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cabbitzilla) wrote2002-11-16 09:55 am
cabbitzilla) wrote2002-11-16 09:55 am
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Saturday is normally a gaming day for me; today's the exception to the rule. As run down as I've been feeling, I finally broke down and made the call cancelling for today. It kills fully half of my 'get out of the house' opportunity for the week, but it was necessary. With it raining outside, and my joints audibly creaking, it's going to be a minimal movement day anyway... 's not really fair to foist myself off on someone else when I can barely stand. I'm in a rather off mood today, it seems. I've got some recent roleplay bits bouncing in my head, and some html projects that I really need to get sorted out.
The roleplay bits were in the superhero genre, from the standpoint of a second-rate (possibly third-rate) hero girl... a mutant with some fire abilities, limited sonic abilities (that may well just be a God-awful singing voice), a decent healing rate, and way more strength than you'd expect. Sunfire can't even fly... she jumps, lands, jumps again. It's clumsy and awkard, and to an extent so is she. Her sidekick, Brass, is a normal enough human; highly intelligent, though not in the 'mentat of the universe' kind of way. Sometime in the fairly recent past, an accident occured: Sunfire, in her eagerness to nail a villian, cut loose with a flamebarrage in a constricted space. Instead of getting the badguy, she got her partner instead.
Yah, it wasn't a good thing. The first vignette was of Sunfire and Brass hesitantly reuniting; jokes have been made about co-dependant superhero pairings, but these two take the cake. Sunfire is blunt and honest about it, while Brass does her best to stand on her own. In the second vignette, we meet Gitana.. another class C super who's a friend and ally of Sunfire. Gitana's would best be described as an android, methinks; a gear driven sentient who was once flesh and blood. As it turns out in the third vignette, Gitana may actually be distant kin of Sunfire... perhaps something along those lines will pan out in future snippets.
Others in this forming rp setting have been mentioned, and at least one of those persons has someone volunteering to be the part. What's a real shame is that the participants in this are -literally- scattered from one coast of the US to the other. So much for getting everyone together and playing a bit. :p I think Champions would be particularly well suited to this, but I seem to be one of the few remaining adherents to the system. *sigh* It's a lot of fun. I'd sit down and build Sunfire if I could find my blasted book... 's in this house somewhere, but I have no clue where.
(Okie, I've just hopped up towards the top of this and inserted a cut tag.)
I do have a borrowed Aberrent book, and I'm wondering how that system would lend itself to making intentionally second-rate characters. The White Wolf system is designed to give you an even playing field; it's not the system's fault that I'm trying to do something obscure with it. I just... have issues with the setting. It may just be that when it comes to hero stuff, I'm a bit of a purist. There are some that take the Good Guys Wear White Hats theme all the way to the pinacle; I'm not one of them, but I certainly understand where they're coming from. Some complain that such a viewpoint is not 'realistic', to which I generally respond that I'm playing a -game-. If I want real, I'll go back into the bodyguard/bouncer business, you know what I'm saying?
*faint chuckle* Funny how much I can ramble about such a little bit, isn't it? But it really was a delightful series of roleplay sessions, and refreshed me quite a bit. I only hope R and M enjoyed them as much as I did. :)
The html projects are a bit more involved. I've been dragging my feet on a retool of my GeoCities website, which is sadly -very- out of date. There's also work to be done on the pages detailing the new theme and backdrop for TBP... which will be going up as a hybrid futuristic steampunk game. My staffers have been patient with me, but we're at a standstill until I can get the theme information down - it's all in my head, and without it nothing can be done. Maybe I can get something useful done today, eh?
And that's really about it for today. 'm sorry for the silence yesterday, but I was... not in a pleasant headspace at all. Today should be better.
*hugs and cuddles*
~Ellie-chan
The roleplay bits were in the superhero genre, from the standpoint of a second-rate (possibly third-rate) hero girl... a mutant with some fire abilities, limited sonic abilities (that may well just be a God-awful singing voice), a decent healing rate, and way more strength than you'd expect. Sunfire can't even fly... she jumps, lands, jumps again. It's clumsy and awkard, and to an extent so is she. Her sidekick, Brass, is a normal enough human; highly intelligent, though not in the 'mentat of the universe' kind of way. Sometime in the fairly recent past, an accident occured: Sunfire, in her eagerness to nail a villian, cut loose with a flamebarrage in a constricted space. Instead of getting the badguy, she got her partner instead.
Yah, it wasn't a good thing. The first vignette was of Sunfire and Brass hesitantly reuniting; jokes have been made about co-dependant superhero pairings, but these two take the cake. Sunfire is blunt and honest about it, while Brass does her best to stand on her own. In the second vignette, we meet Gitana.. another class C super who's a friend and ally of Sunfire. Gitana's would best be described as an android, methinks; a gear driven sentient who was once flesh and blood. As it turns out in the third vignette, Gitana may actually be distant kin of Sunfire... perhaps something along those lines will pan out in future snippets.
Others in this forming rp setting have been mentioned, and at least one of those persons has someone volunteering to be the part. What's a real shame is that the participants in this are -literally- scattered from one coast of the US to the other. So much for getting everyone together and playing a bit. :p I think Champions would be particularly well suited to this, but I seem to be one of the few remaining adherents to the system. *sigh* It's a lot of fun. I'd sit down and build Sunfire if I could find my blasted book... 's in this house somewhere, but I have no clue where.
(Okie, I've just hopped up towards the top of this and inserted a cut tag.)
I do have a borrowed Aberrent book, and I'm wondering how that system would lend itself to making intentionally second-rate characters. The White Wolf system is designed to give you an even playing field; it's not the system's fault that I'm trying to do something obscure with it. I just... have issues with the setting. It may just be that when it comes to hero stuff, I'm a bit of a purist. There are some that take the Good Guys Wear White Hats theme all the way to the pinacle; I'm not one of them, but I certainly understand where they're coming from. Some complain that such a viewpoint is not 'realistic', to which I generally respond that I'm playing a -game-. If I want real, I'll go back into the bodyguard/bouncer business, you know what I'm saying?
*faint chuckle* Funny how much I can ramble about such a little bit, isn't it? But it really was a delightful series of roleplay sessions, and refreshed me quite a bit. I only hope R and M enjoyed them as much as I did. :)
The html projects are a bit more involved. I've been dragging my feet on a retool of my GeoCities website, which is sadly -very- out of date. There's also work to be done on the pages detailing the new theme and backdrop for TBP... which will be going up as a hybrid futuristic steampunk game. My staffers have been patient with me, but we're at a standstill until I can get the theme information down - it's all in my head, and without it nothing can be done. Maybe I can get something useful done today, eh?
And that's really about it for today. 'm sorry for the silence yesterday, but I was... not in a pleasant headspace at all. Today should be better.
*hugs and cuddles*
~Ellie-chan