Lots of things on my mind, lately.  Feeling a bit overwhelmed, yes.  And wildly underwhelmed.  It's a bit like trying to swallow a whale whole.  I need to just relax and take it one bite at a time and hope that by the time the Conqueror Worm claims me for its own, I have at least reached the tail.  The task however, as I sit here looking at the breadth and depth of it, seems insurmountable to the very brink of despair.  I have so much to say, as They say, and so very little time.

At any rate...

My God must surely be a Night God.  I work best when the day star is a memory, I feel alive and awake.  It makes a sort of sense, really, if one insists that Lucifer is really the Devil; like, the bad guy.

Lucifer means light-bringer, after all, so the "god of this world" would then be the rising sun from which all life inexorably flows and was once worshipped as a god to such degree that the Christians thought it'd be a really neat idea to move Sabbat Day to Sun Day.  After all, even though "Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 5:19 KJV) it's tradition, right?  And that makes it okay.  Even though the Bible flat out states that "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all" (James 2:10 KJV), that can't mean me, can it?  Pretty neat trick to convince somewhere around 99.99% of the world's 2.1 billion Christians to flaunt the Law, eh?

Man, that's funny.

Anyhoo...

I feel sorry for God sometimes or, rather, sympathize.  Not an easy thing to create a world, you know?  Or even a city.  Or even one, solitary being.  Imagine the Universe as a fiction, and everything in it as words in a book of sorts.  Imagine the care and planning and simple genius of being able to set all that down.  I've heard it said that Creation continues even now.  Perhaps out on the edges, far beyond our feeble sight, the Universe expands not because of escape velocity but because the dude had himself another good idea.  It's the patience, though, that impresses me most.  If you take every great idea, every nifty gadget, and cram it all into a single car, for instance, you'll end up with something that doesn't work.  There's only so much one can do in a single space, right?  That's some kinda patience to be able to hold onto great ideas for later and manage to not feel like one is cheating Himself.

So enough with the supernatural, for the moment, yes?  Let's get with the here and now and talk about Super:Natural.  ;-)

I am thinking that I'll be slowly restructuring the Super:Natural content so that it forms basically a large book.  The downside to this is that the nesting hierarchy is limited to 9 levels.  I'm not sure what that'll mean but we'll see how it goes.  Really, I ought to figure out some sort of framework where individuals with similar aspirations could comfortably coexist beside my own work.  So that if, say, somebody comes along with their own vision of a fairly fleshed fictional Universe that does not mesh well with my own (maybe even with their own free RPG to go along with it), they could simply set up shop alongside.  Perhaps a sort of Parallel Universe.  Hell, I've got a few of my own ideas that don't fit in my own world...  meh, perhaps I should burn that bridge when I get to it, eh?

I'm still trying to nail down certain aspects.  I've found a way (I think) to enable a Super:Natural-specific glossary for pages.  My hope is that, once I set out some fly strips, when a Character Page is created all the Skills and Upgrades will have nifty tool tips that pop up with descriptions and stuff.  Eventually, I want to see if I can put together a more automated way to do all that so that your completed character page shoots out the back end with all the numbers and basic info all set and users are limited to editing the text blocks.  I think it would simplify things, a bit (for everyone but me).

There is hella work to do, yet, and we're working basically alone.  Don't get me wrong, now.  The dedicated individuals who have thus far been providing content and to whom I am eternally grateful have been an absolute godsend.  Without something to organize, it is hard for me to see how best to do that, you know?  But all the heavy lifting is, thus far, solo work.  There are certain features I would really like to implement (live chat, audio/video streaming, a voting/rating system) and others that I feel are sort of necessary (a wide variety of site automation to make the Webmaster's job a bit easier, a content filtering system for the faint of heart, probably a shitload of ease-of-use issues I don't know about because feedback is almost nonexistant).  I've only got so much free time and I'm doing this on my own dime.  Once I feel the site is ready for public scrutiny, all promotion costs are going to be mine to bear.

The a-guy-dies version is this:  I'm doing this for myself, yes, but I'm also doing it for you.  Help me.