kingandy | Bell, book and candle

Hmm. NTL's webmail service is being shit and taking hours to load each page. Maybe I will move over to using Alex's webmail service, it might be more reliable.

There's a bunch of stuff that I haven't been telling people about.

renniek gave me her old phone, since she's on a contract service and gets a new phone every few days or something. Don't worry, though, I've kept the same number (just moved the SIM over). As with any phone there's one or two annoying features - it doesn't have as good a ringtone editor as my old one, and the games aren't as fancy - but I've managed to deactivate the most annoying one (Answer On Open, meaning if it's ringing then opening the phone to look at the screen makes it answer without giving you a chance to see who's calling. That's turned off now, so if I hate you or think you smell I can just divert you to voicemail). The phone also has a whole bunch of extra fancy features, though, and I think they balance out the niggles.

Oh - big news! Finally got payment (and free copy of book) for work done 18 months ago. Four of my illustrations appear in The Lords of the Night: Vampires. I have yet to read through and see if it's any good though. It provides a whole bunch of Vampire templates that can be overlaid onto existing characters and a few new spells and items (most of them only of use to vampires). I'm not sure, but I think it may be exceptionally snacky - most of them add 1-3 effective character levels and provide shedloads of stat bonuses. You do get a number of drawbacks with it though (good, traditional vampire weaknesses - sunlight, stakes, must feed on human blood, that sort of thing), and they pile on as you gain vampire powers. The author does vaguely stick to the general d20 policy of portraying evil as a bad thing and good as good ("oh we dwell in darkness and torment and suckiness"), but there's a certain amount of building up the vampires as cool and hard also.

Froth continues to build for the yet-to-be-launched Maelstrom LRP. I am holding off making a commitment to a group until (a) the rules are released and (b) I listen to all my friends' community ideas. Currently I've only had a firm pitch from the Sunderland Massif, which is quite appealing. Without going into too much detail I can say that I would need to acquire some manner of oriental-style costume - either a Kimono or one of those cool chinese shirt/jackets that has lots of buttons at the front (as worn by Micah in Mac Hall). Yeah, like one of these or these or whatever. Aw, shit me yeah, one of these here Kung Fu Suits would be just the ticket. So - if and when I make my mind up - would anyone help me to make one?

Have drawn a picture of

wulfboy. Can't scan it until about Sunday, though, so nah.