Melatonin is a hell of a drug

[doom_qu33r]

 Funny-ish story: I accidently took four melatonin last night (about 25 mg total) and had something similar to a sleep paralysis type experience. Not exactly, because I KNEW I was still asleep and still dreaming, but no matter what I did, I couldn't wake up or move or scream. I was basically being "swallowed" by this shadowy intruder entering my room. I didn't feel any pain, just pure terror. Also, my IBS was flaring up most of last night so that didn't help when I finally woke up and was trying to calm myself down and go back to sleep. Then my cats woke me up  . . . then my alarm went off . . . and you can imagine how shit went from there. 

 

Anyway, as of today - I thought of some new ideas for an OC I want to make. I've been perusing some subforums dedicated to snarking on Christian fundamentalists (the religion I used to be a part of) and thought of some potential stories for this character. Not sure if I want to make them a cis girl or a trans dude/enby buuuut I figure that it'll come to me at some point. I can probably think of some very funny/interesting scenarios based on my personal experiences. I figured for fun I could do what I planned on doing for some of my other characters and making them "journals" to write in to help flesh them out. I also made a folder in my iPad with random idea notes so that I can make sure to keep track of any spur of the moment ideas I get because I'm absolutely terrible at keeping track of those. Kinda wish I did that more back in undergrad when I was constantly daydreaming about different ideas and losing them quickly - sometimes forever as my memory has gotten more shit over time. 

 

Before sitting down to write this, I also finished up the fourth trial of Danganronpa V3 and I'm still emotionally reeling from it. I think by far it has the best writing of all of the trials so far and that twist . . .damn. I enjoy the psychological manipulation of the story by the player and the misleading "fake outs" and other twists that get you to really think past the obvious - or when the "lead" is the correct answer all along and there were a lot of distractions and red herrings/pseudo-red herrings that you need to sort through to finally confirm your suspicions. I also don't mind the new mini-games and challenges like the Taxi or the Mind Mine games, although for the most part they are ridiculously easy if you are playing on a standard level (and there's nothing wrong with that because fuck playing this game on the highest difficulty after I've been through the ringer at work all day). I think just because the story has picked up, I'm going to put P5R on the backburner for a while until I wrap it up at least for the first playthrough which shouldn't be long since the weekend is coming up and if this game is anything like the other titles, I should only have a a few more major chapters to go before the finale. 

 

I'm really psyched to see how THIS is all going to come together, although I have my suspicions about a few things. . . we'll see.