Hello darkness my old friend, why are you here it's 6am
Well look at that, we made it to 2020 after all!
D&D & New Year's Party was pretty great -
sithe lost his character sheet somewhere because it's been about a year since we played, so his old character got lost in a freak teleportation circle accident and his new one is a unicorn-themed magical girl. No really. The fae queen of the unicorns sent her to ask Lex's character awkward questions like "Why are you summoning 1d4 unicorns every eight hours?" and "What do you even NEED that many unicorns for?"
(Me. He needs them for me, because summoning unicorns to heal me is more cost effective than actually just healing me.)
The unfortunate part of
sithe's new character is that she's level 13 and has 34 hit points total. And we ended up slightly rumbling with an angry tree that could slap things 60ft away, deal about 20 damage per hit, and drain five con each time they hit. Two hours wasn't QUITE the shortest character lifespan I've encountered, but it's not far off. I mean, she's fine! Unicorns saved her life, I got to stand there with my 198 hit points and my AC of 42 trying to bait a tree into blowing all of its attacks of opportunities on me instead of on the squishy not-a-druid trying to exorcise it... Also, it turns out that if your exorcise a dryad's tree, that is REALLY BAD FOR THEM.
But there was SO MUCH FOOD and
madebyjenni and I got to play the new Overcooked 2 levels, and I got to smooch Lex at midnight, and that's exactly what I wanted! Plus, got to play more Colt Express, AND more Pokémon, AND decorate the gingerbread house I got for Christmas with some of Jenni's funky decorating supplies, AND hug Lex a lot. Good start to the year, good to establish that I am going to be squeeing hard about Pokémon for a while.
Downside of it being the new year though is that I've gone back to work, RIGHT after I'd muddled my sleep cycle. It's fine, work is dead so I don't mind being here, I'd just forgotten what 6am looked like. I've got a few extra shifts this month, but I'm trying this weird thing where I don't take every extra shift that's available so I have some afternoons free to actually, y'know, DO stuff. I've got some writing days (and some tax days, woe) scheduled with
captainraz, so we're going to get together and cry into our planners, and I'm designating a couple of cleaning rampage days to see if I can get the house back to a presentable state. Ooh, ooh, that reminds me! We're getting a new bed! It should be arriving in the next fortnight, and it's going to be a fun adventure trying to find somewhere for all of the books CURRENTLY under our bed to go while we sort it out. >_>
Anyway, yes, I will be joining the 2019 recap party soon, I just need to finish working out what exactly it is I want to do THIS year. I've taken a bunch of my diary's guts out, made some lists, and now I'm going to try to turn all of that into something actionable. The plan is to try to scale down for a change - I know I usually keep pushing myself for BIGGER BETTER MORE WORDS MORE PROJECTS, but that's not been working out for me so well, so let's try something different. In the mean time, I'm going to the pictures with
splend to heckle the newest Guy Ritchie movie, so I'll tag out now and see you all later. Be safe, everyone! See you later!
D&D & New Year's Party was pretty great -
sithe lost his character sheet somewhere because it's been about a year since we played, so his old character got lost in a freak teleportation circle accident and his new one is a unicorn-themed magical girl. No really. The fae queen of the unicorns sent her to ask Lex's character awkward questions like "Why are you summoning 1d4 unicorns every eight hours?" and "What do you even NEED that many unicorns for?"
(Me. He needs them for me, because summoning unicorns to heal me is more cost effective than actually just healing me.)
The unfortunate part of
sithe's new character is that she's level 13 and has 34 hit points total. And we ended up slightly rumbling with an angry tree that could slap things 60ft away, deal about 20 damage per hit, and drain five con each time they hit. Two hours wasn't QUITE the shortest character lifespan I've encountered, but it's not far off. I mean, she's fine! Unicorns saved her life, I got to stand there with my 198 hit points and my AC of 42 trying to bait a tree into blowing all of its attacks of opportunities on me instead of on the squishy not-a-druid trying to exorcise it... Also, it turns out that if your exorcise a dryad's tree, that is REALLY BAD FOR THEM.
But there was SO MUCH FOOD and
madebyjenni and I got to play the new Overcooked 2 levels, and I got to smooch Lex at midnight, and that's exactly what I wanted! Plus, got to play more Colt Express, AND more Pokémon, AND decorate the gingerbread house I got for Christmas with some of Jenni's funky decorating supplies, AND hug Lex a lot. Good start to the year, good to establish that I am going to be squeeing hard about Pokémon for a while.
Downside of it being the new year though is that I've gone back to work, RIGHT after I'd muddled my sleep cycle. It's fine, work is dead so I don't mind being here, I'd just forgotten what 6am looked like. I've got a few extra shifts this month, but I'm trying this weird thing where I don't take every extra shift that's available so I have some afternoons free to actually, y'know, DO stuff. I've got some writing days (and some tax days, woe) scheduled with
captainraz, so we're going to get together and cry into our planners, and I'm designating a couple of cleaning rampage days to see if I can get the house back to a presentable state. Ooh, ooh, that reminds me! We're getting a new bed! It should be arriving in the next fortnight, and it's going to be a fun adventure trying to find somewhere for all of the books CURRENTLY under our bed to go while we sort it out. >_>
Anyway, yes, I will be joining the 2019 recap party soon, I just need to finish working out what exactly it is I want to do THIS year. I've taken a bunch of my diary's guts out, made some lists, and now I'm going to try to turn all of that into something actionable. The plan is to try to scale down for a change - I know I usually keep pushing myself for BIGGER BETTER MORE WORDS MORE PROJECTS, but that's not been working out for me so well, so let's try something different. In the mean time, I'm going to the pictures with
splend to heckle the newest Guy Ritchie movie, so I'll tag out now and see you all later. Be safe, everyone! See you later!