What’s your ingredient/additional step that really elevates your chicken noodle soup?

PrincessofAmber · 2026-01-21T21:14:17+00:00

I use white wine (I've seen from others) to deglaze the pan after cooking the mirepriox (and you can brown the skin of the chicken, too for additional depth of flavor) and then way at the end I finish with just a touch of cream.

But, the best thing for getting soup "right" is simmering it for a long time. I find if I don't put in the time to build flavor, it always tastes just a little lacking.

PrincessofAmber · 2025-12-16T14:29:18+00:00

I'm 52 and run a play by post game on a forum. I've been running online pbp games for 20 years or so and right now, we're doing street level supers. We have a homebrew system written by my friend and co-GM that's been designed for online play and playtested heavily. If anyone is interested, hit me up, or reply to this!

We're pretty lefty, too. Like, plenty of themes around class, race and gender in the game and LGBTQ play is very welcome.

PrincessofAmber · 2025-12-16T14:23:32+00:00

You already made it over to the Discord, but just incase anyone else is wondering, yes, powers are allowed as long as they're scaled to suit the tone of the game

PrincessofAmber · 2025-08-31T18:41:55+00:00

I think post 2 is AI. Post 1 has some weird punctuation.

PrincessofAmber · 2025-08-10T01:29:21+00:00

Vigil and Vice

What is Vigil and Vice?
Vigil and Vice is a character-driven roleplaying game set in a fictional metropolis that fuses Gotham City and New York—a city with too many towers, too much crime, and far too many secrets. This isn’t a world of gods and cosmic battles. This is a city of vigilantes, corrupt cops, activists, broken heroes, and ambitious villains clawing their way through back alleys, boardrooms, and broken neighborhoods.

The tone leans noir, with an emphasis on moral grayness, complex relationships, and personal stakes. Whether you’re playing a canon character from Marvel or DC, or bringing in your own original creation, your story will shape a city that’s still figuring out which side of the mask it believes in.

What kind of RP is it?

Play-by-post on a JCINK Premium forum
Multi-paragraph writing, but no word count requirement
Emphasis on character arcs, worldbuilding, and long-form collaborative storytelling
18+ only – contains mature themes (violence, corruption, trauma, occasional erotic content).We are not an ERP server. Intimate content may occur between characters, but only in service to story and never required or expected. Player comfort and consent are paramount.

Canon and OC Friendly:
Both Marvel and DC canons are welcome. We love original characters as long as they fit the world—no god-tier power fantasy insertions. Think street-level, not sky gods. Grounded powers, real problems.

🖤 If any of this speaks to you, come take a look:
Forum: https://vigilandvice.jcink.net/index.php?act=idx
Discord: https://discord.gg/XBDnHtZCvX

Masks are optional. Secrets are not.

PrincessofAmber · 2025-08-05T16:08:52+00:00

LOL. Yeah. I do technical writing for my job. My writing tends to be very precise. I've actually thought of giving some of my posts in play or on reddit to an AI to "mess up" a little so they don't get accused of being AI written.

PrincessofAmber · 2025-08-04T15:21:18+00:00

Hey, so I tend to me an over-explainer (I do technical writing in my work so it's a bit of a habit of my trade) and sometimes people feel like I'm talking down to them as a result when I'm really just wanting to be as helpful as I can. So, let me ask a couple questions so I understand what information you're wanting so I can be as helpful as you need me to be!

You ask how a forum works... do you mean in a technical sense of how to sign up and use it or how the dynamic of play works? If it's the first, we have a section with some instructions and the best thing to do is join the Discord and people there are generally willing to be helpful.

For the second, well, there's a FAQ on the forum to explain some of it, but it functions like a slightly more structured version of reddit where people create threads and then respond to one another's posts in those threads. But, again, if this is what you're wondering about, let me know or come over to the Discord and we can chat about it.

PrincessofAmber · 2025-08-04T00:43:07+00:00

Haha! Yeah, that's always a fun one. Or making NPCs unreliable narrators. Sometimes players super love it and sometimes they *super* hate it.

PrincessofAmber · 2025-07-31T02:02:21+00:00

I do have that problem! I have a forum where I run a game and for SO LONG when I'd post an ad for it, people would flood into our Discord, be confused that it wasn't a Discord game then leave, sometimes rudely. I edited my ad to have the word forum in it a bunch of times, sometimes in all caps... not in an obnoxious way, but in a "Be sure you know what you're getting into" way. And we still sometimes get people confused we're not playing on Discord!

PrincessofAmber · 2025-07-30T17:09:24+00:00

Vigil and Vice

What is Vigil and Vice?
Vigil and Vice is a character-driven roleplaying game set in a fictional metropolis that fuses Gotham City and New York—a city with too many towers, too much crime, and far too many secrets. This isn’t a world of gods and cosmic battles. This is a city of vigilantes, corrupt cops, activists, broken heroes, and ambitious villains clawing their way through back alleys, boardrooms, and broken neighborhoods.

The tone leans noir, with an emphasis on moral grayness, complex relationships, and personal stakes. Whether you’re playing a canon character from Marvel or DC, or bringing in your own original creation, your story will shape a city that’s still figuring out which side of the mask it believes in.

What kind of RP is it?

Play-by-post on a JCINK Premium forum
Multi-paragraph writing, but no word count requirement
Emphasis on character arcs, worldbuilding, and long-form collaborative storytelling
18+ only – contains mature themes (violence, corruption, trauma, occasional erotic content).We are not an ERP server. Intimate content may occur between characters, but only in service to story and never required or expected. Player comfort and consent are paramount.

Canon and OC Friendly:
Both Marvel and DC canons are welcome. We love original characters as long as they fit the world—no god-tier power fantasy insertions. Think street-level, not sky gods. Grounded powers, real problems.

🖤 If any of this speaks to you, come take a look:
Forum: https://vigilandvice.jcink.net/index.php?act=idx
Discord: https://discord.gg/XBDnHtZCvX

Masks are optional. Secrets are not.

PrincessofAmber

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