D&D Friday

An assimar paladin, a zui-quan dwarven monk who spent 7 years chasing a rare ladybug, an elven ranger who have been hiding and tracking the entire party, a rogue struck by lightning and suffering from amnesia and note forgetting a wizard carrying a book of animal having…intercourse. Seriously speaking, I wasn’t expecting any of this when I first decided on my campaign. In fact, the storyline I wanted to give for this session wasn’t really in place yet. This session is simply just the introduction, the prelude of the adventure I planned.
Everything that happened that day DMing was based on react, adapt and act. There storyline, the whole damn thing in fact, was only about 5% planned, and the 5% was the fact that the story is based in this town known as Newtown (I checked Silver Marches, I’m pretty sure there’s such a town…).

So let’s see how the adventure went.

Paladin was given investigation task by superior, who got the request from a guy named Albert (which he muttered that it was a retarded name), paladin set off in search for clues. Paladin bumped into Rogue (who looks kinda burnt) and Rogue joins party to discover his identity. Rogue went East, Paladin went West. Rogue saw central square filled with black cloaked merchants, spoke with a commoner, commoner was a crazy person, commoner also told him to go West for the tavern, Rogue turned and go.

Paladin went into tavern, met a bard, bard wants money, paladin has none (mentions that he should’ve asked for allowance from his superior). Paladin turns and walks away, paladin talks with barkeep dorf. The dorf told him about merchants in black cloak overcharging prices (and reducing his customers) and Cyricist running around preaching (also reducing his customers). Ranger walked down, paladin said hi (I think it was the paladin), ranger gave a ‘hmph’ or something and ignored the paladin. Wizard with book of…intercourse came down, spoke with paladin, accepted into party.

Spoke to barkeep again, bargains, barkeep promises them money for ridding the merchants and cyricists, paladin er…bargains for advancement (claiming that it was to serve Helm, his god, or something like that) gave them 50 silver pieces per person in a bag, Ranger asked for seperate bag, dorf deducted 50copper from wizard and ranger for staying overnight.
Paladin went to bard, threw in a silver piece into his broken cup of about 15 or so coppers. Bard tells story, telling them things about the two factions mentioned by barkeep, including a ‘quiet’ fight in an alleyway.

Party went out, paladin and rogue walked around looking for Cyricists, Ranger stalk them (DC spot failed), Wizard check marketplace. Wizard entered marketplace, confronted merchant in black, preached about Cyric, merchant got angry, makes symbols of Bane, chases wizard off. Paladin and Rogue saw Monk. Rogue confronted Monk chasing his ladybug, Rogue squashed ladybug accidentally, monk got angry, chases Rogue, Paladin went elsewhere. Paladin found nothing, bumped into Rogue and Monk. Rogue asks for protection, Monk suddenly became friendly, told Paladin about Rogue squashing his rare ladybug, Paladin turned and chased Rogue. Rogue ran fast, Monk shot with sling, missed head, hit leg, Rogue fell, Monk started his…interrogation.

That’s about how the party went in the first half. The 2nd half wasn’t very good…heck I got a little tired.

Overall, this wasn’t really professionally done. There are quite a few stuffs I should’ve done now that I think back about it, but didn’t do. This session was to more or less familiarize my PCs with interaction and the D&D rules out of combat. There was a little combat towards the end, but I don’t really like how I set it up (though the horse thing is pretty cute). As long as everyone have fun, I say this is a good session.

Next session will bring the story deeper and there would be more and more combat.

You know that if I’m typing all this, I’m bored. Staying at home sucks…so darn boring and nothing to do but to dotadotadota or to turn on my PS2 and play the only game I bother to play (CVS2). Couldn’t find any MVC2 though, but I’ve seen this new game called Namco vs. Capcom, or at least I THOUGHT it was Namco vs. Capcom…turns out to be Namco x Capcom, a rather…well…interesting game I guess. It’s a bloody RPG actually…turn based…yeah, imagine Ken vs Akuma and you have to press the “Attack” button sort of stuff. Reviews gave it a pretty high score, but I’ll not buy it. It looks pretty ghey. Bleh, and I thought I would be seeing Talik vs. Ryu or Law vs. Ken or something.

About this ghey blog, after looking through it (the ghey blog), I noticed how ghey it has become under my uberghey gheywriting gheyness, but it pwns most ghey blogs out there, I mean liek, I’ve seen gheyer blogs then this ghey one of mine. So ya, I think my blog is the ghey, so under my gheylishing skillz maybe I will make it more ghey and stuff…god knows why I even started this ghey blog of mine, maybe because I like to show off how ghey I am and stuff lolgheylol.

Yeah, I’m bored. So damn bored. Maybe it’s the DOA withdrawal syndromes…I need some sleep…

Bugis Saturday

First of all, despite what I said last Saturday, I am sticking to my N-Groove. My lineup is now Iori/Kim/R2-Hibiki.
Pretty quiet when I arrived with John and Yz at around 4pm. Not much challenge at that time and the place is pretty empty at 1630. I went to watch MvC2 but, it’s not really happening there either. No pro MSPs, no really good Sents I’ve seen.

Around 6pm, things start to change however, that why I didn’t went to search for John and Yz at the LAN once I left them. Things begin to heat up.

Met a C-Groove user. I challenged him after spectaculating his fight against the AI. I thought his Sagat was goddamn offensive against the AI…most offensive Sagat I’ve seen, so I thought it’ll be interesting to challenge him. I can’t remember his character lineup…something like Sagat, Akuma, R2-Blanka. I lost a bit, mainly because I was trying to finish the match with a ‘bang’. Didn’t really work lol. Guess I learnt my lesson with a couple of 50c. Afterwards, I didn’t try to be fancy anymore. It seemed that whenever you focus on countering, you won’t get the counter, something like what those P-Groove users say. If they focus on parrying, they won’t get many parries in.

Then I saw a couple of N-Groove players. One was Vice/unknown/R2-Blanka or something, the other was the same, just swapped Vice for Yun. Memory isn’t serving me too good. After beating this lineup of theirs, they put in Hibiki and Cammy. Their Hibikis were fucking annoying. They kept doing QCB+HP that my Iori can’t catch them. They know how to stop jump-ins pretty well too. My Kim doesn’t have much problems however, and much less my own Hibiki. Unfortunately, their R2-Cammy was a beast. The only person in my lineup who can face her is again, Hibiki. The problem is, my Hibiki cannot go against Cammy and fight a Blanka the next match. Too painful for her.

After they left, things in the CVS2 corner became quiet again, but the MVC2 corner was filled with people. I went to check, of course, and saw some pretty well played characters. MSP, MSS, StridDoomSent, MagStormCapCom, Cables…all those high end characters. It was quite exciting, seeing players come for 1 or 2 matches and go after the next challenger. There was one guy however, some American-born chinese or something or the other who is a chinese and now living in America…came to beat 5 straight exciting matches before being beaten. His Sent, Storm, CapCom was screwing everyone up the rear. His Sent was damn lame, doing tons and tons of damage. His Sent also beat a Cable from full health though I got no idea how he beat Cable.

After his defeat against a MSP player, we all cheered and well…they do all teh formalities and I headed do dinner with John and Yz.

When I came back, CvS2 is packed again, filled with those A-Groove players I saw the other Saturday. However, they play pretty differently this time round. I see tons of Alpha Counters after a CC have been blocked once. It’s interesting to know how a CC can so easily be stopped. For Sakura’s shoshosho I see Counter rolls. So I went to try them, and it worked pretty well. I still have to work on my general skills though…

Til next Saturday then.

CVS2

What’s more scary than A-Sakura’s shoshosho? A K-groover who Just Defended all of it. Impossible? Freddyloco of Montreal, 3rd place in T6 this year, did it and more without breaking a sweat. Bastard.

Weak…

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White ninja thinks roof looks like a kiwi. Kiwi is brown[eggimo.blogspot.com] says:
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“China Inf is for noobs!” says:
yeah…

End of term

Term break coming soon, and ithe term finished off quite eventfully. Lots of things happened the last two weeks. No Kendo-gi, maths test problems, sick twice, PPMAN’s stupid test, Getting Kendo-gi tmr but I’m sick today with 2 days worth of MC. Then have to pass up assignment using Email, DES project group meeting today but here I am typing my blog, PPMAN project, went for Dead or Alive Ultimate WCG trials, beat the crap out of the challengers, remembering my times in Everquest, and resubscribing for it, no wonder I got fever.

Maths teacher said nm, you fail this test nvm, only take up 20%. Still have to add participation and other test. Yeah, very reassuring…can’t get rid of the ‘O’ level mentality that below 70% is horrible. Forgot that poly you get 100% or 50% you still advance to Year 2. Can’t get rid of this mode, but I guess it’s good to have this mentality throughout, but this usually cause me to worry like siao. Amazing that my hair is not dropping off.

Term break coming soon. It lasts 1 week. If poly I already almost buay tahan I wonder how JC people are doing lol. But it’s okay, got lotsa friends from my class and even other classes to dispel the depression everyone is having. People see my timetable think my course is slack-slack one. If it’s really slack then how come they can find the time to play game during weekdays while my friends and I can only play game during weekends? Not easy k, my course.

Er…yeah I just won the Dead or Alive Ultimate trials, beating two people headon with Kasumi and Ayane. Both my characters did, imho, badly but I still managed to beat those guys. Best of 3, 40 sec, normal life gauge, pwned them all. Right now, Jisheng and I are still in the WCG. I heard JS’ team is not bad. DOTA matches pretty fun to watch.

Speaking of DOTA Heber’s team (Morphling, Sven, Warchief, VS, NA) steamrolled his opponent team (CM, Zeus, Tinker, Luna, BF)<< The characters are listed in the order they chose. Kinda funny to see the Zeus buying lots of Lesser Clarity potion. Thought he bought them because he wanted to spam Chain Lightning but actually he was laning with NA (mana burn ftw). Everyone watching predicted from the start that Heber’s team would, hand down, win. I called John, he thinks so too lol. So do I. The match was gone before it started. It was curious, however, that the opponent team doesn’t allow SA in their team. Wierd. 5.84c’s SA is pretty wicked with his crit and his death ward.

We were wondering why Heber chose to play NA. He said that NA was the last character to be chosen and looking at the lineup, it’s pretty obvious why he chose NA.

Yuzhang did well, reaching 4th place in NYP for CS: Source, but only top 3 can go in. Overall, I feel his team did pretty well, just lack the experience only. Not bad lah, maybe next time got another tourney can go for it again.

Who needs China Inf or USA Air roflol!

Pwnt :p

Update

Big tests finally over, now can finally hope for the worse. This suddenly feels like waiting for O Level results…maybe I worry too much, this is just Year 1 after all, shouldn’t be much of a problem. Maybe this started because of the screwed Visual Arts Photoshop test. Nm =/

Dunno why so darn tired these days. My brain moving ahead of body. Want to do C++ but body don’t allow. Want to DOTA but body don’t allow. Want to bathe but body don’t allow. I thought 9 hours sleep yesterday was good enough, but actually need two hours more (just now slept for 2 hours). Now I THINK I’m fine. I mean, I actually updated this suck blog of mine.

John said liek i shld put sum uberleet entrees aboot Vanguard:SoH so i m liek ‘y not?! lolol’.

So far, all the features about Vanguard that Brad McQuid showed us is 1000x better than what all the features that WoW showed us before its release. Feels like EQ clashed with UO sometimes. Graphics are…well, at least the environment looks pretty sweet rite? I’m no expert at character/mob designs though, and I’m terrible at knowing what sucks and what rules. For now, I can safely say that the scorpions looks like some giant chocolate. I hate the dark elf female design too but that’s about it.

I hate seeing screenshots with shadows now. Keeping making me think about maths. But I must admit, maths getting fun now, can keep associating vectors with gaming lol. what, to get shadows, get vector ‘a’ dot the unit vector of ‘b’ in order to project vector ‘a’ (the object) along the line parallel to the vector ‘b’ (the floor). Lol, fun. One step further to designing your own graphics engine! But enough of that pls kthx.

You guys seen the music section of PurePwnage? They have the extended version of teh noob song. Sound so damn cute roflol.

Or you don’t know what’s PurePwnage wtf?!11 go http://www.purepwnage.com noobs roflolololol!!1

Oh, before I forget, I heard there is a PurePwnage Team Speak and IRC!!
Go http://forums.purepwnage.com/viewtopic.php?t=2924. But unfortunately, it isn’t bustling with tons of people or anything when this entry is typed so maybe tried in the night?

‘USA Air is for noobs!’

burn…

From today on, I’m going to take the trouble to actually print Maths notes. I’ve been camping MSN the entire day to ask random people how to do vector product. Now my brain is really on fire. Want to sleep, but cannot sleep. Want to play, but cannot play. Want to go out for fresh air but cannot go. Die also cannot. Must live the day and press on for tmr’s exams.

Typing this as I continue camping for people to ask some really basic questions I can’t believe I forget. Feel really bad asking all those people to help me seriously…as if I’m using them as tools…yeah, that kind of guilty feeling. Nevertheless, it is a good thing to ask people. It’s their choice whether to help me or not. Bleh, maybe I’m reading too many books on drows in FR lol.

Oh shit, just remembered also got PPMAN exam. Now my hair catching fire =/

CvS2 Saturday

Things were eventful as usual at the Capcom vs. SNK 2 corner of the Bugis arcade. Today I’ve seen a lot of A-Groove action and a bit of C-Groove here and there. Unlike last Saturday’s incredible Sakura shoshosho CC-fest however, today I’ve seen lots of Blankas. Every team I went against, I was stopped short by Blanka. My Hibiki can no longer work with Cammy and Kyo anymore as they die much too quickly and by the time my Hibiki faced with their last characters, she’s near red health or worse.
Today goes to show (again) how ridiculously overpowered Blanka can be, and how powerful A-Groove can be when CC’ed at the right time. Those guys really know how to bait an attack and CC it down. Once again, I see the usual A-Groove team consisting of Blanka, M-Bison (saw BAS’ CC done over and over again), a bit of Sakura (no shoshosho today however), Guile and Kim.

Speaking about Kim, recently I’ve tried to do Kim’s 6k+ damage Anti-Air CC. It’s so easy to do. The only hard part is that it is a d+u motion so it may screw up a bit sometimes. About my team, I’ve been thinking about my N-Kyo, Cammy, R2 Hibiki lineup for quite some time after that event. As I suspected, Kyo in N-Groove cannot excel well enough to compete with high tier characters like A-Sakura and A-Bison AND of course, Blanka. I’ll leave Kyo to P and K groove; he works much much better with parry and JD (parry or JD into MP xx rekka). I was hoping that Kyo’s sucky roll may pass off good enough for RL competition, but it killed me too many times. Plus, I still can’t small jump consistantly enough to make my Kyo a pressure force. Keep ending up with high jumps that kills me.

About Cammy, she’s lame alright, rated as a top tier character by many because she is so damn easy to learn how to play. However, now I know why Buktooth labelled Cammy’s best groove as P-Groove. N-Groove is pretty nice, but nothing beats Parry into HP xx super. Cammy has the worst roll I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been zoned into oblivion because there is no other way to catch your opponent off guard in N-Groove other than roll cancelling (which cammy doesn’t need) and rolling itself. Her roll is slow like…crap. I give it that she has good all around game but N-Groove doesn’t give her what she needs to pwn the other side.

I love N-Groove for many reasons, but unfortunately, it isn’t really working out for me. Only my Hibiki is good enough for it. Other characters that are good in N-Groove like Iori and Vice I’ve tried, but it didn’t go well. Iori demands speed in his commands (I really mean speed) and his scum gale setups…well, I just can’t do them well. It’s hard to catch people with scum gale. Bleh, I guess I’m not a setup player like Buktooth is. No wonder his Iori owns so much. Iori is a crazy setup character.

So it goes two ways, either I pick up A-Groove (CC) or K-Groove (JD).

If I picked A-Groove, I would keep roll. I love roll a lot, and roll allows me to roll cancel (which I hadn’t mastered). Switch to A-Groove means that I have to learn everything about CC (ouch!) and continue learning how to RC. Plus, I have to abandon almost everything I’ve learnt about rushdown in N-Groove because A-Groove isn’t a rushdown groove. Instead, it’s a bit to the turtle side. In addition to that, I have to abandon Hibiki until I learnt a good CC for her. The current one in my mind (the one I see in arcades) suck. And if I DO pick up Hibiki for A groove, all my practice for counter > super would more or less be voided.

If I were to pick up A-Groove, my the choice of characters I would play is pretty big. I can train Kim, Guile, Sakura, M.Bision, Blanka and Todo and MAYBE Akuma. The most likely lineup in the end would most probably be Kim, Sakura and M.Bision/Todo at the end of the day. All these characters I have almost no experience in so it’ll be pretty hard to pick up A-groove.

If I were to pick up K-Groove, my choice of characters are pretty obvious. I can play Rock, Hibiki, Kyo, Cammy and heck I can even pick up Nakoruru if I feel crazy. K-groove seemed like the choice for me since I have played all these characters before. However, K-Groove doesn’t have rolls. On the bright side, I don’t have to practice roll cancels. Instead ‘I’ll have to learn how to use JD.

Enough of CVS2. It’s about time I picked up another fighting game. The game I’m probably going for is MVC2. Until then…that’s all for the report.