The most common, though, is that I'm associated with the military. The lion's share of mainland Americans on Guam are military, military family, or military contracted.
That means people who look like me are generally new to the island, not staying long, and not especially interested in the island except insofar as it can entertain them while they're stuck here.
When I meet people, I try to give them as many context clues as possible so they can more easily fit me into their social schema--because I don't fit into any of the standard niches.
I'm kind of like stumbling across a human family living in the middle of an all-elf town where the only humans are travelling merchants.
Guam's my home. I love it and I know it well. I'm invested in its struggles and I rejoice in its victories. But while I'm local, I'm not native and it would be extremely inappropriate of me to act like it.
I know of a couple sites but I am looking for more serious RPers. People who care more about the story rather then drama which is generally what I run into.
@BESW Text RPs would not be in scope really. Text RPs have no set system they follow thus the format of this site wouldn't fit any question for them. A combination of RPG and the literature site would be perfect for them though.
@BESW Hmm. Maybe some very specific questions. Do you think my question would fit? Wouldn't it turn into a list question even with my specific criteria?
Are there any online sites in which you can look for people that are looking to play in an online play-by-chat RPG Campaign?
I'm thinking of running a Pathfinder campaign for Skype (text only) and I don't have a group of players.
I thought one thing you'd find helpful with that question above is that by looking at the answers you can get a sense of what's where on the Internet and maybe start tracking down where to focus your searches.
Our rainy season lasts almost half the year (the other half is dry season), and it's usually erratic showers and downpours with bright sunshine between.
After a rain, steam rises from the road like ghosts.
However, the rainy season is also typhoon season; we haven't had a direct hit for about ten years, but just last weekend we had a big one pass pretty close.
Having a typhoon pass nearby means aggressive patterns of wind and rain alternating with sudden calm, as the feeder bands of the storm go over us.
That's exactly how it is here in Colorado. It pours for, say, 15-30 minutes, depending, and then the sun comes out. We also get marble-sized hail here and there, sometimes bigger hail, and sometimes tornadoes. Yeah, I heard about that Typhoon :/
@Slytherincess - Decidedly summerish. 20+ degrees and sunny for the past week or so. We didn't really have a winter this year either, only two days when the temp even went sub-zero...
And yes, it does indeed rain a lot over here in blighty
@Richard Let's see, you're on Celsius, so I think I double that and add 30 ... so around 70 F? Today was 97 F here, but we have air conditioning, thank God. I have a pair of British Wellies, but it doesn't rain enough here for me to use them -- I keep them because they're awesome :D We don't have mud issues, though.
@BESW Well, at least I was close! My Canadian husband, who knows Celsius, taught me that little trick. It gets you into the general vicinity of the temp in question.
<--- Is not personally responsible for Farenheit :))
Metric is easy and fun to math, and it's great for science, but it has some trouble with being practical for everyday use because its units didn't grow organically from need.
Being divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6 makes time and length a lot easier to manipulate in marketplace-y ways, while Farenheit--for all its warts--gives more granularity to the span of temperatures humans normally encounter.
When my husband moved down to the states from Canada, sometimes I would drive his car to work, and the speedometer was in kilometers and I had to take the stance that I would just go with the flow of traffic and hope I wasn't speeding, because I had no idea what the speedometer reading meant.
Truthfully, though, I really do have a problem seeing at, say, arm's length. It's all blurry at that distance. But if I wear my reading glasses, everything in the far distance is blurry. I suppose I need bifocals, ugh.
Are there any online sites in which you can look for people that are looking to play in an online play-by-chat RPG Campaign?
I'm thinking of running a Pathfinder campaign for Skype (text only) and I don't have a group of players.
