"You named your character WHAT?!" - Me

Well, as I may or may not have mentioned, last night we went to Scott's, supposedly to play some Magic and to create some characters for the d20 Modern game that mfsfreak is going to be running on Fridays. Yes, boys and girls, we're actually going to have a game to play on Friday. I may play this in addition to the Monday game that nyminal is going to be doing and the Sunday game that Mike and I are running.

The game has got a neat concept. Since it's modern, we are all going to start off as regular people, doing regular jobs. However, things will begin to happen. Yep, it's a Shadow Slayers game. For the uninitiated, that means it's like Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. The thing that struck me as odd, though, was Alex's reluctance to set it in a real city in Tennessee. Oh man, we were a mere second away from setting it in Chattanooga. He wanted to make a town up, and I couldn't get over the fact that "it's modern, why not take advantage of the plethora of city maps and such available?" I think we settled on the town in which Murray State resides. Not that I can think of it, so we might as well have made it up.

I'm going to be playing a professor at the school. Marco Quillan is the professor of history and archaeology at the university. He's fluent in about six languages, and knows how to read Hieroglyphics, Sumerian, and Ancient Babylonian (I think). He's got a passport, and has travelled the world, as evidenced by the stack of maps he's got. (At least 15!) He's great with computers, and can research - or hack - with the best of them. Sadly, I don't know if I'm going to be able to play him.

Our GM told us what kind of setting we were going to be in originally. (College town) I made my character appropriately. What did the rest make? makeshift_guru made a college student. Okay, no problems there. Tom made a pornographer. No, really. However, I suppose that the concept could work. Scott made... a cop. Sounds normal, right? Nope. This cop keeps a sniper rifle in the trunk of his car, keeps a machete next to it, has 20 throwing stars, and almost got a whip. Yeah, and the bloody character is named Strieson. Why? I got my character's name out of the phone book. (Of course, I grabbed two different names and put them together, but I at least acknowledged that it's modern day.) Scott then mentioned something about "looting bodies". I looked at him, and said, "No, you won't. Crime Scene will have to show up, and cops will be swarming everywhere if someone dies." Dang it, I know I'm being a wet blanket, but what's the point of playing d20 Modern if you're going to ignore the underlying setting: the world as it is today?

As you might have guessed, we never played Magic, but I got my cards sorted back out. I had gotten them kinda messy making all of those decks.

In other news, I'm going up to Comic Cellar today. I have 8 decks to play against jartravian. I had a burst of deck-building. Most of the ones I had are tweaked, too. I know that I want to come up with at least 2 more decks. I have yet to use Blue in any of the decks, and Blue is a fun color. I also want to make a mono-red beatdown deck. I loved Sligh back in the day. Now, there are more goblins than before. :) I'll come up with something.

Finally, I was going to do my laundry today, but wow, it FEELS like it's going to rain. *sigh* I guess I'll do enough laundry to hold me over until tomorrow, then start a load properly.

Vacation Countdown: 148 hours.. (It begins when I get off work next Friday at 2pm. Woe to the sucker who tries to keep me over that day.)

Today.. is just another day.

More of the same today. Aron and I met Jason at Comic Cellar around noon. I bought some hideously orange card sleeves that called their color "Aztec Sun". Yeah, right. Tang orange is more accurate. While over there, though, I glanced at the action figures like I usually do. What'd I see? Delirium! Instantaneous purchase! I now have all of the Sandman/Endless action figures except for the fancy box set (it has 2 or 3 different Sandman figures in it).

We played Magic for a while. I sucked horribly. There's something about a three player game that causes two of the players to gang up. I'm not whining, mind you. Ah, well. The way we used to put it, "ya never learn anything by winning", so I guess I learned a whole bunch today. :) The only match I won involved my Aether Flash/Dingus Staff deck, in which I have a TON of Protection from Red critters. Aron couldn't come up with big creatures fast enough, and Jason was playing a mono-red deck. Protection takes the thrill out of winning, I tell you.

I finally updated the Silver Marches weather spreadsheet. I've rolled the weather percentages through the end of Marpenoth, 1373. (Everyone, remember, we started this game late in 1372.) I've also got the weather fully statted, complete with daytime highs, through Mirtul 7 or so. In other words, we have over a month of solid weather calculated. I really need to talk to Mike, though. I... *shakes head* Well, let's just say that I'm ready for my vacation, and I find myself VERY impressed with Midnight.

It's always been difficult for me to maintain my focus. I get excited about new things so easily. Midnight is the "new" thing this time. Couple that with my level of burnout at my job, and you have a very discontent person. Hopefully, between the Shadowrun game I should be playing in on Mondays, and the d20 Modern game on Fridays, I'll be able to come back to my game with a clear head, and enjoy running the game again.

For now, though, I'm going to read my Midnight campaign setting, and go to bed. I have work tomorrow.

Vacation Countdown: 137 hours, 28 minutes