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In writing, I mean, not in my personal life. I'm only mildly fail at it IRL. Speaking of my personal life, I have the Serenity game tonight... in a little over four hours, actually... and I feel bored about it. That's not a good sign. It was pretty clear that I wasn't into it last session, so much that Matt actually asked me when he was driving me home if I'd been bored. I had to cover boredom with 'being distracted and worried about the college thing.'
At least tonight my character has a task to do instead of cowering in the corner while the longest. gun. fight. ever. takes two hours to play out. Hey, she's got the character flaw Non-Fightin' Type, she's worse than useless in battle... and there were like fourteen baddies there. Which was just poor thinking on Matt's part, really.
...see, when I go in for roleplaying, the part I care least about is the fighting. Unfortunately making a character to play to that lack of interest is counterproductive sometimes. Tonight, all I have to do is break into a magnetic safe... and with my genius-level high marks in all things technical, it should be a cakewalk. As long as the guys don't let me get shot while I'm working or something. I would be miffed if I had to come up with a whole new character, which happened to... crap, the one guy in the group whose name I can't remember. His character got majorly gunned down last time, and my meager medical skillz were not equal to the task of negating several dozen bullets'-worth of damage.
My room is clean now, at least. And I'm just about to hit the 5000 word mark in this story, and unless I come up with a really skillful way to skim over some relationship-building it's probably going to reach 6000 by the time I'm done. Longest fic I've EVER written, potentially. (Well, not counting the multi-chapter one, which was a thin excuse to write Mohinder having a lot of sex anyway. This has a plot, kind of.) Go figure that my longest story doesn't even fit into the actual universe of the canon. I am admittedly a whore for AUs, though.
You know what I need to do? I need to completely ignore all of my responsibilities and go look for pictures of Brandon Routh for an hour or two. I think that would help... at least, it wouldn't hurt. >.>
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You need a few more engaging things, hard though it may be to find things for a non-fighting character I thought the challenge was part of the fun!
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In this one -- the thing that jumped out the most to me was the way you described Serenity gaming, because that's so similar to the struggles I've been having with Dungeons & Dragons lately. I get bored during the battles. There are moments of magic in the game itself, but those are the moments where we're doing the roleplay part. Where we're heading down through caverns and standing on the edge of a high cliff with veins running up the sides, where we're watching my human fighter become a dwarf in a religious ceremony ... you know, that stuff. I feel inadequate during the battles, because I have the least knowledge of the rules of anyone in the party.
There are a lot of reasons I keep on gaming, though -- even when it's hard to sustain the energy for combat for 8 and 10 hours straight -- so I've had to work out how I'm going to do it. I'll tell you the thing that helped me the most recently. Since I'm playing a wizard who has spells from a kazillion different books, recently I downloaded the PDF files of said kazillion books, then cut and pasted everything that wasn't in the Player's Guide into alphabetical order in a notepad file and then loaded it to my Kindle (thus forever immortalizing my place as a geek, according to
It helps, trust me. Even when I get caught. :)