big plans, small problems

today I had a Plan. It's roughly the same plan I've had for every non-college day for the past two weeks, but I got everything that was higher up in the plans done, so it is now the next plan. My plan was to take the things for charity to the charity shop in the shopping trundle (wheels! Yaays!) and then go buy the foods that tesco doesn't stock. Simples!
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But I suspect no trundling into town will happen today.
And town is only the other end of my building!


I must keep that in mind while deciding what's a reasonable distance to live from the things I need.

Magicworld numbers

Reading GURPS Supers they've got a section about universe building, including figuring how many Supers there are in a country. It seemed to find it a problem that judging by population or land area wouldn't give you the disproportionately American Supers that you get in comics. It also had a line about Supers in other settings: "Campaigns can be set in the distant past - which often also means in foreign countries, at least for American players." Yes, because clearly, America was empty. *facepalm of WTF*

It did make me think though: Britain is really very tiny. On the 'Area' and 'Population' charts we don't even show up. If magery is simply distributed evenly by population size, China and India will rule the world. The system I decided on where you can draw energy from non-mage supporters makes that even more likely. Many people, big magic. So either I'm talking about a very different world, or there has to be some other set of factors.
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I did have a though about vampires. It's like, mostly, we don't think of vampires as a literal sort of a problem. They used to be linked to aristos, leeching off the land, and in their day they did kill people. But now they're linked to different groups and it's all a bit fuzzy. Only I was thinking: rich countries eat, and otherwise consume, way more than their share of the world's resources. We're eating higher up the food chain, and we're taking food from less well off nations - there's places with actual famine problems that still export edibles. You want to look for leeches? People hooked on their greater abilities and feel good lives, at the expense of others? Reckon I could look in a mirror.

Don't feel so very good about that thought.

But then within countries, I'm not exactly on the big consumer end of the spectrum. Vampires with vampires upon them.



And I'll leave it there to go eat.