Duke Street AlleyDuke Street Alley - LiveJournal.comSo, It Begins: II- June 28, 2008 The voice continues, "Alright, so I'm not the Commander, but I don't know where she is, or if she's still alive. We'll settle who's in charge here in a short while. In the meantime, can we have some light"Someone incants, and light creeps into existence, just a glimmer, but enough to show you your surroundings. The space you are in is made of stone, but shaped by tools. You're in one carved niche in a corridor or passageway, along with your tools and weapons, and around you, you can see the...http://gothwalk.livejournal.com/540659.html Film, WoW- June 24, 2008 Any WoW players in the Dublin area interested in being interviewed talking about MMOs voicing their character for a short filmhttp:www.tribune.ieartsarticle2008jun22another-shooting-spree-in-dublinParticularly looking for players with dwarf, elf, orc, troll characters, and players who are not from technical backgrounds.Anyone who's interested, mail me at gothwalkgmail.com, and I'll forward it on to the guy doing the film. I and Wormson are interviewing for it tomorrow evening.http://gothwalk.livejournal.com/540357.html So, It Begins- June 10, 2008 There is darkness, pain, and a growing sensation that something has gone very, very wrong. You're just not sure what. You remember that you're a Legionnaire, that you serve the King - and you know what you can do. They must really have drummed that into you, though, because you can't remember a damn thing otherwise, not even your name.There's movement around you - other people waking up too - and then there's a man's voice that reaches down into your guts, and pulls you to attention. "For the...http://gothwalk.livejournal.com/540103.html 20 Years In Gaming- June 10, 2008 Sometime this month - the exact date escapes me, and defies my historical research capabilities - the 20th anniversary of my picking up a gaming book will happen. It was the summer of 1988, and during the Strawberry Fair in Enniscorthy, I acquired a copy of a book called Fighting Fantasy: The Riddling Reaver, which was an expansion of the Fighting Fantasy game, based very closely on the choose-your-own adventure style solo games. It's gone from there.To celebrate the anniversary of this, I'm...http://gothwalk.livejournal.com/539793.html Portugal- June 10, 2008 Being a short series of observations about a recently concluded trip to Portugal.Doing Nothing Is Sometimes Completely NecessaryI have developed a mental metric for how much I needed a given holiday. This is measured by the time after which I get bored of "doing nothing" (which is actually reading, but text intake for me is so easy that it's essentially nothing), and start to look for something to do (usually writing). On most holidays, this happens after two or three days. In this case, from...http://gothwalk.livejournal.com/539557.html |