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srturtle Reunion Tour
Jun. 5th, 2005 11:21 amThat's right! srturtle has reformed its one-man blogging team to make a one-venue reunion tour! It's an LJ exclusive!
So there was a lot of working and visiting and even some gaming over the past week.
Yesterday was a very chaotic day that had us scratching our heads as to what to do. My parents wanted us to come down to visit. Nick and Raye invited us over for a cookout. Chris and Karen invited us to their party for Katie's third birthday. Steve (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
quantumswordsmn) and Chenoa called in the morning and asked us over to the family camp on the lake for a barbeque dinner. We had planned to go for some sort of hike or bike at some point in the day. We also needed to do some chores around the apartment. At Katie's party Chris invited us all over to his apartment afterward for gaming. Gabe was calling looking for folks with which to game. Lots of choices. It's days like yesterday I wish I had a couple clones. I could have eaten like a king and gamed like a fool!
So here's what we did:
I called the parental units and promised a visit next weekend. We had to say the ney-no to Nick and Raye. We scheduled gaming with Gabe and the gang for this coming Thursday. We spent a couple hours doing the housecleaning in the morning.We went to Katie's party, which was enjoyable. Matt (mattunseen) was there so that made it a real party. Then we went into Plymouth on the way to the lake and bought a couple little bits and pieces to fix the license plate on the front of the Suzuki.
We headed over to the lake for a barbeque dinner with Steve (quantumswordsmn) and Chenoa. Chenoa's dad and Michele were there with Emily, their little daugther. Holy crap does she have a ton of hair for an infant! I was the only one who jumped in the lake for a swim. The water was really nice. It was not so cold as to make your toes numb in seconds but not warm enough to be akin to bathwater. We had a nice dinner. Kathy confused a steak for a turkey thigh and blamed it on her momentary lack of glasses. After a while we all decided to head to game with Chris.
Chris decided to run DC Heroes (the Mayfair Games version). He didn't have a chance to brush up on it because relatives kept showing up to visit Katie between the time we all left Katie's party until we arrived at his place. Holy crudbomb is that system complicated! Charts for this and cross-reference these charts with these numbers to find out how many Hero Points it costs to buy this attribute/power/skill. This attribute has an average around here but this one has an average around twice that. Stuff like that. With games like this it's no wonder Mayfair is no longer. It was even worse than FASA Star Trek!!! And that is one shitty system. The four of us arrived at Chris's and started character creation around 7:00pm. We finally finished and started playing around 10:00pm. Yeah. I told you it was complicated!
I played Silver Spark, a dude dressed in a skin-tight spandex outfit complete with the skin-tight head thingy. He's one of those heroes with the alter ego thing going on, so he had to hide his white hair and silver pupils. He also wore a blue and white visor (not the silly banana clip type visor that Jordi LaForge wore on ST: tNG but one like Cyclops wore). On his chest was an emblem similar to the one the Flash has only it was a white circle with a blue spark. I took out 3/4 of the Brotherhood of Evil.quantumswordsmn's character Mondo reanimated the corpses in the rubble of the toppled building to help collect the survivors. He also took out the last of the Brotherhood of Evil. Kathy's character Cy-clone was a cyborg clone that had... issues... so it had a system reboot mid-battle (while in flight) and lost all recollection of what was going on. She started plunging toward the ground and had to regain her composure. Chenoa's character Fire spotted the leader of the villain group making an escape.
After that, Kathy and I came home and watched Saturday Night Live. It was okay. Beck was the musical guest, which was a nice surprise. Otherwise the skits were pretty blah as usual.
We never did get out for a hike or bike. Today I'm going to work at the laundry doing maintenance stuff. Kathy has to work, too.
So there was a lot of working and visiting and even some gaming over the past week.
Yesterday was a very chaotic day that had us scratching our heads as to what to do. My parents wanted us to come down to visit. Nick and Raye invited us over for a cookout. Chris and Karen invited us to their party for Katie's third birthday. Steve (
quantumswordsmn) and Chenoa called in the morning and asked us over to the family camp on the lake for a barbeque dinner. We had planned to go for some sort of hike or bike at some point in the day. We also needed to do some chores around the apartment. At Katie's party Chris invited us all over to his apartment afterward for gaming. Gabe was calling looking for folks with which to game. Lots of choices. It's days like yesterday I wish I had a couple clones. I could have eaten like a king and gamed like a fool!So here's what we did:
I called the parental units and promised a visit next weekend. We had to say the ney-no to Nick and Raye. We scheduled gaming with Gabe and the gang for this coming Thursday. We spent a couple hours doing the housecleaning in the morning.We went to Katie's party, which was enjoyable. Matt (
mattunseen) was there so that made it a real party. Then we went into Plymouth on the way to the lake and bought a couple little bits and pieces to fix the license plate on the front of the Suzuki.We headed over to the lake for a barbeque dinner with Steve (
quantumswordsmn) and Chenoa. Chenoa's dad and Michele were there with Emily, their little daugther. Holy crap does she have a ton of hair for an infant! I was the only one who jumped in the lake for a swim. The water was really nice. It was not so cold as to make your toes numb in seconds but not warm enough to be akin to bathwater. We had a nice dinner. Kathy confused a steak for a turkey thigh and blamed it on her momentary lack of glasses. After a while we all decided to head to game with Chris.Chris decided to run DC Heroes (the Mayfair Games version). He didn't have a chance to brush up on it because relatives kept showing up to visit Katie between the time we all left Katie's party until we arrived at his place. Holy crudbomb is that system complicated! Charts for this and cross-reference these charts with these numbers to find out how many Hero Points it costs to buy this attribute/power/skill. This attribute has an average around here but this one has an average around twice that. Stuff like that. With games like this it's no wonder Mayfair is no longer. It was even worse than FASA Star Trek!!! And that is one shitty system. The four of us arrived at Chris's and started character creation around 7:00pm. We finally finished and started playing around 10:00pm. Yeah. I told you it was complicated!
I played Silver Spark, a dude dressed in a skin-tight spandex outfit complete with the skin-tight head thingy. He's one of those heroes with the alter ego thing going on, so he had to hide his white hair and silver pupils. He also wore a blue and white visor (not the silly banana clip type visor that Jordi LaForge wore on ST: tNG but one like Cyclops wore). On his chest was an emblem similar to the one the Flash has only it was a white circle with a blue spark. I took out 3/4 of the Brotherhood of Evil.
quantumswordsmn's character Mondo reanimated the corpses in the rubble of the toppled building to help collect the survivors. He also took out the last of the Brotherhood of Evil. Kathy's character Cy-clone was a cyborg clone that had... issues... so it had a system reboot mid-battle (while in flight) and lost all recollection of what was going on. She started plunging toward the ground and had to regain her composure. Chenoa's character Fire spotted the leader of the villain group making an escape.After that, Kathy and I came home and watched Saturday Night Live. It was okay. Beck was the musical guest, which was a nice surprise. Otherwise the skits were pretty blah as usual.
We never did get out for a hike or bike. Today I'm going to work at the laundry doing maintenance stuff. Kathy has to work, too.
