First, I spent some time after I got into work kind of interested in my old musings. Like I said, my old LJ is actually still around, possessing records from back to early '03, after I had switched from freeonlinediary.com, which might be defunct. At least it has been tonight. I had switched from LiveJournal to Xanga after a bunch of my friends collectively went 'afk' and I met an active Xanga community on SIUE campus. When I re-started an LJ, I tried half-heartedly to get my old journal back - after all, it had my friggin' name! But I really felt like a different person, writing to a different audience, so I didn't really feel like working too hard.
Still, I was curious. In my first days rooming at SIUE, I wrote my eulogy to Hunter S. Thompson and exhorted people to vote. Back in '03, my writing was bleak, rambling, and terribly depressing. I spoke to![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
duc_de_duras about the dynamic of friending someone, then reading significant portions of their archives (in my case, basically all available posts because of the nature of this gig), he mentioned he read all mine 'cause I only had around two. Well, actually, I have a few more at thanatos02 if people are interested in maudlin whining. I'm probably going to try to track down all my old journals and archive them for personal interest, and I'm severly tempted to go to my old LJ and comment a bunch of those posts. It's so weird to see stuff I used to write.
Still, I was curious. In my first days rooming at SIUE, I wrote my eulogy to Hunter S. Thompson and exhorted people to vote. Back in '03, my writing was bleak, rambling, and terribly depressing. I spoke to
duc_de_duras about the dynamic of friending someone, then reading significant portions of their archives (in my case, basically all available posts because of the nature of this gig), he mentioned he read all mine 'cause I only had around two. Well, actually, I have a few more at thanatos02 if people are interested in maudlin whining. I'm probably going to try to track down all my old journals and archive them for personal interest, and I'm severly tempted to go to my old LJ and comment a bunch of those posts. It's so weird to see stuff I used to write.So, OWoD crap. Why? I was sitting around the kitchen table plotting character development for the Cam LARP when conversation turned to why I'd agree to play a Masquerade LARP. While my answer was that I was kind of pumped to be able to play something from the Kindred of the East line (which is true)*, it's hard to turn down the kind of enthusiastic group that does something like this.
Considering I'm ambivilent about the setting changes between Masquerade and Requiem overall, that kind of enthusiasm is a big deal for me. Not just from the ST, either, but the whole group is turning out material. All for a grand total of three games.
Which isn't totally true. At this point, it's fairly long running, it's just a game with big breaks in the storyline. I think this is the third campaign, which means that there might be between 9 and 15 games before all is said and done.
* I've always chalked this up between a bit of exoticism and genuine interest in the posited setting. Year of the Lotus stuff always seemed to be a weird mix between thoughtful and chop-socky kung fu, which meshed oddly with the larger World of Darkness.
Considering I'm ambivilent about the setting changes between Masquerade and Requiem overall, that kind of enthusiasm is a big deal for me. Not just from the ST, either, but the whole group is turning out material. All for a grand total of three games.
Which isn't totally true. At this point, it's fairly long running, it's just a game with big breaks in the storyline. I think this is the third campaign, which means that there might be between 9 and 15 games before all is said and done.
* I've always chalked this up between a bit of exoticism and genuine interest in the posited setting. Year of the Lotus stuff always seemed to be a weird mix between thoughtful and chop-socky kung fu, which meshed oddly with the larger World of Darkness.
