Five Things Meme

Questions posted by catsarah some time ago!

If you could make one change in your life…
Putting aside things like, “I’d win a lottery,” I want to be healthier. I made a good start on this, lost 20 lbs, worked out a lot, but I’ve let the weight slide back up. I still work out, though even that routine has been disrupted. Happily, this is a change I can make in my life. So… back on the horse.


Favourite flower?
I don’t know that I have a specific favorite. I know I like Queen Anne’s Lace in a field and African Violets in a pot. I’m not crazy about roses or tulips specifically, but I like well-arranged flowers of all kinds in a greenhouse or garden, and a wild profusion of flowers in a wild garden or meadow.

Ultimate vocation?
I want to be a writer of minor SF novels that sell just enough to keep me being invited to conventions as a second-string guest, and help pay the mortgage on a large Victorian home. Right now I’m merely a part-time writer of minor RPG books that sell just enough to keep me being invited to conventions as a third-string guest, and help pay for…. Well… bus fare?

If you could live in an alternate universe, what would that look like?
Annie Lennox in a dirigible.

Specifically, image Annie Lennox circa “Love is a Stranger”, in the observation deck of a zeppelin cruising past the Chrysler Building. There would also be computers, and space travel, and affordable fusion power.

Boxers or briefs. Explain!
Boxers, because they last longer, and because I often wear them as pajamas. I don’t want to shamble about the house in just a pair of briefs, like some sort of common cave troll.

Conan Day Four: Barrels of Fun

_{All Creatures Will Make Merry Under Penalty Of Demonfire}

I made level 7 today! I spent several minutes dancing a grim little jig along the main path in celebration. I did a couple of quests today. But first, I had to deliver my Evangel, Unto Them Who Had Ears.

( A preachment, dear friends, you are about to receive... )

So, the quests. Those were epic.In the first quest, I ventured into the wilds (50 feet outside the city gate) to retrieve three spools of non-magical thread from a shack for an out-of-work tailor. In return, I received a pair of shabby pirate pants. I only had to kill 8 people to get the thread! I'd say that was a win-win for everyone.


_{I'm telling my grandchildren about this day!}

Next, I took on a quest for a blacksmith. He wanted me to scavenge a meat cleaver, a bundle of leather, and a rolling pin from some abandoned market stalls on the waterfront. Man, if I'd known cleavers were going around spare, I'd have ditched the hooked stick a long time ago. Alas, I was not able to use the meat cleaver, as it was a "quest item." As an aside, the smith said he needed these things for his work. Blacksmiths are always using meat clevers, right? And rolling pins are great for flattening out sword blades.

In return, the blacksmith gave me five dead rats. These are, apparently, intended as comestibles.

With these two glorious adventures under my belt, I decided for something a little more exciting. I went out to recover two barrels of stolen goods from a camp of pirates. I'd already killed about 20 of them while preaching at people and retrieving thread, so, hey, what's one more encampment?


<sub>Ow. Ow! OW!


On the plus side, I found a piece of carrot cake when I came back to loot the corpse. No, I'm not kidding.</sub>

Man, those pirates were a lot more dangerous than I remembered...I did get the barrels, in the end. And, I had my first positive interaction with another player. I wandered into a basement full of 18th level prison guards, and a wandering adventurer who was there on a quest saw me hiding, and led me out to safety. That was nice.

He did not, however, Repent.