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Valentine's Day (no massacres)
Feb. 15th, 2004 03:08 amThe weekend started out somewhat poorly, I decided (with the Fox's consent) to stay at home on Friday to do an EQ raid. The raid was, frankly, abysmal - possibly one of the worst organised raids I've attended yet. I'm not sure why this was the case as the person who was leading it is usually in (slightly) better form ... perhaps it's just that it was early in the morning for Alaska but I found myself having to virtually take control in the latter stages in order for it to move ahead. Normally I am very reluctant to do this on someone else's raid no matter what my feelings about it are but this looked as though it was going to stall disastrously unless somebody did something. In the end the raid was successful (I suspect it would have been anyway but would have taken longer) and, later on, I was able to get a good wadge of experience for my Cleric, Belkhanu.
Saturday arrived with a rush of getting ready to nip over to Hove (actually) to get the weekend going properly. Valentine's gifts and cards were exchanged, both offerings were rather indicative of our respective characters and were, I think, well received on both parts ... though I've decided that all (or at least most) 'ornamental' items will be staying here rather than vanishing in the morass of 'stuff' that is my home. Later we watched 'Calendar Girls' and the final two episodes of 'Cold Feet'. All three were extremely good (I urge anyone to see 'Calendar Girls' by the way) and resulted in a significant dispaly of waterworks from the Fox. I must confess to getting rather tearful myself but was rather more preoccupied with comforting my dear Fox than with indulging in any blubbing myself.
Earlier in the week the Maelstrom rules arrived and, initially, I confess I was rather disappointed in them. That said, I think the trick is to look beyond the rules to see the potential that is implied by them. I'm rather irritated that certain bits of essential information have to be taken on trust (ie. the Awakened races) and that may well effect my choices of character. It would have been nice if the development team had trusted us enough to come clean about all starting options in the rulebook. In short, if I didn't know the Vocano God and (some of) his devotees I wouldn't bother with this system but since I do then I will probably attend (assuming I get a bloody job to allow me to afford it). One thing that impressed me no end was the reduced rates for people on low incomes, I think that's a fantastic move and heartily applaud it. That said, I can't see me attending if my income doesn't increase significantly ... but then one never can tell.
Saturday arrived with a rush of getting ready to nip over to Hove (actually) to get the weekend going properly. Valentine's gifts and cards were exchanged, both offerings were rather indicative of our respective characters and were, I think, well received on both parts ... though I've decided that all (or at least most) 'ornamental' items will be staying here rather than vanishing in the morass of 'stuff' that is my home. Later we watched 'Calendar Girls' and the final two episodes of 'Cold Feet'. All three were extremely good (I urge anyone to see 'Calendar Girls' by the way) and resulted in a significant dispaly of waterworks from the Fox. I must confess to getting rather tearful myself but was rather more preoccupied with comforting my dear Fox than with indulging in any blubbing myself.
Earlier in the week the Maelstrom rules arrived and, initially, I confess I was rather disappointed in them. That said, I think the trick is to look beyond the rules to see the potential that is implied by them. I'm rather irritated that certain bits of essential information have to be taken on trust (ie. the Awakened races) and that may well effect my choices of character. It would have been nice if the development team had trusted us enough to come clean about all starting options in the rulebook. In short, if I didn't know the Vocano God and (some of) his devotees I wouldn't bother with this system but since I do then I will probably attend (assuming I get a bloody job to allow me to afford it). One thing that impressed me no end was the reduced rates for people on low incomes, I think that's a fantastic move and heartily applaud it. That said, I can't see me attending if my income doesn't increase significantly ... but then one never can tell.
