Mania
The Lurve Captain's fan club must be mentioned first, that is the rule.
Fights in the dark.
Assisting Fama in cartographing the area providing things to do at the quiet moments.
Bouncing fatal damage for two of three days - I confess I enjoyed top trumps.
Getting back from nasty wounds behind enemy lines (for a solo effort it's amazing how many people claimed to be responsible for me surviving)
Ben's comments about the above....
Alan for the driving and for the Brigadier and also thank you for the music.
THAT solo!!!
Miseria
missing 99% of the last battle as we were the last group to transport in,
realism at the expense of fun. (danger = fun)
some characters not being there as players were monstering (and broke)
not murdering someone........ I'm still only evil in training.
Tig being in the LC's groupie group - truly disturbing......
Not getting out enough - my own fault....
Demon Creating
Helvinnion's Angels - you know who you are - big hugs!
The Cavalry Charge of Contributors - including Boris before dawn - unexpected but very welcome all of you! Great contributing all round.
Pavel - always a star but looking very harassed.
Anya's expert coaxing!
The Italians and helping me with my linguistic studies - grazie.
Il Amato Capitano - splendid chap!
lon Liag and Pizarro Co. - Splendid Chaps all of them
Ilyia - now promoted to Q Branch Health and Safety Officer
Werewolf skirmish Units - especially against Golems
Graviel's tale - knives in the dark (starring me!)
Werewolves in Snoods!
Damp Squib
Rainy Sunday
Sad news on Monday morning from the real world
leaving far earlier than planned - see above
Crap Gryphon plot concerning lon liag
crispy pizza bases
running out of gas for the coffee
being kicked in the nuts by a two year old girl.
full f***ing moon
swampy conditions in the dark
getting there late on the friday
low turn out
italian doughnut guy's absence
low death count
sleep sense
hot
monstering vs pizzaros - great to see from the other side
ice cream
my lovely sword - not special, nor clever, just nice to slice with
the black stripe gang as ever!
fey baking.... new damage call " fey bake"
coffee
breakfast
HOT
The weather
Alchemist Guild linear (and it's absence of silver)
15 seconds from death (shame about the presence of decay)
Lady Scorpion's healing stuff.
Excellent fights and sparring with all sorts - enthropics during the rites and later minor minor archons being tops.
Talking books with Anya / Cheryl - will do more writing today!
coffee
Ben's Team of Fae Nobles - beer at night, cake during the day.
Catching up with Liam on saturday
NOT
Not being able to damage much at all (although the fights were good)
Plot wombles
Visible game mechanics
running out of cash and being too lazy to go to a cash point - it did mean leaving the site when only there for half the event.
only being there for half the event - but real life beckoned.
lack of PVP stuff.
Liam's injury.
Lack of Liag and Pizzaro's but understandable all the same.
Sleeping through the Akari attack on Saturday.
The Vipers - very welcoming faction, splendid chaps, all of them.
The Allianz - splendid chaps all of them
Boris - splendid chap
Instant necromancy / corrupting ex-gryphons - see above
Thinking I was going toe to toe with Lord Roan when everyone else legged it
Mead
Most of all - Lon Liag (those who have joined the Vipers) a really different and active weekend for us - much more comfortable where we are now.
Getting my medal.
Not
The cold cold nights
my snoring apparently
Most of all Lon Liag (those who stayed in the Gryphons)
That really tedious neeting on Sunday night - see above
Finding out i wasn't going toe to toe with Lord Roan when everyone else legged it
near death experience at hands of Akari assassin - see above
In the custom of live journal here is my Hot / Not List. As Ben has rightly pointed out some bits have to be censored or the elder gods will destroy me.
Hot
Breaking into rooms
stealing priceless artefacts
all the food i could eat.
ALL the food i could eat
Being genuinely terrified,
sleeping with one eye open
chasing ****** across the lawn
Jerusalem
meeting strange new friends
Dunkirk spirit in a dining room - see Jerusalem.
Knackng.
Dying in a futile gesture.
Ben sleepwalking with his legs tied together
Ensuring that everyone had a drink in a crisis
a keen new watch
lots of photos of corpses
Not
all good things.....
But seriously, really looking forward to the coming Cthulhu weekend, although it has forecast snow - but even if I have to walk I'll get there.
Even moreso looking forward to catching up with Ben and El and finally visiting them!
Also a rather keen silver candle holder arrived for me today, perfect for searching dark wine cellars!
My boss is going to look into this no sick pay rule for me, surely it can't be right?
doesn't anyone know how I can get a grant so that I may give up work until this sells a million copies????
Find the 5th sentence on page 23.
Append it to the paragraph below.
Append your name to the list below of people who have contributed to the paragraph.
Post the result to your LJ.
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Giles - "yes it's all very simple the bad guys are easily identifiable as they all wear black hats and have horns...."
Weird weekend..... bad (dull) saturday, groovy sunday.
Hot
Ittimin's ritual - go you.
The follow up ad lib rite in the Gryphons camp around the campfire including the fire exploding at th erlevant point (it was planned - honest). In addition to the this the rite was performed by all the people who were trying to keep warm and have fun whilst the faction die hards (ergo kn*bs) were getting involved in civil war.
Order Argentos - my new favourite ritual group and their Don Quixote ritual.
Order Argentos - sneaking people to assist in my rite bomb ritual against higher orders.
Helvinnion graduating and finally getting some sleep - it's been a long year.
The Faculty - as ever.
Victor and the old school handshake
Martin's pikey plying me with popping candy before the ritual...
Lon Liag - splendid fellows, all of them ('Vampire wannabes'....)
Not
The Gryphons (most of them any way)
The phrase 'my character wouldn't do that' - you know who you are, killjoy.
Me and the fact that I haven't left the Gryphons.
Being nagged for not being in camp whem 'plot' turned up.
Being nagged for being out of camp getting involved in real plot.
being nagged for ignoring shit plot.
Hangovers.
Careful readers will note a pattern in the 'Not' section.
For everyone who endured the Dark Times, I salute you. If you know what I mean, then it is already too late.
I've just had a call from a certain guitarist that his bass player is out of action for the next six weeks, would I mind filling in?
I don't know the songs and it's a four hour gig.........
but CJ Hooper will be playing live on stage alongside Dr James Nicolson once more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's with the Ceilidh band that he and Emma are with, I should be alright songs wise. I'm so chuffed to be asked and really chuffed to be on stage with the good Dr. again
similarly I've never done a folk gig and it is long, long overdue... though I suspect that I shan't be able to play the Foggy Dew or The Rising of the Moon without getting arrested......
Woo Hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this was the land of eternal drizzle (but not Birminghast) and it drizzled all day and night. There was a fair bit of running around to be done as I was doing a ritual for the Unicorns that night. As this was the third Gryphon slot of the day I had to rely upon the Unicorns for contributors luckily one of house Gryphondwarf was able to assist - doubling my initial number of contributors......
The ritual was a 10 pm and involved all sorts of props including masks made by Lindelen's little'un that week, a giant obelisk and a shaman's woad covered mask (it was a bit like whose line is it anyway?)
with some basic run thoroughs we managed to do the ritual dead on 15 minutes. However to my shame we only scored 6.5 - I've neever had anything that low before - I may as well retire now....
The points we got marked down for were a little harsh and I don't think I could have anticipated them so all I could do was chalk it up to experience and wait for my pattern to aberrate (to non larpers sorry if this is weird - please skip to the end where I talk about Dr Who).
Anyhow - it turns out that my lucky shaman mask of doom applied it's own drawbacks to the stuff we were creating taking me out of the aberrating pattern firing line - which was nice. The Unicorns got what they wanted, my batting average is now wrecked but at least I am not aberrated, unlike Heiny whom was fixed atgreat expense and is now aberrated again - I just can't let him out on his own....
Dr Who was really good.
TTFN
