Now with actual November temperatures
I had a week where I felt like a turtle in a shell all the time, I just wanted to stay at home and do nothing. Ugh. Happens. There were a few things I didn't do, but fortunately nothing immediately time-critical, and fortunately I had events with friends planned over the weekend, that helped. Not sure yet if I'll have to default on my Yuletide story.
The weekend: D&D on Friday, Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday, Disney movies on Sunday :)
Latest D&D things:
- We still don't like the spider lady, but we managed to negotiate with her and she agreed to let us do the time travel ritual and even gave us additional information to fight the plagues in the past. Conditions for her agreement was that we got her 27 sisters to the mountain, where they're protected from the paradox that would otherwise likely wipe them out. There are now 28 enormous spiders on this mountain. Bring on the army.
- The spider lady agreed to give us the artifact, only she'd swallowed it decades ago to keep it safe. So she swallowed us and we had to get it out of the stomach of an undead pregnant (!) spider. Ugh.
- Our tank finally has a pet, a Skiurid (evil ninja squirrel) called Ravali. We all call her Ravioli. That same tank also got a magical item that enables her to polymorph into a bat for seven minutes each day. She's very happy to be Batman.
- My cat was the only one of our party who failed the Will save against the spider lady's truth spell (I'm the only one who can understand her so it didn't matter) and I now know that her full name+title is "Nera of the Black Scourge, Slayer of the Twelve." The "twelve" were elite knights of the god Pelor, who her creator and first master, lord of the undead army, killed (but he died doing so.) My little cat used to be preeetty powerful.
- The last thing we did in the last session was activate the time travel ritual to send our NPC party member into the past. We had a 13% chance of critical failure, and if it succeeded a 90% chance that she landed where she wanted. Next time we'll find out what we changed! We sent the 18-year old version of someone who 20 years later killed a god and 60 after that is leading an army trying to take over the world, back to when she was around 12. She is now a paladin, a gold dragon and a were-scorpion, with extensive knowledge of what happened back then and now in the future. The likelihood that there will be very significant changes is very high.
Saturday: Lio and Maria's friend Kelly is from the US, but has spent most of the last few years in Europe. She wanted an authentic American Thanksgiving dinner, so on Saturday we first had pumpkin-carrot-turkey soup and then stuffed turkey with cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes with gravy, brussel sprouts with chestnuts, corn fritters, sweet potato casserole, ginger-glazed carrots, and a salad with apple and cucumber and fennel and pomegranate. It was amazing. It took me an hour to finish my very full plate and then I felt accomplished *g* Now I understand better why Thanksgiving is such a big deal in the US, if the food is always like that. I made the sweet potato casserole and it was actually quite easy and turned out well, I might have to do it again. I forgot to write down the amount I needed before going shopping so now we have quite a few more sweet potatoes at home.
On Sunday LB organized a Disney movie night, we saw "The Emperor's New Groove" and "Mulan." I hadn't seen either in years, it was fun. Before the movies we cooked pumpkin curry, pumpkin goat cheese and fig tart, and cheese baguettes. LB invited around ten of his friends, we had a good time and we already made plans for more movie nights. We definitely have to see "Nightmare Before Christmas" before, well, Christmas.
New week, I'm still very tired but I feel a bit better so fingers crossed I'll actually be able to accomplish things. Climbing today, and tomorrow is an event I'm invited to at the company where I'm currently in the middle of the application process, I'm almost optimistic.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth.
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The weekend: D&D on Friday, Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday, Disney movies on Sunday :)
Latest D&D things:
- We still don't like the spider lady, but we managed to negotiate with her and she agreed to let us do the time travel ritual and even gave us additional information to fight the plagues in the past. Conditions for her agreement was that we got her 27 sisters to the mountain, where they're protected from the paradox that would otherwise likely wipe them out. There are now 28 enormous spiders on this mountain. Bring on the army.
- The spider lady agreed to give us the artifact, only she'd swallowed it decades ago to keep it safe. So she swallowed us and we had to get it out of the stomach of an undead pregnant (!) spider. Ugh.
- Our tank finally has a pet, a Skiurid (evil ninja squirrel) called Ravali. We all call her Ravioli. That same tank also got a magical item that enables her to polymorph into a bat for seven minutes each day. She's very happy to be Batman.
- My cat was the only one of our party who failed the Will save against the spider lady's truth spell (I'm the only one who can understand her so it didn't matter) and I now know that her full name+title is "Nera of the Black Scourge, Slayer of the Twelve." The "twelve" were elite knights of the god Pelor, who her creator and first master, lord of the undead army, killed (but he died doing so.) My little cat used to be preeetty powerful.
- The last thing we did in the last session was activate the time travel ritual to send our NPC party member into the past. We had a 13% chance of critical failure, and if it succeeded a 90% chance that she landed where she wanted. Next time we'll find out what we changed! We sent the 18-year old version of someone who 20 years later killed a god and 60 after that is leading an army trying to take over the world, back to when she was around 12. She is now a paladin, a gold dragon and a were-scorpion, with extensive knowledge of what happened back then and now in the future. The likelihood that there will be very significant changes is very high.
Saturday: Lio and Maria's friend Kelly is from the US, but has spent most of the last few years in Europe. She wanted an authentic American Thanksgiving dinner, so on Saturday we first had pumpkin-carrot-turkey soup and then stuffed turkey with cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes with gravy, brussel sprouts with chestnuts, corn fritters, sweet potato casserole, ginger-glazed carrots, and a salad with apple and cucumber and fennel and pomegranate. It was amazing. It took me an hour to finish my very full plate and then I felt accomplished *g* Now I understand better why Thanksgiving is such a big deal in the US, if the food is always like that. I made the sweet potato casserole and it was actually quite easy and turned out well, I might have to do it again. I forgot to write down the amount I needed before going shopping so now we have quite a few more sweet potatoes at home.
On Sunday LB organized a Disney movie night, we saw "The Emperor's New Groove" and "Mulan." I hadn't seen either in years, it was fun. Before the movies we cooked pumpkin curry, pumpkin goat cheese and fig tart, and cheese baguettes. LB invited around ten of his friends, we had a good time and we already made plans for more movie nights. We definitely have to see "Nightmare Before Christmas" before, well, Christmas.
New week, I'm still very tired but I feel a bit better so fingers crossed I'll actually be able to accomplish things. Climbing today, and tomorrow is an event I'm invited to at the company where I'm currently in the middle of the application process, I'm almost optimistic.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth.
comments there.