Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

[king_pellinor]

Well, back from live-roleplaying and I'm pleased to say that although I thought I was dead on Saturday afternoon, apparently a physician stopped the bleeding just in time and so I survived. It's odd walking around being greeted by cries of "I thought you were dead!" :-)

However, the death I suffered on Sunday afternoon did happen. Being ahead of the party (or rather behind the party, as it fled), surrounded by foes and unable to walk rather has that effect. It's odd to be lying in the middle of a compound hearing folk you barely know bewailing your fate while a necromancer sends your soul to join the Gods 0:-D

I should have seen the New Kit Curse coming when I not only made myself some new kit but *also* helped someone else make herself some earlier that weekend. She ended up lying next to me in the funeral :-(

I'm sad to lose the character, as he was fun to play; but it was nice to lose him where he was prominent among the 200-odd people. That way I spent the rest of the day with lots of very kind people saying how they'd liked him and how sad they were that he was dead. Definitely the right way to go :-)

Hmm, you'd think there'd be a "Dead" mood icon. This'll have to do...

Comments

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

Angst, angst, angst - is that all you authors ever think about? ;-)

Cyril was a very happy chappy, I'll have you know. A little confused, but very cheerful about it.

Mage robes are easy enough to make, I just don't really fancy being a mage. Life gets too complicated if you have to remember all that stuff; just go out and smite evil and be done with it. If you can work out who is evil, of course...

Hmm, that's disturbing - it sounds almost as if I was playing one of Ladyofastolat's Baldur's Gate characters. Ah, no: he actually used his brains, and could string a sentence together. And I'm not blonde and muscly. Phew! :-D

[evilmissbecky.livejournal.com]

Angst, angst, angst - is that all you authors ever think about?

Why, you make that sound like it's a bad thing! ;-)

And I'm staying out of any discussion that involves Ladyofastolat. She would smite me in a heartbeat if I took your side.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

*narrows eyes threatingly*

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

My characters have never been blond and muscly, I'll have you know. Even my strength 18/00 paladins are lean and pale and interesting-looking, like tortured poets, and they're dark-haired, too. They are also very angsty and tormented in their minds about the morality of smiting, and - at least in the Solaufein mod - they are gay. In short, they are highly complex animals.

They are thick, though. I'll grant you that. When you want 18/00 strength and 18 dexterity and 18 charisma, something has to go. Who needs brains, anyway.

[evilmissbecky.livejournal.com]

I can never stand to have my dialogue limited by poor INT. So I always put WIS and CHA on the chopping block first.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I tend to put WIS even lower than INT. Except in PS:T, of course, when you need wisdom and intelligence in order to recover your memories, and open up millions of dialogue options and plot points. That was quite a wrench - having to create a character that had points in all those attributes I normally ignore.

Did you ever finish PS:T, by the way?

[evilmissbecky.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't. Although it's the next game I want to turn to.

Right now I'm still working sloooowly on my solo-no-reloads game. Last night with the help of a few scrolls of Protection from Undead, I went through the Shade Lord's temple. Although I tiptoed past the dragon and let him be. No way am I facing a dragon on a no-reloads game!

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

Ha, you should try the stress of LARP. No reloads there either, plus you can't just "accidentally" pull the plug if things are going wrong :-)