paranoia is a wonderful thing
16K on the NaNoing front. Doing all right. Kinda wish I could get ahead, but it seems to be all I can do to stay barely-on-schedule every day.
I've joined this whole bunch of other people from school in a game of Assassins this weekend. Everyone has a code name and is assigned two other players to "kill," but they're only given clues as to their targets' identities. So you have to figure out who your targets are and get them before whoever you're a target for gets you; if you kill someone who wasn't your target by mistake, you lose points; and if you kill one of your targets, you inherit their targets and whatever targets they've inherited from their kills. There's also fake money, so you can bribe and ally and backstab to your heart's content. It goes on all weekend. Robbie and I are thinking of teaming up -- me the behind-the-curtain mastermind, him the wheels.
I think the really attractive thing about this game to me is how it forces you to be clever. "Killing" people entails things like slipping tabasco sauce in their drink as "poison," leaving notes inside their cars that say "car bomb," holding up a sign from the audience while they're performing on-stage that says "BANG"... and so on and so forth. There's even a prize for most creative kill. Heh.
I'm hoping the guy organizing it is gonna do it again, 'cause I found out too late to get really involved in this weekend. But hopefully next time for real...
Anyway, I need my code name and theme music. (The guy in charge is making a CD of everyone's theme music when it's over.) I've got the code name narrowed down to Dante, Schrodinger, or Nick Danger (whee Firesign Theatre reference!). As for the theme... I haven't decided if I want lyrics or just orchestral, so here's both lists...
Lyric songs:
Spies - Coldplay (combination perfect lyrics and creepyish music)
Bad Moon Rising - CCR (perfect lyrics, er... ironically non-creepy music?)
Anesthetized - Signal 12 (actually the very first thing I thought of for this)
Orchestral/Score:
Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven
Sara Goldfarb Has Left the Building - Kronos Quartet, Requiem for a Dream (ALWAYS makes me feel like someone's stalking up behind me)
Mercutura - Mark Snow, X-Files (score from the episode "Folie a Deux," that of the creepy-ass "hiding in the light" monster)
Blue Summers - Tsuneo Imahori, Trigun (the 2nd Donut rendition of Legato's theme that is much better than Perfect Night, IMO)
Any opinions? Which of these would you pick if it were you?
-rave
I've joined this whole bunch of other people from school in a game of Assassins this weekend. Everyone has a code name and is assigned two other players to "kill," but they're only given clues as to their targets' identities. So you have to figure out who your targets are and get them before whoever you're a target for gets you; if you kill someone who wasn't your target by mistake, you lose points; and if you kill one of your targets, you inherit their targets and whatever targets they've inherited from their kills. There's also fake money, so you can bribe and ally and backstab to your heart's content. It goes on all weekend. Robbie and I are thinking of teaming up -- me the behind-the-curtain mastermind, him the wheels.
I think the really attractive thing about this game to me is how it forces you to be clever. "Killing" people entails things like slipping tabasco sauce in their drink as "poison," leaving notes inside their cars that say "car bomb," holding up a sign from the audience while they're performing on-stage that says "BANG"... and so on and so forth. There's even a prize for most creative kill. Heh.
I'm hoping the guy organizing it is gonna do it again, 'cause I found out too late to get really involved in this weekend. But hopefully next time for real...
Anyway, I need my code name and theme music. (The guy in charge is making a CD of everyone's theme music when it's over.) I've got the code name narrowed down to Dante, Schrodinger, or Nick Danger (whee Firesign Theatre reference!). As for the theme... I haven't decided if I want lyrics or just orchestral, so here's both lists...
Lyric songs:
Spies - Coldplay (combination perfect lyrics and creepyish music)
Bad Moon Rising - CCR (perfect lyrics, er... ironically non-creepy music?)
Anesthetized - Signal 12 (actually the very first thing I thought of for this)
Orchestral/Score:
Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven
Sara Goldfarb Has Left the Building - Kronos Quartet, Requiem for a Dream (ALWAYS makes me feel like someone's stalking up behind me)
Mercutura - Mark Snow, X-Files (score from the episode "Folie a Deux," that of the creepy-ass "hiding in the light" monster)
Blue Summers - Tsuneo Imahori, Trigun (the 2nd Donut rendition of Legato's theme that is much better than Perfect Night, IMO)
Any opinions? Which of these would you pick if it were you?
-rave