draxar

The jukeboxes in L4D2 play "Re: Your Brains"

This is awesome.

I mean, come on... sentient tumbleweed?

So, a friend of mine is running an oWoD game. And I am struggling with coming up with a concept. Thus, I thought I'd turn to your friend and mine, the internet, for help!

The game is an old World of Darkness game, that is explicitly open to characters from different types working together as the party. The 'core' venue is Vampire, which means that those unwilling to work/interact with such (most Garou, Mokole, Amenti Mummies, Hunters) are probably out.

Beyond that, the stated focus of the game is "Investigation and combat", not necessarily in that order. Some big thing has happened that changes the playing field (in an as yet unspecified way), in the world of Darkness. The character needs to be able to be found by/find/wander into the situation where people are being gathered to look at this. Basic oWoD character generation, but you get 50 freebie points rather than 15, though you're still stuck at starting limitations on Rank, Generation, Arete, Balance,

At the moment I would like to play a character who is:

a) A bastard – Not evil and destroying the world, but selfish, willing to kill and be nasty to achieve his aims, not compassionate.

b) Hitty. Someone competent at beating the crap out of people as and when it becomes necessary.

c) As a general rule I like 'effective' characters – characters that can have a real effect on the world, hold their own in a fight, and so forth.

The thoughts I've had so far are:

A Teomalki – South American Undying, who's a lore bunny and who wanders the world learning about supernatural stuff so that he can inform and protect his people from such when it encroaches upon their world. Put off of this by the fact that the power set for these guys isn't actually that good – there's a few useful things, but the majority of the powers are quite nicely thematic, but not actually good for being an effective.

A Lasombra – Abyss Mysticism + Potence. Messing with the shadow, and beating the crap out people, either with the Abyss, or with a crowbar. Is a possibility, but I'd somewhat like to play a non-vampire, at least partly so that the current non-vampire isn't the only one of such.

Edit: It's not power set, or even bastardry that is the what I'm really asking people for — it's a concept that makes me go "Ooh, I can do something with that. Then comes the bastardry and efficiency tests. I can make my own efficiency, so long as the power set supports it.

The Celican concept, for instance, I rather liked - a private detective celican. Big on Lores, has some hedge magic, can still rip your face off. But it fails the bastardry test, as I don't see a way to be enough of a bastard with it and still keep what I like about the concept. Whereas the Teomalki concept is interesting and bastardly, but the powers don't support what I want to do with the character.

So, throw concepts at me people!

So, I'm going to quit my job.

That much is not in question – I will be quitting. The job does not fit me, leaves me too exhausted to do much else with my time, and one of the people in charge wants me gone, I'm pretty certain. Plus, I've got what I need out of the job – when I came to London, I had held no paying job not got via a friend of the family or being a placement where the money paid is to support, rather than fully recompense. I've now had four and a half months in a hard job, and passed my probation in it.

The question now, is when do I quit?

I'm currently waiting to hear back from a gaming store called Playin' Games (near the British Museum) whether I've got a job with them. I'd hoped to hear back today on that one, then I'd be quitting tommorrow if I got told today yes, or on Wednesday if it took me till tommorrow to find out yes or no – if I don't get the job I'll be jobsearching instead. I've now been told Thursday through Monday for it (they seem a little disorganised with their timing).

Originally, the plan was wait till today or tommorrow to find out about it, quit on Tuesday or Wednesday, regardless of the answer. The reason for waiting for the answer before quitting was so that I could quit into the new job, which I would somewhat prefer, plus it'd be nicer on my immediate supervisor. Now, it's going to be rather loonger till I find out, and due to various things, I'm rather less bothered by the 'nicer on the supervisor' part.



Therefore, the question is:

Poll #1463755 Should I go or should I go?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 25

When should I quit?

Any other suggestions, thoughts or comments, comment them

Mankind's time in this realm is done. Summon the meteors.

… it sparkles. (And is decidedly NSFW)

Caption by seth_ra

mapp will soon be running a Changeling LARP.

One question that arises is when to run. The current suggested time is 2nd Saturday of every month, starting off in October - the 10th, specifically. This would place it on the day before the Isles of Darkness Changeling: the Lost game, each month. It'll probably be an afternoon (2-6ish) rather than evening game.

As far as we know, that doesn't clash with anything... but we want to make sure!

Is there anything that a regular game on that day would clash with, any better regular time to run it, and/or a better time to be running the first game?

All input gratefully received.

Crossposted to the Zeitgeist LJ

Who reading this gets nosebleeds?

Not 'has ever got' but instead considers themself to be someone who gets them as a thing that just happens, rather than it being quite unusual for such. It's been years and years since I last had one.

Blame theweaselking for this random aside, if you want to.

Am in queue in primark. Till is a dim light in the misty distance. Supplies running low. I may be some time...

(Drunk) Tom: [to Ash] I think you get the knob.

Ash: Come stroke Tom's beard, it's like a bird. It's like a brillo pad made in fairy land.

( Anyone else want to join me for this? ) Now cut, and not at fixed adjusted in size, for your added convenience...

I am now back to my old mobile number. Look in my memories to find what it is.