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Jul. 14th, 2005 12:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
triple_flameMy brain is gradually recovering from Maelstrom and has at least stopped thinking about sleep in terms of time in. I've been remembering how draining the intense emotional thing can be all over again, ok Jenet is slightly calmer than Kelly and has far more allies but angst gets as tiring as pyscho-bitch apparently.
It was one of those events where I didn't seem to stop, just one endless round of meetings and running around all over the place, with big fights kicking off to keep me in the camp everytime I sat down for five minutes. I shouldn't complain really, it stops me getting bored and I do enjoy being busy, I'd just like five minutes where I'm not having to be concsious of the large targets painted on me by virtue of certain abilities! I swear I spent most of Saturday night after the ritual with an itch right between my shoulder blades, just waiting for someone who had seen what was going on to put two and two together and come up with a fatal answer. It means I'm involved with the game I suppose, I just really don't want to lose a prefectly good character to a bunch of people being arseholes! And it's not just us that have a problem with the NF, there have been quite a few complaints to GOD from what I've heard, people are just fed up with it. The best proof that GOD agrees with us is in the random deathbed/battlefield converstion of one of the NPCs; said person has just been delivered a mortal blow and there's no hope of healing him, in front of the army of the NF he declares that, despite being a Smithite, he would rather let his soul dissolve than go to the same place as them - cue renunciation of faith and a rather worried Eidolon begging him to at least choose a different god (Eidolon in question has been having slight sanity problems all event due to watching his friends dissolve because he couldn't be everywhere at once). The best of it is, the former Smithite chooses the Huntress...there's poetic irony/justice in there somewhere!
I'm thinking that if things carry on in the same vein next event I'm going to be even busier since I'm now our only necromancer (as far as I know) and I have at least two people begging me to undead them so they can continue service to the Huntress. There are all sorts of philosophical discussions with our friendly Eidolon about when it should be done (before or after death) but I'm leaving the decision up to them, I'm just there for the ritual (which I really ought to write out properly at some point, Jenet needs a spell book *grins*). I'm torn on the idea of having random undead minions, part of me finds the whole prospect amusing, Jenet is kind of creeped out about the whole thing and can just see the target on her back growing every time she does something. It will all work out in the end...especially if this blight thingie really does need some big necromantic ritual to cure it, then there's likely to be a lull in the NF idiocy at least, if they kill all the necro's then the new world is screwed and them along with it as I don't think the natives would take too kindly to them destroying the only cure. Hmm, now there's a thought, convince the natives that it IS the only cure and that the NF are intent on killing them all....*evil grin* See it's the idea of minions, it makes me start getting plotty tendancies!
At least the weather is a little cooler today, we might even see some of those showers and thunderstorms that they keep promising. The temperature was about right for me around midnight last night, I could walk around in not very much and be comfortable but it wasn't overly warm. That's the kind of weather we need during the day dammit, that way I might actually be able to function more often.
Oh yes, the other thing that might have added to the icky "about to be smoted" feeling, was the abortive mugging attempt. I'm wondering through the little copse of trees around the ritual site, someone walks up to me and asks if I'll hold his beer can, I go to take it thinking that the poor guy probably wants to umm, relieve himself. Then I see a little orange glow (lit cigarette) coming out of the bushes behind me...*engage paranoia circuits*. I drop my hand away from the beer can and hear the voice behind me say something like "That's very kind of you m'lady". I start to speed up, hoping to get clear of the trees, next thing I know one of them has a knife at my throat and there is a comment of "Now give us all your money." I of course have no intention of standing there and being menaced, much less of turning over the couple of Florins in my pouch. Noticing that one of them is now stood to the side of me and the other is in front leaving absolutely nothing blocking my escape route, I turn, break into full sprint and scream for help! Now I don't know if the slightly put out half sentance that followed me was IC or not but I caught "Hang on, that was a..." - In an OOC context they might have been about to make a damage call but since they hadn't made it when the knife struck, no way was I taking it! IC it could have been anything of course, I'm only sorry that it was too dark for me to notice anything otherwise I'd have had them hauled up before Lady Sophia, you do not mug a priestess of the Huntress and get away with it!
Hmmm, I'm sure there was a reason I was posting here other than Maelfroth...Oh, I remember. I have a sparkly new CD ROM that's designed to help with writing novels. It lets you keep all your character notes together, all the location/event notes together and will make little relationship charts and timelines and all sorts! It even has a random character generator, a title generator AND an idea generator all built in - how cool?! Needless to say it should make November a whole lot easier! The other useful bit is, wonder of wonders, you know those gradings that Word comes up with for reading ease and the like? It does that and it actually explains them!! You can see why I'm impressed!
I can imagine it being an absolute god-send for writing RP plots as well, the whole purpose is to make it easier to keep relationships between characters and random happennings straight. Not bad for a £3.99 CD from Netto is it? Now if only I could get my muse working and sit down to make more use of it than just copying GiC and Sleeping Dragons into it!
*pixie dust*
It was one of those events where I didn't seem to stop, just one endless round of meetings and running around all over the place, with big fights kicking off to keep me in the camp everytime I sat down for five minutes. I shouldn't complain really, it stops me getting bored and I do enjoy being busy, I'd just like five minutes where I'm not having to be concsious of the large targets painted on me by virtue of certain abilities! I swear I spent most of Saturday night after the ritual with an itch right between my shoulder blades, just waiting for someone who had seen what was going on to put two and two together and come up with a fatal answer. It means I'm involved with the game I suppose, I just really don't want to lose a prefectly good character to a bunch of people being arseholes! And it's not just us that have a problem with the NF, there have been quite a few complaints to GOD from what I've heard, people are just fed up with it. The best proof that GOD agrees with us is in the random deathbed/battlefield converstion of one of the NPCs; said person has just been delivered a mortal blow and there's no hope of healing him, in front of the army of the NF he declares that, despite being a Smithite, he would rather let his soul dissolve than go to the same place as them - cue renunciation of faith and a rather worried Eidolon begging him to at least choose a different god (Eidolon in question has been having slight sanity problems all event due to watching his friends dissolve because he couldn't be everywhere at once). The best of it is, the former Smithite chooses the Huntress...there's poetic irony/justice in there somewhere!
I'm thinking that if things carry on in the same vein next event I'm going to be even busier since I'm now our only necromancer (as far as I know) and I have at least two people begging me to undead them so they can continue service to the Huntress. There are all sorts of philosophical discussions with our friendly Eidolon about when it should be done (before or after death) but I'm leaving the decision up to them, I'm just there for the ritual (which I really ought to write out properly at some point, Jenet needs a spell book *grins*). I'm torn on the idea of having random undead minions, part of me finds the whole prospect amusing, Jenet is kind of creeped out about the whole thing and can just see the target on her back growing every time she does something. It will all work out in the end...especially if this blight thingie really does need some big necromantic ritual to cure it, then there's likely to be a lull in the NF idiocy at least, if they kill all the necro's then the new world is screwed and them along with it as I don't think the natives would take too kindly to them destroying the only cure. Hmm, now there's a thought, convince the natives that it IS the only cure and that the NF are intent on killing them all....*evil grin* See it's the idea of minions, it makes me start getting plotty tendancies!
At least the weather is a little cooler today, we might even see some of those showers and thunderstorms that they keep promising. The temperature was about right for me around midnight last night, I could walk around in not very much and be comfortable but it wasn't overly warm. That's the kind of weather we need during the day dammit, that way I might actually be able to function more often.
Oh yes, the other thing that might have added to the icky "about to be smoted" feeling, was the abortive mugging attempt. I'm wondering through the little copse of trees around the ritual site, someone walks up to me and asks if I'll hold his beer can, I go to take it thinking that the poor guy probably wants to umm, relieve himself. Then I see a little orange glow (lit cigarette) coming out of the bushes behind me...*engage paranoia circuits*. I drop my hand away from the beer can and hear the voice behind me say something like "That's very kind of you m'lady". I start to speed up, hoping to get clear of the trees, next thing I know one of them has a knife at my throat and there is a comment of "Now give us all your money." I of course have no intention of standing there and being menaced, much less of turning over the couple of Florins in my pouch. Noticing that one of them is now stood to the side of me and the other is in front leaving absolutely nothing blocking my escape route, I turn, break into full sprint and scream for help! Now I don't know if the slightly put out half sentance that followed me was IC or not but I caught "Hang on, that was a..." - In an OOC context they might have been about to make a damage call but since they hadn't made it when the knife struck, no way was I taking it! IC it could have been anything of course, I'm only sorry that it was too dark for me to notice anything otherwise I'd have had them hauled up before Lady Sophia, you do not mug a priestess of the Huntress and get away with it!
Hmmm, I'm sure there was a reason I was posting here other than Maelfroth...Oh, I remember. I have a sparkly new CD ROM that's designed to help with writing novels. It lets you keep all your character notes together, all the location/event notes together and will make little relationship charts and timelines and all sorts! It even has a random character generator, a title generator AND an idea generator all built in - how cool?! Needless to say it should make November a whole lot easier! The other useful bit is, wonder of wonders, you know those gradings that Word comes up with for reading ease and the like? It does that and it actually explains them!! You can see why I'm impressed!
I can imagine it being an absolute god-send for writing RP plots as well, the whole purpose is to make it easier to keep relationships between characters and random happennings straight. Not bad for a £3.99 CD from Netto is it? Now if only I could get my muse working and sit down to make more use of it than just copying GiC and Sleeping Dragons into it!
*pixie dust*
