Some · strange · people

This took... much longer than expected. Side effect of a lot happening in the last game.

Special thanks to slwatson and pyat, who both helped me edit this. I was really worried about typos because of the length. Long log is long.

( Under the Cut, Yep )

I finally picked up Borderlands yesterday as part of the sale that Future Shop and Best Buy are running right now on video games - buy two, get one free. My plan was to get the two other games as Christmas presents (thus, in theory, Borderlands would only have cost me $20 or so), but my brother asked for a specific game and I had to go to four stores before I could find a copy. I finally found it at Future Shop in Leaside, which is close to the apartment but always feels like its on the far side of the moon.

One of my old WoW friends, Cris, was trying to convince me to want to play it waaaay back in summer (the release was a few months off then), although it took Mike showing me it at his house the other weekend to really get my butt in gear and get it. The main reason was so a bunch of us could get on Live, party up and run the game as a huge group. Right now Mike and I are set up, although Cris needs to get the game still.

Mike and I tried it last night and it was an exercise in failure, but an AMAZING one. I was throughly amused by us taking on missions FAR above our level and trying to proc Second Winds over and over again when we got overwhelmed. I saw that death animation so many times that it really started to become funny; your character has this prolonged death scene where your character slowly flops on the ground and the screen blurs and fades to black, all while you can still fight. Reason for that being that if you kill something during this time, you get to pop up to steady health. It's dramatic the first time, but then just loses all meaning. "Dying! WE NEED TO KILL SOMETHING! Ah, better now!"

Plus the snarky comments that the characters yell at each other make me laugh my butt off in co-op mode. XD

I've heard that the storyline is lightweight and really goofy at times, although the co-op mode takes an edge off of this. I am playing with old WoW buddies, so that might explain my logic in turning a blind eye to the storytelling. It was quite an annoying flaw over on WoW as well, but at least I know there's an ending here.

Mostly links for Pyat, based on discussions from the car ride.

Valhalla Inn photos from after the place closed:
http://www.blogto.com/city/2009/09/saying_goodbye_to_the_valhalla_inn/

Some Interesting Yorkdale Mall photos. I know the general comments made were based on the outside, but you should see older pictures of the inside:
http://torontoist.com/2009/11/historicist_the_instant_downtown_uptown.php
http://mallsofamerica.blogspot.com/2007/06/international-malls-yorkdale-shopping.html
That ceiling is so bizarre and right out of 2001.

There's also the Yorkdale subway station, although this reminds me more of Blade Runner and, oddly enough, PoG for some reason:
http://spacing.ca/wire/2006/03/05/yorkdale-rainbow/
http://transit.toronto.on.ca/images/subway-5106-14.jpg

Okay, sleep now.

It's 2am and I'm cooking for Geeksgiving and watching MST3K. It's awesome!

"Any fruit to declare?... ANY *FRUIT* TO DECLARE?!?!"

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Also, the pan I bought for the food? Is so big I had to shift it in an odd way to make it fit in the oven. o.o

And it has to do with the Star Wars game. ;)

Okay, I was allowed to post about this OOCly - I asked Pyat if its giving away too much and he said I could OOCly post about it. He did warn that: "if it's another player... hee hee hee."

I've been working through a character log and something sickening clicked in my head (and my character's, in theory, although not to the same extent). Something isn't right with what's going on. Things are clicking far too well into place for the Imperials at the moment.

Current theory: SOMEONE ABOARD THE YGRAINE IS AN IMPERIAL SPY! WHICH ONE OF YOU IS IT?!

( Speculating and Considering How This Plays Out )

That's my thoughts on the whole mess. I could be going insane, personally, but things just aren't adding up. o_O

I keep forgetting to post this. AURGH!

First off, I realize that some people on my flist don't celebrate Christmas, but I really don't want to exclude people from my idea. Note that it's not Christmas/holiday themed doodles but generally giving little presents to good friends at the end of the year.

Okay, I want to write cards for people, but because I have friends who celebrate other winter holidays and don't want to leave people out, I wanted to do something different than standard cards.

So, I got a pack of those little art trading card things and want to mail those out instead! With cute little personalized doodles on them! But, because they're personalized, I need you to leave me a comment about what you'd like on it and where I should mail the card. I'll draw online personas, WoW characters, cute and fluffy little animals, that sort of thing. I can draws cute little stuffs!

Please note that asking for a card doesn't mean that you need to give something back to me. This is especially the case if you're not giving out cards yourself and feel guilty about asking for something. No guilt here! I forbid it! D:

So, if you're interested in receiving a little card from me, leave me a comment. They're screened, so don't worry about sharing your address. :D

Kinda. I put the flats in it, but I didn't put any shading in it. I was tired and frustrated, so the end result is more like a reference sheet.

I'm not happy with the helmet and all. Actually, I'm not really happy with a lot of it, but it is what it is. I think it works as a reference pic.

( Pic Under Cut )

Me: We're the most awesome ragtag band of rebels ever!
Pyat: Crix Madine's Dirty Half-Dozen
Me: Plus two!
Pyat: Dirty FourPair!

At the rate we're picking up crew members, we're going to be able to reenact the ending from Buckaroo Banzai eventually.



But yes, art. Since we have a new crew member for at least the next while, played by the lovely kores_rabbit, I figured I should get started on those crew sketches again. Here's a rough sketch of the Erin's character Jo (I think...?), the Ygraine's heavy and a REALLY good shot with a laser cannon. :)

I drew a parody sketch of her a while back and actually refined it into something workable for the game.

( You Know the Drill )

Coloured version coming soon.

Because some people were asking about the Brazil thing and I figured I'd toss this up for my own records.

( Character History for the Star Wars Game )

Okay, allergies have finally kicked into overdrive. I need to get me to Shoppers because I'm feeling really sick and it's making me miserable. I also need new headphones, since the puppy decided that mine were a chewtoy last night. He thought the same about my bra too. -_-

Gaming last night with pyat, velvetpage, momentrabbit, catsarah, sassy_fae, nottheterritory and introducing koresrabbit in a cameo appearence, although we kidnapped her character and took it with us so we could have a better droid. It was an awesome session - lots of table talk, but we got a ton done and there were some great character bits (and by "great" I mean "completely insane"). I'm cool with table talk, although I sometimes find it hard to heard what the GM is saying because my brain is wired odd and I can't really block out non-GM chatter on the first go. Focus is poopy. Thankfully Pyat is good at repeating for me. :D

I also got to discover the wonderfulness that is O'Neils, a little local fast food joint that's down on Barton. Loved the burger and fries that I got there and I'll probably suggest returning there in later games. XD

Anywho, next on the grand adventure, we landed at mining outpost to meet up with our new contact, discovered that the staff turnover on the outpost was because a stormtrooper squad replaced them, quickly ran off to avoid said squad, raced another ship to claim an asteroid, discovered that said asteroid contained some sort of landing bay, a newsreel that explained some plot points (GIANT FLOATING HEAD) and, most importantly, some sort of portal link to the ghost ship that we saw the game before this one. We left off with the tech discovering that the ghost ship's systems were offline after a power surge and each needed to be restarted manually. So, yeah, A LOT happened.

I'm working on a log (anyone actually read those, lol?), but it won't be finishing until late tonight because I'm busy today. Not sure if I'm going to take Pyat's suggestion and put in some third person narrative bits or switch to a third person style completely. The exercise was originally to help me get into my character's messed up little head. I'm really not going to force myself into a scribe position because my character's mindset is so twisted towards the rest of the crew and it effects how I see the other character in play. Well, that's a lie - I think Kyrie can stand Moment and Erin's characters and there's some grudging respect for Catsarah's character. And Des's character can make club sandwiches and tea, so that can't be all bad.

Going to hang out with Mike and Lisa and play board games today. Once I get meds. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY.