That Friday Feeling
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kingandyAh, there's nothing quite like the feeling you get when there's half an hour to go, nothing particularly pressing to get on with, and you don't have to come in to work tomorrow.
Yes, it's Tuesday. What of it?
So, yeah, I have three weeks of holidays due me. I have to use them up before the end of March so I am taking them on alternating weeks, starting tomorrow. This is, of course, purely because I have not taken any holidays in the last eleven months aside from the odd day to sort out cars or visit the dentist. And illness, which doesn't count. (And anyway I've only had about three sick days...)
Tonight is geek. I have to level up Woodrun, whoops. I have pretty much decided on barbarian. Because he is, the little savage.
I've had a fad recently of playing uncivilised folk - Woodrun the Ghostwise halfling, Ngawa the tropical island shaman. (Even Sylvan Butts the ranger, though that was somebody else in disguise.) It's partly because I was trying to get away from my two earlier stereotypes, the intelligent-but-naive genial type and the fists-first brawler (in that order - the second was an attempt to get away from the first). I have played a lot of characters that don't fall into these categories - probably more than do - but these are the "default settings" that always form in my mind when I'm trying to think of a character. "I'll be really genial and clever," I think, and then "No, I always do that," even though I don't really, "I'll play a combat character. No, wait, that's too much like Character X, how about somebody who's ... uneducated and lives in the forest! Yeah." This is going to hit an extreme with my Maelstrom character. Hopefully after that I'll have exorcised it from my system and will be able to find another archetype to latch onto and work over until it dies.
... Oh, now that I think on it, I do have another archetype ... I frequently play metalworkers. Mechanics, blacksmiths, starship engineers. I think the key thing is the repair skill ... and a certain detatchment regarding actual events, as long as he gets to work on his machines.
Repairmen, natureboys, librarians ... oh, for a really world-class psychologist.
Yes, it's Tuesday. What of it?
So, yeah, I have three weeks of holidays due me. I have to use them up before the end of March so I am taking them on alternating weeks, starting tomorrow. This is, of course, purely because I have not taken any holidays in the last eleven months aside from the odd day to sort out cars or visit the dentist. And illness, which doesn't count. (And anyway I've only had about three sick days...)
Tonight is geek. I have to level up Woodrun, whoops. I have pretty much decided on barbarian. Because he is, the little savage.
I've had a fad recently of playing uncivilised folk - Woodrun the Ghostwise halfling, Ngawa the tropical island shaman. (Even Sylvan Butts the ranger, though that was somebody else in disguise.) It's partly because I was trying to get away from my two earlier stereotypes, the intelligent-but-naive genial type and the fists-first brawler (in that order - the second was an attempt to get away from the first). I have played a lot of characters that don't fall into these categories - probably more than do - but these are the "default settings" that always form in my mind when I'm trying to think of a character. "I'll be really genial and clever," I think, and then "No, I always do that," even though I don't really, "I'll play a combat character. No, wait, that's too much like Character X, how about somebody who's ... uneducated and lives in the forest! Yeah." This is going to hit an extreme with my Maelstrom character. Hopefully after that I'll have exorcised it from my system and will be able to find another archetype to latch onto and work over until it dies.
... Oh, now that I think on it, I do have another archetype ... I frequently play metalworkers. Mechanics, blacksmiths, starship engineers. I think the key thing is the repair skill ... and a certain detatchment regarding actual events, as long as he gets to work on his machines.
Repairmen, natureboys, librarians ... oh, for a really world-class psychologist.
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Date: 2004-02-24 09:10 am (UTC)Again.. this one fails the Turing test.
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Date: 2004-02-24 09:15 am (UTC)