Below are the 6 most recent journal entries recorded in zelota's LiveJournal:

Friday, November 14th, 2008
5:11 pm	Hypothyroidism It's official i suffer from Hypothyroidism. Normal value is 0.4 - 4 mine 21. It's controllable with pills for the rest of my life , what is sad is that i probabbly had it for decades. Symptoms include: * Fatigue * Sluggishness * Increased sensitivity to cold * Constipation Pale, dry skin * A puffy face Hoarse voice * An elevated blood cholesterol level * Unexplained weight gain * Muscle aches, tenderness and stiffness * Pain, stiffness or swelling in your joints * Muscle weakness Heavier than normal menstrual periods * Brittle fingernails and hair * Depression I put an asterisk where i can identify myself. LOL 10-15 years of this for just a pill and i had to go to the doctor and tell him I WANT A TYROID TEST. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, June 30th, 2008
10:26 am	2 years what ? Hah I can't ecen believe that two years assed since my last ramble. I do not roleplay anymore . I played world of warcraft for a while , Well two years really . raided all the way almost daily, 5 man all the way to exalted with all factions , heroics , kharazan , Serpent shrine , Tempest keep , Mount hyal , Black temple . Illidan dead like 20 times . I am tired now , I left most other things to rot to do this and for what ? to sea some pvp er or some heroic badge hoarder get pretty much the same armour and weapons but all in one color rather than my mismatched fury set . Yesterday i logged in and started vendoring and destroying the epics i do not use . I kept the dps gear , tanking gear , and shadowresistence gear (lol@warlocks) . Everything else i destroyed or vendored I almost cried at all the memories how i aquired each item . But with Wrath of the lich king behind the corner there was not much point . No point at all in fact . My father is getting old real quick , he is not keeping up with the market changes , hasn't sold a car in a year and does not realise why . He is too slow now and i have postponed challenging him till now . I wish he returned his previous self but i know it will not happen . Challenge him for leadership or wait for the inevitable ( quite inevitable really he did a bypas 5 years ago and still smokes like a turk) I dunno i am 30 but as yet feel as if i am living in a purgatory awaiting 4 my life to start. What is the use of my sunday fishing trips , what is the use of everything . Ok so many things are not useful than , fine . Counting invoices for my GF , it's been a week and i can't see the end of the tunnel yet . At least i have my health , or most of it . Ramble over (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 6th, 2006
6:03 pm	A new Place Wow today was different. We played our usual dnd game in a new place . A great place owned and run by two cats , Smeagol and Teqila . Oh yes and they have an owner called Nathan. Hereby attached are some photos , obviously i am not there. It was a good game although world of warcraft talk dominated the befora after and sometimes in the game . Strangley after the game we were supposed to have a drink together, acrually that is why we were there (the place is next to a bar) but than everybody flew away :( Current Mood: blah (Comment on this)
Monday, February 27th, 2006
4:26 pm	Concerning Clerics Clerics they heal ok , they build temples and shrines ok.They are not looked down upon or feared most of the time cause they are (our boys). A boy from the village becomes a wizard be apprenticeship to old mad talanathos ( he is strange ) a boy shows strange unknown spelllike abilities a sorcerer (even stranger) a boy is a wild talent or apprenticed to a bigheaded psion and can move things by looking at them (huh send him away) but a boy who goes to the local temple of st Giohan and becomes a priest of the god is our boy . a village boy a city boy . So this boy has grown up and is clad by the fellow priest / priests and sent forth to do his master's bidding. He dies maybe he oes not comes back builds a bigger temple whatever but comes back PRIESTS ALWAYS COME BACK. An old fighter become s an inkeeper ? a failed rogue opens a legitimate buisness ? an old wizard gets a tower or goes planewalking but clerics most of the time come back or in some rare cases open a new temple the result is the same Clerics make temples , saturate them make others etc etc So one must consider this , a cleric is the only player character whom is practically a slave . A slave to his god's whim , he starts and ends the game as a servant to a higher being . So if there should be so many clerics around . And clerics are mostly loved welcomed and thanked for their existence wouldn't these points make sense ? a) There should be a good number of them in every city or even village b) Since a cleric doesn't really spend that much wouldn't it be concievable that the clergy should be considered Welloff ? c) Clerics can make magical items no ? and the order keeps the things no ? And these gizmos get given to promising acolytes no? so clerics should be well stocked in the maical item dept. d)It is also a cleric's duty to collect offerings for his god and give good example by giving a good strong share of his gatherings. Current Mood: blah (Comment on this)
Friday, February 24th, 2006
1:37 pm	Concerning human cities I play D&D And on sunday we have this game , it's been going on for quite a while now .It's had it's up and downs and i must say the DM has a plot so twisted and with so many loose ends i cannot see the end of them. He either has the mind of a genious or simply adds unfitting bits as he goes along , it just boggles the mind . Recently ( which is only as far as i can clearly remember) it's been great , maybe because we got to play our original characters again. Yes he made us play a 2nd set :( But anyway one thing has bugged me . The human cities , i pretty much feel that the cities are getting tedious ,tiring and pretty much all the same . EHH These are what i have noticed so far (8 years of roleplaying with the same people give you quite a template) 1)All cities are away from the sea. Why the docks are so cool and they give a city the reason to exist ? 2)All cities have a sort of Captain vimes , Nobby Knobbs and Sergant Colon kind of watch with uncorruptable guards . 3)All wizards sound the same ! ok it's the same guy making the voices but is there any other type of wizard apart from a)scheming senachal b)helpful oldguy with a vegtable in his ear 4)There is never a clear reason why the city stands where it is ! Neither Economical nor military .Even in my retarded country they bult the cities either over defensiible platous between ports or on top of the biggest hill. 5)The fortifications They are all pretty much 20 ft high aprox 8 feet thick and completly solid with maybe one or 2 city doors.With murder holes obviously. Why can't they be a long tunnel ? or a higher wall ? or rooms within the walls ? thicker walls ? Jesus the Romans built walls in italy that dwarved the french Arc de triumph . Here we have pretty much MAZES built inside our city walls which are not open to the public . 6)The castle/keep inside the citywalls , all made out of bricks , over some reputedly older dungeon complex . In which the players will prety much never get inside . HUH ? Can't it be a bit different just for once to spice things up ? Even stormwind has a USELESS moat around it from the times when only the castle stood in the middle of nowhere! 7)Urban renewal , if you say this city is so old why doesn't it chane in time ? This doesn't need to be ankh morpork which is reputadly built on top of itself each time the river overflows but come on! An older unused road ? An old tunnel made redundant by a shifting of the ground or by building a newer one ? Small unused houses which are not thought as trendy anymore ? 8)Why are all houses occupied ?over here in an older area 1 house over 10 at least is just boarded up and unused , And sometimes unopened by anyone for Decades upon decades . Why is every single house full up! 9) I dn not want to mention any barrels her but does the fat mousta ched bartender have to be there ? Do they breed them for the purpose? If you are fat and a moustache you shall fail as an adventurer and open your own inn ? Or you grow the moustache and gain wait as soon as you stop dodging hydras ! 10) Shrines temples etc etc i think they got these ones quite right a few temples of the goody goods some hidden shrines to evil gods fine i even like the werewolves in the sewers venerating blank blocks of obsidian gods idea sometimes (to a certain limit) . But why do people venerate 1 god ! At those times people were different you gave offerings to the gods out of fear! Deary me my wheat i'd better offer something to Grandmother Acorn. Ah i am a smithy working semi molten iron all day i d better give something to that dwarven cleric for his god i like my skin uncharred thankyou. Whew those waves i vomit all the time at sea maybe an offering to the water goddess and i won't have to know how deep the ocean is .and so on. 11 What if for a change it was not such a benevolent king ? sometimes kings die and shit happens but can't it be the king himself who is not a bloody shing paladin with a goatie and a crown and a definite lack of chin ?What about an uncaring king ? What about a tyrant ? But a solid tyrant not one whom the characters make plots to destroy . A priesthood maybe ? it is concievable The Vatican managed so why not in a fantasy world ? Republics are a bit dodgy but might work too Complete anarchy could work too but things would get quite messy over the long time but it would be fun for a while. 12 INNS and stuff you sleep at an inn no ? but why do you also drink and eat at an inn ? Isn't there supposed to be different places for that ? Or even posh places where you are not allowed to get in ? 13 The racisim ,I have nothing against different colored people yellow black red . Really i worked with them and shook hands with them every day . They are persons like us but i get a shiver down my spine whenever i touch one . I am a racist ? maybe i dunno i d hate to be but still i d rather be with my own kind. So why don't the locals treat the different raced differently ? and on the other hand as most cities have different histories some races should be attacked on sight and some others somewhat welcomed .Tourisim is rare in those days no ? 14) Houses have 1 storey and a cellar with a bottom stone walled building and a top wood ? ok it works good design maybe ? but why the hell not something different for a change and why is all the city always made of the same material ? 15)where does the material come from? you build a city you need stones for stones you need a quarry no ? where is the quarry ? Over here one city was built with such a hurry the quarry for most of the city was the city itself ergo a nice hill became a gradual slope as people cut their building blocks from yet unsold plots further inside the peninsula. 16)Sewage is a great idea i mean the sewer system really . Weather people have pipes direct from homes or if the maretial goes through gutters in the streets into underground tunnels one must agree it is a necessity even though having thatched wagons coming weekly to collect the'material from a black well serving a whole city section to dump it far away is also an idea in heavy urbanised settings. 17)Coins don't necessarly need to be made of gold silver copper etc whatabout silver inside copper , or gold in silver disc or just bloody copper that is worth so much so says the king or your head falls off ? Paper notes would also work , and forgers would actually use that skill for something (and be busted eventuually) . That would also make adventurers bringing back unknown GOLDEN coins from the tomb of MINTOrFF quite hard to explain under a difficult government . And so on and on What i am trying to say is the dungeon master does a great job he has to be the eyes ears and sometimes noze and memories of the players .In my case we have a very talented and immaginative person doing that JOB but sometimes as we all do he falls in stereotypes . An inn with a fat BUTTERBUR innkeeper , the unbendable guard , the jolly halfling thief playing cards are stereotypes which have been tried tested and do work but if we keep on relying on them we shall let our minds athrophy into senility. After that one might describe the royal city of Gluttonia as just the city leaving the characters to automatically give it a size a square 1 storey solid wall , a shaggy guard with a cigarette shortsword and pike at the gates a single inn with an overweight permanently sweating bartender bald or with receeding hairline . If one avoids these things our mind shall stay sharp awaiting the words coming from our senses and memories clinging to the DM's lips for a life not our own. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
12:41 pm	Concerning Tunnels Yesterday i couldn't sleep so I ended up watching this horribly made documentary concerning underground tunnels between Italian Cities. Suddenly my image about dwarven mines neat dwarven stonework (a la Lord of the rings) has been corrupted. Tunnels lack light , unless a (light well)is added every 100 ft or so Tunnels have to be made at an incline otherwise they get filled with water Tunnels are very dusty cause nobody sweeps them Tunnels need maintenance unless buttressed Most tunnels will hold steadily for hundreds of years if cut in the living rock but after a few centuries most get buttressed cause the barreled shaped roofs need the support by that time. Most people of the time describe going through one of these tunnels as ahorrible experience (10 km of tunnel can be so terrible ?) yes They were made and used but most of them were cobbled centuries after their construction. Most people were so afraid that these tunnels gained religious significance in the dark ages so much that they were reputed to be (Sybyl's home) and sometimes used as burial grounds. So why the hell would anybody in his right mind use a dark smelly dusty muddy haunted tunnel to get around: Cause there was almost no alternative Geography is a rotten bastard . Sometimes the only way to go from one place to the nearest city was using a Ship or scaling a sheer cliff I do not talk about mountains cause i never saw one in my life for me it's just a bigger hill . (1 Comment |Comment on this)