Where are they all GOING at ten in the morning?

[kingandy]

For the last two days I have awoken in Bolton and proceeded, upon being ejected from the house by gowhonker, towards Stretford in an orderly fashion.  This has turned out to be a frighteningly bad idea.  Before the hour of 11AM any and all roads heading even vaguely towards Manchester are completely and utterly packed full of cars.  Today I tried going over to Worsley, in order to avoid the M60 altogether, but it seems there are many folk who have the same idea also.

I eventually got home after a stop in Asda, where I bought storage crates for my LRP kit and the latest issue of PC Zone - DVD edition - which apparently comes with a copy of the Everquest 2 avatar creation software.  This strikes me as a Good Idea and may make up for the loss of the City of Heroes one.  Here's hoping.

in other news, I got a call from a job agency asking if they could put me forward for a job somewhere between Knutsford and Altrincham, which isn't too far away. Fingers crossed.

UPDATE: Yeah, the character generator thing is okay, and you get to be a lot more specific about the facial features (as I gather is common in this type of game, where clothing is determined by what clothing you put on in-game). It's no substitute for CoH though. Sigh.

Comments

[renniek.livejournal.com]

It's OK going from north towards central or south Manchester if you set off before 7am...

[mrssshhh.livejournal.com]

The EQ2 CharGen isn't as powerful as the Star Wars Galaxies one, but again, you have to actually subscribe to use it, and it only kits you in basic clothes.

That said, in SWG there are people who actually run businesses selling clothes, so there's an immense number of character possibilites.

And finally, the male wood elf's face in the EQ2 CharGen gives me the fear - all the features are too close to the centre.