Insomnia, wiki futzing, Soul Collectors thoughts.

Mrrrr... I napped around 1 am and woke up at 5 am. Good going, me!

I'm messing with DarksirenWiki right now. I moved the PmWiki install I did at the beginning of the year over to my backups, and installed DokuWiki. Part of why I'm redoing that wiki yet AGAIN is 'cause I want to put Soul Collectors info on that wiki for my players -- along with other non-Emberdays RP concepts I've had -- and felt PmWiki was a little awkward for what I wanted to do.

(All the stuff about the Anthegenian Cycle and other original works will be going back up on the new wiki, too. I rather like Dokuwiki namespaces and it'll make it easier for me to organize!)

And speaking of wikis... I really want to get back to poking at EDWiki... it's just that all the immigration stuff has killed a great deal of my inspiration. Doesn't mean I can't run, though, I have plenty of stuff planned for ED right now. When I was planning for Iesan's intro (which won't happen for a little while, Grey lost his net again... *sniff*) I also wrote a good deal of planning for the beginning of Chapter 5.

Before that though, I have to make up for the time Iesan won't play, 'cause he's supposed to be in Chapter 5 intro... As I've mentioned, I have minis to poke at. Potentially, I can involve more than one player at a time with said minis. I hope so. I want the game to have people involved as a group, if at all possible.

Not always easy because everyone has different agendas. But. I think people at least have a common goal... for now.

As for Soul Collectors, my character roster seems to be shaping up. :O Whoa. I'm still not going to run for a month or two, but it's nice that I'm getting the players' concepts coming in so soon.

Right now we've got:
- Eni playing a Lunar soul hunter / warrior priestess type thing. With Bleach-ish flavor and weaponry. I dunno much about Bleach but I can imply a bit from what Eni's told me and the pic she drew of her char (Saito Hayaka). I do know that Bleach's concept fits fairly well with what I wanted to do with Soul Collectors, so... woo?
- Jon's character is actually a concept based on a Dragonrealms character, that we originally wanted to bring into B&B. He was supposed to be an Abyssal that desires redemption... and then we were thinking of making him a Solar that was already redeemed... now we're going back towards the idea of an Abyssal that's defected from the Underworld, and has decided to work for Heaven.
- Wally's character is still in consideration. She told me she is considering a Lunar, and wants to look into Solars some more, but seems even more interested in a Sidereal. I'm a little iffy about someone playing a Sidereal as their *first* Exalted chara, but... well, Jon did it? :D And Wally is just one of those people whose writing abilities and RP sensibility I trust.

I MAY have a fourth player but I know Eni is nervous about new people (as am I, really ^^), so I think I am going to play with that person in another game or two before I consider adding her to Soul Collectors or any of my other games. I just recently added her to AIM and we're gonna get together on OpenRPG soon. I'm happy about that. ^_^ I guess if I had a fourth player, she would take the Solar position. :O I kinda like the idea of having one of every Celestial type!

A bit more on Jon's char, since we've been talking about it lately: the circumstances of his corruption/redemption are something we're still working out, but I don't want it to be all cliche, like... "I'm a good guy that got corrupted, and boo hoo, now I see the error of my ways!" I want it to be more of a grey area than that. Like, he already had the potential for darkness before he became Abyssal, and whatever was done to him only exacerbated that fact. There may be some mind-control involved, but it isn't creating something that wasn't already there. Just... focusing it, in a negative fashion.

Oh, and no one else but me would care about this (probably), but the concept is actually based on Saisen. That's Jon's Elothean Paladin in DR. His god is Phelim, the positive aspect of Damaris, who is the shadowy / thief-y sort of god in Elanthia. This means of course that I will definitely be putting Talliska into Soul Collectors in some way, as she is his mate both in DR and Exalted. Mmm, jaguar Lunar. :D I don't think she'll be a GMPC though, I'm going to opt against having GMPCs in this game. More like an NPC ally, whenever Saisen actually meets her again (they will have been separated for a while; he may even think she is dead.)

Anyway, there's plenty of weeks left for concepts to be fleshed out for all the players. Like, I'll have to talk to Eni about how she wants to make a Bleach-inspired weapon in Exalted, and give Wally some better idea of how Sids function in the AU version of Heaven I'm coming up with. And... stuff!

I have a loooot of background stuff to write for the Soul Collectors page, I think. At this point I don't even have character creation guidelines! But again, I really need the Ex2 Abyssals book to do it right. ^^; I'm excited (and a bit apprehensive) about getting this little game going, though. Oh. And it looks like it will very likely run every other Wednesday evening. It works better for my sanity as well as Wally's schedule to do an every-other-week thing, so... that's likely how it will remain, barred any additional time and interest.