![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Random Update
May. 8th, 2004 06:53 pmThe Hoyle's Games CDs are fun. And addictive. Highly addictive. At least the ones that are currently in the house are also educational in nature. One of them is word games, the other is board games.
Addictive. Very, very addictive. Also lots of fun to play with a group behind the chair.
The kittens are starting to open their eyes. One of them keeps trying to climb out of the box.
I'm walking a balancing act between proper role-playing and avoiding a character versus character scenario. Not much I can do about it, however, when I'm playing an exalted cleric who considers undead to be unnatural. In a party with a budding, highly indiscreet necromancer. Someone who raised a skeleton out of a fallen foe about five feet in front of my character, when she was kneeling on the ground healing someone. My character is chaotic good, a cleric of the sun and moon, a star-mage, a spell-fire wielder, and swearing herself to the service of the eladrim Court of Stars. The necromancer's player has been getting highly annoyed with the other players because their characters are not pleased with hir dealings with the undead. Other than that, I'm having an incredible amount of fun with this character. And no, even with all that, it's not power-gaming. The spellfire's been being used almost exclusively for healing. She's the party's diplomat and healer, not a walking artillery platform.
If anyone wants to talk to Astrid, she's not currently available to anyone other than those that she considers family. For the record, that's not even everyone who lives out here. Dealing with the Nashville crew is going to be interesting. Astrid feels totally within her rights to magically attack R's new lover if he comes anywhere near her or any member of her family. I'm tending towards being somewhat more civil. Astrid's comment is somewhere along the lines of, "Don't let him touch the body then." Naomi: "He's at least twice our size and most of that is muscle mass. Take this body into a physical confrontation with him and we'll wind up in the hospital." Astrid: "Then I wouldn't reccomend touching him. And I don't care how much bigger he is, if he touches us, he will go down and not get up again." Naomi: "You're overreacting something fierce, not to mention being highly unreasonable." Astrid: "I'm supposed to keep us safe, and I consider him to be a threat. He's not touching the body. End of discussion."
We're still arguing about acceptable reactions. I'm not letting her up front unless at least two other adult family members are present. This is based on the fact the she refuses to to anything to harm members of her family. I'm being very cruel and reminding her that attacking someone for no legal reason would put the body in jail, which would emotionally harm the family a great deal. I'm not getting in the way of whatever she's doing on a non-physical level, however. It won't get her into trouble with the law, and it's something that's her right to decide to do or not do.
Why the hell do I have to be the rational, reasonable one?
Addictive. Very, very addictive. Also lots of fun to play with a group behind the chair.
The kittens are starting to open their eyes. One of them keeps trying to climb out of the box.
I'm walking a balancing act between proper role-playing and avoiding a character versus character scenario. Not much I can do about it, however, when I'm playing an exalted cleric who considers undead to be unnatural. In a party with a budding, highly indiscreet necromancer. Someone who raised a skeleton out of a fallen foe about five feet in front of my character, when she was kneeling on the ground healing someone. My character is chaotic good, a cleric of the sun and moon, a star-mage, a spell-fire wielder, and swearing herself to the service of the eladrim Court of Stars. The necromancer's player has been getting highly annoyed with the other players because their characters are not pleased with hir dealings with the undead. Other than that, I'm having an incredible amount of fun with this character. And no, even with all that, it's not power-gaming. The spellfire's been being used almost exclusively for healing. She's the party's diplomat and healer, not a walking artillery platform.
If anyone wants to talk to Astrid, she's not currently available to anyone other than those that she considers family. For the record, that's not even everyone who lives out here. Dealing with the Nashville crew is going to be interesting. Astrid feels totally within her rights to magically attack R's new lover if he comes anywhere near her or any member of her family. I'm tending towards being somewhat more civil. Astrid's comment is somewhere along the lines of, "Don't let him touch the body then." Naomi: "He's at least twice our size and most of that is muscle mass. Take this body into a physical confrontation with him and we'll wind up in the hospital." Astrid: "Then I wouldn't reccomend touching him. And I don't care how much bigger he is, if he touches us, he will go down and not get up again." Naomi: "You're overreacting something fierce, not to mention being highly unreasonable." Astrid: "I'm supposed to keep us safe, and I consider him to be a threat. He's not touching the body. End of discussion."
We're still arguing about acceptable reactions. I'm not letting her up front unless at least two other adult family members are present. This is based on the fact the she refuses to to anything to harm members of her family. I'm being very cruel and reminding her that attacking someone for no legal reason would put the body in jail, which would emotionally harm the family a great deal. I'm not getting in the way of whatever she's doing on a non-physical level, however. It won't get her into trouble with the law, and it's something that's her right to decide to do or not do.
Why the hell do I have to be the rational, reasonable one?
