Fading Roses
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the_rckThe rose Scott gave me on the 14th has more or less given up the ghost. It lasted almost a week, which is pretty good given the amount of attention I'm likely to remember to give such things. I always feel a bit of regret when a flower fades and dies; I feel somehow responsible and as if I ought to apologize. It's not enough to make me not want cut flowers just a bit of bittersweetness.
I've just spent a couple of hours preparing some things for Laura. She's asked if I'll let her run the short Amber scenario I designed for her gaming group, and I don't have any problem with that. I just needed to put the documents into a format she can read and print and write up a summary of all the things I carry in my head with relation to the scenario. Hopefully, I'll have given her all that she needs to get the story going. I did find that I had a hard time writing some of it down because it's so situation dependent. I did several lists of ways that she might approach various parts of the story. For example, the characters need to get out of a besieged castle early on but may not want to leave. If they don't want to leave, there are a couple of npcs that might give them a shove in that direction. If they do, one character has an ability that might get them out or they might have to wander through a labyrinth of caves or... You get the idea.
Scott ran TechTool on our hard drive last night in an effort to figure out why OS X doesn't like our CD-ROM drive. Sadly the major result of that seems to be that I've lost a chunk of e-mail again. Everything I received after about noon on Friday is gone as is everything I sent out after about noon on Saturday. I think the only really important loss is a message my father sent me, but it's still annoying.
The University has sent me another set of COBRA papers. Don't ask me why. I already filled out the first set and turned them in with payment. Sigh.
And I've got to make sure I don't skip my online reading for too long again. It's taken me three days to get caught up, and I limited myself to skimming in many cases. There are also a couple of OD+ diaries that I couldn't open at all (Mel and Christina Elizabeth, if you have any ideas why I can't get into your diaries, please let me know!). I think it's a question of graphics and the like in one case as I've had sporadic trouble there before but am not at all sure about the other.
Amy's supposed to stop by this afternoon to give me the notes for last week's Amber session. I want to get them edited and sent to Laura as soon as possible. I was pleased to be told over the weekend that Justin's been following the game through the website. If Jenn does so as well (and she said she intends to), that'll give us an audience of at least two. I think that's a motivation to keep things up to date.
I find this interest fairly flattering, and I expect that the players will too. I'll have to ask Laura to add a link so that people can e-mail me if they have questions or guesses about what's really going on or suggestions for new plot twists. I'd been meaning to ask her to provide a link back to my own website anyway.
I've just spent a couple of hours preparing some things for Laura. She's asked if I'll let her run the short Amber scenario I designed for her gaming group, and I don't have any problem with that. I just needed to put the documents into a format she can read and print and write up a summary of all the things I carry in my head with relation to the scenario. Hopefully, I'll have given her all that she needs to get the story going. I did find that I had a hard time writing some of it down because it's so situation dependent. I did several lists of ways that she might approach various parts of the story. For example, the characters need to get out of a besieged castle early on but may not want to leave. If they don't want to leave, there are a couple of npcs that might give them a shove in that direction. If they do, one character has an ability that might get them out or they might have to wander through a labyrinth of caves or... You get the idea.
Scott ran TechTool on our hard drive last night in an effort to figure out why OS X doesn't like our CD-ROM drive. Sadly the major result of that seems to be that I've lost a chunk of e-mail again. Everything I received after about noon on Friday is gone as is everything I sent out after about noon on Saturday. I think the only really important loss is a message my father sent me, but it's still annoying.
The University has sent me another set of COBRA papers. Don't ask me why. I already filled out the first set and turned them in with payment. Sigh.
And I've got to make sure I don't skip my online reading for too long again. It's taken me three days to get caught up, and I limited myself to skimming in many cases. There are also a couple of OD+ diaries that I couldn't open at all (Mel and Christina Elizabeth, if you have any ideas why I can't get into your diaries, please let me know!). I think it's a question of graphics and the like in one case as I've had sporadic trouble there before but am not at all sure about the other.
Amy's supposed to stop by this afternoon to give me the notes for last week's Amber session. I want to get them edited and sent to Laura as soon as possible. I was pleased to be told over the weekend that Justin's been following the game through the website. If Jenn does so as well (and she said she intends to), that'll give us an audience of at least two. I think that's a motivation to keep things up to date.
I find this interest fairly flattering, and I expect that the players will too. I'll have to ask Laura to add a link so that people can e-mail me if they have questions or guesses about what's really going on or suggestions for new plot twists. I'd been meaning to ask her to provide a link back to my own website anyway.
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Date: 2002-02-20 01:00 pm (UTC)But anyway, we are going to be in a Sabbat chronicle. :) I'm one of the 8th gen. Lasombra, embraced by a Sire on the Path of Night who wants me to follow it as well... I remind him of his sister who apparently was lost to him about the time of Columbus. My character is suffering from the loss of a beloved niece and her view that God did nothing to prevent it from happening.
As for books, I'm reading the second of the LotR trilogy (albeit slowly), I, Strahd: The War Against Azalin (a book that my boyfriend bought and enjoyed), and The Gilded Chain, the first part of the King's Blades series (my boyfriend bought me those for my birthday) by Dave Duncan. I'm not too far into any of them (and I haven't started Pyramids by Terry Pratchett yet). I've just been too busy to read much for pleasure without feeling overly guilty.
Again, thank you for the well-wishes, tis interesting to hear about your campaign and things of the like. Made me smile for a minute... before I realized that this backstory isn't done yet... :P
Best wishes,
Ariana
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Date: 2002-02-21 08:49 am (UTC)As to the feeling down, if there's anything I can do to help, please let me know. Not having symptoms as extreme as some other people's does not mean not having a problem. That's something I've struggled with, and I finally had to accept that while a cold may be different from pneumonia they're both illnesses, neither less valid than the other.
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Date: 2002-02-20 01:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-02-21 08:45 am (UTC)Last week's notes aren't up yet since Amy's been too busy to clean them up so far. Hopefully, she'll get some of that done today.