Just added a link to See The Goat, an occasional strip set up by one of the guys off Portent.

Phew, panic over. I did send the disk home (gosh, you were on the edge of your seats throughout this crisis, weren't you?), in the other computer.

The parents are posting it back to me, and also giving me a bit of cash from next term's allowance, so that I can afford the little luxuries in life, like food.

I should really make sure my parents never read this blog. Not only because of the swearing, but also because in my previous post I mentioned that I was going to see some plays next week, with what little money I have remaining. I suppose I could edit it, but that'd be censorship.


My god, this blog's boring. Perhaps this is normally what happens. I happen to be in a very bored state at the moment, so I decide to set up a weblog. Hence, until something interesting happens (like I have sex anytime soon, or even better, get a girlfriend), it's going to be my mindless meanderings about nerdy topics like roleplaying. Stick around, because when something interesting does happen, there'll be a blow-by-blow (er, should I rephrase that?) account of whatever it is.

Still lonely. [sob]

No...

I've lost the most important floppy disk I have ever owned.

The disk that could make my fortune has vanished without trace.

It contains the only remaining copies (since my hard drive had to be wiped) of Imperium (an RPG set in the 40k universe), Donations to the Church of Blood (the WFRP adventure I was writing), and the entire proposal and rough notes for Nuln: At The Crossroads (the sourcebook I was talking about the other day).

I'm hoping like hell it's in my room somewhere (although I've looked several times), because otherwise I left it in the Linguistics Department lab, where it isn't any more. Maybe I should try the Bowland College porters' lodge, see if anyone handed it in.

It's possible my dad took it home with him in the computer he lent me to stand in for my own while it was being rebuilt (hence the mindwiping). I'll have to text him about it.


And about getting some money off him. I've got two plays to see next week and I've only got thirty quid to last me the rest of term.

Hmm, does anyone know how to get a readers' comments page on this?

Is it even possible with a (free) BlogSpot?

If not, people email me with comments and I'll stick 'em on the blog. If I feel like it.

Feeling single at the moment.

[sigh...]

I hate that. You can be happy being without a girlfriend for ages, only to have an awful feeling of loneliness creep up on you. Heck, what's wrong with me? I just wondered for a moment if I was going to die alone!! I'm only 21, fuhchristssake, it's not time yet to worry about being alone in 60 years!

Well, I hope it's 60 years. Maybe more.

Sorry for the rather dramatic first post.

Probably a better place to start would be: who am I?

Me, I'm a third year English Language student at Lancaster University (the real one in the UK). Currently I'm seriously behind with my degree, and found out this afternoon that I've missed the deadline for my draft dissertation proposal. Oops. At the same time, the department's got their eye on me because I've missed a few too many seminars this term. Oops again.

On a personal level, I'm a reasonably shy person, and very conciliatory as well. If I have a grudge against you, you've really, really managed to piss me off, and I hope you burn in hell (and preferably just before you die as well, while I watch). I admit it, I do have one of my former flatmates from the first year in mind when I say that.

I like to think of myself as being trustworthy and considerate, but hey, everyone lapses occasionally. Then I feel incredibly guilty about it afterwards. I seem to spend a lot of time apologising to people, which some use to accuse me of being weak, but I disagree. An apology is used to a) make the apologiser feel better, b) make the apologisee feel better, and above all, c) address and resolve the error/misunderstanding/unfortunate incident that necessitated the apology.

Hobby-wise, I seem to spend a lot of time involved in roleplaying and wargaming. Not actually doing it, most of the time. At the moment just one evening of RPGing and one afternoon of wargaming, at the moment, but the rest of my time seems to be spent discussing it online, in the Portent and Dark Millennia forums (see the links to the left). On Portent, I'm Fulsrush, while on DM, I'm Archangel. (I used to be Fulsrush on that too, but all their records were destroyed by a cyber-terrorist attack, so I rejoined under a more current netname.)

Other than that, books, films and computer games do it for me.

Oh, and writing. How could I forget that? My life is basically me trying vainly to become a publishable author. I've tried sending stuff off for publication, but it always seems to go nowhere. Take my last book proposal, for a Warhammer Roleplay sourcebook. I sent that off to Hogshead Publishing a few weeks ago. Take a look at the previous post to see what happened to that one. [sigh]

My friend, Mish (one of the housemates in Students Unzipped, see left), did a bit of scrying a while back at the university Pagan Society. I'm not actually any kind of pagan, more of an atheist with an interest, and they forced me to join so that they could say they had an official Jedi on their roster. (That census thing, trying to make Jedi an official religion? I did it.) Anyway, I asked (and these are supposed to be cryptic), "Will the archangel get the hog's head?" Pretty obvious to you, probably, since I've already told you about it, but Mish was in the dark (and a weird trance, actually).

The mumbled reply was, "Midwinter...sun rises...blood on the side."

Like I said, I'm an atheist, and I don't believe in this kind of thing, but just for fun, to see what'd happen, I tried to interpret it: Sometime in winter, I'd get an acceptance from Hogshead (the sun rising bit). Blood on the side? I don't know. It could very easily be a sourcebook title, or maybe there's an RPG writer out there called something Blood, who'd be working on it with me? Or possibly the Church of Blood (an evil cult described in the sourcebook), would get involved in some other product Hogshead were developing? I'm already working on a WFRP adventure called Donations to the Church of Blood. Maybe somehow, something's going to come of that?

Christ, I'm clutching at straws here, considering I don't even believe in magic in a mystical fashion. (I tend towards magic and religion being a psychological phenomenon, normally beneficial, but confined to a person's own worldview, there's nothing concrete in the universe. Fee free to disagree.)

Maybe I'm just desperate to get published. :-)

Oh my god...

Oh my good god...

Earth-shattering news.

Yes...

Hogshead Publishing is closing down. They're not bankrupt, but they've just decided to pack up and go home. The thing is, they've just gone and handed the rights of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay back to Games Workshop.

Now, I can see Games Workshop doing one of four things with this:

1) Rewrite it completely, including the old-style background, and release it to match their current mythos for the Warhammer World. This is not a good thing, since several aspects of the current Warhammer World (as opposed to how it was 15 years ago, when WFRP was released) are vastly inferior to the WFRP version.

2) Let the game die an undignified death in the pit of despair known as their dustbin.

3) Hand it over to the Specialist Games Range for them to make available again, albeit at lower production cost and with limited availability.

4) Resell the licence to another company.

The fourth one's the best option, but if the company turns out to be crap in comparison to Hogshead, WFRP could go down the chute.

If GW decides to keep it and give it to the Specialist Games Range, we can only hope that Jervis Johnson (the guy in charge of the SGR), being a veteran GW-er and roleplayer, takes WFRP under his wing and makes sure it's treated properly.