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terryclothI want to turn to the dark side. I really, really do. Well, okay, I don't, but I *want* to want to, and isn't that enough?
The day started well enough -- I got up, a little late because I'd stayed up too late the night before playing KOTOR2, took a shower, got dressed, played KOTOR2... Despite myself, I'm playing a light-side jedi sentinel (the thiefy jedi) again. Seriously, when I started the game I said 'I'm going to play a dark-side warrior this time', but somehow found myself clicking on the sentinel, and then picking light-side dialogue options, mostly. This time, you have a professional nag tagging along preaching neutrality, at least, and making you second-guess your choices -- I think that's a nice touch. It makes you think about them more.
Of course, just like in the last game, I got called a 'total psychotic' -- this time, it was because I caught a merchant *stealing vital parts out of a beseiged colony's defense droids* because he needed money to pay for his sick grandmother's medicine, or some such bullshit. Guess what, asshole -- we're about to be attacked, and *need* those droids, but half of them are permanently destroyed because you decided they were fair game.
Damn right I'm going to turn you in! He wouldn't stand for that, and attacked me, and I auto-attacked in response, and he (of course) died quickly, because I'm a jedi and he's a merchant... and my whole party called me a psychotic. I guess I was supposed to let him go, or something. @.@
(Of course, I later found out that the droids he'd been scavenging had been considered junk by the whole colony for at least five years, because they lacked a decent repairman -- which made his actions a lot more reasonable. Oops! Maybe he should have come with me quietly and stood trial, instead of going berzerk. AI scripts!)
I headed down to the meet at around 1pm this time, since the last few (~dozen) times I've gone early, no one else has been there. This time there were a few people around -- Kitsunetar and Raven, and Darter. I started playing magic with Kitsunetaur, testing his new altered snake deck against my new altered sunburst deck (now with shrines, in five designer colors!). We played a bunch of games, basically spent the whole meet playing, and I discovered that Skykit not only plays with a 40-card deck full of the most broken cards (in his idiom) in all of magic, and tends to mulligan until he has the perfect draw, but cheats during the game, exchanging useless cards in his hand for animate deads tutored from his library while resolving Buried Alive. I didn't mention it when I noticed him doing it, because, hey, it's only a game, and that would have been awkward. Plus I shouldn't have been peeking at his hand anyway.
At any rate, by the time I finished playing magic, everyone else had long since left. I could have headed over to Legend's -- a bunch of people were going there -- but Kitsunetaur asked me to take him and Raven down to Lexx's to play Dungeons and Dragons. My intial response was something like, 'why in the world would I want to do that?', and the answers he gave really spoke to why it would be more convenient for him than as to why it would do anything for me. I mean, I play D+D on the OTHER weeks when I'm NOT going to the Crossroads meets, and it's not like I had a character in the game he was running anyway, although he said he's let me play in it.
So of course, I ended up driving them down. And once I got there, Lexx and Nyssa wanted to go out and get food and do errands, so I ended up driving them all over the place -- really, since Slox left, the household has NO CARS, so driving a car down there is like throwing a side of beef into a pirannha tank.
The trip was sort of amusing, in a morbid sense, since Lexx has no sense of direction, and (for some reason) was serving as the navigator (I think the reason is, no one else who lived in the area came along). The first thing we did was get lost finding Tweek's apartment complex, then get lost trying to find Tweek -- eventually we had to just park in a nearby lot and tell him to come out and find us.
We didn't get lost finding the QFC, at least, but we split up -- Kits and Nyss to get pizza, while Lexx charmed the cashier into giving him $15 in quarters, then had me drive him around to all the local bookstores searching for splatbooks from the previous incarnation of White Wolf, which none of them had. In the process, we also toured the local health club, and the loading docks of several strip malls, since, you know, we got lost. Then we tried to find Jack in the Box and couldn't, and eventually settled for Quiznos.
"Yeah, Morphy, do you want Quiznos or Arbys? [pause] No, we can't get to Jack in the Box. Those are the choices."
At long last, we gathered everyone back up and drove home. It was 7:30, and we'd originally left Crossroads at 4:30. I don't know how all that took three hours. People then started eating pizza, and since there were FOUR Papa Murphys pizzas to cook, this somehow took... well, until around 9pm. Then the magic crew wandered out to the tennis court (where, apparently, they found an injured sleeping kitsune -- at least it wasn't dead!), and it was time to go home, for Raven, which meant I had to leave... of course, Nyssa was leaving too ('too much drama', he said, after Lexx punched a hole in the wall), which would have meant that there would have been hardly anyone left even if I wasn't driving her and Kitsunetaur home...
No, we never played D+D, although blank character sheets were passed around at one point.
So the high point of the night was definately the ferret -- Nyssa's, visiting. It got taken out and passed around, then we let it run around for a while, pouncing on feet (accidentally) and running up discarded coat sleeves, hiding in shoes, and trying to dig its way under the (ferret-proofed) couch. So cute! And well behaved. "Look, it's a ferret holding a ferret!" got old after about the TWENTY BILLIONTH TIME, though. }:P
The day started well enough -- I got up, a little late because I'd stayed up too late the night before playing KOTOR2, took a shower, got dressed, played KOTOR2... Despite myself, I'm playing a light-side jedi sentinel (the thiefy jedi) again. Seriously, when I started the game I said 'I'm going to play a dark-side warrior this time', but somehow found myself clicking on the sentinel, and then picking light-side dialogue options, mostly. This time, you have a professional nag tagging along preaching neutrality, at least, and making you second-guess your choices -- I think that's a nice touch. It makes you think about them more.
Of course, just like in the last game, I got called a 'total psychotic' -- this time, it was because I caught a merchant *stealing vital parts out of a beseiged colony's defense droids* because he needed money to pay for his sick grandmother's medicine, or some such bullshit. Guess what, asshole -- we're about to be attacked, and *need* those droids, but half of them are permanently destroyed because you decided they were fair game.
Damn right I'm going to turn you in! He wouldn't stand for that, and attacked me, and I auto-attacked in response, and he (of course) died quickly, because I'm a jedi and he's a merchant... and my whole party called me a psychotic. I guess I was supposed to let him go, or something. @.@
(Of course, I later found out that the droids he'd been scavenging had been considered junk by the whole colony for at least five years, because they lacked a decent repairman -- which made his actions a lot more reasonable. Oops! Maybe he should have come with me quietly and stood trial, instead of going berzerk. AI scripts!)
I headed down to the meet at around 1pm this time, since the last few (~dozen) times I've gone early, no one else has been there. This time there were a few people around -- Kitsunetar and Raven, and Darter. I started playing magic with Kitsunetaur, testing his new altered snake deck against my new altered sunburst deck (now with shrines, in five designer colors!). We played a bunch of games, basically spent the whole meet playing, and I discovered that Skykit not only plays with a 40-card deck full of the most broken cards (in his idiom) in all of magic, and tends to mulligan until he has the perfect draw, but cheats during the game, exchanging useless cards in his hand for animate deads tutored from his library while resolving Buried Alive. I didn't mention it when I noticed him doing it, because, hey, it's only a game, and that would have been awkward. Plus I shouldn't have been peeking at his hand anyway.
At any rate, by the time I finished playing magic, everyone else had long since left. I could have headed over to Legend's -- a bunch of people were going there -- but Kitsunetaur asked me to take him and Raven down to Lexx's to play Dungeons and Dragons. My intial response was something like, 'why in the world would I want to do that?', and the answers he gave really spoke to why it would be more convenient for him than as to why it would do anything for me. I mean, I play D+D on the OTHER weeks when I'm NOT going to the Crossroads meets, and it's not like I had a character in the game he was running anyway, although he said he's let me play in it.
So of course, I ended up driving them down. And once I got there, Lexx and Nyssa wanted to go out and get food and do errands, so I ended up driving them all over the place -- really, since Slox left, the household has NO CARS, so driving a car down there is like throwing a side of beef into a pirannha tank.
The trip was sort of amusing, in a morbid sense, since Lexx has no sense of direction, and (for some reason) was serving as the navigator (I think the reason is, no one else who lived in the area came along). The first thing we did was get lost finding Tweek's apartment complex, then get lost trying to find Tweek -- eventually we had to just park in a nearby lot and tell him to come out and find us.
We didn't get lost finding the QFC, at least, but we split up -- Kits and Nyss to get pizza, while Lexx charmed the cashier into giving him $15 in quarters, then had me drive him around to all the local bookstores searching for splatbooks from the previous incarnation of White Wolf, which none of them had. In the process, we also toured the local health club, and the loading docks of several strip malls, since, you know, we got lost. Then we tried to find Jack in the Box and couldn't, and eventually settled for Quiznos.
"Yeah, Morphy, do you want Quiznos or Arbys? [pause] No, we can't get to Jack in the Box. Those are the choices."
At long last, we gathered everyone back up and drove home. It was 7:30, and we'd originally left Crossroads at 4:30. I don't know how all that took three hours. People then started eating pizza, and since there were FOUR Papa Murphys pizzas to cook, this somehow took... well, until around 9pm. Then the magic crew wandered out to the tennis court (where, apparently, they found an injured sleeping kitsune -- at least it wasn't dead!), and it was time to go home, for Raven, which meant I had to leave... of course, Nyssa was leaving too ('too much drama', he said, after Lexx punched a hole in the wall), which would have meant that there would have been hardly anyone left even if I wasn't driving her and Kitsunetaur home...
No, we never played D+D, although blank character sheets were passed around at one point.
So the high point of the night was definately the ferret -- Nyssa's, visiting. It got taken out and passed around, then we let it run around for a while, pouncing on feet (accidentally) and running up discarded coat sleeves, hiding in shoes, and trying to dig its way under the (ferret-proofed) couch. So cute! And well behaved. "Look, it's a ferret holding a ferret!" got old after about the TWENTY BILLIONTH TIME, though. }:P
