Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Burn the Land and Boil the Sea

You can't take the sky from me!

A lovely song, isn't it? I love singing the Ballad of Serenity on my way home from work. I find it saturates sometimes. In these times where it's very possible that a crazy little North Korean may very well start World War Three because he's just that attention starved, it's nice to have a little ditty that can lift you past the worries of the world. Now we aren't even sure if he really set off a nuke, and if he didn't just bury a whole bunch of firecrackers in the dirt. Then we have the tragedy of Chris Lidle. I think I was one of a hundred million people out there who's first thought, sadly, was terrorist. The straw of it all, though, is it's not even Halloween yet, and KMart's set up it's Christmas decorations. I've come to two realizations this week.
First: If something doesn't change soon, Earth That Is will become Earth That Was, right quick. I say this not to be a Doomsayer, nor sermonize, preachify and prophisize. I say this more as a matter of fact. It's just a natural consequence of the foolishness the world's leaders continue to follow.
Second: The only thing I can really control is my own life.
I think that's why I'm such a gaming freak. I get a chance to determine the outcome of "kingdoms", "realms", "empires", and "alliances", all in a nice little safe environment. Much like story tellers of old, I weave a tale of mystery, magic, and heroism. At the very least, I hope I do. I also get to play pretty fairly often. The gaming group I'm with is a great group, my favorite group of gamers to be exact. It's the most intelligent group of player I've ever had the chance to game with. Each gaming session is enjoyable. It's also fun just to hang out, without games. Not many groups I know that are like that.
There are many things that one learns through out life. In my case, I learned today that I am really, really, really bad about my little OCD towards gaming when I'm not on my happy brain meds. Hehehehe...
I just finished reading the end of the story for The Battle at the Tomb, for L5R. I'm a little disappointed in some things that seem to of occurred, but happy about other aspects to things. I love Legends of the Five Rings. It's a great game. The ever changing and evolving storyline is one of my favorite environments to read, game, and collect. The writers that they have are great. I will admit, being a Crab-Scorpion-Shadowlands-Crane (In that order.) player (Hey, why did you Rokugani followers all just shiver?) I found the current storyline interesting. I love the idea of noble sacrifice from heroes. Not too keen though that all my favorite characters keep getting whacked (zotched, killed).
My only complaint about L5R right now, is the RPG stuff is a little low right now. I'm not too sure how the new rules covers the old d20 stuff. There were some things that were converted on the website. But then again, there were some things that weren't converted.
Right now, my wife is running a great L5R game. It's fun. I'm currently playing the Scorpion duelist in the group, and a good friend is playing the former Phoenix Clan void shugenja, who is now married to my duelist. She's is doing great.
The Scene: Following the villains, the group is stuck in the midst of a blizzard. The only shugenja in the group hears the complaints of the snow maiden complaining about the rude behaviors of the villains.
The Resolution: Innocently, the shugenja offers the snow maiden some approriate services, and also sells out our Kituski magistrate (who is the most pure in heart) to the snow maid. Now, the poor little Dragon is being followed around by a ice spirit who's interested in having her heart warmed. It is official, she is no longer Phoenix. Mwahahaha....
You have to admit, that's pretty fun. It's great to have situations like that on a regular basis.
Another thing I'd like to mention, as it's Monday now, is Heroes! If you have not watched this show, and you read my Blog, then you are a false geek, and possibly a government agent. Hmm...
Mat's personal opinion... I think I agree with the theory my friend, Bob, suggested, that the stripper is the Hulk-like character. I'm just a little concerned if she changes form. I'm also scared that the alternate mentality seems smarter than the primary.
Well, I think that's all for today. I've actually been working on this post for almost a week. I think the plan is to try to be more up on this in the future.
Check you all later.

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