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matrixrefugeeMy headspace is getting very crowded. Besides Sieges (or one version of her), we now have Flood's older twin brother Adrien "the Stormwatchman" Strom hanging around. Adrien is everything his brother isn't, in some ways, in others they're shockingly alike, particularly in terms of snarkiness. But while Flood has the superiority complex from hell and is vainer than a peacock, Adrien is a regular working-class guy who doesn't put much thought into his looks: in fact, when I first "saw" him in my headspace, I nearly took him for the blond British version of John Constantine: drab trenchcoat, sneaky-charming look, cigarette and all. I nearly tried to chase him out, but then he asked me if I knew a guy named Alban Flood; I told him yes, I had a houseguest by that name. "Well, I'm his brother and I've been lookin' for him since we got seperated during the crash of the First Matrix," he said. Cue the reunion of the two siblings and a rare show of emotion that isn't irritation or snarkasm or superiority from Flood.
And speaking of Flood, he's been in my headspace. Constantly. Ever since I let him front at work while I was ill, since I, the core personality, was just too tired to handle working. I can hear his voice so well, it's almost starting to bug me a little. It's nothing bad, nothing like auditory hallucinations: I just hear him in the back of my mind, yattering and snarking in that broad BBC-style English accent of his. If Flood ever appears in any of the cinematics for the Mxo (ie, the little video clips availible in-game which help begin and advance the new storylines) and they give the part to a British voice actor, I am really going to scream. Flood's arrival was something of a hostile take-over: About a few days after I read the write-up on him, over on the official site, he suddenly showed up in the Houseparty and refused to leave... and the Merv wouldn't hear of having him sent away, so he had to stay.
Thus, Thanksgiving was rather interesting. Constantine, who hasn't been around much lately, was back, and this time he brought along his niece, Helena "Lenni" Mayers, who insists on having the double-barrelled last name "Constantine-Mayers". She's no Mary Sue, though: she's a little too sure of herself, which gets her into trouble. I was so busy working and cooking, I barely had much time to listen in on the festivities going on.
But they made up for it today, when I was Christmas shopping: I caught the Merv drooling over some red and black velvet-covered throw pillows in a store window, and I caught Ref eyeing some garnet earrings in the Kay Jewellers window.
I've had some interesting conversations with the Merv, the few times I've had a moment to. A lot of the twits on the MxO player forum have been saying that the Merv ought to have a fight scene with *someone*. I think I've even heard someone say that the Merv should have fought Neo in the new video game that just came out. He gave me a few reasons why he doesn't fight anyone, but lets others do that for him. For starters, the most obvious reason being that he can afford it, but there's more to it. He's afraid to risk being wounded, in case anyone found the killcodes for his shell and armed themselves with them. And he's also been weakened as a fighter, ever since he tried fighting one of the previous Ones (the Fourth or Fifth, I think) and nearly got killed. According to details Flood filled me in on, later, it was after that the Merv started getting nasty and more Macchiavellian than he was before then.
And speaking of Flood, he's been in my headspace. Constantly. Ever since I let him front at work while I was ill, since I, the core personality, was just too tired to handle working. I can hear his voice so well, it's almost starting to bug me a little. It's nothing bad, nothing like auditory hallucinations: I just hear him in the back of my mind, yattering and snarking in that broad BBC-style English accent of his. If Flood ever appears in any of the cinematics for the Mxo (ie, the little video clips availible in-game which help begin and advance the new storylines) and they give the part to a British voice actor, I am really going to scream. Flood's arrival was something of a hostile take-over: About a few days after I read the write-up on him, over on the official site, he suddenly showed up in the Houseparty and refused to leave... and the Merv wouldn't hear of having him sent away, so he had to stay.
Thus, Thanksgiving was rather interesting. Constantine, who hasn't been around much lately, was back, and this time he brought along his niece, Helena "Lenni" Mayers, who insists on having the double-barrelled last name "Constantine-Mayers". She's no Mary Sue, though: she's a little too sure of herself, which gets her into trouble. I was so busy working and cooking, I barely had much time to listen in on the festivities going on.
But they made up for it today, when I was Christmas shopping: I caught the Merv drooling over some red and black velvet-covered throw pillows in a store window, and I caught Ref eyeing some garnet earrings in the Kay Jewellers window.
I've had some interesting conversations with the Merv, the few times I've had a moment to. A lot of the twits on the MxO player forum have been saying that the Merv ought to have a fight scene with *someone*. I think I've even heard someone say that the Merv should have fought Neo in the new video game that just came out. He gave me a few reasons why he doesn't fight anyone, but lets others do that for him. For starters, the most obvious reason being that he can afford it, but there's more to it. He's afraid to risk being wounded, in case anyone found the killcodes for his shell and armed themselves with them. And he's also been weakened as a fighter, ever since he tried fighting one of the previous Ones (the Fourth or Fifth, I think) and nearly got killed. According to details Flood filled me in on, later, it was after that the Merv started getting nasty and more Macchiavellian than he was before then.