I spent this entire last week slaving over Order of the White Rose documents. Yep that's right! For no pay and no gain, and even MORE insane, for a game!

But I was a bonafide geek for years now, I suppose I can't hide it.

I'm actually only halfway through the work, but made a serious breakthrough finishing the last two documents. So I'm feeling really good right now.

I'm looking at my rpol games and realizing "sheesh, those aren't even hard compared to what I was doing for the Order!" Hah! Yep, the complexity of writing recruit training lessons -- given information that takes some interpretation to write in a coherent manner -- defeats any difficulty I've had with RPoL recently.

Okay, maybe I still hate writing Exalted combat right now. But I think ANY RP post would be a break over all that nitpicking over lesson wording. *wobbles*

Right now though I really just want to rest (and by rest I mean poke at facebook apps and mess with the few RPoL posts I AM committed to doing this week).

But I'm sitting here playing DR on the new year. Yeah, I'm a dork. Jon and I have our hotel reservation and stuff, though! We just wanted to do it post holiday so it wouldn't be too crazy outside. I'm not one for loud noises and crowds. :(

Talli is circle 44 now. Flying through the ranks with my improved scripts (need to write a short bow one now!) In fact I've been scripting all day while beating my head over this horribly difficult post in Soul Collectors which I FINALLY finished. x.x I am seriously hating Exalted combat right now. I either need to be better organized, or White Wolf needs to stop having rules for similar concepts (i.e. mutations, undead, etc.) spread over TOO MANY different books.

On the other hand Selina said she might run a FFT game and let me play a viera in it. Sounds fun. We are both going to be busy with college entry stuff this Jan, though. Ugh, not looking forward to it, I've been procrastinating this time around because of how discouraged I felt last time I applied but couldn't go. I intend to send before Jan 15 though, one way or another. I just hope they won't need more of my transcripts. Gah.

We're gonna have fondue and booze now, so... woo! (AND I'm going to try and sneak a couple more posts in before then. I wanted to do them before but that Soul Collectors post just KILLED all my time.)

Well we couldn't really go out today due to lack of money (well, sorta... we were waiting for Jon's money to come in but it hadn't yet) and also the fact that it's incredibly cold out today. :( On top of that, I have been sleeping totally screwed up hours lately and can't seem to fix that.

We are going to formally celebrate sometime early January though... already booked the hotel and stuff. I'll stick an announcement up about that later! Jon and I are going to spend some alone time with each other then. <3

I am terrible at multitasking... It makes me slow at everything. When I was doing RPoL, DR, chatting to Kalli and others on AIM, AND poking at my facebook account, that was pretty crazy. o.O It's especially made me incredibly slow in RPoL, which means I will have to be stricter with myself. Stay off IMs and script DR while writing... play DR fully while chatting... write RPoL and chat a bit, maybe. And etc.

I think my limit is 2 ;) Should remember that when I'm back in college again!

So the two biggest RP related things distracting me lately are:

1) The continuation of Five Coils. I managed to kick this into starting again by doing a big ol' fast forward and moving on to a different scenario. I hope I can keep it up and get people past Earth District, where I may be dropping a couple of players. There's twelve total, right now.

2) Soul Collectors, take three. Yeah, I gave into temptation and restarted it. I brought in a couple of players from Academy, really active and creative players. And I kept the others who were already going to join but didn't get to play much last time. The group is quite interesting, consisting of a Zenith Solar, a Full Moon Lunar, a Slayer Infernal (!), a Dusk Abyssal (Saisen, of course) and two Sidereals (a Secrets and an Endings. These are the two new players!)

I'm incredibly excited but incredibly nervous to run SC again. I really hope it'll work out. I hand picked even better players this time, I like to think. And I have plans for the next 3 missions or so that should take us through months of play. I just hope I don't end up posting too slow!

Iridescent Asaka is a Chosen of Serenity I made for a Sidereal game (now with 100% more Glories of the Most High!) I don't know yet if I'll get in the game, but the character herself has certain similarities to Ryshy. Admittedly, Asaka isn't nearly so fragile or weak but she still was subjected to abuses and unfair treatment from her mother.

Also, possible (but not confirmed, 'cause that's creepy) incestuous father relationship. Oh, how I thought I was done with such things! *peers at Archana*

Asaka is also my first character who's a tattooed woman. Full body tattooed, except maybe for hands, feet and face (mostly for disguise purposes, she may not want everyone seeing the tattoos). She is also my first take on a Chosen of Serenity courtesan, which makes people go "wat!" if they realize how much I normally dislike those kinds of characters. Not courtesans, but people who play up the sexual aspect of Serenity.