Yay! Midsummer Mischief coming to Intercon (again)! (and Civ V)
Looks like Midsummer Mischief will run again at Intercon! Matt and I may even be GMing - well, Matt almost certainly will; I am more uncertain, as I am me and I am a stress bunny.
As I said, this game comes highly highly recommended, although probably not for the more heavily plot-inclined among you. It is deep in flavor and more like a Wodehousian improv exercise ;)
Also, if you want to get in on Cracks, we have only two female slots open. Click like the wind when signups open! As I understand it, Festival is currently scheduled opposite the Cottington Woods season opener, so there is no guarantee I'll be running in there.
In other news... my life the past few days has looked a lot like this:
1) Jeeves & Wooster
2) Knitting
3) Civ V
ketsugami gifted me with Civ V a while ago when he ended up with a spare copy from a Steam bundle of some sort. I decided I would not start playing it until Cracks was over.
Cracks is now over, and I have a list of changes to make, and I don't even have a GM meeting until the weekend of the 15th, so! Time for losing myself in another turn-based strategy game.
It's fun. It took me some time to get the hang of, but now I'm zipping along conquering empires and building wonders, just like I have been doing since, oh, when I played Civ II on an old Powerbook 5300cs. I can honestly say I've never been chastised by Gandhi before in a Civ game, however.
My annoyances are: not-very-militaristic behavior seems to get you denounced by empires who barely even know you, even as they make and break alliances and conquer each other left and right. And then it's very easy to get yourself into a situation where no one will trade with you or allow you open borders.
Also - and this could have been bugginess, or my own craziness - but I swear at one point last night I was ordering my workers to make the same improvements over and over before they would actually do it. It would look like there was a farm on that square, only... kind of greyed out, but the tooltip would only list the underlying geography ("plains," etc), and there wouldn't be any sort of "pillaged" notice. This was near a city I had annexed, so I wonder if it was a "feature" having to do with civil unrest, or a war having happened in the area, or workers being interrupted by units nearby? I dunno.
Um. There really is no point to this entry. The end!
As I said, this game comes highly highly recommended, although probably not for the more heavily plot-inclined among you. It is deep in flavor and more like a Wodehousian improv exercise ;)
Also, if you want to get in on Cracks, we have only two female slots open. Click like the wind when signups open! As I understand it, Festival is currently scheduled opposite the Cottington Woods season opener, so there is no guarantee I'll be running in there.
In other news... my life the past few days has looked a lot like this:
1) Jeeves & Wooster
2) Knitting
3) Civ V
ketsugami gifted me with Civ V a while ago when he ended up with a spare copy from a Steam bundle of some sort. I decided I would not start playing it until Cracks was over.
Cracks is now over, and I have a list of changes to make, and I don't even have a GM meeting until the weekend of the 15th, so! Time for losing myself in another turn-based strategy game.
It's fun. It took me some time to get the hang of, but now I'm zipping along conquering empires and building wonders, just like I have been doing since, oh, when I played Civ II on an old Powerbook 5300cs. I can honestly say I've never been chastised by Gandhi before in a Civ game, however.
My annoyances are: not-very-militaristic behavior seems to get you denounced by empires who barely even know you, even as they make and break alliances and conquer each other left and right. And then it's very easy to get yourself into a situation where no one will trade with you or allow you open borders.
Also - and this could have been bugginess, or my own craziness - but I swear at one point last night I was ordering my workers to make the same improvements over and over before they would actually do it. It would look like there was a farm on that square, only... kind of greyed out, but the tooltip would only list the underlying geography ("plains," etc), and there wouldn't be any sort of "pillaged" notice. This was near a city I had annexed, so I wonder if it was a "feature" having to do with civil unrest, or a war having happened in the area, or workers being interrupted by units nearby? I dunno.
Um. There really is no point to this entry. The end!