[CS] Some God-Blooded...

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Here are some PG-style revisions of god-blooded characters I made up
under my homebrewed system awhile back; I wanted to see how they'd
stack up under official rules...



Name: Grala's Joy
Concept: Wild Child
Nature: Jester
History: The tree-dwellers of the small Haltan city of Enda at first
thought that some rogue San-beast was responsible for their missing
food, so cunning was the thief at evading their traps. Soon it was
discovered to be a young girl, barely into adolescence, who had
apparently grown up in the wilderness without any parentage. Possessed
of a curious and carefree nature, she soon became a regular sight in
the town, tho it took a while to get her used to the idea of wearing
clothes. The townspeople have unofficially adopted her as sort of a
mascot, and take turns teaching her the ways of civilization. She has
only recently learned to talk, but still plays with words and phrases
in silly ways. They have named her Grala's Joy, after the mistress of
the hunt, tho whether there is any real connection between the two is
doubtful; the spirit-blood in her veins is evident, however, by her
bright tiger-striped hair and cat ears...

Str: 1 Cha: 2 Perc: 4 (Senses)
Dex: 4 (Agile) Man: 2 Intel: 2
Sta: 2 App: 2 Wits: 4 (Quick)

Athletics [F]: 4 (+2 In Trees)
Awareness: 3
Brawl: 3
Dodge: 3
Endurance: 2
Resistance: 2
Thrown: 3
Performance: 2
Presence: 2
Stealth: 2
Survival [F]: 4 (+2 Hunting)
Medicine: 1

BACKGROUNDS
Inheritance: 2
Allies: 4 (Haltans, Forest Spirits)
Mentor: 3 (Enda Townsfolk)
Reputation: 1

MERITS & FLAWS
Prodigy
Acute Sense (Smell & Hearing)
God-Body (10pt)
Daredevil
Lucky
Signature Style (Feline)
Barbarian
Unusual Appearance
Child
Ignorant of Self

WEAPONS
Lucky Rock

Willpower: 6
Soak: 2B/2L (skin)
HL: Standard

Compassion: 3 Temp: 2 Conviction: 2 Valor: 2

Essence: 1

===============================================================================

Name: Petros Feldspar
Concept: Warleader
Nature: Critic
History: The boy who would one day become Petros Feldspar was born to
a couple who dedicated their lives to the cult of a Gemlord whose
underground court extended beneath the city of Gem. Such was their
fervor, that they offered up their only child to him; while most such
offerings merely became sacrifices (and the Gemlord barely noticed the
attendant Essence), he sensed some greated Destiny hovering about the
boy, and ordered him brought up as a Temple warrior. His exemplary
service brought him much favor in the eyes of his spirit lord, who
eventually adopted him as his own, transforming his body into a large,
stony caricature of himself.

Though Feldspar continues to serve his patron faithfully, deep within
he cannot help loathing what he has become. He has recently began a
habit of using Dreamstones to recall the simple pleasures of flesh he
may never know again...

Str: 3 Cha: 2 Perc: 2
Dex: 2 Man: 3 Intel: 3
Sta: 4 (Tough) App: 1 Wits: 2

Archery: 1
Athletics: 2
Awareness: 1
Dodge: 1
Endurance: 2
Martial Arts: 2
Melee: 3
Resistance [F]: 3
Performance: 2
Presence: 2
Socialize: 2
Lore: 1
Occult: 1

BACKGROUNDS
Inheritance: 3
Patron: 3 (Gemlord)
Command: 2 (Jokun)
Artifact: 5 (Eye of Gemlord; see Weapons)
Cult: 2
Manse: 3 (Stone of Quick Thought, Kill-Hand Gem)
Resources: 3 (Mineral Wealth)

MERITS & FLAWS
Awakened Essence
Magical Attunement
Respiring Touch
Large Size
Elemental Dominion (Earth)
Elemental Immunity (Earth)
Mutation (Ugly)
Disturbing
Addiction (Dream Opals)
Unusual Appearance
Favor (to Gemlord)
Elemental Archtype (Earth)

WEAPONS
Jade Reinforced Buffjacket: 7/10
Jade Grimcleaver

Willpower: 6
Soak: 14B/9L

HL: 8

Compassion: 2 Temperance: 2 Conviction: 3 Valor: 2

Ess: 2
Ess Pool: 31
Committed: 8

==============================================================================
Name: Poisonous Blessing
Concept: Saboteur of Faith
Nature: Conniver
History: The Second Circle Demoness Stanewald, She Who Surmounted the
Omphalos and The Reflective Soul of the Ravine of Whispers, conceived
Poisonous Blessing
in a manner that only the mad or foolish will inquire into. The
gestation is said to have lasted only nine days, during which
Stanewald danced feverishly upon the sands of the Endless Desert, her
foul get growing and marinading in her blasphemous womb. They say that
as soon as the child developed limbs, she danced in harmony with her
mother, a perfect duet of within and without...but they speak without
reflection who preach this.

Regardless, Poisonous Blessing was soon loosed onto the world, and has
followed her mother's will and way in things. Her main method of
operation is the infiltration of religious groups whose honest faith
might in some way prove troublesome; once ensconced, the subtle lies,
misdirections and betrayals begin, and are almost never traced back to
the wholesome, innocent-seeming young woman who joined shortly before
the trouble started...Soon enough, the body of believers either breaks
apart in bitterness, wages schismatic war or converts wholeheartedly
to worship of the Yozis...all save a pretty young woman, silently
dancing on to the next temple...

Str: 1 Cha: 3 Perc: 2
Dex: 4 (Graceful) Man: 4 (Subtle) Intel: 2
Sta: 2 App: 3 Wits: 3

Athletics: 2
Awareness: 2
Dodge: 2
Martial Arts: 3
Melee: 2
Thrown: 2
Larceny [F]: 4 (+2 Infiltration, +2 Lies, +2 Disguise)
Performance: 4 (Dance)
Presence: 3
Socialize: 3
Stealth: 2
Lore: 2
Medicine: 2
Occult: 2

BACKGROUNDS
Inheritance: 4
Patron: 3 (Stanewald)
Contacts: 3
Spies: 3
Resources: 3 (Blackmail)
Mentor: 2 (a Teodozji tutors her)
Whispers: 3 (Yozis)

MERITS & FLAWS
Awakened Essence
Priest (1pt)
Ordination of Lies
Pain Tolerance
Enchanting Feature (eyes)
Blurred Fate
Eyes of Wicked Madness
God-Body (3pt)
Favor (Guild)
Secret (3pt; Demon-Blooded Nature)
Enemy (Celestial Lion, hot on her trail of ruined temples)
Callous
Vice (finds it hard to harm/corrupt orphan children)
Aura of Power
Dark Fate (will be pivotal in the downfall of a network of Yozi cults)
Derangement (Glossolalia)
Unbidden Oracle (manifests with her Derangement)

WEAPONS
Exceptional Wind-Fire Wheels: Spd +1, Acc -2, Dmg +1L, Def +3
Chain Shirt: 3/1

Willpower: 6
Soak: 3B/4L
HL: Standard

Compassion: 1 Temperance: 2 Conviction: 3 Valor: 1

Ess: 1
Ess Pool: 24
============================================================================

That's all for now. More to come, soon...

Dex,
Concept:...Waitaminnit!!^^

 

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Hand-of-Omega wrote:

>
> That's all for now. More to come, soon...
>
> Dex,
> Concept:...Waitaminnit!!^^

I don't have specific comments, beyond saying "I like" and "Can I add
them to my Wiki page?" (credited to you, naturally.)

 

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James Stein <JamesSpamtein@si.rr.com> wrote in message news:<ezPhc.26740$mX.8527657@twister.nyc.rr.com>...
> Hand-of-Omega wrote:
>
> >
> > That's all for now. More to come, soon...
> >
> > Dex,
> > Concept:...Waitaminnit!!^^
>
> I don't have specific comments, beyond saying "I like" and "Can I add
> them to my Wiki page?" (credited to you, naturally.)

Please do! ^__^

(Quoted on a Wiki page! Now I know I've really made it! Things are
gonna start happening to me now...^_~)

Dex,
who really must watch that movie again...

 

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Hand-of-Omega wrote:

> Here are some PG-style revisions of god-blooded characters I made up
> under my homebrewed system awhile back; I wanted to see how they'd
> stack up under official rules...

Pel does not know what he is. Pel could not know. Pel could not know
because he is the single surviving member of a village now forgotten to
the memory of both man and Creation; swept under the rug of the creeping
Wyld.

Pel does not know who sired him; he knows only that when the Wyld Hunt
came to defend the sleepy town of ------, they found he and he alone,
resting inside the slit-wide-open womb of a what was once a woman, whose
dead hands clutched a simple cross cold iron across her stomach, holding
her baby safe under it's aegis (little did they know that she'd been
trying to kill the little wyld-spawn within her.)

Pel does not know why he hates himself so, every time he looks into the
mirror and sees those elegant sweeping features, so painfully beautiful
to look upon that most hate him before they could know him, hate him for
being such an avatar of grace and hungry want that the rest of the world
looks like the delapidated remnants of what was *once* so beautiful as
to be known as 'ugly', by comparison.

Pel knows that he hates the Fae that stole his life from him before he
ever had the chance to have one; Pel knows from experience that when he
is hired to craft the wyld-barring wards for a village, to leave the
last piece off for a local villager to complete. Knows that if he makes
the wards too complete, he himself will be driven out of the town.

Some part of Pel suspects. When that part awakens, it is questionable
how much of Pel will remain.

Name: Pel Yesef
Heritage: Fae-blooded (Noble's child)
Concept: Wyld Hunter (not to be confused with The Wyld Hunt)
Nature: Martyr

Strength: 2 - Dexterity: 3 - Stamina: 2
Charisma: 4 - Manipulation: 4 - Appearance: 4
Perception: 2 - Intelligence: 3 - Wits: 2

Athletics 2
Awareness 2
Dodge 2
Melee 1
Resistance 1
Thrown 1
Craft 2 (Glamour, Wards)
Larceny 2
Performance 2
Presence 3 [F]
Socialize 2
Investigation 1
Lore 1
Occult 4 (Fae +2)

Backgrounds:
Inheritance 5
Experience 1
Knowledge 2

Arts:
Art of Warding
--(Fae +1)

Willpower: 7
Compassion: 2
Conviction: 3
Temperance: 4
Valor: 3

Permanent essence: 2
Essence Pool: 16

Merits:
Legendary Attribute - Charisma
Prodigy - Presence (2 pt.)
Enchanting Features - Eyes
Blurred Fate
Awakened Essence
Virtue Attunement (Temperance, Conviction)
Wyld Sense
Transcendant Dream Shape (+2 dexterity, +2 charisma, +2 appearance)
Fervor's Kiss
Subtle Glamor

Flaws:
Enemy - Most Known Fae Courts (5 pt.)
Sire's Enmity (5 pt.)
Ignorant of Self
Affected by Wards
Too Perfect
Oathkeeper

Equipment:

Exceptional Knives
-Speed 1, Accuracy 2, Damage 3L, Defense -2, Rate 4

Exceptional Sling (and Cold Iron bullets)
-Accuracy 0, Damage 2L, Rate 2, Range 110

 

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James Stein wrote:

> Backgrounds:
> Inheritance 5
> Experience 1
> Knowledge 2
Contacts 2
Resources 3
Allies 1

 

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James Stein <JamesSpamtein@si.rr.com> wrote in message news:<xmxic.62058$WA4.8404@twister.nyc.rr.com>...

[snip]

Nice one, like it! Particularly the bit about the iron cross at his
birth...gonna include any info on his father? How does he handle his
cold iron bullets ("very carefully"...and are they really called
"bullets"?)...

Dex

 

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Hand-of-Omega wrote:

> James Stein <JamesSpamtein@si.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:<xmxic.62058$WA4.8404@twister.nyc.rr.com>...
>
> [snip]
>
> Nice one, like it! Particularly the bit about the iron cross at his
> birth...gonna include any info on his father?

I don't think the father's particularly important to the character,
unless a particular ST chooses to make him so. I really wasn't thinking
about the dad, beyond "Experienced noble."


> How does he handle his
> cold iron bullets ("very carefully"...and are they really called
> "bullets"?)...

Well, he's not allergic to cold iron, except when a) the iron in
question is part of a ward (and that's 'cause he's affected by the ward
itself, not the iron) and b) when in Dream Shape, so it shouldn't be an
issue. Handling the wards, on the other hand, is a tricky proposition.

And, yeah, I'm pretty sure the stones hurled by slings are called
bullets. Though that may be DnD misinformation, since I think that's
where I first heard the term.

 

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"James Stein" <JamesSpamtein@si.rr.com> wrote in message
news:shVic.45017$Nn4.9571690@twister.nyc.rr.com...
> Hand-of-Omega wrote:
>
> > James Stein <JamesSpamtein@si.rr.com> wrote in message
> > news:<xmxic.62058$WA4.8404@twister.nyc.rr.com>...
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Nice one, like it! Particularly the bit about the iron cross at his
> > birth...gonna include any info on his father?
>
> I don't think the father's particularly important to the character,
> unless a particular ST chooses to make him so. I really wasn't thinking
> about the dad, beyond "Experienced noble."
>
>
> > How does he handle his
> > cold iron bullets ("very carefully"...and are they really called
> > "bullets"?)...
>
> Well, he's not allergic to cold iron, except when a) the iron in
> question is part of a ward (and that's 'cause he's affected by the ward
> itself, not the iron) and b) when in Dream Shape, so it shouldn't be an
> issue. Handling the wards, on the other hand, is a tricky proposition.
>
> And, yeah, I'm pretty sure the stones hurled by slings are called
> bullets. Though that may be DnD misinformation, since I think that's
> where I first heard the term.

Well, the word "bullet" is derived from the Old French "boulette", or "small
ball", so it's reasonable that a sling stone could have been refered to as a
bullet back in the day.

- Sir Bob.

 

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>
>>How does he handle his
>>cold iron bullets ("very carefully"...and are they really called
>>"bullets"?)...
>
>
> Well, he's not allergic to cold iron, except when a) the iron in
> question is part of a ward (and that's 'cause he's affected by the ward
> itself, not the iron) and b) when in Dream Shape, so it shouldn't be an
> issue. Handling the wards, on the other hand, is a tricky proposition.
>
> And, yeah, I'm pretty sure the stones hurled by slings are called
> bullets. Though that may be DnD misinformation, since I think that's
> where I first heard the term.
>

"Bullets" or "Shot". Either one is accurate.

William

 

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David Prokopetz wrote:

> Well, the word "bullet" is derived from the Old French "boulette", or "small
> ball"

Or "Giant landshark."
--
Stephenls
Geek
"I'm as impure as the driven yellow snow." -Spike

 

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"Stephenls" <stephenls@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> David Prokopetz wrote:
>
> > Well, the word "bullet" is derived from the Old French "boulette", or
"small
> > ball"
>
> Or "Giant landshark."

You're not funny at all.

- Sir Bob.

 

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David Prokopetz wrote:

> You're not funny at all.

One does not tell old, tired jokes because they're funny. One tells
old, tired jokes because telling old, tired jokes must be done. It's
traditional.
--
Stephenls
Geek
"I'm as impure as the driven yellow snow." -Spike

 

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"Stephenls" <stephenls@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> David Prokopetz wrote:
>
> > You're not funny at all.
>
> One does not tell old, tired jokes because they're funny. One tells
> old, tired jokes because telling old, tired jokes must be done. It's
> traditional.

You're taking pleasure in making my brain bleed, aren't you?

- Sir Bob.

 

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David Prokopetz wrote:

> You're taking pleasure in making my brain bleed, aren't you?

Of course not. Don't be silly. Why would I do that?
--
Stephenls
Geek
"I'm as impure as the driven yellow snow." -Spike

 

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Here are a few more God-Blooded; I wanted to see how non-combat
oriented characters wovld tvrn ovt...

Name: Jac Crass
Concept: Occvlt Investigator
Natvre: Conniver
History: There are a million stories from the streets of Nexvs, and
the tale of Jac Crass is one of the most vnbelievable. They say he
swindled an archdemon into Endowing him with Essence at the age of 17;
they say he bribed his way into Malfeas and blvffed his way back ovt;
they say that Plentimon of the Dice flies into a rage if he hears his
name mentioned, while Bvrning Feather can't stop lavghing when she
hears it; they say that both the Gvild and the Covncil of Entities
wovld dearly love to be rid of him, bvt a complex web of favors and
alliances allows him to go where he pleases; only Jac himself knows
the trvth to any of this, bvt he jvst grins and lights vp another
cigarello...

Interestingly, enovgh, thovgh he's often seen in every part of Nexvs,
from the worst parts of Firewander to the best of Bastion, no one ever
recalls seeing him retvrn violence with violence. He seems to prefer
to blvff, bribe, joke and cajole his way in and ovt of sitvations; the
few times he was slapped arovnd, rvmor tells of the vnpleasantries
that befell his abvsers, which no one covld trace back to him, of
covrse...

Nexvs locals know that, if yov're having particvlarly bad trovble with
a perniciovs ghost or that Fae has rvn off with yovr shadow, jvst go
down to the pvb near the Little Market and look for the scrvffy bloke
in the beat-vp Bvff Jacket; he'll likely be the only one there
smiling. He'll solve yovr problem, too, tho he might have to trade
away yovr sovl in the process...

Str: 2 Cha: 2 Perc: 2
Dex: 2 Man: 4 (Deviovs) Intel: 3
Sta: 2 App: 2 Wits: 4 (Tricky)

Athletics: 1
Awareness: 3
Brawl: 1
Dodge: 2
Endvrance: 2
Melee: 1
Resistance: 2
Thrown: 1
Craft: 2
Larceny: 3
Lingvistics: 1 (Old Realm)
Presence: 2
Stealth: 1
Bvreavcracy: 2
Investigation: 2
Lore: 2
Medicine: 2
Occvlt [F]: 4 (Demonology +2)
(Arts of Svmmoning (Ghosts), Warding (Demons), and Exorcism (Demons))

BACKGROUNDS
Inheritance: 3
Experience: 2
Knowledge: 3
Library: 2
Connections: 3 (Nexvs Occvlt Commvnity; Spirits)
Allies: 3
Repvtation: 2
Resovrces: 2

MERITS
Awakened Essence
God-Body (3pt)
Call of the Blood (Demon)
Blvrred Fate
Lvcky

FLAWS
Secrets
Enemy (5)
Dark Fate
Nightmares
Dying (Cigarello overdose)

Favors (5; both Merit and Flaw, the costs are eqvally balanced)

Willpower: 6

Compassion: 2
Temperance: 2
Conviction: 3
Valor: 2

Essence: 1
Essence Pool: 26

HLs: Standard


> Willpower: 6
> Soak: 2B/2L (skin)
> HL: Standard
>
> Compassion: 3 Temp: 2 Conviction: 2 Valor: 2
>
> Essence: 1
>
> ===============================================================================

Name: Drifting Candle
Concept: Actress
Natvre: Thrillseeker
History: Drifting Candle was born to a female playwright and her Fae
lover. Her mother can be excvsed for not taking the appropriate
precavtions, as she was nearing 80 at the time; yet the fecvnd natvre
of her Wyld lover covld not be denied, and many watched in shock as
the octogenerian swelled and gave birth to a seemingly ordinary, if
very beavtifvl, child.

Drifting Candle learned what she was soon enovgh, tho a polite fiction
was maintained in all the towns her mothers' company of actors visited
that was merely a grandchild, and not her actval davghter. By the time
her mother passed on, she had learned mvch and taken over the trovpe
of players, and even began composing her own fantasies, drawn from the
strange reveries she sometimes drifts into...

Drifting Candle hopes to locate her remaining parent, tho she's
vnclear on what she'd say or do if she does. She is also seriovsly
considering the offers of the Gvild and variovs governments to vse her
increasingly popvlar acting company as a means of smvggling and/or
spying...

Str: 1 Cha: 3 Perc: 2
Dex: 3 Man: 3 Intel: 2
Sta: 2 App: 3 Wits: 3

Archery: 1
Athletics: 1
Awareness: 1
Dodge: 1
Endvrance: 2
Martial Arts: 2
Melee: 2
Thrown: 1
Larceny: 2
Performance [F]: 4 (Improvisation +2/Impersonations +2)
Presence: 2
Socialize: 2
Bvreavcracy: 1
Lore: 2
Occvlt: 1

BACKGROUNDS
Inheritance: 2
Followers: 3 (The Drifting Players)
Connections: 3 (Theatre Commvnity)
Resovrces: 3
Repvtation: 2

MERITS
Awakened Essence
Virtve Attvnement
Wyld Sense
Dravght of Passion
Mvsing
Transcendent Dream Shape (+1 Dex, +2 App, +1 Wits)

FLAWS
Secret (Changeling natvre)
Rival
Disciple (2pt; vnderstvdy)
Unbidden Oracle (often onstage!)
Erratic Temperment
Addiction (Ice Fern Spores)

Willpower: 6

HL: Standard

Compassion: 3 Temperance: 2 Conviction: 2 Valor: 2

Ess: 2
Ess Pool: 16


==============================================================================
Name: Scarlet Ice
Concept: Artist
Natvre: Visionary
History: Scarlet Snow and Scarlet Rain were twin sisters, tho only one
made it ovt of the womb alive. Nevertheless, a steady diet of Ghost
Flower Tea ensvres that she was always close to her sister, who grew
alongside her. Eventvally, the two became lovers as well, and Rain
went throvgh some trovble to secvre the Fertile Sovl Endowment
Arcanos, to gift her lonely sister with the child no man wovld have
with the strange woman.

From this vnion came Scarlet Ice, and the trio was complete. A
freqvent vser of Rasp Spider Venom, Ice has begvn making qvite a name
for herself among both living and dead patrons with her havntingly
evocative scvlptvres, tho few among the former gvess at the trve
natvre of her otherworldly inspiration...

Str: 1 Cha: 2 Perc: 2
Dex: 3 Man: 2 Intel: 3
Sta: 2 App: 3 Wits: 4 (Creative)

Athletics: 1
Awareness: 2
Dodge: 2
Martial Arts: 3
Melee: 2
Thrown: 2
Craft [F]: 4 (+2 Marble)
Larceny: 1
Performance: 2
Presence: 2
Socialize: 2
Stealth: 2
Bvreavcracy: 2
Lore: 2
Medicine: 1
Occvlt: 2 (Svmmoning Ghosts)

BACKGROUNDS
Inheritance: 1
Patron: 1 (Avnt-Mother)
Connections: 3
Familiar (Dirge the Raven)
Resovrces: 3
Repvtation: 2

MERITS
Awakened Essence
Deceptive Frailty
Transvbstantion of Flesh
Wraith Form

FLAWS
Spectre Meat
Secret
Dark Fate
Unvsval Appearance (pallor)
Derangement (Depression)

WEAPONS
Black Ash Staff

Willpower: 6

Compassion: 2 Temperance: 3 Conviction: 2 Valor: 2

Ess: 2
Ess Pool: 21
============================================================================

 

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Hand-of-Omega wrote:

> Here are a few more God-Blooded; I wanted to see how non-combat
> oriented characters would turn out...

I WILL get around to reading and responding to this eventually. I swear.
I keep marking it as Unread and keep meaning to go back to it. Argh.