So, of course, the one time that I have a set of characters locked and ready to go between two points on the calendar, something else pops up that could have taken precedence. But I stayed strong...
And thus, for today's DnD Character Colouring Book, we have Pain, another character inspired by the new book. And a rogue. Because I love a rogue. Although I don't know that I fully have a handle on how I'd actually play this subclass. Making her a Zhent kinda works though. I think as far as I got with backstory for her that was she was born into a cult and the cult got destroyed, but she ended up as an orphan with the Zhents. That all tracks.
Also, I've absolutely gotten to the point where I've made so many Hero Forge minis that I've started reusing some of the ones who never went anywhere as starting points for other characters. Pain started out as a character from Dax's backstory, who I thought that I'd posted, but I can't find. And I changed her a little... but it was really the horns that brought her together.
This is absolutely a character base I will come back to at some point. Not least of all because she isn't at all signalling to somebody over your right shoulder, there's absolutely no reason to worry and you haven't at all pissed her off. It's all fine. Normally I wouldn't go to green, but this just worked. So the armor/clothes went to dark purple over blue or black. And no, I have no idea how she gets that hood on or off. I suspect it involves buttons perhaps.
I am always slightly amused any time I find a good use for that breastplate too... because I wasn't hugely enthusiastic about it when it came out.
And, again, Pain gets one of the new mundane items... the Devil Mask which lets you hide your identity. Should it be a full face mask? Yeah, probably. But I liked that design more than any of the full face ones.
Anyway...
This week's soup was... technically stewp. Stoop? Half soup, half stew. Mostly due to the large amount of rice I put in there. Also, it's November and still I'm making soup.
The Mini Media Reviews this week... Peninsula, the "follow up" movie to the very, very, very excellent Train to Busan. And where that movie was emotional and impactful and scary and absolutely one of my favourite zombie movies... Peninsula is... a lackluster heist movie where people make a lot of questionable decisions when they definitely should be running. And an 11 year old girl somehow knows how to pull off driving moves that would impress the extended cast of The Fast and the Furious. It was...okay.
Then I watched the Fallout TV series. Now, I've watched a lot of Fallout 3/New Vegas and Fallout 4 content. I've played a small amount of Fallout 4 before realising that it really wasn't my type of game, so I'm familiar with the universe. And everybody in production design, costuming, effects, make up, all that good stuff... doing excellent work. The place where it fell down for me? Script and characters. By the end of the 8 episodes, there was only one character I actually liked (Norm, played by Moises Arias), most everybody else quickly became either insufferable (Maximus) or pointless (Lucy), both of whom are supposed to be our "main characters". And it feels like it's both trying to aim for people with no knowledge of the game and also people who know it very well, and kind of failing both of them.
Also, eight whole episodes and not one single Deathclaw. I'm just saying.
Friday DnD was... not what I was expecting. Thankfully, we got to sidestep the previously discussed nonsense story. As that all happened off screen. But we can vaguely guess the results of that, given that Fluffy is now up to Character #3. Still not his record. That was the Avernus campaign where he technically made it to four... but the third one was mostly just a fill in character and not actually intended to stick around for any length of time. Regardless.
That was the character who nearly took Pain's place as today's image. But I get the feeling that the version I've made thus far might need a couple more pokes with a blunt stick. It's like... five tweaks and maybe a different set of boots away from being done. Possibly pants not boots. I am unsure. He's not camera ready, let's put it that way.
Anyway...
Today was... almost pointless, but worked itself out in the end.
We started, obviously, with the supermarket. Nothing amazingly thrilling there.
But last week Ma said that she wanted to look at some dresses or skirts or some other clothes basically. Which is perfectly fine. The problem comes in when the stores always assume that women are a certain height, and make the dresses either thigh length or floor length. Neither of which works for an old lady with her butt to close to the floor.
So, we tried Big W, we tried Target... and nothing. Also... and I ask this as someone not really keeping up with women's fashion. Are skirts not in right now? Or, you know, skirts that are longer than about a foot. Because we say about three, and those were mostly in the "workwear" section.
We did eventually find one of those little "boutique" stores, that sold a little bit of a hodgepodge of stuff really, and found a few things that fitted nicely and were about the right length. And not the first time that I've seen what mostly looked like a shapeless sack on the hanger and convinced Ma to try it on, only to have it be in regular rotation for a long while. Whether this will be the same or not remains to be seen.
But at least we have a better idea now.
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