Sunday 28 November 2004

Pic of the day: A beautiful sunset in the imaginary Paragon City, City of Heroes. The running character is my toon Emberlord, who is from another planet but likes to style himself as a scion of the old "gods". Evidently not an entirely unique idea.

Gods of fantasy

I believe I was still playing City of Heroes, but by now I may also have started reading The Gods of Arr-Kelan. It is a story about a cruise space ship that crashes on a planet which looks much like a fantasy world with wizards and dragons and all that. But the survivors from Earth discover that on this world, they have the power of historical gods, you know not the Almighty but Zeus and Thor and that sort. How they react to this power varies wildly, though. Basically it tends to make their dominant character traits even stronger, like the security officer becomes a superhero. But what about an ordinary guy who don't really have any goal in life anymore after his wife died? He can raise the locals from the dead, but not her. Highly recommended. The drawings are good in the latest season (Going Home), but not in the first. So you may want to not start from the beginning or you might give up.

You should probably read that (if you can live with the load times, I did it inbetween other things) instead of this pathetic excuse for a journal these days. By now I had realized that I could not possibly complete the novel, at best get to 30 000 or so. I started to write a brief summary of the rest of the book, planning to pick up again for the last two chapters. Then I realized that my summary was better than my book. I actually have a kind of plot, but it is simple and short. Too simple and short to be a novel. Still, I don't regret. My throat was still too hoarse to dictate, although I had no idea of what it would feel like a few days from now.