I've Done It Again...
Mar. 15th, 2006 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magicaddict...I've bought dice based on the casting couch and not the performance audition.
By next week's game, I will be rolling brushed steel D10 and D% for Pieter's stat checks, and a copper D10 for damage. These solid metal dice have the added bonus that if I throw them at something out of frustration, they will make a nice mess of whatever they hit. Thanks to Legend Games and EM4 Miniatures for stocking what I was looking for. Here's hoping for some better luck with dice actually bought for the character.
I now have a name (requiring checks), a coat of arms (requiring checks and translating into Blazon) a costume layout, a set of stats (assuming base monster points for the two games I will be attending before I look to bring him out - I can add things if I monster more first), a weapon design and roleplay notes for my White City character - now just comes the process of getting him integrated and actually finding a time I can start playing him. After playing Vorik Artresse and Sorin Carn in tabletop, it will be nice to finally play outright badass nobility live and get away with it. The fact I can add in elements of unhingedness just increases the potential fun I can have as my guy slips, cuts, charms and shivs his way into White City high society/various beds/both of the above in delicious counterpoint. Bring it on.
Column chromatography continues to be an absolute nightmare. I have now done what must comprise a thousand columns in my time, and they still possess the ability to make me look absolutely ridiculous. I'm about to try the same column for the third time tomorrow, hopefully allowing me to split apart two things it should not be hard to split apart. I knew that the recovery of these products was supposed to not be easy - this is cutting edge chemistry after all - but you'd think after three years of doing this, my technique would have improved sufficiently to cover this with no trouble. Evidently not.
By next week's game, I will be rolling brushed steel D10 and D% for Pieter's stat checks, and a copper D10 for damage. These solid metal dice have the added bonus that if I throw them at something out of frustration, they will make a nice mess of whatever they hit. Thanks to Legend Games and EM4 Miniatures for stocking what I was looking for. Here's hoping for some better luck with dice actually bought for the character.
I now have a name (requiring checks), a coat of arms (requiring checks and translating into Blazon) a costume layout, a set of stats (assuming base monster points for the two games I will be attending before I look to bring him out - I can add things if I monster more first), a weapon design and roleplay notes for my White City character - now just comes the process of getting him integrated and actually finding a time I can start playing him. After playing Vorik Artresse and Sorin Carn in tabletop, it will be nice to finally play outright badass nobility live and get away with it. The fact I can add in elements of unhingedness just increases the potential fun I can have as my guy slips, cuts, charms and shivs his way into White City high society/various beds/both of the above in delicious counterpoint. Bring it on.
Column chromatography continues to be an absolute nightmare. I have now done what must comprise a thousand columns in my time, and they still possess the ability to make me look absolutely ridiculous. I'm about to try the same column for the third time tomorrow, hopefully allowing me to split apart two things it should not be hard to split apart. I knew that the recovery of these products was supposed to not be easy - this is cutting edge chemistry after all - but you'd think after three years of doing this, my technique would have improved sufficiently to cover this with no trouble. Evidently not.
