It's been a loooong while....
Since I wrote anything in here. Well yeh I guess its been a while since I went on a bit of a ramble and yes thats exactly what this post will be, something of a random bunch of strangeness. Looking over the last lot of stuff it seems to be a strange mix of storys and pics and I guess I just havn't talked about life for a bit. Not the I'm gonna talk about RL ooooh no as I tend to think that kinda thing is best confined to the Angst Kids at Live Journal. However I will say this will be something akin to low quality blog post. Normally I don't write anything that I don't think will be of interest or amusement to others. But sometimes its nice to take stock and look at whats gone on and whats coming.... a snapshot of my Calypso life so to speak.
So yeh stuff been going on... I seem to remember a little while ago I went on a break but it didn't last long but can't for the life of me remember why... Ah well. A long long long LONG time ago I mentioned a little
PE project of mine called "PENpal". So an update on that (not that anyone cares cause I never gave them anything info wise to actually care about) it got to a certain point and well and truely stopped but for me, even if it never gets going again it was very usefull experience. Long term I have some nice ideas for what I guess would be phase 3 of the project which would of course be truely cool! Phase 3 would link it to my other project which I may not have mentioned called Wildstar. I actually did some stuff on Wildstar the other night and I guess you could say its coming along nicely but that said its been ages since I LAST worked on it so go figure. haha maybe I'm just rubbish?
Well actually as regards time and deadlines I know I am but I've been pretty good with my latest
PE hobby which as some people might know is of course writing for the Calypso Post. I havn't really mentioned this at all really save for a taster for the story I had in last issue so will drone on for a minute on that subject. Yeh was a funny one really, can't quite remember how it happened but I guess of late I've been feeling literally STARVED of
PE fan fiction.
Where have all the writers gone???? (sob!)
I guess I should write some more of my own really but lately the ideas I've been having have been either slightly on the dark messed up side or are for small parts of things that are too long or.... yeh. The guys at CP would like me to write stories for them as they too can't find writers but alas, a story for a mag is a funny one as it needs to be done to a deadline, short and have a decent amount of action and more to the point an actual conclusion which is something I'm utterly shit at including!
oops back to the point yeh I was pretty much looking for ANYTHING
PE related to read and stumbled across the mag (amongst some fantastic others mind you) and hmm not sure really I guess I saw their add and applied. I'd started writing the "Brief History of Sweat" "story" and asked them if they wanted it and they did!
Where upon.... it got
er... longer...
er MUCH longer so in the end it got split over two issues. Odd story really as I kind of meant it originally to be a send up account of the economic issues surrounding sweat but, like this post, it sorta evolved and I guess in the end I created something a little more serious. Still it was GREAT to get it in such a lovely presented issue (the designer really is ACE) and I had some really nice feedback (especially the guy who liked the RDI report cause I really struggled with the formal language there) from some well known players too so all in all I'm pretty happy.
On the plus side of course it meant I automatically get something in TCP5 so I'm really looking forward to seeing how it comes out (we don't see it before release so its a lovelly supprise to see what the designer does with your work). The feedback from Marco on issue 4 was of course fantastic and to get it on the Developer Blog...? just something awsome! I was REALLY really glad the Feffoid comics I made got a special mention too.
So yeh on to the next issue. Its a funny one was cause everyones really really excited now about the mag and if we all feel this level of enthusiasm there's a good chance it will keep going and not suffer that 4 issue then nothing brick wall that so many
PE mags have hit in the past. (save for
MA of course who astounding hit the 1 issue brick wall but never mind
the Gate was cool so I'll forgive them!) Comms wise, its all gone a bit quiet lately but Neva keeps popping up occasionally with a whole bunch of acronyms, enthusiam and something about a merger... haha I don't even think he's read my article yet
Contribution wise, I really don't have a clue whats gonna be in the next issue but hopefully it will have the continuation of ABHOS and the article I sent them earlier this month among other things. I've got a bit of a problem with TCP to be honest is that I keep coming up with new ideas for articles faster than I can write them! This can only be a good thing though as if we keep chucking them in the ideas book then, with any luck, the magazine will keep going for ages to come. If we can beat the GATE on issue numbers that truely would be fantastic!
So yeh.,... what else has been going on? Well the game seems to be ticking over quite nicely really and I reckon this has probably been the first time I've been really indifferent about the upcoming delayed VU. To be honest, I havn't even been to all the new locations from the last VU yet, and with all these art galleries and the like popping up how one could ever get bored I'll never know. What else to say? Man, theres so much! All the bank stuff is pretty exciting and I'm really looking forward to seeing how Anshe's cross game trading stuff comes out as, according the folks at the virtual world conference, crossing boundaries like this is exactly what everyone was asking how to do. I had some fun with Lovely Sunny Chung though the other week which, with out going into details, resulted in Anshe giving me a 100ped reward!
The dress she was wearing would have course been prefferable but 100ped is still 100ped ("not when the price is 200ped!"
). I'm hoping of course that she doesn't find reason to give me any more rewards but I have to admit it was kinda fun and exciting to be able to help her out.
So guess I'll end by looking a bit to the future. CP wise I've got some great ideas including for example, the revival of "The Calypso Comic" of the GATE fame. I've also started working on a rather ambitious idea for an "event" which, unlike other events should be accessible to EVERYONE from total newbie to seasoned vet without either having any significant advantage. Lets just hope that for once I'll be able to finish something and that some of these ideas will some time see the light of day
One final note: McCormick ROCKS!
Wistrel
PS Here you find an example of how utterly terrible my writing is when I don't plan, don't edit, and don't consider structure grammar or spelling. This pile of randomness you find above you really was just dribbled onto the page
PPPPSssssssssss I wanna get to 3000 page views! Please Help!
