Ramblings regarding my journey through the Cosmos…
Ordered last Thursday, and arrived today from Sydney: damn that was fast! A lovely package arrived for me at work today.
Of these only one is truly “new”, i.e. Conan. The other two are expansions for existing games.
But before I can get to them…
It appears that Furbag believes possession is 9/10ths of the law…
As usual a box of goodies…
Of course I have to somehow try and get all these play ASAP.
I discovered today that I have three game expansions that were basically unplayed, and not even fully unpacked!
The expansions in question were:
The Tomb of Ice an expansion for Descent: a Journey in the Dark.
The Island of Dread an expansion for Runebound 2nd Edition. In the interests of reducing the numbers, I cracked this one tonight (Friday) and did a play test to familiarize myself with the facets of the expansion.
Amazingly, amongst these is Kingsport Horror an expansion for Arkham Horror. Mind you, I’ve got Innsmouth Horror on the way now, so I really need to get this one played.
Hopefully I can crack The Tomb of Ice on Saturday afternoon, evening, and this will only leave one to try and get cracked before the newest additions arrive sometime next week. One the way other than the one previously mentioned are: The Frozen Wastes, another for Runebound 2nd Edition, and the newly released Age of Conan: the board game. I’m really looking forward to unpacking that one and getting people around the table for a session.
Also dug this one out of the archives to check. My friend Mark bought Fellowship of the Ring in about 1984 or ’85. He very kindly gave it to me a couple of years ago, knowing my interest in both boardgames and Tolkien.
It’s a classic ICE. We unpacked it, but never actually got to play it. We were all too wasted at the time to make sense of it. So it’s still virgin so to speak. YES, all those D6’s are counters. I hope to get a game of it organized one day soon.
Speaking of board game lust (which obviously I am languishing in), I’m counting the weeks until the release of Middle Earth Quest. This looks absolutely fantastic, and a wonderful compliment to War of the Ring.
*sigh* I wonder how one gets into a career as a game designer?
Age and Wisdom is all well and good: unfortunately the body doesn’t get wiser, only more fragile!
Yes it was a wild night Friday night, but fortunately the worst damage is shown below.
Here’s another view looking South.
All the rest was simply tree litter here and there. I count myself very lucky 🙂
As well as a few other server related tasks to do with MySQL and the Cyrus mail server I upgraded both mine and Furbag’s blogs to wordpress 2.8.1. I haven’t really explored the new features yet, but they were both due for an update, especially the Black Beast’s. Mine was 2.5.x before, but Furbag’s was rather old, something like 2.1.x. I’ve told Furbag that she needs to update her theme a bit, it’s getting a bit old, but I got a biffing for my trouble! 🙂
I’ve been pondering how to get a few more board games happening. The thought has occurred to me to try remote board games. I’m considering how best to get an internet camera to effect some games across the internet with geographically distant friends. Of course it’s going to be difficult with the size of the board games I like to play. I’ve yet to determine whether or not, the iMac inbuilt camera will do the job or not; it may be necessary to purchase a separate camera and position it somewhere better. I will probably need something with a bit of zoom anyway. Additionally it’s most likely going to need games that the other has played just to make life a little easier for the remote party. I’ve pondered how we might do it for the games we both have, but not sure how that could be made to work for the random aspects of a game. Research continues.
It’s 06:30 and I feel in chaos, perhaps a little insane. I can’t sleep, and my brain is flip flopping like a fish on the shore after being dropped off the hook… it’s almost like I was treading water at sea and suddenly the ocean’s gone and I’m looking down the abyss.
Less than half an hour ago I dropped Sammy at the Station so she could head back home. I picked her up last night just after 19:00, we had Dinner, came home to Play, then snuggles and chat in bed after. It’s the chat after that’s tossing my spot in the Cosmos to and fro. Sammy’s “officially” retired.
I’d love to retire at 48, but alas that’s not to be for me. However that’s not so much the issue, I have never been a “customer” although I’ve been a lucky recipient. She’s given up the Studio, sold her flat, given a heap of paraphenalia away (yes I scored something), and she’s off to Europe, the UK and parts of Asia for the next couple of years… She’s not even sure she’ll come back this time, it’s not necessarily just a holiday. She’s looking to move on completely.
We’ve not seen each other all that regularly since we met up again after all those years, but there is a bond that’s rare, and difficult to ignore. We’ve shared some experiences that bind you together for a lifetime, even when you’re physically apart most of the time: on a spiritual level. We’ve both seen and done things people should never have to do, and come out of it scarred but with our lives intact, and opportunities for redemption and growth that are rare. I can honestly say I’ve not felt such a loss (her leaving) in modern memory. I wouldn’t call it unrequited love, neither of us have been willing to commit in a solid way for various reasons since we reconnected. But the floor is gone, and I actually don’t know what the fuck to do…
At least I got to kiss her in the Rain one last time!
This is definitely a worry. My world is obviously crumbling…
