Birthday tidings

[shadowravyn]

We celebrated shogunhb's birthday yesterday with a power outage (our whole street and a good few blocks around us), Abner's suicide-by-angels, and a frantic search for keys.

In all, it was kind of epic.

quish, I used the kitten blanket to curl up with shogunhb in front of the fire he started. It was all nicely medieval--roaring fire, blanket of furs, warm husband

Comments

[verrucaria]

I've heard of three-dog nights. You need more cats...

[buddhagrrl]

We lost power recently and I was suddenly hit with the realization that I could still make tea. I dusted off my non-electric kettle and pulled out a lighter. Gas range FTW!

(I've had electric all my life so it took quite a few power outages for this to finally occur to me -- if the power is ever out county-wide, come over and I will feed you hot things.)

[rosinavs]

In grad school our power was out for two days after a particularly nasty snow storm. (We were lucky, parts of town didn't have power for a week.) My roommates and I sacked out with friends in the dorms for two nights, then went back home to check on the place. It had warmed up enough outside that we were worried about the state of the food in the refrigerator. So we invited a bunch of friends over and grilled the contents of our freezer. It was very interesting to grill frozen burritos...

Thoughts

[shogunhb]

* When the idea first popped up to use the Death artifact to call up the dead souls to fight for us, we had not yet entered the wood of the suicides, we were in the desert of homosexuals (and blasphemers, and usurers). I think Abner said "Desert of Homosexuals" about 7 times.

*Abner's death by Angel served a few purposes. He gained an opportunity to strike back directly... he's pretty tired of running. The other Abners gained valuable data and insight into the enemies' capabilities and limitations. I now know that Abner *could* have survived the encounter in an individual capacity (he can not use boons or knacks while duplicated).

*The keys were inside a hole in the lining of a purse, parallel to the actual pocket.

*Dodging a 20' square quartz room (with about 30 people riding it) through a forest of suicides and exploding cherubim at 75 mph. This image brought to you by Jerry Bruckheimer.

Re: Thoughts

[shogunhb]

And your army of suicides imagery was fantastically creepy yet cinematic.

Re: Thoughts

[shadowravyn]

Thank you!

Re: Thoughts

[doompuppy]

Here here!!!

May just be my love of all things goth, coupled with my love of angst ridden revenge, coupled with the sadistic pleasure I take in sanctimonious angel-children being torn apart by forces to horrible to comprehend that they as servants of Aten helped create.

Actually I think it's everything after the LAST comma in that run-on. It was made of win. Valsis would have been proud. Or angsty/disappointed/enraged. Well she'd have had SOMETHING to say about it anyway.

[macropixi]

I would recommend investing in a small propane or similar powered camp stove for such emergencies. It bailed my parents and I out of many a power outage mess.