Category: Writing

Yes, I am still playing …

I did hop ontp CO briefly the other day — and found myself stuck with Psiclone (Lvl 12)  in Canada with the choices of (a) doing Lvl 13 mishes, (b) trying to redo the Lvl 12 “two people recommended” mish that I’d died in last time., or (c) taking out 100 Viper agents.

Sigh.

Hopped over to the Desert. Which, after much searching for missions, I determined meant going wading in the radioactivity pools, one of my least favorite areas to date. 

So I signed on as Force of Will, did some research and respec on her TK Blades setup, and ran her from 7-8 in a short interval (even, as noted below, Vanquishing Ferd), before having to sign off for dinner.

 

 

My gameplay of late has been restrained, and will be for a while. The flu knocked me out pretty much all last week. But at present, the biggest time competitor is NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, in which I try to write a 50K novel in 30 days.

But even if that’s keeping me from playing CO and CoX, there’s a tie-in: my novel stars my perennial CoX main (and CO toon as well), the ever-popular Psiclone (spelled in Cox with a hyphen due to duplicate naming).

I’m covering that over in my Doing Write blog, which has a link to the work-in-progress in case you want to see what sort of crappy fan-fic I can write when I put my mind to it. 😉

Big Crossover!

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I’m sort of kicking myself for not thinking to post about this here sooner, but better late than never.

I am enrolled in this year’s Blogathon, where I’ll be posting every 30 minutes for 24 hours on behalf of a charity. (More explanation here.) Just like a walk-a-thon or things like that, I’m looking for sponsorship in the form of pledges to the charity of my choice.

When? 7 a.m. MDT Saturday, 25 July (i.e., tomorrow) through 7 a.m. MDT Sunday, 26 July

Where? On my “normal” blog.

What about? I’ll be blogging comic book (mostly graphic novel / trade paperback) reviews, and related items (which means I’ll probably mention super-hero MMOs at least once)

Whom for? I’m blogging on behalf of the Denver Dumb Friends League, our local animal shelter.

If this sounds like a cool thing, you can support the effort by pledging something. The mechanics are all described here — I never get to touch any of the money, and you’ll simply be sent a reminder afterward with a link of where to go online to make the donation. (And if you punk out, nobody will know except your conscience.) So far I’ve gotten $420-odd in pledges. Woot!

Plus, there are prizes.

You can also, if you want, come over and drop me a comment or two during the course of the day (or, especially, night). I’d appreciate it. 

Please consider if you can give something to a very worthy cause. Thanks!

Post ghosties

I’ve been making more of an effort to keep up on game journals for my CoH characters as I do them. I’ve realized I can’t (timewise, at least) do big, grand, RP novels like some folk do. But I can, at the very least, do little journal entry sorts of things for each character when I pull them out to play. It helps find the voice, it helps maintain interest, and it makes me feel like I’m doing more than just running around with an accent.
Haven’t done this with everyone, but I need to get into that habit. At the very least, Torchielle and Psi-clone have been getting some posts under their respective belts. And it’s been noticed.
Actually, it’s kind of funny — I have a metaplot for PC, and have since Day 1. I’ve run hot and cold on it, and it tends to morph a bit depending on the mood I’m in when I’m playing — but that actually works well with it, too. And for what it’s worth, the questions asked in Doyce’s post are pretty good ones, though not the only good ones that could be asked …
It will be an interesting balancing act to give out enough info to keep it interesting, to not reveal stuff too quickly, but to reveal it quickly enough. Where the story will eventually go, I don’t know. I’m not sure where I want it to go — I’m certainly not interested in a massive Alliance-wide thang, but there are aspects of it that could be blown up that broadly (or should, if played the way they ought to be).
In the meantime … fun.
(There’s also a lengthy Honey post out there waiting for Margie to look at it and go ooh and aah and Kazima doesn’t talk that way before I put it up.)