Persistence of Memory

Rrrrrrr.

RCT3 keeps silently crashing to desktop after a while (I'm working on Career Mode scenarios), and Sim City 4 caused a BSOD yesterday, scaring the crap out of me in the process. Rrrrrr. Jurassic Park, on the other hand, seems to behave, but that last mission utterly escaped me (stupid friggin' carnivores refusing to pose properly for me while I take pictures, and jebus but I don't wanna have to out-drive a T-Rex again). But, now that I think of it, Evil Genius has a tendency to occasionally CTD as well.

Speaking of Evil Genius, I did manage to complete all ten main objectives and unleash unholy mayhem and terror upon the world. I'm considering having another go at it. It's kind of like the Sims or Dungeon Keeper—there's this potential obsession with design. Is there a perfect base entrance? Is it possible to waylay those pesky agents of the Forces of Good for so long with pointless doors and confusion traps that they leave without ever getting into the really interesting part of the base? I should find out. Because really, the first go-through was me flailing madly in an attempt to seem competent. And besides, there are three different Doomsday weapons you can make. (Granted, I sniffed around and found a video of the Gravity one, whereas I picked the Earthquake one.)

LoZ finally got its friggin' act together on potions, so Nimby was able to respec and nab the entire Body tree (with the coveted Warrior), plus keep all the looting skills (losing the haggling skills), and buff up a bit on magical MPT. It's making this whole adventure at +5 thing much easier overall. I'd only been sitting on those four coconuts for a couple of weeks now from when I managed to beat them out of those Gambit offers.

In other news, Justus has gained a cool million in interest (give or take a few thou) two days running. This is good.

I'm a little stunned. First, they implemented clans earlier than I expected, but that's not the part that has me weirded out. Nimby had two emails today.

1. Someone inviting me to join the clan they started.
2. An auto-email showing that same someone having kicked my ass in the arena again (they do it a lot, actually, which is fine).

Eh? I guess I'm sitting here looking a bit wild-eyed because I have no idea why this person would invite me. I don't know them except as a name, and Nimby isn't particularly distinguished or anything.

And then another invitation pops up. Huh.

Anyway, I started my own clan: Metempsychosis.

And now Justus has Nimby's Frostham Bearded Axe.

I can think of one other person I'd invite, because I know them, assuming they're still playing. *eyes the weather reporter*

My first Infinity card today. Scythes. I'm not entirely shocked it was that one, since Scythes did have a way of popping up frequently for Nimby.

I also managed to save up to get the highest weapon, which left me with a mere 320 zorkmids. But, a quick jaunt through the arena and some hunting and I'm back over 100k (without having sold my prior weapon -- still waiting on clans to see if Justus can be given that).

I have broken the 1 million zorkmid barrier. Now I just need about five more, then bunches more for skills. Yay.

If I'm extremely lucky I can have that katana by the end of the week, but somehow... I doubt it. Maybe early next week?

I caved, damn it. I went into the arena, and now I'm cacking madly over kicking people's asses. (Well, okay, I did lose once so far, but whatever.)

Momma needs a new set of leathers!

I admit, I actually like what FFN has done. Not only can you now properly place crossover stories as crossovers (I went ahead and fixed Convergence and Persequor), but you now see the character selections in the info line, which means I can spy that revolting little Harry P & Ginny W and ignore the living daylights out of those (etc., etc., so on and so forth).

In other news, while I have yet to reach level 30 with my higher character (Nimby, presently 26, Justus, presently 25), I am still waffling like mad over which sidekick to choose when I'm able. While I do not care in the least about the increased carrying capacity of the Kid, I do care about the extra AP and the loot stuff. I already chafe at a mere 30AP per day, so more would be welcome. On the other hand, the Accountant with her skills at buffing my zorkmid stash and giving me discounts to purchase and bonuses on sale of loot, in theory giving me the ability to purchase better equipment faster.... I just don't know.

I'm also getting use out of one of the Fanucci calculators, here. I was doing all right on my own with the diagrams, but the calculator is squeezing out extra points for me, which is always welcome.