Stuff and D&D and stuff

Yesterday I had a pretty good day at work. I stayed until like 10pm -- I had to put together some files for a release. I ended up using up my Subway card points for a free foot-long sub for dinner, since I'm not sure how often I'll end up at Subway anymore. Arr.

Stopped by Sunset for one game of DDR. Wossname older woman I forget, she's got to be at least 40 (since I know she has a college-age son) but is blonde and built well so she looks like a teenager from the back, was there playing DDR too. I played like one game and my brain was just shot -- I did, and AA'ed, Higher Oni, BIMP, and White Lovers, with misses in every song. Yuck. Got Leading Cyber as an extra stage on random, and gave up 2/3 of the way through. I suck.

Sinlaeshel and I started a quest to go around the ocean and pick up all our stray money from random islands. We covered Sapphire last night with Dorien and Hatchetback and Nauta, and covered half of Coral tonight just the two of us. I'm back up to Ultimate in everything but Spades. Grrr.

Oh, and tonight I also had D&D. It was mostly a levelling/shopping session. We continued where we left off in the drow temple, and Cory snuck up and found the top of the spider thingy. We decided to go look in the spider head chamber, but triggered a magic trap. A big-ass demon spider appeared and smacked me for like 40 HP in one shot... and fortunately I beat its initiative after that and Dimension Doored us down to where Josh was with Mike's dead body, and we all teleported out. We got to level from 11 to 13 (since we hadn't come out of the dungeon for a bazillion sessions), which is exciting. I get 6th level spells now (since I'm 6 Wizard, 1 Fighter, 6 Eldritch Knight). It wasn't hard to pick out my two 6th level spells... I looked at the Evocation list and went "CHAIN LIGHTNING DUUUUDE" and then Disintegrate is an obvious second. Oooooh. As for my 5th level, I'm looking at Permanence and Wall of Force (to go with Teleport and Cone of Cold). Hey Carl, did you notice that in 3.5 they actually made a specific 5th-level wizard spell called "Baleful Polymorph"? I would have taken that and started turning opposing wizards into turtles, but I figured it really isn't this character's style.

Anyway, we all had like 15k to spend after cashing in our loot. I couldn't come up with anything to get except a Lesser Rod of Metamagic/Maximize for 14k. That'll be sweet though. I'll be able to cast maximized fireballs/lightningbolts three times a day without wasting extra spell slots. No rolling 10d6, just going "blammo! 60 points of damage to all of you! suckers!"

I should write about baseball one of these days but I've been too preoccupied. Whee.

Filk: King of Spain (To the tune of King of Pain)

This was inspired by Bridget Spitznagel about 4 years ago now, and it was on my mind, so I decided to actually write it. I cannot decide if this is utterly brilliant or just plain WRONG.


King of Spain
To the tune of "King of Pain" by the Police
(new lyrics, as always, by Deanna Rubin)

Here's a little black tale of my royalty
It's the same as told by peasantry
There's a time I wore silks and joked with queens
'Till one night when I crept into palace greens

Chorus:
I have cleaned many floors of many solid stains,
Working out in the Skydome or in pouring rain,
Serving pizza real slowly, drives 'em all insane,
It's not my destiny to be the King of Spain

Here's a little black tale of my royalty (no more humble pie)
It's the same as told by peasantry (no more humble pie)
There's a time I wore silks and joked with queens (no more humble pie)
'Till one night when I crept into palace greens (no more humble pie)

(CHORUS)

There's a palace up there I once called home (no more humble pie)
There's Queen Lisa, unspeakable beside the throne (no more humble pie)
There's a tower room where I held affairs (no more humble pie)
Made the weekends big and gave kids eclairs (no more humble pie)

(CHORUS)

Bridge:
There's a king on a throne near a video feed
There's a cell phone ringing from the OPEC lead
There's a rich man lowering our interest rates
There's an overhead roof and food on all our plates

There's a night I hid till the moon turned pitch (no more humble pie)
In the palace garden we made the switch (no more humble pie)

That's the little black tale of my royalty
It's the same as told by peasantry

I have driven Zambonis after hockey games
Jamming with Moxy Fruvous in the pouring rain,
Serving pizza real slowly, drives 'em all insane,
It's not my destiny to be the King of Spain

King of Spain
King of Spain
King of Spain, I'll no longer be
King of Spain, I will never be
King of Spain...


(And uh, to point it out since two people asked so far -- no, the idea is, the TUNE is "King of Pain" by the Police -- it's on Synchronicity, surely you've heard it, it's like "There's a little black spot on the sun todaaaaaaay", but the STORYLINE is that of "King of Spain" by Moxy Fruvous. Arr. jgoodman says I really ought to now try to write the song the OTHER way, except I'm not sure how that would go... "Once I was the King of Pain / Now it's my soul up there"?)