I'm waiting patiently, I'm waiting for the sign
First, university news: Alexander Pope was interesting and funneh, the second lecture was about Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and I don't really like the book, and come Tuesday we'll discuss Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare, which I still need to read. Other than that I'm right now attempting to formulate my thesis statement so my supervisor will accept it with, hopefully, minor adjustments.
Last weekend was Lextalionis, and though it was an amazing weekend and I had a lot of fun, I've still come back from that with some doubts. Mainly about my choice of character and the limitations it brings. I like Eliza, I really do, but I found out last weekend that being a young Ventrue herald from London can really crimp my play, especially if her two usual companions aren't there, she got berated by the Prince in front of most of the council for a little oops and the only other Ventrue in the house were the Prince, the Prince-Regent and the Primogen. I think I totalled 2 hours of playtime for her in the whole weekend, which mostly constituted sitting through somewhat boring presentations waiting for the Prince to have time to receive her. I couldn't really get into the role and my most exciting moment with Eliza lasted 2 minutes, tops. She has little connection with the rest of the crowd as technically she's just a glorified delivery girl with hardly a way into the Dorestad-society. It's making me downhearted, even though I chose this character. Didn't know it wouldn't be that feasible at the time. But she has a little plot running that I don't want to abandon..
So for most of the weekend I played Rosa, a Brujah from Nijmegen with a total of 2 paragraphs of background (opposed to Eliza's 4 pages) and it went a lot better. It may have something to do with Brujah society, but she fitted in, was accepted and had some nice play, especially on Sunday when I could utilate the hands-on, no-nonsense and slightly reckless approach that I found was Rosa. I'm a 100% certain that if I had been Eliza, I would've sat in a corner doing nothing, as I did mostly during the previous Lex. She's not even a native, so she wouldn't be able to do much. Rosa was right in the action... A thing I found I rather enjoyed.
So now I'm wondering what I should do. As said, I don't want to abandon Eliza and her little plans, but she's difficult to play. Should I just suck it up and hope it gets better, or write out Rosa and keep Eliza as a secondary character (if that's even allowed...)? Or should I stop playing altogether at Lex? I don't want that, I like the game, but I don't know if I could pull off NPC'ing. Maybe I aimed too high with Eliza, and Rosa's rather easy to get into, but... Meh. I hate the doubting, really.
Well, plenty of time to think about it still.
Last weekend was Lextalionis, and though it was an amazing weekend and I had a lot of fun, I've still come back from that with some doubts. Mainly about my choice of character and the limitations it brings. I like Eliza, I really do, but I found out last weekend that being a young Ventrue herald from London can really crimp my play, especially if her two usual companions aren't there, she got berated by the Prince in front of most of the council for a little oops and the only other Ventrue in the house were the Prince, the Prince-Regent and the Primogen. I think I totalled 2 hours of playtime for her in the whole weekend, which mostly constituted sitting through somewhat boring presentations waiting for the Prince to have time to receive her. I couldn't really get into the role and my most exciting moment with Eliza lasted 2 minutes, tops. She has little connection with the rest of the crowd as technically she's just a glorified delivery girl with hardly a way into the Dorestad-society. It's making me downhearted, even though I chose this character. Didn't know it wouldn't be that feasible at the time. But she has a little plot running that I don't want to abandon..
So for most of the weekend I played Rosa, a Brujah from Nijmegen with a total of 2 paragraphs of background (opposed to Eliza's 4 pages) and it went a lot better. It may have something to do with Brujah society, but she fitted in, was accepted and had some nice play, especially on Sunday when I could utilate the hands-on, no-nonsense and slightly reckless approach that I found was Rosa. I'm a 100% certain that if I had been Eliza, I would've sat in a corner doing nothing, as I did mostly during the previous Lex. She's not even a native, so she wouldn't be able to do much. Rosa was right in the action... A thing I found I rather enjoyed.
So now I'm wondering what I should do. As said, I don't want to abandon Eliza and her little plans, but she's difficult to play. Should I just suck it up and hope it gets better, or write out Rosa and keep Eliza as a secondary character (if that's even allowed...)? Or should I stop playing altogether at Lex? I don't want that, I like the game, but I don't know if I could pull off NPC'ing. Maybe I aimed too high with Eliza, and Rosa's rather easy to get into, but... Meh. I hate the doubting, really.
Well, plenty of time to think about it still.