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Playtest tonight. Hopefully I'm ready for it. Gonna spend a few hours going over the rules again beforehand just to make sure I got them. I had to do to much page flipping last time, not because of the rules themselves but because I kept second guessing myself. Should have AT LEAST three players this time.

Now I also need to dig out my old copy of Picture Publisher and load it on this computer. That way I can make some avatars for the game to use on here and anywhere else I go. That and a banner to link back to the games site.

Been snagging up some Power Ranger dvds on ebay for my boy here lately. He's gotten to where he understands the storylines better and has really gotten into some of it. Getting close to getting all the SPD and Operation Overdrive dvds and started on the Mystic Force and Dino Thunder ones.

Now all the older ones are only on VHS, they got a full season release over in Region 2 coding but not in Region 1 here. Bastards. Good thing we still have a VCR left. So coming in here in a couple of days will be three tapes to add to the few that a friend found at a yard sale for him.

Now if only I could get all the theme songs out of my head.

This is my 800th livejournal post. Sadly I don't think I've said a whole lot over those 799 posts before this one. Now I know for a fact that I'm not saying much on this one either.

Some highlights of the playtest session from the other night.

The kids sneak into an abandoned house that is next door to Old Mister Crumpe's house so they can spy on him. When they find a room with a window they can use they also find notes from the child who used to live in the room. Notes detailing the old man following them, people who entered his house and never left, notes about things they saw in his yard... These notes were written in crayon around the window.

Hearing a series of metallic clicks all through the house and then discovering those clicks were all the doors locking themselves. Including the lock on the door for the room they were in. An added plus was the little knob to lock it was on their side of the door.

Zombie cop. Especially since that instead of the usual random moan is croaking out a slow drawn out 'help me'.

'I can' lie my way out of anything.

The npc next door neighbor kid who has a strange hang up with skulls. Then while searching for something that was dropped in the tall grass around Old Mister Crumpe's house he raises up and says 'look a skull!' and is holding an actual skull. Then suddenly everybody realizing the reality of the situation.

Sarah finding a gravestone with her name on it. With her birthday listed and todays date as the day she died.

Well the playtest game went well tonight. I'll wait until tomorrow to write up the report and send it in, I'm to bushed tonight to do it. A couple of the players flaked out on me and didn't show. But those who did told me they had a great time.

So next week at the same bat time on the same bat channel will be the second game. I'll have one more player for sure who couldn't make it this week due to plans that had been made for weeks. He is one of the old hard core players from when I ran the original edition of the game.

Later y'all.

Got a big ole brace on my left wrist and lower hand. Almost have to relearn how to type with it on. Doctor said I have tendonitis, or however you spell it. Good news is that work paid for it all since I hurt it there, bad news is I have to wear this damn brace for a week or two.

Ah well.

Got most of my playtest group nailed down. Still waiting on one person to get back to me. Already know of a couple good alternatives in case I need them. But right now I like the group make up. All of them have some experience with the old game, two of them have a hell of a lot.

So friday it goes down, hopefully I won't screw it up to badly.

Later.

Man I bitched about out local ISP yesterday on here. Now I have to admit that I was wrong, it wasn't the modem. Today they sent out a person I shall refer to as 'Super Tech'. This guy checked everything in the house, the modem the lines, all that. Then went outside and ran a new phone line from the pole to our house (our ISP is also our phone company). That didn't fix it. He replaced the box. That didn't fix it. He went out and started working down the lines climbing poles.

Finally he found the problem. One of the other 'Stupid Techs' messed up the wiring in the big box down by the highway. Had to many lines pulling out of one spot so he rewired the big box. Drove back here retested my modem and filters (found one bad filter also) to make sure everything was fine.

Super Tech got it all running again. Actually it's running faster than ever. So I sit here absolutely amazed now.

My ISP is going to shit. Constantly getting disconnected or not connecting at all. Tech guy comes out while it is working and says there is nothing he can do. Now I have another tech guy coming out tomorrow and this time I want my modem replaced. Both computers in the house run fine connected to any other ISP so it's not like the computers like they keep trying to imply. It's not our phone line because nothing has changed there and they've been working just fine up until the last couple of weeks.

Yeah our ISP is going to shit. Because their tech guys are to stupid to see the obvious problem.

Bought a new book. Well okay actually it's an old book. 1938 was when it was printed. But it's a book that's been printed on and off for several years. Just I finally bought it. So now I am reading 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes'. I've read some of the stories but not even nearly half of them. Always enjoyed them but I never picked up the compilation of all the stories.

So now I'm reading it. Already one hundred pages into it. Loved A Study in Scarlet where Holmes and Watson first me. Never had read that story before.

Now I just need to buy the DVD of the Jeremy Brett series of the Sherlock Holmes that the BBC did back in the eighties (at least I think it was the eighties). I especially like that Watson isn't portrayed as a bumbling idiot like many other versions have done.

Ah well. All Sherlock Holmes goodness.

Recently I finally got off my ass and bought a copy of Blade Runner: The Final Edition and watched it. Now my mind is in the cyberpunk gutter. Now I got a few ideas for a rpg based around the ideas.

You play a Replicant on Earth. Trying not to be found, trying to survive, trying to find a way around your expiration date and trying to figure out just what you are. So you are on the run from Blade Runners trying to find refuge where ever you can find it. But you are not alone, there are other Replicants out there on the dark streets. Something is drawing you all back to Earth from whatever far away locations they sent you.

Now you could run this using regular ole Cyberpunk 2020 or something. But I've got a few odd ideas. Here goes a little brain dump of a few of them.

Emotional Impluse. This is your breaking point emotionally. This is a big thing for Replicants since their emotions aren't fully developed due to their young age. You just haven't discovered the way to deal with them. Certain things add points to your Emotional Impulse count, when it reaches a certain level you have to make a roll. If you fail you have an Outburst, these are usually very violent and dangerous to anyone nearby.

Certain things add to your impulse count. Forced into a sudden emotional situation especially those with others around you in a hightened emotional state. Lustful or romantic situations. Now some replicants are more resistant to these things depending on their intent upon creation. Combat models won't be fazed by panic situations in combat, pleasure models don't get hit by anything lustful at all. Things like that.

Quirks. Little problems that are going on in your brain. This is where you are going against your normal programming and becoming more 'aware' of your personal self. One would be Memory Reassurance. You have to keep some sort of record or your life. This could be taking a lot of pictures, recording video of everything, collecting news clippings, etc. Now if these things are somehow lost expect a lot to be added to your Emotional Impulse count.

So to make your Replicant you would pick your Model and Intent. This would give you a preset physical ability level and a preset number of abilities. After that I'm thinking some sort of lifepath to add some more personal details on the character. I don't really want to use the normal run of the mill mechanics for this either.

Ah well that's just some ideas dumped out there. May work on this some more later.

I try not to post to much on some days. But I've been going through the scifiwire news articles and came across something. Originally I was looking for info on the upcoming marvel comics movies. Found that and something else.

They are remaking Red Dawn.

WTF? I mean a complete and total WTF? Why? How? Damn people do something original.

Article here:

http://scifiwire.com/2009/05/star-treks-chris-hemswort.php

Three days sick now. First day was bad. Second day it seemed like all was well until about half way through work and then it hit again. Today is not as bad as the first but I'm tired of being sick. Time to see the doctor today.

Well the V remake is now officially on it's way. ABC has picked it up. Sucks for me since I can't pick up that station at all. Ah well that's what the internet is for anyways.

Hopefully it turns out pretty good. Here is a link the fansite for it.

http://www.visitorsite.net/

Home from work sick today. Would like to say I got something accomplished but it didn't happen. All I could do was lay on the couch and not move. My mother even had to take the kids to daycare for me, there was no way I could drive this morning, much less chase the kids around all day.

Feeling better now but still not near 100 percent. Mainly just a killer headache left.

Here is my first video I put on youtube about the UFCW so far. They showed up at folks houses without being called or arranging a time with the employee. So my coworkers started wondering how they got everyones address. Well I went outside when they were on the parking lot one day and asked them. They didn't want to answer me. I wonder if they can't tell us that what else is there they aren't telling.