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A Game of Owns
Dec. 1st, 2005 04:05 amMy last day in Pittsburgh. Whee.
Got up, did some work, hung around here for a while. Walked to campus with Benoit at 2:30. Was meeting up with K at Craig Street Coffee at 3pm -- the PP folks will know her as as my crewmate Tamsin; she's in the HCI program at CMU this year. So that was pretty cool since I didn't really get to talk to her at the SF party last year, and this time we mostly talked about Pittsburgh and CMU and stuff. Whee! Unfortunately we lost track of the time and I made her late to her 4:30 class.
I also was on campus later than expected and I apparently literally missed Django by like 2 minutes in his office, so instead, I got in touch with Lahut over AIM, and then I went to the UC to acquire some new CMU t-shirts since I'm wearing out the ones I have. I ended up meeting up with Roman there, and we went to the Shady House to figure stuff out. We sort of figured out a plan, but what really happened was that I sat in the basement watching Matt play World of Warcraft for a half hour, and playing with the black cat who came downstairs to keep me company. Eventually people showed up at the Shady House, and we ordered pizza, and eventually we played the board game A Game of Thrones.
Keep in mind I was the only one who had not read all the George R. R. Martin books -- also, I ended up as the Greyjoy family -- and also, we kept having muster cards come up early, and supply late, and we only did Clash of Kings or whatever twice -- so it was really frustrating and I was very limited in what I could actually do since I couldn't place any star orders. I seem to recall this happened last time I played the game too. (Infact, ironically, I look back on the LJ entry and basically, it was a year and a half ago during Sakuracon 2004, it was me and Django and Konstantin and Matt and Jason (aka Fronsac, to the PP folk; he was in Seattle visiting me during Sakuracon). And we gave up at midnight and conceded the game to Matt, since he had 6 cities, and Django and Kon had to get back to the Sakuracon hotel. I think I was Greyjoy that time too.)
So this time, Konstantin was Lannister, and we clashed at the border of our territories. The only thing I really managed to accomplish was to totally knock out Kon's water forces, and later on I also took out Matt's eastern coast water forces (since he was Stark). Django, as Baratheon, kept the King's Landing territory forever, and everyone was just awash in power tokens for most of the game, oddly. Carl, as Tyrrell, sort of got screwed by everyone at one point or another. In the last turn of the game (it actually went to ten turns), everyone was doing crazy fights. I had managed to take over Winterfell from Matt, but then I used those forces to attack Riverrun, which was my grudge border with Kon. So Matt jumped back into Winterfell and it was his seventh city and he won. Whee.
It was 1am by then. Happy December.
I sort of feel like I should actually read the book and come back and play again at Carnival. I bet that would make Matt super-happy at least :)
Django gave me a ride back here, and I got to say 'night to Charlie with one last game of Set, and now I am staying up for another few hours so I can go take a bus to campus and then hop the 28x to the airport. I guess I'll sleep for 3 hours on the plane and hope to run on pure energy while I'm in Key West.
So, some of you I'll see in a few hours or a day or whatever, assuming nothing goes drastically wrong with my flight. And I'll be back in Seattle on Sunday night.
And I guess some of you I won't see again until Carnival. Hrm.
Got up, did some work, hung around here for a while. Walked to campus with Benoit at 2:30. Was meeting up with K at Craig Street Coffee at 3pm -- the PP folks will know her as as my crewmate Tamsin; she's in the HCI program at CMU this year. So that was pretty cool since I didn't really get to talk to her at the SF party last year, and this time we mostly talked about Pittsburgh and CMU and stuff. Whee! Unfortunately we lost track of the time and I made her late to her 4:30 class.
I also was on campus later than expected and I apparently literally missed Django by like 2 minutes in his office, so instead, I got in touch with Lahut over AIM, and then I went to the UC to acquire some new CMU t-shirts since I'm wearing out the ones I have. I ended up meeting up with Roman there, and we went to the Shady House to figure stuff out. We sort of figured out a plan, but what really happened was that I sat in the basement watching Matt play World of Warcraft for a half hour, and playing with the black cat who came downstairs to keep me company. Eventually people showed up at the Shady House, and we ordered pizza, and eventually we played the board game A Game of Thrones.
Keep in mind I was the only one who had not read all the George R. R. Martin books -- also, I ended up as the Greyjoy family -- and also, we kept having muster cards come up early, and supply late, and we only did Clash of Kings or whatever twice -- so it was really frustrating and I was very limited in what I could actually do since I couldn't place any star orders. I seem to recall this happened last time I played the game too. (Infact, ironically, I look back on the LJ entry and basically, it was a year and a half ago during Sakuracon 2004, it was me and Django and Konstantin and Matt and Jason (aka Fronsac, to the PP folk; he was in Seattle visiting me during Sakuracon). And we gave up at midnight and conceded the game to Matt, since he had 6 cities, and Django and Kon had to get back to the Sakuracon hotel. I think I was Greyjoy that time too.)
So this time, Konstantin was Lannister, and we clashed at the border of our territories. The only thing I really managed to accomplish was to totally knock out Kon's water forces, and later on I also took out Matt's eastern coast water forces (since he was Stark). Django, as Baratheon, kept the King's Landing territory forever, and everyone was just awash in power tokens for most of the game, oddly. Carl, as Tyrrell, sort of got screwed by everyone at one point or another. In the last turn of the game (it actually went to ten turns), everyone was doing crazy fights. I had managed to take over Winterfell from Matt, but then I used those forces to attack Riverrun, which was my grudge border with Kon. So Matt jumped back into Winterfell and it was his seventh city and he won. Whee.
It was 1am by then. Happy December.
I sort of feel like I should actually read the book and come back and play again at Carnival. I bet that would make Matt super-happy at least :)
Django gave me a ride back here, and I got to say 'night to Charlie with one last game of Set, and now I am staying up for another few hours so I can go take a bus to campus and then hop the 28x to the airport. I guess I'll sleep for 3 hours on the plane and hope to run on pure energy while I'm in Key West.
So, some of you I'll see in a few hours or a day or whatever, assuming nothing goes drastically wrong with my flight. And I'll be back in Seattle on Sunday night.
And I guess some of you I won't see again until Carnival. Hrm.
