So, my Thursday night Iron Kingdoms campaign officially died tonight. The game had been going for two and a half years. And now it's over.

In some ways, I am so glad. It'll be good to have my Thursday nights back. It'll be good to get to play something that's not D&D. (I really hate that system. A lot. A lot a lot. But I've continued to play it, because I wanted to play with the people in the group. Now I get to go back to white wolf for a while, and Drew is way excited about it too. Happy, happy.)

On the other hand, that game had been going for a long time. Even during the months I wasn't in the game, I knew exactly where to find everyone on Thursday nights. It feels strange for it not to exist anymore. *sigh* Oh well. Time to move on. I've been trying to get an Orpheus game together for, like, forever, and it looks like it's actually going to happen this time. (I hope.) I've picked players who are a)local, b)into story not just combat and c)not power gamers. I'm afraid to GM power gamers. I'm afraid to GM at all. But I really want to go through the Orpheus story again, and I still have all Jason's info from the last time I tried to run it. (That was a mess.)

Also, hopefully I'll actually get to at least sit in on Mandy's campaign, once she gets her computer running again. Not having my Thursday nights taken will open me up to do other things.

But it's still sad.

I haven't gotten around to posting about wedding stuff yet...mostly because I've been busy getting life together:

An update on the life stuff:

Drew's website is ready to go...so as of this week we are officially launched. Drew's selling many of the miniatures he's painted, plus he's taking commissions. See his work at www.gardenninja.com.

My revision is going beautifully. It's been fantastically easy to pull this character from the book, which to me says that he didn't belong there to begin with. I'm down to the last 20 pages of the manuscript, which means that all I have left to do is extract him from the ending. All the scenes I've rewritten to pull him out are actually better than the originals, which makes me happy.

I'm fulfilling my promise to myself to have some fun this semester, so I've been working on a conversion of the Warmachine warpwolf.  Here's the one Drew painted, which looks infinitely better than the one on the privateer press site.



Anyway, I'm adding lots and lots of poofy curls and painting him blond and blue so he looks like a groomed poodle.  This amuses me greatly, and bothers all the guys at the Keep.  Two birds, one stone.

Also, I finished playing Fable, The Lost Chapters yesterday while I was home sick (stupid to be sick on your birthday) which was a lot of fun.  The game lets you be as good or as evil as you want, which is bad, because I have no morality when it comes to electronic people.  I killed something like 800 villagers and guards.  Oh well.

The class I'm teaching is going well, I almost have my name all changed, our financial stuff is all in place, I've been working on getting my family history into Personal Ancestral File (have 136 names in there so far...and I've only made a very small dent in my files of information.  I have literally thousands of names just sitting here, waiting to be organized) and the class I'm taking is going well too.  (Even though I missed yesterday due to being sick.  I need to make comments on those pieces I missed today.)

I've been having fun roleplaying again, too.  It's nice to be able to be involved in the game again.  Last semester I was just too exhausted and distracted.

I've also been workshopping Keepers in writing group, and the response has been amazingly positive.  (I hate the book, so I just expect everyone else to hate it too.  But they don't.)  It needs some work, of course, but overall it's going well.  Now if we can just find another girl or two to add to the critique group so I don't keep getting all-male critiques on my book that's written for teenage girls...

Phew.  No wonder I haven't been posting.  Life is good, and full of fun things, but doesn't leave a lot of room around the edges.  :)