View From the Bushes

Someone asked about my new cell phone. It's a Kyocera SE47 "Slider." It's hard to describe, but essentially you can slide the top of the cell phone up to reveal the keys. If you really want to know about it. you can go to SliderStyle.com and check out the specs. There's also a really funny commercial on the site as well, though I couldn't figure out how to directly link to it, and it just sort of randomly appears on the home page, but if you stay on the site for long enough it will come up. Good stuff.

In other news. I donated some money to theLance Armstrong Foundation so that I could get one of the cool "Live Strong" yellow wristbands. Sure, I believe that cancer is bad but really I just wanted to be like all the Tour Cyclists. So far just about everyone I've seen a close-up of is wearing one of these bands. I also like the motto printed on it, it reminds me of Theodore Roosevelt's theory of the Strenuous Life. I guess this is going to have to count for my tour coverage for today. Not much happened anyway, and I have to admit that so far with the mountains so far to the end that this has been kind of a boring tour (though the cobbles in stage 3 were a lot of fun). That's all going to change tomorrow, I guarantee it.

As far as D&D and DireKobold goes, I'm starting a new campaign tomorrow. I'm going to use it to playtest some adventures I plan on writing for the site and to flesh out the Xenogenic Town. I'm pretty excited, particularly about how the town is shaping up. One of the things I'm planning on doing is taking a page from City of Heroes and have all villians devided up into around 25 factions (some low-level, some mid and some high). Games like Everquest and such use a similar mechanic. Essentially what it means is that every person from the lowliest orc to the most powerful necromancer have allies, enemies, underlings and superiors. Going into a cave and wiping out a tribe of orcs is likely to upset the larger orc tribe to the west, endear you to the renegade elvish bandits, and cause ripples among secret factions the players don't know about which will come back to help or harm them only after they've gone ten levels. We'll see how it goes; as I type it out it actually sounds a little bit less cool, but them's the breaks.

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Ross