Highlights of the Game

[revena]

What better way to celebrate Mother's Day then by getting together with one's friends and playing D&D just as if it were any other Sunday?

I did actually give my mom a present, and Erik is taking her to a movie as we speak, so don't get concerned that she's been completely neglected... It's just not a big deal of a holiday in the Fleming family, I guess.

Anyway, D&D was pretty fun, even though the whole first half of it got eaten up by little organizational details. The highlights were probably when Madueke (Dan's character) decided that C.H.'s new character, Ak'tin, needed to be tested or something before joining the party.

First up, a wrestling match between the dwarven monk and Mobaarak, who, by the way, has the ability to do barbarian raging, was arranged. Ak'tin tapped out after a few rounds, when it became clear which way the wind was blowing.

Next, he fought the group's druid, my brother's character, Abaas, with a staff. Abaas tried some neat tricks to make his staff more hardcore, but Ak'tin knocked him out, in the end.

The whole thing was sprinkled throughout with good-natured insults from all parties. When Ak'tin repeatedly made reference to his middle-aged lack of practice in various warlike arts, I was reminded strongly of the episode with the Phaiakians in the Odyssey. It was too good to pass up, and I had Prince Kitoko, with whom the party was staying, end the contests with a display of very good dancing.

It's been just over a year in game time since we started this campaign, so there'll likely be some more pc-against-pc contests coming up. Festival Week, which gets mentioned briefly in the Valmai Hammerhand stories, is coming around again. The party is sort of vaguely planning to spend Festival Week in Mansour, which should be interesting.

I'm a little boggled that it's been that long in game time. I'm not sure how long we've been playing this campaign in real time, but I think it's actually about equivalent. Craziness.

On another note of mild wackiness (attention zinaya_y2kewel: this will interest you!)... Today, going to the game, I saw a sign out of the car window that really interested me. It was for Kiwi Knitting Company, which I had never heard of before. It looked like a cool yarn store, and I'm eager to go in and see what they've got. When I got home, I looked to see if they had a website, wondering why I'd never noticed the sign before.

That'd be because they had their grand opening -yesterday.-

I'm kinda sorry I missed it, actually. If only I had known... But! New yarn store! With New Zealand wool! w00t!

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[zinaya-y2kewel.livejournal.com]

Woot, new yarn store! The music on their website is killing me though. I feel like I should grab George and go skipping though a field...