Some changes

I've largely left this story fallow for most of the past year. I've had little inspiration to work on it, little motivation.

That's largely changed. I've mentioned before I've used this story as a bit of personal therapy, doing some exploration of my real life dark side and asking the questions: Why do I do what I do? Why I am the person that I am? What if I stripped away my moral code? And so forth.

Those questions are becoming important to me again. In large part because I'm considering opening this story up to people I've previously hid it from.

I know, at best, only a handful of people in this great big world have ever stumbled onto this blog. And those handful don't know me from Adam. I'm just some guy out there who writes a kick-ass vampire story based on his VTM campaign and his own personal demons. But, to let people who actually know me in real life into this world is another thing entirely. To let them see my darker impulses, well, that's a little scary.

But it may be necessary for reasons I won't go into here.

Either way, I'v decided to change things up as part of my rededication to finishing the story line. I've dumped most of the references to PbN2012, because I have no idea if I'll ever get to that part of the story and so I'm not going to pretend anymore that's a realistic goal. What I really want now is to just finish PbN1999, which I think I can do.

I've also changed the background image (beautiful picture of the Philly skyline at night I found via Google search. I've given credit to the artist in the blog intro.) I've also changed the quote that introduces the story. This one fits better Michael's character and the goal of why I'm writing this.

We'll see what happens from here.