Kewl!

tibicina? I got your package today... thank you! I've hung the jade talisman from one of the bottom fangs of my Monty Python Rabbit with Pointy Teeth, as I've nowhere else to put it at the moment. (The rabbit is on my monitor at the office.) And the pad is cute, too! Thank you!

Meanwhile, considering the VicMage.Asia pbem. The current site that I'm having people post at is boggy and slow, and not always accessible. Yahoo Groups! is ad-supported and plagued with many pop-ups. I have an ISP that now lets me read my email via the Web, then download it to my computer, so moving it to email might be an option. Waiting to hear from everyone involved, though... and once I get the 'briefing' done with the new addition to the game (Bjorn, also known as Blonde Number Four, since he's the fourth European with said hair colour), how to bring everyone together and make a proper party of them instead of merely a bunch of people. My only excuse just now is that I'm a novice GM and that the medium is a bit more conducive to individual action than group - but that's a weak excuse, and I know it. With any luck I'll somehow be able to speed things up a bit so that I can get everyone together and on the Red Banner Fleet's ships to the first real part of the adventure soon. I hope.

*sigh* Sorry if I seem a little ambivalent right now, guys. After the Hogswatch lull I've been questioning my ability/merit as a GM, and today I've been feeling jittery and unfocused. Add to that fears and worries for my friends, and an inability to donate blood yesterday owing to the fact that I"d somehow mis-recorded the scheduling and the blood drive won't be for another week altogether, and you've got a big bundle of self-doubt where creative nature ought to be. The only way out of that, mind, is to actually create... so I'll have to do that soon. I just can't quite muster it at the moment without wondering if any of it is worth even a tenth of the story fragments you'll find under my Memories posts. I know what I want to do and what I want to do for the players, I just worry that I'll never get them there, or that they won't think it was worth all the fuss when it actually happens...

yeah, seeing a friend fired for stuff straight out of Dilbert has successfully put me in a tailspin about the worth of merit in anything whatsoever. Why do you ask?