Lyssa

Current Journal Characters

mods_unforgiven
→ Hannah Abbott - isapalindrome

serenusmod
→ Dr. Kelly Holden, aka PUSH - kellyholden

greenwater
→ Emma Grace Frost - thediamondqueen
→ Jean Grey - marvelmarm

Future/Pending Journal Characters

quarantine_ops
→ "Devon" aka ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE BARBIE

( Past Journal Characters )

( Past MUX Characters )

Forgive me for being out of the loop, but I was listening to this in the car and reminded. I know someone else was thinking of this but I wanted to feel out how much interest there would be in making a game based sort of on Hadestown. It would basically be a Greek Mythology type game, just set around the time of the Great Depression.

So think Percy Jackson meets Carnivàle maybe?

Y/N?

Also: I have been working for 7 straight days and I have to work another 4 before I get a day off. Christmas specifically and retail in general can all DIAF, kthx.

I have come to learn that as a female, I am genetically predisposed to love all things Jane Austen. I am watching Pride & Prejudice on blu-ray for the second time in as many days. (As a bonus, the Fiancé is on the couch behind me doing a raid in WoW which means he's being forced to watch it too!)

This has made me decide that I want to play at a Regency era game. Not something strictly set in one of the actual books, just something set in the peirod. Instead of linked journals, just constant letter writing.

Someone please talk sense into me.

Edit: For as much as he was all "I'm not going to watch it, I'll be raiding" he keeps being like "Wait, so who's the creepy one?" and "Isn't the blonde going to marry that guy?" Though I was highly amused by his "Are they gonna bone now?" question, and had to explain that it's the Regency Era, no one bones. Except in

Holy Crap, I totally joined a journal game and want to make one now. Considering the fact that I'm about to be working a ton of overtime at work and am getting married in 15 months, this is probably not, strictly speaking, a good idea. Still: yeah.

HI, INTERNETS! I AM BACK!

Unrelated to LF or Neopolis but I have this awful Superhero RP bug that I haven't been able to get out of my system.

PSL Y/N/M?

Sorry, this post is mondo incoherent. The boyfriend's roommate is watching The Pregnancy Pact on Lifetime and my headphones only do so much to shield me.

I have my first character at quarantine_ops devonaire - who is basically Betsy from CX if she had stayed completely useless. And faced extinction by zombies. It should be interesting going and I'm already thinking of another 2 concepts I might bring in there. I'm taking it slow though, because...

I'm writing again! Like, for realsies! Not that RP and plot-writing isn't real writing, but I'm writing something on my own that could actually maybe sell if it weren't so patently ridiculous. But I don't even care about that, I just really enjoy the need to write that I'm feeling. Like, it distracts me at work and while I covered a register break last night I was scribbling the story down on a post-it. I haven't done that since back in my very first job at the movie theater - back when "The Plan" was to just work a crappy little part time job until I sold some writing and could start to earn a living that way. Back before real life swallowed me whole and I was dragged kicking and screaming into Retail Hell. Before I suddenly stopped noticing that my part time job had a 401k and could accurately be termed "a career."

Anyway. I just felt like sharing this with someone, but most of the people I talk to are still asleep, including my boyfriend who slept through me writing in bed for two hours before I decided typing would be faster. If anyone would like to hear me gush about my ridiculous Steampunk/Pulp Sci-Fi hybrid, feel free to hit me up.

quarantine_ops

Did someone say Zombie Apocalypse game? I THINK THEY DID!

IN other news: O HAI! Looks like Retail has finally spat me back out. And as soon as I get my end-of-January Vacation - which is now occuring beginning-of-February due to work related DOOM, I will most likely want to RP with people in some capacity. If anyone still remembers me, of course. Which, you know, it's cool if you don't: I did kind of vanish for like 4 months. *cough*

I came up with this at work bouncing ideas around wtih Nat and I was up until 5:00 pondering it and watching Dark City so this may not make the most sense.

( Teaser )

( Theme )

( The City )

( The Game )

( Longevity )

So... my computer won't turn on.

I woke up this morning and firefox wouldn't load any pages despite my connection being active (torrents, AIM, a MUX, etc.) and I figured "hey, I'll restart this bad boy before work."

Now whenever I boot it up, it lets me log in and then goes to a blue screen of death and restarts itself. So I'm attempting to fix it now but I have limited time before I have to run to work.

All is not lost - even if the restore doesn't work, I can get to the computer in safe mode, so my files will be safe. If I have to manually burn them off the comp, wipe everything and rebuild, then that's what I have to do. Obvs, I'm hoping system restore works, though.

So anyway! This is my unexpected hiatus notice! I will still have limited access via my phone, which I will use for gtalk (lyssa.hillen) and AIM. I can I'M only, no neochat, sadly. I also hope to have the wireless network up and running in a few days, so I'll update you guys from the laptop once I have more info.

Damn, this tiny keyboard hurts my thumbs...

EDIT: System Restore, not so much. I have to head to work now but I'll be fiddling with this later.

Okay so even though I was like "OMG I cannot handle another game!!1" I have to say that xovermods looks too amazing to pass up. I actually held Mystique first because I was like "Who doesn't love villains, amirite?" and then immediately after that, I was struck with the idea to play

( Mary Jane Watson )

The other thought I had was

( Mystique )

Actually for everything I would really appreciate any advice/hints/tips/plot/ideas that anyone has to offer since I'm v. new to the game but still want in.

Give me one of my characters and one of yours, and I'll tell you how they end up together and what their first-born is like, even if they are unqualified to have children. I might even give you a PB.

I really only play at Neopolis now but feel free to suggest characters from past games. Please please please!

What would you call a game that combined Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Supernatural?

Besides "Cracktastic" I mean.

     → It is weird to see a character application where the character is born the same year as you but has accomplished a shitload of stuff. I mean, yes: I realize that it's a fictional character and that's all well and good that they've accomplished a lot. But reading an app for someone who could actually be, like, a doctor at the age you presently are is a little depressing sometimes, NGL.
     → I'm not sure when the switch happened that I went from playing characters who were a couple of years older than me to playing characters who were, like, 6-8 years younger.
     → The Sims 3 is addictive and this has reaffirmed for me the fact that I will not ever ever play WoW.
     → My PS3 comes today. MY PLAYSTATION THREE WILL BE HERE TODAY OMG!!!!! ...and I have nowhere to put it.
     → Vacation begins tonight at midnight, bitches!

*ahem* Anyway, on a sort of more important note: I need to clean. I need to clean like I have never cleaned before - which is pathetically accurate because looking at the mess? I feel like I legit haven't ever cleaned before. I don't know how long this will take me but I have decided that I'm not stopping for anything other than food or sleep until it gets done. Well, food sleep and recharging my iPod.

So I will probably be scarce until Monday at the absolute earliest. More realistically, I'll see you guys on Tuesday. I'm reachable via GTalk (lyssa.hillen) and GMail and will likely have my phone with me, but be unable to hear it due to my ridiculously good in-ear headphones.

♥!

Those of you who were at FT may recall my obsession with The Sims based on the Sim!Pentamerone I made. Well I've extended that obsession to Neopolis by creating 3 of my characters in Sim version. This is Sims 3 though, so in addition to their 5 outfits, you can customize all sorts of stuff including their personality. Instead of putting dots into attributes, you just pick 5 Traits for your Sim from a list. So anyway here are my Sims with explanations.

( Erin )

( Ricki )

( Erin )

Things I and my characters have done/will get to do during this plot:

Cross-dress

Get shot

Meet a god

Eat Brains

Kill a character off

Bring a character back from the dead

Swing Dance

Plot/attempt to kill Hitler

Protect the time-space continuum

Commit some pretty sweet retroactive continuity

Emily, Julie, Ryan, Sarah: ILU GUYS!

Tags: neo

A list of all the links/threads/posts/things that I should keep an eye on for this plot. I'm doing it here so that if I am illegally surfing the web at work, I can comment here with the links. Also if you happen to post something you think I should know about, please feel free to comment here with a link to it.

( LOL all my characters are in the middle of wars )

Abrupt Hiatus for me. I feel bad because I'm actually active over at Neopolis and everywhere. But I know that the real reason for that is because I'm avoiding my life.

( Cut for wangst: I'll see you guys Monday. )

♥!

Saturday's plan, not in any sort of particular order.

1. Clean out hard drive to make computer run less-like-ass. Goal: 100GB free (as opposed to the 30 I have now)
2. Characters at Star Trek: New Frontiers MUX. Goal: Stat up communications officer and write background for Nurse
3. Work on Starbuck@we_coexist. Goal: Condense history into something a bit less tl;dr
4. Work on Screenplay - should be at 57 pages to be on track for ScriptFrenzy. Goal: 40-45 Pages.

Other vague and conceptual ideas:

Neo: Erin and Cole scene? She's still really hoping to attach herself as someone's plus one for networking purposes.
Strain: Chat w/Michie and stuff.
NextGen: Work of some kind - need to talk with Beth and Kevin.

More immediate goals that I need to do tonight at work. (No, you have no idea what this means.)
- Clean desk - Cleaned half my desk then lost interest
- Clean CRM office - not even a little bit
- Move tables at 11:50 right before we had to leave but yes we did!
- Finish Frontlist Plan Yes but only because someone else did it for me.
- CRM Calendar - A-nope
- Get Newsstand to ISO - Ha, no: though I did work on it a little bit
- Get Gift to ISO. (Gift Card H-Cart?) Annnnnnd no.

Edit: Updated after my shift at work. Consensus? EPIC FAIL.

I'm off work tomorrow so here's what I plan to do with myself:

1) Neopolis. Need to update some stuff and gather up the next Gossipnet - though I think there are only 2 or 3 rumors so far and I've been too sidetracked to be up on what the gossip is. HALP?!

2) Left 4 Dead. This is quickly becoming the most addictive game in the history of ever. EVER. I managed to beat No Mercy without cheating so now I'm determined to beat the whole game without cheating. Then I'll have to get a legit copy so I can play online. Also, must increase my headshot percentage and seek out downloadable content.

3) Zombie Music. Since L4D doesn't have a traditional soundtrack, I will need to find horror/zombie games that do, and obtain their soundtracks so that I have zombie music to listen to while I'm working on

4) The Book. I've tossed it around in my head a bit and now I want to actually get started on it. I'm debating getting a script and setting it up for hosting on my domain. Pro there is that it's less work to organize on my part, although I really like organizing these things by hand. Though online means I could have people check it out as I go, though I'm not sure if that would help/hinder. To those of you who have no idea wtf I'm talking about, just smile and nod.

2.5) Left 4 Dead Music. Having gathered song pieces from the game files, I'm sorely sorely temped to create some sort of Left 4 Dead suite, though this is more of an ongoing and long-term project and not as much of a 'to-do.'

5) Multiverse MUX. Work on the wiki to make it pretty and stat up Buffy and kick around ideas for third alt. Also make wiki for Veronica and Buffy. No one on here will know what this is, but I'm leaving a note here anyway so I don't forget.

I use her for Rogue.

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