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| Subject: | Oops |
| Time: | 12:24 pm. |
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I think I accidentally sent merispork a text message asking her if she was up for the DnD game on Sunday. I tried to cancel it but I may have ended up sending her the same message twice.
I am a little embarrassed but my frantic cell phone manipulations aside it got me thinking about her. So now I have nostalgic warm fuzzies.
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
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| Subject: | D&D |
| Time: | 5:49 pm. |
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ACK!
I can’t do D&D this Saturday, can we reschedule for Sunday?
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| Subject: | I am an Instigator |
| Time: | 12:52 pm. |
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So I was running around the Wizard.com Forums and I read a thread about the house rules people use in their games. This guy forbade any one from critiquing his rules, so first thing I did was critique them and post.
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We actually create ridiculous house rules because of our players. they have the attention span of a hyper caffeinated ADHD toddler on a sugar-rush, so we have to make all sorts of crazy house rules to keep them from completely destroying the game with complaints.
A short list of rules we remember (DO NOT CRITIQUE! Questions on reasons are allowed)
1. You level up when we say you level up. XP is a hassle to keep track of.
2. Sorcerers can cast unlimited spells per day
3. Wizards get ALL spells of their spell level upon reaching said level (Exception: A specialist does not get the spells of his forbidden catagory)
4. Drow are just elves with darkvision and light blindness (we do not want to have an overpower drow character)
5. Gnomes, bards, and paladins are forbidden, the rest of the group hates them
6. If the DM rules against RAW, a player may show him the rule and the DM can decide if the rule is too be used (it is impolite to reject the written rule)
7. Depending on the PrC, we may allow a player to play from first level (This counts as a base class)
8. The killing of NPCs without reason is NOT TOLERATED and will result in your character dying immediately.
9. SEXUAL ACTIVITY IS NOT PERMITTED!!!
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1) I get this; but when you throw out Exp, to loose the ability to give out extra Exp for particularly good role-playing. I personally like it when the leveling up becomes staggered. Having different players level at different times lets them show off their new abilities to the party. When every one levels at the same time it feels less special. (to me)
2 & 3) Having sorcerers getting infinite spell slots and wizards getting all spells does preserve each classes flavor in respect to the other class but it seem incredibly over powering. One of the best things about a wizard is how you can personalize the character by choosing its spells. Giving all wizards every spell seems very powerful, but bland. I also shudder to think what impact this rule has on a wizards spell book.
4) Drow can be a pain in the @$$. If you have players running a Drow I can understand taking a few abilities away to keep things sane. But Drow should never just be elves. The allure of Drow (other than the powers) is their dark and sinister nature.
5) Paladins can be a major pain with the alignment restrictions. The subjective nature of good and evil is often debated when I have a Paladin in the party. I can understand not letting immature or inept players take the class. I love bards! Granted I am not in your group, but the bard has always had a special place in my heart. They are not a kick but class but they are so useful to have around. As for Gnomes, I guess if you have people trying to play them like Kinder than genocide is the only option.
6) I don’t think its impolite, more DMs purgative. Rule debates are how you learn, though both sides need to know when to site down, shut up and get on with the game.
7) I don’t think this is a good idea. I think most Prestige Classes are designed with the assumption they will be taken after level 5. But sense I don’t know every Prestige Class out there I guess there could be some that this rule would work well for. (Black Guard?)
8) Good rule, but if it is enforced you would never need the penalty. And I am sure any one who has ever killed a Non-Player Character thought they had a good reason at the time.
9) Sex does often distract from the game. In my games in never comes up. (hah) but if it did it would be handled quickly and off screen so to speak. Something along the lines of… “P1: I go be slutty in the tavern.” DM: “We will see you in the morning. Cleric what are you doing?”
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| Subject: | It's a PARTY |
| Time: | 4:51 pm. |
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I went to a party over the weekend. A friend of mine (Lake) was moving in with his boyfriend so this was the last bash in the old apartment. Part of the allure of the party was meeting Lakes other friends. I had never seen any one he hangs out with so they were all a mystery.
This one guy I will call Chad seemed like an interesting fellow. He draws and when I told him about the art challenge he expressed interest in joining. He showed me some of his drawings and he was about my level; which is cool for me as I frequently feel dwarfed in talent by my artistic compatriots.
I took him to LJ and showed him every ones pictures. He complemented me but was overly critical of Ruby and Tin. His criticisms were nit picky and not constructive, along the lines of “That isn’t steam punk.” Chads friend, a girl we will call “Beth” loved Rubys it’s raining entry, and was in awe of TinGirls art.
Eventually another guy showed up. I have also forgotten his name so we will call him David. David was cute. Apparently he works as a cosmetologist, or is studying cosmetology.
By the time David arrived Chad was already tipsy with the booze. His friend Beth was the designated driver and Chad seemed to think if he didn’t have to drive home he didn’t need to be able to walk to the car in straight line ether. He was a man on a mission…with Xanax. Xanax he seemed to feel would make good party favors. (No one else seemed to think this was a great idea.) Chad in his increasingly besotted state expressed sexual interest in both David and me at one point groping David’s crotch. I got up so David could move out of Chad’s reach.
At one point in the evening we were playing Jenga and every one had a drink (not Beth), and had my virgin rum and coke. Chad saw my drink was empty got me a refill. A few rounds of Jenga later Chad said it was nice to see me sipping my drink, the drink a complete stranger got for me. At this point I flash back to him passing around the Xanax and stop drinking it. He may not have done anything but now I wonder if I can pass a drug test.
About the time I decided I couldn’t stay at the party if Chad (now full time wobbly drunk) stayed, Lake insisted Beth take him and leave.
Talking about Chad makes the party sound bad but it really wasn’t. Every one else was cool. Before Chad left Lake’s Fraternity Brothers arrived. They were all girls but because they are in a co-ed Fraternity they are called brothers not sisters. One of them just finished her birthday party and was just as drunk as Chad, but she was still pleasant to be around.
There were a few movies played that I would like to be able to watch some time. The first one was “The Party.” An inept actor gets invited by accident to a big Hollywood party. He goes to the party and hilarity ensues. The other was “The Feebles” which is a messed up version of the Muppets.
I wanted to invite Lake to our DnD game, but as the game belongs to every one I thought I should ask for permission first. I called every one in the DnD group to ask if I could invite Lake to the game. Ruby said ok as long as he didn’t do the gender switching thing. Nether of us knew what the gender switching thing was but he promised not to do it. Next I called Atma, he said it was cool with him but I should probably talk to every one else too. Ben didn’t answer his phone. I spoke to Jason in person and he also gave me the OK. So Lake has been invited to the game, and might join us next weekend.
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| Subject: | Little Boxes |
| Time: | 11:55 am. |
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Teresa and I were goofing off at work to day playing with her new phone. We were looking up music and playing samples when I thought of this song. A 30second clip just wasn’t enough so I went to youtube because any song you can think of has a crappie music video on youtube. This one is the one I liked best from the options I found. One person even made a video with FF10 to this song. It’s about 1:30 min long, and it’s about conformity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONEYGU_7EqU&feature=related
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| Subject: | EEEEVIL! |
| Time: | 4:19 pm. |
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Ruby, Atma, start thinking about level 6 bad guy characters for a quickie adventure. You will be working as elite agents of the Bone Assassins, in a town yet to be named. The town is by the coast you will arrive by ship and get your mission from the BA. Any book I have, you can use.
I was thinking about Vales on the way home yesterday and had an idea I want to run, its not enough for a full campaign but I thought yal would enjoy playing amoral villains for a little bit. Vales will not appear as he is not part of this world but he was the inspiration.
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| Subject: | Art Challege |
| Time: | 12:55 pm. |
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This weeks Challenge is “That isn’t a good idea”
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| Subject: | Art Challenges |
| Time: | 3:27 pm. |
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I saw that TinGirl had listed the art challenges. I copied her list then updated it. I feel really good about all the “Done!”s I have up but those “Pending”s need to be addressed. Ruby, feel free to copy this list for your own use. I think if we put it in out memories we can get to it and update it frequently.
Week 1: Introduction
Done!
Week 2: Game
Done!
Week 3: Clog
Done!
Week 4: Character Portrait
Done!
Week 5: LJ Icon
Done!
Week 6: Personal Space
Done!
Week 7: RP Action Pose
Done!
Week 8: Real Person Stranger
Done!
Week 9: Perspective!
Done!
Week 10: Character Design Sheet
Done!
Week 11: It’s Raining
Done!
Week 12: Take My Hand
Pending!
Week 13: Alternate Character Interpretation
1/2 Done!
Week 14: Sequential Art
Done!
Week 15: Full Page
Done!
Week 16: Color
Pending
Week 17: Meme
Pending
Week 18: Landscape.
Pending
Week 19: “That isn’t a good idea.”
Pending
Week 20: Teenaged Self
Pending
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
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| Subject: | PS: If this is Austin I Still Love You |
| Time: | 10:15 am. |
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On the way in to work I heard this song. (lyrics below) The story is an unnamed woman leaves her boyfriend to go find herself. The boyfriend assumes she went to Austin. A year later she call him and on his answering machine he says “PS if this is Austin I still love you.” She is so moved by this she leaves he number but not her name or anything else. When he calls her back she pretends to be an answering machine and tells him that she loved him all along.
Now there are a few things that bug me about the song. If she is calling back after a year why is she calling now? If they said it was one year to the day then I could get why she called it was an anniversary and he was on her mind. Also if it was a birth day or holiday that would make sense. Out of the blue like this I get the feeling she was bummed when she called and was looking for something familiar. Like her current boyfriend dumped her, or she lost her job.
All I have to go on on the guys side is the answering machine message. We only get to hear 2 messages and both end with the PS I love you. To me with my years of owning a psychology 101 book, this seems like obsessive behavior. I worry that he has some creepy shrine or something. Putting the obsessive thing aside, it does seem that he has gotten on with his life. It’s possible that he just happens to have a new girlfriend whose name is Austin.
At the end of the song she get a phone call assumes it is from him and starts mimicking an answering machine. Even if she was expecting his call, she couldn’t know it was him when she picked up the phone so she could have just said all that to her mother. It is possible she has caller ID, but because he has an answering machine not voice mail I am assuming this song is set before such technology was prevalent.
So to me this song is about a depressed woman calling her ex boyfriend who has already moved on with his life and gotten a new girl. (or guy Austin can be a guys name)
Blake says I over think things like this.
PS. If This is Austin
She left without leaving a number
Said she needed to clear her mind
He figured shed gone back to Austin
Cause she talked about it all the time
It was almost a year before shed called him up
3 rings and an answering machine is What she got
If you're calling about the car, I sold it
If this is Tuesday night I'm bowling
If you got something to sell you're wasting your time
I'm not buying
If its anybody else wait for the tone you know what to do and
P.S. if this is Austin I still love you. . .
The telephone fell to the counter she heard
But she couldn't believe what kind of man would
Hang on that long what kind of love that must be
She waited 3 days and then she tried again
She didn't know what shed say but she heard 3 rings and then . . .
If its Friday night I'm at the ball game
And First thing Saturday if it don't rain
I'm headed out to the lake and ill Be gone
All weekend long but ill call you back when i get home on
Sunday afternoon and ps. if this is Austin i still love you
Well this time she left her number but not another word
And then she waited by the phone on sunday evening
And this is what he heard
If you're calling about my heart its still yours
I should have listened to it a little more
And it wouldn't have taken me so long to know where i belong
And by the way boy this is no machine you're are talking to
Can't ya tell this is Austin and I still love you.
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
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| Subject: | Final Fantasy |
| Time: | 6:48 pm. |
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Ruby has FF7. I have been looking for this game all over the place. I haven’t found a PSX version of the game for less than $75. She also has the PC version which I saw for $188. While we were talking about how much I needed to borrow the PC version of the game so I could play it. She brought up how she wanted to see Final Fantasy Last Order. I told her I had seen it and would post a link. So here it is.
http://anime-media.com/final-fantasy-last-order/
This web site also has a slew of other anime for you viewing pleasure.
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| Subject: | Art Challenge: Alternate Character. Part 1 |
| Time: | 1:17 am. |
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This is the first half of the Alternate Character challenge. A little while ago I drew my DnD character. He is currently a mage focusing on Force spells, mainly Magic Missile. This is him done up as a Specialist Necromancer.
I think he looks great. That is a ghost touch scythe, and funeral wrappings.
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| Subject: | Art Challenge: Full Page |
| Time: | 1:16 am. |
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This is my full page. It is a scene from a comic a friend of mine in high school was writing. This character answers an ad in a paper for a roommate “super powers required.” He gets the name Goth-Man early in the comic and he hates it. He has had numerous powers over the years, and I finally decided he has a chaos field that causes random things to happen when it isn’t suppressed, he is a ritualistic spell caster meaning he can cast spells but he needs long drawn out rituals to do so, and he is extremely old and fought in the Crusades.
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| Subject: | Maudlin Thinking |
| Time: | 3:38 pm. |
| Mood: |  depressed. |
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I want to go to college. I think about it all the time. The other night I had a dream I was talking to an admissions person. It’s just a lot of money I don’t have. The last school I talked to about taking online classes and it cost $1,200.00 for a three credit class.
The ideal situation would be to quit my job and go to school in the classroom full time. This is impossible.
If I go back to school it will probably be with a huge loan and one class at a time online while working full time.
Blake is in school. He is about to start on his masters degree. He will be going to school full time and working full time. I am barely working full time and the idea of doing this and going to school at all stresses me out. I hate being supported by my boyfriend, I feel like a leach. I could handle being supported by my parents, I would still feel like a leach but they have a genetic connection, where as with Blake I feel like I am using him for his money.
When I look in to the future I see myself fat, bald, ugly, and homeless laying in a gutter. Blake doesn’t like it when I say that I am going to grow up to be a hobo because he says it makes him think I want to break up with him. That makes me think about how I couldn’t afford to live on my own, and that leads to me being a leach, with leads to feelings of worthlessness which lead to the hobo image.
I think I would like to live on my own. I like the idea of starting with an empty home and slowly filling it with my stuff. As the space gets filled it becomes more and more me. But I don’t want to leave Blake. Every year I want that tinny apartment more and more. I look around my house and it is filled with Blake’s things and Blake’s history. I am in there but it’s like an addendum to Blake’s journey through life instead of my own. In reality it is Blake’s house not mine. Even if I did move out I would barely be able to afford rent, not to mention utilities, car, food, or college.
I am 26 years old. Assuming I live to be 80 years old. I figure I will probably be an old fogity man for the last 20. I imagine my uncle Eddie, a man who stopped living long before he died. He had diabetes and bowel control issues. So I have lived almost half my substantial years already. I figure things really get started after college. That’s when you start working in you chosen vocation, start making some money and because I don’t plan on having kids, start making the disposable income needed to follow my passions, like going to Europe. I would love to travel. But the longer I wait to start college the older I will be when I finish, and the less time I will have to be an adult in my prime.
I realize I could live to be 102 in perfect health or get hit by a truck tomorrow, but I still feel like I am being delayed. And that expiration date is looming out there some where, and I am being dragged to it. I want to accomplish something amazing before I kick. It doesn’t have to be a big amazing like a best selling book or finding a cure for something. It can be just a little amazing like waking up in a hotel room just in time to see a sun rise over Paris on a spur of the moment trip.
I have been in a funk lately. Maybe it will pass. I think I am having a mid life crisis. Of course that makes me think of 40 year olds buying new cars, which makes me wonder where I will be when I am 40. Will I have a new car? Or will I be sleeping in a gutter some where?
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| Subject: | Art Challenge: Meme |
| Time: | 11:48 pm. |
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Ok, we are all behind, so this time I decided to come up with something quick and easy. On a piece of paper, draw six squares and number them one to two. Then do this meme. After that, go catch up on your late challenges. (Timreh I am look at you, that’s right hide in shame!)
1) Draw yourself
2) Draw Me (I will attempt Ruby)
3) Draw something in the room you are in now.
4) Some people who draw online have avatars that only vaguely resemble them selves. Draw one for yourself.
5) What do you like drawing most?
6) Draw something random.
Ruby and I have both talked about how we are uncomfortable with the idea of drawing real people we know. So Ruby if you just can’t bring yourself to draw me, draw your dog. (but I kinda like how you draw me)
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
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| Subject: | Update |
| Time: | 1:56 am. |
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I have finished last week’s art challenge I just need to scan and post it. I will do so tomorrow. So Ruby, what is this week’s challenge?
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
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| Subject: | Bens Bachelor Party |
| Time: | 10:26 pm. |
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I just got back from Bens bachelor party.
The guest list consisted of Ben, Dylan, John, Brian, Ira and myself. After every one arrived we went in to Johns room and played Super Mario Brawl. This is a game I suck at but I was able to hold my own when I played Pikachu. I never ended a brawl at first place but I did end at second a few times; usually sharing the #2 spot with some one else.
After Brawl we went in to the back yard where we had burgers. These burgers were spicy burgers. Any one who knows me knows how I love spicy food. I had plenty of potato salad and chips before the belated corn on the cob was brought out. After the corn was making its way around the table John pulled out a camcorder and got some footage of us having perhaps the stupidest conversation ever. I know he got me on tape explaining how camel spiders jump on to the bellies of camels to lay their eggs; and Dylan insisting that my camel spider knowledge is less than perfect.
After the meal we went back to Johns room and watched the adventures of The Amazing Screw On Head, a classic in the making. Ben compared me to Emperor Zombie. And I see enough of the similarities to get why he made the comparison. It was an enjoyable movie. If any one reading this hasn’t seen it I recommend watching it.
Next came monopoly. It was a Nintendo version. I had my eye on the green properties. They were the Zelda properties. I was going to have them they were destined to be mine! Apparently Ben is a Monopoly bad ass and he plays by the rules. ::SWEET:: free parking didn’t have any money on it and when you landed on a property and didn’t by it, it went up for auction. YES this was going to be a great game. I love playing games with the real rules. I play UNO for points. The guys brought out this drink concoction and wanted to play a drinking game with it. When ever we landed on chance, community chess, or a tax spot we would have to do a shot of the mixture. This mixture was non alcoholic. So one might wonder what the big deal was. Why have a drinking game where no one got drunk, well, the drink was NASTY. It was cool aid. Normal cool aid is 1 packet to 3 quarts of water, this stuff was 3 packets to 1 quart of water. I really didn’t want to drink it. After I landed on chance I took my shot and decided that I wasn’t going to take another. I started to back out of the game but John said I should stay in but not drink. When I landed on a tax spot every one started pouring me another shot. I took my shot and then quit the game. I really wanted to play but I couldn’t drink any more of that stuff. After I quit the game there wasn’t much to do but sit and watch them play Monopoly. So I gathered my stuff, said good by and left. It kinda sucks. This was Ben’s Bachelor party so I was ready to drive home at 5am. But I left around 9:30.
I still want to play monopoly with Ben though. I will have to set up a game. Maybe Pokemonopoly.
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
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| Subject: | Art Challenge: Full Page |
| Time: | 12:45 pm. |
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Ok this week’s challenge is more for me than Ruby. It is to draw a picture and fill up the whole page. So we can’t just draw a lone figure in the center and call it a day. There needs to be back ground.
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