{"id":538,"date":"2005-05-02T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2005-05-02T12:42:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-02T16:42:00","slug":"dr-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"DR Memories."},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI was cleaning my bedroom and stumbled across a small tan spiral notebook. I opened it up, and on the first page I see… my scribblings as I tried to come up with my GM name. It’s my very first GM notebook from 1997, in which I kept notes for my classes.<\/p>\n

Here’s a note on how to become invisible. Here’s a note on how to go to where GM Loki is. Here’s a note questioning why a riolur leaf weighs so much (boy, the more things change, eh?)<\/p>\n

Further on, notes on how to create items, how to modify the TAP and LOOK, and how to put things into the treasure feeders.<\/p>\n

Here’s notes from “room creation” with a big note saying my homework is due on Wednesday. It starts to get more advanced, telling how to add various settings to the room, how to make portals. How to create neverending food.<\/p>\n

Here’s a note reminding me that on May 14th, we test the Volcano Quest. And some cryptic notes: “(rp award) Teeklah?)” “house next to open air fish market to Zai by Fri” “strifeweed” “pillywiggins” Some of these, I can remember, but I had to look up ‘pillywiggins’ just now to figure out what that was.<\/p>\n

Here are brainstorming ideas – “beanbag doll? juggling beanbag?” “braidable hair?” I’m gratified that most of these – with zero help from me – made it into the game. I made a few rooms that are still in storage, though, I think.<\/p>\n

Then I apparently started actively contributing. I have notes on wilderness rooms, with thornberries and a chasm and a mill. That was fun to do – and we had to slam it out pretty quickly, me and Alnilam and Helikian and… someone else? I can’t remember now. It was a tight turnaround, but it was for Zoha, and I was always willing to push my hardest for him. He’s a great guy.<\/p>\n

One of my player characters was a trader, and someone wanted more stuff for the Trader guild shop. Trevellyn’s was just about to open, so that needed things too. So there’s “a pair of red coral earrings in the shape of leaping flames” which, as far as I know, is still sold. Here’s “a broad gold choker shot through with a thin line of platinum” and “a silver earring in the shape of a shield embazoned with a heart” with a read of “you are ever my shield,” also still sold. There are pages of notes for items which still exist. It’s neat to think that these things are around after eight years. Here’s a page from that section, <\/a>which is also pretty much the only page that doesn’t have ‘classified material’ on it.<\/p>\n

I see notes on my very first wedding: “Rhyll & Kathrynn get started by 9p.” I didn’t sign up for weddings, you know, it’s just that Chandra needed someone to stand in for her that night, as she couldn’t be there. I had no idea what that would start. The notes continue: “Chiro wedding July 11th” and on and on.<\/p>\n

The notes start small, staying within the lines, very orderly. By the end of the book, I was flying and any notes I kept were scrawled over at least two lines each with insane scribbles through sets of numbers and big boxes drawn around notes like “script to jump from branch to branch (classified numbers)”<\/p>\n

It was really neat to remember the old times. It makes me look forward to the future all the more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}