An introduction

My normal blog is on livejournal and I had been using that to post these journal entries and story vignettes, but because I wanted my GM and fellow players to read the stuff easily, I decided to create a separate blog. I was originally going to use LJ, but it didn't want to cooperate, so here we are. :)

This is a journal for a BattleTech/Mechwarrior character who calls herself Lonnie Silvestri. To sum up a long story, Lonnie is the daughter of a very rich, powerful and beautiful noblewoman in the Lyran Alliance. Her birth name is Marlana (Mar-LAY-nah) Halas and due to her father's influence didn't grow up with the type of attitude her mother wanted, that is power hungry. Marlana joined the military to try to escape, but found it rife with others like her mother (no, the entire alliance isn't corrupt, Lana just has really crappy luck). After a bought of extremely food poisoning due to bad fish served at a dinner held in her honor (she saved a planetary governor from choking on a chicken bone), she took a long look at her life and realized she needed to start over.

Her best friend setup an extremely good fake id and she decided to join a merc unit that was just forming called the Red Dawn. Her father is the head administrator of the unit, but doesn't know that she's joined. Due to the drastic weight loss from her recent illness, and not dying her hair black anymore (it's pure white), she looks like a different woman.

The first few bits are things I posted in my LJ, but realized they needed some editing, while they're pretty much the same, some details may have been added or edited.

Comments are always welcome. :)