Geist

I had Geist in the morning, and perhaps I should start posting about those, to reminisce. We had Part 2 of a Nature Reserve mission in Romania that dealt with weresharks and an incompetent American trying to build a Welcome Center on their land. Everyone but Void attended, including two who didn't make it last session, which threw a wrench into the deal we made with the weresharks last session to bring the incompetent American (Robert Harrington) to them—likely so they could kill him. The two characters who weren't here last week kept glaring at Zane whenever "someone lying" was mentioned, despite Zane not truly lying (he did from ommission, but Cordula was truly lying, darn it, glare at her!). Zane despises lying, so he didn't appreciate the accusations, but shrugged them off as them not knowing what they were talking about, because he didn't lie!

Things overall went smoothly, getting Harrington to stop the construction, while also not bringing him to the weresharks to slaughter him. Despite this being the most peaceful solution, Zane wasn't pleased with it, because it meant he didn't get to keep his promise to the weresharks, and after they granted the party powers the previous session! That made him feel like a liar, reneging on a promise. He might be Evil, but he's very Lawful, and even hours later, he was grumbling about it.

Easter

We left for my sister's a little after 11:30. We arrived around 1 and had linner around 2. My sister's husband made this good curry with rice, carrots, tomatoes, and potatoes. Nice and spicy; I'm not someone who's had a lot of curry, but it might be my favorite—either that or the stuff I got at that Thai place we went to a year or two ago (only twice in my life).

Overall, I kept to myself, spending the latter half of the visit upstairs in the left room, with Maui. We shared a bed, and I tried to brainstorm ideas for Art Fight. Without my phone or laptop (only a sketchpad), I couldn't think up too much, but at least I did something. I really need to force myself to prep harder. I need plenty of ideas ahead of time, darn it!

I've been overall unmotivated in general to draw or be creative, I think mostly because for the past year or so, I haven't had anyone to really interact with about characters, and most of my ideas and motivation comes from discussions with others. Therefore, my ideas and creations have been a lot more limited. It's a shame, but I have nobody to blame but myself; nobody is obligated to talk characters with me. Still, it has made my brainstorming tougher too, at least when it comes to thinking up ideas for friends.

At least I have one months' old idea for Void that I simply wasn't motivated enough to draw earlier. That was one of my many super rough sketches of this day.

New Art Fight Feature: Connections

Speaking of Art Fight, later that night, they released a new "Connections" feature, which I'm overly excited for. I doubt it'll actually mean much in the grand scheme of things (at least for what people draw for me), but as someone with a heavy preference for drawing character interaction, having easy to access links and blurbs for tied characters is super nice, and I hope a lot of people utilize it. Hopefully it helps make coming up with interaction pieces a little easier. As for if I'll get more interaction pieces for my own characters? One can hope, but I doubt much will change. But I shouldn't complain; while the bulk of the stuff I get isn't interaction, I do tend to get a few really thoughtful things, which I'm super grateful for. I loved Shy Friend's piece of Absit and Idunn last year; I'd share here if they weren't shy, haha.

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