Dresden Files Chargen Pt. 4: Locations & NPCs

So, last part of this, I promise! It's just been a really busy week. I probably could have skipped all this exposition, but it's been good for me to have this somewhere and I think it's generally useful to our viewers at home.

We therefore go back in time to the evening of city creation, in which we were down to choosing pertinent locations and the faces thereof. Some of these were places that figured in their backstories/phases, some of them were just things we felt were important. Each location is categorized as theme or threat, and for each there's an idea and an Aspect in play, as well as at least one person connected with it.

I should note here that while we made some things up wholesale, we also dialed up Google Maps and Street View and played the holy hell out of "that's a cool place!" We've therefore got street addresses and place names for at least half of these that actually exist, and that means that when I have some where concrete that the players want to go, I can pull up the picture -- if not of that place, then of somewhere close enough for reference. I know where things are and where they're likely to be, and I can use just enough info to make it feel real without getting mired in it. Gods, I love the internet. :)

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Oy veh.

So. Spent the last week on campus the better part of each day having more information thrown at me than I know what to do with. Graduate Student Senate, Access Services, English Department, Writing Resource Center, etc. It was pretty overwhelming. I am thoroughly pleased with where I've ended up, though. I like the school, I like the place, I like the people. I've started making friends and getting a good line on who the faculty are, including the merest inkling of who my eventual advisor for my specialty might be. I've seen my office and I'm getting a key soonish. I've started to plot and plan things like coffee makers and parking and book buying and the like. I have a week to finish some writing I really need to do and all my homework and whatnot, and I need to finish setting out my schedule for next week. Whew.

All in all, I'm a bit behind time for where I'd like to be, but I'm not in a bad position. Tomorrow I'll make more progress and things will get done, including more general updating and commentary and the like. Till then, this will have to do.