Good game, good times
15-Jun-03
The game last night went OK. I managed to pull back a bit more in terms of “coaching.” Ann and I had a heart-to-heart about her character’s feats (Ann being a newbie, has overlooked a crucial aspect of her character during levelling). At some point, we will discuss her character classes, too (she started as a Fighter2, levelled to Rogue3, and just picked up a level of Ranger– she’s not taking an XP penalty yet, but I need to warn her of the possibility).
It helps that this is a very easy dungeon-crawl; there are very few investigative questions; it’s all about seeking out and destroying all the bad guys.
Intrigue comes later, in the next Freeport adventure.
And I need to start in on the first character-identity adventures. These are the adventures that I’m writing outside of the modules. They’re the character identity quests, and they’re a major campaign storyline that the characters can uncover to find out more about what’s happening to the world (and how to save it).
Oh, yes– and last night they met Jake, the first similarly-blanked NPC character. Jake awoke outside Renna the midwife’s home, a couple of months ago. However, unlike the PCs, Jake’s experiences since awakening have all been positive (not the least because he’s not particularly bright and doesn’t always realize people are making fun of him). As a result, he perceives everyone around him as a potential friend, rather than a potential enemy. Jake’s character identity may come out later or not– it’s not certain. But, as with our heroes, there’s a reason he lost his memory, even if nobody (*cough*even the DM*cough*) knows what it is.
Yesterday’s mail brought an unpleasant reminder of a time long past. I need to call my mom and sister this week to discuss it. Basically, big family drama coming. Oh, and Sis? You’ll need to call Dad for yours, as the lawyer apparently has no problems finding my address, but can’t find yours.
Having trouble getting the new TealScript to work on my Palm– it keeps fatal exceptioning. I emailed customer support about it– I’d like to re-install the old, but I don’t think I have it anymore.
Also, malsync doesn’t have an ebuild for it yet. Which either means learning how to write an ebuild script (it’s a bash script, basically), or installing from source. Except it’s dependency is pilot-link, and it can’t seem to find it installed, or the directory is wrong or something. Sigh. Oh, yes. And John won’t accept the fact that there is no ebuild for malsync. SIGH.
OK, I’m getting a headache now (a worse one), which means it’s time to finish this entry and go do something else, because I’m just getting bitchy, and you don’t really want to see that, do you? I didn’t think so.