Random quick updates

[chipotle]

In no particular order…

• Work is kicking my ass recently. It’s been an interesting experience, in the oh, yes, I am at a startup, aren’t I? sort of sense. It’s made writing difficult and driven out enthusiasm for personal coding, though, and also rather cut down on my time online.

• On a not entirely unrelated note, I’m about ready to throw in the towel with the Excursion Society MUCK. I’ve had little time for it over the last year and honestly not all that much enthusiasm, even though I appreciate the diehards who’ve stuck with it; it’s mostly still around just because of them. I may think more on other systems to do in the future, like an MU* set in Ranea. (After I get my other programming projects back on track. After I’m willing to do programming on my own time again.)

• I keep starting and stopping other blogs around the web, because I’m just like that. It occurred to me that if there’s any topic I really should be writing about somewhere, it’s not politics or programming or even fiction writing, it’s cocktails. If this thought goes anywhere, I’ll let you know.

• I contemplated the “blog like it’s the end of the world” zombie thing that’s going on today, but ya know, it seemed like it would be too much effort for today. (And besides, I already wrote an apocalyptic plague story recently.)

• Speaking of cocktails, I’m really tempted to go to Elixir tonight or the weekend, but probably won’t. Probably.

Comments

[chipotle.livejournal.com]

I'm also not sure what you see that's particularly limiting about Ranea in comparison. No, you probably can't have the half-dragon kitsune godling, as Mega put it, but it's a world with magic, technology and even a long-standing concept of a "trade gate" between worlds that would allow a fair amount of leeway in character types. I wouldn't expect any RP-focused MUCK to get to Furry or Tapestries' player counts, but I don't think a couple dozen or so is unreachable. And bluntly, if I ever did this it would be using pretty different technology than Fuzzball; I wouldn't bother unless I could use it as a testing ground for ideas I've been kicking around.

An RPG supplement for Ranea is not out of the question, as that's been talked about half-heartedly for well over a decade.

Claw & Quill and the rewrite of "A Gift of Fire" are the priorities I have that make it unlikely for me to really give ESM the attention it would need to be revived. I don't really plan on starting any other major projects, RPG supplement or MUCK or coffee bar, until those are both out the door in some fashion.

[silasmouse.livejournal.com]

That's good; I'd agree. Claw & Quill is what I'd like to see done the most out of all of those things.

---> Silas