Original Spycraft mod

I browsed around the Fair Trade Fair in the campus center yesterday, and bought a pretty square woven basket-- patially out of a desire to support the artisans, and partially because I've been wanting a nice basket to use as a serving dish. Maybe I'll lay a nice napkin inside it and use it for my upcoming artichoke fritters. 

Today I ran Spycraft for a gang of Ryan, Taylor, Emma, and Bernie. It's a mod of my own creation, and I will be the first to tell you that it isn't that great. It's just that for a while it seemed like there weren't going to be any more pre-generated mods, and on top of that Bernie wanted to play once in a while instead of run, so I knocked out a quick and dirty story just so people would have something to play. In all honesty, it ran a lot better than I thought it would; some of the players enjoyed it at least most of the time, and I can conclude it's decently playable. It needs a good deal of editing, and it's got another problem inherent in the fact that its plot is a near-identical adaptation of a spy story from a different medium. Bernie ended up recognizing it, and that caused a bit of a problem. Ah, well. I think it could be cleaned up to be into a half-decent mod.

Heh. Between this, Alice, Woodsmen, and Oz... one of these days I need to do something that's not derivative. ;-)

And I totally just got Taylor to play "Sky Pirates" from TaleSpin on his computer for the whole group. Awesome.

Good news!

I just got an e-mail telling me that I got in off the waitlist for "All's Well that Ends," the Elizabethan larp about the death of Christopher Marlowe at Intercon! I'm delighted; I really wanted to be in this game, given the setting and the connection to Doctor Faustus. So that was a very happy surprise to find in my inbox.

I also recieved, and promptly filled out, the casting questionnaire for League of Extraordinary Hogwarts Students. My excitement for that game was renewed with the questions involving Victorian literature. Phoebe loves the Viclit, you see. I'm very excited to see what captainecchi and electric_d_monk can do with the intriguing combination of steampunk and magic, especially with the characters from Viclit in mix.

Heh. It just occurred to me that I will be in an Elizabethan game, and then a Victorian game. I like!