Hello World

Awhile back, I said that in 20 more posts I'll have 300 posts. I'm going to apologize now and say that it dosn't look like that will happen. I had some drafts on my account and that set everything off. I don't know when the 300th post will come, but I'll tell you when it does.

Well, I got up near Eleven and I am feeling very good at the moment. I feel very well rested and happy and that I need some excersize. Besides that, nothing else is happening. I'm at the library because I'm bored and feel like working on Mythania. Nothing new on it, and besides Steph is probubly the only one who's going to see any of it. Sorry Grandma, but I'm not sure you'd understand it anyways.
Anyway, I just felt like saying hello. Bye.

Summer Time

As many of my readers may be aware from reading about my dealings with summer last year. It is a very boring time for me. That's why I'm at the library know. I'm bored. I'm going to have to call Rowiin around to play some Dungeons and Dragons sometime.

This weekend will not be a good time for it however, since a lot of relatives are coming over and my Mom needs to unwind because being a teacher on the last days of school is majorly stressful. I also plan on celebrating my freedom by getting a new Dungeons and Dragons book. Either Complete Divine or Expanded Psionics Handbook, I don't know if I can talk mom into getting me both. Of course, it would probubly be wiser to just get Monster Manual. I better get around to getting that summer job.
Anyway, I am also working on my future-history, which I call The Saga of Man, since the saga of man sounds cooler then future history. I'm concentrating on the Last Dance Revolution era, which is somewhere between 2062-2069. There's this whole concept about the end of american civilization and stuff like that. Steph, once I transport teh infromation from my laptop to a computer with internet, I'll want you to look over it. Mom and Dad, I'd let you read over it but as you know our printers on the fritz.
Another project I'm working on is that I'm creating the first ever Encyclopedia Mythania. It's not going to be a proper Encyclopedia, as I'm basing the structure on my Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting Book, with different sections for Races, Geography (seperated by nations and regions), Religion and such. I also am adding alot of new stuff to Mythania, for instance I made up a species called the nyhib'ru and added a religion known as The Church of the Devine Flame, which is going to be something of a cross between Islam and Zoroastrianism. Originally it was just going to be Mythania's equivalent to Islam, but the use of a flame was just crying for Zoroatrianism. I won't be posting anything about Mythania here, but you can hope for some pictures.
Gotta go. Need to learn about Zoroastrianism.

Captain, The bridge is officially burned

I don't know where I heard the phrase "we'll burn that bridge when we come to it," but I have officially burned the bridge that is Grade 11. I finished my art exam awhile back and that makes me happy. Incidently, Courbet painted The Stone-Breakers, not Winslow Homer. I hate Realism.

Of course, know I have two whole months of summer and nothing to do. I've got a few ideas on what to do. For one thing I picked up a few movies at the Library to watch. I also have got alot of books to read. Let's see if I can finish That Hideous Strength this summer, as well as all the short stories in the Sherlock Holmes book. Hm, combined with the four novels I have on the go, I could probubly finish that in a month, including the time I've got know. Also, I have some friends to play Dungeons and Dragons with. Oh, and me and my mom are going to pick up some painting materials so I can do some painting. I enjoy the medium of painting. That and I'm writing a novel.
What I'd like to do is start a magazine. I don't know why, but it sounds like a great idea to me. If I can find enough people who will want to get into it I think I may be able to pull it off. Still, this is just an idea and I don't know if I'll go through with it.
Anyway, I feel like talking about stuff I'm going to paint. I really liked how the self-portrait I did in the psychedelic format turned out, so I'm going to do some stuff in that style. Not self-portraits mind you, but just people. I've got something like that for Alan Moore that I'd like to work on. I also plan on doing a portrait of Ralph, which I would hang over my fire place if I had one. I'm also thinking about doing pictures of scenes from books. There are alot of pictures I'd like to do. Here's a list. I like list.

• A picture of Roland at the beginning of The Dark Tower series, just so I can get a picture of Roland in my head (The Dark Tower Series, by Stephen King)
• Picture of Walter O'Dim reading Roland's fortune via Tarot Cards (The Dark Tower Series, by Stephen King)
• Detta Walker (The Dark Tower Series, by Stephen King)
  
• A picture of Elric at the beginning of Elric of Melnibone (Elric Saga, by Michael Moorcock)
• Elric and Yrykoon fighting with Stormbringer and Mournblade (Elric Saga, by Michael Moorcock)
• Individual pictures of The Pilgrims on a white background (Hyperion, by Dan Simmons)
• Dread learning out of an Ally, looking very frightning and predator look (Otherland, by Tad Williams)
• Kunohara with a giant butterfly (Otherland, by Tad Williams)

That's a list of what I want to do. The picture of Roland is a definete must for me, as is Dread. I hope that I can get copies on here for you guys.

I found my Mp3 player

Yes. Huzah. My Mp3 player was in my art binder all the time.

So, summer is here and I am almost done exams. All I need to do is one on Art. I got the really tought ones out of the way (English and Humanities) and let me tell you that was really frustrating. Humanities took me to around four because I couldn't remember anything I learned. I also yelled at my EA alot because I was frustrated. My mom says that I should bring her a bottle of Fat Bastard wine to her and apologize for being one.

Lets see, I am ten dollars richer. So know I have 10 dollars. That is good.

I have discovered that I hate Paladins. Their codes are to damanding so I am making my character Kulder into a cleiric of Tyr. That is all. Bye.

Fathers Day, Dungeons and Dragons and a look at my multiverse.

I hate heat, I really do. I hate being hot and sweaty and I hate being in rooms that make me hot and sweaty. That is one of the reasons I didn't have much fun today at school. The other being I went to an assembly and I HATE going to assemblies, they leave me with a bad mood and silent anger that lurks in the back of my soul like some ancient Lovecraftian thing. Also, I don't enjoy school. Oh, and I lost my Mp3 player somewhere. Damn.

Anyway, This weekend Rowiin was able to come over and play some Dungeons and Dragons. Nothing important happened except that Rowiin the Drow and Kulder were able to prove their innocents and our heros took down the leader of an orc clan, making Kulder the leader. I am officially not playing as Kulder anymore, since his Lawful Good alighnment is going against the Chaotic Good alighment majority. That's the annoying thing about Paladins. They can only hang out with Lawful Good characters, unless your using varient rules from Unearthed Arcana of course but were not going there. I plan on bringing Nai'Atha Farwalker back into play, since he's of a Chaotic Good alighment.
Also, it was father's day. My father was given new man tools (i.e. BQ equipment) and on Sunday we went to his parents house for a swim. I was really worn out after the swimming. I also had some good coffee cake.
Well, in the world of my Mythos I have come up with a naming system inspired from some Jet Lee movie(or Bruce Lee, I was just watching it because nothing else was on) called "The One". The basic plot is that there's this multiverse and a bunch of people who inforce the law on it, and there's this one guy (Jet Lee) who kills the alternate versions of himself in the universe because it make's him stronger and faster and stuff. I really didn't care for it that much, but the naming system for the various universes was pretty cool, Anubis Universe, Hades Universe. Those are all I can remember. Anyway, I'm agusting it to alternate Earths. This is a sample of what I got so far.

Avalon Earth
Most developed Technology: Pre-Industrial
Magic: High content
Dominant Religions: Christianity, Paganism (Celtic Pantheon)
Africa and Middle East: Politics based around this area, mainly in Northern Africa. This is because Rome south to Africa in this universe. The dominant religion is Christianity, which is spread into two branches. Alexandrian Catholisism (The Roman Catholic Church moved to Alexandria) and a form of Protestantism. Islam didn't develop in this universe and if you ask who the Prophet Muhammad was your likely to get a confused answer. The dominant nation is Ethiopia, which controls most of the world, but is slowly giving way to the colonies in North and South America.
Europe: Overlaps with the Realm of Faerie, protecting it from Etheopia. Europe is ruled by the Celtic Gods who have maintained a hold here based in Ireland and Britain. The human natives are largely celts (most of the Germanic tribes moved to the middle east and africa. The closets thing to Germany is somewhere in Turkey). This is also the location of the Holy Grail. Areas such as Italy, Spain and Southern France which are not under Tuatha De'Danann rule were open to African and Middle-Eastern Invasions and ironically for us, lead to slavery of many Europeans, who were looked at as savage. They are still looked at by the dominant African government as barbaric, but not when they are in the presence of the Tuatha De' Danann.
North and South America: Colonies of Persia and Etheopia. America is still looked upon as a frontier. Europeans are kept as slaves. There are several break away republics.

Elysium Earth
Technology: Highly advanced medical treatment. Hydrogen cars. Very futuristic.
Magic Level: Not very prominent
This is basically and Earth where everything is just peachy. There's no war or disease, nobody's poor, nobody bugs you about your race or religion or anything and the Beatles are still together. It basically changed from our own during WW1, when the British and German soldiers desided that enough was enough and stopped shotting at each other. This set of a chain reaction that would lead to peace suddenly breaking out across the world and the Founding of the Human Foundation, which ran most of Europe and America. During the thirties many racial and religious barriers were brought down. (Mahatma Gandhi was almost elected Chairman of the Human Foundation, but he decliened). The Beatles still managed to get together somehow, wrote more or less all the same songs and are still making albums which are sold through out the Multiverse by the Guild. The Human Foundation is based in London, England.

That's basically it, except for the Naos Earth (my Saga of Man Future-History) and Jehovah Earth (my urban fantasy universe). There is also a Lovecraft Earth (In which the writtings of H.P. Lovecraft are a reality), but it plays an over all minor role in my Mythos.
Since I got time to fiddle around on the library computer some more. I'll come up with some other ideas.

• A universe where a Jewish scientist (not Albert Einstein, but similar) became Leader of Israel, and turned it into a technological utopia. (possoble names, Hephesteus Earth)
  
• A universe where everything sucks to contrast Elysium Earth. Whole planet's pretty much a desert.
  

Can't think of anything else. That's it. Any questions.

20 more days and I'll have 300 posts

Wow. I'm doing this from home. Excellent.
And know, Blog Things.

You Belong in Paris

You enjoy all that life has to offer, and you can appreciate the fine tastes and sites of Paris. You're the perfect person to wander the streets of Paris aimlessly, enjoying architecture and a crepe.

What European City Do You Belong In?

Ah, I wanted Rome. Awhile, Paris sounds cool too.

You Are Bert

Extremely serious and a little eccentric, people find you loveable - even if you don't love them! You are usually feeling: Logical - you rarely let your emotions rule you You are famous for: Being smart, a total neat freak, and maybe just a little evil How you life your life: With passion, even if your odd passions (like bottle caps and pigeons) are baffling to others

The Sesame Street Personality Quiz

Ironically, Bert may also be an Aspie.

You Are Cyclops

Dedicated and responsible, you will always remain loyal to your cause. You are a commanding leader - after all, you can kill someone just by looking at them. Power: force beams from your eyes

Which of the X-Men Are You?

Fairly indifferent to the outcome.

Well, nothing much has happened over the weekend. I tried to talk my sister into playing some D&D with me because I’m addicted to the game. (I’m thinking about creating a Dungeons and Dragons campaign setting with elements from The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, so I can combine two obsessions with one). I also almost sent some of my art into a contest but didn’t, which is a shame because I could have won. And some relatives came over and we watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Today I’ve pretty much sat around the house and done nothing.
Oh I can barely wait till summer.

I survived an exam (and possiblt, the apocalypse)

Well, as many of you may or may not know, many people were really nervous because the numerical date for June 6, 2006 is 666, the number of the beast. As you can see, nothing has happened. However, my dad made a comment that maybe June 6, 2006 is just the day the antichrist is born. Using this logic however, Christ will be reborn on July 7, 2007.
Either way, I am thrilled that the world hasn't ended yet, because I didn't do much that day.
What was really scary was that I had to do an essay yesterday. It was in English and I found it very frustrating. My EA had to take me outside and tell me to focus and stop destracting people. To tell you the truth I didn't really care. I just want to get this whole Grade 11 thing over with.
Also, it will please Steph to know that I am reading a Charles De Lint novel. It is called The Onion Girl. I find it very good. I would also appreciate it if Steph could give me some ideas on what else to read by him.
Lastly, There will be a big art thing for youth held tomorrow to show of art they have done and I'm going. I have got four real art pieces and some sketch books. I plan on getting into visual arts more, especially painting since I really enjoy that. My Mom and Dad want me to do a some pictures of my two sisters in the same format I did a self-portrait of myself (In a psychedelic pattern. I really hope to work more in this medium) and I also want to do a portrait of Ralph.
Well, that's all folks.

Used Bookstores have got more soul

Music: The Rolling Stones
Well, I got English homework.
I probubly shouldn't complain about it, but I hate homework. I really do. Who dosn't hate homework. Let's see, I have to type up a bit on how the witches in Macbeth create a supernatural tension, which shouldn't be to hard and I have to do a write up on the first three chapters of Broken Ground. Mainly stuff about the characters. This all has to get in by tomorrow.
And I of course am at the library typing away.
There's something about the witches that facinates me. I think it may be that I have this picture of them in my head. There's this scene where Banquo or someone gives this description of the witches and they all got beards and a sort of fish like apperance. It's really facinating. There's also this Hecate chick who's their god or something, but she only appears in two scenes and there is a brief refrence to her in the dagger soliloquy. Other then that we don't learn much else about her. Shakesphere may be considered a creative genius, but I find that his stories have some minor flaws.
I've been walking around the library in a sort of zen state and I got the idea of writing something based on Macbeth. It would be grounded in my Mythos, but would deal around a similar plot to Macbeth. I've seen stuff like this before, so I could probubly get away with it. I'm not saying this is going to be my Magnum Opus (or Magnificent Orifice ,Blackadder's Third, Episode 2. Ink and Incapability), but it may work for some interesting reading. I'd appreciate feedback.

Well, yesterday was the really important one. I went over to London (London, Ontario) to go to this thing to help Aspies get jobs. My mom came with me, because I'm not old enough to get important documents on myself sighned without a parent or guardian present. The person there was really nice and asked me a bunch of questions on what I see myself doing and my medical condition and I was really calm about it. (There's' this guy beside me playing some game about exploding cows. I don't like it since I find it crude).
But the best part was I got to go to this nifty used book store, where I got the first three books in the Elric Saga by Micheal Moorcock (Finally) and some books on how to speak Klingon. The book store was very good and I hope to go back soon.
We also went to Chapters to please my little sister Sprite, who came along because we didn't have anywhere else to put her. I got a Dungeons and Dragons magazine and a book on Romatic Poets. I'm really into Romantic Poets for some reason. I have a book of poems by Lord Byron out from the public library.

Plans for another Dungeons and Dragons game with Rowiin are going underway. We don't have a specific date, but I will get the information tomorrow.
Also, I noticed that there is a play based on H.G. Welles The Invisible Man somewhere. I should check it out and see if I can talk my mom and me to go.
Well, that about wraps things up.

The Continuation of Rowiin and Mine's D&D campaign

Well, Rowiin came for Dungeons and Dragons yesterday. We are both working two characters each, since I wrote one up a character since we spend so much time in the wildreness. This is our adventuring party so far.

• Kulder Palecastle, Lawful-Good Half-Orc Paladin(level 2) and Cleric(level 1) of Tyr, I'm pretty sure that Kulder is the leader of the party since he lead the expidition to Bored Kobold Dungeon. He was brought up in your standard orc tribe, but converted to the faith of Tyr because of the cleric Talis Stormriver. Talis has unfortuantly been murdered by the cleric of his former tribe and Kulder's mission is to extract retribution and regain his possision as leader of the orc tribe, hopefully leading them away from the faith of the Orc God Gruumsh and to the faith of Tyr.
• Rowiin, Chaotic Good Drow Rouge (level 2) Rowiin is a drow rouge who Kulder hired to pick locks in Bored Kobold Dungeon. He seems to have slight kleptomania and is a follower of (hope I spell this right) Eilastrea (didn't), who is the goddess of good alighned drow.
• Marek, Lawful Neutral Fire Genasii Monk (level 2) Rowiin's other character, Marek is a quite and withdrawn individual from far and exotic Calimshan. I don't really know what else to say about him except he's the only person in the group with an abbility modifier that goes into the negatives (his charisma if your wondering. That isn't really important to a monk if your wondering).
• Relander, Chaotic Neutral Moon Elf Ranger (level 2) and Elf Paragon (level 1), Relander is my new character. I created him because we needed somebody who knew how to live in the wilderness. The idea behind him was to be a sort of Clint Eastwood Man-with-no-name personality which may have something to do with my Dark Tower obsession and the fact that The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is an awesome movie. I'm not going to talk much about his past, but I do plan on cross-classing him with a wizard and then giving him the Arcane Archer Prestige class. May take awhile since I would like him to have 5 levels in Ranger, 5 in Wizard, 3 in Elf Paragon and then 10 in Arcane Archer. This will take alot of time, I realize but really I don't care how many levels of Arcane Archer I get as long as I have it. Still, I think Relander may become one of my major characters. At the end, I'm changing his alignment to Chaotic Good.
  
• Fang, an orc we picked up in an attack. He's really just a minor NPC at the moment, but Kulder is trying to convert him. I plan on him becoming a follower of Kulder when he reaches level 6 and gets the leadership feat.

Well, what happened in the campaign you ask? Well, Kulder went to Dundragon Castle, a village near Bored Kobold Dungeon, which they were exploring last time. At Dundragon Castle they met Talis, a cleric who finansed the expedition to the Dungeon. Unfortunatly, Talis was murdered by a group of orcs and Kudler and Rowiin were framed because the locals don't trust half-orcs and drow. An anonymous stranger helped them escape through a secret passageway. Once they were outside, Rowiin went back into Dundragon Castle and recruted Marek and Relander.
Once they came back, they went back into Bored Kobold Dungeon were they found some journals written in Dwarven (Bored Kobold Dungeon was originally a Dwarven city). The dwarven journals spoke mysteriously of the Kobold invasion and refrences to something called Zeltorzane. After exploring a bit of the dungeon, they found the former leader of the dwarves who lived here, who was turned into a Lich to entertain Kurtuluk the Mad, the leader of the Kobolds. After destroying the lifesource of this lichs as a mersy killing, they found and armoury and every one got new weapons (except for Marek, who got a belt of giants strength).
Relander brought up two important points. 1) if Kurtuluk could turn the dwarf cheiftan into a lich, then why wouldn't he turn himself into a lich and 2) he knows that orcs under Krayk, an Orc Cleric of Gruumsh, hade Talis assasinated. Kulder reveals his ties to Krayk's tribe (he is hereditary leader) and retribution against Krayk.
Because the heroes can't go back to Dundragon Castle, they go to Moonvale, a community of elven and Good-alighned drow that lives in the forest. Relander is on good terms with the leader, a female drow cleric of that good drow goddess I told you about, and a member of the Harpers. (The Harpers are a secret society who's goals are to protect culture and good things). The heroes ask her if she knows anything about Zeltorzane, but she refuses to answer anything. Relander also talks with her alone on a personal matter that remains a mystery to the rest of the group.

After this our heros made an attack on an orc post. They were able to take one captive named Fang. Fang informed them that they were in relations with a Kobold Lich operating out of Bored Kobold Dungeon. This Kobold Lich (Presumably Kurtuluk the Mad). Kulder takes Fang with him, much to the arguement of Relander who dosn't trust him.
After this our heroes go back to Moonvale, regroup and make another expedition to Bored Kobold Dungeon. Relander discovers that Zeltorzane was a Red Dragon that helped the Kobolds invade the dwarven city. There is also information that Kurtuluk was a member of the Cult of the Dragon (a secret society bent on bringing about the reign of Undead Dragons) and may have turned Zeltorzane into an undead lich. The heros find a small bunker for what appears to belong to a Cult of the Dragon shelter. Strangely, a statue of an undead dragon has a pile of holy symbols of nearly every god in the Forgotten Realms and a symbol of the Cult of the Dragon.
Rowiin had to leave then, we will learn more next sitting. Except me because I'm the Dungeon master and already know what will happen.
In other news, I am finished my Independent Study and don't have to redo my Gender Roles assignment that I didn't do right. Exams are coming up quickly and I wait with anticipation for it all to be over. I hope summer can come soon so I can have a better degree of freedom, which I will spend here at the Library.
Well, that's about it. Keep Grovin'