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On Thursday night finished Horror on the Orient Express with a couple of minor changes to make the conclusion less dull and with a tie-in to the next campaign. Whilst a great product there are several major flaws, well elucidated by Lay and Devlin, and reviewed on RPG.net by David MacLennan. Afterwards we did character generation for Eclipse Phase, which I have reviewed in the past, a brilliant setting of transhumanist factionalism, near-space exploration, and alien horror. My character Nicolas Bourbaki, is named after a collective pseudonym of French mathematicians and is a social-democratic outer planets field scientist and xeno-archeologist in a large octopmorphic body. Did I mention that this setting is awesome? On Sunday played another session of Twilight 2000, just beginning a huge battle of river craft on the Vistula, just outside Warsaw.

Have just completed an article on Chávez in Retrospect for the Isocracy Network, arguing that whilst the use of natural resource wealth to fund social welfare systems and build up cooperatives was absolutely necessary, the model of the Boliveran revolution and 21st-century socialism could do will to take up the liberal insights of civil rights and the separation of powers. Also on Sunday morning, went to St. Michael's to hear Dr. Francis McNab discuss the benefits of silence, then attended a morning tea with author and counseller Amanda Stuart, before attending a meeting of the interfaith group, where I gave a brief presentation on possibility of similarities between Islamic jihad and Buddhist mindfulness. On Saturday facilitated the beginners workshop meeting of Linux Users of Victoria, where Andrew Pam gave an excellent presentation on Open Art and Content Tools.

Date: 2013-03-17 04:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] castleclear.livejournal.com
O.O really neat stuff!!!! :D

Date: 2013-03-17 10:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com
I'm not entirely happy with the talk on Jihad/Mindfulness because it feels so unfinished - and that's because it is! I should be satisfied with introducing to a large number of people the idea that a jihad is primarily an internal struggle for self-improvement, because of course that's not what comes to mind in most people.

Unless of course, they're part of the Unitarian Jihad... :)

Date: 2013-03-18 10:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com
The enduring problem within Islam is its stubborn inability to realise that what may be true for individual adherents of any faith is not necessarily true for society universally.

In a nutshell, it needs a secular reformation from within.

Date: 2013-03-19 12:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kingtycoon.livejournal.com
As I've said I do truly love a lot in that setting. I guess I just wish they had gone with say the shadow run rule set.

Lots to it though. Do you have a muse? Will you pursue the intigues and hyper crop plot lines or the evangelion style Cthulhu story?

Date: 2013-03-19 02:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com
I'm unfamiliar with the latest editions of Shadowrun, so I can't really comment on those. The system isn't bad as such, it's just with such an inspired setting, the game system itself is a bit mediocre and therefore a slight disappointment.

Haven't worked on the muse yet, I think we're all getting the standard one. As for plot, I think our GM is going for the intrigues, but I've left the door open with my character's interests in outer solar system xeno-archeology for alternative plot trajectories.

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