~Dan> Let’s see here…
[19:37] <+Tsofian> (Link: http://hivequeenandcountry.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Stars-of-Empire-Character-sheet.docx)http://hivequeenandcountry.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Stars-of-Empire-Character-sheet.docx
[19:38] <~Dan> Hmm. Interesting.
[19:38] <+Tsofian> I really like the Numenera Character sheets (Link: http://www.montecookgames.com/store/product/numenera-character-sheets/)http://www.montecookgames.com/store/product/numenera-character-sheets/
[19:38] <+Tsofian> We are trying to build a sheet that SCREAM VSF!
[19:39] <~Dan> So I see attributes and skills of some description… Can you describe the core mechanic?
[19:39] <+Tsofian> It is very simple. You roll a D20 and add your modifiers
[19:39] <+Tsofian> The other person does the same
[19:40] <+Tsofian> High modified roll wins
[19:40] <+Tsofian> The more you win by the better the results for you and the worse for them
[19:40] <~Dan> Are the modifiers expressed as attribute + skill?
[19:41] <+Tsofian> Skill + a number generated by averaging two linked attributes and dividing them to get Native Abilities
[19:42] <+Tsofian> There are three pairs of attributes Physical is Strength and Agility
[19:42] <+Tsofian> Mental is Intellect and Will
[19:43] <+Tsofian> Social is Personality and Comliness
[19:43] <+Tsofian> These provide the three Native Abilities, Mental, Physical and Social
[19:43] <+Tsofian> Social abilities are much more important in this era and genre than in many others
[19:44] <+Tsofian> A sword swinging barbarian doesn’t need to know how to seat people at a cotillion
[19:44] <~Dan> (brb)
[19:44] <+Tsofian> A Victorian needs to!
[19:45] <~Dan> (back)
[19:45] <~Dan> Do the individual attributes do anything on their own?
[19:46] <+Tsofian> They can
[19:47] <+Tsofian> You might need to make a strength roll to pick up a heavy object
[19:47] <~Dan> Does strength affect melee damage?
[19:47] <+Tsofian> So there can be attribute rolls
[19:47] <+Tsofian> Strength does
[19:48] <+Tsofian> So if you are in melee you roll to hit using your skills and what not and roll your D20
[19:48] <+Tsofian> The opponent tries to block or evade using their skills and what not and a D20
[19:48] <+Tsofian> If you roll under their defense you miss
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[19:49] <+Tsofian> If you roll over their defense you add the number over to your damage roll!
[19:49] <+Tsofian> This is called Overroll
[19:49] <+Tsofian> and the idea is that if you great a to hit roll you should do more damage!
[19:50] <~Dan> Certainly. I tend to favor such mechanics.
[19:50] <+Tsofian> The damage itself for a muscled powered weapon is based on the character’s strength
[19:50] <+Tsofian> mechanical or chemically powered weapons, guns, crossbows, explosives and such is based on the weapon not the character
[19:50] * ~Dan nods
[19:51] <+Tsofian> although there are minimum strengths to use things like heavy rifles or shotguns
[19:51] <+Tsofian> Fortes are things the charcater is particularly good at
[19:52] <+Tsofian> we made add Foibles, which will be disadvantages the character has
[19:52] <~Dan> Can you give examples of Fortes?
[19:52] <+Tsofian> Social standing and such are critical to a character
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[19:53] <~Dan> (Howdy, BPIJonathan!)
[19:53] <+Tsofian> One I like is social invisibility. It is only available to characters of lower social classes but if a roll is successful higher status characters will simply miss the low status person in their midst. Obviously if they are being attacked this won’t hold up
[19:53] <+BPIJonathan> (Howdy Dan, thought I would see how long I can make myself be here)
[19:54] <+Tsofian> But it allows a lower status character to overhear their betters
[19:54] <+Tsofian> Since this is a sexist time there are a number of fortes that only female characters can have
[19:55] <+Tsofian> Some give a female character a chance to make a male character perform acts to save them
[19:57] <~Dan> Is character creation randomized or point-based?
[19:57] <+BPIJonathan> Im sorry about asking something that I am sure has already been asked, but is this a SciFi type game?
[19:57] <+Tsofian> yes
[19:57] <+Tsofian> It is hard science Victorian Science Fiction
[19:57] <+Tsofian> We have no magic
[19:58] <+Tsofian> No undead
[19:58] <+Tsofian> No vampires
[19:58] <+Tsofian> no zombies
[19:58] <+Tsofian> no world spanning conspiracy
[19:59] <+Tsofian> but we have lots of other stuff! 🙂
[19:59] <+BPIJonathan> Like Space 1889?
[19:59] <+Tsofian> I would say we have things in common and some great diferences as well
[19:59] <+Tsofian> As I mentioned earlier I wrote secondary market material for 1889
[19:59] <~Dan> What are the big differences (aside from system)?
[20:00] <+BPIJonathan> I just got here, so I apologize for rehashing material. Been kind of sick most of the day.
[20:00] <+Tsofian> We changed the timeline earlier and allowed the changes to multiply
[20:01] <+Tsofian> In 1889 there were flying battleships by 1880 but these didn’t have much effect on British politics. In Our Time Line (OTL) even the invention of the Wright Flyer caused serious consternation in the Island Kingdom
[20:01] <+Tsofian> When one thing changes other things change downstream
[20:02] <+BPIJonathan> You have already told me enough to make me interested.
[20:02] <+Tsofian> We have looked at a lot of events and how they would change or remain the same
[20:02] <+Tsofian> Heck we let the crazed Samurai kill the Russian heir
[20:03] <+Tsofian> Then we have an alien doctor save the Russian Prince George
[20:03] <+Tsofian> so George becomes Tsar instead of Nicholas III
[20:04] <+Tsofian> Brazil, Portugal and Spain form the Triple Empire
[20:04] <+Tsofian> France fights them instead of Prussia in 1870 and Germany is never unified
[20:05] <+Tsofian> instead Bismark is forced into an economic alliance with the Dutch
[20:05] <+Tsofian> There is a lot more politics in HQC than in Space 1889
[20:05] <+Tsofian> Also we wanted off worlders to be able to hold their own against the Jingoistic Earthers
[20:06] <~Dan> Speaking of off-worlders, what aliens are there?
[20:06] <+Tsofian> So the cultures on Venus (which isn’t a jungle hothouse) can stand up to the Earthers
[20:06] <+Tsofian> At least one species, called the la selpurdi are on Venus terraforming it for their own masters using human slaves harvested 25,000 years ago from Earth
[20:07] <+Tsofian> There is a rumor that the ancient enemies of the la selpurdi, the Oonaliss are also lurking about the solar system
[20:07] <+Tsofian> The la selpurdi and their human servants control Mars
[20:08] <+Tsofian> Venus is inhabited by survivors of humanity that were transplanted there to work about 12,000 years ago
[20:08] <+Vorthon> …Do these masters who want Venus terraformed (Wouldn’t xenoformed be better, since ‘terra’ implies making it earth-like?) have unsual biochemistry, or just bog-standard proteins-in-water biochemistry?
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[20:09] <~Dan> (Howdy, Az2!)
[20:09] <+Tsofian> Life in this Universe has a basis in the theory of Panspermia
[20:09] <+Tsofian> Almost all known life is from a single galaxywide source
[20:10] <+Tsofian> it appears that all the biochemistry has the same basis
[20:10] <+Vorthon> Ah. So the biggest variant would be cases like ‘this world’s ecology uses X instead of Y.’? Like that whole kerfuffle about arsenic-using microbes a few years back.
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[20:10] <+Tsofian> in the very distant past a cloud of living matter must have infused the known galaxy and seeded many planets
[20:10] <~Dan> (Howdy, Mike_Myler!)
[20:10] <+Tsofian> yes
[20:11] <+Tsofian> That was a huge letdown from our friends at NASA
[20:11] <+Tsofian> I expected something really cool
[20:11] <+Tsofian> 😦
[20:11] <+Tsofian> The ocean extremophiles are more exciting!
[20:12] <+Vorthon> I remember being in high-school at the time, and my Physics teacher swearing up and down that they were gonna announce the discovery of microbes on Titan in the lead-up to that.
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[20:12] <~Dan> (Howdy, Lin_Chong!)
[20:13] <+Tsofian> I thought it was that or life on Mars
[20:13] <+Tsofian> It was as bad as Al Capone’s vault
[20:13] <~Dan> What are the la selpurdi like?
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[20:14] <+Tsofian> Spoiler alert!
[20:14] <+Tsofian> 🙂
[20:14] <~Dan> Oh, sorry. 🙂
[20:14] <~Dan> Does nobody know what they look like?
[20:14] <+Tsofian> They are a species created from the ground up by their masters (who are off screen up till now)
[20:14] <+Tsofian> They are six limbed
[20:14] <+Tsofian> aquatic
[20:15] <+Tsofian> can’t survive in high gravity (anything over 60% Earth
[20:15] <+Tsofian> have an exoskeleton
[20:15] <+Tsofian> large compound eyes and numerous simple eyes
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[20:17] <~Dan> Now, are these things the Hive, or are those something else?
[20:17] <+Tsofian> No, the Hive is one of the tools the aliens can use to terraform a world
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[20:19] <~Dan> The aliens meaning the masters of the la selpurdi?
[20:19] <+Tsofian> There is a lot of backstory as to why the aliens have taken 25,000 years to terraform Mars and how the Hive gets to Earth
[20:19] <+Tsofian> yes the masters of the la selpurdi
[20:19] <+Tsofian> and the la selpurdi themselves
[20:20] <+Tsofian> THe la selpurdi are just a higher level tool
[20:20] <~Dan> So what is the Hive like?
[20:22] <+Tsofian> Rachael Mayo did some great artwork
[20:22] <+Tsofian> (Link: http://t11.deviantart.net/Y6tjL9436p26t3Yb0kuFMKyg4FA=/fit-in/700×350/filters:fixed_height(100,100):origin()/pre02/1082/th/pre/f/2011/130/f/4/f4cb31a9199e07983ab2347dbbc471f9-d3g0ud9.jpg)http://t11.deviantart.net/Y6tjL9436p26t3Yb0kuFMKyg4FA=/fit-in/700×350/filters:fixed_height(100,100):origin()/pre02/1082/th/pre/f/2011/130/f/4/f4cb31a9199e07983ab2347dbbc471f9-d3g0ud9.jpg
[20:22] <+Tsofian> (Link: http://orig06.deviantart.net/d01c/f/2011/130/3/b/3bd726c2a098524c367b9b536162a67a-d3g0uky.jpg)http://orig06.deviantart.net/d01c/f/2011/130/3/b/3bd726c2a098524c367b9b536162a67a-d3g0uky.jpg
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[20:22] <~Dan> (wb, Zond)
[20:23] <+Tsofian> (Link: http://img05.deviantart.net/6d19/i/2015/316/3/a/hive_units_move_through_a_village_by_tsofian-d9ggra2.jpg)http://img05.deviantart.net/6d19/i/2015/316/3/a/hive_units_move_through_a_village_by_tsofian-d9ggra2.jpg
[20:24] <+Tsofian> The Hive is a collective organism that is made up of a number of castes of giant arthropods
[20:24] <+Tsofian> (Link: http://tsofian.deviantart.com/art/The-Hive-under-attack-at-Colonial-Barracks-571850170?q=gallery%3ATSofian%2F42893083&qo=44)http://tsofian.deviantart.com/art/The-Hive-under-attack-at-Colonial-Barracks-571850170?q=gallery%3ATSofian%2F42893083&qo=44
[20:24] <+Tsofian> It functions like a termite or ant colony
[20:25] <+Tsofian> It has many different morphologies
[20:25] <+Tsofian> the reproductives are about the biggest, just as in a termite nest
[20:25] <+Tsofian> I think of the miniatures game as THEM! meets ZULU!
[20:26] <~Dan> How intelligent are they?
[20:26] <+Tsofian> The Hive shows up on Earth at least twice
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[20:26] <+Tsofian> Once in Devon in 1893 and once five years later in South America
[20:26] <+Tsofian> They aren’t intelligent
[20:26] <+Tsofian> they are preprogrammed
[20:26] <+Tsofian> they have genetically set responses to stimuli
[20:27] <+Tsofian> Given the same set of conditions they will always respond the same way
[20:27] <+Tsofian> However they have a lot of data inputs so ensuring they “see” a set of conditions as identical to a previous one might be hard to do
[20:28] <+Tsofian> They have a lot of morphologies they can breed, but it is a fixed set
[20:28] <~Dan> How do they travel between planets?
[20:29] <+Tsofian> I explain it like this. If you have a set of silverware you can put out things like salad forks but you can’t put out chop sticks and never will be able to
[20:29] <+Tsofian> The la selpurdi at one time had a lot of ships
[20:29] <+Tsofian> The Hives appear to have been brought to Earth as active acts of sabotage
[20:30] <+Tsofian> It appears that one of the factions of humans serving the la selpurdi smuggled them to Earth on an Earth vessel
[20:31] <~Dan> Speaking of which, what are spacecraft like? And is aether real in this setting?
[20:32] <+Tsofian> I can answer that if someone can explain the difference between the Ether and the Higgs Field
[20:33] <+Tsofian> From what I have read the Higgs field acts pretty much like what the Victorians thought the Ether would
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[20:33] <+Tsofian> We stick with Newtonian mechanics for most space travel
[20:34] <+Tsofian> But we do have a drive that works like the reactionless drive NASA is being confounded with currently.
[20:34] <+Tsofian> Aerolyth also makes really powerful rockets, with a SI a couple of orders of magnitude greater than anything we have now
[20:36] <~Dan> Is there space combat, and if so, with what weapons?
[20:36] <+Tsofian> We have been arguing over that recently
[20:37] <+Tsofian> I say no
[20:37] <+Tsofian> The guy on my list from Sandia Labs says yes
[20:37] <+Tsofian> He is a fan of IR guided missiles
[20:37] <+Tsofian> I’m not convinced
[20:37] <+Tsofian> There are NO space pirates though
[20:37] <+Tsofian> I did win that fight
[20:38] <+Tsofian> but there will be space combat after 1910-1915
[20:38] <+Tsofian> but on a small scale
[20:38] <+Tsofian> after 1920 there will be much more space combat
[20:38] <+Tsofian> and by 1950 we will be in rocketpunk territory
[20:39] <~Dan> What level of technology do the aliens have?
[20:40] <+Tsofian> The la selpurdi have remnants of a technology that allows FTL travel, terraforming, the ability to build an organism from base pairs to a breeding population, so magic tech
[20:40] <+Tsofian> But much was destroyed in the accident that brought hem to Sol system
[20:41] <+Tsofian> they are functioning on back up backup backup backup systems
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[20:42] <~Dan> How advanced is human military technology?
[20:42] <+Tsofian> It has been tough to get a good balance
[20:42] <+Tsofian> Human military technology is between Victorian and early WW2 depending
[20:42] <+Tsofian> but having huge flying machines does make a difference
[20:43] <+Tsofian> A single heavy flying ship can carry a dozen Grand Slam bombs
[20:44] <+Tsofian> heavy aircraft that can carry even an inch of armor change everything
[20:44] <~Dan> What’s standard armament for a soldier?
[20:44] <+Tsofian> Its hard enough to bring down a WW2 heavy bomber with flak
[20:44] <+Tsofian> a bolt action rifle
[20:44] <+Tsofian> although individual automatic weapons are beginning to appear
[20:45] <+Tsofian> and heavy weapons like grenade launchers
[20:45] <+Tsofian> a .303 round isn’t tremendously effective against a thing that is a cross between a crab and a mantis and the size of a rhino
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[20:47] <~Dan> How would you describe the environments on Venus and Mars?
[20:48] <+Tsofian> Venus is cooler thanEarth because the clouds reflect so much of the solar energy back into space
[20:48] <+Tsofian> It has large ocean and the continental lowlands are barren basalt plains, very dry and cool
[20:49] <+Tsofian> The uplands are cloudforests with constant heavy rain, but make up only around 20% of the land area
[20:49] <+Tsofian> The rivers that run down from the cloud forest rain zones to the seas dwarf even the Amazon
[20:50] <+Tsofian> Mars is also a water world. We use the Schifferelli map, not the Lowell one
[20:51] <+Tsofian> It has a dense atmosphere
[20:51] <+Tsofian> rich in greenhouse gases
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[20:51] <+Tsofian> the chlorides give it an unpleasant taint to Earthers
[20:51] <+Tsofian> but it can be survived by men fro Terra
[20:54] <+Tsofian> I do want to plug my Kickstarter here (Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/759107276/stars-of-empire-a-vsf-steampunk-rpg)https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/759107276/stars-of-empire-a-vsf-steampunk-rpg
[20:54] <~Dan> Any notable fauna?
[20:54] <+Tsofian> All kinds of critters!
[20:54] <+Tsofian> Cloudwhales on Venus
[20:54] <+Tsofian> Giant sea creatures on both worlds
[20:54] <+Tsofian> transported terror birds and giant ground sloths on Venus
[20:55] <+Tsofian> carniverous plants
[20:55] <+Tsofian> The clouds of Venus have a rich flora and fauna
[20:55] <+Tsofian> The cloud forests have balloon trees
[20:55] <+Tsofian> lots of fungus
[20:55] <+Tsofian> deadly man eating gibbons
[20:56] <+Tsofian> lots of lizards
[20:56] <+Tsofian> a lot of arthropods
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[20:56] <+Tsofian> some cool Permian creatures
[20:56] <+Tsofian> Some strange stuff from alien labs
[20:57] <+Tsofian> some stranger stuff from the la selpurdi gene banks
[20:57] <+Tsofian> Big game Hunting on Venus is not for the faint of heart
[20:57] <~Dan> Heh. 🙂
[20:57] <+Tsofian> or perhaps hunting big game hunters is far more popular with the local animals
[20:58] * ~Dan chuckles
[20:58] <~Dan> In the time remaining, is there anything we haven’t covered that you’d like to mention?
[21:00] <+Tsofian> we have a very actiuve Yahoo group that is always looking for new voices
[21:00] <+Tsofian> (Link: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Hivequeen/info)https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Hivequeen/info
[21:02] <~Dan> Thanks very much for joining us this evening, Tsofian!
[21:02] <+Tsofian> thanks for having me!
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[21:02] <~Dan> When the time comes, I’d be interested in reviewing your game.
[21:03] <+Tsofian> sure!
[21:03] <~Dan> As a reminder to our readers, my tip jar is here, if any of you have enjoyed this chat: (Link: https://gmshoe.wordpress.com/the-gmshoes-tip-jar/)https://gmshoe.wordpress.com/the-gmshoes-tip-jar/
[21:03] <~Dan> And if you’ll give me just a minute, I’ll get the log posted and get you the link!