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Today is a hard-at-work day, with plenty of stuff on the to-do list, but I'm going to take a break and write a bit.
Dave repaired the SSIs on my website for me today - in view of my continuing inability to get an ssh connection out of here for more than about 30 seconds - so everything there is working again, at last.
Weather outside is being sunny, but cold, yet not cold enough to be satisfying. The weather boards on weatheroutlook and the BBC are both predicting a cold snap at the beginning of February - and indeed some real cold on Friday, as well. What I want, perversely, is the kind of weather that leaves me shivering at the bus stop, and genuinely glad to get inside again. I know the memory plays tricks with regard to weather, but last winter seemed much much colder than this one.
I'm starting in to think seriously about the followup campaign to Spellbound- Major Arcana. It'll use Tarot spreads as a kicking off point for themes, ideas, and so on. I'm also reading James Campbell's Hero With A Thousand Faces, so as to get some more inspiration on the archetype ideas, which fascinate me. I'm looking at making it much more character driven - much more player driven - than Spellbound, and with less of the vast, world changing DM actions. Davon has changed enough over the last few years, and I want to settle down and examine the changes now. It might be nice, from the point of view of interest in ongoing events in the world, to speed time up, so that a month in real time is two or three months of game time, but I don't know about this - it does make the in-character-but-out-of-game sessions more difficult to pinpoint. On the other hand, it's far easier than trying to run things the other way round, so that a day or two of game time takes place over two weeks of real time, which I find frustrating.
I'm currently writing a series of day-in-the-life pieces from people in the Royal Haelthannic Navy. For purposes of this, I'm doing research into real navies, mostly the British Navy, which seems to be an extremely complex edifice, with a great many odd traditions and unspoken rules. Several people have recommended the Hornblower novels, which I should probably investigate. I must find out where Dun Laoghaire Public Library is, as well.
The cat managed to terrify myself and Nina completely last night by appearing on the windowsill of Nina's study - on the outside- when we thought she was asleep somewhere in the house. How she got out, we're not at all sure, and teleportation seems to be the only reasonable explanation. She's already sleeping on the bed, of course, but I'm not showing any allergic reactions at all - unexpected but pleasing.
Dave repaired the SSIs on my website for me today - in view of my continuing inability to get an ssh connection out of here for more than about 30 seconds - so everything there is working again, at last.
Weather outside is being sunny, but cold, yet not cold enough to be satisfying. The weather boards on weatheroutlook and the BBC are both predicting a cold snap at the beginning of February - and indeed some real cold on Friday, as well. What I want, perversely, is the kind of weather that leaves me shivering at the bus stop, and genuinely glad to get inside again. I know the memory plays tricks with regard to weather, but last winter seemed much much colder than this one.
I'm starting in to think seriously about the followup campaign to Spellbound- Major Arcana. It'll use Tarot spreads as a kicking off point for themes, ideas, and so on. I'm also reading James Campbell's Hero With A Thousand Faces, so as to get some more inspiration on the archetype ideas, which fascinate me. I'm looking at making it much more character driven - much more player driven - than Spellbound, and with less of the vast, world changing DM actions. Davon has changed enough over the last few years, and I want to settle down and examine the changes now. It might be nice, from the point of view of interest in ongoing events in the world, to speed time up, so that a month in real time is two or three months of game time, but I don't know about this - it does make the in-character-but-out-of-game sessions more difficult to pinpoint. On the other hand, it's far easier than trying to run things the other way round, so that a day or two of game time takes place over two weeks of real time, which I find frustrating.
I'm currently writing a series of day-in-the-life pieces from people in the Royal Haelthannic Navy. For purposes of this, I'm doing research into real navies, mostly the British Navy, which seems to be an extremely complex edifice, with a great many odd traditions and unspoken rules. Several people have recommended the Hornblower novels, which I should probably investigate. I must find out where Dun Laoghaire Public Library is, as well.
The cat managed to terrify myself and Nina completely last night by appearing on the windowsill of Nina's study - on the outside- when we thought she was asleep somewhere in the house. How she got out, we're not at all sure, and teleportation seems to be the only reasonable explanation. She's already sleeping on the bed, of course, but I'm not showing any allergic reactions at all - unexpected but pleasing.