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Oct. 18th, 2004 03:19 pm(Note 'today' is 18th)
Today I was half an hour late for my first lecture, due to not getting more than ten minutes' sleep at a time all night, and hence being rather dead. (If the busses had been running on time I would only have been a quarter of an hour late, but that's busses for you.) It was the first day of 9-1 lectures and I was rather too dead to actually concentrate. Also, the new course has lots of notes which are apparently useless and a massive textbook we're expected to buy, and our friend the Deadly Boring Lecturer Voice. And it's something I really need to *learn*, not something trivial. So I may have to buy a Really Huge Book, a prospect I dislike intensely.
Yesterday, after a slightly less useless night of sleep, but only slightly, I spodded for an hour before church and had to drive in the end to make it in time. Thankfully there was still somewhere to park in the school. There was lots of dancing which I was surprisingly happy about given how dead I was generally, although I did spend quite a while struggling not to go to sleep because of being so tired. Afterwards there was food, faster than I expected. Then I ran off about 1:15pm in order to tidy my room up.
There was D&D, which I'd told people I might be late for, so they were late; there was also much general chattering, which suited me because I wasn't very awake. Some stuff got blown up, and the session ran out of steam about 6pm, which was fine by me because I wanted to go and eat food. There was a massive queue, which irritated Matthew but not me, as I had nothing better to do.
There were actually two edible options in Hall for once. Maybe I should show up early more often. Also there were rather anemic mushrooms in breadcrumbs - it appears their 'foo in breadcrumbs' machine is busted. We met Jack, and speculated merrily about Enemy, but Requiem appeared to be with a bunch of boaties.
After Hall, Matthew got distracted talking to Jack, but Tom did follow me back to my room, which was vaguely annoying because I didn't really feel too sociable. Eventually he disappeared, and I got on with some spodding before failing miserably to get to sleep.
The day before, I meant to get up at about noon, but instead got up at 7:30am due to not being able to sleep most of the night anyhow. Then I spodded mightily until it was noon, and faffed with LARP stuff until it was half past noon, and then had to walk very fast to Queens' having forgotten there were no busses on a Saturday.
When I got to Queens' Plodge I worried that everyone had set out without me despite the fact I was 15mins before walking-out-time, but it just so happened that they had been dim and not left anyone there to direct people to the right room. I met Toni on the way out of the Plodge to walk disconsolately home, and so managed to find people. I had decided I should character so I dealt with putting together my character sheet, as the computers in the Mac Room didn't have SFTP obviously so I couldn't actually yoink it from my computer and print.
Eventually the faff was all over, and we set off to Grantchester Meadows. Meeting Tom there, a bit more equipmentfaff ensued, and then the character party were left to be briefed on what was going on. My character, Jaicinth, was an illiterate, innumerate Kendar, and a scout. We had two scouts. I forgot about my DAC throughout, I've just realised, but that's okay because it was only relevant once.
There was apparently an undead problem; first there was a toll bridge problem, which I attempted to deal with by fording the river, but didn't do so far down enough, so I had an incoherant peasent push me back in. Then I walked off and hid while the party irritated and killed one of the peasents, and ran back to inform them there was a ford a mile down the river (a fabrication) as they'd finished them off.
After that, we did find a slight undead problem, and didn't manage to kill the apprentice, irritatingly; Jaicinth hid merrily and then charged in at the end of the fight when everything was at least mostly dead, then raced off after the apprentice but trailed back saying she was kind of bogged down by the supposedly soaking wet fur armour.
There was another slight undead problem during which Jaicinth was supposedly attempting to creep around the back of them, and a slight mad villager problem where Jaicinth ran off up the river to try and find a ford, but got interested and hid to listen in (mm, Acute Hearing and a 14' stealth distance), a slight rat-catcher issue in which we discover something amiss in the guilds, and a confusion of teleporting people.
There was some fun with a barrier of magical fire, so Jaicinth backed off to a safe distance and ate some nice blackberries while Brother Gilbert, who actually knew things as opposed to Jaicinth's confident line in rubbish, dealt with it. Then there was some fun with a mage and some demons, where Jaicinth actually attempted to land some blows on the mage, although she got scared off by a stray demon from actually doing any good. While stringing the mage's body up in a bush for later interrogation (he wasn't quite dead and they stopped him bleeding), she raided his pockets and found some of that money paper stuff, although she wasn't sure how much. Kept it, though.
Eventually they found the necromancer, along with some skeles and a quite irritating ghoul, who wasn't very irritating because Brother Gilbert dealt with it expertly. Jaicinth actually had to do some fighting because they broke Roxy's legs and nobody was defending her against the two skeles, and then Brother Gilbert started yelling about being hurt and was being chased, and her armour was a right state and one of them actually got a blow in across her back which really stung, not to mention the rather sickening snapping noise her left arm had made.
Nothing untoward occurred on the long trudge back to Grantebrugge, though, so the party were all okay. 11xp.
After LARP it was only about 4pm so we trailed over to Poohsoc, although I probably shouldn't have because I was very shouty and upset when I thought I wouldn't get a seat as my legs hurt. After Poohsoc I insisted on Nicholas walking all the way back to Chu because I was feeling really quite flaky. Then he ran off to get his bike from Queens' and get fed, and I fell asleep, briefly. I spent most of the night coughing and reading.
Today I was half an hour late for my first lecture, due to not getting more than ten minutes' sleep at a time all night, and hence being rather dead. (If the busses had been running on time I would only have been a quarter of an hour late, but that's busses for you.) It was the first day of 9-1 lectures and I was rather too dead to actually concentrate. Also, the new course has lots of notes which are apparently useless and a massive textbook we're expected to buy, and our friend the Deadly Boring Lecturer Voice. And it's something I really need to *learn*, not something trivial. So I may have to buy a Really Huge Book, a prospect I dislike intensely.
Yesterday, after a slightly less useless night of sleep, but only slightly, I spodded for an hour before church and had to drive in the end to make it in time. Thankfully there was still somewhere to park in the school. There was lots of dancing which I was surprisingly happy about given how dead I was generally, although I did spend quite a while struggling not to go to sleep because of being so tired. Afterwards there was food, faster than I expected. Then I ran off about 1:15pm in order to tidy my room up.
There was D&D, which I'd told people I might be late for, so they were late; there was also much general chattering, which suited me because I wasn't very awake. Some stuff got blown up, and the session ran out of steam about 6pm, which was fine by me because I wanted to go and eat food. There was a massive queue, which irritated Matthew but not me, as I had nothing better to do.
There were actually two edible options in Hall for once. Maybe I should show up early more often. Also there were rather anemic mushrooms in breadcrumbs - it appears their 'foo in breadcrumbs' machine is busted. We met Jack, and speculated merrily about Enemy, but Requiem appeared to be with a bunch of boaties.
After Hall, Matthew got distracted talking to Jack, but Tom did follow me back to my room, which was vaguely annoying because I didn't really feel too sociable. Eventually he disappeared, and I got on with some spodding before failing miserably to get to sleep.
The day before, I meant to get up at about noon, but instead got up at 7:30am due to not being able to sleep most of the night anyhow. Then I spodded mightily until it was noon, and faffed with LARP stuff until it was half past noon, and then had to walk very fast to Queens' having forgotten there were no busses on a Saturday.
When I got to Queens' Plodge I worried that everyone had set out without me despite the fact I was 15mins before walking-out-time, but it just so happened that they had been dim and not left anyone there to direct people to the right room. I met Toni on the way out of the Plodge to walk disconsolately home, and so managed to find people. I had decided I should character so I dealt with putting together my character sheet, as the computers in the Mac Room didn't have SFTP obviously so I couldn't actually yoink it from my computer and print.
Eventually the faff was all over, and we set off to Grantchester Meadows. Meeting Tom there, a bit more equipmentfaff ensued, and then the character party were left to be briefed on what was going on. My character, Jaicinth, was an illiterate, innumerate Kendar, and a scout. We had two scouts. I forgot about my DAC throughout, I've just realised, but that's okay because it was only relevant once.
There was apparently an undead problem; first there was a toll bridge problem, which I attempted to deal with by fording the river, but didn't do so far down enough, so I had an incoherant peasent push me back in. Then I walked off and hid while the party irritated and killed one of the peasents, and ran back to inform them there was a ford a mile down the river (a fabrication) as they'd finished them off.
After that, we did find a slight undead problem, and didn't manage to kill the apprentice, irritatingly; Jaicinth hid merrily and then charged in at the end of the fight when everything was at least mostly dead, then raced off after the apprentice but trailed back saying she was kind of bogged down by the supposedly soaking wet fur armour.
There was another slight undead problem during which Jaicinth was supposedly attempting to creep around the back of them, and a slight mad villager problem where Jaicinth ran off up the river to try and find a ford, but got interested and hid to listen in (mm, Acute Hearing and a 14' stealth distance), a slight rat-catcher issue in which we discover something amiss in the guilds, and a confusion of teleporting people.
There was some fun with a barrier of magical fire, so Jaicinth backed off to a safe distance and ate some nice blackberries while Brother Gilbert, who actually knew things as opposed to Jaicinth's confident line in rubbish, dealt with it. Then there was some fun with a mage and some demons, where Jaicinth actually attempted to land some blows on the mage, although she got scared off by a stray demon from actually doing any good. While stringing the mage's body up in a bush for later interrogation (he wasn't quite dead and they stopped him bleeding), she raided his pockets and found some of that money paper stuff, although she wasn't sure how much. Kept it, though.
Eventually they found the necromancer, along with some skeles and a quite irritating ghoul, who wasn't very irritating because Brother Gilbert dealt with it expertly. Jaicinth actually had to do some fighting because they broke Roxy's legs and nobody was defending her against the two skeles, and then Brother Gilbert started yelling about being hurt and was being chased, and her armour was a right state and one of them actually got a blow in across her back which really stung, not to mention the rather sickening snapping noise her left arm had made.
Nothing untoward occurred on the long trudge back to Grantebrugge, though, so the party were all okay. 11xp.
After LARP it was only about 4pm so we trailed over to Poohsoc, although I probably shouldn't have because I was very shouty and upset when I thought I wouldn't get a seat as my legs hurt. After Poohsoc I insisted on Nicholas walking all the way back to Chu because I was feeling really quite flaky. Then he ran off to get his bike from Queens' and get fed, and I fell asleep, briefly. I spent most of the night coughing and reading.
