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hello! i've been thinking a lot about a character i'm going to be playing in an upcoming campaign this summer!

her name is sinead o'shea, and she's a small-time thief at the bottom rung of her guild.

she was entirely beguiled by dashing rogue julian, and clung to his side. he was one of the only people ever to show her affection, and so her devotion to him was unmatched.

one evening, she smiled and wrung her hands and told julian that she was pregnant.

he tousled her hair and kissed her and put her straight to bed.

next morning, her life savings were gone, the guild's treasury had been robbed, and julian was nowhere to be found.

she was despondent. the guild blamed her for letting him close enough to plan the heist, and wouldn't have supported her even if they'd been able to.

in a desperate bid to turn her life around, she begged a local locksmith to take her on as an apprentice. he refused--what reputable businessman would want to take in a scruffy pregnant cutpurse?

there was nothing else for it. the guild had put her out. she was destitute.

she was sick and tired of moping.

sinead resolved to find julian, to take back what he had stolen from her and from the guild. to force him to be accountable for what he'd done.

and that's exactly what she'd do.

i drew a picture of her; images under a cut because they are HUGE

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So my friends have coerced me into trying Dark Souls... mostly because it's Not My Kind Of Game At All and they think it would be funny. (I prefer more character-driven stories and Turn! Based! Combat!)

I spent a few hours working through the first couple of areas last night... and I learned a bunch of things. It's been repeated to me over and over that Dark Souls is 'A Game About Learning,' and that's true, but for me... Dark Souls is also about manipulation.

Namely, cajoling my friend who is MUCH better at these sorts of games than I am to do the hard parts for me, after I try and fail a few times.

I really like the feature where other players can leave notes for you! I like the unified tone that they're written in, and I like the game of trying to figure out whether the person writing them is trolling you or not.

I've been having some trouble with the controls, too... especially since I'm using an XBOX controller for the first time. The A and B buttons are switched!!??? Plus, I keep finding myself trying to use the controls for BOTW or Smash by accident.

Even though Dark Souls really isn't my thing, I had fun with it last night. I think I might try to keep going with it for a while! I spent a while on my character, and I love her and want her to be happy! Her name is Agnes, and she's a gentle country washerwoman who just happened to be tangled up in all of this. She wants to gut through all this scary nonsense as quickly as she can, so that she can get home to her beloved baby niece! Her favorite thing to do on her adventure is to look for flowers.

I knocked up a picture of her really quick.

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 i had an interesting evening today! a class i'm in took an evening field trip down to a book arts workshop, and we got to go through the process of typesetting and printing our own posters!

it was fascinating--all the machinery and type was very old, since those sorts of things aren't really manufactured anymore. i got to see a pair of printing presses from the 1800s, but the one we worked with was made in the top half of the 20th century. 

we got to pick out all the type--which was a bit difficult, as there were a few pieces missing from every set of letters--and then lay it out on the page, all backwards so it would come out right when it was printed. then the lady who worked there (lovely person, so sweet and so funny) showed us how she laid it out, and surrounded the type with wooden pieces so that things wouldn't move around when the paper was rolled over the type. 

then we got to use the machine! i was a bit scared at first, since the press was very large (about the size of a twin bed, but taller and with a bunch of machinery and rollers on top) and i thought it might like to make a meal of my fingers, but it was fine! fun, even!

we printed out a bunch of copies of our poster and we all got to take some home. i'll put some pictures up tomorrow, but the quote we used was from margaret atwood. it went "a word after a word after a word is power."

great fun! definitely something i'd be interested in doing again!

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