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Right, I am planning on being stressed this week and I thought it only right to warn people so they know what to expect when they talk to me...

I've got too much to do at work as I've got a project deadline this week and I'm checking my work and a collegue's who is on holiday.

I've got two outfits to finish for artificer. ammos has been great and leant me the perfect cloak to keep choccoweeble warm so that's a little less stress for me. But I still have to do over 20 button holes...

I've got roleplay society on Tuesday when I will be running a taster game that I have yet to design or create anything for. (I will pull something out of a hat if I must).

That's what I'm allowed to do. If you find me doing something else tell me off. If I'm doing one of the above and you pester me. Be warned it might not be pretty. ;)

Talk to you next Monday again when I'm back from Artificer and my life is less of a stress fest.

The world can be a little harsh on us storytellers and DMs when we don't have the time to prepare our thoughts properly.

There you go thinking that you've thought of every possible thing the players might ask when you send them off on a mission. You've ploted the stats for the demon they have to fight, you've worked out the layout of the building and what is within reach for the player to use as a weapon.

The battle is going well. You've chased them down the stairs, in a suitably demonesque manner, crawling over banisters with extra hands. The player runs for the lobby and grabs the fire extinguisher, they are just about to aim it at the beast when...

"What type of fire extinguisher is it?" The question is innocent but the scene grinds to a halt.

"A red one." I reply... "One of the normal ones..." Thus ensues a lovely debate as to the type and colour of the extinguisher in question. It should be said that yes I know thye come in different varieties...however I hadn't really given it much thought beyond that. Once we clarified that yes it was a red one and contained high pressure water* the scene could continue...

The player gets in a lucky shot stunning the demon slightly but it retaliated slicing across the player and hitting the extinguisher with its claws so that the whole thing explodes in from the pressure, sending bits flying around...

"No it wouldn't" The scene halted again.

"I'm sorry?" I said, preparing to fight my corner again.

"The pressure isn't that high." And the debate is on. Now the player whose life rested in the balance was nice and tried to help fight my corner but in the end it was a lost cause. I still maintained some damage could be caused but we glossed over it all as best we could.

So any of you budding DMs out there bewarned. If you have someone who has been trained as a fire marshall and has been given first hand knowledge of extinguishers...make sure there is a handy broom nearby instead...

Now as long as I avoid first hand demon experts I should be fine.

* This because that is the one to have in a building with the risk of paper based fires.

I spent most of yesterday evening working on preparing my characters for a return to Tintar and creating the character sheet for a 'new' character joining the group.

( Awaken...or How to make an intelligent dog )

Watch out the wiki will start being updated with their adventures again.

I haven't posted all week but have been meaning to... only thing is now it's not all fresh in my mind. I have had a busy week and not just physically. My brains been a bit haywire as well.

To explain my schedule so far has been

( What I've Done - Cut for being long and rambley and not that exciting )

Feeling in need of some time off being me as the rest of my week is just as hectic

( What I will be doing - also cut for rambliness and low interest factor )

I'd be looking forward to my weekend but that looks like organised mess as well. I think I need time off from being me. Christmas is looking awfully nice right now.

So I finally got round to updating my wiki for my oriental game. I just felt I had to get this week's update written up for people to read.

I decided to use my new found lego as a physical representation of what was happening as the session last week had ended with a scene that could result in a lot of collateral damage.

The players watched in avid fascination as I set the scene using lego minifigs, lego horses and playing cards for carts. By the end of the session, with the bad guy trying to escape, the casualties were as follows:

15 civilians dead and roughly another 20 injured including one horse, 2 demons dead, 2 unconscious and 2 alive and no players dead, though some injuries.

Links to photos will be added when I have the chance to upload them to flickr tonight.

EDIT: Look here for the photos.

I am in a strange mood today. All bouncy and hyper. I am reprising my role as "Skye the Halfling walking armory" at RPG, starting this evening. I've been updating and cleaning up her character sheet recently and boy did I have a lot of strange items. I even found two I'd forgotten I had and a whole list of stuff that could be cursed/magic or both, I hadn't had the time to check.

I just wanted to say that as I was asked whether there was a log of Skye's adventures anywhere, so I am now setting one up. The Adventures of S.O.R. AKA Skye's Diary.

Enjoy

So having sold my pedometer to mum as she broke hers I haven't moved much this week. What with the website to finish and work I barely got out of my seat and my computer screen became to familiar.

So yesterday I took matters into my own hands and went to replace the pedometer. I still spent most of the day stationary but at least I had one.

Today started a bit better though I ended up being online all morning the website is visitable (though mac users beware it still needs tweeking.)

I left for town in the car unfortunately as I had time constraints. RPG subs had to be paid and I wanted to be early. 40mins in a queue and I can tell you that I can personally vouch for 7 members being paid up. The downside is I paid for 3, yes 3, of them.

I then walked through town and did my shopping. To be extra healthy when I needed a drink I went for a lovely berry blend of strawberry, rasberry and blueberry with applejuice and lowfat frozen yoghurt. Feel the natural goodness. I then went home.

ALl in all an ok restart to my 10000 step challenge even if today I only clocked up 5889 steps. Tomorrow I will get more hopefully. Erddig here we come (I've promised K a nationaltrust membership)

Freshers fair has come and gone and our Roleplay & Games Society was more successful this year than ever. 32 brand spanking new signatures and most of those are actual interested parties!

Our taster sessions have been planned to a tea with Five dm's on standby on the off chance that we get ALL the players that said they would come. We've even made sure to cater for the battle gamers and card gamers this year in our tasters with skirmish games available for them. We booked the rooms (four in total though we increased this to six after demand) on wednesday last week.

Soraya and Katherine have been slaving over a really cool Buffy scenario that would make the big man proud. Also had I not heard all the details, and were not dming myself, I would have loved to play.

The e-mail has gone out with whats on offer and date and time. I even shook off the cold I've had all week. You'd think nothing could harm us now.

( You would be wrong )

I'll tell you how it goes tomorrow.

In other news be careful what you use as an example when explaining words

( Underwater Fish )

Cut for very long explanations...

( I can say it will be fine, it’s a beautiful lie )

( The Further adventures of Blaze the mad tinker. )

Great escapes – Dusty the hamster has escaped again! This makes five times now. He never seems to use the same way twice. So having lost the hamster how to find him again? Solution look in the same place as usual. For some unknown reason he always escapes to the same place under the bed. To prove he’s a real RPG player’s hamster he was even asleep on top of my Warhammer box.

Tea’s so far: One so far…

So you wake up and realise what a strange dream you truly had and then try to imagine what on earth caused it. Lack of sleep in my case always triggers the weirdest dreams and today was no exception.

( See what I mean )

So anyway managed to go another step on my road to using up all the yeast I have by making a batch of Cinnamon buns but they didn't rise the second time. I really think my brother is better at making these than I am. This is the second time I've tried and they still are nothing like the ones we used to have. Though still nice. Anyhow still have yeast left so another culinary masterpiece is on the way possibly, it might flop a bit too. Tunnbröd here I come.

Teas so far: None *Sob* never have them in the morning of an early start. Will have to make up for it later.