Welcome back
It’s been about 3 weeks since I last posted here. A big reason for this has been due to the fact that I’ve been playing Eve Online quite heavily. It’s an online game I’ve been involved in before, and I got back into it a few months ago. What with not working, I’ve been occupying my spare time quite heavily in the game.
And we all know what I do when I occupy myself quite heavily in something. I write about it. I’ve been very, very busy writing about the game from my character’s point of view. I’ve also been writing articles about the game to help others get better at it themselves – from a pirate’s point of view, that is. Yeh, I’m getting into ‘piracy’ in the game, which is basically just doing a lot of player vs. player combat.
You can see the blog here: The Travels of Black Claw
History of the future
Back in the beginning of this year, I wrote a timeline to provide a 'history of the future', to be used for a roleplaying game I created that was set in 2030, a combination of the Werewolf and Cyberpunk genres. I created this history based a little bit on how I saw current events developing, and also some of the 'historical facts' that were provided by John Titor, an alleged time traveller. Bringing it all together, and using established Cyberpunk themes (eg. cybernetic developments and early space flight, etc), I created my own history. Interestingly, I had Russia and China supporting Iran in 2006. They beat my 'prediction' by a year.
Star Trek: End of Federation
This is a story I created in the Star Trek play-by-email game I ran, but which finished early this year. This story began during game play, but never continued beyond April 2383 (see below), when the game ended due to lack of interest. The story was supposed to be for the background story of the galaxy, which the players and games would be part of. The 'Erratan Galactic Republic', or the EGR, was based on the Empire from Star Wars. The following is a timeline I created with my friend Garry's help, and which may one day be turned into a story. (If you want to write it, contact me. As an idea, it's copyrighted by me.)
2383, March
– EGR Task Force (8 destroyers, 2 battleships, 1 factory ship) enters Kaerine space, sends out probes throughout the galaxy
– Federation goes on alert at all the mysterious probes entering their territory
Roleplaying games
Most of you reading this probably won't be into roleplaying game, never have been, and never will be. Some of you won't even know what roleplaying games (RPGs) are, and some of you will only know them as those activities you get up to in your bedroom. And really, that's where we'd rather you keep them, so please DON'T tell us about it in the comments section. For those of you who have been a little sheltered, let me give you a bit of background into what roleplaying games are.
My World of Warcraft character
I play World of Warcraft a reasonable amount. When I have time to really. This is my character.
His name is Krayc, he's currently 17th level, and he's a Hunter. That's his pet, Kittey. She's a 17th level Nightsaber, or something like that. Now, the reason I'm putting this in this journal is mainly for my interest only. Every 10 levels from now on, I'm going to put a picture of Krayc, and the pet (which might change). I want a record of appearance, just to see how he looks every 10 levels from now on. (Maximum character level is 60.) Subsquent pictures will be done as updates to this post.
UPDATE 10/10/2005
27th Level now
He's getting badder! 
UPDATE: 21/11/05
Haven't been playing it since the last update… too many things happening in my life to spend time playing. I'm hoping to get back to it one day soon though.
