(OOC) A Hard Time in Harrowdale

[Arkhandus]

Hey all, sorry for the abominably long wait. I dunno what it is, but a combination of the site's recent issues and some inexplicable lethargy/general laziness and various distractions have kept me away from the computer most of the time in the past few weeks, so I haven't been bothering to check and post on EN World. Maybe just some wierd surge in depression, but I dunno, it's otherwise been just as boring and annoying as ever living in Arizona. Just haven't felt like bothering with doing much lately. So all I've done most of the time is read books and play video games, relatively brainless activity.

So the only games I've been active in these past few weeks are my weekly OpenRPG games, and only because I've been gaming with those people for years, and probably because it's more real-time interactive. I dunno. But anyway, I'm getting back to work on my computer and will resume posting in the Playing the Game forum over the course of Thursday morning and evening, though I expect to be out of the house for most of the afternoon.

 

[Rhun]

No worries Arkhandus. I know how you feel.

 

[Arkhandus]

Grah, sorry for another wait, folks. I'll update things sometime Saturday morning or afternoon, for certain.

I've just been too tired and letting myself get distracted by books and video games as a result, while dealing with other minor distractions and responsibilities earlier in the day, like the tons of preparations I've been working on for my next, much bigger PbPs. I have a bad tendency to play or read a single game or book for several hours at a time, so I end up running out of time to do anything useful afterward. I hate when that happens, grrrr. At least now I have no new books to distract me and no new video games around, since I finished my last book and my last video-game distraction. Must. Focus! And sleep....

 

[Scott DeWar]

no propblemo amigo! reading books can give inspiration, as does the vidio games.they can give the brain a neutral running time to allow the creative processes to work.

Sleep on the other hand is a distraction of unusual proportions!

 

[Rhun]

Take your time, my friend!

 

[Arkhandus]

The IC thread is updated, though I had to re-log-in several times to edit it for completion. I ought to get in the habit of checking off the Remember Me button, but I generally don't bother with it, though this gets really frustrating.

I'll post the group's remianing XP reward and work out a division of the earlier loot I guess, since it doesn't seem to have been done yet. I'll have to re-check the IC thread first. But this stuff will have to wait until tomorrow, Monday, or Tuesday most likely, since I have a Shadowrun game to prepare for and run within the hour, and then I have preparations for my Sunday night campaign and Monday night campaign to take care of tomorrow.

I'm getting back on track with this mini-campaign, but it's been delayed so long by my obsession with preparing my future 2 PbP campaigns, Greyhawk: Rain of Stars and Final Fantasy d20: The Crystal Ark. These are going to be big, long-term campaigns that are quite likely to end in the low Epic-level ranges, and they're going to be much more open in the breadth of materials used, so they're taking a LOT of prep-work and plot-work before I can even begin recruitment for either.

I'll be focusing on this mini-campaign for now, though, and get this back in gear for the second adventure and the third, though I might be ready to start one of those other campaigns at some point during the second Harrowdale adventure. If I do, I'll still focus on this game first until it's over; I'm expecting maybe 3 to 4 adventures in A Hard Time In Harrowdale, 5 at most, before I end it (though of course, if folks decide they're not interested after the 2nd or 3rd adventure, I'll end it there).


By the way, in case anyone is familiar with the anime Bleach, or is perhaps even slightly curious, you might wanna watch the movie Bleach: Memories of Nobody tonight on Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" late-night programming. I think it's on at midnight, maybe 11? I spent like 20 bucks or so to buy a ticket in advance for that movie when it came out in theaters last year (I think it was last summer, anyway.....or was it just early this summer? Ah well), and it was good. The beginning gives a little bit of an introduction to what the series is about, before getting into the actual plot of the movie.

But if you're unfamiliar; Bleach has a silly name but is generally about Ichigo, a young man who can see ghosts and talk to them, and he meets a Soul Reaper (Shinigami in the Japanese version, meaning Death God) named Rukia, and events lead him to become a substitute Soul Reaper, helping Rukia out with his naturally-high spirit energy after Rukia loses her own, at first using tools like Rukia's Soul Glove or Soul Candy like Kon, a mod-soul, to separate Ichigo's soul from his body as a Soul Reaper when needed. Together they fight Hollows, the souls of people who never passed on, but instead lingered as ghosts until negative emotions changed them into soul-eating monsters. Soul Reapers arise amongst the souls of others who passed on, and perform Konso rites to help ghosts cross over, or destroy and purify Hollows with their zanpakuto (soul-slaying swords).

By the time of the movie, Rukia has regained her own Soul Reaper powers and Ichigo has discovered his own, using a substitute soul reaper badge to transform, and by that point Ichigo has partly mastered Bankai but nothing else beyond his Getsuga-Tensho attack; the movie doesn't seem to belong to the series' continuity though, since Rukia has her powers back but Ichigo hasn't become one of the Visored yet (whereas he joins the Visored before Rukia returns with her recovered and fairly impressive powers, in the series).

 

[Myth and Legend]

Mm, waiting on EXP/Items and such before i update my sheet. And hoping to get Elaria to "Friendly" status

 

[Rhun]

XPs are certainly handy.

 

[Voda Vosa]

I'm making an anime based game using 4E in monkey's asylum. The anime is Knights of the Zodiac, don't really know much aside that one.

 

[Scott DeWar]

XPs are certainly handy.

items are also good, though you are right, Xp are very good!