... first prize in a costume contest.

For which I won a £200 (!!!!) voucher for LRPstore.

Now to decide what to get.  So many shinies!

Went as smoothly as it could, but was as painful as expected.  Some of the people I had to put on the waitlist were ones who had contributed massively to the game OOC, but I had to keep it fair and make no exceptions ( Read more... )

A record whilst I am thinking about it, so I don't forget ( Read more... )

From dmwcarol

( 2010 Meme )

I have realised that I really really need a vacation.

A proper vacation.  A sitting on the beach in the sun drinking cocktails, reading 40K fic and doing absolutely nothing productive whatsoever  type of vacation.

Last time I did that was in 2003.

Anyone fancy going with me?  (serious question)

When I was about 7 years old, I wrote a story for school.  It was complete nonsense (as 7 year old's stories tend to be) about a bus magically appearing to take my best friend to a party.  I won a prize for it - a pen.  I don't remember having ever won a prize for anything before.  I was rather good at maths, but they didn't give prizes for that ( Read more... )

Oh I just love it when someone doing casting gets it absolutely perfectly spot on for me.  Happy days. :)

I get to stomp around in armour AND I get to do the 'Inquisitor' thing.  Awesome!

You are the Captain of the Bishop's guard and have been journeying through
blighted lands, towards the castle of  Thibaut de Beaumont where Arnulph, the
Bishop of ( Read more... )

So to get some writing practice in (particularly when it comes to descriptive stuff which is my weak spot), I started an interactive 'choose-your-own-adventure- style story thread on RPGnet.  It's coming out really well, so here's a link for anyone who's bored and wants something to read. :)

It's about an Imperial Inquisitor (surprised?  Really?  ( Read more... )

The guy sitting at the desk next to me just made a phone call.  I overheard.  I gawped and laughed.  Some quotes from his side of the phone call:

"Excuse me, I'd like to purchase some muscle cells."
"Human muscle cells."
"Yes, coronary."
"How much would that cost?"
"You don't have any immortalised?"
"I'm having real problems getting immortalised cells ( Read more... )

Still feeling nostalgic!  I suddenly remembered the 'Wacky Downtimes' contest ( Read more... )