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Feb. 26th, 2007 05:00 pmI have not been updating my LJ again, but today I took the day off work to recover from the weekend (planned long in advance of actually finding out details about the weekend that meant I probably wouldn't have taken the day off if I'd have known, but it's been nice to sit back and relax a bit anyway) and am now sufficiently bored to update.
This weekend I went to a Maelstrom Plot Event (a kind of mini-Maelstrom event organised by some players with a ref there making it a plot event rather than a player event) called Discourse, which was basically 'The players of the religious subgame show up and talk', upgraded through its plot event status to 'and some of the antagonists of the religious subgame show up in the woods and make life more interesting'. It was fantastic, mostly on account of being a Maelstrom event - the setting and the people who attend the events are in the vast majority utterly fantastic.
I was playing a new character, who has developed a character and enough plot to drown several small nations in. Their main features prior to the event was that they were purple, a facet, named Tourmaline, and knew as much of the things my previous character knew as could be fitted into a background and accepted. They have, thankfully, not yet turned into either my old character in a different shape or a human with a gem on their forehead. I picked up almost precisely the other half of all of the plot my previous character had been following.
As for life in general, I'm surviving. My life is excellent and wonderful - I enjoy my job, I have bucketloads of money, I have a beautiful husband who takes out the bins and hasn't yet left me for being a total slob, and most of the time I am either happy or in whatever mood I want to be in. I still have this nagging feeling that I should be doing something More Worthwhile, but unfortunately this wars with my general laziness. I have got around to setting up some Giving Money To Charity, which is what I told myself I would usefully do anyway.
I was briefly addicted to World of Warcraft before I gave it up as a bad thing for me to be doing (after having paid for a six month subscription, of course, doh). I could easily spend every free moment I had on it, and I have too much of an addictive tendancy to be allowed to play things like that.
On the subject of addiction, I am hopelessly addicted to LARP. I think this is mostly because I have all these masochistic fantasies that I know I wouldn't enjoy in real life, and LARP is the minimum safe distance from reality at which I can live them out. Currently I am playing Kallestra Lorelai Aostare, a blue elf, in TT; she's my second attempt at 'there ought to be more characters who have an ordinary person's approach to violence and getting hurt as opposed to the gung-ho hero attitude of hardly noticing the sword blows'. (The first one was more 'some people shouldn't be so casual about *causing* physical violence' which didn't really survive contact with a social atmosphere that it was just fine to defend yourself by cutting bits out of people with a sword.)
I am currently compounding my addiction by being part of the team writing the big weekend event at the end of the TT year - the 3ygb, so named because it was inherited from Durham's original concept of having a big weekend event to see off the third years who were leaving university, although of course this is Cambridge so nobody ever leaves anyway, making the selection of players a little more arbitary.
I will now go back to my regularly scheduled failing to update my livejournal. On the offchance that you might want to know anything about me (because I love talking about myself, i just need prompting) do feel free to leave me random questions in the comments - I'll probably reply in posts because LJ hates me and will only occasionally let me comment on things (which has meant I haven't been able to tell![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
apiphile how much I've liked her recent (well, some not so recent but I only got around to reading it today) writing enough, especially Sound and the last part of the Captain Jack / Young Ones crossover).
This weekend I went to a Maelstrom Plot Event (a kind of mini-Maelstrom event organised by some players with a ref there making it a plot event rather than a player event) called Discourse, which was basically 'The players of the religious subgame show up and talk', upgraded through its plot event status to 'and some of the antagonists of the religious subgame show up in the woods and make life more interesting'. It was fantastic, mostly on account of being a Maelstrom event - the setting and the people who attend the events are in the vast majority utterly fantastic.
I was playing a new character, who has developed a character and enough plot to drown several small nations in. Their main features prior to the event was that they were purple, a facet, named Tourmaline, and knew as much of the things my previous character knew as could be fitted into a background and accepted. They have, thankfully, not yet turned into either my old character in a different shape or a human with a gem on their forehead. I picked up almost precisely the other half of all of the plot my previous character had been following.
As for life in general, I'm surviving. My life is excellent and wonderful - I enjoy my job, I have bucketloads of money, I have a beautiful husband who takes out the bins and hasn't yet left me for being a total slob, and most of the time I am either happy or in whatever mood I want to be in. I still have this nagging feeling that I should be doing something More Worthwhile, but unfortunately this wars with my general laziness. I have got around to setting up some Giving Money To Charity, which is what I told myself I would usefully do anyway.
I was briefly addicted to World of Warcraft before I gave it up as a bad thing for me to be doing (after having paid for a six month subscription, of course, doh). I could easily spend every free moment I had on it, and I have too much of an addictive tendancy to be allowed to play things like that.
On the subject of addiction, I am hopelessly addicted to LARP. I think this is mostly because I have all these masochistic fantasies that I know I wouldn't enjoy in real life, and LARP is the minimum safe distance from reality at which I can live them out. Currently I am playing Kallestra Lorelai Aostare, a blue elf, in TT; she's my second attempt at 'there ought to be more characters who have an ordinary person's approach to violence and getting hurt as opposed to the gung-ho hero attitude of hardly noticing the sword blows'. (The first one was more 'some people shouldn't be so casual about *causing* physical violence' which didn't really survive contact with a social atmosphere that it was just fine to defend yourself by cutting bits out of people with a sword.)
I am currently compounding my addiction by being part of the team writing the big weekend event at the end of the TT year - the 3ygb, so named because it was inherited from Durham's original concept of having a big weekend event to see off the third years who were leaving university, although of course this is Cambridge so nobody ever leaves anyway, making the selection of players a little more arbitary.
I will now go back to my regularly scheduled failing to update my livejournal. On the offchance that you might want to know anything about me (because I love talking about myself, i just need prompting) do feel free to leave me random questions in the comments - I'll probably reply in posts because LJ hates me and will only occasionally let me comment on things (which has meant I haven't been able to tell
apiphile how much I've liked her recent (well, some not so recent but I only got around to reading it today) writing enough, especially Sound and the last part of the Captain Jack / Young Ones crossover).
