RAGE AND BLOOD

[elanya]

No not the bees. But I have solved a mystery! Last night, my mouth was bloody when I was brushing my teeth. or at least red. I couldn't figure out why. I thought it might have been food colouring from the Devil's Food Cake (Diablotin!) pudding I had as a snack. Then I dreamed about coughing up blood and spitting blood in my sleep.

This afternoon, my mouth hurrt, and it seemed like there was something stuck to my gum in the upper left back bit. But no, it is not something stuck. It is a new wisdom tooth! Only it a: never hurt until today, and b: seems to be coming in a little 'high'? Well, good thing I have a dentist appointment on Thursday - I am told that he will probably want to do x-rays, anyway, and I'd like to be reassured that it isn't going to cause any problems. It is just... odd. Like I said - no warning, just some blood, a weird dream, and a pokey tooth bit, all within less than 24 hours.

As for the rage.... terry sent out new language rules for my game, and for a moment they made me *irrationally* angry. Which is a bit worrisome. I think I am just feeling generally discontent and something that gave me any sort of actual trigger for discontentment got the full brunt of it. It passed. I am still annoyed at how many skill points I will need to sink into my character now (at least seven, or a full level's worth at the prices he listed, more if he doesn't make it in-class across the board... 'course then maybe I will make everyone sad and just take a level of bard :p) But I will cope. Somehow. Boo.

I did get out today, and had a nice walk, and a sit-and0sing down by the creek (Greenville has forest paths, woot!) which made me content. Yay for the Boy Scouts, I guess. Apparently it was not good enough for my brain. Also, American Gothic is a lot more disturbing in parts then I'd remembered. Not the part with Sheriff Buck being the devil though. The parts with ex-cons feeding 15 year old girls popscicles in highly inappropriate ways. Eek! Not that the actress was nearly that young. It was that hot redhead who played the Gangrel chcky (Sascha?) on Kindred the Embraced, and also later played Wesley's GF for a little while on Angel. The chick from the ep where he pretended to *be* Angel for a while, but I forget the character's name. Anyway, she is a hot redhead, and would have been 23 when it was filmed. I just imdb'd her. Brigid Brannah (then Walsh). And Wesley's GF was Virginia Bryce. I knew it started with V. Bah, anyway. Bah

Comments

[curtana.livejournal.com]

*huggles*

I don't see anywhere in the new rules that these languages won't be counted as in-class skills... Maybe I'm missing something, but I think the same base costs apply to everyone, regardless of class. Why do you need to put so many points into languages?

[elanya.livejournal.com]

Well, he says that you buy them as Speak Language.... and the only class that gets that skill is Bard. Now maybe that's what he meant and he just didn't say so, but I will wait and see -_-

Also, A is supposed to be a historian, and I would like her to be able to stydu historical things, which means at least knowing Old Human. At the least. I'd like to have passing familiarity with some others as well (Speak Frey, maybe, speak/understand celestial, and I'd like to at least be able to recognize darkspeak)...But even just old human is *half a level* worth of precious precious skill points ;_; basical: The way he has languages set up, they are expensive to learn, and the classes that are most likely to *want* to know any languages beyond Common and Frey are all the magic classes (focist, free mage, druid, cleric)..... which are those who get boned on skillpoints :p *Not* getting int bonus points towards languages is also a nice kick in the pants.

I don't necessarily need all this stuff startingf out, but I'd like to be able to at least read old human, to start. Bah.

[curtana.livejournal.com]

I guess I didn't read it that way. We'll have to get Terry to clarify it tonight at game.

I'm not sure what you mean about not getting Int bonus. points either. I mean, these aren't like regular skills - no one has, like, 10 ranks in Frey or something. The only possible scores range from 1-4, as far as I understand it, and for the common languages, 2 is the max. Getting Int. bonus points would be weird under those circumstances.

But I do agree that if it's not in-class for the wizards/priests, it should be .

[elanya.livejournal.com]

I think that getting int bonus points would help balance the fact that wizards/priests get so few skillpoints, and essentially have anotherclass skill that is important to them. These aren;t like regualr skill where even if you have a low rank, a good die roll (or taking 20) can help you succeed better, either. Speak Language is Trained Only - in order to be able to read or speak (and really I'm much more interested in reading than speaking.... and tend to thing that you shouldn't have to be able to speak something in order to read it), you have to have exactly the number of ranks that Terry specifies, as far as I can tell (except for the ouncommon and rare ones, where you can get more basic comprehension for fewer ranks, I suppose).

But yes, I think discussion/clarification of these points will be good.