Thanks a lot for your warm welcome, alexios 
I was. I still have sequels from it, but, as ever, I'm trying to be faithful to the game, difficult though it may be.
I did not intend to be gone so long. I was away at Gen con and that left me so tired out that it took me a couple days to catch up on sleep.
I was hoping to be online from Gen Con but alas days went to long to get on at night.
I am back.
Welcome back. Long absences from my fellow gamers always worry me... After all this is the only contact I have with you.
Mark should have been able to tell you. He is in my face to face game and the fact that we weren't playing last weekend because people were at Gen Con (2) and 1 (packing for move)
And the week before that I was at Grand Tribunal 
But anyway, as I said in another post, it is the traditional end of summer slowdown. Vacations, conventions, secret cult meetings, and etceteras.
I had a big slowdown over in Andorra, but we're still going 
. Rather than try recruiting (which I normally do when the game gets slow), I decided to participate in the launch of a new PbP saga called "Falling Leaves". I am also having fun in Novus Mane giving the a player some roleplaying activity. Novus Mane has not yet been able to retain a new recruit more than a month, but this fellow has made it that far and is still going strong.
Ardath 8XP from "a time of wolves":
1 XP in Vim (score increases to 7)
2 XP in Low German
2 XP in Parma Magica
3 XP in Second Sight
I didn’t even know you knew each other. Then again what do I know about anyone in a online game. Not a thing but a few hints are sometimes dropped. Anyway hope that some more of my missing gamers are returned.
Greetings, Ladyphoenix! With every additional active player the game gets more interesting I think, and so I am happy that you are back, too. Let's get on with the show.
I found GenCon a bit too distracting to keep my email and on line games up to date when I went on 2007, didn't help that I was still trying to sort out getting a temporary passport after losing mine. A good tip is not to lose your passport when in a foreign country it is very irritating and stops you getting domestic flights or booking into hotels in the US
Fake the accent and just pretend you were born here. The US is pretty lax on the paperwork for its citizens. You still need ID for the plane though. Didn't used to, pre 9/11 I flew without ID a couple of times. And there is no uniformity in documents. Every state has a different Driver's License / ID system, every county has a different Birth Certificate form, and some people have no birth records at all (using a midwife instead of a hospital, born on a farm or in an alley, etceteras). You can get a fake SSN number for a hundred bucks so you can work (one guy I once knew had two, worked two shifts at the same place under two different identities. Boss didn't mind, as two separate paychecks ment no overtime pay). And, being English, most people simply wouldn't bother you. Don't get arrested for anything else while doing this though . It opens the can of worms.
Would not work , most Americans seeem to think I have a fairly strong accent . They are wrong , It is them with the strange accent after all I am English . And the only Photo ID I have is a passport so no alternatives. Fortunatly British consualte excellent at issuing new passports
The British are pretty good to their people 
And actually, you probably do have a strong accent! You had mentioned to me you are from Leeds? If you had a softer "London" accent, you could pull it off.
I met Mark Lawford at Grand Tribunal, he is from southern England. I tried to guess his accent. To strong for London, to mild for Northern, so I guessed Midlands. He scoffed at me 
Also, he is an intellectual with gentle manners, but he is built like a tank! He looks like Mister Clean.
And we all have accents . No one speaks the same English that they did at the time of colonization. AND in the 18th & 19th centuries, the literacy rate was actually much higher here than it was back in England. It is around then that you guys started spelling color with a U and we dropped the U from armour (or maybe it was the other way around). The Z/S switch (as in Specialized/Specialised), I am not sure where that came from, nor do I know what the original was. BUT, philologists (those shifty philolocical deviants) claim that the early English speaking accent was more similar to the speech of the aristocrats of the antebellum South.
Having said that, the further away you move from the East coast, the more mutated the accent becomes. GenCon is in the Midwest, which is considered a "neutral" dialect in the US. It is the accent most easilly understood by the majority of the population. I think I could coach you to fake an accent. If you are in New England, claim you are from Chicago, and in Wisconsin say you are Californian. Ad say you were a military brat and your parents raised you on a military base in Scotland. People are gullible
And this has nothing to do with Ars Magica! I just wasted five minutes of my life, and a minute of yours
I don't have a Leeds accent as I leaned English elsewhere, I have somewhat of an English Middle class Accent not particularly regional . I tend to think I moved to Leeds recently but that was actually 16 years ago time flies.
Marko, there is no reason to apologize. You remember Mad Max's first entry in this thread?
Looks like you were just doing what you were told.
Ardath bring your character sheet to the New character sheet post. I case I need to find it easy.
Copy-pasted from the old topic
I’ll be travelling this weekend so I will not very likely write anything until Monday.
Guys! My phantom internet connection at home died, and I no longer have an office job. I need to break down and spend money on a real service. Give me a week or two to get that going. In the meantime, I will use the cyber-cafe or the library every few days to check in and stuff.
Best of luck finding a new Internet connection.
Ouch! That's not cool. Good luck to you.
OTOH, helping youth to do their homework again diminish my own time, + my mother just had an infarctus this week => less present.