First up, the Good News. I'm gonna be doing some actual recordings of my group's gaming sessions, and setting them up on Youtube for all to enjoy. These will be audio recordings and will begin for RotOO starting hopefully at "The Madman". If that gets missed, it will begin at "The Spawn". I will give a bit of a recap recording too. Masks of Nyarlathotep will also be recorded, stem to stern - though probably not with character generation since that's a tad boring IMHO and we do it very clinically and quick in my group. Fear not, though - I'll have everyone introduce themselves in a brief start-up and "get to know" video, so nobody feels lost. :)
And now for the Bad News. Sadly, I have had a setback in getting MoN together and lost the entirety of my "Masks of Nyarlathotep Companion" PDF a YogSothoth.Com publication that has since been pulled (they're trying to get it Kickstarted and not doing super great right now). Now, I have no clue what caused this, but the entire PDF corrupted when I went to save my notes and highlighting in that document. I believe that this occurred due to a bad save, but I am not entirely sure as it was working fine right before I saved and shut my laptop down. I was almost done annotating the stuff for Shanghai, the last section in the book before the appendices, which only makes the loss sting all the more. Thankfully I did not lose my ACTUAL PDF of MoN. I also did not lose the PDF of the Companion; copies of both MoN and the Companion were safely on my dropbox. The only thing lost is Keeper notes, but it was a lot of notes. Altogether, I estimate I lost about 2-3 weeks of solid, straight work on my first draft of Keeper notes alone, and my only solace is that it wasn't everything.
I've got a lot of work ahead of me heading into the Autumn semester, and not just with classes. Two labs, an art class, and a Biochem class, not to mention stats tutoring work and running a campaign, are more than enough stress for anyone to handle... However, I personally choose to believe the Crawling Chaos was so displeased with my efforts to appease him that he wiped everything and said, "No, start over" just to fuck with me. Such is the life of a cultist. What will be, will be...