Now, Where Was I Before The World Changed For the Better?
...oh yes, squeeing about how awesome my weekend was.
Friday (Halloween)
So, I got up at eight AM and spent the next hour and a half or so in a chair, sitting very still and turning and lifting my head only when mike_mccall told me to. But at the end of all that, I had a lovely blue complexion with highlights and in general (except for my hair) looked very Delvian indeed.
Then I went straight to work for my eight-hour shift. I was the only person on my team (except our lead) who came in costume - and oh holy lord did I get sick of explaining what I was. "An alien" seemed to shut most people up. I also put a picture of Zhaan up as my wallpaper, so I could go "her". It's gorgeous, so I decided to keep it up.
They were pretty damn generous at work with candies and what not, and they ordered in pizza and pop for us. At the end of the day, there was still a ton left over so they let people take whole pizzas home. I snagged one; showing up to a tabletop game with a pizza is always a good idea. ^_^
The original plan was to go straight to urrah for trick-or-treating and gaming, but we went home to touch up my make-up instead, and take a few pictures, since the camera had decided to start working again.
Face and hands - Banik style prayer pose for better view of the hands.
Face details
Pilot? Pilot! Oh, these frelling coms don't work.
Kay'me maia kosa, Visha'meel maia kosa, ah Khalaan, ah Khalaan
Then it was off to the wilds of North Central Regina to go tolling up and down the streets, looking for urrah and the kids, who we did eventually find after a couple minutes driving up and down dark creepy streets. urrah was doing a very good impersonation of Death (Gaiman style), and the kids were done up as a (fuzzy brown) Dragon and a black Knight (of the Rose and Cross - yay for daddy's old LARP cape!). mike_mccall neglected to join us in dressing up. He dropped me off, at which point I realized I'd forgotten my candy bag at home and Mike said "you're almost 30, would it kill you to skip a year?" - dude, I'm almost 30, it MIGHT! I don't have a lot of years left! Anyway, I let it go, and he went to find a parking spot and caught up with us a bit later.
urrah and the Urrahlings
Holy crap those kids had a major haul. Just when we where there, the last three blocks they did, they raked in a ton. And they'd been out there for like an hour already. Those bags were heavy and I was very jealous. But because they were heavy, and the kids were tired, we packed it in and retired to Casa De Urrah where 1337caveman had been handing out candy dressed as death (Pratchet style).
They made an adorable couple. ^_^
Then more pictures were taken, Guildies were updated, and I started finishing my game prep while watching the kids sort thier candy (and playdoh; one house gave them playdoh) and waiting for the others to arrive.
The kids wheedled mommy into putting a movie in, but she plea-bargained it down to a short one, so we watched Dr Jiggles and Mr Slide - the most halloweeny offering available, apparently.
After that phuata and kenderheart arrived, and we got started, with premade characters (standard 200pts with 10 shard points, for those of you to whom that means anything).
I ran them through a devious Godforged one-shot of my own devising, heavily Lovecraft inspired without straying from the sword-and-sorcery core of Godforged. 1337caveman picked up Godforged/Exeplar really quickly; of course, he had urrah there explaining eveyrthing, and she really knows her stuff (WELL DUH Y HELO THERE LINE DEVELOPER HU HU HU) but even then he was quick.
I had tremendous fun tormenting my players with Black basalt Keeps with infinate lengths of stairs that let you go seven times around them by turing three corners, guarded by elastic bubbles of light that phase through walls before they glomp you and eat your shard power before popping out another of themselves. Oh and there was the creepy town full of fish-people, and the endless corridors of black-on-black with no light sources in which you could still see perfectly, and the walls that would just end and dissapear without warning, and the writing that caused you to go mad if you read it, all leading up to a shard so powerful the party damn near killed each other over it. XD
I scared the ever-living shit out of them, got two of them (temporaily) killed, and they loved it.
Mission accomplished. ^_^
Was gonna go on and do Saturday, but this thing's long enough as it is.
However, I'd like as this point to note the following:
*\o/*
That is all. ^_^
My dear, I've kicked more ass than you've sat on.
-Zhaan
Friday (Halloween)
So, I got up at eight AM and spent the next hour and a half or so in a chair, sitting very still and turning and lifting my head only when mike_mccall told me to. But at the end of all that, I had a lovely blue complexion with highlights and in general (except for my hair) looked very Delvian indeed.
Then I went straight to work for my eight-hour shift. I was the only person on my team (except our lead) who came in costume - and oh holy lord did I get sick of explaining what I was. "An alien" seemed to shut most people up. I also put a picture of Zhaan up as my wallpaper, so I could go "her". It's gorgeous, so I decided to keep it up.
They were pretty damn generous at work with candies and what not, and they ordered in pizza and pop for us. At the end of the day, there was still a ton left over so they let people take whole pizzas home. I snagged one; showing up to a tabletop game with a pizza is always a good idea. ^_^
The original plan was to go straight to urrah for trick-or-treating and gaming, but we went home to touch up my make-up instead, and take a few pictures, since the camera had decided to start working again.
Face and hands - Banik style prayer pose for better view of the hands.
Face details
Pilot? Pilot! Oh, these frelling coms don't work.
Kay'me maia kosa, Visha'meel maia kosa, ah Khalaan, ah Khalaan
Then it was off to the wilds of North Central Regina to go tolling up and down the streets, looking for urrah and the kids, who we did eventually find after a couple minutes driving up and down dark creepy streets. urrah was doing a very good impersonation of Death (Gaiman style), and the kids were done up as a (fuzzy brown) Dragon and a black Knight (of the Rose and Cross - yay for daddy's old LARP cape!). mike_mccall neglected to join us in dressing up. He dropped me off, at which point I realized I'd forgotten my candy bag at home and Mike said "you're almost 30, would it kill you to skip a year?" - dude, I'm almost 30, it MIGHT! I don't have a lot of years left! Anyway, I let it go, and he went to find a parking spot and caught up with us a bit later.
urrah and the Urrahlings
Holy crap those kids had a major haul. Just when we where there, the last three blocks they did, they raked in a ton. And they'd been out there for like an hour already. Those bags were heavy and I was very jealous. But because they were heavy, and the kids were tired, we packed it in and retired to Casa De Urrah where 1337caveman had been handing out candy dressed as death (Pratchet style).
They made an adorable couple. ^_^
Then more pictures were taken, Guildies were updated, and I started finishing my game prep while watching the kids sort thier candy (and playdoh; one house gave them playdoh) and waiting for the others to arrive.
The kids wheedled mommy into putting a movie in, but she plea-bargained it down to a short one, so we watched Dr Jiggles and Mr Slide - the most halloweeny offering available, apparently.
After that phuata and kenderheart arrived, and we got started, with premade characters (standard 200pts with 10 shard points, for those of you to whom that means anything).
I ran them through a devious Godforged one-shot of my own devising, heavily Lovecraft inspired without straying from the sword-and-sorcery core of Godforged. 1337caveman picked up Godforged/Exeplar really quickly; of course, he had urrah there explaining eveyrthing, and she really knows her stuff (WELL DUH Y HELO THERE LINE DEVELOPER HU HU HU) but even then he was quick.
I had tremendous fun tormenting my players with Black basalt Keeps with infinate lengths of stairs that let you go seven times around them by turing three corners, guarded by elastic bubbles of light that phase through walls before they glomp you and eat your shard power before popping out another of themselves. Oh and there was the creepy town full of fish-people, and the endless corridors of black-on-black with no light sources in which you could still see perfectly, and the walls that would just end and dissapear without warning, and the writing that caused you to go mad if you read it, all leading up to a shard so powerful the party damn near killed each other over it. XD
I scared the ever-living shit out of them, got two of them (temporaily) killed, and they loved it.
Mission accomplished. ^_^
Was gonna go on and do Saturday, but this thing's long enough as it is.
However, I'd like as this point to note the following:
*\o/*
That is all. ^_^
My dear, I've kicked more ass than you've sat on.
-Zhaan