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I Shouldn't Be Surprised...
Mar. 8th, 2006 03:06 pm...but when I thought another reaction had failed, after getting what I thought was so close, I confess it was a little disappointing.
Then I realised that another portion I had recovered from the separating column had spontaneously formed crystals, and may yet still be the stuff I am looking for. I'll know some time around six tonight, and if so will throw them at the supervisor and positively demand a crystallographic analysis. This is one of those "project is a success" kind of results that can make a thesis, and while I maintain a healthy amount of scepticism, I can't help but hope.
Monday night's WFRP went better than the first night's, as I had started answering the interview style questions the character flesh out file provided by Steve had provided and knew more about my guy (my regular technique of writing up his backstory wouldn't really work here because of what Jon has done with the campaign setting). He had to try to do lots of negotiation between Tim's character and everyone else's, and it made his brain hurt, so that went off okay - but on recollection of a lot of what I did on the night, I realise that I have simply translated Tiny from a shadowrunning troll into a warhammering human: I still can't create anything resembling a deep and detailed character within this system yet.
Moreover, *applies transylvanian accent* my character sux.
He is a big, hulking smash machine, designed for fighting and fighting only - I manage to have him spot things three miles away, dodge people and be a moderator in disputes (cue his brain hurting), but when a fight kicks off, he proceeds to trip over his own feet and get harmed into the ground by the necromancer he was about to decapitate. Cue Tim's character nonchalantly shooting the bad guy in the face and cutting him in two, then proceeding to carry me out. I can't see this changing any time soon, as I can't bolster my weaponskill paricularly quickly, so for the moment Pieter is sulking, and will be practicing with his sword whenever he gets the opportunity.
The next few weekends have managed to fill themselves up more than when I was larping once again. No end of things have come out of the woodwork, and their shunting around and setting themselves up either side of it have meant that I have to go and come back from Oxford on the day of my first White City larp, leaving at some ungodly hour of the morning but meaning I get to sleep in my own bed on Saturday night. Bad thing/good thing, I know, but could be worse I suppose.
EQ2 claims not to have destroyed my characters and instead server-switched them to Befallen from Faydark. This may mean that the server is heavily overpopulated now and I will get huge lag when I finally get back on around May, but at least they're still there.
Incidentally, I will be getting back on as - as it required Dad to point out to me last weekend - it may not be sensible to buy a car while learning to drive, as I might well not be in this country when I actually come to need one. I may be leaving for America to postdoc before this year is out, and so while learning to drive isn't a bad idea, buying something drive in while it may end up just gathering dust on the drive probably isn't. Ergo, I have seventeen hundred pounds that I set aside to spend:
1x AMD Athlon 64 FX55 Processor
1x Asus A8N-SLi Premium Motherboard
2x 1GB Corsair XMS3200 400Mhz RAM
1x XFX Geforce 7800GTX 512MB GPU
2x Western Digital Caviar SE 200GB Hard Drives
1x Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum Sound Card
2x Pioneer DVR-110 Black Dual-Layer DVDRW Drives
1x Mitsumi FA404M USB2.0 7in1 card reader/Floppy Combo Drive
1x Coolermaster Centurion CM-532 Black Tower Case
I call that an equally good, or even better way of dropping the same amount of money.
And finally...last night we at last remembered to take the fudge we had bought two Sundays ago back to Emma's, so she had it just in time to fall ill - I expect to see it mostly gone soon. Nothing like fudge to feed someone up when they have a cold...
Then I realised that another portion I had recovered from the separating column had spontaneously formed crystals, and may yet still be the stuff I am looking for. I'll know some time around six tonight, and if so will throw them at the supervisor and positively demand a crystallographic analysis. This is one of those "project is a success" kind of results that can make a thesis, and while I maintain a healthy amount of scepticism, I can't help but hope.
Monday night's WFRP went better than the first night's, as I had started answering the interview style questions the character flesh out file provided by Steve had provided and knew more about my guy (my regular technique of writing up his backstory wouldn't really work here because of what Jon has done with the campaign setting). He had to try to do lots of negotiation between Tim's character and everyone else's, and it made his brain hurt, so that went off okay - but on recollection of a lot of what I did on the night, I realise that I have simply translated Tiny from a shadowrunning troll into a warhammering human: I still can't create anything resembling a deep and detailed character within this system yet.
Moreover, *applies transylvanian accent* my character sux.
He is a big, hulking smash machine, designed for fighting and fighting only - I manage to have him spot things three miles away, dodge people and be a moderator in disputes (cue his brain hurting), but when a fight kicks off, he proceeds to trip over his own feet and get harmed into the ground by the necromancer he was about to decapitate. Cue Tim's character nonchalantly shooting the bad guy in the face and cutting him in two, then proceeding to carry me out. I can't see this changing any time soon, as I can't bolster my weaponskill paricularly quickly, so for the moment Pieter is sulking, and will be practicing with his sword whenever he gets the opportunity.
The next few weekends have managed to fill themselves up more than when I was larping once again. No end of things have come out of the woodwork, and their shunting around and setting themselves up either side of it have meant that I have to go and come back from Oxford on the day of my first White City larp, leaving at some ungodly hour of the morning but meaning I get to sleep in my own bed on Saturday night. Bad thing/good thing, I know, but could be worse I suppose.
EQ2 claims not to have destroyed my characters and instead server-switched them to Befallen from Faydark. This may mean that the server is heavily overpopulated now and I will get huge lag when I finally get back on around May, but at least they're still there.
Incidentally, I will be getting back on as - as it required Dad to point out to me last weekend - it may not be sensible to buy a car while learning to drive, as I might well not be in this country when I actually come to need one. I may be leaving for America to postdoc before this year is out, and so while learning to drive isn't a bad idea, buying something drive in while it may end up just gathering dust on the drive probably isn't. Ergo, I have seventeen hundred pounds that I set aside to spend:
1x AMD Athlon 64 FX55 Processor
1x Asus A8N-SLi Premium Motherboard
2x 1GB Corsair XMS3200 400Mhz RAM
1x XFX Geforce 7800GTX 512MB GPU
2x Western Digital Caviar SE 200GB Hard Drives
1x Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum Sound Card
2x Pioneer DVR-110 Black Dual-Layer DVDRW Drives
1x Mitsumi FA404M USB2.0 7in1 card reader/Floppy Combo Drive
1x Coolermaster Centurion CM-532 Black Tower Case
I call that an equally good, or even better way of dropping the same amount of money.
And finally...last night we at last remembered to take the fudge we had bought two Sundays ago back to Emma's, so she had it just in time to fall ill - I expect to see it mostly gone soon. Nothing like fudge to feed someone up when they have a cold...
