Henshin Sequence

I am.  Really.  The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

So I'm going well, studying Buddhism and eastern mythology (particularly the Chinese myth of Kwan-Yin), and wrote a short story (just called "Kanchan's Story") and a game based on the Kwan Yin myth  for all the girly nar yingers out there.

You know, the Womanly Women (and Manly Men, and Androgynous Androgynes) who like to play Womanly Games to tell Womanly Stories of girls coming to age.

(Happy birthday, by the way, Casey.  My present is late.  I now owe you 0 games.)

The game's called Reaper Beauties, or Shoujo Shinigami in the Japanese. 

In it, you Reap those who hunger for the lives they once had and live a pale shadow of it through the obsessions, rages and fears of those that live - the Hungry Ghosts. 

With the help of your friend Kanchan, the Chinese dim-sum delivery girl and the goddess Kwanyin, Compassion Herself.

You have one power: you can when a Hungry Ghost has grabbed hold of a man or woman's heart with one of it's thousand hands, so you always know who is under it's power.

You can't fight the ghosts, that makes them stronger.  You defeat them instead.

It's cool.

Still no girlfriend, but I forsee one that is beautiful and intelligent in the next month or so.  (This is because most girls are, if you look for it).  Also new friends.  I find that I can actually speak intelligently with strangers now.  's weird.  's cool.

Probably heading out to Job Corps on Treasure Island in the space of a month, maybe less.  I can see you all on the weekends when I go.

Hope you all had a good day.  Mine went well.

- Elliott Belser