Diplomacy is a good bit of fun over RISK… Poor Russia.

His faith in Germany and Turkey was misplaced!

Sketched in biro on a till receipt… classy

(Oh and forgive me if some posts/pages are dodgy… I’ve enabled gravatars on them and it is having a little war with the columns I make use of, when I get a chance I’ll fix it…)

(This is a quick one)

I’m not sure really what I was doing with this originally but it took shape, anybody want to make a suggestion about where to go with it?

140 character limit, quick and dirty rhyme often easiest but open to all kinds of use…

I once saw a shadow and the shadow saw me, I guessed one and it guessed three. It slunk left and I slid right, into black and out of sight.

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A moogle here, a moogle there, a moogle in your underwear. Don’t tell Cloud, remain proud and invest it in some quick repair!

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A tweet for a twit. A flutter, a peck, an extended neck. A snap & a sigh. A Cloud o’ feathers & unwrit letters; an aviators untimely demise!

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I’ve done three fairly random Tweet Poems and while I cannot protest towards any great quality I found them mildly enjoyable and amusing to create. Why not have a go (You don’t have to be a Twitter user, just limit yourself to 140 characters) and comment with your own efforts?

I may have ranted at some point in regards to a roleplay system that a friend was working on. It is a three-in-one style affair, one part steam, one part cyber and a dusting of hell on earth(Though the current release is only the steampunk side). The play tests have gone fairly well with lots of tweaks along the way, this system can be a harsh mistress on the unwary… bullets hurt, they hurt you to death!

Currently Mr. Jones, the tragically surnamed author of said enterprise is searching for harsh critique of the system by parties of an external nature (to his current pool of neighbourhood play testers). With the aid of technology we can provide access to a wiki containing all you need to run a game… you can leave comments on this entry or if you are a member of RPGnet then there is a thread here.

Anno Geometrica wiki (AGwiki) LIVE @ geometrica.papermages.co.uk

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Little has changed since CR#6 as I have had very little time to enjoy Pattern Recognition which I am close to finishing off at last… I am mostly eager to begin devouring a work that I have been needing to read for some time, mostly ever since a tutor referred to me as the Scarlet Pimpernel.

In some respects Pattern Recognition is becoming a firm favourite for me in regards to William Gibson, it just feels very at home in the current social climate.

I’ve recently managed to watch the Earthsea attempt that the Sci-Fi channel made and despite my alarm at the trailer it wasn’t quite as BAD as I thought it would be, I read the Earthsea Quartet at such a young age that I was hazy on enough of the plot to not be irritated by anything I saw before me…

However I know really want to read all four again and I haven’t got my own copy. *sigh*
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At some point in the last year or so I became a roleplayer, I suppose I was always in a precarious position and vulnerable to such sociable means of generating stories… and roleplay at its core draws from a desire to weave or partake in a collective fiction.
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I got distracted and ended up doing a new logo… I really, really liked the old one but it was consistently misleading with ‘Muggles’ as a buzz word for wizarding fans around the world. The new one took a whole lot of tweaking, I have been having monitor calibration woes on/off for awhile so I really hope it displays as true to form as possible.

If it helps the old logo was thus:

This currently means I still owe my two-three readers two comics/pretty-things and some decent blog entries. I shall try to do this buuuutttt… there is a copy of the oh-so-lovely ‘Mark of Chaos’ that needs dealing with defeating… I am but a mortal man, with mortal game playing needs.
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(On some Instinctual level I think that title is way too long)

A Twittering Individual who followed me of late peaked my “Who be this?” twitch and I stumbled on an entry about an entry that was about (what appears to be…) a currently raging debate on the various Twitter-like services out there. I ended up commenting on that entry and then the origin because it seemed appropriate but since I expressed a more rounded view than I thought I had on the matter I’m making an oh-so dangerous posting here. The Gaping Void post.

The general feel I have for services like Twitter is that they provide a very easy and very simple way to get the information and thoughts out there for people who don’t want the responsibility of running a blog, want to avoid the invasive data-mining of the social network and very quickly fire off something witty, something silly, something topical or genuinely answer that all important Twitter question… What are you doing?
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I got fairly carried away after my Steampunk binges after finding the Brass Goggles blog and all the lovely sites that branched out from that most glorious of hubs, this led to coffee fuelled rent-a-poem activity…

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Steampunk Lovers

I love cogs and I love goggles,
I love gears and antique peddles.
Show me gloves and golden watches,
Residue, flame and adventurous swatches.

Give me a style we near forgot,
Apply it to now, a hybrid begot.
Harness the light, the kinetics and steam,
Paint for us now, a Victorian Gleam.

For inventor’s beauty should never die
And old industry be left to lie,
While Gentlefolk like you and I
Hold wit and passion to make it fly!

by Thomas P. Leahy

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It could perhaps benefit with a few choice edits/corrections/additions. Consider it a first draft at best.

Edit: On a re-read the last four need changing…

I’ve been doodling away with my cheap-zilla graphics tablet and dreaming of a wacom on/off while dodging overtime shifts and doing some very light roleplay game testing…

I also sorted our a character for a Warhammer 40,000 roleplay game… The rulebook costs £35!!! Yowch.

At best it is worth £20 even if it is very pretty. A large portion of it is re-hashed source material and not worthy of a £35 price tag… these days the miniature game rulebooks cost £55 or more I suppose, I wouldn’t know since I gave up on GW some time ago, I only hope WoW miniatures aren’t limited to a skirmish system so as to truly challenge GW for dominance, maybe then we’ll see some realistic pricing.

Despite the crimes of GW, their games remain a rich backdrop for fantasy/sci-fi warfare.

what am i talking about? [This]

Due to a buggy plugin I am cheating slightly with some materials…it just means I need to create threads to collect comments. I could direct people to the forum but I don’t want to force registration on people who have the decency to read through my writing attempts.

I have a quick feedback point myself:

He swung the weapon up, wildly gesturing as he tried to aim blind; his very arm rebelled against the weight, as if it was aware the rest of him was falling away and that it was being unfairly used.

Instead of, ‘unfairly used.’ Perhaps, ‘unfairly pressed.’ Or something else?

I have completely lost all discipline with character dialogue, with any luck that situation will improve.