infinity zone

Let's see, what are my characters in Luceti doing right now...? I don't go around tagging a whole bunch, but I've been pleased with the few threads I've had unfolding so far.

Finally getting around to backthreads with Leon that were delayed because of the LJ-DW move. He went sledding with Minato and gave a healing ring to Nagisa. I still need to get somewhere with his snowman thread with Claude ... and do something with that idea of a silly Christmas gift between Claude and Leon. So very slow, slow, slow...

Albert is, of course, the most up-to-date of my three. I guess. Ice skating and actually talking to New Feathers. Hahaha. I need to get around to fixing up the coding for lucetilocked for his next post. ...And I need to follow-up on Buffy's gift. Keep forgetting about that.

Walter's currently just existing in two recent threads with Rainbow Dash and Beast. Not sure how he spent the holidays, to be honest, but he likely dealt with them with general indifference. It's that whole "no friends ever" thing. So it's amazing he talks to people at all.

...Man, choosing an icon for this post was kinda painful. Maybe I should actually spend some time updating icons here. :|;

Nothing much to talk about! Got a raise at work to go along with my new responsibilities, have employment until at least December, and still living with my siblings in a rented house.

Still playing at Luceti. Somehow managing four characters right now, and playing with the idea of apping at another game. I keep tossing back the pros and cons, especially since I know four characters can already be difficult to balance. There's going to be a freaky Halloween/Majora's Mask event for this next week, and I've got some ideas I might use.

Considering doing NaNo this year. I'm totally skeptical about actually getting anything done between work, RL, and RP, but it did help me move a fanfic forward a little bit last year. Maybe I'll do that again this year? ...At that rate, I'll finish that fanfic in about six years. XD Bah, we'll see. I'm out of practice.

Need to do:
- Pay off credit card bills
- Pay vacuum cleaner payment
- Pay off Macy's card
- Finish work/e-mails/timesheet before Monday

Should do:
- Update/post lucetlocked tables/info
- Respond to tags/CR meme

Want to do:
- Review Tierkreis notes
- Hammer out more Suikoden/Tierkreis crossover notes
- Hammer out lots of other things 8|

I dropped from Damned. /)_(\ I can't believe I did it, and I'm both sad and relieved at the same time. As much as I enjoyed it, I suffered from those periods of wanting to drop far too many times. Taking that hiatus and basically not coming back really showed how weak my willpower was for staying. I'm disappointed, in a way, because the game awards seniority, but I ... don't think I'd be rejoining anytime soon, so it's really not a point to worry about.

Ahab's doing better. The last week or so, he's been developing an extra amount of eye discharge from his injured eye, and I would have to clean his eye every few hours. Today, he managed to clean the dirt by himself. ...Or Cocoa did it for him. I really don't know right now, but his eye is getting cleaned -- and that's the important thing. :|;

First off, thank you to everyone who responded to the last entry. I appreciate it, and everything is okay for me now. And Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. :|b

I really needed that RP love meme boost. It's been a slow, arrhythmic month RP-wise because of all the holiday shopping and other stresses, so I was really starting to close up in terms of RPing and interacting. I'm hopeful things'll be good once we get started with the next year.

Let's see... Lots of gifts this year.

( Cut for gift haul )

And now I'll be spending the weekend watching Hell's Kitchen. For the most part.

So we had a housewarming/birthday party this past Saturday with mostly family. It makes me happy that my family is full of geeks and computer-savvy types; my cousins set up a LAN party with Halo Reach (complete with full-wall projection) while the parents streamed a college football game. My cousins raved about how they love our house because there's a TV or computer (or both) in every room.

One of my cousins let me borrow Alan Wake, which I blazed through on Sunday and Monday. I bought The Signal DLC on Monday and went through that, then watched a playthrough of The Writer since I didn't want to shell out more money if the DLC was as short as The Signal. Considering I can't stand playing scary video games myself, I'm kinda surprised I went through Alan Wake so quickly. But the game gives you warnings and slows down the action to allow you react, which ... really, really helped me for forest sections.

I'm in the process of finally getting around to replaying the Quest For Glory series. I bought QFG5: Dragonfire sometime ago and told myself I'd play through all the other games and import my characters along the way. I've finished as a thief on the EGA version, and now I'm playing as a magic user on the VGA version. I might go back to the EGA version for the fighter, since I recall not being fond of the VGA speed. This will also give me the chance to play the fan remake of Trial By Fire.

In other news, I think I'm in an RP slump. I think the crazy tagging of the Luceti Malnosso mission has left me less than enthused about picking up dropped tags with Albert or starting new ones with Leon. I can't even get the willpower up to write for the new NS at Damned, even when I have a clear plan of what Minato should do. ...I also need to stop looking at reserves and apps; I get this conflicted feeling that I'm not fond of. I hope it'll pass soon.

...I posted on this HMD surprisingly early, but never linked to it. Hilarious, me. 8|

The How's My Driving? Meme

Ummm. I've been watching a lot of random Let's Plays recently. Ended up watching more of TraskNari's stuff, which is somehow fitting since I enjoyed his LPs of the Chzo Mythos so much. He doesn't have an annoying voice to listen to, unlike some other LPs.

I've been neglecting RPing again. Ick. I ... need to learn how to balance my characters better, or just figure out what the heck I want to do. Leon's been quiet the entirety of the mushi plot, Walter's not really active, and Albert's ... something. At least I'm fairly certain I didn't render his character unplayable. :|; That would totally suck.

Attending my sister's ballet performance tonight, then going to my cousin's college graduation party tomorrow. Should be fun and relaxing before I need to do jury duty and everything this upcoming week.

I think my brothers have reached a compromise on the housing situation, which will be a relief if it's true. We had way too many family discussions and private talks about where we would be going after the apartment contract expires this fall, and I think my older brother (who has the biggest complaints with all of us living together) has compromised with my younger brother. We'll see how things go.

Next weekend is river rafting. Hope the weather is good.

I have nowhere else to ramble about this, so here goes.

I've been ridiculously active with Minato for this nightshift at Damned. I can definitively say that I haven't been this active since his Special Counseling, and it's pretty thrilling to see him actually getting to explore different areas of the institute. I usually just ... sorta forget about Damned once nightshift comes around, and then derp-thread him collecting things.

At least he got his metal for Leon's alchemy, I guess. So it wasn't like I was wasting his nights.

It helps that the event is allowing him to enter all of these rooms, and I'm really motivated to try and get him warped back to his world. Granted, he'll end up in Tartarus, but. Headphones. All his Personas. HIS MP3 PLAYER. And fighting Shadows. Alone.

...Practically alone. He'll have Brook there.

That in itself is another awesome part of the nightshift: his traveling partner is Brook from One Piece. If they end up warped to the One Piece world, Minato will get to see Brook in his skeleton form! The mental image of how the two will react is just ... priceless. Writing with Brook-mun has been very smooth, too; Brook talks enough that I don't feel awkward having Minato respond with short sentences, which in turn speeds up threading.

I really hope they get to warp to one (or both) of their home worlds.

In the mean time, their third warp of the night landed them somewhere awesome. I hadn't expected it at all, since I assumed that they could only be warped within the institute grounds. It's like the mods read the thread, laughed maniacally, and dropped them in Doyleton.

Doyleton. At night. Zooombiiiiies.



In other news, I've been wanting to write something about Luceti since I was inspired sometime last week. I could have sworn I had a file with some written paragraphs, but I can't find it. Maybe I just wrote the story directly to LJ?

I hate it when I do that; I lose track of whether I have backups of stories that way.

In any case, I haven't written anything Luceti-related since that 'Paradise' nightmare scenario. I think I just need to make peace with the idea that anything I write won't jive with Luceti's plot. It can be hard sometimes.

And I'm happy that I could have a little fun with Walter for once. I don't get him out often enough, and I'm thankful Doumeki-mun poked me about them interacting.

So Kukki and I were talking last night, and I suggested that she figure out what she wanted to do with Stella's room in the Ferines house. I started putting something together for Walter too, and got Yosh thinking about it.

And then I started fiddling around with it a little more...

( Cut for huge )

Oh, and I also made a picture of the floor plan in respect to the rest of the village. ...It looks really weird after designing it in the original floor plan's template. Here's the transformed floor plan.

Leon profile pic is looking better. I think I'm almost done with it; just gotta clean up some shading on the clothes. The original, now this. Thanks for the help with the wing shading, Reine~ And the reminder about lighting positioning. ~_~ My brother even pointed at a spot on the screen where I should be imagining the light coming from, and I totally forgot.

...And that's all I had to post about. :|; Maybe I'll do memes later. Dunno yet. Hurray that it's Friday? Actually, hurray that I finished my project a day early.

Made by Eggy, ganked from everyone doing it. :|

List your characters. Then pick a trait from each one that the two of you share and explain it. If you don't share a trait with any of them, put N/A.

( The Self-Insertion Meme )

Ganked from other people:
Ask me about any character I've played, and I'll let you know what drew me to them in the first place, what I like most about them, least about them, my favorite RP memory (if I can remember it!) and if I'm likely to ever write them again.

And something else I've been thinking about lately...
List any characters that you have considered roleplaying, but never have. Explain why you like the character, then explain what it is that keeps you from playing them, be it a lack of canon knowledge, lack of confidence, or too many people playing that character!

( Never Have, Probably Never Will meme )

What an awesome Luceti event. I'm glad to have gotten so many different experiences in the week, even if they were mostly with Albert.

Edit: Finished Ace Attorney Investigations. Just a random thought that isn't a spoiler for the game, but more a thought towards Edgeworth over the course of all the games: Maybe the creators chose the English name "Miles" in reference to the fact that Edgeworth does a lot of traveling? >_>