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Okay. Trip report and, uh, stuff.
I either missed the bus or the one I was trying to catch didn't run; given the number of people in central who were bitching out the driver for being late for the one I was trying to catch (and arguably on-time for the next one) I'm guessing the latter.
The new and exciting thing about the T is the Charlie Cards, the new T passes that they're starting to phase in. The machines are actually fairly easy to use and forgiving -- mind, I grew up with FareCard in DC, which is a high-level course in figuring out how to persuade machines to accept slightly crinkled bills -- but the Bostonians need some debugging. The person a little ahead of me in the queue asked for a receipt and then left it in the machine, which kept it stalled waiting for them to remove it, and the elderly couple in front of me started trying to brute force change into the machine while it was still waiting for someone to end the last transaction. I snagged the receipt out so it would clear, but not before the entire morass attracted an attendant who ran the transaction for the elderly couple and then decided that I needed help too. (Cue the guy with the zebra: "Stop helping me!")
Fairly uneventful getting to the airport and rattling around; finally met up with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
teinedreugan, grabbed a burger, and retreated to the gate where we sat around commenting mostly on the news that was running (which was all hurricane stuff) and being intermittently deafened by the announcements from the international terminal (which was a completely different place, but apparently on the same circuit).
Uneventful flight. A little rattling around the Atlanta airport (where there are stealth guerilla loos lurking in unexpected places), acquisition of a loaf of soup (and now I'm pondering whether I can come up with a decently hefty vegetarian soup and do loaves of soup for a later Firefly showing, presuming I can get yeasties that will actually rise), and location of anerispope. Stopped by the grocery on the way back and finally repaired to erispope's parents' place, where we were staying (as erispope has discarded the Futon of Backbreaking Doom).
Stayed up way too fucking late chatting religion and gaming witherispope and Buzz, especially given that I was short on sleep since I stayed up too late playing on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
rosemush the night before figuring that exhaustion would help me hard-reset.
Blurry sleep, unfamiliar place and all. We eventually got our collective acts together and out the door, and made it out and towards the con with a stop at the grocery to get our registrations through Ticketmaster squared away. At one point I noticed my phone had messages; Chavi had called me a few hours before. I called her back, got a 'call cannot connect', tried again, got a rather bewildered roommate. She called me back, my phone didn't ring -- my phone, in fact, did not go off any of the times people called me the entire time I was actually in Atlanta -- and we managed a bit of phone tag before making contact, and decided to meet up at the Emerald Rose concert so I could blunder around looking forshaddragon.
erispope, teinedreugan, and Buzz went off for lunch; I eventually found Chavi and we watched the concert. After a little pondering, we decided to take a turn around the Exhibition Hall. (I think we were aiming for the Dealer's Room, but we missed.)
The fascinating thing about Chavi is that she appears to know everyone. I commented on this to her, and she said, "Well, the ones I don't know, I introduce myself to!" We took a loop around the room and wound up parked in front of the Laughing Pan Productions booth (oh, hey, they have a photo of the booth up) with her having a lengthy conversation with Phil Brucato. He said he was going to be doing a game run of his game tomorrow at three; she discussed demoing it with her regional gaming organisation; etc.
Eventually it got to be about four and Chavi went off to meet up with someone. I took a sweep back through the room to ogle shiny things and to buy a fan tipped with peacock feathers that was crying, "Get me! Get me and put me on your Feri shrine! By the way, had you noticed that it's fucking hot in Atlanta at this time of year? Get me!"
Then I wandered over to the signing room where Steve Miller was signing, since he'd posted to rasfc he was going to be there and was looking for other cat-vacuumers. Wound up chatting with him for a bit and hearing stories and being amused by the people who were coming by for signings.
Then sought outteinedreugan and we went and got some dinner. It was a very mediocre steak. After that we caught up with erispope and Buzz, made vague plans, and I took him through the Exhibitors to show him some of the shiny things that I'd seen and got captured by an exceedingly enthusiastic salesman.
Eventually we all repaired toerispope's house and played Warcraft. It is stunning how fast things die when one has a party composed of two warriors and two hunters. Have yet to get a good handle on aggro management as a warrior.
I can't remember if it was Saturday or the day before that we had the hummingbird dogfight. I think it was actually Friday, but I am remembering it here so I'll write about it here.erispope's parents have a hummingbird feeder out, and they were bickering over who got to use it, with helicopter dogfight motions. Occasionally a third or even fourth bird would join the fray, and at that point someone typically had a few moments un-divebombed to use the feeder because all the other hummingbirds were occupied.
It was amazing stuff to watch and giggle over. Buzz heard at least one actual impact.
When we got to the con, we had some excitement of type "Buzz misplaces con badge but locates it in pocket later" and then wandered --teinedreugan and myself down to the booth with the shiny velvet things, with erispope trailing along, and then eventually over to Laughing Pan to wait for the Deleria demo. erispope got hijacked into a game of pirates (teinedreugan picked up a copy of that and will probably bring it to game night sometime) and then we finally got going.
Phil had picked out a couple of places where we could game in relative peace, and brought the players along in a trailing tail of people, waving a couple of copies of the main sourcebook over his head and provoking a great deal of Life of Brian quoting thereby. ("Splitters!") Eventually we wound up tucked into a spot in the hotel with a couple of couches and a table, and started talking about the game, gaming philosophy, and the like.
There were six players in the group; myself,erispope, two fellows from the UK with completely distinct accents (one of whom, it was revealed, is going for a PhD so that he can be in the future referred to, entirely truthfully, as "Dr. Strange", that being his surname), a slight young woman with purple hair and vampire teeth, and the twenty-or-so-year-old clone of Alan Cumming. The UK contingent were appropriately amused and perhaps a little perplexed by erispope's Anglophilic pursuit of bizarre crisps (she found a packet of Cajun Dill-flavored ones).
I'm not kidding about the clone, though. Rail-thin, wearing a white mesh shirt (I kept, oddly enough, being distracted by nipples), that same pursed-up smile and high arched cheekbones, wearing Harlequin makeup ('Harlequin' was on his namebadge), flipped a coin to decide his character's sex. . .
It was a great little game.sstaten, are you familiar with Deleria yet? I think you'd like it, and we had a lot of fun with the game. Very mechanics-light, story-focused, and we ran into a woodland sidhe type that erispope's character referred to as "Darth Barbie". I will probably be writing something in-character as Elsie -- the character I played in it -- later, as she's rattling around in my head a little trying to process the experience.
More milling around. Calledshaddragon and managed to get a brief meeting in before everyone else mutinied and carried me off to dinner. She had a really handsome sea-dragon Caligan with her; I can't find a picture of him though.
Chinese food. More Warcraft. Sleep somewhere saner.
Got there early so I could meet Chavi for lunch. Rattling around a bit, found her in the food court, grabbed pizza and confirmed that she had water. Discussed a miscellaneous bunch of stuff before wandering off again.
Swept through the Dealer's Room, poked at the Exhibitor's Hall (somewhere in here I stopped by the place with the velvet things and told them I'd been telling people how to find them since people kept asking me where I got my robe).
Feri thought: when one plays the peacock one gets complimented.
Wound up going withteinedreugan to a really bizarre tattoo presentation from the All or Nothing Tattoo people, who are -- whoa -- in Smyrna. Very nice work, humor that took a bit to get used to. Will be poking a bit at their galleries and seeing what I think of their work when I don't have to squint at the screen and/or risk getting squirtgunned.
Ran intoshaddragon again and wound up introduced to someone named Flute and discussed pagany things including erispope's Glittery Runes of +1 Conversation-Stopping.
Had minor drama when Buzz did not appear at the rendezvous, went to airport without. Acquired some food and unfortunately wound up in a location that was too hot to eat in, so didn't get much. Mild excitement involving cheese sauce.
Got to airplane eventually, dozed lightly with occasional spasmtastically loud interruptions from the pilot who wanted to make sure those of us who were ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE PLANE were aware of the presence of OUR NATION'S CAPITAL and other such CRITICALLY SHOUTABLE LANDMARKS.
Made it home, where there was next to no milk.
Slept, and got kitty snuggles.
So that was my weekend.
I either missed the bus or the one I was trying to catch didn't run; given the number of people in central who were bitching out the driver for being late for the one I was trying to catch (and arguably on-time for the next one) I'm guessing the latter.
The new and exciting thing about the T is the Charlie Cards, the new T passes that they're starting to phase in. The machines are actually fairly easy to use and forgiving -- mind, I grew up with FareCard in DC, which is a high-level course in figuring out how to persuade machines to accept slightly crinkled bills -- but the Bostonians need some debugging. The person a little ahead of me in the queue asked for a receipt and then left it in the machine, which kept it stalled waiting for them to remove it, and the elderly couple in front of me started trying to brute force change into the machine while it was still waiting for someone to end the last transaction. I snagged the receipt out so it would clear, but not before the entire morass attracted an attendant who ran the transaction for the elderly couple and then decided that I needed help too. (Cue the guy with the zebra: "Stop helping me!")
Fairly uneventful getting to the airport and rattling around; finally met up with
teinedreugan, grabbed a burger, and retreated to the gate where we sat around commenting mostly on the news that was running (which was all hurricane stuff) and being intermittently deafened by the announcements from the international terminal (which was a completely different place, but apparently on the same circuit).Uneventful flight. A little rattling around the Atlanta airport (where there are stealth guerilla loos lurking in unexpected places), acquisition of a loaf of soup (and now I'm pondering whether I can come up with a decently hefty vegetarian soup and do loaves of soup for a later Firefly showing, presuming I can get yeasties that will actually rise), and location of an
erispope. Stopped by the grocery on the way back and finally repaired to erispope's parents' place, where we were staying (as erispope has discarded the Futon of Backbreaking Doom).Stayed up way too fucking late chatting religion and gaming with
erispope and Buzz, especially given that I was short on sleep since I stayed up too late playing on rosemush the night before figuring that exhaustion would help me hard-reset.Blurry sleep, unfamiliar place and all. We eventually got our collective acts together and out the door, and made it out and towards the con with a stop at the grocery to get our registrations through Ticketmaster squared away. At one point I noticed my phone had messages; Chavi had called me a few hours before. I called her back, got a 'call cannot connect', tried again, got a rather bewildered roommate. She called me back, my phone didn't ring -- my phone, in fact, did not go off any of the times people called me the entire time I was actually in Atlanta -- and we managed a bit of phone tag before making contact, and decided to meet up at the Emerald Rose concert so I could blunder around looking for
shaddragon.erispope, teinedreugan, and Buzz went off for lunch; I eventually found Chavi and we watched the concert. After a little pondering, we decided to take a turn around the Exhibition Hall. (I think we were aiming for the Dealer's Room, but we missed.)The fascinating thing about Chavi is that she appears to know everyone. I commented on this to her, and she said, "Well, the ones I don't know, I introduce myself to!" We took a loop around the room and wound up parked in front of the Laughing Pan Productions booth (oh, hey, they have a photo of the booth up) with her having a lengthy conversation with Phil Brucato. He said he was going to be doing a game run of his game tomorrow at three; she discussed demoing it with her regional gaming organisation; etc.
Eventually it got to be about four and Chavi went off to meet up with someone. I took a sweep back through the room to ogle shiny things and to buy a fan tipped with peacock feathers that was crying, "Get me! Get me and put me on your Feri shrine! By the way, had you noticed that it's fucking hot in Atlanta at this time of year? Get me!"
Then I wandered over to the signing room where Steve Miller was signing, since he'd posted to rasfc he was going to be there and was looking for other cat-vacuumers. Wound up chatting with him for a bit and hearing stories and being amused by the people who were coming by for signings.
Then sought out
teinedreugan and we went and got some dinner. It was a very mediocre steak. After that we caught up with erispope and Buzz, made vague plans, and I took him through the Exhibitors to show him some of the shiny things that I'd seen and got captured by an exceedingly enthusiastic salesman.Eventually we all repaired to
erispope's house and played Warcraft. It is stunning how fast things die when one has a party composed of two warriors and two hunters. Have yet to get a good handle on aggro management as a warrior.I can't remember if it was Saturday or the day before that we had the hummingbird dogfight. I think it was actually Friday, but I am remembering it here so I'll write about it here.
erispope's parents have a hummingbird feeder out, and they were bickering over who got to use it, with helicopter dogfight motions. Occasionally a third or even fourth bird would join the fray, and at that point someone typically had a few moments un-divebombed to use the feeder because all the other hummingbirds were occupied.It was amazing stuff to watch and giggle over. Buzz heard at least one actual impact.
When we got to the con, we had some excitement of type "Buzz misplaces con badge but locates it in pocket later" and then wandered --
teinedreugan and myself down to the booth with the shiny velvet things, with erispope trailing along, and then eventually over to Laughing Pan to wait for the Deleria demo. erispope got hijacked into a game of pirates (teinedreugan picked up a copy of that and will probably bring it to game night sometime) and then we finally got going.Phil had picked out a couple of places where we could game in relative peace, and brought the players along in a trailing tail of people, waving a couple of copies of the main sourcebook over his head and provoking a great deal of Life of Brian quoting thereby. ("Splitters!") Eventually we wound up tucked into a spot in the hotel with a couple of couches and a table, and started talking about the game, gaming philosophy, and the like.
There were six players in the group; myself,
erispope, two fellows from the UK with completely distinct accents (one of whom, it was revealed, is going for a PhD so that he can be in the future referred to, entirely truthfully, as "Dr. Strange", that being his surname), a slight young woman with purple hair and vampire teeth, and the twenty-or-so-year-old clone of Alan Cumming. The UK contingent were appropriately amused and perhaps a little perplexed by erispope's Anglophilic pursuit of bizarre crisps (she found a packet of Cajun Dill-flavored ones).I'm not kidding about the clone, though. Rail-thin, wearing a white mesh shirt (I kept, oddly enough, being distracted by nipples), that same pursed-up smile and high arched cheekbones, wearing Harlequin makeup ('Harlequin' was on his namebadge), flipped a coin to decide his character's sex. . .
It was a great little game.
sstaten, are you familiar with Deleria yet? I think you'd like it, and we had a lot of fun with the game. Very mechanics-light, story-focused, and we ran into a woodland sidhe type that erispope's character referred to as "Darth Barbie". I will probably be writing something in-character as Elsie -- the character I played in it -- later, as she's rattling around in my head a little trying to process the experience.More milling around. Called
shaddragon and managed to get a brief meeting in before everyone else mutinied and carried me off to dinner. She had a really handsome sea-dragon Caligan with her; I can't find a picture of him though.Chinese food. More Warcraft. Sleep somewhere saner.
Got there early so I could meet Chavi for lunch. Rattling around a bit, found her in the food court, grabbed pizza and confirmed that she had water. Discussed a miscellaneous bunch of stuff before wandering off again.
Swept through the Dealer's Room, poked at the Exhibitor's Hall (somewhere in here I stopped by the place with the velvet things and told them I'd been telling people how to find them since people kept asking me where I got my robe).
Feri thought: when one plays the peacock one gets complimented.
Wound up going with
teinedreugan to a really bizarre tattoo presentation from the All or Nothing Tattoo people, who are -- whoa -- in Smyrna. Very nice work, humor that took a bit to get used to. Will be poking a bit at their galleries and seeing what I think of their work when I don't have to squint at the screen and/or risk getting squirtgunned.Ran into
shaddragon again and wound up introduced to someone named Flute and discussed pagany things including erispope's Glittery Runes of +1 Conversation-Stopping.Had minor drama when Buzz did not appear at the rendezvous, went to airport without. Acquired some food and unfortunately wound up in a location that was too hot to eat in, so didn't get much. Mild excitement involving cheese sauce.
Got to airplane eventually, dozed lightly with occasional spasmtastically loud interruptions from the pilot who wanted to make sure those of us who were ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE PLANE were aware of the presence of OUR NATION'S CAPITAL and other such CRITICALLY SHOUTABLE LANDMARKS.
Made it home, where there was next to no milk.
Slept, and got kitty snuggles.
So that was my weekend.
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And the Caligan in question hasn't been put up on the site yet - I've been holding off on the mass quantity of wireless ones until I get a site revamp done. Soon!
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That would explain why I couldn't find him. ;)
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And yah, a low level warrior (the only kind i've played) has a hard time with aggro, I think it'll get better as you go up in levels though.
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Deleria is a Changeling-type setting done right. I'll catch you on guild chat at some point to talk about it, as I don't think I'm capable of coherence without questions right now. :}
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We have recruited another priest for the Unseelies! Do you know of any repeatable Darnassus quests other than Morrowgrain and the high-end cloth quests? (She's planning on a dorf who winds up with a cat.) I'll probably be having Samh help her through the tunnels so she can go to Teldrassil and work on gaining elfy rep this evening.
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Wanna go fishing? :)
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