vandaeron's Halloween party:

aj_hyena dressed as a disturbing self-made character called "Booger Liverkisser".
aori_radidjiu dressed as Adam-the-first-man but the fig-leaf was far too big.
crimsonspitfire dressed as the Yellow Power Ranger.
hiyousei dressed as your mother.
locationofpower dressed as a porcelain highway.
meilleurekimiko dressed as Camilla Parker-Bowles when she becomes Queen.
vandaeron dressed as legendary space hero Rip Chesthair.

Throw your own party at the Hallomeme!
Created by sigma7: More info here.

Jesus Christ mine is amazing.

Choose twelve of your original characters, in any particular order.
Then, answer the questions that follow, but DON'T LOOK AT THE QUESTIONS BEFORE YOU PICK THE CHARACTERS!

1. Lycanth (TFW)
2. Sigrid (TFW)
3. Run (EG)
4. Arthur (Iniala)
5. Liscio (TQ)
6. Vandaeron (???)
7. Shrike (CWC)
8. Aedan (IPH)
9. Hack (EG)
10. Jackal (CWC)
11. Geeste (Iniala)
12. Ulrich (EOT)

( This is gonna suck... )

Not present:

- Unaccounted for PS2 games
- DS games
- Random things I have forgotten about and/or lost
- PC games (I think)

( Really Really Big List Here )

List 10 of your favourite characters from different fandoms, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, and if they're so inclined, to draw conclusions about you based on the patterns they've spotted.

1. Simon Belmont (Super Castlevania IV)
2. Will* (Illusion of Gaia)
3. Nidoking (Pokemon)
4. Mia (.hack//Infection)
5. Urick (Drakengard 2)
6. Cure (Jade Cocoon 2)
7. Jon Talbain (Darkstalkers)
8. Greg Gates (U.N. Squadron)
9. Sakuro (Summon Night: Swordcraft Story)
10. Ramba Ral (Mobile Suit Gundam)


* I mean seriously, who the hell else kicks that much ass with a flute nowadays? I don't think any other flute users have really impressed me nearly as much.

Guess what!

I found another altogether useless thing we can waste a few hours making OC-based crap with!

http://www.character-factory.com/

Also: sorry Mike, you're going to have to make your spears from cramming random things together.

( I quit at 43. )

Uh, I'll stop now.

Some of you know, some of you don't know, I'll just put this here so everyone it pertains to can see.

There's been a lot of talk around the IRC about how, regardless of how many RPs we have running right now, there's a lot of off time that people would prefer to RP in but cannot because all the different people involved have really conflicting schedules.

Well, I kinda want to go around that, and my current idea, which has been pretty well-received thus far, does just that. Instead of the usual "group of PCs being led by an NPC" kinda thing, the setup for mine is a bunch of separated players that need to navigate the situation and find the other players to team up. By doing so, it starts to become, instead of "Oh God, we need to round up 926873926735968 people in order to host," it's "team up with somebody you think you're gonna be able to session with frequently" or however the players want to organize their own thing.

So anyway, here's like the "brochure" kinda thing I wrote up for it:



( Castlevania: Rhapsody of Despair )

EDIT: Two important things.

1. Everyone who is capable to read this is more than welcome to join.

2. I'm ready to start doing the first individual sessions as soon as players start giving me whatever they concoct of a character sheet for their first. It doesn't have to be detailed or anything, just need a name, profession, and enough of a description to know what they generally look like.

❶ Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/etc.
❷ Have your f-list guess your favorite character from each item.

Numeric FF:
Non-numeric FF: ("Sell 'em to you for, say... 5000G?")
Secret of Mana:
Legend of Mana: ("Now where did she go?")
Seiken Densetsu 3: (Can you say multitarget buffs?)
The rest of the Mana series: (From Heroes of Mana)
Megaman X: Slash Beast (Carl)
Megaman Zero: Zero (Carl)
Pokemon (people): Lance (Carl)
Pokemon (pokemon): Nidoking (Mike)
Castlevania: Shanoa (Carl)
Brawl (by personality): Bowser (Carl)
Brawl (by play style): Lucario (Carl)
Ragnarok Online: Stalker (Carl)
Star Ocean: (A real eyes-opener)
Gradius (bosses): (It's definitely from Gradius 3.)
Breath of Fire: Jean (Mike)
Live-A-Live: (Think Blue Mage.)
Chrono Trigger: Frog and Ayla (Mike)
Gitaroo Man: ("Cmon, man. What's up with that?")

Mike: 3
Carl: 7

As time grows to be my reaper
I leave my mark behind
And history will be my keeper
But I am still alive

Where the ancient kings are buried
New kings will rise and stand
So the torch is always carried
Passed from hand to hand

In the night it is all we care for
We all play our part
Enslaved is our passion
Therefore we hide it in the dark

Where the ancient kings are buried
New kings will rise and stand
So the torch is always carried
Passed from hand to hand

I've been thinking a lot of "Hey, I should do stuff with my friends more." Usually I don't get anywhere with the thought, but I have an idea now.

Even though I'm now only limiting myself to the games I own in my collection (note: currently doesn't include my DS, PSP, and PC games,) I'm extending the offer to play any games in my collection that are emulatable and include netplay (NES, SNES, PSX) online with anyone.

Name the game and when you'd like to play.

So I did some work on my game. Like 5 and a half hours, not counting rampant breaks. Got the engine mostly done. It'll be finished if I can solve a little issue with collision detection. And that problem is driving me mad.

Every once in a while, I come up for a story idea for a video game I can make. I work on it for a while, maybe complete a barebones game engine, but I never see it through any further than that. This time I'm using this journal of mine as an update blog, to keep my ideas in one place and to put them in public so I can hopefully have the support of you guys to keep me motivated on it, or at least somewhat obliged to continue.

All I ask from you guys is to bug me every once in a while if you don't see any progress updates for a few days, because I really want to do this for once. This idea of mine finally utilizes the character of Vandaeron, which is an idea I've been toying with for a while now, about since I first started using the name.

Right now I'm taking some personal notes on the storyline I have a general idea of, and i have a question I'd like to pose to the populace:

What would be a good profession that can or does involve combat that isn't commonly used? (i.e. not a knight, mercenary, blacksmith, etc.) The universe has very limited magic that I don't want the characters to be readily accessible to. Also, the two main characters are friendly rivals, and you can choose at the beginning to play as either one.