Down Under
Apr. 3rd, 2008 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianI'm sure only one person here is going to understand exactly what I'm talking about when I start in on this, but what the hell: Brighton Below is awesome but the Downtime navigation thing is fucking confusing. I've read the Downtime rules over and over again and I still can't work out whether you can navigate the Known Areas without Exploring them first. Investigating them, fine, I get you'd need to do that before being able to find herbs and what have you (not to mention those pesky secret entrances and exits) but ye flippin' gods, I'm hoping I can at least assume my character can get to the places classified as Known Areas. I mean, after all, she got to the Floating Market okay, she can't be that bad at navigating. Plus I suppose there was an in-game look at Saint's map to consider, so at least there's something to pin various bits of information to...
Anyway, with the nifty little spreadsheet the lovely staffers made, I am trying to put together something that vaguely resembles a map of the Known Areas in-game. Now, this is a little difficult as this is a Neverwhere-style game where, much like in the Dreaming, the distance and direction of various things is a bit ... changeable. Just when I thought I'd got a whole bunch of it done ... well, I hadn't. And the format I did that quarter in over lunch doesn't want to let me edit it at home. Which bites, frankly, as it means that if I want something I can work with at home, I now have to start all over again. Lots of pretty little colour bits and pieces and teensy little text boxes with numbers on and aaaaaargh. The amount of research time I put into these things gets just an eensy bit ridiculous at times.
Still, it's all a lot of fun, and I won't deny that for a moment. Currently in the middle of IC-PM-chat with Saint and that's proving enlightening and entertaining. Pondering Downtime actions and ways in which to justify XP expenditure (the great thing about playing a displaced deity is that you can ... probably ... get away with explaining at least one or two expenditures as "regaining that which was lost, in some small way, owing to having people who actually believe in you again") and stuff like that there. Sometimes it is just nice being a player again...
Oh, and back to that whole "icon yammer" meme thing I did the other day ... while I'm here, here are![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
doccy's picks.
Arguably my best foray into Transmetropolitan icons. In short, it is my "I am rantlicious and you will love me for it" icon. Hey, it works for Spider Jerusalem, why not me?
I used to be relatively active on a community called![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
lain_icons. This is something I came up with for one of their contests, figuring that entering these things would give me an excuse to practice my Photoshop skills. If you haven't seen Serial Experiments: Lain, I won't spoil it for you but I will advise you to watch it as soon as humanly possible because it rocks.
Ah, Yomiko Readman, of Read or Die. I basically am that kind of bibliophile; the sort who reads while walking and would, if allowed, just live in a house where the books covered every available surface, including the bed. And since bibliophiles like that have 'are they reading?' as a primary sign of life, the Wanted poster icon seemed appropriate. So I made it.
Wow; all the anime icons are coming out of the woodwork this time around. This one's from something called Noir, again recommended. I always liked that particular screencap so thought I'd make an icon of it, and that particular U2 quote seemed to fit, given the sunset n'all. Nothing particularly deep; I was just practicing with Photoshop and went on a total icon binge last year.
Anyway, I'm going to go work on that map for a bit and then I'm going to bail because my right foot is doing that swelling thing again and I think I'd like to give it more of a rest than putting it on the floor gives it at some stage.
Anyway, with the nifty little spreadsheet the lovely staffers made, I am trying to put together something that vaguely resembles a map of the Known Areas in-game. Now, this is a little difficult as this is a Neverwhere-style game where, much like in the Dreaming, the distance and direction of various things is a bit ... changeable. Just when I thought I'd got a whole bunch of it done ... well, I hadn't. And the format I did that quarter in over lunch doesn't want to let me edit it at home. Which bites, frankly, as it means that if I want something I can work with at home, I now have to start all over again. Lots of pretty little colour bits and pieces and teensy little text boxes with numbers on and aaaaaargh. The amount of research time I put into these things gets just an eensy bit ridiculous at times.
Still, it's all a lot of fun, and I won't deny that for a moment. Currently in the middle of IC-PM-chat with Saint and that's proving enlightening and entertaining. Pondering Downtime actions and ways in which to justify XP expenditure (the great thing about playing a displaced deity is that you can ... probably ... get away with explaining at least one or two expenditures as "regaining that which was lost, in some small way, owing to having people who actually believe in you again") and stuff like that there. Sometimes it is just nice being a player again...
Oh, and back to that whole "icon yammer" meme thing I did the other day ... while I'm here, here are
doccy's picks.Arguably my best foray into Transmetropolitan icons. In short, it is my "I am rantlicious and you will love me for it" icon. Hey, it works for Spider Jerusalem, why not me?
I used to be relatively active on a community called
lain_icons. This is something I came up with for one of their contests, figuring that entering these things would give me an excuse to practice my Photoshop skills. If you haven't seen Serial Experiments: Lain, I won't spoil it for you but I will advise you to watch it as soon as humanly possible because it rocks.Ah, Yomiko Readman, of Read or Die. I basically am that kind of bibliophile; the sort who reads while walking and would, if allowed, just live in a house where the books covered every available surface, including the bed. And since bibliophiles like that have 'are they reading?' as a primary sign of life, the Wanted poster icon seemed appropriate. So I made it.
Wow; all the anime icons are coming out of the woodwork this time around. This one's from something called Noir, again recommended. I always liked that particular screencap so thought I'd make an icon of it, and that particular U2 quote seemed to fit, given the sunset n'all. Nothing particularly deep; I was just practicing with Photoshop and went on a total icon binge last year.
Anyway, I'm going to go work on that map for a bit and then I'm going to bail because my right foot is doing that swelling thing again and I think I'd like to give it more of a rest than putting it on the floor gives it at some stage.