Snowbound and Irate

Okay, folks. I know it's been ages since I brought this up, but despite asking everyone to come talk to me, I've heard from nearly nobody (Dot, Beatrix, you're excused on this front.) I've been buried in stuff so not really pushing, and I know a lot of other people have been as well, but I do still want to play. In fact, I'd like to start this Sunday unless there's a huge outcry from the audience.

However, if we're gonna play? I need you people to talk to me. If you've lost interest, that's fine -- I know we had at least two people who wanted to play who didn't quite mesh or who came in late, so we can rotate in if they're at all still interested. But...well. Let's just go in order, and we'll go from there:

1. Do you still want to play?
2. What did you decide to play (Race, class, specialities. In case I wasn't clear before, we're starting at first level.)
3. What's your character's name?
4. Who is your character? I'm looking for a paragraph or two summary here, mostly what the other players would know. Are they local? Do they have family? Have they already committed heroic (or not-so-heroic) exploits that would make them known to people? If you've got secrets and the like, that's great -- tell me privately.
5. What kind of story do you want to tell here? What kind of game do you like to play? High adventure? Lots of political scheming? Just want the loot, don't care about moral questions?

#5 is perhaps the most important, and the one I've only gotten answers out of our two lovely ladies for. We've got a short amount of time, really, in which to run this, and I want to make sure it's a game that everyone's happy with -- with the caveat that I do realize you can't make everyone happy all the time.

To help with #4, I'm going to be posting my little 'welcome to our starting town' notes later tonight. Hopefully that'll flesh out any questions people had about our setting, if they weren't answered in our start-up meeting. If you've got something you'd definitely like to see included in the area (terrain, political situations, roaming tinkers, ANYTHING) -- please, let me know as soon as possible, and if it fits, I'll see if I can encorporate it into the whole.

I obviously don't expect posts from people before my next post, but I'd like replies by Friday, or at least a note that you can't get anything up by then, and some idea of when you will be able to get me stuff.

It's a new semester. Spring isn't here yet; we're still in the depths of Winter, the days only just now starting to creep longer and longer as the sun comes back to the world. Not fast enough at all, in my opinion, but at least it's a trend I can embrace. Everything still in hibernation, stuck in this frozen holding pattern, but you can at least pretend that if you squint? You can see the shoots about to force their way up through the snow, questing for the light.

All this light and growth needs to stop right now, though, because for some reason I've a pounding headache while I try to get through syllabi and finding the right classrooms and all the rest. And for those who've seen my little shrine to the source of my headache? I'm leaving it up. As a warning, if nothing else; it'll remind me not to post in that sort of state. If I listen to myself, which I probably won't.

Speaking of other alternatives to a social life, since I've fucked that one up royally? Consider this my formal announcement: I'm going to start running a D&D game, if we've got enough interested people. I'd like to note that this is my first time playing, but I'm ready to jump in with both feet, so...be kind to me, if you're interested? I'm thinking of a once-a-week schedule, sometime on the weekend, with the first pass this weekend to get together, talk about what I have in mind, and get characters started. If you're interested, either drop me a note in this post or catch me and let me know?

Last but not least: Annie? I found my phone. It looks like I called you in the middle of...well, sometime after that post, but before I passed out. I don't remember at all what we talked about, but I have a feeling I need to apologize. A lot. Will understand if you don't want to talk to me again.

Looks like time is up; back to the grind of the rest of the day.