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I'm guessing Anime Midwest in Chicago.
Sometimes I think my coworker is trying to test my ingenuity.
"sweep the driveway" all we have is a broken half a broom, without a handle (remind self to put new broom in trailer on Monday).
"cut this fabric out, I got a new knife!" but no screwdriver to open the new knife to arm the blade (I'm using a shovel.
"dig a trench, or two" yeah, it's Friday, I'm not doing that.
Dig a grave for him.
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He's a good guy, he just gets scattered when it's hot out.
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So what's going on this weekend, everyone? Some friends and I are having a bad movie night, featuring "Vampire Hookers" starring John Carradine. Gaming will resume next week.
The Neverwinter Nights (1) server that I and some of my players are part of is implementing a very large, very anticipated update tonight. Part of this update requires almost all characters be either remade from scratch or leveled down to 1 then back up again, to implement several of the changes.
As the three of us are all staff members, we plan to spend a decent chunk of the weekend hanging out GMside on the server helping people with their rebuilds or relevels.
Also PnP group will be a break from that as we near the end of chapter one of Iron Gods tomorrow. Hopefully we'll get to the end of this investigation and the chapter and be ready to move into chapter two before the end of the month.
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I'm running Dead Suns (Starfinder AP) for the kids, which will give me the opportunity to practice my Professor Farnsworth voice.
Because I can't resist the chance of turning the Starfinder Society quest giver into professor Farnsworth.
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"GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE! You'll be flying into the dead heart of a star!"
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So much of Dead Suns screams Futurama.
And, because Eox is involved I get to break out my Skeletor voice.
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Getting my life organized, it's going fairly well so far. Long overdue :-)
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I just got back from a weekend in New York to celebrate my mother-in-law's 70th birthday. It was a lot of fun.
All of her kids AND all of her grandkids were there. Grandkids range in age from 3 to 19. The 19-year-old is my kid, and we're the only ones who don't live in the NYC Metro Area.
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Had a nice relaxing Saturday off work and spent this afternoon (finally) getting to play Wounded Wisp with my local Pathfinder Society Lodge! We had a good time and even had a new guy come to play who also seemed to have a good time; we gave him a bunch of links to relevant websites such as this one, Archives of Nethys, and our Warhorn page as well as an invite to our lodge's Facebook chat. Here's hoping we don't scare him away :)
Aiymi has been sick since Thursday. Zelda was largely unavailable all weekend. Met up with Freehold in the Chicago suburbs for dinner and a couple beers on Friday night. Sunday afternoon I went over to see Zelda. Had lunch, did some mini-golf and go-kart racing.
Aside from Aiymi being ill it sounds like a pretty good weekend. I hope she gets to feeling better.
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I would have gone to a movie, but we do Tuesday Night Movie Night, sometimes adding in the kids depending on the movie. I've had to be good and wait to see Ant Man until tomorrow night.
Couple of things coming up, one of which is gaming-related...
While my regular weekly Thursday RPG group is currently switching off three campaigns (a "Weird West" game using Fate Core, a "hard sci-fi" game also using Fate Core, and a fantasy sandbox using Dungeon World), I am really itching to try out the Pathfinder Playtest.
It turns out that another of my local gamer friends (who's NOT in my current regular group) just invited me into his group. They are currently playing a conversion of Curse of Strahd into Castles & Crusades... and they're planning to switch to the PF2e Playtest of Doomsday Dawn come August!
And it turns out that, despite my somewhat crowded schedule, I should be able to play on Wednesday nights, too!
Man... I haven't been in two gaming groups at the same time since the Bush-1 Administration!
And the other thing...
The 50th anniversary of The Beatles' psychedellic masterpiece Yellow Submarine is this summer, and they are sending out the film for a limited run in select theaters... and my local arthouse theater is showing it this week!
Wow! Suddenly you have your hands full!
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Wow! Suddenly you have your hands full!
Ain't that the truth!
And here on the boards...
I re-started my Rise of the Runelords campaign, after having to put it on hiatus for several months due to time constraints.
I started up a new Dungeon World campaign... although we're still figuring out the characters and background, and I'm not posting nearly as quickly as I thought I could.
I joined my first PFS PbP... and while I can usually keep up with one post a day, they're going three or four per day!
And I'm still a player in three other PbPs (Shattered Star, Carrion Crown, and Legendary Planet).
Any and all plans thrown out the window. "Aiymi has been sick since Thursday" written at 11:30am Central time on Monday has since turned into two emergency room visits and being admitted to the hospital tonight with an ailment they haven't been able to diagnose yet.
Oh no! I really hope they find out what is wrong!
^Me too! :(
Gaaaah! Good luck, Vanykyre! Hope it isn't an iodine deficiency, that takes months to fix. Or anything else horrible...
I joined my first PFS PbP...and while I can usually keep up with one post a day, they're going three or four per day!
Well to be fair, there's 7 players plus me as GM so even if everyone strictly did one post a day that'd still be 8 new posts a day :)
Once we finish our introductory scenario I'll probably solicit feedback about the game speed and go from there!
Getting the jump on everyone's weekend plans as I'll be pretty busy tomorrow and the rest of the weekend. So who's doing what this weekend? Tomorrow my GF is coming down for the weekend so tomorrow night it's going to try out the new German/Modern European fusion place in town (about which I've heard only great things), then Saturday finally getting to finish the 3rd adventure in the current story arc. As usual I've had a month to work on it and I'm doing it all tonight. Procrastination eventually rules!
So tell us all about your weekend plans!
The same thing I've been doing every weekend for the past month.
Making it to the weekend without having a heat stroke.
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It's actually Tiny T-Rex's birthday this weekend, we're taking the kids to a fair.
Any and all plans thrown out the window. "Aiymi has been sick since Thursday" written at 11:30am Central time on Monday has since turned into two emergency room visits and being admitted to the hospital tonight with an ailment they haven't been able to diagnose yet.
Ugh, hope that is resolved soon!
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Getting the jump on everyone's weekend plans as I'll be pretty busy tomorrow and the rest of the weekend. So who's doing what this weekend? Tomorrow my GF is coming down for the weekend so tomorrow night it's going to try out the new German/Modern European fusion place in town (about which I've heard only great things), then Saturday finally getting to finish the 3rd adventure in the current story arc. As usual I've had a month to work on it and I'm doing it all tonight. Procrastination eventually rules!
So tell us all about your weekend plans!
Going to a wedding on Friday despite my better judgment.
Saturday hanging out with Selene Spires for a bit (with child in tow :-)) then heading to the movies with my child - Hotel Transylvania 3 in 3D.
Sunday probably going to the park with my dog and my daughter.
I am also going to try and keep up with my PbP load now that I think I've caught up on sleep 7 as a DM and 14 as a PC - busy busy but much less busy than I used to be here on the boards when I was running 30 and playing in 35 :-)
NO table top again till September, I always take summers off now to recharge the batteries.
Summer slows down our gaming considerably. We go from every 2 weeks to once a month from about mid June to Labor Day.
The server update and associated mechanical shenanigans are for the most part dealt with. Worked this morning, about to play Iron Gods, and thinking gonna run some Dwarf Fortress tonight.
Dwarf Fortress didn't happen, instead ran a dungeon in NWN with 3/4 of my PnP group.
Iron Gods is nearing wrapping up the first chapter, I think. We're back into exploring the ruins and have a lead on the lady that appears to be behind all the chapter one trouble. We should be able to finish the chapter next week, which gives us two or three weeks to get into chapter 2 before we go back on hiatus and I resume Savage Tide.
This weekend...
Fri night: Hosted a dinner party for some old college friends who were in town.
Sat: Morning: ran in a local 5K.
Afternoon: trimmed hedges, weeded the heb garden, laundry, nap.
Evening: went to an outdoor performance of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.
Sun: Morning: Church, where I got pressed into ushering.
Afternoon: More laundry, weeding the flower bed, mowing the lawn.
Evening: Dinner at a local vegetable farm, prepped by several local professional chefs, where proceeds go to local hunger relief organizations.
Aiymi was released from the hospital on Friday. She's recovering. I explained what happened on FAWTL, but I'll repeat it here rather than make you go searching.
First, she developed a sinus infection with a cough and drainage induced nausea. On Monday last week she tore a rib muscle from the coughing.
She had high blood pressure, got it back under control, was taken off the BP medication, then got a new high stress job. The BP built back up over a few months. Add in the sinus/chest/cough gunk, and her blood pressure went ballistic.
High blood pressure - seriously high blood pressure - can cause mental confusion. It can also cause strokes and TIAs. She had a TIA, which is basically a mini stroke.
It's going to take a while for her to build herself back up, and she may not ever get back to where she was.
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Aiymi was released from the hospital on Friday. She's recovering. I explained what happened on FAWTL, but I'll repeat it here rather than make you go searching.
First, she developed a sinus infection with a cough and drainage induced nausea. On Monday last week she tore a rib muscle from the coughing.
She had high blood pressure, got it back under control, was taken off the BP medication, then got a new high stress job. The BP built back up over a few months. Add in the sinus/chest/cough gunk, and her blood pressure went ballistic.
High blood pressure - seriously high blood pressure - can cause mental confusion. It can also cause strokes and TIAs. She had a TIA, which is basically a mini stroke.
It's going to take a while for her to build herself back up, and she may not ever get back to where she was.
Man sorry to hear that but at least she is on the mend now and not getting worse.
Here's hoping for a swift and moderately painless recovery.
So what's happening this weekend? This is our weekend off for gaming, which is fine. I have a real barn burner of a headache and it hasn't let up in days. I don't think I'd be much fun as a GM or player this weekend. I hope it lets up enough so I can at least read through "The Planar Handbook" and "Cthulhu Mythos".
So what are YOU doin'?
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Workin' ye olde graveyard shift all weekend. But if it's quiet it's a good opportunity to get some reading done - probably scenario prep!
I worked the overnight shift in radio for several years. I got tons of game prep done in those days.
Family is out of town for the next week, leaving me and two of the (four) dogs to man the house alone.
Make sure the dogs know their action stations should an emergency arise! You're house is undermanned!
Maybe Orthos' dogs have recruited a Secret Squirrel Army. Lord knows there's one out behind my house, waging a quiet war against Lord Raptor and Warlord Fox.
Plan is to leave in the teeth of forecast horrible weather on Sunday to visit several relatives through the end of the upcoming week.
There are a LOT of squirrels in my neighborhood, too. And some deceptively cute bunnies.
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Sadly our back yard is currently the domain of the First Airborne Wasp Squadron. We've ceded the territory until autumn.
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Sadly our back yard is currently the domain of the First Airborne Wasp Squadron. We've ceded the territory until autumn.
Ugh. Sorry to hear that. The only wasp I like is the band. The rest can go away.
Sadly our back yard is currently the domain of the First Airborne Wasp Squadron. We've ceded the territory until autumn.Fire
I wish! Sadly the authorities have taken it off the table.
So what's happening folks? Tonight I have 8 players in person and one by Skype. I'm recovering from some heinous stomach virus so it should be a challenge to pull it off. I would have cancelled but one of my players actually planned part of her vacation around the game so I feel I should go ahead and try to run it.
So what are YOU doing?
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We had to cancel our game yesterday due to half the group being absent - one guy was at a LARP meetup, the other a work obligation I think. So I and the GM chatted and played some NWN and I burned the evening in Dwarf Fortress, while the other remaining player and her family went to see Ant-Man and The Wasp, which is on my list of "things I have not yet seen and need to" (a list that also includes The LEGO Movie, Star Wars: Rogue One, and Fantastic Beasts.)