Why I hate my college
This post was supposed to be about the 24 hour and how much it rocked but recent events have caused that to be preceded by a moan about life. My apologies.
I have to attend lectures and learn and do student type things otherwise my life will consist of trained monkey work in a shop somewhere, but sometimes I think I lack the willpower to continue.
Usually it is the monkeys on the course that make me feel this way, but today is the turn of college admin. They send out a letter saying 'Don't forget, Term starts on 04/17 but when I get there I find that term actually starts next week and I could have stayed in bed. *Grrr*
Unfortunately the weekend started rather badly
The saturday began early with the discovery that the shower was broken, forcing me to have a bath instead. Not bad in itself but if your in a hurry its a bit of a pain. Still, having paired my camping gear down to the bone by ditching my tent and sleeping bag (magic addict said I could borrow his tent, airbed and sleeping bag to save space) I managed to fit everything but weapons into one holdall and then it was off to UEH to catch a lif to florians house where we reshuffled the baggage and passengers and into two cars and off we went to the campsite with me now in e_ninjas car. The journey was supposed to be about an hour and a half but somehow it took us three. This could have something to do with e_ninja being told to turn right and saying 'I don't like that road, lets take the next one'.
Once at the campsite things picked up a bit with magicaddicts tent going up with little trouble. And then the next problem turned up, I had forgotten to bring magicaddicts sleeping bag and we had been unable to bring the airbed. This left me with my leather jacket and cloak as the only bedding available (luckily the cloak is fur trimmed wool and quite warm so I survived the night).
This snag proved to be the last problem of the weekend as I reported in to roadkillgerbil as a ready and willing monster and was immediately given a long term plot role to play for the whole after noon. Over the course of the afternoon I had fun talking to some of the high level characters who I've never met IC before (not having a viable HL character) and then had my thumbs broken and got put to the question by the party who suspected me of daemonology. It was just after I'd been tied to a chair that my mobile rang and I answered in a way that I will probably never top 'Can you call me back I'm being interrogated'
The character was acquitted and decided to go home at this point and I played a series of small guard and bandit parts until close to time out when I got to play the main villain of the plot and set up the next days linear by striding out of the darkness complete with huge daemon claws and kidnap cheekychipmunk who was playing the other major plot NPC of the event.
The night, as has already bean mentioned, was cold but the linear on the sunday went off more or less without a hitch. kudos to almost_honest and roadkillgerbil for stating monsters which could face off against the likes of Nab and Rain but weren't to powerful for the low level characters like Dem and Tempest to handle.
The final encounter worried me a little as I read the stats for my daemon lord. easily the most powerful monster I have every played or seen played but good use of power by Travesty reduced me from godlike to merely frighteningly powerful.
The weekend was rounded off with hotpork giving me a lift back to bath along with doribore and john_hobbit and a collapse into bed. SLA the next day went off without a hitch and everyone seemed to enjoy it even though I was making it all up as I went along and tomorrow evening Sci-Fi club starts up again, yet another excuse to spend money I don't have. I'm going to have to stop finding those...
I have to attend lectures and learn and do student type things otherwise my life will consist of trained monkey work in a shop somewhere, but sometimes I think I lack the willpower to continue.
Usually it is the monkeys on the course that make me feel this way, but today is the turn of college admin. They send out a letter saying 'Don't forget, Term starts on 04/17 but when I get there I find that term actually starts next week and I could have stayed in bed. *Grrr*
Unfortunately the weekend started rather badly
The saturday began early with the discovery that the shower was broken, forcing me to have a bath instead. Not bad in itself but if your in a hurry its a bit of a pain. Still, having paired my camping gear down to the bone by ditching my tent and sleeping bag (magic addict said I could borrow his tent, airbed and sleeping bag to save space) I managed to fit everything but weapons into one holdall and then it was off to UEH to catch a lif to florians house where we reshuffled the baggage and passengers and into two cars and off we went to the campsite with me now in e_ninjas car. The journey was supposed to be about an hour and a half but somehow it took us three. This could have something to do with e_ninja being told to turn right and saying 'I don't like that road, lets take the next one'.
Once at the campsite things picked up a bit with magicaddicts tent going up with little trouble. And then the next problem turned up, I had forgotten to bring magicaddicts sleeping bag and we had been unable to bring the airbed. This left me with my leather jacket and cloak as the only bedding available (luckily the cloak is fur trimmed wool and quite warm so I survived the night).
This snag proved to be the last problem of the weekend as I reported in to roadkillgerbil as a ready and willing monster and was immediately given a long term plot role to play for the whole after noon. Over the course of the afternoon I had fun talking to some of the high level characters who I've never met IC before (not having a viable HL character) and then had my thumbs broken and got put to the question by the party who suspected me of daemonology. It was just after I'd been tied to a chair that my mobile rang and I answered in a way that I will probably never top 'Can you call me back I'm being interrogated'
The character was acquitted and decided to go home at this point and I played a series of small guard and bandit parts until close to time out when I got to play the main villain of the plot and set up the next days linear by striding out of the darkness complete with huge daemon claws and kidnap cheekychipmunk who was playing the other major plot NPC of the event.
The night, as has already bean mentioned, was cold but the linear on the sunday went off more or less without a hitch. kudos to almost_honest and roadkillgerbil for stating monsters which could face off against the likes of Nab and Rain but weren't to powerful for the low level characters like Dem and Tempest to handle.
The final encounter worried me a little as I read the stats for my daemon lord. easily the most powerful monster I have every played or seen played but good use of power by Travesty reduced me from godlike to merely frighteningly powerful.
The weekend was rounded off with hotpork giving me a lift back to bath along with doribore and john_hobbit and a collapse into bed. SLA the next day went off without a hitch and everyone seemed to enjoy it even though I was making it all up as I went along and tomorrow evening Sci-Fi club starts up again, yet another excuse to spend money I don't have. I'm going to have to stop finding those...