Right...

Okay, let's see. Since the last post, I've:

• Felt slightly better and entertained davidnm overnight. Was nice to see him again, and fun to chat about life, the universe and everything.


• Gone to the London Vampire Group's I Can't Believe It's Not Whitby (Yet) Party. Didn't stay too long, but was nice to hang out with some of my friends. Bought one strip of 5 raffle tickets, and managed to win a Cradle of Filth single and a frisbee....


• Gone to Mage. I don't think I've laughed so much since, well, another Mage session. At least the good doctor is sane now. Although he's trying to drive my character nuts- encouraging him to be organised, orderly and efficient. Git.

Payday today, and I managed to go a bit over budget last month. So this month I'll try and get under budget. Which should be interesting, given that I'm going to Germany for a weekend...

Still, if I'm on the wagon for Synthetic Culture, that should save me about £40 (damn that alchohol tolerance). And anyway, even with going over budget, my finances are still improving as a whole, and will drastically improve in a couple of months, when my first loan is paid off, and I should hopefully be getting a pay rise.

Busy week ahead again. Currently, I only have Friday free, but if anyone really needs to meet up, I can give my normal Wednesday sword training a miss if it's important.

Mage journal update

okay, the writeup of last week's session is now up over at kuo_li. Now to work on this week's writeup...

Ninja Gaiden

A little while back, I obtained an XBox, and one of the games I have for it is Ninja Gaiden. Now, I'm quite good at the sort of computer games I like to play (ie, not FPS, Sports or Racing games, and so forth), and have beaten some games fairly straightforwardly that most would call difficult. And those that are too difficult are generally just too annoying to play.

Now then, I would like to say that Ninja Gaiden is hard. We're not talking "national level martial artist" hard here, oh no. We're talking "Arnold Schwarzanegger and Wesley Snipes. On PCP" hard. And yet it is still fun to play.

It's nice to know that it's still possible to make a challenging game without making it too frustrating to play.

Roleplay humour

For those who've been following the Mage game writeups over on kuo_li, some humour sparked by an MSN conversation with mapp...

(Think of those mastercard adverts)

Being an 8-year old Mage: 3pt flaw

Iron Will merit: 3 freebie points

Forces 3: 24xp

Seeing the look on the Ventrue stepmother of your friend after you blew the top half of her house up in retaliation for repeated Dominate attempts: Priceless