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Title: At the Beginning
Characters: everyone I could fit!
Warmakers Adventure: 1-26
Word Count: ~1700 (plus lyrics)
Summary: This is a "script" for the AMV I wish I could make, if Warmakers were an actual anime, as a retrospective of the campaign. The song is "At the Beginning" by Donna Lewis and Richard Marx, which I already used in a previous fic. Apparently I just can't get enough of this song.
Notes: I recommend listening to the song while reading the fic, to get an idea of how the "music video" would work.

( Lights, camera, and ... )

I've totally dropped the ball on my daily happy lists, though that's because ... er ... well, riding the emotional wave of the end of Warmakers has kept me consistently happy (if wooby) and distracted from most other things. <--loser

So anyway! Today's list of happiness! Which is ... only mostly about Warmakers!

1. Various time-sensitive things at work that were mostly out of my hands (and thus I was uncertain whether or not they would get done on time) have been resolved. That was a relatively minor stress, but I'm glad to have gotten it off my back.

2. Because of the rush of taking care of those work things, the morning has passed by quite quickly, and it's almost lunchtime.

3. shadawyn has tempted me (yet again) with new shinies. :3 I'm dipping my toe into symphonic metal music because of songs she's shared, and have ordered Within Temptation's The Heart of Everything, Nightwish's Dark Passion Play, and Krypteria's Bloodangel's Cry. All of which have songs that were used for Warmakers fic and FSTs. XD;;;

4. I have been writing and drawing for Warmakers every day since the campaign ended. Okay, yes, that's horribly dorky, but - I'm writing and drawing every day! This has been helped by the fact that other people (mostly shadawyn, but also the other players and GM) have been willing to keep talking with me about the game and develop a broad outline of the future plot developments, which keeps the characters alive in my head.

5. Tonight I get to go to jfrog78's house and hang with almost all of the Warmakers crew!

Maybe I'll even get back to setting goals soon ...

Title: When the World Stops Turning
Characters: Sae and everyone else
Warmakers Adventure: 26
Word Count: ~1900
Summary: The Guardians fight the final battle together.
Notes: Title comes from "At the Beginning" by Donna Lewis and Richard Marx. Dorky, but I couldn't resist.

( 'I'll be there when the world stops turning/I'll be there when the storm is through' )

In a couple of hours I'm going to get my hair cut by kyonkun and aznridah's hairdresser (ooh, doesn't that sound fancy? ;D).

Almost a week ago, I played the final adventure of Warmakers.

The relationship between these two things probably only makes sense in my mind, but it's real enough for me. A few weeks ago, I joked to shadawyn that chopping your hair off is something you do after a breakup, so it figures that I'd do it right after my long-term relationship with Warmakers ended. XD (Not that I'm actually chopping my hair short ... and not that I'm really done with Warmakers, at least not if you count fic ... oh well.)

The end of Warmakers means, of course, the end of a D&D campaign - but also no more episodes of a story that I've been following for a year and a half, and has hardcore eaten my brain for at least the past six months; no more going to shadawyn and irishninja's apartment every other Sunday and seeing the other players; no more obsessive poring over one of my favorite character builds to date ... It's the end of a lot of stuff, obviously. More than that, it's change. And change always leaves me feeling kind of wistful and wooby.

So the thought of other changes - either little ones, like my pending haircut, or big ones, like moving in with ratzeo later this year - are setting off my woobiness and leave me feeling sensitive.

I don't mind. In a weird way, I enjoy being sensitive, when it makes me feel so strongly in a positive way (either a straight-up "yay I'm happy about this" way, or a bittersweet "I'm sad I no longer have this, but that means it was something I really liked" way). Of course, being sensitive can have its downsides like feeling so easily panicked by the prospect of the NWSA conference in THREE WEEKS that I currently can't look too closely at my notes without getting bad heart-poundy feelings but ANYWAY. But even if the really strong good moods are fleeting, and the bad moods are disruptive, it's good to occasionally be made to really pay attention to, and experience, the world. At least I think so.

Oh, and if anyone is interested, here is the model image that I will be giving to the hairdresser. Here's hoping it looks that good!

Title: Becoming Queen
Characters: Sae, Reika, Gunnar, Khag, Mizuki, Otonashi
Warmakers Adventure: 26
Word Count: ~1600
Summary: Sae conquered Hell. Now she finds out what that means.
Notes: Thanks to shadawyn, beta reader extraordinaire.

( When the Conqueror becomes Queen. )

Title: Goodbyes
Characters: Sae and everybody else
Warmakers Adventure: 26
Word Count: ~1200
Summary: Sae sees off her teammates before the final battle.
Notes: Some of these conversations were roleplayed during the session, some were edited, and some were made up.

( A few final words. )

Started feeling ill last night. Looks like I've finally succumbed to whatever has been making people around me sick. Took a sick day today to hopefully nip it in the bud. I'm confident I can; recently I've been able to avoid down-and-out sickness by taking a day to recuperate early on. And I WILL be well for Warmakers, dammit.

Today's last-day-before-game to-do list:

[x] eat lunch
[ ] keep consuming tea, oranges, vitamin C supplements
[x] take a nap only if necessary for recovery, not if I'm just feeling lazy (I didn't nap ... which I consider accomplishing this goal!)
[x] finish level 18 Khag
[x] level 19 Khag
[x] character sheet for Khag's mount
[x] print final version (no, really, for real this time) of Sae character sheets
[ ] last-minute plans for followers?? + crash course in Ranger spellcasting
[x] clean stove
[x] packing list for weekend
[x] pack what's on the list
[x] eat dinner
[x] get to ratzeo's at a decent hour
[ ] if time permits: fanart?

I was really tired last night due to the sleep-dep, but still made myself go to the gym like I'd planned. I figured the exercise would help with the headache-y/nauseous feelings. (And it did - or maybe the weather cooling down helped. Or maybe both. Either way, I'm happy to be improving.)

I was still super-tired, though, so I promised myself I'd get a nap in. However, once I got back from the gym, took a shower, and ate dinner, it was pretty late. So, as you can expect, my "nap" turned into a two-hour-what-time-is-it-OH-SNAP-IT'S-MY-BEDTIME. orz

So no progress on leveling last night. *sigh*

On the positive side, all my leveling tools are here with me (either paper notes or online SRDs), so I will be leveling during my lunch break. 8D

And tonight ... oh, I don't know. I hope I'll have some extra time after I finish all my new character sheets, because I'd like to do something creative. Fic or art, it doesn't matter; but I want to get something else done for the Warmakers Endgame Extravaganza. (And yes, I realize I can write fic and draw fanart after the campaign is over. But that's different.)

Two more days ZOMG.

Yes, niwatorimegami would be the Guardians' bright-eyed sidekick. XD

*eyes jfrog78 suspiciously*