{"id":911,"date":"2010-01-02T22:47:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T03:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/?p=911"},"modified":"2010-01-02T22:47:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T03:47:11","slug":"and-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/archives\/911","title":{"rendered":"And Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think I might just start back in with &#8220;Lowborn&#8221; in the next couple of days.\u00a0 I&#8217;m feeling the writing bug, and I have a week&#8217;s vacation coming up in a week or so.<\/p>\n<p>If I haven&#8217;t already mentioned it, I&#8217;m going to\u00a0put &#8220;Barren Harvest&#8221; up on a shelf and save it for next Halloween.\u00a0 It&#8217;s simply too tied to the season to post at any other time.\u00a0 At least I&#8217;ll have a story pretty much ready to go immediately when the time rolls around.<\/p>\n<p>For now though, it&#8217;s back to Final Fantasy 9.\u00a0 It&#8217;s\u00a0a nice change of pace from the convuluted story and complete ass mechanics of 8, which I just played for the first time.\u00a0 I\u00a0skipped it quite on purpose, and I&#8217;m glad I never bothered until it was bargain bin price ( and played it on an emulator for save states )<\/p>\n<p>9 is a little too cartoonish in visual style for the darkness in a lot of the story, but it was nice to have one last episode hearkening back to the old superior fantasy stories before\u00a0shifting fully into the emo protagonists\u00a0with virtually nothing resembling a high fantasy world that the series seems to have pissed off towards.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve said before:\u00a0 RPGs were the\u00a0genesis of my PnP fantasy world, and that&#8217;s the genesis of my writing.\u00a0 Going back to my roots seems to wake me back\u00a0up and give me the will to write again.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s\u00a0hoping that it works again, and that nothing comes up to slap me down to the ground again any time soon if it does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think I might just start back in with &#8220;Lowborn&#8221; in the next couple of days.\u00a0 I&#8217;m feeling the writing bug, and I have a week&#8217;s vacation coming up in a week or so. If I haven&#8217;t already mentioned it, I&#8217;m going to\u00a0put &#8220;Barren Harvest&#8221; up on a shelf and save it for next Halloween.\u00a0 It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}