Alex's Journal

I promised Jen I would post these weeks ago (like... two), so have the best quotes from her first game of D&D ;)

[Jen's character, Mab, gets shot with an arrow. We inform her that she can Intimidate the bloodied enemies out of combat so they'll flee.]

Jen: Great. I am pulling the arrow out of my stomach, licking my own blood off of it, and scream

"IS THIS WHERE YOU WANT TO DIE?!"

[rolls a 29]
Patrick: "No, it sure ain't!"

[Simon's dwarf, Sigrun, upon entering a underground lair:]

Simon: Smell that air!
Me: Stale and dusty?
Simon: Yup! Smells like home.

[Karl was one of the thugs we beat up and scared the shit out of, and wound up trying to take him back to town to be prosecuted. At one point we asked Patrick if Karl could do something.]

Patrick: Uh... no.
Simon: Fair enough. Karl has no applicable skills outside of betrayal and cowardice.

Bia Zelba Akmenos saw a staircase leading up to the surface, but it was guarded by a mob of duergar. The dark dwarves opposed her passage and demanded to know what she was doing here.

Bia Zelba Akmenos made a Charisma check with a difficulty of 17 . . . and rolled 19

Bia Zelba Akmenos confidently told a story of adventure with plenty of fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, and miracles. Duergar are rarely charmed, but these dwarves had not heard such an exciting tale in so long they gladly let Bia Zelba Akmenos pass. They even donated some gold to support her further adventures after she promised to come back and tell them more next year.

Yes, but does it have kissing?

MAKE THE PIE HIGHER
by George W. Bush

I think we all agree, the past is over.
This is still a dangerous world.
It's a world of madmen and uncertainty
and potential mental losses.

Rarely is the question asked
Is our children learning?
Will the highways of the Internet become more few?
How many hands have I shaked?

They misunderestimate me.
I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.
I know that the human being and the fish can coexist.
Families is where our nation finds hope, where our wings take dream.

Put food on your family!
Knock down the tollbooth!
Vulcanize society!
Make the pie higher! Make the pie higher!

(credited to Richard Thompson)

Damn, reading this "poem" of Bush malapropisms makes me think of a school project I did in... hmm, must have been OAC, but I'll be damned if I can remember what class it was for. It was basically a magazine - oh, I think it may have been grade 12; we were supposed to pick something that was a theme of Brave New World or summat like that, and write a magazine based on it. So we [I don't remember who 'we' were - SimonL?] did politics.

Anyway, all our advertisements and visuals revolved around making fun of Bush. "Fall into the GAP", with the GAP logo falling into Bush's head; "You misunderestimate the power of the Dark Side" Bush Wars comic... good times.

Working for my dad tomorrow, yay. (Not getting NEARLY enough sleep, but meh.)

Also, went looking for a graduation dress today - found a very nice white and green sundress with green ribbons that is VERY cute, and a black one with a kind of mesh top part, beading, and then solid black from just above the breasts down, with beadwork over top of the line between the two. I promised Jessica pictures, so there will be pictures, whichever one I get, or even if I get a suit instead. Tomorrow Mom and I are going to hit up The Fashion Network...

But I really like the green and white one.
It's even in my birthstone color. ;) (So I already have jewelery that would go with it!)

In other news, I have been making my own motivational posters. Personally, I like the "Essence schmessence" one ;) "TEAMMATES" is also funny. "TRUE LOVE" is just a jab at Patrick. ^_-

Soooooooooooooo yeah!

See? Forums aren't only bad for MY health...

Busted.
Grounded.

PWNED!!!

(5th post in)

I'm trying to put together some good V:tR Devotions, in particular for Az. Comments, suggestions, ideas?

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BALEETED!

Hung out with SimonB yesterday. That was, shall we say, hilarious awesomeness. Apparently Patrick has no shred of human dignity left, despite his insistences otherwise.

Complained about... well... everything... but because Simon is awesome he made it all better with HUMOR! We went out to Kelsey's for dinner, which was tasty (mmmm, caramel cake).

Then, there was the "let's make this character as other supernatural nWoD types!" game. So we made Everest as a vampire (he started as a Mage; Simon had already done him as a were, which he's pretty boss at; he made a reasonably cool Gangrel).

Then we did Randy the Random Vampire!
No, literally, random. We rolled a d6 for clan (1; Daeva); a d6 for covenant (6, Unbound); a d8 for Virtue/Vice (Charity/Sloth), and then a d6 to figure out primary/secondary/tertiary for Mentals/Physicals/Socials. Then again for skills; then a d8 to figure out which skill to prioritize in the group, then a d6 for how MANY skills to have in the group.

In the end, he became a lazy trust fund heir with a penchant for hiking who bought his way into vampirism.

And he was a pretty boss werewolf, too. Not so great a Mage, but.

Then we did Az as a crappy Ithaeur/Storm Lord XD and then again as a Moros/Silver Ladder. That was entertaining.

Yep. We're nuts.

Blind Teen Can Probably Whup Your Ass at Video Games

Man, that's... almost depressing. *L* Still, that's really cool, yo.

Alex says: Question!
Min says: hmm?
Alex says: Would you prefer the US to be more serious than usual, or his usual Charleston Heston self?
Min says: Heston is fine
Alex says: Haha, OK.
Min says: Or you could make him Connery if you really wanted.
Alex says: Haha
Alex says: "The day is mine, Solars!"
Alex says: /pun

And it totally wasn't intentional, either.

ESkemp:

While I like watching Superman fight Batman (and lose, har har) every now and again, I still have to say that the eminent Christopher Lee had an amusing take on the angle: "Someone asked me yesterday if Dracula met Saruman and there was a fight who would win. I just looked at this man. What an idiotic thing to say. I mean, really, it was half-witted."