Thanks to Rafe, I think I’m really up to something this time… And it didn’t even take much time to decide on this, woo-hoo! Damn, now this is getting me hype, and providing me with something that I truly needed to find in order to help the motivation up… a goal – or to be more exact, one of the two things I wanted to decide myself about. Or maybe, as Rafe himself stated, it’s simply that it suits me… fits my own style, my own kind of playing. Eh, playing a Fixer for so long really spoiled me somewhere, I think, unless I simply played a Fixer because it was secretly suiting me the most? *winks*
Anyways – Our primary goal is to make money, right? And we need to make it in many, many (illegal) ways under the covert of (legal) operations… but it’s not always a sacred rule after all. Making money for ‘making money’ isn’t really my style, but I don’t think it’s gonna be especially hard to find another reason behind this,and what I discussed with Rafe this afternoon gave me another reason to play this way. Easy life, easy money, and having the hell of a fun doing it. I realize that I like this style more and more. Really. I suppose I’ll still be finding myself fixing background stuff in one or two months, yet the core of it is here now. Between my lil’ fingers. Even if it’s getting somewhat further from my original idea.
As Rafe suggested, perhaps I’d all that simply have a ‘hobby’ that would need money. A thing for quickness, damn quick jetbikes, racing, the need to always and always have new ones, find a way to tune them, whatever… RL speaing, I’m really not the kind of person who’d invest all her money in a car or a motorbike, but… but… I’m as sure as hell the kind of person who regularly thinks of how to improve her computer, so I think I can relate on a certain level *laughs*.
So I guess I’m definitely gonna be the Wild One. A gang of live-on-the-edge speed freaks, perhaps all with jetbikes, riding around ‘the City’ on their jetbikes in a group, getting involved in all kinds of crime involving high speed, and agility. Robbery, catching people, the Family’s enemies, really living on ‘street level’. And the somewhat-crazy young gang leader with her goons roaming the streets on jetbikes (well… you have to be a little crazy to live like this, after all *laughs*). In need of speed, fast lifestyle, exciting, ‘on the edge’, adrenalin rush… ‘fast and furious’. What did Rafe said? “Eyes and ears on the street”. In a way, that reminds me of Akira a lot, the beginning of the manga/movie at least… gang of teenage/early-20-years-old folks, transposed into the flashy Hong-Kongish Blade Runner ambience (oooh but I need to dig out Kaneda’s theme now, I have this one in my head since this afternoon and it really fits the ood!) And it has this ‘family’ and ‘tribal’ feeling to it, which means, it’s gonna be even funnier than it looks like for the moment.
To quote Rafe: “Needs to find someone on the street? Use Keth and her gang. Need to chase someone down? Use Keth and her gang. Need something couriered? Use Keth and her gang. Need to find out some bit of info? Use Keth and her gang.” Does ring a bell in my little mind, eh.
Hmm it surely sounds way more Cyberpunk than SWG… I guess that no matter what, I’m still and will always be more cyberpunk than space-op’ myself anyways… however what does prevent my imagination from working a bit more in this direction? Why should all our felings with this game modeled according to what we could see in the SW movies? Or even read in the Expanded Universe books? For instance, to me, Corsuscant as seen in episode I gives me a more cyberpunk than “Star Wars” feeling anyways… so…
Aw crap. Why do I sense that there’s gonna be some more Jen-speak in this, huh? 😉
