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Working from home today went fine as far as having all the resources needed for what I was doing. It was a bit disconcerting as we were diverted to work on some stuff for one site and I had a list of things to be doing, none of which did I get a start on except the one I'd almost finished as of yesterday evening and really needed to check in before I had it all to do again due to changes. :P
I took a break in the afternoon for about fifteen minutes and drove up to the library after confirming they were open. I already knew that once out of the neighborhood, the streets were not too bad, and they had their lot plowed yesterday as I'd known from returning the books then. So I picked up the books that were on hold and a few more I knew would be on the shelves (and were). So I have the entire Green Knowe series, which I remember I liked the first books in as a child and then got disenchanted with, but I don't recall details of anything or why I lost my interest in them. So now I am reading them again, and have finished already the first. They are definitely not intended for my age range but it is kind of fun - book candy, if you will.
I also picked up Katherine Kurtz's In the King's Service, and a book called The Friendship Factor, which I swear I remember someone recommending but I've no idea who. In any case, it's an interesting read so far but I am much too spacy for it today; children's books suit my general energy level this evening entirely too well.
I am beginning to think the character concept I was working on for Teatime II is not going to work. It's not that she is not real - she is. It's not that I have trouble reaching her - I don't. It's just that I have this general resistance, which manifested as not being able to define her banality, and I'm realizing probably stems from a number of things. The obvious one is that I am not good at playing fae or dealing with the core fae rules, because I personally think they're so banal the character sheets should vanish on creation - they're too stick-figure-forceful and make caricatures rather than characters. I dodged that with Erica, I got ideas I do not think were falling into that trap, but it is still what the game feels like to me a little. Far more importantly, I am realizing that Erica falls into the same trap that made the cat (as I created her on Ashes) nearly unplayable without people bringing her in: she is hard to involve and easy to let sit. It is simple to work out why Erica might not do something, unless it is part of her everyday life, and actively hard to work out why she would do many things.
Blah. I want to be part of that. I want to be part of the stories there, and I think they are going to be neat. But I do not know if I want to badly enough to try to work this out. I don't think Erica will work, in spite of being what I do think is a neat concept. The problem is, I'm pretty sure that's all she has going for her as a character, and that doesn't make her playable. Nor is she in an area that is actively being fleshed out - another downside if she will be hard to draw into activities.
Problem is, I am also not coming up with any alternate concepts, and I think that while I do want to be part of the story...I may not want to do anything that would work as part of the story.
Sort of a disappointing thought, that, especially since I wonder if it is true or if it is just taking the easy way out. Oh, well, I can work that out over time.
Ephemera, at least, is going beautifully for me. I was really worried about that site not working for me, in part because I was carrying over a character and not creating a new one (which would have had less investment), but I have been having a blast.
It may also just be the whole tiredness thing. I have been tired again today. The breathing earlier this week, I think was the chill air. I've been careful and it has not recurred. But I am not so sure about the tiredness generally. Perhaps I'm coming down with something, more likely it is that my sleep has been restless, which I can remember that it has.
Speaking of chill, although it is thaw and the street is slush (and the mail came today and I could walk to get it without fear of getting dropped on my posterior!) there is still snow in many places, all over the pasture, all over my yard. It is several inches and it is going away slowly, thank you, and at its own pace. I am grateful. Now that the roads are more passable, I would like the pretty snow to stay around for a bit longer. Right now there is a full moon outside my window and the clouds have decided not to hide it, so it shines down on the snow. I suspect this would be a much more dramatic and enjoyable sight if I did not have the light on, and I may go have a look at it from a window without light or computers nearby.
I took a break in the afternoon for about fifteen minutes and drove up to the library after confirming they were open. I already knew that once out of the neighborhood, the streets were not too bad, and they had their lot plowed yesterday as I'd known from returning the books then. So I picked up the books that were on hold and a few more I knew would be on the shelves (and were). So I have the entire Green Knowe series, which I remember I liked the first books in as a child and then got disenchanted with, but I don't recall details of anything or why I lost my interest in them. So now I am reading them again, and have finished already the first. They are definitely not intended for my age range but it is kind of fun - book candy, if you will.
I also picked up Katherine Kurtz's In the King's Service, and a book called The Friendship Factor, which I swear I remember someone recommending but I've no idea who. In any case, it's an interesting read so far but I am much too spacy for it today; children's books suit my general energy level this evening entirely too well.
I am beginning to think the character concept I was working on for Teatime II is not going to work. It's not that she is not real - she is. It's not that I have trouble reaching her - I don't. It's just that I have this general resistance, which manifested as not being able to define her banality, and I'm realizing probably stems from a number of things. The obvious one is that I am not good at playing fae or dealing with the core fae rules, because I personally think they're so banal the character sheets should vanish on creation - they're too stick-figure-forceful and make caricatures rather than characters. I dodged that with Erica, I got ideas I do not think were falling into that trap, but it is still what the game feels like to me a little. Far more importantly, I am realizing that Erica falls into the same trap that made the cat (as I created her on Ashes) nearly unplayable without people bringing her in: she is hard to involve and easy to let sit. It is simple to work out why Erica might not do something, unless it is part of her everyday life, and actively hard to work out why she would do many things.
Blah. I want to be part of that. I want to be part of the stories there, and I think they are going to be neat. But I do not know if I want to badly enough to try to work this out. I don't think Erica will work, in spite of being what I do think is a neat concept. The problem is, I'm pretty sure that's all she has going for her as a character, and that doesn't make her playable. Nor is she in an area that is actively being fleshed out - another downside if she will be hard to draw into activities.
Problem is, I am also not coming up with any alternate concepts, and I think that while I do want to be part of the story...I may not want to do anything that would work as part of the story.
Sort of a disappointing thought, that, especially since I wonder if it is true or if it is just taking the easy way out. Oh, well, I can work that out over time.
Ephemera, at least, is going beautifully for me. I was really worried about that site not working for me, in part because I was carrying over a character and not creating a new one (which would have had less investment), but I have been having a blast.
It may also just be the whole tiredness thing. I have been tired again today. The breathing earlier this week, I think was the chill air. I've been careful and it has not recurred. But I am not so sure about the tiredness generally. Perhaps I'm coming down with something, more likely it is that my sleep has been restless, which I can remember that it has.
Speaking of chill, although it is thaw and the street is slush (and the mail came today and I could walk to get it without fear of getting dropped on my posterior!) there is still snow in many places, all over the pasture, all over my yard. It is several inches and it is going away slowly, thank you, and at its own pace. I am grateful. Now that the roads are more passable, I would like the pretty snow to stay around for a bit longer. Right now there is a full moon outside my window and the clouds have decided not to hide it, so it shines down on the snow. I suspect this would be a much more dramatic and enjoyable sight if I did not have the light on, and I may go have a look at it from a window without light or computers nearby.
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I completely agree with you about Ephemera. Just when I thought that I was burned out on Changeling and didn't want to play it again, Ephemera came along and made it fun again. I'm particularly happy with the lack of OOC Masq. I always felt that if staff trusts players to be smart and mature, they will rise to the occasion. I'm glad to see a game work that way.
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I'm Susan, anyway. :)
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Teatime 2...man. I have Erica's background, I've worked out everything except her voile and sheet, and the latter just needs some poking. I could finish that up and see if they'll approve her and move forward. And I've realized I don't seem to have the energy to do so and I don't think she'd be playable. Straight, pure changeling is not my most comfortable of the WoD systems. (In fact, the only one I'm less comfortable with is Wraith, which I never even wanted to read.)
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By the way, to any curious folk, I've figured out how to use LJ-Cut, so my journal is much safer to read nowadays, and won't spam you unless you choose to be spammed.
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