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smokingbootThe weekend hit me hard. In a good way.
We spent it with chums playing Shadowrun, a system I still suspect of being too damn clunky, but I love my latest character concept, the group is very cool indeed and the world is rich. I think this is going to be yooooooj fun!
I was too excited, drank too much caffeine, couldn’t sleep at all on Saturday night. So I sat up, first with the others, and then sharing the late/early solitude with fellow uber-insomniac Cyanidemigraine. Much was talked about, pointless, profound, just stuff. I love all night conversations. It’s nice to have people around who enjoy endless jabbering about thoughts and feelings, views and ideas.It feels good, even if it screws up your body clock mercilessly.
And besides, sometimes it’s better to just not to go to bed. The others woke up in gradually increasing states of horror, culminating in my own love’s emergence from his pit. My poor BB was white and grey, like a golem formed from badly mixed cement. That's the trouble with a house full of whitterers, madmen and smokers. Sleep and sense don’t stand a chance.
Yesterday, my love has bought me a Sheryl Crow CD and lots of flowers. I feel cherished and loved! I am trying to stave off a growing desire to run something for this group, something light, a one-off on a Sunday afternoon. Normally I dismiss these cravings easily, bearing in mind that I can’t count beyond my fingers. Still, Cyanidemigraine has told me that if I ever want to, he’ll nudge me with as much or as little maths as I need, and my love is prepared to help me with the system I would try. And so the stories creep in to the addled brain of Smokingboot, and I am tempted far beyond my puny capacity.
No I shouldn’t even be thinking this when I have so much to write!
No. No, no, no. I can’t and shouldn’t try to run while these campaigns are around us. I will just die of pure halting inadequacy. No.
I don’t even want to, really, it’s just these strange voices in my head.
No. I’m not doing it. And that’s the end of that.
I’ll just see if there’s an easy version of the system on the web...
Oh yes. And today, I think we get broadband.
We spent it with chums playing Shadowrun, a system I still suspect of being too damn clunky, but I love my latest character concept, the group is very cool indeed and the world is rich. I think this is going to be yooooooj fun!
I was too excited, drank too much caffeine, couldn’t sleep at all on Saturday night. So I sat up, first with the others, and then sharing the late/early solitude with fellow uber-insomniac Cyanidemigraine. Much was talked about, pointless, profound, just stuff. I love all night conversations. It’s nice to have people around who enjoy endless jabbering about thoughts and feelings, views and ideas.It feels good, even if it screws up your body clock mercilessly.
And besides, sometimes it’s better to just not to go to bed. The others woke up in gradually increasing states of horror, culminating in my own love’s emergence from his pit. My poor BB was white and grey, like a golem formed from badly mixed cement. That's the trouble with a house full of whitterers, madmen and smokers. Sleep and sense don’t stand a chance.
Yesterday, my love has bought me a Sheryl Crow CD and lots of flowers. I feel cherished and loved! I am trying to stave off a growing desire to run something for this group, something light, a one-off on a Sunday afternoon. Normally I dismiss these cravings easily, bearing in mind that I can’t count beyond my fingers. Still, Cyanidemigraine has told me that if I ever want to, he’ll nudge me with as much or as little maths as I need, and my love is prepared to help me with the system I would try. And so the stories creep in to the addled brain of Smokingboot, and I am tempted far beyond my puny capacity.
No I shouldn’t even be thinking this when I have so much to write!
No. No, no, no. I can’t and shouldn’t try to run while these campaigns are around us. I will just die of pure halting inadequacy. No.
I don’t even want to, really, it’s just these strange voices in my head.
No. I’m not doing it. And that’s the end of that.
I’ll just see if there’s an easy version of the system on the web...
Oh yes. And today, I think we get broadband.
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**grins**
Date: 2004-01-19 11:53 pm (UTC)**grinn**
as for runninng stuff, you should, but thats only because im a story junky, and the fact im incredibly replete with excellent stories does nothing to slake my thirst
more dammnit, we want more!!!!
as for broadband, well then, get MSN!!!!
hope your well
Re *Grins*
Date: 2004-01-20 12:17 am (UTC)As for running, I can't. I'm scared. You're all too good and I have problems adding up and I don't know what I'm doing and anyway, I should be doing constructive grown up things, fishing, hunting, building log cabins, useful stuff like that.
MSN may well be happening any time around now, though I don't know if I would really benefit from it. I'm not on that much in the day generally.
See you tonight?
Re: Re *Grins*
Date: 2004-01-20 12:19 am (UTC)vampire beckons
:D:D
ah well msn will be of no bennefit, cept to froth with me :)
and im sure youd be great at running but if log cabins beckon i shant force ya
Re: Re *Grins*
Date: 2004-01-20 12:23 am (UTC)See you very soon!
Re: Re *Grins*
Date: 2004-01-20 12:24 am (UTC)Am so looking forward to vampire tonight. :D
And you should run something Debs, it would be cool - once I have finished cutting my teeth I might consider running for you two as well.
xxx
Re: Re *Grins*
Date: 2004-01-20 12:31 am (UTC)If it was in the world you've started, my beekeeper is ready to rock and roll!
Re: Re *Grins*
Date: 2004-01-20 12:37 am (UTC)We'll see :) I want to run for Chris againit's just a matter of finding the time
Re: Re *Grins*
Date: 2004-01-20 12:38 am (UTC)Re: Re *Grins*
Date: 2004-01-20 12:21 am (UTC)BTW Not yet recieved my strange object.....
Re: Re *Grins*
Date: 2004-01-20 12:27 am (UTC)Re: Strange object and stuff
Date: 2004-01-20 12:29 am (UTC)Entirely misjudged I think. A cool event, not so cool a book. Maybe I have to go back to square 1, or maybe I'm just not trying hard enough! Before I go any further, I have to sort out my time management, divide myself between half-arsed projects I love and stuff that may earn me some cash! So I'm in a state of permanent confusion...
Re the Amber system, I have never played it. Can it be adapted to other backgrounds?
Re: Strange object and stuff
Date: 2004-01-20 12:37 am (UTC)I would like to run an adventure with an Ars Magicka background, but not based around the cyclical developement of a covenant; a real, go out and do stuff adventure type thing with swords and stuff. Could Amber be fitted to that? Is it easy?
Re: Strange object and stuff
Date: 2004-01-20 12:48 am (UTC)And fair enough on the object thing. I can see it working as a book too. Ever read 253? 253 Is the number of people that fit on a tube train. It's the intersection of their lives and each person only gets one page. I can see a bigger thing of taht type being done with teh objects. More time devoted to each object, as 'twere
Re: Strange object and stuff
Date: 2004-01-22 02:41 pm (UTC)Best of luck to you both by the way.
Re: Strange object and stuff
Date: 2004-01-20 12:37 am (UTC)