Nerd Cafe

So I had this great idea.

I'm totally going to pawn off the idea of a nerd cafe onto someone.

In Japan they have maid cafes, cat cafes, and other interesting novelty places to eat.

In America we have... sports bars? Hooters (does that count as a sports bar)? Oh! Rainforest Cafe!

I even know the best place for it, right next to every convention center in every large city across America. Even the Trekkies and Comic Heads would go there (I think).

It's going to be called "Dee 20's" or "the Hargonian Grill" maybe just "Cafe le Nerd" I haven't decided yet; but the food is going to be awesome and very wittily named.

*Ahem*
We have the Full Plate special of the day, the chalk board with be on a full size shiny suit of armor's chest plate.

For the kids we'll have a 'halfling menu' Consisting of all the foods kids like to eat (like say: ravioli) only with super cool names and possibly died fun colors. Common what kid wouldn't go crazy for blue mac-n-cheese or a tie die corndog?

I'm going to draw up a menu (after I find a good free photo studio download) and it'll be more detailed and awesome since I'll have time to remember all the food names (like Will's Orc War Shake, a cinnamon caramel milk shake with dark chocolate on top or fudge on the bottom).

And everything will be decorated in nerdtastic style. I've already decided on huge bone (or crystal depending on who you talk to) D10 for salt and pepper shakers. I even thought it'd be fun to have a "Luck Roll" special: Roll a D20 to see what meal you get for a flat price (something like $7.50).

If anyone has any awesome ideas they want to volunteer for free let me hear 'em! I love getting feedback and am interested in what other mind sets come up with.

Remelema ding dong

To torture our Characters I tossed them into the kind of the plot that means a lot of running back and forth to get the job done. Most places they had to visit made them come back... one place was full of screaming fan boys and girls that swarmed the Githzerai and Dragonborn in our party. There was an entire Drow Village under the city that was their goal... you know little things. (I loved seeing the look on Will and Jex's face when they saw the picture I drew of the drow village. The look of 'OH NOES!' after the 'oh yeahs'*koolaide man style of course* that the secret tunnel had brought on was definitely giggleworthy)

I tried to incorporate a lot of elements that we haven't had a lot of in role playing thus far. Notes and letters could be found if the bodies of the baddies got searched. One of them had to be decoded. There were little keys that interactions with the NPC's would give away for special items like shiny magic armor.

I even set up some stuff so that the characters didn't have to fight some of the bad guys and could actually win them to their side. (they kinda won over the giant lighting snake, Naga for the veteran players, to their side and got some information that they otherwise wouldn't have)

I feel good about the traps they had to disarm; who doesn't love flying pendulums of death? About the river they had to cross and the cliff they had to climb.

The NPC's created themselves nicely. Ebon the half drow informant of the iron unicorns and her whimsical attitude and love of drama. Lyria the all business, sweet, librarian with a backbone. Irkim my drow paladin (yeah you heard right). The emo Wizard prodigy that never got a name but has enough personality to feel 'real'.

Yup I feel really good about how it all turned out. Will and Jex said it felt like they were really adventuring, not just running around smashing faces and finding random loot.

I gotta love Verdant and his Thievery check mojo. "I see the pattern!" "This picture looks like Arathorn's face!" "I like blue... it has to be the blue button." And did I mention that Verdant's lilt of tone turns into a big black lady at a pentecostal type service? Oh yes. Oh lordy. Oh dear someone is going to kill me for this comment, but it's true! XD! And funny.

So yeah, my chapter turned out pretty well. Some time soon I'll be posting a new comic and a filler pic I finished coloring today. (Microsoft Paint is the devil!)

Till the next time.

A new road

Since I'm figuring out I'm waaaay better a story telling than I will ever be at Journalism this Noob Tale is going to take a different path than when I first started out.
I'm going to draw.
No, don't run away. I promise it won't suck that badly, especially if Sir Matt is kind enough to let me use his photoshop program from time to time to help me color (because I'm not very good at it if I can't use crayons. XD!

So as I was saying, I'm going to draw memorable things from the campaigns that I'm in right now. I should have the first one up in a few days. Maybe It can be a weekly thing provided I have a scanner available for my use.

Hoping not so much to change things as to overturn them~ Remerly