Morgan’s blog

Hey everyone so I know it has been awhile and I want to apologize for that. Unfortunately real life has a way of sneaking into all the fun things you want to do. Outside of Gnymphs there are many activities I do, some I enjoy and others I do because I have to, and lucky for me I recently got to mix work with pleasure. The company I work for sent me to New York City to stay at the Waldorf Astoria hotel. To bad I didn’t have any fellow Gnymphs on hand we could have had some very fun pictures taken. A nice Pampered Gnymph set or something. Anyway I digress, I only got to spend a couple of days there but I did as much as I could. My favorite part was seeing the interesting places in Central Park. I visited Belvedere Castle, which gave me some great ideas for a shoot I hope to pull off in September of this year. I’m tentatively scheduling a vacation to Ireland in August or September and I hope to do a set in some ruins there. A nice Celtic Gnymph set. Of course I need to find a photographer to take pictures for me! When we first discussed the idea of Gnymphs I immediately thought of Celtic lore. I’m interested in Celtic lore in particular and I was waiting for a chance to go to Ireland. This seems to be the perfect excuse to do something I’ve always put off. Have you been to Ireland, know of any great ruins that might work well for a shoot? Have you been to any other neat place that might make a good set? I’d love to hear about it.

Date: Saturday October 28th 2005
Time: Around 10 pm
Setting: A party hosted by fellow Gnymph Jessica and her housemates.

I bet your all thinking ‘wow how awesome is that’. I will admit it was pretty awesome, by the end of the night I had drunk my typical half a glass of some random mixed drink, I had danced, kissed many random men and several random females (thanks to 3 cloven apples that were floating around), watched bits and pieces of Princess Bride and had a generally really good time. However my night probably started off a little bit differently than you might think. I had gamed earlier in the day with Ada and a bunch of our friends and ended a spectacular plot line. Ada’s character had managed to slaughter a bad guy in a particularly poetic fashion. Ada plays a cleric in plate mail, she just happened to have a counter spelling gemstone for lightening bolt and our villain thought ‘I must kill the cleric, a maximized, empowered lightening bolt ought to do the trick’. Our evil sorceress did not survive 90 points of damage coming back at her. Anyway on with my story, we gamed, I napped before getting ready to go to out to a Halloween party, went out to dinner and than went to Jessica’s Halloween party. However when I arrived instead of commencing with the above-mentioned fun I spent the first half hour of the party discussing programming with a friend of mine. This friend, Pete has offered to help me with the thumb nailing process by writing a program to make it go much quicker. At this point it takes me awhile. I spend my day at a computer all day reading and by the time I get home from my day job it is hard to force myself to sit down and thumb nail. Pete has offered to write a program to make it go much quicker so a set of 50 pictures would take like an hour or so as apposed to a week or more. So here’s my geekiness: I spent the first half hour of a debaucherous Halloween party being excited about programming. What did you do for Halloween this year?

Ada brought her camera; I would not be surprised if pictures from our Halloween party show up on the site on some profile pages.

I know I don’t update this nearly as much as I should and I’m sorry about that. I’ve been helping our Webmaster get other sets ready to go up on the site as well as doing a set of my own, called’ Mirror Mirror’. Hopefully you will all like it. I’ve been having a lot of fun getting to know all the other Gnymphs, for some this is a new side I’ve never gotten to see before. As well as exploring a new side of me I never really knew was there. What girl wouldn’t want geeky men staring at her pictures online so of course I jumped at the chance to do this when Ada, Molly, and I first talked about it. But I’ve also been very nervous, since I’m much more comfortable behind the camera and not in front of it. Since I have some pretty strange turn ons (according to my older sister) I figured this perfect for me. In high school I was a gymnast and cheerleader. Yes Morgan was a chaotic evil cheerleader. (I may dig out a picture of this and put it up on my profile page, just as proof.) I was one of the top in my class, got along with everyone and was technically part of the popular jock crowd. My friends were of course disappointed when I would date the geeky math and chemistry boys, let’s face it I find lab coats and safety glasses sexy and what girl can resist a guy who can draw chemistry equations on her in chocolate syrup. I had yet to discover gaming but I was involved in drama, which in my mind was a stepping-stone of sorts.

So how come I characterize cheerleaders as chaotic evil? Well I was recently asked to play a chaotic evil succubus in a Planescape game. The GM was running an all male game and one of the first things the characters were hired to do was buy a succubus for some important NPC. After she was bought and turned over, the group started having second thoughts about it and broke her out of her new home. Well the GM realizing she was now a player character asked me to come into the game and play her. I’ve never played chaotic evil before and was having a problem getting into it until I realized chaotic evil can be someone who is seemingly sweet and innocent and really good at wrapping people around her little finger. I will admit I find this to be entirely too much fun and yes I may even have been like this is high school. Getting all those hot geeks to want to carry my books to class and yes I’ll admit I even once pretended to need a tutor just to meet a geeky guy whom otherwise seemed to ignore me. All of this is leading up to a shoot I’m fairly certain I will be doing soon and it will most likely be called ‘High School Fantasy’. Let your imagination begin and feel free to share with me if you want.

I’ll admit I’ve been excited to see what type of response there has been out there in the internet world since GenCon. I imagine many of the people who recieved a business card from Ada, Molly or myself were pretty sure that we were a hoax. So in an attempt to find us elsewhere in the internet world I went to google one night with a friend and typed in ‘gynpmhs’. To my surprise I had a hit. Someone who had taken our picture at GenCon talked about us in his blog. If you care to check it out: http://neurosuction.blogspot.com/. I was so excited I sent out an email to the other gnymphs and Ada sent him a message prompting a second entry about us in his blog. Since this happened I’ve been happily searching to see if we’ve been mentioned anywhere else. If you find us let me know. I’m very interested to know what people’s first thoughts were when they read the business card. I know many of you asked us straight out if we were for real and many more I’m sure looked at the card after we had walked away.