I need a Dungeons and Dragons fix

So Gary Gygax is dead. The man who invented Dungeons and Dragons, and therefore the Role-Playing Game, has passed away. His character sheet has been erased and has gone up to Role-Player's Valhalla where he will feast with the mighty Role-Players of the past.

I havn't played a game of Dungeons and Dragons in ages and I think it's time to get that 20-sided Dice out of retirement. My only problem is that I don't have anyone I can play with. My sisters are either too young or not interested. Maybe I should just work on getting Mythania as a campaign setting done.

Mythania is becoming more frustrating for me. I'm starting to want to abandon the entire concept. I have to change the name because someone has already gotten the name Mythania. I'm also thinking about having it as a series of planets. Not sure how that should work exactly, but there should be like nine major planets and various moon-type things orbiting gas giants. The main planets would have the major civilizations, while the moons are largelly unexplored and is considered to have all kinds of lost civilizations and bandits and good stuff like that. That and there's like over eighty something sentient species in Mythania, most of which I probubly won't get into.

I'm a bit worried about the extensive sentient species. The standard fantasy universe generally has like five, but Mythania or whatever I'm going to call it from now on is going to have several, and I don't know how people will react to that. I suppose only like ten or twenty will be of any real importance, but people will attach to these little species that don't matter much and write fanfic or something like that.

Finish Exams

Hey, sorry that I didn't write. I am getting so damn lazy with this blog! Anyways, I have been working on school projects (finished) and studying for exams (also finished). Basically, I am free for the next few days.
Anyways, I'm at the library and I found a series of books on human history that I bought instally. It's only now that I realize I don't want half of them. I'm going through them again to see which ones I don't want. I've already gotten ride of most of the modern history and I'm probubly going to get ride of the classical civilizations as well, bunch of war-like arrogant pricks. Still, the Greeks gave us philosophy and I suppose that's got to count for something. Still, I could probubly do without most of these. I'll keep the ones on China and Japan, as well African and Pre-Columbian Civilizations. Early Islam is defenetly staying as well. Byzantium and Russia maybe. But I think I'm going to cut down on the Mideval period and anything else that goes with it. This probubly isn't even the collection that is at the library anyways. I noticed India isn't in this collection.
I've decided to make Mythania a series of solar systems. I guess I was just annoyed with the bowl and solar systems sounded easier. The various planets are interconnected with a series of stargate type things, which is called "The Web." I don't mean to make Mythania science-fiction, I still see it as high fantasy, but it's going to have characteristics of science fiction.
Well, it seems to be the time to stop. Be seeing you.

On this the Eve of my Birthday

My birthday is tomorrow and I havn't been to school today. That's right I skipped. I'm ca-razy, man Crazy! I got up at 10 and hung out here for most of the day until I went over to the Giant Squid, where I picked up some movies to watch on the weekend. Probubly can't watch any today because I have family coming over for my birthday.

I've been thinking of Mythania, which I can't call Mythania any more because someone else got to it before I could. I've been worrying alot about cultural diversity in Mythania, which shouldn't be a problem as Mythania is a very culturally diverse place, at least in concept. The problem is I don't want one species to just have one monolithic culture. But since there are so many species in Mythania there is a good chance that they will band together and have cultural similarities. Then we have counrties like Qeo-Zhau which has various species joined together into one nation. (Probubly only three or four, with one species that runs the political, religious, military and economic aspects, and two or three used as slave labour or something. Apparently Halo has a civilization like this, but I'd like to make it as different as possible). Hm, maybe I'll just have the Qeo-Lo and the Daulq-Lo and have some tribal people who don't have fialty to the Empire of Qeo-Zhau. Possibly another reptilian race.

Right, basically what I was thinking was making some sort of evolution chart for Mythania's sentient races. Basically I have three groups at the moment, Descended from Humans, Descended from Reptilians and everyone else. Everyone else will probubly be seperated into different groups (Pancheyan Humanoid, Hub Continent Humanoid). Descended from Humans, or Human-Blooded, can be found anywhere and include the Aedonite, the Qeo-Lo and the High Council of the Abominations. The Reptilian-Blooded are more or less in a ring around the Hub Continent and so far consist of the Traidon and the Daulq-Lo. I've already worked out the Pancheyan Humanoids and Hub Continet Humanoids. Pancheyan Humanoids are from Pancheya and can be distinguished from other Humanoids by there fur and hard head. Pancheyan Humanoids include the Draan, the Cronullaban and the Burit. Hub Continent Humanoids are generally slim, have a third eye in the middle of there forehead and are all magically sensitive to magical forces as they are at the central point of the multiverse. These include the Dveukti. Oh, and the tawaze have a group all to themselves.

Okay, that's all I've got. Be seeing you.

My Weeklong trip to the Cottage of Hell

Well, I'm back from a week long vacation to a cottage on the Bruce Peninsula that was badly built and had a terrible shower and I couldn't be happier. The cottage I was at was terribly built and I didn't like it at all. I was also sharing it with my entire family and some of my relatives who have six people in there family, two of them little girls so you can imagine the screaming when you combine that with Sprite.

So, a summary of my vacation is in order. I can't give you much in the way of a complete linear narrative, but I can tell you I did have a good time. I went to various beaches, went for a few hikes with my relatives and emediate family, saw an example of Native-Canadian dancing and took part in an intertribal dance, bought twelve books including William S. Burrough's "Naked Lunch", watched an old Chinese Kung-Fu B-Movie that had a terrible plot but still remained pretty awesome, hit my head repetedly on a door that was to small, had a bat fly at me, liseaned to alot of Dead Dog Cafe, had a camp fire and had fudge. I can't remember what else I did besides watching my copy of "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly."

I have decided I am officially decided I am holidayed out. I will probubly take this back when it happens, but I want to go to school again. Maybe I won't take it back because I'm only going part time and I'm doing philosophy and art, which look like there going to be really good courses for me. I'm also looking for people to play Dungeons and Dragons with, probubly using an adjusted version of Mythania.

On another note, I may have to change the name of Mythania. It turns out the name is used by a MMORG and another world called Mythania that has some similarities, for instance it has steam technology and rodent people although from what I've read of these rodent people they are drastically different from the tawaze. Here's a list of other Mythania links.

• Some weird poem
• Stuff on Wikipedia on the other Mythania
• Some American lady who is oddly enough 23. How'd you like that coinsidence?
• Somebody's character in Warcraft
• Some story called "Mythania Sorrow the Fallen One" about an angel or something
• Some account on Quizilla

That's about it. Hope you guys find it interesting. Sorry it took so long to write all this.

I made a new friend and then I wrote this

Good news, I met a new friend Thursday at my co-op at the Museum. As I don't know how she feels about having her name blabbed on my blog, she will have no other identity beyond that Chinese girl I met and became friends with at the co-op, or my new friend for short. We had a brief conversation about work and our lives and exchanged numbers and stuff like that. She has a face book account, which I have been hearing about a lot these days. We exchanged contact information and such. I don't know if we're actually friends yet, but it's nice to have the possibility of a friend, and this looks promising.
School is still frustrating. Things keep piling up, because I'm lazy and that's just how I am. Big mistake, I know, but I just don't care about a lot of things. I don't have the same drive as other people. Maybe it's because my priorities tend towards to my writing.
On the subject of writing, I have been working the idea for Mythania around in my head. Many of my long-time readers and friends would remember that Mythania is my personal Middle-Earth. Well, since I have been working on the Family 48 time line and the world of Naos and Helen, I have had little time to actually work on how Mythania works, even though I am fairly certain that it is more important then Family 48 or whatever I may come up with for Naos and Helen. Recently, I have been brain storming Mythania. One of the inspirations is the Forgotten Realms for Dungeons and Dragons. I want to write a big book about Mythania that's like my Forgotten Realms handbook, detailing all the natives, countries, gods and environments of Mythania. It would also have all the information that you'd get in other books, more detailed looks at the Gods, more detail on countries, stuff like that. For plot elements, I seem to be feeling I should do something like the Mahabharata. The Mahabharata is a major Indian epic that has enormous cultural import to India. Imagine if you combined the New Testament and Lord of the Rings into the same book and that would probably be the Western version of the Mahabharata. I haven't actually read the Mahabharata, but I have an idea of the story. I'm also working plot elements into a future novel, where two of the major characters talk about how the universe works right before the apocalypse. It's an allusion to the Bhagavard Gita, which Hindus consider a really important book. So, despite the fact I have yet to read this book, it is probably a big influence on my career. I really should find a copy at some point. I also plan on just using this as an inspiration for the plot.
I've also been thinking about using stuff about Naos and Helen in other works, while there still mortal and have the chance to make mistakes and be more interesting protagonists. The only thing is I'm not sure how to actually work that. I may write a sequel to The Last Dance Revolution, dealing with themes of Religious Extremism. The only problem is I'm not sure I want to write a sequel to the Last Dance Revolution any time soon. I may try writing one ten years from now, but I don't see it as something I really need to write. I'm also thinking I should do something about Naos and Helen in a world slightly different then there last one. I've been having this weird idea of Naos and Helen in something like Yellow Submarine. If I ever get into film making I may try that, but I think I'll just write it as a minor novel I can but into the Naos and Helen series. I've also thought of writing something were Naos and Helen are the antagonists, which I think would be interesting because I tend to caste them as Revolutionary Heroes or Gods. It would also be interesting to write something from the perspective of someone outside my own belief systems.
I'm wondering if Naos and Helen are becoming Mary Sue characters, If I'm caring way to much about them and leaving my other characters without as much detail. I've got at least Four novel ideas about them already, and they've worked there way into Family 48 and Mythania (though admittedly they do not take as much part in the Mythania Chronicles). I'm not sure if they are actually Mary Sue characters, since they don't meet all the criteria. For one thing they have flaws. Naos is an emotional hurricane with a few mental problems and can be a real jerk sometimes, again inspired by me. Helen while generally being more stable then Naos can be a real bitch sometimes. Also, I tend to drag them through a lot of stuff. In The Last Dance Revolution alone I drag them through hell and I'm going to do a lot more then that in Family 48. Still, they tend to come out on top, because I really like these characters. I want them to be happy and have a good life and have many fat children, but I do tend to beat up on them, at least in the stories I have planned for them. I've gotten this idea recently of Helen finding out about my existance and as I had just recently screwed her life up, she decides to try and kill me. I'm not sure how she's going to go about doing this, but I plan on working it into the end of the Saga of Family 48.

A Savage and Possibly Frightening Voyage into my Imagination

I've got homework. I've got to write up a thing on Employment Insurance (Canadian Unemployment Insurance), write up this thing in Writer's Craft, and then I have to do a thing on Mythania. It involves making a map of the Aethean Sea, as well as getting a bunch of things on creating worlds for creating fantasy worlds. Shouldn't be so hard, as I have a few links already. Oh right, they're on the computer that doesn't work anymore. Ah well, it still won't be to hard. That and I have to potentially write up a bunch of stuff for it. I suppose just a brief description of it would be fine. Then there's the time period I have to choose. I figure around 100 CSY, which should be around 250 in the calendar I just made up for this religious brotherhood that took over what was left of the Anoran Empire.
On other notes, I'm putting away at the novel. For the most part all I've written are a bunch of conversations between Naos and Helen. There are a few other things that are going on, but it seems to mostly be Naos and Helen recalling memories of stuff. I suppose that is good, since I believe, or at least hope, they reveal a lot of stuff about the characters. I'm also trying to come up with a bunch of quotes to begin each section. So far I just got a bunch of song lyrics and a bit of William Blake. I'm also thinking about making a soundtrack for the book, so I can get the right idea of the world. I worked on it before I came here, to the public library, that's were I am at the moment by the way. Figured I'd come over here and see if I can't find some Bob Dylan, since he's one of the artists I closely associate with Naos. Then maybe I'll see if they have the soundtrack for Easy Rider. I don't know if they do, but I figure it will help with the first Act. I've separated the novel into five acts, act five acting more as an epilogue. The titles of these acts are as follows.
Act One, On the Road in the Former United States of America
Act Two, Say you want a Revolution
Act Three, Fear and Loathing on the Material Plane
Act Four, The Enlightenment of Naos Ben-David
Act Five, N/A, I still have to think this one up. I was thinking of "God's Mercy on you swine," but I already have a reference to Hunter S. Thompson. I may just use that as a quote.
I'm also thinking of putting an intermission of some sort in after Act Two or half way through Act Three. Or maybe I could have a bunch of intermissions. Three, let's say. One at the end of act One, another at the end of Act Two, and another in the middle of Act Three. After that the plot begins to get really fast pas and I don't think there should be any intermissions, except for maybe something that says "There will be no more intermissions," only more dark and not as direct. This will be right before Act Four.
On another note, I'm working on what I hope to be the first story of my "Song of the 60's," story ark. The working title is "How Sophia Campion and Daniel Taylor avoided the Loony Bin and Tuned in, Turned off and Dropped Out," or something long like that. It basically deals with how two of the characters got involved in the big thing that happens and begin there voyage to San Fransisco.
I haven't really explained Song of the 60's yet. Well, it's basically a thing I wanted to write in more or less the same vein as Lost. I've been really interested in the 60's and I thought it would be an interesting place to write about. Off course, since it's me, it's going to involve an ancient conspiracy, interdemensional travel, a battle between the forces of good and evil, and my mythology. Off course, considering that this is the 1960's were talking about, it's probably not that strange to have an immortal Sufi-Warrior Mystic, a trio of prophets based on the Marx Brothers (sans Zeppo), and Naos walking around the place.
How is this going to be like Lost? Well, I plan on having back stories for all the characters that run into each other. Since there are going to be a very wide cast of characters, including various historical characters such as inhabitants of this time period (Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey and Hunter S. Thompson will all play roles of some kind as well as anyone else who seems appropriate), and a few who don't but could probably fit easily in. For instance characters like William Blake, Jesus Christ, Alastair Crowley (who's spirit has been trapped in a pickle jar since his death and is used as a scrying device), Emperor Norton the First, H.P. Lovecraft and a whole host of Sufis, Troubadours, Cathars, Knights Templar and other such individuals. And, this is a recent development, they are all connected in some way. For instance, one of the characters descendants met H.P. Lovecraft in an incident with the Necronomicon, another character is reading a book on by Joseph Keating (A British Professor Ala Tolkien), who in tern is trying to figure out this conspiracy that's coming in around him and what to do with these weird crystal stick thing (That incidentally belongs to a changeling sorcerer who is currently on his way to San Fransisco wondering what happened to the past twenty years of his life and why he's in America to begin with). Also, in an earlier flashback, Joseph Keating has memories of sitting in the trenches of World War One with an Arab chap with a sword who saved his life. Well, this Arab chap happened to be Are'do Muhammad Islam, the above mentioned Immortal Sufi-Warrior Mystic, who during a trip to Damascus after WWII would find a naked man who, well that's giving away to much.
I may just try making this into a series. I think the CBC might take it, or if that doesn't work, maybe Showcase or Bravo would be interesting in putting up a potentially controversial and genre bending series. Well, I better be going now. Time is running out on the computer.