This is the excellent foppery of the world

Hokay, massive stuff post - have been back at college and busy recently.

( Part 1: Love for my CS 125 lecturer )

( Part 2: LARP troubles )

( Part 3: Dieses gottverdammte Wetter! )

Final note: I really think it's rather inconsiderate of them to have the Super Bowl on my birthday.

Apparently roleplaying games will take over your life. I mean, most everyone who reads this has heard me babbling about the Changeling game I'm in at least a little, but this one wasn't intentional.

Especially since I don't think Changeling normally has random encounters.

Anyway, I was at the bookstore (actually at the bank, which is inside the bookstore for reasons I suspect benefit the store) when I ran into one of the other players - whom I'll call "Fox" here, because her character more or less is. Well, I say ran into - apparently she saw me come in, but I didn't hear her calling.

So what did she do? She snuck up behind me and addressed my character in her character's voice. Given that Fox's voice has a definite dangerous undercurrent to it, you can imagine my reaction to hearing it purring "Hello Dark-eyes" in my ear. Namely that it scared the crap out of me - I think I may have stepped on her foot, but if I did she didn't say anything about it.

We had a pleasant conversation while I waited for one of the tellers at the bank to be free (in which I informed her I couldn't be at game because I was spending Easter at home), but it was just the start that was weird. And about gave me a heart attack.

 I'm kind of vaguely terrified of going back to school, because I wasn't able to avoid having early classes and I know I don't wake up to alarms anymore. And I have a freaking electromagnetics lab at eight in the morning.

The Persona plot that's starting at DDD made me realize two things. The first is an interesting parallel - Shadows in P4 have yellow eyes. Yellow eyes are also used to indicate Darkness in Kingdom Hearts - all Heartless have yellow eyes, and apparently travel in the Dark Corridors causes it if you aren't protected (by the Organization's cloaks, apparently - there's supposedly a scene in Re: Chain of Memories that says this). That gives us DiZ, Xemnas, Xigbar, and Saïx that have done so, though Saïx's eyes might just be for more werewolf parallels.

The other is that Gourry Gabriev is badass. Seriously. This is a guy with absolutely no magical power - the only one of the main characters that doesn't - who stood up to the Lord of Nightmares. A being who is one step above God. For those of you familiar with Dr. Who (which is how I figured this out, Zelgadiss was talking to Ten), think of the Eternals. For anybody who speaks D&D, think something at Overdeity levels. Ao, or the Lady of Pain, or something from the Far Realm.

Completely unrelated to the rest of the post: I has a new icon. It is Latin for "All your base are belong to us." Literally: All-citadel-yours (pl)-are-by us-owned.

Also, anyone know what a good fandom to transplant someone from FFIV would be? Cecil's been hanging around my brain and I need a male character at permanent_way ...

I've discovered a fanmade World of Darkness game called Genius: the Transgression. Which is about mad scientists. And there's a PDF set up like a typical setting book. And it is generally awesomeness. I should see if there are any others like that...