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So, um, I think our Metis has a crush on my character. Rebecca is, thankfully, completely oblivious and just thinks he's sweet. It would creep the hell out of her if she even suspected. _I_ think it's totally adorable and absolutely hilarious. Apparently during the weeks I was gone, my pack came to my house to find it ransacked, and both me and my mother missing (she kidnapped, I running off my Rage at her being kidnapped). Pretty much every other pack member's house had been hit in some way by these Wyrmy folks we're hunting, so they poke around and find a plot-clue matchbook for the Fox Club, and the Metis finds Rebecca's music box, and takes it into a corner to listen to it and look at the pretty. This spawned no end of out-of-character razzing, of course. Coupled with how bent out of shape he was when no one would answer the pack's questions about where I was, and pretty much refusing to do _anything_ until I rejoined them (though apparently he got over it because the entire pack left without me to go haring off to France, tracking the boat in which they think my mother was abducted).

So yeah, I and Rebecca come back into things tonight, following the pack across a Moon Bridge to France and arriving _just_ as they finished helping defend the destination caern against three packs of Black Spiral Dancers, a handful of Fomori, and oh, what the hell, let's throw in some Banes too. Who's the first person to notice that Rebecca has showed up? The Metis. He comes up and _hugs_ her (normally he's totally weird about physical contact), and is all politely concerned and attentive and asks her where she was and if everything's okay now, etc. I love the player so much; these interactions are just wonderful.

Oh, and Rebecca's elder brother and pack alpha, Hayward, is quixotic and so he attacked a tree for looking at her lasciviously. Saucy French trees...

And the quote of the night:

Regarding our Shadow Lord Theurge and our Fianna Galliard: "You both wield your ovaries like morningstars."

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So, um, I think our Metis has a crush on my character. Rebecca is, thankfully, completely oblivious and just thinks he's sweet. It would creep the hell out of her if she even suspected. _I_ think it's totally adorable and absolutely hilarious. Apparently during the weeks I was gone, my pack came to my house to find it ransacked, and both me and my mother missing (she kidnapped, I running off my Rage at her being kidnapped). Pretty much every other pack member's house had been hit in some way by these Wyrmy folks we're hunting, so they poke around and find a plot-clue matchbook for the Fox Club, and the Metis finds Rebecca's music box, and takes it into a corner to listen to it and look at the pretty. This spawned no end of out-of-character razzing, of course. Coupled with how bent out of shape he was when no one would answer the pack's questions about where I was, and pretty much refusing to do _anything_ until I rejoined them (though apparently he got over it because the entire pack left without me to go haring off to France, tracking the boat in which they think my mother was abducted).

So yeah, I and Rebecca come back into things tonight, following the pack across a Moon Bridge to France and arriving _just_ as they finished helping defend the destination caern against three packs of Black Spiral Dancers, a handful of Fomori, and oh, what the hell, let's throw in some Banes too. Who's the first person to notice that Rebecca has showed up? The Metis. He comes up and _hugs_ her (normally he's totally weird about physical contact), and is all politely concerned and attentive and asks her where she was and if everything's okay now, etc. I love the player so much; these interactions are just wonderful.

Oh, and Rebecca's elder brother and pack alpha, Hayward, is quixotic and so he attacked a tree for looking at her lasciviously. Saucy French trees...

And the quote of the night:

Regarding our Shadow Lord Theurge and our Fianna Galliard: "You both wield your ovaries like morningstars."

Book #10 - Eragon

I finished this while I was in Scotland, and forgot to post about it until now. I had wanted to watch the movie before I read this book, so I would hopefully be able to enjoy the movie on its own merits, instead of comparing. But I got impatient (plus I needed something to read).

I understand that people may have issues with Christopher Paolini; I personally don't have an opinion of him (aside from being mildly jealous - hell, if _my_ parents owned a publishing company, I could have had a book out by the time I graduated from high school, too). So all that aside, I quite enjoyed Eragon. The world is rich and detailed, the characters realistic and varied, the details of the plot original, if couched within the old and familiar framework of the heroic epic ("old" and "familiar" are not bad things in my book).

This is one I would not mind reading again, and I'll probably pick up the remainder of the trilogy some day.

Title: Eragon
Author: Christopher Paolini
Pages: 768 (paperback)

10 / 50 (20.0%)

Wow, just two more books and I will have reached my personal goal of 12 books for the year, and only halfway through! Still not sure if I'll make it to 50, but 24 would be cool...

Book #10 - Eragon

I finished this while I was in Scotland, and forgot to post about it until now. I had wanted to watch the movie before I read this book, so I would hopefully be able to enjoy the movie on its own merits, instead of comparing. But I got impatient (plus I needed something to read).

I understand that people may have issues with Christopher Paolini; I personally don't have an opinion of him (aside from being mildly jealous - hell, if _my_ parents owned a publishing company, I could have had a book out by the time I graduated from high school, too). So all that aside, I quite enjoyed Eragon. The world is rich and detailed, the characters realistic and varied, the details of the plot original, if couched within the old and familiar framework of the heroic epic ("old" and "familiar" are not bad things in my book).

This is one I would not mind reading again, and I'll probably pick up the remainder of the trilogy some day.

Title: Eragon
Author: Christopher Paolini
Pages: 768 (paperback)

10 / 50 (20.0%)

Wow, just two more books and I will have reached my personal goal of 12 books for the year, and only halfway through! Still not sure if I'll make it to 50, but 24 would be cool...