I have visibly lost weight in my neck.
This is a good thing. It’s the last place I typically gain, and the first place I typically lose.
Also, this morning when I got on the scale, I think I was down about a pound. We’ll see how I do on Thursday’s weigh-in.
Normally I would post this to , but I’m looking for a little bit of cheerleading here.
[Edit: I am eagerly awaiting the day I can take off my wedding ring again. Not that I need to take it off very often, but I'd like to not wear it when handling caustic chemicals.]
John and I watched Deliverance last night. Good movie. I think John did not enjoy it as much as I did.
Had dreams about Appalachian mountain men kidnapping talented young kids to be… I don’t know. Raised to be powerful wizards or something horrid. What I remember, though, is that some of the kids drowned while being kidnapped– and it wasn’t exactly an accident. When I (as an adolescent boy) told the kidnapper that I kind of figured he’d killed some of them, and said, kind of matter-of-factly, that it was probably an issue of resource management, he seemed almost relieved and a little a scared that someone so young would be so blase about it.
On the upside, this morning I mentioned a particular Simpsons episode which has a Delivrance reference in it. John’s comment was that that made the whole movie much more improved, since it deepened his understanding of the Simpsons.
Yesterday’s game went well, largely because I decided to throw out the encounter as it was written and to take a different tactic. Basically, they’ve spent a lot of time leaving and coming back to this dungeon– the insane goblin wizard would not be sitting there by himself– he’d have gathered whatever remaining goblin reinforcements are left and would have laid as careful an ambush as possible.
So, that’s what happened. It made for one of the most creative battles they’ve run into yet, with tons of cover for the goblins, a nasty little spellcasting goblin, and a whole lotta fun. Plus, their NPC fighter heroically went down to 0 hit points, and was saved by the light of his life, the paladin of Pelor.
Next game, they (hopefully) delve into the third level of the abandoned mine, to reveal the darkness below!
And one of my players decided to join NaNoWriMo this year. Yay!
