On Thursday, my gaming group got together for a Very Special Episode of gaming. We played Explosions and Escapes, a quick-and-dirty RPG for playing action heroes. Very quickly in the game, I looked down and saw “the top” was waaaaay below us. The game devolved quickly into some silliness, as our sidekick (played by LeeAnn) […]
A Knight’s Future Hangs in the Past
“I have plans for the old man, Firiel. Him dying is inconvenient to those plans.” Firiel gave me a look then that made me pause. Even to my own ears, my words sounded… cold. Like the only value in Ser Carrigan is what he will do for me in the future. It’s not that, and […]
A New Fate
My friend and gaming buddy Justin has been in town the past 2 weeks, and he, Mike, and I got together for some gaming to take home. Basically, we did character/setting creation for an online Fate game. Setting is “New London,” a fictionalized steampunk London, England. We went pretty generic, here, with automatons and that’s […]
Two Tails…. Er… I mean Tales.
Lt. Gwenn’s journal “Well, a prehensile tail can be quite… fetching, Gwenn.” I swear, I don’t know what made me blush about that– her words, the image in my mind of Marco’s tail, or the thing she said about lockpicking. I do not think she was talking about actual locks. In any case, the conversation […]
For Years of Sweater Knitting
Pun intentional. This week, I finished a project that was 4 years in the making: This is John’s handknit sweater, made with Wensleydale Longwool, a long-staple wool I bought in England in 2009. I started knitting at the end of October that year, and knitted on the drive down to Las Vegas when we moved […]