Embrace the Light
This journal is written for me, with the intention to grow and self analyze... it is not written for others, with the intent to obligate people into spending time reading them. This is, however, public and you are welcome to read them if you so choose.
I was thinking about changing the pace with a piece of fiction on here- something kinda darker, but I think I need to think positively tonight and I think a free entry about more fun things would be helpful- I'm gonna keep it short, though, because I've been hankerin' to write BL3 some more. Speaking of which, if you haven't read it, I highly recommend it (Ok, I wrote it, so I can't really offer an unbiased opinion).
Beginner's Luck 3 is written to be a self contained story that has more meaning if you've played the games or know the people. It is a work of fiction, though, and can certainly be enjoyed by anyone, and frankly, I dig people reading my work. Makes me feel like I didn't waste countless hours of my life if just a handful of people read it.
http://community.livejournal.com/bl3_twistedfate/
But if you'd like to start from the beginning:
http://community.livejournal.com/bl3_twistedfate/2004/10/26/
Anyway, it comes across a bit more anime-ish than I'd intended, but I like it. I hope you read it, and feel free to comment on entries as you go.
I love me some D&D... I've been thinking of all the great characters I've run over the years... every character, I've speculized with friends, has some part of your personality, or even some trait or aspect you admire or even abhor... some part of YOU is in every character... It's fun to look at those, in retrospect... maybe see more about yourself if you, yourself, play D&D.
Suirauqa Nichette Koidaz; CG Cleric (Kord)
Sui began every fight with "You should really become a good guy" even if the next thing he did was dual wield greatswords as light weapons with a strength in the 40's once per day. He was innocent, courageous, strong, loyal, and wise. He was a fool, but a lovable one, and one who was smarter underneath then he cared to show. He was a man of the cloth, and a devout one. He was a man who cared deeply and selflessly for the love of his life. I've joked that Sui was pretty much me, but it's more like he's the ideal me- what I'd strive to be.
Lars (Jones, previously Underhome); NG Fighter/Battlesmith
A character who developed as I grew as a person, what began as a simple concept of building cool weapons to make him more powerful eventually expanded into making magic weapons and armor for every situation. Lars has over 20 different weapons geared for different situations, and not just a series of bane weapons for different creatures. Mage slaying weapons, artifact/magic item destroyers, outsider banishers, even weapons designed to be wielded by lesser combatants... Lars is the handiman- the tool for the job guy. He's that part of me that wants to go camping and have enough food to feed everyone for the whole trip with spares, the neatest and most useful gadgets, and the tool and right mind for every unpredictable situation.
Taggart Leerte; CN Rogue/Lasher
Taggart was NOT a good guy. Taggart did good things because they benefited him. Taggart was raised by a holy man to know that a life lived outside the law would bring a terrible and eternal judgment, only to be turned out and come to live in the services of a not-all-there mercenary who taught him of a monstrous afterlife from a god whose pleasure came from the dead's unending pain. Taggart feared death and would go to any length to defeat it. The deeper he went into his trek to avoid that final judgment, the worse he could feel the fate that awaited him became. Taggart, as a concept and a whole, is that misguided fear of God. I don't necessarily fear death since I believe in heaven and the good that awaits, but if I didn't believe there was anything after, I don't know how I'd drive a car or climb a ladder. Taggart is my concept of a life turned upside down; without faith.
I liked this, but it's getting late and I want to see how much of an entry I can get written tonight. I THINK those are my three favorite characters of all time right now, at least. If you play the D&D, I'd be interested to hear what you can extract from a favorite character. I'd also like it (Shameless plug) you'd read BL3... it would make me happy to my core and inspire me to write more- honest. Which I'll do right now. Then tomorrow I get to acknowledge my problems, and the problems of my close friends. Tonight I need to put it all away and be happy and free mentally when and where I can be- it feels good right now.
I was thinking about changing the pace with a piece of fiction on here- something kinda darker, but I think I need to think positively tonight and I think a free entry about more fun things would be helpful- I'm gonna keep it short, though, because I've been hankerin' to write BL3 some more. Speaking of which, if you haven't read it, I highly recommend it (Ok, I wrote it, so I can't really offer an unbiased opinion).
Beginner's Luck 3 is written to be a self contained story that has more meaning if you've played the games or know the people. It is a work of fiction, though, and can certainly be enjoyed by anyone, and frankly, I dig people reading my work. Makes me feel like I didn't waste countless hours of my life if just a handful of people read it.
http://community.livejournal.com/bl3_twistedfate/
But if you'd like to start from the beginning:
http://community.livejournal.com/bl3_twistedfate/2004/10/26/
Anyway, it comes across a bit more anime-ish than I'd intended, but I like it. I hope you read it, and feel free to comment on entries as you go.
I love me some D&D... I've been thinking of all the great characters I've run over the years... every character, I've speculized with friends, has some part of your personality, or even some trait or aspect you admire or even abhor... some part of YOU is in every character... It's fun to look at those, in retrospect... maybe see more about yourself if you, yourself, play D&D.
Suirauqa Nichette Koidaz; CG Cleric (Kord)
Sui began every fight with "You should really become a good guy" even if the next thing he did was dual wield greatswords as light weapons with a strength in the 40's once per day. He was innocent, courageous, strong, loyal, and wise. He was a fool, but a lovable one, and one who was smarter underneath then he cared to show. He was a man of the cloth, and a devout one. He was a man who cared deeply and selflessly for the love of his life. I've joked that Sui was pretty much me, but it's more like he's the ideal me- what I'd strive to be.
Lars (Jones, previously Underhome); NG Fighter/Battlesmith
A character who developed as I grew as a person, what began as a simple concept of building cool weapons to make him more powerful eventually expanded into making magic weapons and armor for every situation. Lars has over 20 different weapons geared for different situations, and not just a series of bane weapons for different creatures. Mage slaying weapons, artifact/magic item destroyers, outsider banishers, even weapons designed to be wielded by lesser combatants... Lars is the handiman- the tool for the job guy. He's that part of me that wants to go camping and have enough food to feed everyone for the whole trip with spares, the neatest and most useful gadgets, and the tool and right mind for every unpredictable situation.
Taggart Leerte; CN Rogue/Lasher
Taggart was NOT a good guy. Taggart did good things because they benefited him. Taggart was raised by a holy man to know that a life lived outside the law would bring a terrible and eternal judgment, only to be turned out and come to live in the services of a not-all-there mercenary who taught him of a monstrous afterlife from a god whose pleasure came from the dead's unending pain. Taggart feared death and would go to any length to defeat it. The deeper he went into his trek to avoid that final judgment, the worse he could feel the fate that awaited him became. Taggart, as a concept and a whole, is that misguided fear of God. I don't necessarily fear death since I believe in heaven and the good that awaits, but if I didn't believe there was anything after, I don't know how I'd drive a car or climb a ladder. Taggart is my concept of a life turned upside down; without faith.
I liked this, but it's getting late and I want to see how much of an entry I can get written tonight. I THINK those are my three favorite characters of all time right now, at least. If you play the D&D, I'd be interested to hear what you can extract from a favorite character. I'd also like it (Shameless plug) you'd read BL3... it would make me happy to my core and inspire me to write more- honest. Which I'll do right now. Then tomorrow I get to acknowledge my problems, and the problems of my close friends. Tonight I need to put it all away and be happy and free mentally when and where I can be- it feels good right now.