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> Tell Me About Your
Character > Jee Hyung Lee |
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Your
name: Jee Hyung Lee. I usually go by Loki or
some variant thereof online
Location: Washington, DC
Age: 26
Sex: Female
Religion: I don't worship regularly and am
not affiliated with any
church, but I consider myself to have faith, eclectic
as it is, drawing
inspiration from lots of sources with big streaks of
neo-paganism.
Religion and mythology tend to be a big theme in my
games, and I find it fascinating how people and their
lives interact with the divine. The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Light Bearer by Donna
Gillespie have both been very enlightening works of
fiction on that subject.
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Political
party/affiliation: Flaming liberal, overall.
I'm not active in politics (could be surprising, considering
where I live at the moment. :), but my sympathies
are with the left-leaning middle.
Just
to test the stereotype - Have you ever lived, or are
you currently living, in your parents' basement?
*laughs* No. All my gaming has been online,
safe and sound in my bedroom, actually. I lived in
Korea before coming to DC (I'm here to study), and
Koreans have a very developed online culture and no
cultural stigma against being "geeky." Combine
that with a very small and thinly-spread RPG population
and you have a recipe for lots of online gaming.
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| What
is your favorite way to spend a weekend? I
love to read and
write
fiction. I also like to talk on MSN with my friends
back in Korea, and also find
it relaxing to do coding on my website. And play RPGs,
of course.
Which
of your accomplishments are you the most happy with?
Learning English, I think. It's opened up a whole new
world for me, and
got me into RPGs in a big way.
What
makes you cry? Really poignant scenes in movies
and books, mostly. |
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How many languages do you speak? Two.
I'm very fluent in both English
and Korean. I did learn French and Chinese in high school,
but I never got to the
point where I could express myself comfortably in either
language.
What is your favorite time of year, and why?
Summertime. I like the warmth and sun.
What
is your most prized physical possession? My
laptop, I think. I do everything with the thing, including
typing out these answers. :)
If
you could change one thing about yourself, what would
it be? I think I would like to be less of a
thinker/talker and be more of a doer.
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| Did
you have any embarassing nicknames as a kid?
My childhood nickname was Ji-rung, which means "earthworm"
in Korean. I got it because of the similarity to my
actual name, Jee Hyung. My closest friends still call
me by my nickname from time to time. Ah, the memories.
Do
you have a useless talent that no one else that you
know can do? Whenever I read text I can hear
it spoken in the back of my mind. How's that for weird?
What
are three things you can't live without? 1.
The internet. 2. Playing RPGs. 3. Good books.
If
you could have one superpower, which power would you
pick? I think I'd pick the power to affect
people's minds.
What
did you want to be when you grew up? I remember
wanting to be an inventor when I was very young. Then
I wanted to be a lawyer, and now here I am in law school.
:)
What
is your favorite mode of transportation? I
like subways. Not so shaky as a bus, and I get to watch
people.
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Tell us about your favorite RPG character that
you've ever played.
Johann Mattheus Aaron Esterdale, or just Aaron. He's my
PC in a GURPS
4th Ed. game. It's about a bunch of clerics or pseudo-clerics
who get
sent out on missions by the command center of the dominant
religion of
that world. (Think the Catholic church in medieval Europe.)
Aaron is a
kind of detective, well-versed in dogma and various investigative
techniques, and his job is to sniff out heretics. He's
understandably
feared because of his occupation but he's also a pretty
nice guy with a
little two-story home, a loving wife, and a toddler son.
Evil can be so
complicated. |
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Aaron is usually the leader in the group's missions
due to his status and has had several unspectacular
but significant triumphs. There was the time the PCs
stopped a train robbery, and under the combined might
of the PCs the would-be robbers finally had enough.
Though most had surrendered or lay wounded, the ringleader
turned tail and ran. Leaving the others to guard the
prisoners Aaron ran after the leader alone, concerned
that the perp might take a hostage in his desperation.
He finally caught the guy with the crude but effective
method of tackling him from behind. It was a moment
any lineman would have been proud of, I tell you. :)
More recently Aaron put his rather rogue-like skillset
to good use, sneaking around a suspected heretic base
and picking locks. He also ordered another PC, despite
protests, to heal a captured enemy whose life was in
danger from PC-inflicted injuries. I'm getting some
good play out of Aaron, all things considered.
What are your favorite RPGs? FATE, Dogs
in the Vineyard, The Shadow of Yesterday, and various
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What was your first RPG session like? My very
first RPG session was online, via a Korean RPG chat
client called Dice&Chat which I use to
this day. It was an oD&D game I saw advertized on
the bbs and signed up for, excited about my first RPG
session. It wasn't a terribly well-run game; the PCs
fought some monsters, sorted through a by-the-numbers
adventure, then another player got bored and disrupted
the session by having his PC fall to the ground convulsing
for no reason. Looking back it was pretty awful, but
the excitement of it whetted my taste and drove me to
seek out more. I wasn't just watching or reading about
but *being* a fictional character, in a setting where
the available choices hadn't been preset by a bunch
of programmers. And I loved it.
What
was your WORST RPG session like? I've had some
pretty bad sessions as a player, but one session I had
as a gamemaster takes the cake. It was the second-to-last
session of my Fate campaign, which had been going pretty
well but was starting to wind down due to boredom and
a lack of creativity. Finally, sick of a storyline that
had dragged on and on for over a month, I ended it quickly
with very little PC input, introducing a new factor
that the PCs had little knowledge or control over. The
players felt understandably cheated of the time and
energy they had invested and were a bit miffed. After
the session the players told me they were losing interest,
and while we dithered and considered alternatives and
tried to avoid stepping on each other's toes, one of
the two players quit the group because of real-world
commitments and the other took over as GM. He brought
in new players and I got to play for a change. It's
been a good arrangement, but the memory of the session
that clinched the end of the campaign is still embarrassing.
At least I've learned a lot about what not to do. :) |
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Who is your all-time favorite person to game
with? *Mysteriously* No one you know.
;) His online handle is Asahira, one of the players
in the ill-fated Fate game (ouch, unintentional pun)
and the GM in my current GURPS game. He's a close friend
and a superb roleplayer, very proactive and creative
both as player and GM.
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