There, I posted on my Blog. Only just over a year from my last post. Not horrible.

Good time to put that we've had record flooding here in Coralville, just waiting now for the water to go back down.

Can't think of much else, maybe I'll continue the fanfic sometime.

Well now, I had forgotten all the crazy stuff that was in this blog. I cleaned it up a bit, and the new template looks pretty nice. Maybe I'll actually use it some more.

Ok, update on Eberron game, yay!

We got a new group of people to adventure with us and started off on this pirate ship that pretty much flew itself. Yes, I said flew, it can go anywhere cause it can fly. Didn't see that one coming. Anyways, we got sent to fight a battle for the captain and ended up in snowy land, I don't like the cold much. We got to fight this big cryo-hydra, it was cool. I did my typical, fire off the cool spells, heal the war-forged, then die thing. Now we have a healer though, so I got healed up pretty quick, yay! Found some treasure, a really neat spell shard that can hold 500 pages of spells, yay! But then it became cursed, boo. Oh well, I can deal. Thank you disguise self spell. Anyways, we persuaded the rest of the party to help Isaac and I get some due revenge on the person who turned our former party against us and that's where we're heading. Until next time...

Sorry about not posting for a while, I worked full time (40+ hours some weeks) this summer and between work, gaming, and trying to find time to enjoy the summer, I didn't have time to update my blog. Now, I shall ammend this, and start with Brady's game which we kinda had first (continuing) session of on Wednesday.

So, back in the world of Eberron, my character got to advance a few levels, yay! Our group was looking for ruins in a forest when a tree fell over, that's about all I remember fromor last session last semester. Well, we find the ruins and this evil-looking lady, when suddenly, the rest of the party turns on Isaac and myself. So, we run like crazy and are eventually captured by some lizard-folk (black I believe). They bring us before their leader, a half-fiend black wyrm (really cool looking) and he decides instead of killing us, he wants us to go to the island of the dragons to see if he can be relieved of his duty guarding the city he is in.
We eventually find a way of transport to the island and find a barbarian village. After seeing my dragonmark, they let Isaac and I wander freely. One night, I stumble into a dragon, yay, and when I tell him about the little peice of prophecy I saw, he agrees to take me on as his pupil. (Thus I found my dragon mentor and qualified my first level of dragon prophet) Fun stuff.

Now I'm really looking forward to next week's game, but Mike won't be there for most of it, oh well. I want to play my ninja who can't stealth. So, until next time...

Well, a few delays next week. I got assigned to work 4-8PM next Monday through Thursday, in addition to my normal morning shift, so I will definately have 40 hours next week. Problem is I'm gonna be late for the two maps I PC/DM. I'd still like to run on Wednesday if that works for people, we'd just have to start at 8:15ish. Sorry about that.

Well, I went home last weekend so the apartment people could come in and redo my kitchen floor, it looks very nice now. They just need to get their stuff and the previous renter's stuff off my porch, which they were supposed to do two weeks ago. I brought up my dragon prints from gencon, they look really nice in my apartment.
This week I gotta work on the website I'm whipping up for the werewolf LARP and make more encounters for my D&D map next Wed. They take a long time to make, but are much fun.

So, last night I got to join Isaac's tabletop werewolf game, it was fun. My character almost got killed, well, all our characters almost got killed by another pc, but we survived/were rescued by a biker-dude. I don't mind having a pc close to death so long as death doesn't occur, or someone is standing nearby with a true ressurect spell. It was much fun.
Tonight I'm hosting my second session of the tournament across the planes. Shawn's character won't be showing up, likely anymore for the duration of the campaign, so I asked Luis if he wants to join, since he was at tabletop last night when I talked about my map a bit. So, after work, time to quick clean the apartment and pull out books, yay!

Mwahahahahahahaha! That's just about all I have to say about the next D&D map. And that it will be at my new place, 1505 College Ave. I now have a futon, armchair, loveseat and soft rug to sit upon, so there will be plenty of space and snacks. Really looking forward to this one.

Phew, got my stuff into my new apartment and my mom came up to help me clean and organize. I love my apartment, other than it doesn't have AC like I thought, it's really nice. They replaced the sink and toilet in the bathroom, as well as the floor, the kitchen floor will be replaced in a week or two. They also gave me a new fridge and it's awesome, gotta do some major grocery shopping on Friday to fill it up. Now it's all clean and I'm getting most of my furniture today. My futon will be brought up this weekend and my dresser and nightstand will arive hopefully sometime this month.
Hopefully by Wednesday I will have things organized so I can have the D&D map at my new place. I've only got one new encounter done, so I may have to pull out the backup encounter for this next map. It should be interesting.

It's been a while since I've updated, I know. Had my first map on Wednesday, I think it went well, no one died, though my creatures were killed a little easier than I had hoped. I will work on it, alos hopefully next time I will have a few more people present.
It was a beautiful weekend, helped with some yard work and got all scratched up, but it was fun. I hate to say it, but I almost miss doing yard work at home.
I move into my new apartment tomorrow, my mom is coming up to help clean and get organized. I'm really excited abut having my own place, I mean, living in my own room in the dorms is kinda like having my own place, but I still had to share the bathroom and kitchen, so now I have my own, yay! I can finally cook good food more often.

Tomorrow I should get my summer work schedule and then on Friday I can start to try and set up a date and time to run my D&D map. I moved a lot of my stuff over to Kala's place today. It was a pain on my arms and back, but I'm glad it's done. I'll only have to make a few trips on Friday to get the rest of my stuff over there. I'm staying there until May 31st when I can move into my new apartment, yay!
Back to the D&D map, I have about 3 encounters already prepared and one actually involves some roleplaying, and dragons of course. Lots of dragons.
One more final, then I'll have more time to come up with new encounters.

Well, the summer map's comming along a bit, though I have more stuff ready for near the end than the beginning, but that's ok. I almost have one team all statted out, from the plane of Gehenna. They're kinda scary. I'm much prouder of the batch of monsters I just finished though, hee hee. Won't use them right away cause the CR's probably about 30 for two and 40 for the third, plus they use my favorite draconic prestige class, yay! Anyways, here's what the line up's looking like for the mortal plane team:
Mike: Druid/shifter
Isaac: Crazy paladin thingy
Alex: Monkish
John: Something with arcane magic
Shawn: probably a cleric
Brady: Psionic character (when he's in town)
Isaac's friend whose name I can't remember: Super Rogue
It's gonna be one of those dissapear, then drop out of the sky later thing with Brady's character, but you're gonna need all the help you can get. :)

Yikes, the end of the semester stress has kicked in about a week earlier than usual, I don't think being out of paper in South Quad for almost two days was any help. It wasn't my fault it took res living over a week to deliver the box of paper I needed. Anyways, taking a study break, I thought I'd throw out a bit of propaganda for my upcoming D&D game this summer.

Whilst wandering a lone dirt path through a field in Autumn, you and your party members decide to take a rest and sit down a ways from the path. Whilst you rest among the tall, yellowing grass, a large piece of parchment drops onto the ground near the center of your group and you quickly look up to see a black form high above you, about twice the size of a raven. Just as you try to make out exactly what it is, it dissapears.
The parchment is tied with a grey piece of ribon and you open it with ease; it reads:
Dear adventurers,
You have been chosen to represent your respective plane in our first Great Interplanar Tournament. You shall compete against teams from all across the planes for a prize worthy of only the greatest adventurers. Provisions shall be provided during the tournament, bring only what you can carry with exception of animal companions, mounts and familiars. Transportation to the starting point shall be provided at this time, three days from now. We look forward to seeing you.

Sincerely,
Endless Shadow and Rayson Waysaw

P.S. Please keep this ribbon with you until the start of the tournament.

Below is writing in 3 other languages.

If that doesn't excite you, I don't know what would, yay! Until next time.

Oh, I forgot:
Mike and Isaac talked me into running a D&D game this summer, so be prepared for some cross-planar madness :)

Ok, time for the crazy Exalted update.
So, I'm hiding from a big guy I know is just behind a door and suddenly our dawn caste appears out of nowhere in the mass of demons outside. Between him and the zenith, they take down the demos pretty quick. I motion them up where I am and tell them about the big demon. The dawn smashes through the door and a quick dialogue follows. Suddenly, the zenith starts himself on fire and steps in. In two amazingly quick and awesome moves, the dawn slices the demon to pieces. Wow, that was easy. So, we explore the building and I find this little trinket, I tuck it into my pouch. I also find a journal. Not being able to read, I take it to the zenith, who shoots it out of my hand, thanks. We rest and heal for a bit when the zenith stares at me and grunts. Slightly creeped out, I back away and he asks what's in my pouch. It's none of his buisness, but he tries to set it on fire. Eventually, I give him the pouch and he takes my trinket. It seems it is tainted orichalcum and it belonged to one of our previous zeniths. She decided to join forces with this demon. So, we decide to wait for her iminent return. During this time, the zenith sleeps while the dawn and I fight another big demon, I died, but it turned out to be just a dream. Afterwards, we decide to fight some real demons and beat down a few to end the day off right. It doesn't get much better than that, oh and did I mention we completly destroyed the castle in the center of the city? Oops.

Alright, here's what went down in Eberron on Wednesday:
We told our large group what we had found and split up, our group traveling to the NE while others went other ways. We quickly learned to watch where we were going when we found an acid quicksand pit, not fun. I threw a rock in it, but anyways, we almost have a massive tree fall on us and in doing so, find another warforged. I repair him a bit and he does a jig, yay! He's a bit of a wizard too, I find out and decides to join our party. We find some strange looking tracks and follow them for quite a while before comming upon some smoke. One of the shifters decides to check it out and before we know it, he runs back towards us with three creepy looking guys following. Another three eventually jump out after tham and we're chin deep in battle. After firing off all of my offensive spells, they all hit and did damage, yay!, I go to poke one with my dagger, but instead drop it on my foot, sigh. What do you expect, I'm a mage. Anyways, we beat down the baddies and I get knocked down to an inch from my life in one hit, that was not fun. The other shifter gets knocked out as wekk and out warforged aren't looking too hot. Hopefully we will be able to rest and heal before anything else tries to hurt us.
There was a bit more including bushes and shiny rocks, but I'm too lazy today to type in all the details, they didn't involve my character too much anyways.

That's it for now, I shall update after Exalted this Friday, yay!

Soooo sleepy...
Anyways, it has been a good weekend. I know I usually only update about RPG's but I felt like updating, so feel special. Friday was fun, went to see Silent Hill. It was ok, not one I'll probably see again though. And I did lose a bit of sleep over it, but not as much as after I watched Ju on.(The Japanese version of the Gurdge). Had a herp show today for open house, it went well, and I got the lizard tank all set up, now hopefully they will ship them to me soon! Kinda ill this weekend, hence the tiredness, but getting better. Well, my urge to update has subsided, until Thursday.

Ah, I seem to have forgotten to update about the Star Trek game, oops, here it is:
Let's see...my mouse count goes well over 300 now, and somehow, 4 of them escaped. Darn force field cages. Anyways, some of my mice bred with the mice I gave the ferengi and had babies, which the ship's sensors didn't like. We found the carcasses of the moms and the running total was I believe 35-60 baby mice running around the ship. Well the only way I knew to kill them was the toxic gas the newborns feed off of, but the adults seem wary of. So we gassed the ship, assumed all mice died, and had a drinking party, yay! Oh, and I added another force field around all my mice cages. Total is ten currently breeding pairs and about 342 other mice. I really need to come up with experiments to run on them...

Due to a special request, I shall now give my rant on how AWESOME Gaara (not Sandy!) is:
Let's start from the begining. Gaara was was son of the Kazakage, leader of the sand village, and a young woman. He was posessed by the demon within him at birth and killed his mother. Her spirit and the demon is what keeps the sand shield always around him. Everyone in his village knew about his secret and disliked him, much like Naruto. He didn't have much control of his powers when he was young and scared many of the kids away because he would accidentally hurt them when they wouldn't play with him. He was so cute and sad, until his mother's sister, who took care of him, told him she really cared about him. He knew sympathy for the first time. Later that night, she tried to kill him. He killed her in protection, but not before feeling deeply betrayed by not only her, but his father who had sent her to kill him. He is used merely as a tool for the sand village, though he doesn't normally obey orders well, nor gets along with his teamates, who dislike him as well.
Aside from his backstory, he is a very powerful ninja. He could probably hold his own against the legendary ninjas and Naruto. His demon, the sand badger, though kinda funny, is very powerful and almost as large as the demon fox in Naruto. The black around Gaara's eyes is not eyeliner, it's there because he barely sleeps. When he does sleep, the demon posesses him completly and becomes even more terrifying than it originally is. He's got two sand shields, the constantly moving one and the sand armor. He also has a series of impenitrable sand defenses you see later in the series. Not to mention he can rip sand right out of the ground in about a half mile radius around him and use it to smash you to microscopic pieces, trap you, crush you, or bury you many meters below the surface. If that isn't cool, I don't know what is.
So there's my rant on Gaara. If I remember anything else, I'll be sure to update it.
All fear my throwing sandals +10 :)

4 hour work shifts suck, especially when you 1) aren't expecting them, 2) it's Easter Sunday, 3) you're running on minimal sleep and 4) you have really nothing to fill the time with. *Sigh* Anyways, oh, I guess I should update RPG stuff.

Eberron:
Let's see, I am now one level away from being able to take my prestige class, yay! We were chilling in town, then told the university people about desiring to seek out the rest of the artifacts and those two mysterious figures we saw previously who we believe have them. We meet this professor, she's just crazy. Where ever she is, my character is not there. She and the university will fund our expedition and provide some backup. We go by airship to this place where there are lizard folk and the earth spits acid, etc. Typical dangerous turf. We get there and let the information gatherers in our party find some info, then are introduced to a lizard-folk who says he will take us to some runes if we clear the way of any threats first. Sounds fun, doesn't it? Yeah, that's about as far as we got. On a whole, my character did only one thing, know the history of the Ilithid race, yay for natural 20's (It was natural 20 night for all except one party member). So, a bit slow, but gearing up for the next session, which should prove to be very exciting.

Exalted:
No exalted this week, Easter and such, just Naruto enjoyment.