I found my fishie!

[kiya]

So, a while ago I put together a lily tank, which lives in the green/mathom room.

In an attempt to get it to be a mostly self-sustaining thing, I got fish to give my plants CO2. Something like six months ago.

Among other things, we got a Chinese algae-eater. (We actually got several; the first batch all died, so we got one more. If I'm remembering this sequence right.)

We released the algae-eater into the wild somewhere in June or July ("New Fish Day" was 26 June last year, but that was the one where all the algae-eaters died).

We have not seen it since.

Before today.


It's huge. Something like three inches long, and chubby. (When we got it it was an inch long and ittle.)

It's also vanished again. :}

Comments

[elynne.livejournal.com]

Yay big healthy happy chubby fish! :D

[kiya]

Feeeeeeeesheeeeeeeeeeeee!1!!!!one!

[brooksmoses]

*peers at the spelled-out "one"*

*echoes jehanna's snork*

Yay fishie!

[jehanna.livejournal.com]

*snork*

[larksdream]

What's a calabite?

[kiya]

Reference to the gaming system In Nomine.

They're a type of demon. One of their traits or maybe flaws is that they tend to break things. Not just the things they mean to break. They're the sort of demon that if it walks by your car, one of your wheels will fall off. Or by your computer, your data will scramble. CD cases crack just being near them, clothes rip, etc.

Native entropy fields, basically, with casual doom and destruction.

[undauntra.livejournal.com]

Oooh, you play In Nomine too? We must geek it sometime -- IN is my gaming system of choice these days, but I haven't a local group for it. So I'm in 3 online IN games.

[kiya]

For very, very, very loose values of 'play'. I think I've played once, and occasionally get harassed distantly by a character concept.

Pretty white snakie!

[undauntra.livejournal.com]

Thank you! (The snake was found by the family of my long-distance sweetie.)

So tell me about your character concepts, eh?

[kiya]

The one I remember at the moment is the Lilim who was secretly commissioned by an Archangel or someone with a potent Word who had need of one but who couldn't afford (or wouldn't spend) the huge number of favors required to get Lilith to build one actively inclined towards going Bright.

Which means that she wound up built with the sort of personality who would work well with that Word, as a demon, completely ignorant of why she came into being, with Lilith shrugging and saying, "Well, if you're not going to do enough for me that I'll build her to your spec, you get to try to redeem her, buddy. Pays your favors, you takes your chance."


Also, every so often I ponder building a Calabite, just because I need an explanation for why I don't own any non-broken CD cases. ;)

I built a Malakite once, but never managed to get a handle on the character; it was a con situation, so I handed it off at the end of the session anyway. Ah well.

[undauntra.livejournal.com]

Ah. I've been in a mood to play mortal Soldiers lately. It started with the clueless mundane who got mistaken for an Elohite and got caught up in things.

My latest to actually see play is an 1890s belly-dancer Soldier of Divine Fire.

I've also got an Ofanite of KnowledgeDestiny, a Girl Scout Malakite (Oath-sworn to the Girl Scout Promise and Law), a Seraph Tsayad, and Haagenti (for a Superiors-based game, obviously).

That's all of my concepts that have actually seen play.

[kiya]

I remember you told me about the Girl Scout and her minor case of angst at the Lilim that did scout's-honor.

I want to pick up more of the books and peer at them. It's a really neat world-construction, just as a starter. And worldbuilding well-done tends to give me Ideas.

(I think I only have the main book and Infernal PG. And maybe one of the Liber something-or-others.)

[undauntra.livejournal.com]

The Superiors series is very good, as well as the Game Master's Guide, Corporeal Player's Guide. The Libers are very useful, but more as utilities and reference books rather than inspiration (IMNSHO). You Are Here includes some very nice locations, including a few that are adventure seeds in their own right. (Check out "The Camp" for an example.) The Ethereal Players Guide is conceptually interesting and has some good mechanics for playing with the Marches, but it's pretty remote from the focus of the rest of the books. You might get some nifty ideas from it; it's just that they wouldn't fit in well with a standard angels vs. demons game.

Want to come over and look at my books sometime?

[kiya]

*takes notes on book recommendations*

I'm not sure I'd fit well in a standard Avs.D game; I have too much of a tendency to go around the edges of things . . . But gaming materials are great resources even outside of games, for me. Writing stuff.

I may want to come and peer at books sometime, perhaps when my life is slightly less ngaaarghle.

[ardaniel]

We had a couple of dimestore goldfish at my folks' place. And then my mother gave up on cleaning the tank, trusting overmuch in the filter to handle it?

Which apparently produced *perfect conditions* for mutatedly huge goldfish.

By the time I saw that one a couple years later, it was 5" long, huge, and perfectly happy. (Weirdly deformed-- it had bumped an eye back when the tank wasn't full of algae-- but happy.)

Thing lived for like 15 years. Go figure.

[jadedusoliel.livejournal.com]

LOL I love how big those things can get !

[jinian.livejournal.com]

In the wild is how those do best. We had one that liked to eat the other fish when I was a kid, so we took it to Dad's favorite tavern and stuck it in their very big, very green tank. When last seen, it was a foot long.