User:AlbertEQX
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[edit] Personal Information
Albert Lin.
Just your run-of-the-mill 5'10" (alright, alright... 5'9") asian. Loves to RP, Game, and has found a piece of heaven at Game's House and FGS. Thanks to everyone that makes it superb!
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[edit] Family
Mother = Vicky Lin
Father = Felix Lin
Sister = Gloria Lin
[edit] RPGs
[edit] Current Characters
Rolend Palaris (Covenant): Just your standard psychologist in a mad, mad world.
Tyrion D'Angeline (The Darkening): Tyrion is a courtier who has been possessed by Ankade (a two century year old torturing madman) and is now masquerading as Tyrion's evil half-brother, Wikken. Yes, it is complicated.
Rolend, former stableboy (A Bloody Dawn... YES, I used a character name twice! Sue me!): He is my foray into "angst personified." Abandoned by his natural parents to the mercy of the wilderness, he was adopted by an entire fort. Unfortunately, they were all brutally butchered in the beggining when he just turned the tender age of 17. Has frequent nightmares, is good with animals, and has purple eyes. Did I mention his best friend is a backstabin SOB? ; )
[edit] Former Characters
Alexander Bray: 62 year old President of Anadarko, Oklahoma. If only I got a 10 gallon hat...
Keanu Reeves: "Yes, these pills are FDA approved- Try one." "Have you seen Ben-Hur II: Israel's Revolution?" "I am the one... whoa." "I will kick your ass with loving kindness (I am the Buddha!)"
Dagon, "Servant of the Jaws of Destruction", "Duke of the Sea", "Leader of the Undersea Army": Merman in love!
[edit] Current Games He/She PCs
Covenant: A LARP with ninjas, zombies, and wizards... all set in Modern-day Providence.
The Darkening: Daniel Byer's D&D compaign of craziness... CRAZINESS!
A Bloody Dawn: Izzy's compaign of an invasion of abominations and a small band of survivors out to make a difference.
[edit] Current Games He/She NPCs
Aralis: ... and when I smote him with a boffer weapon, I rejoiced.
[edit] Current Games He/She Runs
If I only knew how.
[edit] Past Games PCed
Everyone starts with this record I guess...
[edit] Past Games NPCed
Everyone starts with this record I guess...
[edit] Past Games He/She Has Run
Everyone starts with this record I guess...
[edit] Media
[edit] Current Media
Currently none... looking for something to fill this barren void.
[edit] Past Books and Authors of Note
Watership Down by Richard Adams (Because everyone loves rabbits!)
Sabriel by Garth Nix (Just plain excellent fantasy)
The Dark Tower Saga by Stephen King (start with The Drawing of the Three, not The Gunslinger, unless you can handle existionalism)
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin (Remember how good Robert Jordan's early Wheel of Time books used to be? George R.R. Martin is BETTER)
WHY TO READ A GAME OF THRONES (lifted off Amazon.com)
(1) YOU ARE TIRED OF FORMULAIC FANTASY: good lad beats the dark lord against impossible odds; boy is the epitome of good; he and all his friends never die even though they go through great dangers . . . the good and noble king; the beautiful princess who falls in love with the commoner boy even though their stations are drastically different . . . you get the idea. After reading this over and over, it gets old.
(2) YOU ARE TIRED OF ALL THE HEROES STAYING ALIVE EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE UNDER CONSTANT DANGER: this gets even worse where the author kills a main hero off but that person comes back later in the story. Or, a hero does die but magic brings him back.
This sometimes carries to minor characters where even they may not die, but most fantasy authors like to kill them off to show that some risked the adventure and perished.
(3) YOU ARE A MEDIEVAL HISTORY BUFF: this story was influenced by the WARS OF THE ROSES and THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR.
(4) YOU LOVE SERIOUS INTRIGUE WITHOUT STUPID OPPONENTS: lots of layering; lots of intrigue; lots of clever players in the game of thrones. Unlike other fantasy novels, one side, usually the villain, is stupid or not too bright.
(5) YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BIASED OPINIONS AND DIFFERENT TRUTHS: GRRM has set this up where each chapter has the title of one character and the whole chapter is through their viewpoint. Interesting tidbit is that you get their perception of events or truths. But, if you pay attention, someone else will mention a different angle of truth in the story that we rarely see in other novels. Lastly and most importantly, GRRM doesn't try to tell us which person is right in their perception. He purposelly leaves it vague so that we are kept guessing.
(6) LEGENDS: some of the most interesting characters are those who are long gone or dead. We never get the entire story but only bits and pieces; something that other fantasy authors could learn from to heighten suspense. Additionally, b/c the points of views are not congruent, we sometimes get different opinions.
(7) WORDPLAY: if you're big on metaphors and description, GRRM is your guy. Almost flawless flow.
(8) LOTS OF CONFLICT: all types, too; not just fighting but between characters through threats and intrigue.
(9) MULTILAYERED PLOTTING; SUB PLOTS GALORE: each character has their own separate storyline; especially as the story continues and everyone gets scattered. This is one of the reasons why each novel is between 700-900 pages.
(10) SUPERLATIVE VARIED CHARACTERS: not the typical archetypes that we are used to in most fantasy; some are gritty; few are totally evil or good; GRRM does a great job of changing our opinions of characters as the series progress. This is especially true of Jaime in book three.
(11) REALISTIC MEDIEVAL DIALOGUE: not to the point that we can't understand it but well done.
(12) HEAPS OF SYMOBLISM AND PROPHECY: if you're big on that.
(13) EXCELLENT MYSTERIES: very hard to figure out the culprits; GRRM must have read a lot of mystery novels.
(14) RICHLY TEXTURED FEMALE CHARACTERS: best male author on female characters I have read; realistic on how women think, too.
(15) LOW MAGIC WORLD: magic is low key; not over the top so heroes can't get out of jams with it.
REASON TO NOT READ GRRM
(1) YOU LIKE YOUR MAIN CHARACTERS: GRRM does a good job of creating more likeable characters after a few die. But, if that isn't your style, you shouldn't be reading it. He kills off several, not just one, so be warned.
(2) DO NOT CARE FOR GRITTY GRAY CHARACTERS: if you like more white and gray characters, this may unsettle you. I suggest Feist or Goodkind or Dragonlance if you want a more straight forward story with strong archetypes.
(3) MULTIPLE POINTS OF VIEWS TURN YOU OFF: if you prefer that the POVS only go to a few characters, this might be confusing for you.
(4) SWEARING, SEX: there's a lot of it in this book just as there is in real life.
(5) YOU DEMAND CLOSURE AT THE END OF EVERY BOOK: this isn't the case for all stories in the series. Some are still going on; some have been resolved; others have been created and are moving on.
(6) IF YOU WANT A TARGET OR SOMEONE TO BLAME: this can be done to some extent but not as much. This is b/c he doesn't try to make anyone necessarily good or evil.
(7) ARCHETYPES: some readers like archetypal characters because it's comfortable; we like the good young hero (sort of like Pug in Feist's THE RIFTWAR SAGA); it's familiar and we sometimes like to pretend we're this upcoming, great hero. You wont' get much of this in GRRM with the exception of one or two characters.
(8) LENGTH: you don't want to get into a long fantasy epic series. In that case, look for shorters works as this is biiig.
(9) PATRIARCHY: men are most of the main characters with lots of power (one female exception). ....
[edit] Past Movies and TV of Note
Pride and Prejudice A&E (Best high society movie ever made), Lord of the Rings
[edit] Past Musical Obsessions of Note
[edit] Past Computer Games of Note
Baldur's Gate Saga, Neverwinter Night Saga, Everquest (crack... utter crack), Warcraft 3, Startcraft, Blah, blah, blah...
