Hero's Journey

Well, if Sigil doesn’t hire me (/target tipa; /powerword: hireme-aura), I can do the same thing for free for Hero’s Journey. That’s that MMO with huge customization – look the way you want, what your clothes look like doesn’t affect your abilities – like City of Heroes. It looks really slick. Vanguard is still my … Read more

Pluto Mission Away!

After two delays and controversy over the plutonium shipped along with the probe, New Horizons lifted off today on the first leg of its ten-year trip to Pluto, Charon (pronounced SHAHR-ON I found out this morning, not KARE-on, as I’d pronounced it), and the two smaller moons recently discovered. Nine hours from the Earth to … Read more

Dryroot Joins the DDR

Yes, Dryroot has become a nation of Dance Dance Revolution fanatics… Dryroot has left the South Pacific and joined a Germanic region with left-leaning politics. I THINK DDR stands for “Deutsche Demokratische Republik”, but that is probably a) not what it stands for, and b) poorly spelled. Nonetheless, it’s a small region where I can … Read more

Skinning my Blog

I finally got sick of the default skin for this blog, and after having skinned the Prophetic Fate version successfully, decided to go for a new look here. I had this vision of an illuminated (like monks used to do) title against parchment. So step one was: make a nice parchment texture. So what is … Read more

Dryroot

New flag for Dryroot. The Wheel represents Dryroot’s nomadic roots. The chocobo represents lunch. The green represents the grasslands through which we roamed, before Dryroot became a barren, inhospitable landscape. Dryroot has an Upper and a Lower Parliament. The Prime Minister, Tarena Schlosschild, addressed the Upper Parliament this morning. I’ll have a transcript up later. … Read more