Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Oh no!

Well, it was a cool four-day weekend, at least outside of the computer, but on the boards, it sucked. Ok, for openers, only one person seemed interested in my RPG, maybe I made it too complex or something, oh well. The weekend is winding down now, and I have nothing to do for the 8 hours or so of weekend I have left. On the other hand, this Sunday was pretty cool, as I visited a friend of mine for a few hours, and we had Asian food, courtesy of his mom. He and another buddy of mine, the infamous Steve, showed me a game he got for his computer, a Love Hina dating sim. It was really funny, actually, what with all the girls trying to kill you all the time. We had a good laugh. Since nothing else seems newsworthy this time around, I figure I'll go off on another tangent and write about music and RPGs. Unfortunately, there has been little response from the RPGs I'm participating in (sadly, the best writers on the boards didn't seem to be around lately, as, unlike me, they probably have lives.) This week's feature would have to be Laeth E'thae, one of the more interesting RPGs I've been in, courtesy of Madame Arcadia. Re-Entry by Limp Bizkit Almost Over by Limp Bizkit Thanks For Nothing by Sum 41 Minerva by The Deftones Peace Sells by Megadeath Millionaire by Queens of the Stone Age Soil by System of a Down Drop to Zero by Trust Company Take it All by Trust Company Go by Andy Hunter Well, all I can say is all that depressing music I've been listening to over the years has finally caught up with me. Probably the main reason why I thought of Kaze as a character, an ultra-depressive preteen. The music by Trust Co. basically tells all about Kaze, as Take it All is about giving up and letting it all go bay, and Drop to Zero is...well...basically about the same thing. Kaze seeks to give up on life for whatever reason, and we are not sure why he can't seem to do it, if his own soul keeps him alive, or something else. Soil by System of a Down was probably more of a hit or miss song for Laeth E'thae, the best I can make out about this song is the lyric "evil lives in your skin", hence the idea of the plague, and revenge. Thanks For Nothing would probably seem out of place, since it's Sum 41, but it is about Kaze being a outcast of society, being able to see spirits and all, and how, as the song says: "this is who we are, and nothing's gonna change, Thanks for Nothing." Minerva made me think of Kaze almost immediately, as it is about wandering and trying to find something to give your life meaning, at least, that's what I think it means. I've seen the music video, and it's this guy wandering through a desert at night, which is very Kaze, in my opinion. Peace Sells has more to do with someone else I plan to introduce to the story, someone very close to Kaze. There is a clash when the two meet, and Kaze learns more about his history than he ever wanted to know, like why he is an exorcist, and why he really is shunned by society. Millionaire is about Kan, Kaze's fun-loving buddy who offers the crew a lift in his airship, and his soon-to-be-revealed skills when it comes to helping out the rest of the crew. Go is, again, about Kaze, and comes at a truning point when he starts to learn more about himself, hence the sound of the heartbeat at the beginning of the song, and, it's also a fight song, for those of you who have played Enter the Matrix on whatever system, and, it gets a little sad at the end, wihch I found, was a nice ending touch. Finally, the two Limp Bizkit songs, Almost Over is about Kan and Kaze as friends, and it really suprised me when I heard it, as it is almost an exact description of the two of them (except for the parts about rapping and such.) For example, there's the little kid, being pushed around and always having to fight, but never afraid, who grows up into a man, who learns to stand on his own two feet, make a name for himself, but who's still just a kid. Sounds a lot like Kan and Kaze to me. Lastly, Re-Entry is generally a fight song, but is could be used to describe all the characters, the world of Laeth E'thae, since the refrain is "all around the world, you know me/we know you." Enough, I say, I must go do something else before having to return to school. Then again, I have no life now, so there's probably no point. -Won-daa-shot

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