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No words yet.  They'll come.

This evening my Star Wars party is going to ambush the martial-artist holo-star bounty hunter pursuing them.   This is unwise, and they know it, but they are a crazy crew of pirates and tend to enjoy their actions in inverse proportion to the sensibility of said action.  Right now they are supposed to be keeping a low profile and waiting for the heat to go down a little.

Ha.

But yes.  This bounty hunter was originally supposed to be a bit character in the game, someone who was a challenge for a single session and then defeated, but she did the Boba Fett thing and stole the stage, capturing the imagination of the PCs and, incidentally, intimidating the hell out of them.  Now, while they run from her and plot against her, they are big fans -- they own the first two seasons of her show on holocube, and will interrupt con jobs and heists in order to catch the latest episodes as they air.  In season one, 'Dangan Ryyder Fights The Galaxy,' famed martial artist Dangan Ryyder traveled from system to system, training to face the most elite martial arts masters she could find, to prove that she was past the point where she needed to be apprenticed to any of them.  In season two, 'Dangan Ryyder and the Furious Fifty,' she recruited renegade apprentices and thugs from across the galaxy to form her own roving dojo of martial artists who believe that discipline and self control are for other sentients.  Now, in season three, 'Dangan Ryyder Fights Crime,' she tracks down a new criminal every episode, egregiously abusing her bounty hunter's license so she can stage dramatic, televised death-matches with fugitives.  The narrative arc of her season depends on her capturing the party by the season finale.  The party, in turn, admires her greatly, and is really hoping to kill her on live holo.

I would have more to say about this session, but some of the players read my blog.  TUNE IN NEXT TIME, ON:  

DANGAN RYYDER FIGHTS CRIME

Okay, so actually, the name of the campaign is Star Wars: Scum and Villainy.  And we're in the second story arc-- Star Wars: Scum and Villainy:  Pirates Gone Wild Space. 


I'm a bad, bad man.

 

Well.

Coffee and Linkin Park seem to have done the trick -- 805 words written on Chapter Three of A Stain Upon His Hands.  Of course, that doesn't help me at all where I'm stuck back in Chapter Two...

Anyway, it's weird how listening to the right pieces of music can trick me into working on certain stories instead of others.  Does anyone else have that happen to them?  Linkin Park, Evanescence, Foo Fighters, Hoobastank, Rob Dougan, Three Doors Down -- that's all Romance of Blood music for me, RIHV or ASUHH or, God help me, Always Near Her Heart, which really needs a better blood-themed title.  

Are the blood-themed titles too much?  I mean, at my most pretentious this trilogy wasn't even Romance of Blood, it was Roman du Sang, ugh collegiate literary aspirations.

Anyway, Knight of the Star was Loreena McKennit, Heather Dale, and David Carter & Tracy Grammar, fittingly enough I think.  But it was mostly a music-less bit of writing.

Hellion Prince and the Allotment are.... my God, I haven't actually looked at what's on the playlist in ages.  No wonder I'm stuck, I don't listen to it any more.  Um.  Chevelle, Empires, Thrice, The Fray, All-American Rejects, Sarah McLachlan, Muse, & Placebo.

What do you listen to when you write, and how does it shape what you write?  How and why do you pick the music for each soundtrack?  And do you care how and why I pick mine?  I could go on about it for a while, if anyone is interested.