everything that's random

I am Tereesa, and this is Howl, from the book Howl's Moving Castle. His personality is very similar to that in the movie, but his history is quite different in the book.

Howl is a flamboyant, talented wizard, and a male drama queen. He comes to The City with his castle and fire demon, Calcifer. He definitely falls into the category of metrosexual; he likes to look pretty, and loves to hit on the ladies. All his info is in his journal.

As this is my first time in this game, I am going to need all the help I can get. And I need lots of fun things for Howl to do, so I am wide open to any plot suggestions.

*Bows and leaves the stage.*

Tereesa again, with my second character. Allow me to introduce Amelia Peabody Emerson from the Amelia Peabody series written by Elizabeth Peters. 19 books in all, I am bringing Amelia into The City after the fourth book, which ended in the late spring of 1896.

Amelia is an Egyptologist, archeologist, and amateur sleuth. She has that proper Victorian English manner, and is highly intelligent and very stubborn. She is a staunch supporter of women's rights and has a special affinity with parasols, rain or shine. They make excellent walking sticks, and are great protection, and not only from the elements. Properly constructed, they can be highly adequate weapons.

Please let me know if you have any plot ideas for Amelia. I am open to any ideas!

I am aware that one of the issues that I personally had before this community was shut down in April of last year was that players tended to find it a little intimidating to talk to me. I have a bad habit of not IMing people first, and that tends to translate into an unwillingness to talk or not caring about the people in my game.

I'd like to let you all know that neither of these things is true. The truth of the matter is that I'm really shy about IMing people first that I don't know if it's not a modly need to do so. Even the people that I do talk to on a pretty consistent basis will tell you that I don't really IM them first, either. This has nothing to do with any of you. I promise. It's just my own paranoia that I'll be bothering somebody.

What I'd like to do is make sure that I'm more accessible to everybody, both as a mod and as a player. I don't want a repeat of what happened before, where people were under the impression that I was some sort of elitist.

I thought that making a post about the matter might help in that arena. I'm also going to try to work on IMing people about plot instead of just when it's something to do with me being a mod. But I'd also like to welcome all of you to poke and prod at me if you see me online. I only have my AIM on when I'm around. (Very rarely do I forget and leave it on overnight) If I'm on, I'm available (barring a BRB note or some such of course). If you'd like to plot, or even just chat, please feel free.

-Mila
Hannibal/Eric/Jesse/Jennifer/Ted/Jack