A busy day
Oct. 31st, 2004 01:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chrisvenusToday has been busy. Not as busy as it could have been but quite busy.
A good afternoon at the Cam Regional Garou game. A minor getting lost issue as I missed a turning on the way there meant I took about a 10 mile detour, came into watford from the wrong direction and thus got very confused. I'm very glad that I had Ian to do the spotting of the venue in the completely wrong place from where I expected it.
The game itself was fun. I'm actually surprised it was as fun as it was considering it was forced to be quite linear in its nature. It was running simultaneous to ICC, the big Internaional game in the US. In the us it was the apocalypse, the final battle against the wyrm, so we played second fiddle. We defended our caerns from the 6 hour assault and then went to meet with Gaia (And the steel host, or more prceisely 617 Squadron (dambusdters) got to fly escort to her as she approached. WE also got to relive golgotha, the death of over a thousand garou. My character is happy but stressed. This part of the war is over but the next is to begin.
Things I learnt from the game is that linear can be fun and that the quiet dramatic voice that is almost a whisper can be a very good but players being able to hear is even better (not a complaint, caroline, just constructive comment - I'd just avoid the quiet voice if ever you are talking to more than about three people, espececially if some are behind you).
After this I went home having chatted to people for a bit. I ended up taking Ian back to bicester rather than making him have to find his way back from oxford. Only about a 20 minute edxtra on the journey and it was good to chat for longer so I didn't mind. I missed the fireworks and possibly could have made it to lazerquest but decided there was little point since I'd quite probable not get there on time and so waster the journey.
Instead I got myself some pizza for dinner (I really needed food and couldn't be bothered to cook) and after some flopping in the sofa at home, reading e-mail and watching TV (new yu-gi series seems to have started on sky - looks cool so far with the usual smattering of obsecenely stupidly powerful new cards).
After that I had two parties to go to. My plan was to go to templars for an hour or two and then head to Catarn which was withing walking distance so maybe have a drink or two there. I'd come up with this plan earlier so had checked earlier in the week with somebdoy (one of the hosts I think, I forget who) how late it was going on and was told very late so I figured this plan shoudl work.
I went to Templar's and spoke to people I hadn't seen for a while. Chatted to people I hadn't in some time and some that I see more often. It was quite cool but after about 2 hours I decided to leave. About half an hour later I actually managed to get to the front door. Another 15 minutes later I left. :)
I stopped off at home briefly and then wandered around to Catarn. I'd not done the walk before but the shortcut I knew shoudl exist was easy to find from this side (I'd tried the walk before the other way but failed to find the way into the park). Got there at about 1:20 (BST) and, much to my dismay the party had finished. Fortunately it seems like I didn't miss it by much since lots of people were still up and there seemed to be a couple of guests still.
So apologies to those who were expecting to see me there. All I can say is its not my fault, you all wussed out too early. :) Hopefully should catch up with those I missed another time. Still a bit annoyed though because I was up for a bit more party and should probably have done the sensible thing and not tried to go to two parties in the same evening when you're turning up to the first of them fashionably late. :)
Tomorrow I think I might have plans but since they were going to be ratified at the second party I'm not sure what they are. Currently though my plan is to sleep until somebody wakes me up by either turning up on my doorstep or by rining. Though I am half tempted to put the phone on silent. I just looked at the time and thought "oooh, I get to take an hour off that for the time adjustment". I then realised that my computer will have auto adjusted for the change so it is actually 3:12 BST or 2:12 GMT. I've used up my hour already accidentally. Oh well... :)
Anyway, there is a rare update to prove to people I'm still alive and do things. Might do a post sometime on what I've actually been up to, new job, failure to sleep more than four hours straight at any one time, meeting new people and lots of other stuff. Now I will stop watching/listening to kerrang and go to bed.
Night night everybody.
A good afternoon at the Cam Regional Garou game. A minor getting lost issue as I missed a turning on the way there meant I took about a 10 mile detour, came into watford from the wrong direction and thus got very confused. I'm very glad that I had Ian to do the spotting of the venue in the completely wrong place from where I expected it.
The game itself was fun. I'm actually surprised it was as fun as it was considering it was forced to be quite linear in its nature. It was running simultaneous to ICC, the big Internaional game in the US. In the us it was the apocalypse, the final battle against the wyrm, so we played second fiddle. We defended our caerns from the 6 hour assault and then went to meet with Gaia (And the steel host, or more prceisely 617 Squadron (dambusdters) got to fly escort to her as she approached. WE also got to relive golgotha, the death of over a thousand garou. My character is happy but stressed. This part of the war is over but the next is to begin.
Things I learnt from the game is that linear can be fun and that the quiet dramatic voice that is almost a whisper can be a very good but players being able to hear is even better (not a complaint, caroline, just constructive comment - I'd just avoid the quiet voice if ever you are talking to more than about three people, espececially if some are behind you).
After this I went home having chatted to people for a bit. I ended up taking Ian back to bicester rather than making him have to find his way back from oxford. Only about a 20 minute edxtra on the journey and it was good to chat for longer so I didn't mind. I missed the fireworks and possibly could have made it to lazerquest but decided there was little point since I'd quite probable not get there on time and so waster the journey.
Instead I got myself some pizza for dinner (I really needed food and couldn't be bothered to cook) and after some flopping in the sofa at home, reading e-mail and watching TV (new yu-gi series seems to have started on sky - looks cool so far with the usual smattering of obsecenely stupidly powerful new cards).
After that I had two parties to go to. My plan was to go to templars for an hour or two and then head to Catarn which was withing walking distance so maybe have a drink or two there. I'd come up with this plan earlier so had checked earlier in the week with somebdoy (one of the hosts I think, I forget who) how late it was going on and was told very late so I figured this plan shoudl work.
I went to Templar's and spoke to people I hadn't seen for a while. Chatted to people I hadn't in some time and some that I see more often. It was quite cool but after about 2 hours I decided to leave. About half an hour later I actually managed to get to the front door. Another 15 minutes later I left. :)
I stopped off at home briefly and then wandered around to Catarn. I'd not done the walk before but the shortcut I knew shoudl exist was easy to find from this side (I'd tried the walk before the other way but failed to find the way into the park). Got there at about 1:20 (BST) and, much to my dismay the party had finished. Fortunately it seems like I didn't miss it by much since lots of people were still up and there seemed to be a couple of guests still.
So apologies to those who were expecting to see me there. All I can say is its not my fault, you all wussed out too early. :) Hopefully should catch up with those I missed another time. Still a bit annoyed though because I was up for a bit more party and should probably have done the sensible thing and not tried to go to two parties in the same evening when you're turning up to the first of them fashionably late. :)
Tomorrow I think I might have plans but since they were going to be ratified at the second party I'm not sure what they are. Currently though my plan is to sleep until somebody wakes me up by either turning up on my doorstep or by rining. Though I am half tempted to put the phone on silent. I just looked at the time and thought "oooh, I get to take an hour off that for the time adjustment". I then realised that my computer will have auto adjusted for the change so it is actually 3:12 BST or 2:12 GMT. I've used up my hour already accidentally. Oh well... :)
Anyway, there is a rare update to prove to people I'm still alive and do things. Might do a post sometime on what I've actually been up to, new job, failure to sleep more than four hours straight at any one time, meeting new people and lots of other stuff. Now I will stop watching/listening to kerrang and go to bed.
Night night everybody.
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Date: 2004-10-31 12:18 am (UTC)Woot! Yeay for the Doom Arc! Now if we could just get rid of Varon's scary Aussie accent and change Alistair's name back to "Amelda" I'll be happy, unfortunatley I haven't seen any more yet, How bad it Dartz's voice? oo" ( The dude with the Blue hair and has two different coloured eyes?)
Garou things...
Date: 2004-10-31 02:40 am (UTC)Incidentally, i'm fairly sure its 633 Squadron which were the Dam-busters...EDIT: okay, i think you're right, and 633 Squadron was a completely different and 'heroic' bomber squadron
During World War II, Royal Air Force Squadron 633 has enjoyed an unqualified string of successes. Their luck changes when they are assigned to bomb a German heavy water plant in Norway which is shielded by a mountain and guarded by heavy anti-aircraft defenses. Their nearly impossible mission is further complicated by a German air raid, the difficult approach to the target and the capture and torture of the underground leader who is assisting the squadron.
Re: Garou things...
Date: 2004-10-31 04:28 am (UTC)Re: Garou things...
Date: 2004-10-31 04:33 am (UTC)Re: Garou things...
Date: 2004-10-31 04:36 am (UTC)Re: Garou things...
Date: 2004-10-31 04:09 pm (UTC)Was lovely to see you (even if you were someone else like).
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Date: 2004-10-31 03:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-31 04:35 am (UTC)