It’s Furious Balancing

I haven’t felt the blogging compulsion, and I’ve been struggling through these last, ghastly days of summer. Hate heat. Hate sunlight. If God had meant for us to go outside, She wouldn’t have invented air conditioning¹

So, what you get today, Gentle Reader, is a hodge-podge of completely unrelated material. Oh, and a LOLCat. I haven’t posted a LOLCat in quite a while.

Moving on.

I have been gaming with a passion. Morrowind, specifically. I’ve been feeling the need to spend time in a game with a well-developed lore system, which Morrowind has in spades and which Oblivion (the sequel to Morrowind) almost completely disregarded. Oblivion was flashy. The graphics were very pretty. It was soulless underneath all the pretty pictures, though. I haven’t been MMORPG-ing lately, either, for partially the same reason. In Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, I don’t understand the lore, or how the various races all relate to one another, and who hates who and who’s doing what to whom. I find that if I don’t have a reason for slaying the monsters/saving the princess/whatever, my motivation evaporates.

So, I’ve been in Vvardenfell once again. The latest incarnation of Laiane Wolfsong, Ranger and Opportunist, reached 40-something level and became incredibly bored. I don’t know about you other gamers out there, but if I’m not challenged, I lose interest quickly. So, new character time! Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce to you Haizea Phoenixborn, Blade Dancer. Let’s give the little lady a big hand…

I have no earthly idea how she’s keeping that bodice from pooling around her waist. Hollywood Fashion Tape?

Anyhow, for those of you who are interested, a Blade Dancer is a lightly armored, high-agility fighter (long sword, specifically) with magical abilities in the schools of Mysticism and Illusion.

For those of you who are not interested, here’s the picture I’ve been promising of He Who Makes Silly Cat Shirts wearing his silly cat shirt. Silly Cat sold separately.

This is the first sewing project The Husband undertook. I don’t know how many patterns pieces were involved. Eleven? He was very methodical and put it together over the course of a few days. I think it turned out very well, and I’m quite impressed with his talent. Buttons!? Interfacing?! That’s far beyond my meager talents.

A three-day weekend approaches; I hope to be posting more frequently.  Or not.  I might just stay in Vvardenfell for a while.

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1. Or computer games, or Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food, or even Tivo, for that matter. [↩]

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