So, all of the freshers chose the traditional D&D, CoC or Paranoia option. Annalise was popular, too, which was promising. So in the end I ran for some old hands who didn't have a slot in any of the other games ( Read more... )

So, that was a bust.

The doctor stuck a needle in the cyst, rummaged around for quite a while, but couldn't aspirate anything. It was probably the most intensely painful experience of my life, but fortunately the cyst always stops hurting quickly after you stop prodding it.

Guess I'm gonna have to live with it for another twenty years.

I sometimes have vivid and strange dreams, and the one last night I remember most of. Usually, there are so many setting/scene/tone shifts that the narrative thread is incoherent, but this time round it was actually a decent premise for an anime. All this is unfiltered by sense or after-the-fact rationalisations.

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Our youth drama group is having a joint fundraiser with the Improv group I also happen to be a part of. There are some damn fine performers. It's on Saturday 10th, 7.30pm at Bedworth Arts Centre. I can get you some tickets when I'm there on Monday, if you plan to come, or you can ring the box office on 024 7664 3255. The money is much needed, as no ( Read more... )

Out of interest, ceteris paribus, which is more likely ( Read more... )

The house move happened without too many hitches.

Being able to move stuff into the new house in stages before the final push was a huge help. In the end, it wasn't too stressful or too laborious. Huge thanks to stockingshock's parents and my own for helping shift stuff about, clean and generally make it happen ( Read more... )

So, I finished at Leicester today. Tomorrow is Kitacon. Monday is new job at Oxford.

Despite all of that, I found time to write a 77-page role-playing game this month.


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It's been busy, busy, busy this last couple of weeks.

First off, Destiny of the Metal Gods is taking shape nicely. It's going to be one of the longer ones, probably around 60+ pages, but a lot of that will be example mecha and the lists of mecha systems. I got a combat playtest in on Wednesday, which went well. The underlying Rivers and Lakes ( Read more... )

If you never lose writing utensils in the detritus on your desk, you are not truly living.

Gah ( Read more... )