Long Time Coming

So it's not like I been neglecting my blog on purpose or anything I just been super super busy and some recent things have happened, although I should of updated it regardless.  The first major thing that has happened is my normal computer I use crashed so currently I am using another one from time so I m not online as much as I used to be.  Also each week I been going to my friends and we been playing D20.  Kris has recently started a campaign involving mechs.  Basically they are like human controlled robots and so our characters control them fight bad guys and sometimes we do it like the cavemen do.  We walk and go into buildings and shoot up the bad guys.  Also I started my campaign the Zombie Apocalypse campaign.  I am working on it like a tv show in the sense that there is seasons so I finished season 1 in fact today I finished season 2.  Believe it or not this is super tough to do since you have to get the stats of monsters which don't exist so I basically make them up off the top of my head.  This is actually tough as well since you have to balance a monsters strength vs how much damage a creature can do.  You don't want your zombies super powerful but you don't want them super weak as well.  Players in D20 need and want a challenge.  On top of playing Dr. Frankenstein I also been reading here and there.  One of the current books I am reading is called Haunted Hollywood by Tom Ogden.  This book is about various ghosts and also haunted stories in Hollywood one of the things I like though besides the supernatural aspect of it, they talk about the history of Hollywood.  I also got a few other paranormal books as well one by Syliva Browne and one by Mary Ann Winkowski.  I know lots of people and even recently have really questioned Sylvia Browne's physic abilities.  With that at the same time the few books I have read by her I did actually enjoy and learned learning something new.

Story Ideas

So in a recent blog post I talked about how I came up with some possible ideas for stories that I might try and write soon or even work on fleshing out ideas or other things.  One of the story ideas is for a story called Millennium.  This story will focus on what would happen if Y2k really had happened.  For this story I figure a few characters would give different perspective from different walks of life.  Also for some reason I always seen a detective chasing a criminal when the Y2k event happens.  Deathclock would be kinda based on the actual website Deathclock in that what would happen if a computer program could actually predict deaths.  How would you stop or avoid something like that.  Raven Falls tells the story of a small town called Raven Falls where weird things happen all because of a dark history the town has.  Can some characters figure out what will happen and maybe even fix the problem.  The Survivors is one of my favorite story ideas actually it comes from a D20 campaign I played once with some friends.  My old friend Steve ran the campaign and basically it was Resident Evil meets Phoenix Arizona.  Our characters in the game faced off against zombies and other monsters while surviving in Phoenix.  This tells the story of at least my character and possibly another one from their point of views.  So those are some of my ideas, let me know what you guys think out of the 4 which one are you most looking forward to hearing about or even reading.      

Lucky Number 20

So yesterday I went and hung with one of my best friends Kris in Mesa near where he lives.  He invited me over to hang out with some friends of his at their house and basically we played d20 modern.  Basically d20 modern for those who don't know is Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) but set in a modern world.  So D&D might have elves, dwarfs, trolls, hobbits where as D20 would have mobsters, doctors, news reporters.  It's a fun dice role-playing game and I recommend it to anyone who might be interested in table top role-playing.  This particular campaign was set in a post apocalyptic world.  My character is named Joel Sullivan and he is a private detective.  He met up with Kris and his friend party somewhere in Texas and they joined up heading to boats got side tracked with a gun battle on the way to the ships and even stopped in a cyborg trading town.  One of the things I like about the system is you can set up a character pretty much how you want.  My character is mainly better at ranged then melee attacks but I still had him enter a melee tournament and he still did decent.  Just like in real life or even a story the characters interact and obviously do combat.  I tend to prefer the interacting more then combat but it depends on the mood I am in.  For some reason I have always loved the character name of Joel Sullivan and this goes back to my first time ever role-playing.  Kris, Me and some other friends were playing this campaign that our friend Steven did, it was basically Resident Evil meets Phoenix Arizona.  My character started out as Jack Daniels and made it out of Phoenix alive and all of the people who made it out got new names by the government so they could hide what happened in Arizona.  So I picked Joel Sullivan as his new name.  When I get to posting some of my stories for fun one of them is going by notes and memory of the various things Jack and the fellow characters experienced in Arizona so look forward to that.