bridge, kgb, kiltie banquet, and D&D
Zach called me this morning at 10:30am so I'd actually wake up in time to have lunch. He and Kevin came by sometime around 11:15 to get me. We couldn't really come up with much to do though, so we went to campus. Got lunch at ToI and brought it to the lounge, where we played Spades a bit with Martin and then bridge with Adam. Whee. Many people came by. Charlie and Nick were there talking about their tournament this weekend, and Charlie wasn't supposed to actually waste time playing, so he kibitzed me for a while. At some point I left and went to the UC to drop off film and Purnell to buy tickets to _Company_. The show is totally sold out, for those in Pittsburgh who want to see it, except that they have a special benefit show tomorrow night (Tuesday) so I got tickets for that. I was surprised at how cheap they were until after I walked out and noticed "Student" printed on them... I wonder if I should have gone back and given them the full price for the tickets, but I decided not to, justifying it in my head by thinking "If I'd asked Kyle to get us comp tickets a week or two earlier, we would have seen it for free."
Came back to the lounge and since Charlie showed up before Carl showed up, ended up playing bridge with Kevin and Zach and Charlie pretty much until 4:30, when I left for KGB. KGB had officer elections. It would have been much better if they did the typical suspend-business-in-order-to-run-elections style of things, but... anyway I took pictures of the whole membership, and Chuck gave out candy, and there were tons of people there, and there were elections, and while it took us about 2 minutes to elect![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
teki president, it took like half an hour to vote for a 1st VP (and they weren't done by the time Kirstin and I ducked out at 5:30pm to go to the Kiltie Banquet). Ah, I have been informed that 5/7 of the people I voted for actually won. Interesting. I of course will not divulge who they were, though.
The Kiltie Banquet was at Gullifty's and was pretty fun. I sat at a table with Nate, Clinton, Nick, Brian, Kirstin, Carl, and Christina. I think it was fun, although I think I acted a little more obnoxious than usual, it's hard to tell. There were a lot of Killer Kookies at our table, and BAQ silliness (we were signing it as random alumni... "Rob Harris - I got to jam!" "Mike Wallace - I had to work through carnival!" "Shori Law - Flutes suck!") Carl and I had to leave early, so we did. We went to Geagle and got pretzels and cherry coke and walked to Mike's house.
Then we had a D&D session. My character is still not insane or feebleminded, which is amazing considering how now I've not only cast a divination in a scrying/divination-blocked area, but now cast a Speak With Dead successfully after seeing 8 clerics of St. Cuthbert who have been basically smacked around by whatever is blocking scrying and stuff. I guess I'm lucky. In the meantime, we found the several-days-dead corpse of Jallarzi's gardener... which was odd because Jade had just talked to him that morning ("No, Jallarzi and Muriel are not in..."). So, we decided to do something about that. We took the corpse to the temple and I spoke with it. Didn't get much out of it, but... we went back to try to talk to the people at Jallarzi's house, but the butler wouldn't really let us, so we went to the Guard with the corpse. A lieutenant and 15 troops and a guard mage came back with us. However, we couldn't get in to find the fake gardener guy. So we went to surround the house, and then five guards came back and changed into demons and attacked... it was a long battle, mostly because the demons had damage reduction 20/+2 and our main fighters (grundar and norm's paladin Sam) only had +1 weapons. Grundar managed to kill one demon with two criticals in a row (I swear I've never rolled two 20's in a row before like that) but it turned out with DR 20 they really could only hurt the things on a critical. I could hurt them with my +2 longsword, but was taken up a lot by Holy Smites and magic circles vs. evil and such. (Oh, these things had SR 17 or so too. Quite nasty.) In the end we won, and it was unclear what we gained, except that Jallarzi's boyfriend, the archmage who is head of the Wizard's Guild in Greyhawk, invited us all to come talk to him, so perhaps this will help after all, even though the gardener demon escaped. We levelled to level 9, so I need to talk to Tim about what to do with Grundar's feats and stuff. I was thinking of either improved initiative or something. I also have to think about what to do with MY feats. I don't do much with them as is, so... I might either do some metamagic thingy, or maybe Improved Critical (longsword). Dunno. I'm just happy that Flame Strike is one of my domain spells. :)
Anyway, Mike gave me a ride home and I got to talk to him for a bit. Did I mention that his "new" dog Shadow is really cute? He is a really pretty golden retriever type... compliments Nicki pretty well, they're about the same size but he seems to be a much less excitable temperament of a dog.
Bleh, I'm up later than I wanted and pretty tired. I'd like to thank people for adding more detail about the carnival party stuff. I think I am also glad I didn't end up at that party. I don't react all that well to major public clothes-shedding cuddling orgies and crap like that. Although I look forward to the pictures of Will painted blue.
Oh, and whee - I had 99 interests listed on here and wanted one more, so I added lambda calculus. Heh.
Came back to the lounge and since Charlie showed up before Carl showed up, ended up playing bridge with Kevin and Zach and Charlie pretty much until 4:30, when I left for KGB. KGB had officer elections. It would have been much better if they did the typical suspend-business-in-order-to-run-elections style of things, but... anyway I took pictures of the whole membership, and Chuck gave out candy, and there were tons of people there, and there were elections, and while it took us about 2 minutes to elect
teki president, it took like half an hour to vote for a 1st VP (and they weren't done by the time Kirstin and I ducked out at 5:30pm to go to the Kiltie Banquet). Ah, I have been informed that 5/7 of the people I voted for actually won. Interesting. I of course will not divulge who they were, though.The Kiltie Banquet was at Gullifty's and was pretty fun. I sat at a table with Nate, Clinton, Nick, Brian, Kirstin, Carl, and Christina. I think it was fun, although I think I acted a little more obnoxious than usual, it's hard to tell. There were a lot of Killer Kookies at our table, and BAQ silliness (we were signing it as random alumni... "Rob Harris - I got to jam!" "Mike Wallace - I had to work through carnival!" "Shori Law - Flutes suck!") Carl and I had to leave early, so we did. We went to Geagle and got pretzels and cherry coke and walked to Mike's house.
Then we had a D&D session. My character is still not insane or feebleminded, which is amazing considering how now I've not only cast a divination in a scrying/divination-blocked area, but now cast a Speak With Dead successfully after seeing 8 clerics of St. Cuthbert who have been basically smacked around by whatever is blocking scrying and stuff. I guess I'm lucky. In the meantime, we found the several-days-dead corpse of Jallarzi's gardener... which was odd because Jade had just talked to him that morning ("No, Jallarzi and Muriel are not in..."). So, we decided to do something about that. We took the corpse to the temple and I spoke with it. Didn't get much out of it, but... we went back to try to talk to the people at Jallarzi's house, but the butler wouldn't really let us, so we went to the Guard with the corpse. A lieutenant and 15 troops and a guard mage came back with us. However, we couldn't get in to find the fake gardener guy. So we went to surround the house, and then five guards came back and changed into demons and attacked... it was a long battle, mostly because the demons had damage reduction 20/+2 and our main fighters (grundar and norm's paladin Sam) only had +1 weapons. Grundar managed to kill one demon with two criticals in a row (I swear I've never rolled two 20's in a row before like that) but it turned out with DR 20 they really could only hurt the things on a critical. I could hurt them with my +2 longsword, but was taken up a lot by Holy Smites and magic circles vs. evil and such. (Oh, these things had SR 17 or so too. Quite nasty.) In the end we won, and it was unclear what we gained, except that Jallarzi's boyfriend, the archmage who is head of the Wizard's Guild in Greyhawk, invited us all to come talk to him, so perhaps this will help after all, even though the gardener demon escaped. We levelled to level 9, so I need to talk to Tim about what to do with Grundar's feats and stuff. I was thinking of either improved initiative or something. I also have to think about what to do with MY feats. I don't do much with them as is, so... I might either do some metamagic thingy, or maybe Improved Critical (longsword). Dunno. I'm just happy that Flame Strike is one of my domain spells. :)
Anyway, Mike gave me a ride home and I got to talk to him for a bit. Did I mention that his "new" dog Shadow is really cute? He is a really pretty golden retriever type... compliments Nicki pretty well, they're about the same size but he seems to be a much less excitable temperament of a dog.
Bleh, I'm up later than I wanted and pretty tired. I'd like to thank people for adding more detail about the carnival party stuff. I think I am also glad I didn't end up at that party. I don't react all that well to major public clothes-shedding cuddling orgies and crap like that. Although I look forward to the pictures of Will painted blue.
Oh, and whee - I had 99 interests listed on here and wanted one more, so I added lambda calculus. Heh.
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