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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 446132" data-attributes="member: 2020">Qstor, Numion, Zelda, Decamber, thanks for the welcome back!  Zelda, are you in the Rukugan IR?  How are you doing?  How are things in Finland?  I am in the RPGA.    However, I am atypical in my roleplaying style to the others in that organization, a point they made to me long ago.  I am 5th level as a player, in Campaign.  1st level, in Classic.  0 level, as a DM, though ... they didn't exactly welcome me as one of their DMs back then in the 2nd edition era, and presently I know too little of 3rd edition to DM a 3rd edition game.  I am from Plymouth.  A once small town, until the great front of development came and swallowed it, along with all the township, and along with Northville, Novi, Canton, and Van Buren Township.  The wealthy came, and they changed everything.  The dime-stores are gone, and high priced coffee shops are in.  The ice cream stores are out, and the expensive boutiques are in.  The woodlands are gone, and endless suburbs are in.  The township park, once deep in the country, is now surrounded by homes.  Yet I still live here, and I am not rich or wealthy, and I still remember the old days, and when in Hines Park or at the Cultural Center I can see them still in physical form, and of course the railways (there are two sets running through Plymouth) are echoes of the city's great age and rich history (of course, nobody ever gets a good night's sleep in Plymouth.  Especially in the summer.  Just ask them about the train air-horns, and the earthquakes every passing train causes.)  Airwolf, I wish to thank you for telling me about the cause of the black stuff.  A question, though:  Isn't this bad for the lungs?  I mean, don't the people of Arizona breathe this stuff in?  If it settles on cars, can't it settle in the lungs?  Numion, concerning alcoholism - please remember that, in the case of the Certain Someone I am talking about, the alcoholism was caused by something else.  There was, and are, a number of underlying problems which drove said person to the bottle.  The alcohol, of course, has not helped with any of these problems, and has aggravated some of them badly, and the alcoholism has caused new problems, both physical and mental, and the alcoholism has caused violence and trouble that has harmed the family greatly (I will not go into that further ... except to say breaking up the family might be a more appropriate statement.)  There is no hope of treating the underlying conditions, because the alcoholism is interfering.  And there is no hope of treating the alcoholism, because the person in question denies being alcoholic (for starters.)  And there is no hope of reuniting my ruined family, which has been torn apart by negative feelings.  That's about the shape of it.  Alcohol may not be very addictive.  But that is not relevant.  When one has an alcoholic to deal with, and this alcoholic is violent, and he has serious underlying problems, and new problems from the alcoholism, and your family is in ruins because of his alcoholism, and you cannot do a THING about ANY of the problems he has, or you have because of him, or about anything concerning the matter ... then there is a problem.  So yes, alcoholism is a bad thing.  Take it from one who knows from grim experience on the subject.  Edena_of_Neith</blockquote>

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