A magician, a shallow super hero, a giant caterpillar and a lost monk from the past

[lathany]

Getting in and out of London has been a rather wetter journey than usual, although I have still managed to walk from Waterloo a couple of times each week. Work itself is OK, not too busy but not too quiet either. I have a review body meeting in a couple of weeks and we are working towards the papers and things for that.

I have been reading less on the train than I once did, but I finished off the third Dresden book last week - Gravel Peril. I enjoyed it and also found it rather sad. Three books in, I really enjoy Dresden as a series; it's not the greatest literature out there, but it's easy to read and gripping and in many ways suitable for the journey home at the end of the working day.

We are continuing to receive films twice a month through the post. I think the only one I have not reviewed to date is the most recent - The Green Lantern, which bateleur has already posted about. My view was very similar to his - pretty... but awful main character (as shallow as the puddle he is dropped into by the green ball), cheesy, dated dialogue and a plot lacking in originality.

Since the Con, there have been two roleplaying games:

• Dreadful Secrets of Candlewick Manor - This particular session is where the huge underground caterpillar almost took out the party. We all dropped health levels to horribly injured and two of the characters went below zero. Which is what sometimes happens when you wander through caves in beneath a spooky place where various human cultists murder children and cut out their hearts. Actually, most of the "monsters" of the area are decent souls with plenty of compassion (and at least one of the exceptions is at least on our side).
• Revolution (take three) - The first two Revolution games (a one-off and a mini-campaign) involved characters from England, this one started with us being Tetrachy residents. The party consists of a linguist called Christof (shadowjon), a furniture maker called Ilaria (wildrogue), the Ghost Lady - a healer called Sorrel (floralaetifica) and a historian Clara (myself). So far we have returned a monk by the name of Lucas to his monastery which existed several hundred years ago and the two time periods (his and ours) seem to be co-existing in a weird way that we need to work out.

Having not played computer or console games in a while, I have now re-started Barrow Hill (I was only about an hour in). It involves a lot of in-game reading and scattered clues which I need to remember across the duration of play. Consequently, I'm planning to devote this week to it and try to finish it next weekend (around the re-run of Ghost Hunting). I've been told it's about 7 hours long if you know what you're doing (I suspect nearer 30 for me).

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

We all dropped health levels to horribly injured

Speak for yourself! Admittedly I would never have guessed that 7 dice worth of P.E. would be my most valuable stat, but in this particular case it meant Dunstan escaped with zero injury!