Dark Liquid

Well, I finally got around to replacing my blog… again. This time I’m running wordpress since it does most of what I need it to do and actually runs reliably on TextDrive’s servers. It’s been a while since I last posted, mostly due to it being such a painful process, but hopefully things will be different now.

Over the past month or so, I have discovered RPoL, asite dedicated to roleplaying. Not being content with the table-top gaming I do (currently a D&D3.5 Eberron campaign that’s a little too hack’n'slash for my tastes and a Vampire: The Masquerade game with only one other player) I’ve joined up with several games on the site and it all seems to be going quite well. The games I’m playing spend across the spectrum of settings, with one being a Forgotten Realms campaign using the GURPS system, to a Unisystem modern-day zombie survival horror to a freeform Firefly-esque game. I’m really enjoying the games I’m currently playing in, especially a fantasy one where all our characters have no memory of who they are and are trying to escape some kind of prison. I’m also playing some female characters for a change, one because it was the only character available (I was taking over an existing character in a game) and one out of choice. I don’t often play female characters because it’s harder to get into the role and actually roleplay properly, which I much prefer to just running around killing things and levelling up, I have computer games for that.

Speaking of roleplay, I’ve decided to make a go at doing a proper Feng Shui campaign, instead of just winging it as I usually d. I’ve been planning it all on Obsidian Portal, but you can’t see any of it yet other than some public notes. Can’t be having my players know what coming can I? I’m also doing my best to resurrect my Triad – Hath Three Part Wrought story, this time mostly as an encyclopaedia covering the setting that the story takes place in and it’s history. I’ll be writing the story too since that’s where the world is coming from, but as I have ideas they’ll be integrated into the encyclopaedia first before being mentioned in any stories. I like the idea of building a world I can dip into at any moment to create a new short story or adventure, having that kind of resource will hopefully help me pay more attention to my writing. To craft this tome, I’m using Zim, a desktop wiki application, so far it’s turning out quite well, but then again, I’ve only got one page in it, so it’s a little early to tell.

In other news, generally life seems to be going okay at the moment, nothing particularly bad or good has happened, it been rather plain sailing really. The only mildly interesting thing to happen recently (that I can recall in any event) is that I bought a robotic vacuum cleaner a few days ago. It’s quite good and the floors have never looked so clean. Unfortunately, hair tends to clog it up a bit, and I’ve had to take it apart a few times to pull out enough hair to make at least a full wig out of. Evidently Dru and I malt quite a lot, though hopefully now that Marvin (the robotic vacuum cleaner, brain the size of a planet and all you have me doing is cleaning floors…) has cleaned the floors, he wont get bunged up as much as long as we put him to work regularly.

Well, I think that’s it for now.