Trick or Treat Exchange

Last week was a pretty good one for leisure media and entertainment.

Games: A satellite member of the GeekBBQ crew had their birthday gathering at said GeekBBQ this Saturday; between the various attendees we had close to 40 board game options. Many were familiar, but I did play the new-to-me Mountain Goats, which was both a great deal of fun and perfectly suited to playing in a boisterous, distraction-filled environment. Moreover, it is a game I could easily recreate on the fly with index cards and ad hoc game pieces, and probably will do. I played the also new-to-me Wavelength, which lived up to the enjoyability hype even if (as confirmed by subsequent research) the people explaining the rules to us did not quite have them all down.

Music: This week I was part of the live music, first at a recurring Sunday pub session, and later at an invite only(!) house session. The second in particular was a blast: I was the only non-string melody instrument, a fact which delighted the other string melody and backing participants and which is...not always the reception flute/whistle players get. Better yet, I know a ton of tunes that they do not--and vice versa--so there is a lot of cross pollination to look forward to. (I knew things were going to work out when the host remarked, "I wish we had another moody hornpipe to go with Rights of Man." Moody hornpipe, you say? I have several, and I already have them in sets, too. 😎) I am really, really looking forward to the next gathering with both these groups.

Podcasts: Revisited some segments from earlier Grimfrost podcasts, but nothing new.

Roleplaying: The GC DMed a one-shot for the Occasional DM Heist Group on Friday, in which I revisited my goblin rogue--one of my favorite characters. This session's heist involved stealing a magical portrait from an arcane cult mansion. I'd hoped for more arcane cult flavor from the setting than it actually involved, but the heist itself was a lot of fun and we once more managed to pull it off solely through fuckery and smooth talking. As a bonus, one of the players will be DMing a Cyberpunk one-shot for us this Friday, and we set up the planning and logistics for that.

We left Saturday's birthday party a bit early to play the latest session with Newest D&D Campaign, which picked up after a major cliffhanger and concluded on another major cliffhanger. I love this campaign, this DM, and this group so much. This is just one of those campaigns were everything jived at the first session and has not gone off the rails since. Better yet, one of the other players and I are going to set up a mini-session for our two characters.

Television: We wrapped up season 12 of Last Week Tonight, continued to poke halfheartedly at AEW ahead of the PPV, and watched the first hour of The American Revolution.

Video Games: Still playing Ultima IV. Still trying to get the freaking pirate ship. The GC completed Suikoden I and is making steady progress on II, after which I will revisit them myself.

これで以上です。