lucifermourning

Put your music player on random. Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song. Let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from. Mark the songs when someone guesses correctly.

(ignoring instrumentals and songs where the first line is the title)

1) "Hey you, gender nectar"

2) "If I had met you on some journey, where would we be now?" guessed by ashoe: "Some Journey" by Suzanne Vega

3) "I can't use what I can't abuse" guessed by cryx: "Vow" by Garbage

4) "Pick me up love"

5) "I'm not threatened by every pair of legs you watch go by"

6) "Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road" guessed by lawrencegillies: "Good Riddance (The Time of Your Life)" by Green Day

7) "There was a boy" guessed by inquis: "Nature Boy" by David Bowie and Massive Attack (honourable mention to cream_horn though)

8) "Ever loved a woman who made you feel tall?" guessed by urizen: “I Can See Now” by Dead Can Dance

9) "Nothing can bring me closer"

10) "They hung a sign up in out town"

11) "Awaken from a dream, the neighbour hood is green"

12) "Outside there's a box car waiting" guessed by lawrencegillies: "Here Comes Your Man" by The Pixies

13) "Running to and fro, hard working at the mill"

14) "I could start dreaming, but it never ends"

15) "I'm drunk. And right now i'm so in love with you" guessed by 2eclipse: “The Only Time” by Nine Inch Nails

16) "Let me lay my head on your heart"

17) Oh, come crush me now"

18) "I see your teeth flash"

19) "On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair" guessed by lawrencegillies: Hotel California by the Eagles (well, mine was a cover by Pennywise, but close enough)

20) "Some folks like to get away, take a holiday from the neighbourhood" guessed by ashoe: "New York State of Mind" by Billy Joel

Some should be pretty easy.

For sanity's sake, we'll restrict this to character's played in a campaign, more than once. And I'll only bio characters mentioned.

Years roleplaying: 11
Least favourite character?: Hmmm...maybe Carlota Alegria Garcia de Sevilla, only because I didn't get to do all that much with her. But she would've been cool with more time.
Male or female characters?: Female
Oldest character played: Maya. Or do you mean the first I played? Luke Sky Walker. Longest-lasting is probably Lady Deronda.
Newest character?: Lady Veyda, I think. That campaign is pretty new, right...

Which character of yours would be most likely to...
Jump off a bridge?: maybe Suzanne, if she thought she would survive it...
Get drunk and pass out?: Anne
Kill somebody in a very unorthodox way?: Harley
Be far too hyper for their own good?: Perhaps Harley, in her Ricky personality. If you you mean it in a bloodthirsty and viscious kid of way...
Be raped?: Verity. It's in her back story.
Get lost and refuse to ask for directions?: Harley
Get lung cancer?: Lady Veyda. There's all these smokers around. But she'd just get it cured.
Star in a horror movie?: Harley, as the villian.
Star in a whore movie?: Twilight.
Star in a video game?: Suzanne, or possibly Anne.
Make the world a better place?: Elizabeth Shaheen or Verity are most likely to try. But Maya might be more likely to succeed/
Have a torrid gay love affair?: Twilight.

Relate each word to a character of yours:
Love: Elizabeth
Hate: Harley
Money: Luke Sky Walker
Seduction: Twilight
Lies: Carlota Alegria Garcia de Sevilla
Tragedy: Luke Sky Walker. Elizabeth Shaheen. Verity. Jane Doe. Melissa.
Manipulation: Carlota Alegria Garcia de Sevilla
Violence: Harley
Politics: Yvonne D'Herst
Fire: Suzanne
Ice: Lady Evangeline Deronda

Would you ever...
Play a prostitute?: Yes, Harley
Play a musician?: Sure
Play a pilot?: Sure
Play a homosexual?: Yes, Twilight.
Play a pedophile?: I would NPC one.
Play a politician?: I suppose
Create a character for the sole purpose of smut?: Probably not
Play a character who commits incest?: I suppose.

Brief Bio your characters...

Luke Sky Walker
Old WoD Mage, tabletop: She was my first character. I was 14, which is all you need to know to explain the name. Fabulously wealthy Virtual Adept with a bionic arm, Her husband was murdered pre-game by what turned out to be recurring villians. More tragedy ensued with her mentor, and then his family, getting killed.

Harley (aka Quinn/Ricky/Beth).
Old WoD Vampire, LARP: Malkavian with split personality. Embraced at 14. Calm, sadistic Quinn, bloodthirsty Ricky, and little-girl Beth. Did some fairly horrible things before succumbing to her Dark Fate as an elder Malk possessed her and exploded her into shrapnel.

Elizabeth Shaheen
Old WoD Vampire, LARP: 15th generation, pregnant, devout Muslim, with buckets of Insight and high humanity. Muddled through trying to figure out what Allah wanted before dying messily.

Jane Doe
Old WoD Mage, LARP: Verbena, ugly, scarred, wary of people. Passionate about Ascension in her own way, but sometimes as much wold as human.

Twilight
Old WoD Vampire, LARP: Sabbat, 14th gen with a private discipline that allowed her to walk on walls, ceilings, etc. by rearranging gravity. Lesbian, stripper, more disgruntled than properly evil.

Carlota Alegria Garcia de Sevilla
Old WoD Vampire, LARP: Tremere, former Sabbat (back 600 years ago...), 'reformed' and kept around for her oracular abilities.

Melissa
Old WoD Mage, LARP: 15, brilliant, but with the naivete of a much younger child. She used mind magic to keep her parents, schoolmates and everything else around her nice and G-rated, and believed her magic came from fairies. Which all went a bit mad when the Technocracy took away her life.

Verity
Old WoD Vampire, LARP: 15th gen, pregnant, fairly traumatized, but surprisingly steady for it. A devout Christian, she believed that everything that had happened was part of God's plan. (This was a bit of a reprise of Elizabeth Shaheen, whose story I didn't get to finish satisfactorily.)

Yvonne d'Herst
Dark Ages Vampire, LARP: Tzimisce, proud, a bit cold. Very establishment, and a strong believer in the divine right of kings. Though she also has a few ideas about the rights of vassals...

Lady Evageline Deronda
Cthulu, tabletop: Wealthy, cold-hearted dilettante. Her treatment of her 5 year old son has increased the amount of horror in the game far more than it should (Mummy can't spend Christmas with you. She has to go to Italy.) Very good with a shotgun...

Suzanne
Modern Mystics, tabletop: Self-centered teenager with game-based magic. Thinks she's a rebel, mostly she's a brat. Basically well-intentioned though.

Anne
Buffy, tabletop: Slayer from 1896, hurled 100 years into the future. Half-white, half-Apache, with major trust issues and a fondness for liquor. And thorough incompetence with modern technology.

Lady Veyda
Warhammer 40K, tabletop: Rather odd, Void-born psycher. Nobility on her ship, now wandering about trying to stop the heretics with the rest of the Inquisitor's minions.

Maya
New WoD Vampire, LARP: Ancient gypsy witch. Embraced a couple of hundred years ago, she thinks this whole vampire thing is incredibly annoying. And that anyone who gets into the whole 'woe is me' or 'ultimate predator' thing needs to get over themselves and start acting like a decent human being. Who happens to be under a curse.

home now.

the wedding was amazing. everything went well and i managed not to cry during the ceremony.

it still seems pretty weird to call urizen husband. this will take some getting used to.

we've seen some pictures, courtesy of friends on facebook, but not yet the official photographer ones, which we expect some time this week.

the honeymoon was lovely. we went to edinburgh for a few days of tromping around and looking at the sites, as well as being overloaded with theatre, as the fringe festival was on. we saw a couple of plays each day, plus the odd comedy and street performers. quality was varied - worst Hamlet ever, but The Hound of the Baskervilles and Free Outgoing (drama set in Indian), were both fantastic in entirely different ways. Apocalypse the Musical and Bouncy Castle Dracula were middling but fun, much as you might expect from the titles, as was the 74-year old comedienne who started her act with a strip tease. and the best street performer by far was the man juggling knives and a flaming brand, at one point whilst blindfolded, atop a 3-metre unicycle.

we both agreed that we'd love to go back to the festival another yearm if we can manage to arrange it, and possibly encourage other to join us. we shall see.


Devon was lovely and relaxing. Buckland house was gorgeous as ever, and full of our friends. there were various day trips, including the Eden Project and the aquarium in Plymouth, as well as shorter treks to exciting vistas like the Gnome Reserve, and sojourns to the bustling metropolis that is Okehampton (that is, the nearest town of any actual size - it even has a cinema, albeit a single screen one). and lots of relaxing and gaming (both board- and role-playing).

returned yesterday and spent most of the afternoon tidying the carnage that has filled the house since the wedding (gifts and general stuff). very glad of tomorrow's bank holiday, as it gives an extra day to reacclimatize ourselves before returning to work on Tuesday. I have a short week this week (3 days), then start working full time on Monday. eep!

yes, urizen has already posted this, but, as it made me giggle so much, i needed to share it with more people: the Unitarians are coming


and, of course:

my Unitarian Jihad Name is: Sister Jackhammer of Reasoned discusion.

get yours

so a little while ago, themadone was suggesting making this thursday a bit of a pub gathering. i believe majic13 was supporting this plan, and urizen and i also intend to put in an appearance.

so i thought i'd do a bit of a shout-out/general encouragement:

Railway, tomorrow night.

should be good.

so apparently they're planning on striking next week...i can either get a bus at Egham or bike to Staines.
methinks the latter.
but i'm not sure what urizen's going to do, as there appears to be no service to chertsey at all...

may seem slightly random, but does anyone have a paper cutter i can borrow? the kind where you can line the paper up and slice it through all at once so you get a straight cut?

it would be much appreciated...

(by anyone, i do mean anyone within feasible reach of egham this week...)

last night my computer decided to stop working. it wouldn't start. it got sort of started, then got stuck before actually starting. it had a new hard drive last year!

i hope to make cookies tonight. this will make me feel better.

stolen from ashoe, a link which will amuse a number of people on my friend's list:

http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2007/halo3_john_harvard/

haven't posted i a while...not purposefully, i just got distracted.

watched Hidden last night. ( slightly spoiler-ish )

otherwise life is good. course should be finally starting in a few weeks. we'll see how that goes. i am greatly enjoying having a bike to use for getting around the area. mostly round egham and staines, but i did have a nice long ride (approx 13 miles each way) to church on sunday, which left me tired but in a good mood.

pub tonight, i think. i will be making very few appearances in the future, as my course will go to 9:30 on thursday nights. in london. so i'll just be getting home and crawling into bed.