Wednesday – 21 March 2007
Middle of the week and all is.

Last night, joined us for Shadowrun; she played one of the player group’s NPCs. The group, at the behest of their fixer, tracked down the team of runners who caused a good deal of strife for the fixer. That led to gunplay, spellslinging… and a clumsy troll. The players were outnumbered, 6 to 4… which made it roughly even odds. Unfortunately (depending on your point of view), the troll – who wasn’t the brainest member of the opposing group – had the brainstorm that throwing a table at the players was a good idea. This is where “theory vs. practical application” came into play. The theory was sound: Trolls are strong, tables are heavy… and there was a good chance that he could damage more than one player with the move. The practical application went something like this, however:

  • Troll sees table.
  • Troll picks up table.
  • Troll throws table.
  • *dice roll*
  • The dice roll says that the troll not only failed to hit, but that hit completely botched the throw.
  • *dice roll*
  • The table found a new target: one of the troll’s teammates. It effectively decapitated him… and hit with enough force to carry the body to the far side of the room.

Why is it that the pretty ones are never very smart? Wait… he was a troll; he was neither smart nor pretty. *sigh*
I don’t know if Nyx will be a regular or intermittent member of the game – or if she’ll decide that it’s not her thing – but it was fun having her play.

Stray Toasters

  • I’ve listened to Far Cry, the new release from the upcoming Rush CD Snakes and Arrows, a few times. I like it. But, then again, I’m biased.
  • One of our senior managers was standing at a cube wall a little while ago, with his fingers and the top of his head sticking over the wall – it looked like the quintessential “Kilroy Was Here” picture. So, I said called him Kilroy. He asked if I knew the origin of it. I told him that all I knew was that it was used in World War II. He then proceeded to tell me how it came to be used: When Allied forces would recon houses and other buildings – clearing traps and clearing out civilians – they would draw that on the wall as a sign to later squads that the houses have been gone though. I did a little more digging and found a little more information about its history on Wikipedia.
  • Yahoo! Movies has a trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.
  • Forget the film, watch the titles.
  • Jigsaw puzzles with missing pieces.
  • I live with it everyday…
  • Draw Supergirl.
  • I love it when someone asks you a question (“Where is [item a]? I just looked in [location x] and didn’t see any.”)
    …and you answer them (“There aren’t any in there.”)
    …and their immediate follow-up is a question (“Are they [shelf y] or [shelf z]?”)
    …that you had just rendered moot by saying “There aren’t any in there,” which I told him again.His reaction: “Oh.” *quizzical stare*
    Welcome to Wednesday.
  • Technopathy.
  • If you find the courage within you
    To face the path ahead
    It matters not the outcome
    If what you will gain instead
    Is a heart deepened in the knowing
    That experience carves the soul
    And the very thing that empties you
    Shall surely make you whole
  • In talking with this weekend, he mentioned a fun “project” that he and Nyx did a couple of years ago: They would take a random lyric and draw a picture based on it. If I remember correctly, that’s where her Rocket Mouse picture series started. Doing something like that sounds fun.
  • “How very Mary Tyler Moore of you.”
  • – Tigger socks land girl in detention, school in court

Time to finish eating and get back to the grind.

Namaste.