You say you will, but you know you won't
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ghostbritain bla bla bla birthday bla bla bla pubbage[1] bla bla bla fun. Did not snog anybody. This is largely because it was me, samharber and the ARMY OF COUPLES. And while Sam has said he would do me in the past[2], tonight he was not nearly drunk enough.
Saturday was great, the day consisted of a small amount of shopping followed by four hours of Firefly. I still object to the overdone Wild West imagery - dirty and functional is all well and good but the ship's kitchen is straight out of the Waltons. On reflection this only surfaces occasionally, but it always annoys me (Playing horseshoes in the hold?). Still, the writing is easily good enough to compensate.
After Firefly I abandonedghostbritain, shunning his weekend-after-Birthday all-you-can-eat buffet in favour of a night in Rock World with stsquad, zheers and assorted friends. It's the first time I've been there, and it wasn't quite so bad as I expected (but then I did have some horrifically low expectations, which always helps you enjoy something). Spent far too much time attached by various means to zheers, who as ever was enormously affectionate right up to the point where he apologised. Did eventually find myself in his bed, but this was because I needed to sleep, and he was wired on Speed and wasn't going to be using it. Sigh. Still, at least there was snoggage.[3]
Sunday: Woke up, for the first time ever, next to a woman I only met the previous day. Did more shopping and finally bought a crappy wedding gift for my cousin. Eventually chose an oil-pouring thing, something useful that they may or may not have already. (They did have a list, but everything in my price range was gone, bought by other people.) Am determined thatarwel and icklejo will get something wholly useless from me to celebrate their marriage, possibly laser tag or a board game. Or handcuffs. While in town, accidentally slipped and fell directly upon HMV, and when I got up I found I had acquired the second series of Randall & Hopkirk [Deceased] (Vic & Bob version), as well as three random computer games from the Buy Two Get One Free deal. These were Thief II, an RPG called Enclave and The Temple Of Elemental Evil A Classic Greyhawk Adventure.
Have so far installed The Temple Of Elemental Evil A Classic Greyhawk Adventure, and it's all good so far - though I think I may have skipped ahead in the plot a little, having gone straight for the contact and found the next area instead of bimbling around town solving subquests. I will probably head back to town, since I'm having no luck fighting these swarms of zombies and ogres as a first-level party. Though it does assume a serious preknowledge of the d20 3.5 rules, I've found no real problems so far. Niggles are that they don't seem to have included the ability for clerics to swap out their spells for healing, and there doesn't seem any way to disengage from a fight - no running away up the stairs, you have to fight to the death. I suppose it makes a certain amount of sense, since in a paper-and-pencils game you wouldn't have the "upstairs is an entirely different area" aspect, but it's still annoying when I'm officially still fighting the ogre in the next room (though he hasn't actually seen me yet) and I want to go away and rest up.
Still, mighty pretty.
After HMV I also stopped at Forbidden Planet where they'd run out of comic boxed but I bought Spyboy anyway (though it was issue #2 - grr! Why does nobody tell me when these things are starting up again?), then went to Books Etc where I picked up Death: At Death's Door (a manga-style Sandman tie-in tale that takes place during Season Of Mists), and Creature Tech (a fantastic science adventure story from Doug Tennapel, creator of Earthworm Jim). Both are excellent. Creature Tech is about a plot by a mad zombie scientist to conquer the world with a giant space eel. This involves a demonic hand and the Shroud of Turin. It is so cool.
[1] As opposed to "Pubidj", which is just silly. Pubbage, like Babbage and cabbage and cribbage.
[2] His three constraints are (1) female, (2) hot and (3) breathing, and apparently two out of three is all he requires. This may have been a drunken lie. At least I hope it was, for the sake of hot female corpses the world over.
[3] See [1].
[4] The amazing recurring footnote[4].
ghostbritain bla bla bla birthday bla bla bla pubbage[1] bla bla bla fun. Did not snog anybody. This is largely because it was me, samharber and the ARMY OF COUPLES. And while Sam has said he would do me in the past[2], tonight he was not nearly drunk enough.Saturday was great, the day consisted of a small amount of shopping followed by four hours of Firefly. I still object to the overdone Wild West imagery - dirty and functional is all well and good but the ship's kitchen is straight out of the Waltons. On reflection this only surfaces occasionally, but it always annoys me (Playing horseshoes in the hold?). Still, the writing is easily good enough to compensate.
After Firefly I abandoned
ghostbritain, shunning his weekend-after-Birthday all-you-can-eat buffet in favour of a night in Rock World with stsquad, zheers and assorted friends. It's the first time I've been there, and it wasn't quite so bad as I expected (but then I did have some horrifically low expectations, which always helps you enjoy something). Spent far too much time attached by various means to zheers, who as ever was enormously affectionate right up to the point where he apologised. Did eventually find myself in his bed, but this was because I needed to sleep, and he was wired on Speed and wasn't going to be using it. Sigh. Still, at least there was snoggage.[3]Sunday: Woke up, for the first time ever, next to a woman I only met the previous day. Did more shopping and finally bought a crappy wedding gift for my cousin. Eventually chose an oil-pouring thing, something useful that they may or may not have already. (They did have a list, but everything in my price range was gone, bought by other people.) Am determined that
arwel and icklejo will get something wholly useless from me to celebrate their marriage, possibly laser tag or a board game. Or handcuffs. While in town, accidentally slipped and fell directly upon HMV, and when I got up I found I had acquired the second series of Randall & Hopkirk [Deceased] (Vic & Bob version), as well as three random computer games from the Buy Two Get One Free deal. These were Thief II, an RPG called Enclave and The Temple Of Elemental Evil A Classic Greyhawk Adventure.Have so far installed The Temple Of Elemental Evil A Classic Greyhawk Adventure, and it's all good so far - though I think I may have skipped ahead in the plot a little, having gone straight for the contact and found the next area instead of bimbling around town solving subquests. I will probably head back to town, since I'm having no luck fighting these swarms of zombies and ogres as a first-level party. Though it does assume a serious preknowledge of the d20 3.5 rules, I've found no real problems so far. Niggles are that they don't seem to have included the ability for clerics to swap out their spells for healing, and there doesn't seem any way to disengage from a fight - no running away up the stairs, you have to fight to the death. I suppose it makes a certain amount of sense, since in a paper-and-pencils game you wouldn't have the "upstairs is an entirely different area" aspect, but it's still annoying when I'm officially still fighting the ogre in the next room (though he hasn't actually seen me yet) and I want to go away and rest up.
Still, mighty pretty.
After HMV I also stopped at Forbidden Planet where they'd run out of comic boxed but I bought Spyboy anyway (though it was issue #2 - grr! Why does nobody tell me when these things are starting up again?), then went to Books Etc where I picked up Death: At Death's Door (a manga-style Sandman tie-in tale that takes place during Season Of Mists), and Creature Tech (a fantastic science adventure story from Doug Tennapel, creator of Earthworm Jim). Both are excellent. Creature Tech is about a plot by a mad zombie scientist to conquer the world with a giant space eel. This involves a demonic hand and the Shroud of Turin. It is so cool.
[1] As opposed to "Pubidj", which is just silly. Pubbage, like Babbage and cabbage and cribbage.
[2] His three constraints are (1) female, (2) hot and (3) breathing, and apparently two out of three is all he requires. This may have been a drunken lie. At least I hope it was, for the sake of hot female corpses the world over.
[3] See [1].
[4] The amazing recurring footnote[4].
