June 28, 2006
The End of an Era
The culmination of the largest and most complex campaign I have ever taken part in has sort of redefined how I look at plot arcs.
Deus, which followed Pax, is over now. I have a lot of touch up to do on the last three sessions of Rei's story, but there is only the retelling; the story has finished.
I greatly appreciate all the hard work the GM's and co-GMs have had to put into Deus. I can not imagine running something on that scale. If I'm given another chance to play in a game primarily created/run by Curtis Reuden I'm planning to jump on it. Despite the slow points and my frustrations with my character, he is an amazing GM and a very talented storyteller.
I struggled a bit with what Rei would want to do with the rest of her life. I have most of a draft of an answer, but it is hard for me to look very far forward for her. My current version goes through a rather vague description of the next 200 years, but past that it seemed to me like what was happening in the world might really change what she wanted to do.
I was also a bit annoyed by the whole issue of Rei someday choosing a mate and perhaps having children. Her childhood was filled with a sad mish-mash of different cultural beliefs about what mating and childrearing that complicate everything. She tends to favor the beliefs of her adoptive parents as she thinks her birth mother is a psycho bitch. I can imagine her having relationships and perhaps committing to a single mate, but I find it hard to imagine her having kids. I suppose a few hundred years down the road when she was less impulsive and generally grumpy she might decide it was something she wanted, but without knowing more about the intervening years it seems hard to predict.
Anyway, I'm hoping to have the rest of the notes up in the next week or two so that I won't forget all the details.
June 14, 2006
I've put up more junk on various parts of my website.
Just in case you lost your emails for Clerical Error, it now has a very
borring informational page.
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