26 July 2004
Well, the recent weekend was definitely interesting. Mostly in a good way but it started off badly with my cellphone being stolen while I was out shopping for party snacks on Saturday morning.
The party itself was small but cool. The group from SANBI and my other friends didn't mix much but then they didn't kill each other either. :) We played Give Me the Brain! which everyone enjoyed. I got two Trigun figurines (Vash the Stampede and Nicholas D. Wolfwood). They are über cool. Thanks to everyone who was in on the plot (you will be emailed separately). I also got a boomerang (from my dad), frosted glasses with crocodiles etched on (from my sister), a cake (from Faranhaz) and chocolate.
We bought a lot of the party snacks from Mainland China in Claremont. The fruit-flavoured jellies were one of the highlights - I don't think I will forget Philip slurping one down whole in a hurry. The date and nut toffy was also quite exciting although incredibly sticky. We also should not forget the not-quite-guava-flavoured communion-wafer-esque dried fruit thingies or the mountain of rice crackers.
After everyone left the party I stayed up until 4:00 successfully soldering together a new null modem cable to connect my camera to my laptop. Now all I need is some new batteries and I'll be happily snapping away again.
On Sunday MyrdemInggala and I drove out to Strand to have lunch with my mom and Deon. The restuarant we intended to go to, The Fishmonger, has closed down so I guess the R20 voucher they gave me is now useless. :) The replacement, Kaapzicht, was pretty cool though - it had excellent cherry and cream waffles.
We finished of the weekend with our Sunday evening Cyperpunk game. Our characters have been fired from Trauma Team and so we're out on the streets looking for work as best we can. With less than 40 creds apiece things are looking grim for our heros. :) And the question we're all asking ourselves is: "Will Yevgeny finally manage to steal a car?"
The international network connection is down this morning, which is why I'm typing a long entry.
On a unrelated note, I'll be leaving for the UK tomorrow evening so there'll probably be a break in blog entries. I've also just ordered R4500 of travellers' cheques. I feel poor now.
23 July 2004
Playtested Mike's Dragonfire module, Gone, last night. It was tons of fun and I highly recommend it. One of the best modules I've played in years. As Tai said, it'll probably tax the DMs pretty heavily. It's also a good thing that it's running at Dragonfire since being with a bad group of players could seriously screw things up.
In other news, I'm definitely going to Cray for two days of training. It's costing an arm and a leg (assuming you get a good rate for your body parts) so I'm frantically trying stuff out in order to have lots of questions ready. Woot.
20 July 2004
ICON 2004 has come and gone. Or perhaps more accurately we have gone and come back.
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1 July 2004
Worked on the some of the magic and experience system for Sigil with MyrdemInggala last night. You don't realise how much work goes into creating the details of a setting and roleplaying system until you actually attempt it yourself. I'm really liking that fact that magical talents, spells and items are all covered by the same system mechanics.
Work-work on the ontology version control and accessioning system continues. The code base is slowing congealing into a workable system.