First order of business is working on the forum as an administrator. It is kind of funny how I came across this position and it sort of stuck after all while. The forums seemed to go down for some odd reason and dunkel made both Jim and Brian admins to try and get into the administration tools and try to fix the problem. Fortunately enough Jim was able to see that a squirrel was acting up and he was able to get it repaired. So that’s how Jim and Brian become part of the administration team. After that we of course had to get a couple of mods together to pick up for the gaping hole that we had left (Considering DL and WM were stepped down back to regular members. Don’t worry WM Jim still <3’s you.) We debate for a little bit, though we all seemed to come into a general consense on a couple of members. Jux was always someone who seemed to be very active in the gaming section an untamed wilderness where only admins would tread occassionally. He was the most likely to be promoted and has since done a wonderful job. The next choice was Becky who helped me out a lot during my time as an RP mod by keeping everyone nice and orderly and coming up with some of the most creative posts I have ever seen.  The last mod Silent Echo was someone we considered for the chit-chat cafe and a possible Serious Discussion mod, I think back when I was in consideration he was as well. More to come later Jim needs a nap.

The main reason there really isn’t much to report with any of my writings is because I’ve been suffering from a prolonged case of writer’s block. There are occasions when it does leave and I can get a little bit of work done, but it always seems to come back. I know what everyone’s thinking, Jim, you pure being of awesomeness and win, how is it that you, perfection incarnated, can suffer from prolonged writer’s block? You also my wonder why I used so many comma’s in that sentence and the only answer I have is because that how things turn out sometimes. The universe and a strange thing that likes to implode, or explode… Whatever the scientists say it’s doing right now.

So I’m sure the question on everyone’s mind is this, Jim, just what is it you have been doing? It has been a long time since you told us. The short answer is working, playing Rock Band, other stuff, blah?… But since I really don’t like giving short answers get yourself a comfy chair and a nice refreshment because I’ll tell you all what I have been up to. Just remember that you have been warned.

I know, I know, I usually don’t go much into my personal life in this blog, but since I’m not writing I don’t really have much to do, anyway here goes. Turns out back in May good old Jim quit his job over at a pizza place that he worked at and pretty much lost contact with everyone that worked there until just a few weeks ago. What does Jim do now, you might ask? Well Jim now sells computers at Best Buy. Why? Because I’ve wanted to work there since I was 16. No seriously, I have literally applied at the exactly same store every single year until up from then until now, which now I actually have the job there. I know what you’re thinking awesome, right? Well of course we are talking about Jim after all.

Of course Jim doesn’t work all the time, so what is it he does during his spare time, did he finally decide to get himself in a relationship? No, and shut up. Finding a relationship in my hometown is like mining for coal, dark, oxygen depriving, and canaries dying left and right. Where do canaries come into play in this metaphor? Yea, I don’t know either, but I still stick by it! Actually I do have a really good idea for that, but I’ll just let everyone guess. What I’ve been doing in my spare time is what every other nerd with a love of music is doing, Rock Band. Alright so the only next-gen system I have is a PS2 (That’s right PS2 not 3), but who cares that game is still badass regardless of what system I have. I actually do drums and a little bit of singing, which are both really fun, plus the make you more cordinated. Other than that well the list of games is rather long, but here goes to the best of my memory: Persona 3 FES, Saga Frontier, Pokemon, Final Fantasy IV (DS), Brain Age 2, FFVII: Crisis Core, Patapon, Gods of War (PSP), Rune Factory, Final Fantasy III (DS), Final Fantasy VI (GBA), Maple Story (Don’t ask), and others I’m sure I’m forgetting. As of right now my friend who is currently in the mountains of our fine state going to college as introduced me to that MMO Perfect World International. It’s an open beta, free to play game that as my cousin so elegantly put it, looks just like Everquest. I’ll be the first to tell you, I’m not a fan of MMOs and what they do to people, but there are occasions when I want to play one. Of course I also like a challenge and nothing seems more challenging to me than to play a healer, so of course I chose a cleric. Now whoever decided that a cleric needed ZOMG high damaging magic from the get go needs to smack themselves in the face, because I haven’t found this challenging yet. I mean yea occasionally I do get a little overwhelmed, but still. Oh and my friend that told me about it… Yea I haven’t seen him in the game yet, go figure.

Anyone else get really annoyed by the freecreditreport commercials or is it just me? Nevermind, off the subject, that’s what I get for watching television while trying to blog. Anyway that is all that I have been up to as of lately, I still lurk the forums and try to do a little work every now and again. I’m on aim a lot so if you want to talk feel free, I just normally take a while to reply depending on what I’m doing. Expect to see a few more of these before the years over, maybe 2 or three I don’t know. Depends on how productive I’ll feel, after all Brian’s leaving for boot camp soon and dunkel and myself get online at sparatic hours, so… :/

Now of course all of you are thinking to yourselves, James, you dashing and clever fiend you; haven’t you already planned to kill off Isaac in the first Aurora Chronicles? Well the answer to that is a bit more confusing than what I’d like to let on. Technically yes he does die, being turned into stone would justify being kill in my humble opinion, but he will be revived later on through other actions. The main reason for this though is because of the way I had Melayna end up developing. She basically turns all emo and goes into the whole crusade about finding a cure to bring him back to live, because somehow she feels that she is the reason for him sacrificing himself. I’ve taken the whole standpoint of this story and actually visualized it as an RPG for some console, and the results so far seems to make a rather interesting game. Sure it reeks of J-RPGs but who wouldn’t want to see a short girl wield a giant boomerang and have enough magical abilities to make Hiroshima look like nothing more than a firecracker? That’s all I plan to say for now, mainly because I’m tired and I feel like changing subjects again.

Let’s see the other project is along the lines of a new Zelda RPG that would basically be a new sort of spark to the series that I think it so desperately needs. I got the idea after watching the Zero Punctuation review on The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. This time the game doesn’t revolve around Link. The main character is a young man who is dragged away from his small village to fight in some war for the sake of Hyrule. This of course sets up for basic training and all that jazz, and you probably know where I’m going with that. Anyway near the end of the whole controls training you do actually get to meet Link who has become the prince of Hyrule, finally. He is once again the silent protagonist as always and doesn’t say anything besides his normal grunts and groans, no fanboy would ever want Link to say anything, but they’ll be pissed off at my idea soon enough. Once all this has occurred you end up getting throw headlong into a massive battle against the invading force and end up losing, that’s right even though you have control of the character you still loss. It than cuts to a scene showing Link getting throw off of his horse just as the blade in his hand, the master sword, shatters. The new character is able to make his way over to the prince and is given the broken master sword before blacking out. With the intro done I’ll probably make a full out post on the rest sometime in the near future. Look forward to it.

The first story I want to talk about is of course one of my personal favorites, “The Epic Adventures of Wallace Wainwright.” If you haven’t already guessed this entire story is about everyone’s clever and ruthless friends Wallace Wainwright, The Grandpa Bandit. People’s childhood’s I find bland and boring so this story is going to take place back before the Grandpa Bandit even existed. I know what you’re thinking, “How is it that Wallace Wainwright the best thief to ever live not have been a professional thief for his entire life?” And sometimes I too ask myself that question until I realize one simple fact, he never gets caught. Now it’s a common fact that all thieves are about dumb as dirt, but Wallace Wainwright only seems to have harebrained skims, but they are well engineered at the same time. Turns out that the main reason Wallace never gets caught is the fact that he use to be a cop back when he was younger. That’s where things start out in the story. Wallace Wainwright, detective and husband. Now the first bit of the story focuses on Wallace and how much of a hero he is, until of course the unthinkable happens, his wife is killed, caught in the crossfire between a police officer and a bank robber. Now if fate was kind the bullet would have belonged to the robber and Wallace would have had a just cause for continuing to be a police officer, but fate tends to take the ironic route. The fact that an officer took the life of his wife (Heh rhyming words) was too much for him to bear. He quit the force and ended up going down the dark road of alcohol, cigarettes, and cheap women. It didn’t take long for his money to run out and that was when he started to steal things. Only what he needed to get by. Now here’s the interesting thing, as time goes on Wallace’s plans go from clever to downright strange, probably because he killed so many brain cells with alcohol, I don’t know. Of course Aurora, on HMF, will make an appearance as this was the place were some of my favorite crimes took place (I even laughed about the murder of the mime though I still think that was WM’s fault entirely, mainly because I put could instead of couldn’t. I mean come on that sentence wouldn’t even make since like that… But now I’m venting and that’s for Ventrilo ). I haven’t really thought of an ending as of right yet, but it should be rather interesting.

The next one actually has a strange story behind it, but if you know me and have Ventrilo I’ll tell you on there because I figure it’s funnier word of mouth than through text.(Probably will be able to do that this Sunday, if not later…) Anyway the story is called “How Andrew f***’d up Christmas.” and is based around on of my co-worker’s Andrew. This is of course the start of a trilogy of ironic comedy stories the second one is “How Andrew f***’d up Christmas again.” and finally “How Andrew and Kyle f***’d up Christmas.” Now I haven’t put much thought into these books as I just thought up the title yesterday and the general premise of it, but like I said it should end up being a comedy. Now each story is going to take place at one of my co-workers house’s and Andrew will basically be invited and completely ruin the holiday from them, but ultimately bring them together in some sort of sappy “Oh we should be happy” kind of way. The first victim will be my boss, Mrs. Janet (Who ironically shares the same first name as my mother, go figure.) I decided to have her go first because well, she’s overly nice and would probably let someone screw up her holiday season, be pissed off about it, but she’d get over it. The second one is other going to take place at my fellow manager Kyle’s house (Kyle’s only 19 and his little brother also works for us. Plus I know his family a little so it wouldn’t be too hard to visualize.) Or the old man of our little work family a preschool teacher named Paul (I screw with him all the time at work so I figured that would make him an eligible victim for this story.) Now the third one I’m sure my readers will enjoy the most because both Kyle and Andrew get their final revenge by screwing up Christmas for me. (If I end up choosing Paul for the second one, I’ll just introduce Kyle in the third one no problem.) I decided to do this only because I figured my co-workers wouldn’t be too happy about me writing about them so I figured I would have to poke fun at myself, not to say that I don’t already make fun of myself, I just feel kind of bad about them being the butt of my joke. I’m still not exactly sure how he’s going to screw up Christmas three times, but I’ll figure out a way to pull it off, somehow…

So, what do ya’ll (I swear it is not spelled y’all and I refuse to put it like that) think about these two ideas?

Our newest project is that of RPing in asterisk style once again to HMF. Now I am not a fan of this method of RPing I’ll be the first to tell you that, but I kind of figure that this will be a chance for me to unwind after having two RPs fail on me and the fact that it is now impossible for me to finish my Novel project this month. Right now I’m all wall of text’d out so the chances of this even getting that long are pretty slim, though it would be nice of course.

Really I started this topic thinking I should state what I’m thankful for, because that’s what the holiday is suppose to be about. In a few hours my family will be over at our aunts house gorging ourselves on as much food as humanly possible followed by watching television while my mother and her sisters (We go over to her side of the family for thanksgiving) will look through sales papers trying to figure out what exactly to buy for Christmas. As for me, well I’ll have to deal with my now teenage cousins and honestly I don’t really see how all of them became so angst against everything.

Maybe it’s just me though, I was never really the bad child, I never really had that rebellious phase as a teenager, and I normally walk the straight and narrow. I’ve just never found anything else rather appeasing, I mean I’ve heard stories of my cousins going out to parties and getting completely trashed and high. My first thought is always, Now why would you want to do something stupid like that? Of course I did consider it when I was younger, but it never really had gotten past more than a thought.

Back than though I was young, dumb and thought I was in love. My ex-girlfriend was really one of the people that shaped me into the kind of person I am, and I really am grateful for that now that I look at everyone around me. I could have very well ended up like some of my other friends, out in the working world . She wasn’t the one who made the decision for me, but she did help me figure out where I should go get my education. Of course the reason I did break off that relationship is because she was trying to turn me into something that I am not, but that is a different blog post altogether.

I’m actually kind of thankful to be single this again, though I’ve been single for about two years now, and some people think I’m strange because of that. For me it breaks down into two things, 1.) I don’t have the money to have a girlfriend, and B.) I don’t have that much free time (Unless you include these twilight hours, which I don’t.) Now already I can see people saying, “But Jim you’re on an awful lot.” I am, but normally I’m doing schoolwork on my computer at the time. I’m just really good at multitasking while on a PC. The whole money thing is because I work at a dead end job while trying to earn my degree, but hopefully that will change during winter break (Though I love the people I work with…Sometimes).

The people I really need to thank though, are the fellow forum members I spent some of my free time with. Sure a few of them act like complete jerks and nublets sometimes, but in the end watching those people and having to enforce rules upon them make me a better person (I think). The others, my fellow RPers, and my fellow staff members are really a lot of fun, though I’ve only talked to a few people outside of the community the ones that I have seem like rather good people… Maybe not Brian and dunkel. (I kind, Brian is a good kid. As for dunkel well the sad thing is that dunkel and Jim think far too much alike. Sometimes I think dunkel has cameras in my room and is watching me… Does anyone else get that creepy vibe from dunkel? )

Of course I probably won’t be on much at all over the next few weeks, what with finals sneaking around the computer and the whole fact that my laptop is busted so I won’t be able to get online unless I go to the engineering building (AKA the military bunker.) Don’t worry though I’ll be back as soon as I get a new computer with walls of text galore. You all behave yourself otherwise, if Jim gets any bad reports from Brian or dunkel (Two people he keeps contact with), well let’s just say that you thought your grandparents could rant D:<

It’s been so long since I’ve made any decent RPing posts and it seems to be showing now. I suppose I have no one to blame but myself. I should find myself another community to RP at, but I don’t see myself doing that anytime soon. I’m going to continue to try new projects every once in a while, starting with Neverath here soon and maybe a try Aurora Chronicles once again during the summertime for a greater member turn out. Of course even the thought of that does not sound too grand, but it’s better than doing nothing at all. I hate that my RPs are dying because of inactivity, all the hard work I put into them are basically for nothing. It’s too frustrating, which is why I suppose I’m still here, RPing my little almost mary sue character trying my best to train the upcoming generation of RPers. Sometimes I’m beginning to think that the ways I was taught are becoming obsolete. Taking their place are the shunned methods of old, asterisks and one liners.

I can’t help but wonder what happened to the old days, back when RPing was about telling a story of a character in a foreign world doing things that you yourself cannot possibly accomplish. There is no quality in the work that I see a lot of the time nor is there any quantity to it. It’s dribble plain and simple, but I did have moments where I to was like that for a short while. I don’t now, I’ve always been a fan of descriptive posts, but finding people who can accomplish them these days are few and far between. I just wish that I could find one person on the forum who could actually surpass my abilities, but so far the only people who have come close still aren’t quite there. They have some length to their posts yes, but some of them just get lazy and don’t feel the urge to be descriptive. Maybe I should take a vacation back to the home board, though I doubt that would bring me comfort, that place has been dying for years, becoming infested with people who think that short one sentence posts are the only way to go. You know what I think at the bottom of the section I’ll show the three different types of RPing, though two of them are very similar.

It’s starting to become apparent that even now, with two new moderators the staff is still spinning it’s wheels. The last festival we had completely failed and now both dunkel and myself are probably feeling similar to how Brian did when his festivals started to have no one show up. We’re trying to pick ourselves back up, but what with everyone looking to us for answers instead of using some common sense, well it’s hard. Soon enough we’ll be giving even more power to a few of the members on the forum, now I’m not sure how well this is going to turn out, but I have a bad feeling about it.

RPing Methods- Character: Melayna Wainhart (Because I <3 her)

1. Asterisk Method

*Melayna enters the library and sits down*

“I think I’ll read a book while I’m here.”

*Melayna reads a book*

“Oh I was suppose to go meet someone.”

*Melayna leaves*

2. Short description method

Melayna enters the library and takes a seat. “I think I’ll read something.” She takes a book from the shelf and reads it. “Oh I was suppose to go meet someone.” Melayna stands up and leaves.

3. Long description method

Melayna pushes open the large oak door leading in the gigantic library a whirlwind of dust greeting her as soon as the first cracks in the two doors appear. This place was like a home to her as she came here quite often to partake in the wealth of knowledge within the building, though no one else ever seemed to. “I think I’ll read something.” Melayna searches the bookshelf for something that she had not already read. Her chestnut eyes scanned spine after spine, each book varying in color until she found one that caught her eye. She took out a dust old gray tomb which had no title to it and began to flip through a few pages scanning the printed words within to see exactly what the book was about. Before she could get a grasp on it a realization entered her mind causing her to quickly shut the book and head towards the exit. “Oh, I was suppose to go meet someone.” Melayna hurried herself over to the exit until to have herself fall on her face just a few feet before the door. Taking a moment to pick herself up off the ground and dust herself off Melayna headed towards the exit, closing the large oak doors behind her. The library once again fell into the all too common darkness.

The story I chose was one that I’ve had with me from all my years of Role Playing on the various forums. It’s about the life of my character Isaac, the beginning of it is set just before the RP Aurora Chronicles and describes a different character than the familiar dark and demented Isaac we all know and love. It is basically a recap of his life, the prologue shows him at the grave of his comrade Laura and explains briefly how she died. Clearly this is actually both the beginning and the ending of the story, since if I go past that whole incident than I’m getting into my project for next year’s NaNoWriMo, which I don’t even want to begin thinking about yet. Actually I take that back I did want to at least get the titles done for my projects and basically I’m doing a trilogy:

• Aurora Chronicles: The Crusades
• Aurora Chronicles: The Celtrean Wars
• Aurora Chronicles: The Eternal Peace

Clever titles? I don’t think so either, but they get the point across. Anyway I’m rambling the point is it focuses completely on Isaac’s life and after the present it goes back to the past where he lives in an orphan in the kingdom of Silvercrest, he’s only five when that start I believe. So far it kind of starts slow though there is a little bit of action to start out with, but not much. The first couple of chapters focus on how he develops into a divine knight followed by him getting involved in the Crusades. That’s all I’m willing to give away now, but stay tuned same Jim time, same Jim channel.

The RP itself seems rather flawed in it’s execution, mainly because it is a medieval RP sort of like my Aurora Chronicles, but it is run like an Harvest Moon RP, IE Static places where events occur. Now I’m all for it when there your character does not stand the chance of being chased down by a band of brigands through so many places in a town.

So I stopped lurking for the night and signed off, when I signed on the next day I noticed that I had been upgraded to a global moderator and was able to access their secret forum. Now I did not ask for the position, but I am not going to downright object to such a change, even if my first intent was to lurk. Of course I did state my problems with the way they planned on running things and all of a sudden I’m in charge of the RP all together, maybe. The lurker within me was of course not happy about this, but as a writer I decided to go ahead and take up the offer, though I do not want to have all the say in the fun. I asked for a council to be made so that ideas could be discussed at length with other moderators to get an idea of what the higher ups are looking for.

In the mean time it’s time to play one of Jim’s favorite games, choose his character. Now medieval takes my options down to five, and with the way it’s set up Isaac would not suit the place which eliminates two of them. An older version of Melayna (My channeling priestess) and Ivan (My perverted sorcerer) are the only real two that I can possibly consider using . I do have one last card up my sleeve though. I’ve been running the idea of using a descendant of Isaac through my head, and so far it does seem all that bad. How far back am I going to go in time? Well I think I’ll go as far back as to use a great grandfather (perhaps just grandfather) of Isaac (My divine knight), considering looks tend to skip generations at a time he probably will look almost exactly like Isaac. The only trouble with that idea is having to think up a new personality for an old character as well as a new set of weapons, though I might do the lazy thing and make him a swordsman especially considering that Isaac has very limited magical potential.

All and all it’s just one more thing do add to my to do list, though I have to admit this is keeping my skill at it’s peak. I hope soon to even overcome my current level, which is a possibility, but I feel that if I do reach the next level I may have to return to the old boards to RP with those that I considered better than I could ever become.

Medieval:
Isaac Johnston: My first character ever created, he is called a divine knight, kind of like a member of the church’s army during his day. He is skilled with two handed blades, but if forced to can use spears or one handed blades. He also has very minor abilities in holy magic. His story, well that’s a long and complex thing, but I’ll try to shorten it up. Basically Isaac was an orphan and raised by the church, while being bullied he mets a young girl with profound magical abilities named Laura and the two of them in end spending a lot of time with one another. Both of them enroll in an academy for divine knights in training and their counterparts, priest/priestess. They both graduate at the same time and are partnered with one another before being send to fight in a war known as the crusades (Clever name I know). A couple of years after that they are sent back to their home and begin to have an intimate relationship. While Isaac is away Laura assaults a Cardinal from a different region and is sentenced to be executed. The executioner is none other than Isaac himself, who carries out the deed though not before begging Laura to consider trying to escape with him. This sends him into a so called “Lost soul” period where he ends up getting partnered with another girl named Melayna Wainhart. Little do they both realize that she is actually what ends up curing him of his grief, if only for moments at a time.

Laura Tate: Normally she is just an NPC I use when I RP with Isaac before his “Lost soul” period. She is an advanced priestess who knows more magic spells than any of her mentors. Her weapon of choice is actually a rather large boomerang, quite an odd weapon, but considering her specialty is range it is very fitting. Anyway her history and Isaac intertwine for a large portion of his story up until the few days before her execution. As it turns out she only assaulted the Cardinal because he was trying to have his way with her, like so many other priestesses before her. (I actually plan to write out a little scene about this sooner or later because little does everyone know that their wedding was actually suppose to take place the day of Isaac’s return). Just before she was executed she placed a fake curse on Isaac, mainly just for show so that he would not be executed by the church along with her.

Melayna Wainhart: My newest character, Melayna Wainhart is someone who comes along in Isaac’s story during his “Lost soul” period. She is a very upbeat and cheerful person though can sometimes have a darker and more serious side to her, though no one is quite sure why that is (Even I don’t know, seriously and I was the one who created her). Her weapon is a crossbow because she is too clumsy to use anything else, she’s even been known to hurt herself when using a staff. Her magic, while not as impressive as Isaac’s previous partner, are a force to be reckoned with. Her specialty is channeling holy energy into pearls that she had embedded into various articles of clothing, one on each wrist as a bracelet, and one on the left side of her glasses frame. She does know a few other casting spells but the pale in comparison to her channeling. (She was really an experiment with new types of magic that I wanted to try out.)

Ivan Frendrake: My perverted little sorcerer, Ivan tends to be a less serious character of mine mainly because he depends on his magic to get him out of ever situation he encounters. Ivan was actually my second character ever created though he’s been changed around so much over the years that it would be impossible to recognize the two of them. He has gone for a mage who can use three elements, to a mage who can only channel, and finally to a two element sorcerer, which is probably where I’ll keep him. His past was something new that I worked on recently, the whole thing actually sort of like a parody of Isaac’s past. An abusive step father and him accidentally killing his parents, okay so I don’t see the joke either so I guess you could call it a worst case scenario. As it stands right now Ivan is my comedy relief character in that he always losses when fighting. He uses a staff and a bronze axe, which he constantly loses during the heat of the battle. His two elements are fire and wind, though he only knows very few spells at the moment. Considering he’s my youngest character I feel that he still has a little bit more to go before he can reach that point where he’s just awesomeness incarnated.

Steampunk/Medieval:

Brian Wilkinson: My second newest character, who just so happens to fit into Isaac’s story, though I normally don’t do it because his weapons tend to consist of slightly more futuristic weapons than Isaac’s time period allows for. The most notably feature of Brian is, well he’s just plan funny looking.He wears the frilly robes and long white powdered wigs that most nobles wear during the time of the American Revolution. In fact he is sort of like Benjamin Franklin in a sense, minus the whole cultist thing, yea Ben was quite a character… Anyway he wears these things because he hates his appearance, he’s really tall and muscular compared to many of the other in the noble circles. He’s a traveling inventor, so his weapons are by far the most creative things I’ve come up with. Flamethrowers, muskets, sword triangles, t-square pick-ax, I could go on and on, but I’ll leave it at those.

Modern:

James Bradley: My personal character for anything modern that does not have to do with violence at a first glance. Normally he takes the role of either a college student, engineer, or construction worker depending on whatever I’m in the mood for. I even believe once I made him a medical student in a zombie RP, needless to say he used syringes. This character is by far the easiest for me because he’s basically myself in an RP character form. Of course there are a few discrepancies, but I do not feel the urge nor need to point those out at this particular time. You will probably find him around all sorts of Harvest Moon related RP because he is more of a slice of life character.

Wallace U. Wainwright: My very clever friend Wallace Wainwright, always having some sort of screwed up scheme that he considers perfect to try and rob anyone near him of all of their valuables. Of course he was ‘born’ during a debate about theft on Hay makes Fire. Of course being the creative person I am I created Wallace as a sort of way how to show how stealing was done right in an RP format. He’s like a cliche ninja, only with a few little twist, A.) He’s nearly 70 and B.) He suffers from terminal lung cancer. As of right now I’ve only hinted at the fact that he’s sick, by having him take a few batches of medication, and that he only does one job over the course of a few weeks. He is really my way of trying to be able to let a character die, I’ve never killed a character before, and probably he’ll be the first.

Modern/Sci-fi

James Jones: James Jones is very similar to my other James in personality and appearance. (If I remember correctly) The only difference between the two is the fact that James Jones is forced to live with his dead beat, drunkard of a father. James does not know what his father does for a living, but knows that it is enough to buy groceries and the seeming bottomless pit of an alcohol cabinet. At first he’s just a normal middle school student working as a bicycle delivery boy for a small pizza place in his town. That was before he learned how to use magic, well if you could call it that. It was more like creating electrical sparks and small blasts of fire, kind of like a cattle prod and a welding torch respectively. Using those abilities he created the unique weapons the mechno gauntlets which give him the ability to predict the enemies movements using a very detailed computer program that analyzes moves. Of course it is still flawed though he was certain it would win in the science fair. No only did it not win, it was almost as if he did not even enter the contest. When James went into work that night, however, he was met by an official from a school for the gifted and was given an invitation to it. That’s all I have right now though.

Marilyn Winnifred Aureole Barret Esme: The only pure villain I have ever made. She is the cliche, daddy never hugged me enough so I’m going to kill the world spoiled rich girl villain, though despite that fact she is actually more powerful than those whiny posers. She has a large arsenal of fire magic at her disposal as well as a giant scythe that she carries around at all times. Marilyn is actually a vampire, though she did not become one the normal way. She was revived by a necromancer after being killed by a group of muggers. For some reason her magic potential released itself at that point and thus transformed her soul, though most of the details of her trip to the underworld are still unknown. Other than the fact that she is secretly evil, Marilyn is like any other high school rich girl. A spoiled brat who goes shopping whenever the opportunity strikes itself.

JUNA (Juvenile Unit for Neutralizing Adversaries): JUNA I have to say is one of my new favorite characters, even though I have yet to see her in action. The whole name came from when I accidentally misspelled Juan at work one day spelling it as Juna. Needless to say I thought it was a clever name and wanted to put it to use. Now JUNA is over course not human, but an android that takes on the appearance of a 7 year old girl. She has long pink hair and pink eyes, making her more like a character straight out of an anime. She even comes complete with a giant gun and flawed personality index. Really she was just for fun, though the more I worked on her the more interesting she ended up becoming, especially when I added her magic ability of transkinesis, the ability to cause anything that can be used as transportation to be thrown using just a small electromagnetic field.

Mecha:

Narcyz and Arctic Wind: Narcyz is my most underdeveloped character. As of right now all I have for him is that he is a Polish mechanic that just so happened to get his hands on the mecha, Arctic Wind. The mech itself is nothing to brag about looking more like a thing made out of legos than a fully automated killing machine. It’s blue and white paint scheme also do not seem to help it during the spring through the fall, often leaving him as an open target. It is good for support though, often being able to carry multiple cartridges of ammunition. As far as weapons go he as a rifle which fire in three round bursts at a time, either regular shells or HAPIRs (Heavy Armor Piercing Incendiary Round), though it is also capable of using some plasma rounds. A small missile launcher on one shoulder, holding 8 missiles. A radar jammer placed upon it’s other shoulder blocking radio transmissions for an unheard of 40 miles. The only other weapon is a small hand held grenade launcher that Narcyz keeps hidden as a sort of last resort.