Rambling and wasting time

My girlfriend and I are waiting on campus for a friend of ours who is supposed to be coming over tonight to hang out while we both do work for our art classes, which entails sitting in front of the television and watching stuff while we do said work. Wheee. He hasn't called us yet to tell us he's back so we can come get him, though, soooo yeah. Even though I should be home painting, I sit here putzing around on the interweb. And since I've checked all my webcomics, DeviantArt, etc., I figured I might as well ramble about game.

A similar killing-time thing happened earlier today too, and in that time gap, I caught up on a DnD webcomic my friend Mark suggested I read. It's called "Chainmail Bikini," and it can be found here. It generally really funny, and points out some interesting things about game mechanics that even my beloved "Order of the Stick" hasn't pointed out. However, they make fun of bards SO much, and that really annoys me. I'm kinda into it now though, so I must keep reading it, and its a good comic otherwise, so I do suggest it. Just take what they say about Bards with many grains of salt.

I'm really itching to get started on my own campaign again. It has a plot now *gasp* so I really really really want to develop that more and get it going. I graduate in about a month, which means I'll have time to get it going again then, and I've been planning on that, but the hiatus I've been forced to take is really really annoying. I may do some work on it this weekend anyway just to satiate my want for it.

...As if I have time for that, or as if things in the game I play in aren't crazy enough. This is the campaign with Zoey and Tharf and everyone, by the way. We're supposed to have only a couple sessions of it left, but things are nuts, and our DM Wayne wants to do some mini epic-level campaigns when Heather needs a break from running her campaign, which is what we're going to be playing next. Not sure how I feel about that. I really really love Zoey as a character, but playing her is SOOOO frustrating. She makes me into an angrier person than normal, I feel. Maybe in the time gap between the end of this campaign and the mini ones I'll have her have found some zen ^^; I kinda just wish she and Tharf could go settle on their Island and live happily ever after....but I am quite curious to see what Wayne has up his sleeve. He knows that a lot of us are frustrated with our characters, but he seems to think that we'll all enjoy this, so I really wanna know how he's going to pull that off.

As for right now, though, even though we're in the process of saving the world and important things are happening very fast and such, Zoey's brain is going over many many plans for the future....which for some reason makes her feel better about the fact that they might not succeed. Here's what she's got in the works:

1. She needs to talk to everyone who's planning on living on her Island, because a couple of them are taking liberties with it she's not comfortable with and not asking her first *coughtscottyandstormravencough* And she's mad at Shino at the moment, so there's problems there too. So this will probably result in a big pow-wow in which she bitches everyone out and hopefully things will get resolved so we all make up and we all still live there, because I don't want to screw up any of Wayne's plans for the epic level things.

2. She wants to start a Fighting Academy on it....and details for that will get their own post sometime soon, as I don't have my notes for it in font of me.

...And my friend just gave me a call, so off we go to go get him. More on Zoey's fighting school will come later, and hopefully not too much bitching ;p