Wherein Angie Catches Fire
The rowing machine at the gym gives me blisters, the worst of which Jeremy casually popped with a knife and swabbed with rubbing alcohol. Mein Gott it burns!!!! @__<
Friday, February 27, 2004
On Monday, at Jose's behest, I went with Jeremy to Latin dancing lessons. Poor marching band Jeremy cannot move his hips for love or money; he seems not to be inhibited, but just to be physically incapable of the motion. Shall put him on the stairmaster for a while and see if he learns to wiggle his butt. Won't mention it otherwise; he seems rather sad and discouraged by his lack of progress* anyway.
*Symptom of a condition commonly known as Whiteness.
*Symptom of a condition commonly known as Whiteness.
Sunday, February 22, 2004
On Saturday we were going to have an impromptu LAN party but it didn't work out because it was a bit too impromptu; no one came. Also people kept asking, "Who's coming, what are we playing?" before deciding whether to come. Because everyone was waiting on everyone else's decision, nobody made any decisions in the end. Kay was busy messing with his new computer and when we called him to invite him to our LAN party (without the party part) he asked us who was in it, and since nobody much was except for me, Jeremy and Niall (Chris didn't have a computer to contribute), he decided we weren't cool enough for him and spent the day hanging out with his other friends. There was a simultaneous LAN party in Potomac basement, but our hardware wasn't good enough for them and they ended up unintentionally excluding us by playing Unreal Tournament 2004 extensively.
Went to Wizards of the Coast at Arundel Mills today with Jeremy, Chris and Niall, since WtC retail stores are being closed. Got me some transparent pink dice and some glow in the dark ones, and got, at somewhere else, one of the Half-life expansions. Thanks to Steam, with one CD key I can play basically everything in the Half-life expansion pack including Counter-Strike and Team Fortress Classic and Day of Defeat.
Niall pushed me across a parking lot in a speeding shopping cart.
At Best Buy later on, while waiting for seats to open up in a nearby Ruby Tuesday's, we bumped into Kay, with his Other Friends, and a 19 inch computer monitor in a shopping cart, which promptly keeled over from the weight. We were sickened and left for dinner. I ordered some indeterminant yet tasty meat-with-potatoes meal and Jeremy got something fishy and uninteresting. Jeremy eats and likes any and all seafood; therefore, he is to be ignored anytime he recommends a seafood restaurant or entree. In the meantime, Niall made friends with Sam Adams. I have determined that when people get drunk it doesn't do much except make them act more like themselves (more open, and pronounced mannerisms becoming more exaggerated, etc); therefore, Niall got more Niall-esque.
Have also installed Jeremy's version of Homeworld (the first one), on my computer. Have finished the tutorial, and suck at it tremendously. Nothing else is new.
Went to Wizards of the Coast at Arundel Mills today with Jeremy, Chris and Niall, since WtC retail stores are being closed. Got me some transparent pink dice and some glow in the dark ones, and got, at somewhere else, one of the Half-life expansions. Thanks to Steam, with one CD key I can play basically everything in the Half-life expansion pack including Counter-Strike and Team Fortress Classic and Day of Defeat.
Niall pushed me across a parking lot in a speeding shopping cart.
At Best Buy later on, while waiting for seats to open up in a nearby Ruby Tuesday's, we bumped into Kay, with his Other Friends, and a 19 inch computer monitor in a shopping cart, which promptly keeled over from the weight. We were sickened and left for dinner. I ordered some indeterminant yet tasty meat-with-potatoes meal and Jeremy got something fishy and uninteresting. Jeremy eats and likes any and all seafood; therefore, he is to be ignored anytime he recommends a seafood restaurant or entree. In the meantime, Niall made friends with Sam Adams. I have determined that when people get drunk it doesn't do much except make them act more like themselves (more open, and pronounced mannerisms becoming more exaggerated, etc); therefore, Niall got more Niall-esque.
Have also installed Jeremy's version of Homeworld (the first one), on my computer. Have finished the tutorial, and suck at it tremendously. Nothing else is new.
Dorkiness
On Friday we spent a night playing Niall's Final Fantasy I based tabletop roleplaying game. It went something like this:
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Niall: You walk into a town. It has an inn, an item shop, an armory, and a small fountain in the middle.
Me (Thief): I play in the fountain.
Niall: You, and the rest of the party (because in Final Fantasy you can't split up), are thrown out of the town. Great job.
Jeremy (Black Mage): I'd peed in the fountain as well.
Niall: To the west and north is forest. To the east is the ocean, to the south is plains.
We defeat some imps and reach a castle.
Niall: The king says, 'You must rescue my dear daughter! She has been kidnapped and is held in a cave to the west!'
Chris (White Mage): We'll save your daughter if you can aid us by providing us sufficient resources to do the job.
King: You may take whatever treasures you find in this castle.
Jeremy (Black Mage): I lift my hat, and while the king is shocked, snatch the crown off his head! That's a treasure.. and something we did find in this castle..
Niall: You attempt to snatch the crown off the king's head.. the crown stays. It has been molded to his head and his skull has grown around it.
Jeremy: Ew!
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Later:
Niall: You encounter six wolves!
Jeremy: I take some of the food I'd taken from the kitchen and try to feed the wolves and make them friendly to me.
Niall (rolls): You manage to make two wolves your allies for life.
(we attack and kill the other wolves)
Me: I skin the corpses and carry the pelts to sell them at the next town.
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Niall: You arrive in a vast chamber of the cave. In front of you, you see a giant lizard man holding the Princess in the air.
Jose (Fighter): Put her down now!
Lizard man: I shall never relinquish my sacrificial victim!
Chris (White Mage): How about a trade...? You give us the princess and we give you.. Angie!
Me (Thief): Hey! I'm not a virgin.. er.. *schemes* ... eh, sure, I'll be the trade.
Niall: Okay.. you trade your thief for a useless princess. The lizard man is now holding Angie in the air and licking her.
Me: I chop off its tongue with my dagger.
Niall: It takes no damage and immediately regenerates its tongue, but it's pissed off and attacks the party.
Chris: I grab the princess and run away towards the castle to get the 10,000 gold reward while the rest of you stay behind and fight...
---
King: Thank you, great adventurer, for returning my dear daughter to me.
Chris: Do I get my 10,000 gold?
King *giving it*: Yes, here you go... and your doom as well, foolish mortal!
Niall: The King shows his true form! He's a demon!
Me: And the princess?
Niall: She turns into a succubus. You, the white mage, are all alone with a bag of gold and two angry demons. The rest of the player party is not with you because you betrayed them and left them behind.
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We got bored of that game for a while, so then we had everyone else calculate the stats for the character another person would play. The thing was, if your stats were being calculated, you weren't allowed to speak up. For example, if you were Jeremy, you would play, in the game, a character named Jeremy who was exactly like you, with exactly the same personality, memories, skills, and experiences. However, since your 'character' is created by other people, you'd end up actually playing other peoples' perceptions of you.
On Friday we spent a night playing Niall's Final Fantasy I based tabletop roleplaying game. It went something like this:
----
Niall: You walk into a town. It has an inn, an item shop, an armory, and a small fountain in the middle.
Me (Thief): I play in the fountain.
Niall: You, and the rest of the party (because in Final Fantasy you can't split up), are thrown out of the town. Great job.
Jeremy (Black Mage): I'd peed in the fountain as well.
Niall: To the west and north is forest. To the east is the ocean, to the south is plains.
We defeat some imps and reach a castle.
Niall: The king says, 'You must rescue my dear daughter! She has been kidnapped and is held in a cave to the west!'
Chris (White Mage): We'll save your daughter if you can aid us by providing us sufficient resources to do the job.
King: You may take whatever treasures you find in this castle.
Jeremy (Black Mage): I lift my hat, and while the king is shocked, snatch the crown off his head! That's a treasure.. and something we did find in this castle..
Niall: You attempt to snatch the crown off the king's head.. the crown stays. It has been molded to his head and his skull has grown around it.
Jeremy: Ew!
------
Later:
Niall: You encounter six wolves!
Jeremy: I take some of the food I'd taken from the kitchen and try to feed the wolves and make them friendly to me.
Niall (rolls): You manage to make two wolves your allies for life.
(we attack and kill the other wolves)
Me: I skin the corpses and carry the pelts to sell them at the next town.
----
Niall: You arrive in a vast chamber of the cave. In front of you, you see a giant lizard man holding the Princess in the air.
Jose (Fighter): Put her down now!
Lizard man: I shall never relinquish my sacrificial victim!
Chris (White Mage): How about a trade...? You give us the princess and we give you.. Angie!
Me (Thief): Hey! I'm not a virgin.. er.. *schemes* ... eh, sure, I'll be the trade.
Niall: Okay.. you trade your thief for a useless princess. The lizard man is now holding Angie in the air and licking her.
Me: I chop off its tongue with my dagger.
Niall: It takes no damage and immediately regenerates its tongue, but it's pissed off and attacks the party.
Chris: I grab the princess and run away towards the castle to get the 10,000 gold reward while the rest of you stay behind and fight...
---
King: Thank you, great adventurer, for returning my dear daughter to me.
Chris: Do I get my 10,000 gold?
King *giving it*: Yes, here you go... and your doom as well, foolish mortal!
Niall: The King shows his true form! He's a demon!
Me: And the princess?
Niall: She turns into a succubus. You, the white mage, are all alone with a bag of gold and two angry demons. The rest of the player party is not with you because you betrayed them and left them behind.
-----
We got bored of that game for a while, so then we had everyone else calculate the stats for the character another person would play. The thing was, if your stats were being calculated, you weren't allowed to speak up. For example, if you were Jeremy, you would play, in the game, a character named Jeremy who was exactly like you, with exactly the same personality, memories, skills, and experiences. However, since your 'character' is created by other people, you'd end up actually playing other peoples' perceptions of you.
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