Captain Awesome and the Spacecapades

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In other news, it sounds like Wizards is releasing the 1st edition D&D books (plus a new cover) in April and I am very excited!

Also my back is incredibly sore because I pulled a muscle!

I think that's everything.

EDIT: Fixed! now only interesting things are not cut. Woo!

So now let me ramble about TOR! I know few of you care but I'm doing it anyway.

GUSS TUNO IS SO COOL. So cool you guys. SO cool. Oh yes. Oh VERY yes. Double-double crossed, and then we ran the best con ever about Hothian Ice Fever, which made me grin like an idiot and clap with glee! Then I hit on a Pirate Queen!

I am very much enjoying the smuggler storyline, and Soldat continues to look exactly as badass as I want him to. Just wish I had cool-looking boots and gloves! I like his wacky shirt.

Edit: Today's Manly Guys Doing Manly Things has taught me to never assume I know what I want. I thought I wanted Commander Badass to never change. Apparently, I wanted to LAUGH LIKE MAD at Suddenly Stylin' Commander Badass, and then for him to change back at once!

Tiger & Bunny: I'm super excited! The t-and-b-anon meme is on Dreamwidth now, which means I can stop logging in to LJ to check it fearfully for updates I might otherwise miss.

Also exciting, the last of the doujinshi I ordered should be arriving in a week or two if things go well, and then I might be able to keep myself from ordering more. No promises, if someone draws an especially interesting looking story-- or especially sexy looking stuff-- I could be lured into getting more, down the line. But for now, I think I'm content with my sizeable collection!

As for SW:TOR, holy crap, I HATED Balmorra.

The number one complaint I've had throughout the game is pretty simple. I'm playing a smuggler so I don't have to be too involved with the Republic. I'm not loyal to the Republic, and I don't appreciate being forced to do things for the Republic. The Republic is corrupt and full of people who'll take shortcuts to get what they want, even at the cost of the happiness, safety, or lives of other people, and Soldat is Not Okay With This (but don't tell Risha, because I think she disapproves of how stupidly nice I am). Normally, this isn't too much of a problem. On Alderaan, people wanted help with advancing their political goals. The nobles supporting the empire were honorable, even if they were against me. (One took me hostage as a trade for 300+ prisoners, and didn't kill me, only put me in jail! I really respected that guy, and later got to speak up for his life when an emotional noble wanted to kill him after we captured him.) On Tattooine, people just asked me to help them out with their direct problems, which made sense. On Nar Shaddaa, I was running around doing ludicrous errands for a Hutt's whimsy, when I wasn't brawling with biker gangs. On Taris, even though I was annoyed by how difficult it was to get trained to my new levels, and so on, at least the missions generally had to do with the Rakghoul plot and trying to find out what had happened to the dead city-planet. Even Coruscant was honestly more about trying to fix the problems with the way the Republic is run than about the Republic and the Empire's stupid forever-war.

Not since Ord Mantell-- the dreaded 'you're trapped, so deal' first ten levels of the game-- have I been so forced into the Republic's stupid goals and treated like I must obviously give two shits about the Republic. Balmorra SUCKED. Not only are the sidequests all about winning the Republic's war for it, but my class quest was too, in this case. The upside? I got badass mercenary Akaavi Spar in the trade-off. I like her a lot already, and am seriously conflicted about whether I want to try to woo her, or just stick to my guns and woo Risha. (Risha is sassy and adorable, but ALIEN ROMANCE!! It calls to me like you would not believe. Still ticked I can't romance Bowdaar. We would be the greatest warrior champions of all time!)

After Balmorra finally ended, I got a quest to go to Hoth. Hoth! I excitedly geared up for it. I like Hoth! But then of course I got another call, telling me 'actually, go to Quesh, first'. Quesh is apparently poisonous, and also a war-zone, which means I feel like I got out of Balmorra and into Balmorra.

However.

Beryl Thorne, my first lady romance, has made an appearance there.

Color me cautiously intrigued.

Edit: Augh god, I pinched a nerve in my back last night while sleeping and everything makes it hurt. I wish I'd had time for a shower this morning, but with the weather being so cold it's just been a chore to get up in the first place.

I also should seriously fix my car window so I stop freezing to death all the time.

Edit: Vastly more interesting than my personal life is how awesome Burma is! I haven't kept up with news very reliably, but caught this article this morning. Personally, this news excites me a lot, as I'm pretty certain Kristen has ambitions to move out to Burma someday, and this seems like it would only facilitate such a move.

Edit edit: Back to T&B: I'm tempted to start a new fill just to revel in the fact that I can make it 16k characters long without having to make a new comment!

I have gifts that still need mailing (mostly for bubbles and Claire) and emailing (for uninformed and Rex, sorry about the delay guys-- no good reason for it, I just get home late and then am lazy about mailing of all types) and I'm planning to do so today, tomorrow, and Saturday if necessary. Claire wishes to chat over the weekend! So if I mail them today, perhaps she'll get her presents before we talk. That would be cool, huh?

I also need to arrange Kristentimes, because how will I ever give her her presents? She mailed me awesome Unicorn candy and jewelry and, most importantly, The Bhagavad-Gita which she remembered I'd been looking for a copy of, which made me SMILE THE BIGGEST SMILE ♥ so, yes, hangouts are definitely required! Perhaps we will go bowling and talk shop again?

I also also need to see Emma, whose elaborate present must be wrapped up before I can do so, so I guess my weekends will be spoken for with actually doing stuff for this month. Last week of the month we are in fact going to FL to visit with Danny's family after all, because his eccentric grandfather is funding the trip for everyone. Which is super cool!

That aside, a little more SW:TOR. Last night before workouts, I ended up playing a bit and decided to kill Skavak after all, and come back to do side-quests afterwards. Rather than even try to do it alone and get frustrated if I failed, I brought Bret and Danny along with me and we made short work of him. Hooray! So now I've started my "legacy", the last name shared amongst all my characters, apparently. In a fit of forgetfulness, I-- well-- forgot that I had planned to go with 'Eldara' so Matachin would have the right last name when I played her. Instead, I picked 'Meridian', which turned out surprisingly not to be taken. So, he's Soldat Meridian now, which is a bit on the meh side, but not bad, either. (It does not have the same kind of lyrical zing I prefer on character names, but really, in my head he is just always 'Soldat' anyway. The surname is superfluous.)

Edit: Post about how you're going to get off your ass and do something important for your pals that you have not yet done: all your friends graciously respond that it's no big and you needn't worry about them.

You guys why are you all so awesome I'm still trying to send out your gifts ASAP. *fistshake!*

I think I might actually have felt kind of bad for Corso when I did that class quest last night.

I might. I might actually have stopped hating Corso quite as much.

What is wrong with me. He is mechanically a nightmare. For those not in the know:

Smuggler, as a class, is very fragile. In writing terms, you haven't got the greatest constitution and while you're no wimp, it doesn't take much in the way of explosions, cuts and burns to knock you out for the count. I'm specifically a gunslinger, which means I hide behind cover and shoot things with two guns during battle, trying to evade taking any hits from my enemies because of that low constitution.

But this guy, this 'companion', his shtick is to pull the bad guys right up close to him.

And he stands right next to me.

Suddenly I am taking poison gas and gunfire to my face, instead of my shoulder. And well, that's just uncool. Suffering through this guy until I found Bowdaar the wookiee was horrible. HORRIBLE. Bowdaar is wonderful by comparison, because he keeps my enemies focused on his enormous hairy self, and I shoot them while he cuts them down with a sword. Perfect teamwork.

Despite all this, I actually am starting to feel kind of bad for Corso. He's really pathetically lonely and isolated; I'm all he's got. (Even if, apparently, staying on my ship drives him to drink. What does THAT even mean.)

Tangentially related to this, I am finally at Alderaan, which is kind of neat in a weird way. Last night I spent on Tattooine, which means I got to see the Sarlaac pit, and at one point Danny and I waited around with a bunch of other guys chatting in Say (Sith and Jedi alike! COEXISTING. It was fucking rad. One of the Sith was named Woe and absolutely hilarious) for a Jawa Balloon. Then we rode the balloon for EVER, and jumped off of it onto a mysterious wreck with mysterious secret treasure on it. Tattooine was fun to go to even though I never hit up Mos Eisley (if it's even there?) because it's actually from the movies, you know? So while there was some "oh god what if I fall in the Sarlaac pit? Will I be digested for a thousand years?!", there was also "Gosh, this is neat!"

Alderaan, by contrast, is exciting because I have absolutely no idea what to expect, given, well, the events of the movies.

Thus far: quite impressed! Also, sleepy.