Update!

Nov. 15th, 2009 05:08 pm
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I've not been posting much beyond photos of late, I know. Here's a bit of an update.

J&F Hobbies, the curious little RPG store and jumble shop in the west end of the city, finally closed in the spring of this year. I discovered this last week, when I attemped to bring [livejournal.com profile] shadow_maze there. The store had been in business for 20 years, and perpetually seemed to be on the verge of closing. I first discovered it in 1997. My last visit was in mid-March, when I picked up a bunch of Planescape books, some still in their shrinkwrap.

On Friday evening I was in Toronto for a planning/character generation session for [livejournal.com profile] kores_rabbit's new Eberron game. I've rolled up a Warforged Cleric, a worshipper of the god of profit and gold. I see him as a sort of combination of Syndey Greenstreet, Mr. Punch, and a Franklin stove. After, I drove [livejournal.com profile] kores_rabbit home and my headlights stopped working. Joy!

Saturday, [livejournal.com profile] commanderteddog and her sister, [livejournal.com profile] sassy_fae, [livejournal.com profile] nottheterritory, [livejournal.com profile] catsarah and [livejournal.com profile] momentrabbit were over for the next installment of my Star Wars game. A couple of the players were recovering from flu and were feeling poorly, and my own energy ebbed rapidly as the evening proceeded, so we broke up stupidly early. (Like, 7:30 PM.) However, much of the group had been over before the game for a screening of the 1980 Flash Gordon movie, so the day was not as disappointing as it might have been.


I should make a note of Teddog's dedication to the game! She baked Alderaan Chocolate Chunk Wookie Cookies. Which is to say, she made chocolate chip cookies with green and brown chunks of chocolate in them, representing pieces of Alderaan. Except it's better than that.


You see, in order to create a proper set of Alderaan chunks, she melted the chocolate into a global map Alderaan. Before smashing it, and baking it into cookies.


Also, everyone liked the little Lego minis I put together for them.

Date: 2009-11-15 10:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rikacmo.livejournal.com
XD EPIC game night!

Date: 2009-11-16 02:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pyat.livejournal.com
The cookies were, indeed, epic!

Date: 2009-11-15 10:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] relee.livejournal.com
GORDON'S ALIVE!?

Date: 2009-11-16 02:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pyat.livejournal.com
If you say hello to Brian Blessed IRL, in public, and seem to be a nerd, he'll invairably scream that at you, and run away.

True fact!

Date: 2009-11-16 03:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] relee.livejournal.com
Yeah, he seems like a cool guy. I only really started noticing him as an individual after I saw his TV Tropes page. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitleijqobqvle9an?from=Main.BRIANBLESSED)

Date: 2009-11-16 04:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] commanderteddog.livejournal.com
::stares at the article:: I love TV Tropes so very, very much.

Date: 2009-11-16 12:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zorinlynx.livejournal.com
>Alderaan Chocolate Chunk Wookie Cookies

You people are awesome. It is a travesty that I am so darn far away from ya'll. :)

Date: 2009-11-16 02:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pyat.livejournal.com
But... but... I'd need more lego minis!

Date: 2009-11-16 03:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] relee.livejournal.com
You ALWAYS need more lego minis. I have a bunch of them. I lost my treasured Little John minifig though from the old Robin Hood set. I used him to represent one of the boys from Two Against the North by Farley Mowat in a grade-school diorama, but it was put on display in the school library and someone stole the two lego minifigs. Alas.

That was a damn good book though. Good diorama too I think. They were high on a cliff's edge made of paper, and the back wall was painted with a horizon and forest.

Date: 2009-11-16 04:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] commanderteddog.livejournal.com
"I should make a note of Teddog's dedication to the game!"

Sometimes I wonder if this is a good thing...

Actually, many times I wonder this.

Date: 2009-11-16 02:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pyat.livejournal.com
It is a very good thing, from my perspective!

Date: 2009-11-17 04:44 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] thebitterguy
I am, personally, terrified at that level of dedication.

Date: 2009-11-17 08:55 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] thebitterguy
You're not planning to get a tattoo of your character, are you?

Date: 2009-11-17 09:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] commanderteddog.livejournal.com
Oh god, no. 0_0

Date: 2009-11-16 04:12 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] rowyn
The Alderaan-chunk cookies are pretty awesome. :)

Date: 2009-11-17 05:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pyat.livejournal.com
And yummy!

Date: 2009-11-17 04:44 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] thebitterguy
I still haven't seen that Flash Gordon movie.

Date: 2009-11-17 05:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pyat.livejournal.com
I can bring it to the Christmas party!

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