Exalted Rnd. 6

So been a couple weeks since we played. Left off with our Circle boldly planning a strike to seize the local shadowland's warstrider. This involved getting into a citadel at the heart of said shadowland. I actually expected them to make a much grander entrance but instead them snuck up onto the outskirts of the town. Here they rallied the mortals in the shantytown to rise up and due to the Eclipse's phenomal skills even got some of the ghosts in the area to revolt. Meanwhile as the pandemonium of a peasant revolt drew away the gaurds allowing the Night and Dawn casts to slip in. This had the highlight humor of the much smaller Night pulling the Dawn over. Upon entering they attacked the 4 guards. Immediately one goes to sound the alarm. The two stronger ghosts attempt to snag the attackers and then go in for the kill. They actually succeed in doing some damage before the very powerful Dawn kills them in one round. On the far side of the city the Eclipse, Twilight, and Heroic Mortal (whose player was AWOL, a miscommunication on our part) advance with the revolt getting to the citadel gates. Eclipse anima flares and pushes the mortals forwards. The gaurds attempt to close the gates. The Twilight quickly forces the gates open ala magma krackens killing most of the gaurds and scattering the rest. At this point the Dawn attempts to attune to the warstrider as there is a lull.

Now the Abyssal and some hastily gathered troops arrive. The troops are sent to deal with the forces coming in through the front door while the Abyssal goes to deal with the Night gaurding the warstrider that needs to be attuned. The Night does get the advantage on init but lacks much damage giving capability. Abyssal combos and cuts her down in one turn. Leaving her to die he then proceeds to get jumped by the Dawn who hastily exits the warstrider and gets the drop on him. What happened to the Night now happens to him but somewhat worse and the battle is essentially one. In the process he is discovered to have a sorcery-disrupting ring which the Twilight takes. This ring is henceforth described as the Plot Device™.

Victorious the Circle leads the peasants back to their capital of Wabash and is greeted by an initially wary but then very happy defense force.

Next session: aftermath.

Off the feeds

Introverts have more brain activity apparently. Nice to know I've got something going for me. Also the Chi Alpha webpage actually got a facelift. Wow, I'm shocked too even though I'm the one who put it up (but not the actual creator).

This has been quite a day for weather, fog, mist, sunshine, rain, temps nice enough to be ok without a jacket, downpours. All it needs is snow and ice tonight (blah as ice would be) and we'll have hit just about everything. I need to work on ASP but I'm so tired...

Edward Estlin Cummings once said "The most wasted days is one without laughter" so why am I wasting so many days lately?

I'm not too sure that I can go much father
I'm really not sure things are even getting better
I'm so tired of the me that has to disagree
And so tired of the me that's in control

I woke up to see the sun shining all around
How could it shine down on me?
You'd think that it would notice
I can't take anymore
I had to ask myself
"What's it really for?"

Everything I tried to do, it didn't matter
and now I might be better off just rollling over
'cause you know I tried to hard but couldn't change a thing
And it hurts so much I might as well let go

I can't really take the sun shining all around me
Why would it shine down on me?
You'd think that it would notice
I no longer believe
Can't help telling myself
"It don't mean a thing"

I woke up to see the sun shining all around me
How could it shine down on me?
Sun shining all its beauty
Why would it shine down on me
You'd think that it would notice
I can't take anymore
Just had to ask myself
"What's it really for?"

The New Gig is Somethin' Else

Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex (ie GITS SAC or just GITS) 2nd Gig premired tonight on Adult Swim. It's very good. I was curious if they could top the first season but if the first episode is any indication then they probably will. Fun stuff :)

Yea, that's all. :D

Are ideas free?

Picked off Slashdot...

Unproductive Or Some Such Thing

Well I have led the Byzantine Empire to control of all of Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor (including the Middle East). Took awhile (basically marathon played today and yesterday afternoon) but I managed to actually make a complete win In Total War. Wasn't sure I would because I didn't figure out naval stuff until finally today. The lack of help files or a manual can really be a challenge. However I did manage to pull it off wiping the Brits off of Ireland. Probably the hardest thing was the game's propensity to allow massive rebellions of defeated factions across Western Europe. I can understand basic rebellion but it gets very annoying when the enemy can develop troops and equipment, from occupied lands, that those lands can't make and all in one turn. Also that you couldn't predict the rebellions and attempt to placate the civilians very easily. One turn they'd be happy then spontaneous revolution that produces fully armored knights and siege equipment. Slowed the pace down for same end result. That's my major complaint. I won though so I guess I should sit tight.

White Wolf finally announced something on their writing contest that my roommate has entered. Kinda dissapointing. Then again WW hasn't shown much management skill in running this contest.

Google Analytics seems to be getting up to speed now. Only took about a week. Think they really got caught off gaurd by how many people want to see how many people go to their blog/website/livejournal/etc and get stats on it. It's rather fun though at times. Especially the map that shows where in the world people are coming from! Also I am easily amused especially with statistics.

I am also enjoying the Google personalized home page and the fact that I can see Slashdot RSSed and Slashdot is such a brilliant news site. It's relevant stuff and the editors make smart commentary on the news they post. Worth your time to check out especially if technology issues matter to you. And if you were wondering how popular this site is, sites that get Slashdotted generally crash from the surge of traffic!

Well today is going to go down and as unproductive school wise but oh well. Catch ya later folks.

News from the Underground

Saw Harry Potter last night. Twas good. Not fantastic but HP fans will enjoy it. It felt rather rushed though. That's the problem with taking a long book and making it into a movie. Lots of stuff gets left out. I'll stick to the books but an interesting expierence to go to a midnight opening. Was really sleepy this morning.

The Google Analytics stuff is pretty cool but rather fluky at the moment. Guess Google underestimated the fact that everyone and their 20,000 closest friends might want to track their traffic. Figure it'll sort itself out. In the meantime Twism will refresh on my blog 62,343 times and my hits counts will surge up tremendously accordingly while he tries to fool the analysis software.

Looks like I will get to go home earlier then expected next week so pretty excited about that. Yay for home and not having to cook or clean or any of the menial type chores!

Yay

It's still white out there although also probably rather much colder then yesterday. There are even a couple icicles hanging outside our window. Happy, happy.

First Snow

First Snow, originally uploaded by mirv120.

If you look back on May 2nd you will see the last time it snowed in Stevens Point. I like snow.

International Programs

Seems in the cheerful flurry of budget cuts and proposed budget cuts UWSP might be chopping their International Programs Director to save some quick cash. Basically the end result would be more cost for the students going on the trips and probably much less organization in general of those trips. Our Budget Director and SGA Veep are organizing an effort to get student testimonials in an effort to keep the IP Director, leave a comment if you want to help out and give one (or I suppose if you want more info in general). I will forward what was sent to me on to you.

On a side note, Google has offered yet another new service for the general public. I am going to toy around with this one and see what it does. Might not need that clunky old counter after this!

That's frelling great.

For the record...

as of December 4th, 2004 AD/GCE I have sworn an oath not to sing karaoke within the confine of the United States of America or its satellites.

Thank you and good night.

Exalted Rnd. 5

Why are we getting the box?
I'm not entirely sure.

When you start with the stupid crazy plan you continue!

They have a will to live, code red! -ghosts on mortals living the shadowlands

This session starts out with some down time. Our Eclipse and Dawn come out of their limit breaks (both which they act out well and kept track of on their own!). The basic end decision for the Circle is that they must go south to Wabash and the shadowlands. They know that their is a warstrider there of the soulsteel variety. So the Circle heads south. The eventual conclusion is that the fastest way south is to use sorcery to fly in. In the efforts to acquire an object (in this case a wall) the party discovers a mortal slave on the run from his owners. After some persuasion they convince the slave to go south with them as it will be "safer" (honestly it probably would be).

The Circle heads south and discovers that the older shadowland is pretty empty so they move down to the larger shadowland. The Night caste sneaks in posing as a shadowland mortal and manages to scout out the location of the warstrider in a city and citadel of an Abyssal. Returning with this info we're now set for a big showdown in a couple weeks.

Weird

So life has been rather strange as of late and I must admit I am confused about a lot of things. That's not really news though is it?

Generally I am bemused when problems beset the French but watching the news has made me nervous none-the-less. Have to admit I figured this would blow over. It just seems to be getting worse. Are we on the way to seeing the 5th Republic born through another bought of anarchy? Is this a problem that is bound to occur in other European countries? If it stayed in Paris it probably wouldn't bother me so much but in a matter of days the entire country seems to be rioting. I have to admit I am surprised they haven't deployed troops (ok, not making a surrender joke right after that is really hard) because I am fairly certain in the US the National Gaurd would be meeting rioters. Just have to watch and see.

Totally random question: would anyone want a gmail invite? I have a billion and never use them. I suppose most people don't really care but thought I would offer. Just leave a comment, with an e-mail address if you don't think I have yours (need it to send the invite).

The Fighting 401

Or something like that. Today was rather unproductive. I barely got anywhere in Flash, didn't touch Java. Did clean the bathroom so guess that counts for something right? Bummed around a lot. Really have nothing new to talk about either...

Wasn't that a useful post?

Er...

Nabbed from Brent's blog.

oo-rah