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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 4923271" data-attributes="member: 13966">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).</blockquote>

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