Once on a donkey in Tunbridge Wells

dragovianknight linked to KnightFight today, and it looked like so much fun that I've signed up for an account. Lookie look, my first mission went well!

An evil duke is terrorising his people. You decide to set them free of his evil rule! Your mission was very successful. You received 108 gold as a reward from the liberated farmers and merchants!

You have been credited with 108 gold. On your mission you were also able to gain 2 experience points and your alignment has shifted 1 points towards the good side!

Not bad for ten minutes' work! Two more EXP points to the next level.

I may have done something incredibly cheesy/daft with my username, though. "Anria" was already taken, and somehow "almighty_frog" just didn't seem to cut it as the name of a Knight. On Friday I picked up a copy of Anna Karenina from Waterstones and I've been reading it ever since, so it was on my desk beside the computer when I registered. (Thus far it is bloody good, by the way.)

So can you guess what I named my Knight, then?

Yup, "Anria Karenina". :D

(Hey, for 7:15am, I think that was pretty imaginative! Or at least pretty punny, not sure which. Or which is better/worse.)

In other news: I am attempting to write my remaining two fics for areyougame, but I've had a few life crises and a return of the dreaded exhaustion (the doctor gave me pills for this! ::shakes fist::) so I've not really got much further than before. :/ I'm trying to force it through, but the tiredness makes it difficult to concentrate and my job is pretty demanding on the "needs attention" scale, so it drains me a lot.

In an attempt to keep to a semi-normal sleeping pattern, though, I've been replaying KH2. It's entertaining and doesn't require much brain power since all I have to do is button-mash. Ooh, look, a beneficial side effect of KH2's designers' laziness!

Edit to fix grammerz.

The KH2 Demyx battle in Hollow Bastion is the most annoying boss battle ever. I died four times before I said "fuck this" and went to go level up to, ooh, about ten levels higher than I had been. And I still nearly died.

(Well, no, I didn't nearly die - I kept nearly failing his stupid little "defeat X water forms in X seconds" annoyance and then nearly dying from those effing geysers.)

The whole irritation of the battle nearly distracted me from the hilarious woobie that is Demyx talking to himself and attempting to play nice with the Keyblade Master. And also made me think that the whole "Demyx is not a good fighter" thing in Jiminy's Journal is really undeserved. This is my second playthrough, and when I played through the first time Demyx was the only boss to ever give me trouble. (On the understanding that I didn't fight Sephiroth or the paradox cups. Plot boss battles, I mean.)

KH2 is also a leetle bit of a broken record in terms of how it deals with situations. Any time there's something plot-related that Sora needs to get through, what do they do? Start up a scripted battle. It's getting really monotonous. The Dave told me about this when he was playing it, but I thought he was exaggerating.

In more general life terms, I am once again working, and have been for the past two weeks. Yay monies! On a more hilarious note, one of my new work colleagues has a surname that - I kid you not - is "Moar". This is the same place that has a project which abbreviates to "PWP" - and not only that, it is frequently referred to as the "PWP project". Sometimes I have difficulty stopping myself from giggling at the inadvertently inappropriate subcultural references.

Since I've got a fairly long journey into work, I've been ploughing through the various academic books I kept wanting to read and never getting round to. I still have a reasonable list that I want to sell, though, so I might stick some details up here once I get it sorted out.

I am ill. Horribly ill. So ill my stuffed-up sinuses are affecting my hearing. If anybody's sitting to the left of me, they'd better speak up.

To cheer myself up, I've been playing Kingdom Hearts II. And cackling over how Squenix are doing a PS2 remake of Chain of Memories. Anyway. Decided to go looking up KH fics, and eventually ran out of recs sites and good authors and delved into the pit of FF.Net.

This was the first fic summary I saw:

"Sora, a humanbirdhybrid, has come to Destiny Islands to escape the institute that he was in. He meets Riku on the beach and the boy seems to friendly... Or is he a spy? bad summary, Warning: Yaoi RikuXSora maybe Mpreg and more pairings! more inside!"

It huuuuurts, precious!

I felt like reading Riku/Sora, so I searched for the characters of Riku and Sora (duh), and then after about thirty seconds just started skimming through the summaries counting the number that mention mpreg. I stopped after I counted four and wasn't even halfway down the first page. Sheesh.

Since my head is stuffed with cotton wool (and possibly a few nails, ow headache), FF.Net's bullshit fails faster than usual. Will now go play with Roxas some more. Kinda wish I had KH1, though, since when I first played that I spent a good couple of hours making Sora jump and giggling at how silly it looked, with his huge feet flying straight out either side. That could probably keep me entertained for the rest of the week right now.