My usual Wednesday night post
Jul. 19th, 2007 04:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mythicfoxOh, let's see, interesting stuff going on... nope. Nuthin'.
For some reason the Lolcat quiz that's circulating isn't working for me... Oh well. I'll figure out something.
In unrelated news, I found out today that at the time that the local gaming store, 'Tomb of the Unknown Fanboy,' closed almost a month ago they were sitting on the L5R Samurai Edition Release Tournament kit, complete with the special commemorative katana. I only found this out today, as when Matt closed the store apparently everything that had been in it just vanished into thin air. The only reason I know is because I noticed that he hadn't reported the store's closing to the people at Alderac who maintain a search engine of stores that support L5R, and when I showed them the courtesy of letting them know they told me it was a shame given they'd sent out the tourney kit and everything. Dammit.
I hit the Book n Bean earlier, and got some solid work done on "Rebuilding." I think after I finish that one and get the final polishing done on my most recent ToJE story, I might actually go back and re-write the Three Man Alliance Battle story. Fact of the matter is, I can't think about it without realizing just how much better I could have made it from the start. Normally I'd leave a story finished and abandoned to the net as something of a reminder on how my writing may or may not be improving, but it just feels too terrible to let sit. Especially if I want other people to look at it.
It was kind of a short session, because the combat took a while longer than originally planned and by the end of it we just weren't ready to move on to a fresh piece of the story arc. Which happens.
As Ander and Father John's players were able to make it this past session, we started off with a session catching up with them. After waiting a while at the van and hearing nothing from the rest of the Throng, the three Prometheans there felt a radiance coming their way... a pickup truck with a few Created in it drove up, stopping next to the van and asking the group if they needed any help.
Upon hearing that the trio were fine, they introduced themselves as members of a group known as the Mercy Mission; Prometheans who have taken it upon themselves to help restore New Orleans and maybe carve out a few nice spots for the Created in the process. They also took it upon themselves to tell the newcomers about Papillon's camp out on the outskirts of town. After they take off, Ander had a fun little observation to make...
Ander: "I think those were what Steve would refer to as... hippies?"
In a short, kinda glossed-over scene (as we were mostly focusing on getting the Throng back together), the three of them took it upon themselves to head out to the camp. They introduced themselves and explained why they were in the city, and Papillon steered them in the direction of Ogilvy. Apparently they'd just missed their comrades, and Ogilvy explained the sort of impression the rest of the throng made and where they were headed.
The three of them hustled out to the Bayou, where we did the whole kinda 'blurry zoom from one scene to another' to catch up with...
Rudolf and Hand, about to get into it out in front of the house. Now, it's your typical fight scene, so I'm just gonna skim over the details and share the basic outline and a few highlights... The scene started off with Rudolf's creator ranting about the power of the path of Centimanus (which triggered a Milestone, 'Learn about Centimanus'). They fought, with Hand sprouting bone spurs and fangs, while Rudolf fired powerful blasts of electricity at him. After the first blast, though, Hand succumbed to Torment... of course, given the sort of monster he was, he really was not at all worried about it.
Rudolf eventually ran out of Pyros about the time Ander, Father John, and Derek showed up, and remembered that he had a shotgun strapped to his back, which he then fired at his creator a few times. However, as he'd never checked, he didn't know how many rounds were in in the gun. So when he figured that he was out, in a moment of desperation he swung the shotgun at Hand, but it shattered on Hand's armored skin- allowing Rudolf to see the final shell fall to the ground.
They traded swings (if not outright blows) with Hand wearing down Rudolf pretty quickly. At one point Rudolf moved up to the back porch, ripping off the door to use as a weapon. Hand grappled him around the waist from the steps and gnawed at Rudolf's stomach with his fangs. Ander, not able to watch any more, dug his pickaxe (as I've mentioned before, not exactly a pickaxe, but it's close enough and I keep forgetting to ask Ander's player how it's spelled) into Hand's spine, and Rudolf slammed him with the door while grappled... snapping Hand's spine and bending him in half backwards. Hand was dead, and Rudolf proceeded to pound on the body until there was nothing left (think like the scene at the end of Sin City).
After catching his breath, Rudolf asked Ander for a little recharge, and after that he grabbed Hand's 'cloak' and used Firebrand to put a little brand of his thumbprint on it someplace Hand wouldn't be likely to casually notice for easy identification later. Afterwards, he went inside and got something to eat before parking himself back out on the porch to see if Hand would rise again.
And that's about where we left off.
Okay, that's it for the moment, I think. Later, folks.
For some reason the Lolcat quiz that's circulating isn't working for me... Oh well. I'll figure out something.
In unrelated news, I found out today that at the time that the local gaming store, 'Tomb of the Unknown Fanboy,' closed almost a month ago they were sitting on the L5R Samurai Edition Release Tournament kit, complete with the special commemorative katana. I only found this out today, as when Matt closed the store apparently everything that had been in it just vanished into thin air. The only reason I know is because I noticed that he hadn't reported the store's closing to the people at Alderac who maintain a search engine of stores that support L5R, and when I showed them the courtesy of letting them know they told me it was a shame given they'd sent out the tourney kit and everything. Dammit.
I hit the Book n Bean earlier, and got some solid work done on "Rebuilding." I think after I finish that one and get the final polishing done on my most recent ToJE story, I might actually go back and re-write the Three Man Alliance Battle story. Fact of the matter is, I can't think about it without realizing just how much better I could have made it from the start. Normally I'd leave a story finished and abandoned to the net as something of a reminder on how my writing may or may not be improving, but it just feels too terrible to let sit. Especially if I want other people to look at it.
It was kind of a short session, because the combat took a while longer than originally planned and by the end of it we just weren't ready to move on to a fresh piece of the story arc. Which happens.
As Ander and Father John's players were able to make it this past session, we started off with a session catching up with them. After waiting a while at the van and hearing nothing from the rest of the Throng, the three Prometheans there felt a radiance coming their way... a pickup truck with a few Created in it drove up, stopping next to the van and asking the group if they needed any help.
Upon hearing that the trio were fine, they introduced themselves as members of a group known as the Mercy Mission; Prometheans who have taken it upon themselves to help restore New Orleans and maybe carve out a few nice spots for the Created in the process. They also took it upon themselves to tell the newcomers about Papillon's camp out on the outskirts of town. After they take off, Ander had a fun little observation to make...
Ander: "I think those were what Steve would refer to as... hippies?"
In a short, kinda glossed-over scene (as we were mostly focusing on getting the Throng back together), the three of them took it upon themselves to head out to the camp. They introduced themselves and explained why they were in the city, and Papillon steered them in the direction of Ogilvy. Apparently they'd just missed their comrades, and Ogilvy explained the sort of impression the rest of the throng made and where they were headed.
The three of them hustled out to the Bayou, where we did the whole kinda 'blurry zoom from one scene to another' to catch up with...
Rudolf and Hand, about to get into it out in front of the house. Now, it's your typical fight scene, so I'm just gonna skim over the details and share the basic outline and a few highlights... The scene started off with Rudolf's creator ranting about the power of the path of Centimanus (which triggered a Milestone, 'Learn about Centimanus'). They fought, with Hand sprouting bone spurs and fangs, while Rudolf fired powerful blasts of electricity at him. After the first blast, though, Hand succumbed to Torment... of course, given the sort of monster he was, he really was not at all worried about it.
Rudolf eventually ran out of Pyros about the time Ander, Father John, and Derek showed up, and remembered that he had a shotgun strapped to his back, which he then fired at his creator a few times. However, as he'd never checked, he didn't know how many rounds were in in the gun. So when he figured that he was out, in a moment of desperation he swung the shotgun at Hand, but it shattered on Hand's armored skin- allowing Rudolf to see the final shell fall to the ground.
They traded swings (if not outright blows) with Hand wearing down Rudolf pretty quickly. At one point Rudolf moved up to the back porch, ripping off the door to use as a weapon. Hand grappled him around the waist from the steps and gnawed at Rudolf's stomach with his fangs. Ander, not able to watch any more, dug his pickaxe (as I've mentioned before, not exactly a pickaxe, but it's close enough and I keep forgetting to ask Ander's player how it's spelled) into Hand's spine, and Rudolf slammed him with the door while grappled... snapping Hand's spine and bending him in half backwards. Hand was dead, and Rudolf proceeded to pound on the body until there was nothing left (think like the scene at the end of Sin City).
After catching his breath, Rudolf asked Ander for a little recharge, and after that he grabbed Hand's 'cloak' and used Firebrand to put a little brand of his thumbprint on it someplace Hand wouldn't be likely to casually notice for easy identification later. Afterwards, he went inside and got something to eat before parking himself back out on the porch to see if Hand would rise again.
And that's about where we left off.
Okay, that's it for the moment, I think. Later, folks.
