just got done running a six-seat hidden-information horror pathfinder game. It was a one shot. That works surprisingly well as a one shot theme/idea... with pre-gens of course...
Last time I played in a horror campaign I asked the Dm if I could be a secret serial killer. Turns out One other person also had the same idea so the DM didn't even bother putting in real monsters he just put us in a spooky situation and let the two of us have our fun. Long story short: we killed everyone.
It's a really good thing Nobody's Home is on vacation.
If I really wanted to cause trouble, I could let Shiro know about the upcoming online auction of a collection of Disneyland artefacts that includes four of the original stretching portraits from the Haunted Mansion, an original door from the corridor of doors in the mansion, and the original maquette of the caretaker's dog in the graveyard, and other props and memorabilia from the attraction.
Okay, even Shiro couldn't afford the original stretching portraits. The opening bid is 40k for each.
But it would make Goth Bard squee like a little girl.
Should I tell Shiro?
It's a really good thing Nobody's Home is on vacation.
If I really wanted to cause trouble, I could let Shiro know about the upcoming online auction of a collection of Disneyland artefacts that includes four of the original stretching portraits from the Haunted Mansion, an original door from the corridor of doors in the mansion, and the original maquette of the caretaker's dog in the graveyard, and other props and memorabilia from the attraction.
Okay, even Shiro couldn't afford the original stretching portraits. The opening bid is 40k for each.
But it would make Goth Bard squee like a little girl.
Should I tell Shiro?
But they don't do tandoori chicken/doner meat pizza, whereas Abdul's Mighty Citadel of Kebabs does, so no quids for Pizza Hut.
In other (old) news, I got back from FightCamp on Sunday just in time for D&D, hurrah. FC was a good do, overall, and I'm looking forwards to putting into practice anything I can remember (not much) tomorrow.
Impus Major: Yeah, I'll have ramen, but not Top Ramen. Top Ramen is like the Pizza Hut of Ramen!
I like the fancy instant ramen cups I get from Daiso. I especially the curry flavored Cup Noodle, but I hear Daiso carries the inferior Amerocan version, not the superior Japanese version. I shall investigate the supposed superiority of the Japanese version upon arrival in Tokyo.
I replaced my graphics card yesterday. I went from a 2gb 1050 to a 6gb 1060, so not even a super fancy or expensive upgrade, and the new graphics card is still as long as my forearm (and I am not a small person). I'm glad I bought a gigantic computer tower now.
Oh, don't get me started. I was away for two weeks, then my manager's been away this week, so work has been... slooooooooow.
Today I got a new laptop, and Windows 10 is just as bad as I feared, and I get to sit around watching software install for much of the day.
Windows 10 Grumpy Old Man Complaints:
"Why, no. You can't just list all available programs in the Start menu like any reasonable person would want! We're only going to list the ones you specifically want listed. Plus a bunch of our own that manage to utterly hide yours. Go ahead and spend a couple of hours cleaning up your Start menu to suit your needs. We'll mess it up with our next update."
"Why, no. Your Start menu can't just be a simple list of names. Who would want THAT? The giant icons and spacing make it more aesthetically pleasing, even if it doubles or triples the amount of time it takes to find anything. The Start menu is for OUR benefit, not yours."
"Who would EVER use light grey for anything? Nope. You have to select COLORS!"
"No, you can't hide the stupid-a$$ Start tiles. Why would you want to?"
And on, and on, and on. I use two monitors because I need the space for my job. Microsoft's notion that it should fill the space with colors, open space, and their own crap just incenses me...
...and the notion that, as a part-time coder, I need the command prompt and Notepad and multiple instances of Windows Explorer open at once just completely escaped them.
Someone put it really well. "If a car manufacturer suddenly switched the gas pedal with the brake, people would be incensed and stop buying that brand of car. But Microsoft does this to its users with almost every release."
Download Classic Shell. I did, and I use dual monitors on my Windows 10 laptop sometimes, and I stopped having such issues. Classic Shell seems to have made the start tiles go away.
Welp. The Rainbow has shown me the snippets of their pirates adventure, and it's gone so far off the rails that I can't figure out how to pick the plot back up.
I'm also trying to start a drama club up at school. I am going to regret this so much because I have very, very little idea what I'm doing...but if I don't push for it, we won't ever have one, and I think we need something like that.
Also we got 15 inches of rain on my birthday that nearly wiped three towns and Middleton from the map and is still causing extensive flooding downtown (the hazards of having your downtown on an isthmus in what used to be marshland).
Yesterday we worked at a place on the Wisconsin River with it's own gravestone in the backyard (it's new construction so who knows how many other graves their were) and an adult contemporary pop drummer living next door.
Which was made all the more surreal by me being the only person bothered by it.