Over the last few months I’ve had these bursts of energy regarding the Shadowrun section of this website. I’ve got the design worked out, though I still lack some of the graphics I would want to use, and I’m closing in on the site’s navigation (though I’m not entirely sure that the road I’m going down is the right one.) However, the single-most frustrating thing is that I can’t put what I have in my head down in writing and code. Webpages are limited, and therefore I am limited. I want to do this in Flash, if it wasn’t so incredibly illogical and unreasonable a development environment. I wish I could do it just like the now-defunct Unreal Ideas page.
But that’s just the technical side, which is something I can actually do something about. The creative side is a lot harder. I was recently visiting DSF, which is more attrocious than ever nowadays, and someone was thinking of opening an in-character bulletin board (which, of course, got jumped on by SL James and his weird feelings of superiority regarding Shadowland.org, which is years out of date, with a terrible user interface), and I recounted my experiences of an in-character board; The True Façade, the creative brain-child of Brother Justice, who had more creative power in his pinky than I could ever hope to gather in my entire body. Granted, he had a great set of people to help him out (Bethyaga, 3278, Eliahad and even Brineshrimp to a certain extent). I could really use some of his mojo to turn my Shadowrun section into what I want it to be.
I got the idea from the latest Hitman-game, Hitman: Blood Money, where a rich dilettant who was attacked one day, long ago, which left him scarred and handicapped. He was convinced it was an assassination attempt, and became obsessed with finding out more about assassins, hoping to find the man who left him so crippled. Now, I haven’t played the game (yet), but I can see how this man, with his resources, would become the single-most knowledgable person in this field. And I wanted to do something similar. Someone who had been the subject of an unsuccesful extraction, who was then abandonned and left for dead by the company they worked for because they thought that it was a willing extraction. Confused and left alone, a search for answers finds that person delving deeper and deeper into the obscure, dangerous and secret world of the Shadowrunner. You see, in my game, Shadowrunners aren’t well known, don’t have trid-shows, and exist only because nobody knows about their exists except an elite few. (It doesn’t make any sense to me otherwise.)
So yeah, I want to mold a website into an archive of findings by this disgruntled and confused person, and there are so many things that come up, and so few of those I’m technically proficient enough to realise.
