That was the Weekend then

[binidj]

I enjoyed Maelstrom a lot more than I was expecting to; this is due to a number of factors: my fitness levels were way up this weekend (yay!), the Alkyon colony players and I seem to have settled into our respective relationships rather comfortably, and the Church game is starting to pay dividends as more Merchant priests have bought into the whole Preceptor thing thus giving me stuff to do with the position. Of course there's now also an arms race to keep hold of the job but that is going to be a lot of fun ... mostly because I'm fairly confident of a win.

That the Big Blue Bird actually survived the event is an utter surprise to me, I was fully expecting to die¹ early on at the hands of the DNF ... actually I was fully expecting to die under a large mound of fallen Eidolons slightly later in the weekend ... and goodness' knows there's nobody that could say I hadn't asked for it. I have to attribute my astounding run of longevity both to my colleagues in Sacuza and also the lovely folks in the 33rd ... who were reassuringly competent all weekend.

Incidentally, mind-altering smoothies are neither big nor clever.²

The rules adjustments with regard to Priest skills seem to be working out rather nicely, and I'll be testing them a little further this downtime. Despite certain obvious bones thrown in the direction of church groups (this doesn't directly affect me incidentally) I'm still of the mind that the point has been missed. Still there may well be changes that I wasn't privvy to, so time will tell.

Yesterday saw the continuing saga of rolling up characters for the Magpie Empire game, for which we now have a full complement (including the lovely jojo-jojo) so hopefully next week will see us actually beginning play ... I remain nervously eager.


¹ and leave a bloody big crater
² though they are rather yummy

Comments

[swiftblade.livejournal.com]

Priest rules changes? Not that I'm going anymore, but always interested in whats going on, what they changed?

Glad to here you like the position BTW, shame Josef won't be there backing you up any more...

[binidj.livejournal.com]

It's no longer compulsory to have a co-operative downtime in order to learn a new skill ... I can't really say much more than that, in case I accidentally give something away that I shouldn't. It's good though.

[swiftblade.livejournal.com]

That is good news.

[elani.livejournal.com]

I really missed being there, glad you had a good time though.

Neverwhere was excellent and there were many apologies for them being rubbish.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Are they actually planning on announcing a game more than a week in advance at any point?

I'd love to go, and it's really not difficult for me to get to, unless they seemingly annouce the game only after several people start demanding to know if it's actually on or not.

[elani.livejournal.com]

Yeah there was lots of apologies for the crapness about all that.

The next main game has already been announced - it's always going to be the 3rd Saturday every other month - so the next one is now the 3rd Sat in June.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Oh - that is good news - thank you for that.

Hmmmm ... now to talk to my girlfriend and see if she'd like her first introduction to LRP to be Neverwhere ....

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed you enjoying yourself.

RE:Bones ... these were really less bones and more things people should have had since the get-go, but didn't. Or this is my take o nthem anyway.

[kathbad]

Incidentally, mind-altering smoothies are neither big nor clever.

I agree with this, but do not in any way agree with the footnote!

Really good to see you, glad you had a good one.

[orangutank.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that the changes to church groups aren't over yet. Matt P has asked some of our group to talk to him before the next event about changing things for churches, so there's probably more in the offing.