Twenty-one years and Mechs
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bateleur and I celebrated twenty-one years together, with help from the twins. Deep fried Camembert, Duck rolls and chocolate pots made up the menu with a lovely Sancerre and bateleur's choice of dessert wine. Sadly Bea was rather ill across the meal - and also the weekend - but seemed to enjoy the small portion she managed.
Yesterday's game was Mechs and saw the first full battle involving models and tape measures.chrestomancy had gone to some trouble with his set-up - Lego Mechs, a river of ribbon and polystyrene buildings. Plus tape measures of course. The whole thing took about three hours and, eventually, the good guys (us) won against the two enemy Mechs. It worked, was quite fun but had problems in the scaling department. The main issue was the firing range - it just seemed far too short.
I personally wasn't involved with the tape measure side of things as my character was also the party scout. I was in non-Mech scouting mode when the enemy Mechs turned up and we went to combat turns. But I did get some nice photos of the Big Bad Hulk Mutant, I got his laptop, a communications black box and an interesting map.
When the battle ended, there wasn't a lot of time left for plot to happen. However, it still did. There was an uprising from the wealthy immigrants (about 3% of the population) who wanted to take over the planet from the Navy and it looked like the remaining 97% of the population would be the part that suffered (or that's what seemed to be the case). The navy was on skeleton crew because of problems elsewhere in the system and it was clear we weren't going to be able to stop matters. So we've left the planet and are probably on our way out of the system. I guess that's the end of chapter 1!
bateleur and I celebrated twenty-one years together, with help from the twins. Deep fried Camembert, Duck rolls and chocolate pots made up the menu with a lovely Sancerre and bateleur's choice of dessert wine. Sadly Bea was rather ill across the meal - and also the weekend - but seemed to enjoy the small portion she managed.Yesterday's game was Mechs and saw the first full battle involving models and tape measures.
chrestomancy had gone to some trouble with his set-up - Lego Mechs, a river of ribbon and polystyrene buildings. Plus tape measures of course. The whole thing took about three hours and, eventually, the good guys (us) won against the two enemy Mechs. It worked, was quite fun but had problems in the scaling department. The main issue was the firing range - it just seemed far too short. I personally wasn't involved with the tape measure side of things as my character was also the party scout. I was in non-Mech scouting mode when the enemy Mechs turned up and we went to combat turns. But I did get some nice photos of the Big Bad Hulk Mutant, I got his laptop, a communications black box and an interesting map.
When the battle ended, there wasn't a lot of time left for plot to happen. However, it still did. There was an uprising from the wealthy immigrants (about 3% of the population) who wanted to take over the planet from the Navy and it looked like the remaining 97% of the population would be the part that suffered (or that's what seemed to be the case). The navy was on skeleton crew because of problems elsewhere in the system and it was clear we weren't going to be able to stop matters. So we've left the planet and are probably on our way out of the system. I guess that's the end of chapter 1!
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Happy anniversary, you crazy kids!
Date: 2013-10-04 01:34 pm (UTC)I'm very sorry for your family's loss. Time giveth and taketh away... so hard.
Lots of love from across the pond.
Re: Happy anniversary, you crazy kids!
Date: 2013-10-06 04:58 pm (UTC)