Sherry Cheryl Ann Morse Mullins August 3, 1949 - March 30, 2011
09/02/2013
Time flies. One of these days I will catch it and immobilize the wings.
I miss my friend. Yep, still miss her. Stumbled across the Portal stuff about a month ago and am slowly transcribing it. Wow, we were very innocent when we wrote up the first Portal RPG offering. We were also kinda not the sharpest knives in the block when she let me make the decision not to write up the entire world/history and sell it to Chaosium. Hindsight is indeed 20-20. That was the dumbest decision I have ever made. Somehow I thought that if we sold the idea, I couldn't play there any more ... when the whole idea was to get other people to play there.
But Sherry was loyal to a fault. She didn't argue with me, although I suspect she probably knew exactly how dumb I was being. She didn't argue, didn't chide, didn't point out how well other games from the company were doing, she just continued to play and enjoy what we created. Good friends help you move, Really good friends let you be an idiot and still love you.
Sherry was one of the best and one in a million. Love you, woman.
08/03/2012
Today is my eldest daughter's birthday. It's also Sherry's birthday. She shared it with Brigid. She was delighted to be her godmother as well as sharing a birthday. Brigid's comment today was that she missed the birthday card from her godmother because they always came in on time. So, today was both happy and sad because we miss the Sherry. Hope she's havin' fun where she is now.
03/30/12
It's been a year ... wow. Time flies at my age ... While musing on a new project concerning one of my alternate egos online and in writing, I realized that it's been a year since my BFF traveled on to the next adventure. Damn. How many times have I thought "I need to tell Sherry ... oh expletive!" Yep, I have been known to suffer from potty mouth.
One of the things I intend to do is transcribe all the notes we/she made while we were happily Improving ...the role playing without dice thing we did for years and years and years. I have about two and a half inches of notes ... that's stacked, not on a single page <laughter>. We always thought I'd share the Organization and the Black Hats (Le Chapeau Noir) with the world, only somehow, it never quite happened; although the characters have graced my fan fiction from time to time in diverse universes. I never quite got around to the Shroeder/Throgmorton story I promised. I started it ... really I did.
So, a couple of days ago my Mary Sue and I were discussing her blog and we talked about the characters Sherry ran that helped shape the multiple personality/multi universal character into what she is today ... There was a lot going on. We shifted characters from one universe to another just to see what would happen. We played a lot of "what if". We annoyed others with planets that shouldn't and probably don't exist except in our diverse and magnificent imaginations. (What another friend calls TMTA: Twisted Minds Think Alike) Sometimes it felt like we strained something between our ears encompassing a universe so alien and yet so close to home.
I miss the ability Sherry had to immediately take a left turn and fly with it. I miss the gleam in her eyes when I handed her one insane plot twist after another and the annoyance when the plot demanded character death. Sherry didn't like losing characters, but sometimes, it happens, the story continues and the other characters pick up the traces to continue the quest. In some ways, that's what some of the pages that will follow will do... continue the creativity quest, the desire to make flesh and blood characters about whom we cared and we hope others will care.
So, soon enough, I will add pages for the Organization, The Black Hats, the Diamond-Tor universe and a few others that we played in. Portal will arrive with its peculiar rules for magic run on a strictly male/female dichotomy; as will Oberon, probably the scariest world we envisioned and tamed to keep it from giving us nightmares. Lair will be revealed, and some companion worlds the names of which escape me at the moment.
You'll get to see and enjoy the rich characters that Sherry created and then played with across time and space, depending on who we were and what we thought we were doing ... sometimes the characters got the better of us. Through it all, we built a friendship that weathered a lot (my three kids, the attention hogs and dwarf hysteria: what you get when a troupe of belly dancing little people femmes hide under Darth Vader's cloak on the Death Star ... who knew?)
So, here's to Sherry and her creativity and her belief in all of us to build a better place.
First Memorial Page
Time flies. One of these days I will catch it and immobilize the wings.
I miss my friend. Yep, still miss her. Stumbled across the Portal stuff about a month ago and am slowly transcribing it. Wow, we were very innocent when we wrote up the first Portal RPG offering. We were also kinda not the sharpest knives in the block when she let me make the decision not to write up the entire world/history and sell it to Chaosium. Hindsight is indeed 20-20. That was the dumbest decision I have ever made. Somehow I thought that if we sold the idea, I couldn't play there any more ... when the whole idea was to get other people to play there.
But Sherry was loyal to a fault. She didn't argue with me, although I suspect she probably knew exactly how dumb I was being. She didn't argue, didn't chide, didn't point out how well other games from the company were doing, she just continued to play and enjoy what we created. Good friends help you move, Really good friends let you be an idiot and still love you.
Sherry was one of the best and one in a million. Love you, woman.
08/03/2012
Today is my eldest daughter's birthday. It's also Sherry's birthday. She shared it with Brigid. She was delighted to be her godmother as well as sharing a birthday. Brigid's comment today was that she missed the birthday card from her godmother because they always came in on time. So, today was both happy and sad because we miss the Sherry. Hope she's havin' fun where she is now.
03/30/12
It's been a year ... wow. Time flies at my age ... While musing on a new project concerning one of my alternate egos online and in writing, I realized that it's been a year since my BFF traveled on to the next adventure. Damn. How many times have I thought "I need to tell Sherry ... oh expletive!" Yep, I have been known to suffer from potty mouth.
One of the things I intend to do is transcribe all the notes we/she made while we were happily Improving ...the role playing without dice thing we did for years and years and years. I have about two and a half inches of notes ... that's stacked, not on a single page <laughter>. We always thought I'd share the Organization and the Black Hats (Le Chapeau Noir) with the world, only somehow, it never quite happened; although the characters have graced my fan fiction from time to time in diverse universes. I never quite got around to the Shroeder/Throgmorton story I promised. I started it ... really I did.
So, a couple of days ago my Mary Sue and I were discussing her blog and we talked about the characters Sherry ran that helped shape the multiple personality/multi universal character into what she is today ... There was a lot going on. We shifted characters from one universe to another just to see what would happen. We played a lot of "what if". We annoyed others with planets that shouldn't and probably don't exist except in our diverse and magnificent imaginations. (What another friend calls TMTA: Twisted Minds Think Alike) Sometimes it felt like we strained something between our ears encompassing a universe so alien and yet so close to home.
I miss the ability Sherry had to immediately take a left turn and fly with it. I miss the gleam in her eyes when I handed her one insane plot twist after another and the annoyance when the plot demanded character death. Sherry didn't like losing characters, but sometimes, it happens, the story continues and the other characters pick up the traces to continue the quest. In some ways, that's what some of the pages that will follow will do... continue the creativity quest, the desire to make flesh and blood characters about whom we cared and we hope others will care.
So, soon enough, I will add pages for the Organization, The Black Hats, the Diamond-Tor universe and a few others that we played in. Portal will arrive with its peculiar rules for magic run on a strictly male/female dichotomy; as will Oberon, probably the scariest world we envisioned and tamed to keep it from giving us nightmares. Lair will be revealed, and some companion worlds the names of which escape me at the moment.
You'll get to see and enjoy the rich characters that Sherry created and then played with across time and space, depending on who we were and what we thought we were doing ... sometimes the characters got the better of us. Through it all, we built a friendship that weathered a lot (my three kids, the attention hogs and dwarf hysteria: what you get when a troupe of belly dancing little people femmes hide under Darth Vader's cloak on the Death Star ... who knew?)
So, here's to Sherry and her creativity and her belief in all of us to build a better place.
First Memorial Page