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Somewhere on the Net...
Feb. 24th, 2004 12:37 pmYou know you're bored when you start randomly googling things. I have the attention span of a gnat, today - I only need to wait five minutes until I can start on the next batch of samples at work, but already my mind has wandered.
Just found out that I'm behind eight of the top ten mentions of my username, on Google :-)![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bonesinger referred to me as Morsla at her Pirate Party (while offering me cake, no less), and a surprising number of people seem to be doing that these days. Mainly from game-related forums, but I seem to have accidentally grown a new name, with no conscious effort on my part. Interesting...
In other news, I started writing another game. Bits of World of Darkness, Books of Magic, Sandman, cyberpunk, Underworld (not the film), Neverwhere, Matrix, and everything else that has caught my eye. It's probably closest to a Mage game, but without any of the WW rules - Big Eyes Small Mouth does everything I need a system to do, and people can learn it in under five minutes. Sounds like a plan.
The setting is present-day Melbourne, with a revamp on the tired old gothic-punk setting - supernaturals are very much the minority, because I'm getting sick of the "super-powerful-ancient-forces-that-control-mankind" cliche. Despite that, I think there will be more acceptance of "paranormal" influences - Joe Public has some understanding of what he shares his city with, and the smaller populations remove the need for Masquerades/Veils/The Mists/etc.
The best thing about writing is that you never have to worry about boredom while travelling to and from work :-) Suddenly, that train trip really doesn't take long at all...
Just found out that I'm behind eight of the top ten mentions of my username, on Google :-)
bonesinger referred to me as Morsla at her Pirate Party (while offering me cake, no less), and a surprising number of people seem to be doing that these days. Mainly from game-related forums, but I seem to have accidentally grown a new name, with no conscious effort on my part. Interesting...In other news, I started writing another game. Bits of World of Darkness, Books of Magic, Sandman, cyberpunk, Underworld (not the film), Neverwhere, Matrix, and everything else that has caught my eye. It's probably closest to a Mage game, but without any of the WW rules - Big Eyes Small Mouth does everything I need a system to do, and people can learn it in under five minutes. Sounds like a plan.
The setting is present-day Melbourne, with a revamp on the tired old gothic-punk setting - supernaturals are very much the minority, because I'm getting sick of the "super-powerful-ancient-forces-that-control-mankind" cliche. Despite that, I think there will be more acceptance of "paranormal" influences - Joe Public has some understanding of what he shares his city with, and the smaller populations remove the need for Masquerades/Veils/The Mists/etc.
The best thing about writing is that you never have to worry about boredom while travelling to and from work :-) Suddenly, that train trip really doesn't take long at all...
