Starpuck joins the Pathfinder Team

[starpuck]

PATHFINDER TEAM NEW RECRUIT:  STARPUCK

Pathfinders are the "tip of the spear" for exploring new worlds.

Pathfinders are trained to improve the viability of potential planets, initiate first contact with unknown species,

find suitable outpost sites, and handle any external threats before the first colonist touches soil.

 

Recruit Dossier:  Starpuck

Female, 5'2"  155lb

Ranger Archetype, N7 Graduate, Rampage Squadron

Notes:  Upon academy acceptance, did not rank in the upper percentile of classes and testing but showed great determination and perseverance throughout the courses and field training.   Team skills are a strong point, as is the ability to lead as a subordinate.   Capable marksman, physically strong, and well adapted to creative, "outside-the-box" thinking.   

Assignment: Andromeda Initiative,  Ghost Squadron

 

EXPLORATION GOALS

 

Finding sustainable food sources that will provide beyond minimal needs is an essential mandate for the Pathfinder teams.    Any potential planet must be capable of providing the required nutrients for ongoing health and training, as well as ensure increased health and vitality.

 

SUSTAINABLE FOOD SOURCES

- Produce; fruits and vegetables 5 servings/day

Fruit: 1-1.5 servings per day

Vegetables: 4 servings per day

 

PROBIOTIC/IMMUNE BOOSTING RESOURCES

- Healthy cultures; yogurt, kombucha, natural teas daily

 

[I will be trying a challenge where I do not track my calories, but will be tracking what I eat.   I'd like to get my gut into better working order, and I'd like to fill up on foods that promote health and satiety without a lot of garbage calories.   To strive for this, I will be focusing on eating more fruits and veggies at each meal, as well as trying to do some of my own cooking ahead of time.   I'm also going to be adding more variety into my food plan.   I have been eating the exact same thing during the work week for years.]

 

 

COMBAT PREP

 

While exploration of viable planets is the forefront of the pathfinder's mission, they must be prepared for the high likelihood of encountering dangerous fauna.   Well trained members will be capable of handling rigorous encounters with both beast, and potentially aggressive native inhabitants.

 

ENDURANCE TRAINING

- Movement; activity based on increasing heart rate and engaging respiratory system.

Aerobic-Anaerobic Zone:  2x/week  [running, hockey]

Temperate Zone: 1x/week [walk]

 

STRENGTH TRAINING

- Functional strength improvement; designed to keep the pathfinder in peak shape for a wide range of potential risks.

Strength Training: 3x/week [bodyweight, pull ups, balance focused movements, some barbells]

 

[Maintaining the usual routine here.   The goal is to move with intent six times per week.   Walks, even ones that are slower or unweighted will count toward this and not act as a rest day.  Trying to shift the mental focus from 'this will make me look better' to 'this will make ME better - stronger - healthier - more capable" as I have too long struggled with results driven motivation.]

 

DATA ACQUISITION AND ANALYSIS

 

Acquiring and analyzing the data that the pathfinder team has is essential to determining if the new world has potential for success.    Detailed information must be gained over a period of at least four weeks for accurate analysis.

 

DOCUMENTATION, STATISTICAL

- Bullet Journal; keep track of all important factors for analysis.

Daily: Food, exercise, health stats.

Daily: To do, appointments, reminders.

Weekly:  Goals, calendar, upcoming events.

Weekly:  Upload picture to database of exploration progress with a positive commendation. 

 

DOCUMENTATION, ARTISTICAL

- Art; Per Week Total of 5 Days

MangaStudio Work - 3x

Sketches, detailed or doodled - 2x

Tutorial Work - Search for online classes, books, youtube channels.

 

- D&D Campaign; weekly progress required.

 

[The reading the bible and daily Tank-inspired affirmations are no longer goals... because they are habits.   I do them without thinking now and do not need to keep track of them in a journal, or as a challenge goal because I have done both, almost to perfection, since October of last year!  The art is almost there, but the D&D work needs to be mentally reminded.  Want to keep up with, and get better with, the BuJo.  I think this could turn into a really good long term resource.   A return of an oldie but goodie, is the self-love pic with affirmation.   Remind me on this one guys!]

 

In addition to the daily/weekly goals, I will be posting a list of things I'd like to work on getting done over the next four weeks.  I will likely put that into the second post, along with more concise outline of goals and things to track.   But, with the basics figured out.   Let's get to work.

 

 

 

 

[starpuck]

 

EXPLORATION GOALS

Per Week Totals

Fruit 7-10 / week:

Vegetables 14 / week:

Probiotic 7 / week:

 

COMBAT PREP

Per Week Totals

Movement 3 / week:

Strength 3 / week:

 

DATA ACQUISITION AND ANALYSIS

Per Week Totals

BuJo 7 / week:

Art 5 / week:

Pic Post 1 / week:

D&D Work

 

 

 

[Oramac]

Welcome to the party!  Love the ME:A theme!  Kinda wish I'd thought of that, actually. 

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

Following along, glad to hear the affirmations are an ingrained habit now!

[Oramac]

24 minutes ago, Starpuck said:

this will make ME better - stronger - healthier - more capable

 

YES!!  This is how you do it.  

[RhiaWolfe]

Following! When I saw your title said "Pathfinder" I thought it was the tabletop roleplaying game. LOL. Love the sci fi aspect to your challenge!

 

Looks like some awesome goals you've got set up for yourself! Look forward to seeing how they progress!

[mightstone2k]

Here. Following. Carry on.

 

 

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[Broba Fett]

2 hours ago, Starpuck said:

Trying to shift the mental focus from 'this will make me look better' to 'this will make ME better - stronger - healthier - more capable"

 

Echoing Oramac.  This is awesome and something I've struggled with for a very long time.  I hope you get there. 

 

ME3 has been sitting on my dresser for like 3 years waiting to be played.  I really need to get it done so I can check out Andromeda. 

[karinajean]

I'm super excited about your food changes! what a nice way to head into spring and summer.

[starpuck]

On 3/17/2017 at 0:57 PM, Oramac said:

Welcome to the party!  Love the ME:A theme!  Kinda wish I'd thought of that, actually. 

Hehehe!   Thanks!   And yeah, I had to wing the theme a bunch as I've not played the game yet, but I am hoping and assuming that come Tuesday I will be all hype on it!

 

On 3/17/2017 at 0:58 PM, Tanktimus the Encourager said:

Following along, glad to hear the affirmations are an ingrained habit now!

I might even start going ad-lib on these!   Turn it into a proper affirmation/thought journal!!   Thanks Tank!

 

On 3/17/2017 at 1:05 PM, Oramac said:

 

YES!!  This is how you do it.  

Heh.  Yeah!  Not to just GRAB that ideal and GRIP IT TIGHT!

 

On 3/17/2017 at 1:40 PM, RhiaWolfe said:

Following! When I saw your title said "Pathfinder" I thought it was the tabletop roleplaying game. LOL. Love the sci fi aspect to your challenge!

Looks like some awesome goals you've got set up for yourself! Look forward to seeing how they progress!

It very well could have been Pathfinder.  I am a super RPG nerd.  My last theme was all about Critical Role!    I've never played Pathfinder; started with AD&D, then 3e, 3.5 brief foray into 4th (terrible) and we're firmly rooted in 5e.   Plus, White Wolf games, Fantasy Flight's Warhammer Fantasy, as well as their 40k line, and an going Star Wars Force and Destiny!     I really really should play Pathfinder at some point!!  

 

The theme is based off of Bioware's new Mass Effect game, that releases Tuesday!!!

 

On 3/17/2017 at 2:49 PM, mightstone2k said:

Here. Following. Carry on.

 

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Yaay!

Glad t' see ya here Might!

 

On 3/17/2017 at 3:37 PM, Broba Fett said:

 

Echoing Oramac.  This is awesome and something I've struggled with for a very long time.  I hope you get there. 

ME3 has been sitting on my dresser for like 3 years waiting to be played.  I really need to get it done so I can check out Andromeda. 

I hope you get there too Broba!    It's for sure an uphill battle a lot of the time.   And omg.  PLAY IT.    PLAAAY IT.

 

On 3/17/2017 at 3:44 PM, karinajean said:

I'm super excited about your food changes! what a nice way to head into spring and summer.

I am too!  Well, I was... today, Day 1 Eve, I am panicking.    Sunday's are SO hard for me to begin with, because going out to breakfast before church with the trio, then heading to friends house because her kiddos love us and keep begging us to come over after church, then left over corned beef and cabbage, then gaming night?!  OH GOSH.   I had NO time to pre-prep ANYTHING.   But, I just gotta get over the hump.

 

Soooo guys.   I got super toasty and went on a cleaning spree with my sister today.    The house looks great.   And we had so much fun.   But holy smokes it left me no time to get stuff ready for start of challenge.  I think I will count tomorrow as the start, but ease into the food part of it.   Basically, I am going to have the oatmeal at McDonald's instead of the other junk.   I'll have a banana after church.   Lots of cabbage with the left overs, whip up those chili lime snap peas to snack on at the gaming table, maybe get a raw veggie tray too.   Then an orange or some other sweet fruit for the sweet cravings after.   I might not get the perfect 5 servings, but I can get more than I normally would on a Sunday.    I am also going to try and get a bodyweight workout in too.  Because Monday I am heading to a hockey clinic.    Oi,   Week 1 craziness.

[obax]

Following, of course. I never made it through ME 2, so I've got a lot of catching up to do, but I keep seeing ads for the new one and it tickles my fancy.

[Jarric]

Love the challenge, following along as ever

[Rebel Pilot Gar]

Love your goals! Following along once again.

 

 

[RhiaWolfe]

On 3/18/2017 at 8:33 PM, Starpuck said:

 

It very well could have been Pathfinder.  I am a super RPG nerd.  My last theme was all about Critical Role!    I've never played Pathfinder; started with AD&D, then 3e, 3.5 brief foray into 4th (terrible) and we're firmly rooted in 5e.   Plus, White Wolf games, Fantasy Flight's Warhammer Fantasy, as well as their 40k line, and an going Star Wars Force and Destiny!     I really really should play Pathfinder at some point!!  

 

The theme is based off of Bioware's new Mass Effect game, that releases Tuesday!!!

 

 

Pathfinder is very close to 3 & 3.5 D&D. I kinda got tired of trying to keep up with editions and buying more and more books. When 4th ed came out, I was like "screw this, let's go to Pathfinder" and I've stuck there ever since for medieval fantasy. LOL

 

I also play White Wolf, Palladium Heroes, and Shadowrun. 

 

If you're already ensconced in 5e D&D, I would say stick with that rather than going into Pathfinder. 

 

I actually have never played a Mass Effect game. It looked fun though!

[Oramac]

On 3/17/2017 at 3:37 PM, Broba Fett said:

ME3 has been sitting on my dresser for like 3 years waiting to be played.  I really need to get it done so I can check out Andromeda. 

 

On 3/18/2017 at 8:33 PM, Starpuck said:

And omg.  PLAY IT.    PLAAAY IT.

 

On 3/18/2017 at 10:03 PM, obax said:

I never made it through ME 2, so I've got a lot of catching up to do, but I keep seeing ads for the new one and it tickles my fancy.

 

39 minutes ago, RhiaWolfe said:

I actually have never played a Mass Effect game. It looked fun though!

 

PLAY IT!!  ME3 is by far the best of the trilogy, both gameplay and story-wise.  IMO, anyway.  I obviously haven't played Andromeda yet, but I'm really excited for it!!  And I've successfully managed to avoid [almost] all the spoilers for it! I've even made it a point not to look at the advertising photos.  

[RhiaWolfe]

7 minutes ago, Oramac said:

 

PLAY IT!!  ME3 is by far the best of the trilogy, both gameplay and story-wise.  IMO, anyway.  I obviously haven't played Andromeda yet, but I'm really excited for it!!  And I've successfully managed to avoid [almost] all the spoilers for it! I've even made it a point not to look at the advertising photos.  

 

I forget... is that an Xbox exclusive? For some reason I thought it was... if so, I can't play it. I have a playstation. 

[starpuck]

1 hour ago, RhiaWolfe said:

 

I forget... is that an Xbox exclusive? For some reason I thought it was... if so, I can't play it. I have a playstation. 

 

A quick google search seems to suggest the Trilogy is available on Playstation. (Not sure how compatibility works if you are on a PS4, vs the PS3 it seems to have been released for originally.)   It's also PC friendly.   And I have only ever played Bioware titles on PC.

 

 

[RhiaWolfe]

53 minutes ago, Starpuck said:

 

A quick google search seems to suggest the Trilogy is available on Playstation. (Not sure how compatibility works if you are on a PS4, vs the PS3 it seems to have been released for originally.)   It's also PC friendly.   And I have only ever played Bioware titles on PC.

 

 

 

Hmm... maybe when I get time- *Pauses as she bursts into hysterical laughter and has to take a few minutes to compose herself* I will have to look into playing those. 

 

[starpuck]

So.   Weekend recap is... um.   Drunken house cleaning Saturday meant no challenge prep for Sunday start.   I couldn't prep on Sunday (really) because church, friends house, dinner, gaming, in rapid fire succession.   That equated to a temper tantrum of frustration where I pigged out on Sunday night and have the gut rot to show for it today.    It also means, that despite my original intent to start on Sunday (actual challenge day)- I will actually be starting today.    To quote my NF twin.

 

 

 

Things I did get done, somehow, on Sunday:

Batch cooked a bunch of sauteed green beans as snacks so as to up my veggie count.

Tried those egg-bake cupcake liner, breakfast things.

Pre-sauteed (lightly) some spinace, to throw into my 'microwave scrambled eggs' at work.

 

So, despite rotten stomach today, I am at least on the right track.

Breakfast!  With the crew. =) 

 

Updated (aka redid) all my BuJo pages to show the right start days.  Also totally stole the style of keeping track from @karinajean because it was amazing!

My exercise wheel!

 

My veggies, fruits and probiotics page was stolen from @RedStone tracking style!    (But with less chibi)

 

And my weekly, keep track of stuff all on one page, page.

 

And, of course, in preparation for tomorrow.    Today's socks of choice.

 

Tonight is home, dinner, maybe a bit of drawing, then hockey clinic, then home, ESO sleep.

THEN IT'S TIME TO ANDROMEDA!!!!

 

 

 

[RhiaWolfe]

3 hours ago, Starpuck said:

 

Tried those egg-bake cupcake liner, breakfast things.

Pre-sauteed (lightly) some spinace, to throw into my 'microwave scrambled eggs' at work.

 

So, despite rotten stomach today, I am at least on the right track.

Breakfast!  With the crew. =) 

 

 

That looks so good! It looks much better than my egg muffin cups... lol. Yum!

[starpuck]

So, I finished the day with 4 veggies and 2 fruits!  Holy crap, so much produce.   (And my gut wasn't happy to start the day off, now it is downright pissed!)

• 1/2 cup blackberries with breakfast, and my egg cups had some spinach in it.
• Half a cucumber (which equated to a full cup of slices) with some hummus (which I get to count toward part of a serving, so it, and the spinach make "1".
• 1 cup of my sauteed green beans as a snack, and I had a Dannon Activia yogurt an hour later to hopefully solve my stomach groaning.
• Dinner was eggplant parmesan, which equated to 1 cup worth of delicious eggplant-ness.
• After hockey, I had a banana with peanut butter.

I also managed to do a bit of art before/after dinner and before I had to leave for hockey.    A neat thing happened tonight.    I had a sketch I began in my sketchbook, of what will become my newest character.  Kessa the human assassin/hunter for our D&D game.  (She'll be rogue 6, ranger 7, and then maybe a spattering of other things if we get that far.)   So, this sketched drawing, the head, face turned out JUST how I wanted it to, but I tried to put it on a body that would have had her looking over her left shoulder.   No amount of tweaking things was fixing it.  It just looked wrong.   So.   I selected the head, copied it, and pasted it onto its own canvas, and then... for the first time ever, I just sketched her body IN Manga Studio.   I snagged a reference pose from a pic of Anri from Durarara, but then switched up the hands a bit.    Super rough beginnings, but this is new territory for me and it's pretty neat!

 

 

 

 

Then I had hockey.  

O M G.

 

It's an adult skills clinic, and my friend/teammate runs it.  After warm ups, she divided everyone into beginner, middle and high group.    I have not been to this clinic in years and years and had no idea the range of skill, so asked her where.  She puts me in high.     Only girl in the high group, other than my goalie friend.    First drill?  One on one board battles.  >.<    Dudes.  So big.  So strong.   Starpuck so out of hockey shape.   Whimper.      I am going to be feeling it all tomorrow - but hey, all I got going is some Andromeda and some bodyweight strength work.   It was a good time, and every time I get on the ice, I feel so good.   I dunno why lately it has been so hard to get me out the door and TO THE ICE.    Ended up burning almost 800 calories in the hour long clinic.    Not that it matters, since I am not counting calories right now.   But um.    For SURE I am at deficit today.

 

Ok.    Sleep time.  Because tomorrow!    I AM THE PATHFINDER!

 

 

[Red1263]

OK I was lurking earlier, but now I'm actually saying something, This is an awesome theme, SP! Also, when you say Warhammer Fantasy, Did you mean this warhammer?

 

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammerfb/images/c/c0/Warhammer-logo_(1).png/revision/latest?cb=20150606023313

 

Because if you do, then you've jumped 1000 cool points in my book! To the point where I'm like this:

 

[Oramac]

19 hours ago, Starpuck said:

Breakfast!  With the crew. =) 

 

And, of course, in preparation for tomorrow.    Today's socks of choice.

 

Tonight is home, dinner, maybe a bit of drawing, then hockey clinic, then home, ESO sleep.

THEN IT'S TIME TO ANDROMEDA!!!!

 

Ohh yea!!!  Great breakfast!  I really need to start making those egg cups again.  And bonus points for the Firefly figures!!  

 

And great socks for today!  

 

9 hours ago, Starpuck said:

So, I finished the day with 4 veggies and 2 fruits! 

 

I also managed to do a bit of art before/after dinner and before I had to leave for hockey. 

 

Then I had hockey.  

O M G.

 

Ok.    Sleep time.  Because tomorrow!    I AM THE PATHFINDER!

 

WOOT!!  Off to a good start!

 

Good lookin drawing!  I think the left arm is a little wonky (too short maybe??), but otherwise it's looking fantastic!  The head/face is killer.  

 

Sounds like you have Hockey Therapy in the same way @RisenPhoenix has Mat Therapy.  That is a good thing.  

 

I'm putting off starting Andromeda to try to get some shit done this morning and IT'S KILLING ME!!!!!!!!

[DarK_RaideR]

Somehow this thread escaped my attention all this time

23 hours ago, RhiaWolfe said:

Pathfinder is very close to 3 & 3.5 D&D. I kinda got tired of trying to keep up with editions and buying more and more books. When 4th ed came out, I was like "screw this, let's go to Pathfinder" and I've stuck there ever since for medieval fantasy. LOL

[...]

If you're already ensconced in 5e D&D, I would say stick with that rather than going into Pathfinder. 

Pathfinder is lovingly called 3.75 D&d and it's just that, an improved version of 3.5 you don't really need if you're already into 5E. Though i've come to appreciate the grimdark tones of Pathfinder's default setting from what little I've read.

[Oramac]

1 minute ago, DarK_RaideR said:

Somehow this thread escaped my attention all this time

Pathfinder is lovingly called 3.75 D&d and it's just that, an improved version of 3.5 you don't really need if you're already into 5E. Though i've come to appreciate the grimdark tones of Pathfinder's default setting from what little I've read.

 

I would agree.  I've played a little bit of Pathfinder, and after having also played 5e, I see no reason at all to go back to it.  IMO, 5e is the best version of D&D I've played (AD&D, 3.5/Pathfinder, 5e).