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Folded Edge, The Secret World, Pariah, Kew and Reeve's big moment
Well, it's pretty quiet at the moment, although only until the duo return tomorrow. In their absence we've had some late mornings (not having to get up for the school bus) and visited Kew (cake, snowdrops and an orchid display). February in general has been quiet socially which, as work has been mad, was very welcome. My only busy weekend was last weekend which featured Folded Edge on the Saturday and a visit to Cambridge on the Sunday.
Folded Edge was a fairly thoughtful session, for us anyway. We landed at our planned destination (which, by our standards, is a small triumph) and then stayed there all session. We saw Treasure's father (or, at least, Sen, Treasure and I did), Sen had a meal with a contact whilst no-one shot at him (again, unusual) and we mostly solved the ghost ship problem. Mainly by figuring out more about white space. Also, the crew finally had That Conversation About The War - overdue since the prelude. I guess I could sum this one up as the session where no-one tried to kill us.
My train reading covered one new book before I returned to re-reading Brookmyres. The book in question was Pariah by Dan Abnett set in the Warhammer 40K universe. It's first of the Bequin trilogy (aka Ravenor vs Eisenhorn). It was pretty good overall, although I spent the first two-thirds feeling that someone was re-writing history. I'm looking forward to the other two when they come out.
I'm still waiting for Jonathan Boakes to release Blackenrock, but in the meantime I've been introduced to Funcon's (Tørnquist) The Secret World. My first MMO, it was suggested by a combination of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chrisvenus, ao_lai and Alistair J to fill our Wednesday evenings which we previously uses to play Diablo III, Diablo II and Titan Quest. I found it hard to get into (probably not helped by having never touched a MMO before), frustrating in places (bugs and problems with lots of people attempting the same mission) and very addictive. I'm now both soloing and playing a party character and both belong to the Templars faction. TSW is based on the idea that there is another face of the world attached to the normal one where magic and stuff happens. I'm currently kicking around Kingsmouth ignoring Lovecraft references and beating up zombies. In short - I'd recommend it.
After some months (years?) of considering it,bateleur and I added The Wire to our Lovefilms list (we always wanted to see it, but it was a question of whether to buy or rent). Two discs (five episodes) in and it's very good. I'll write a review at the end of season one.
Oh yeah, and if anyone wants to see Reeve in the newspaper, he's at the top here.
Folded Edge was a fairly thoughtful session, for us anyway. We landed at our planned destination (which, by our standards, is a small triumph) and then stayed there all session. We saw Treasure's father (or, at least, Sen, Treasure and I did), Sen had a meal with a contact whilst no-one shot at him (again, unusual) and we mostly solved the ghost ship problem. Mainly by figuring out more about white space. Also, the crew finally had That Conversation About The War - overdue since the prelude. I guess I could sum this one up as the session where no-one tried to kill us.
My train reading covered one new book before I returned to re-reading Brookmyres. The book in question was Pariah by Dan Abnett set in the Warhammer 40K universe. It's first of the Bequin trilogy (aka Ravenor vs Eisenhorn). It was pretty good overall, although I spent the first two-thirds feeling that someone was re-writing history. I'm looking forward to the other two when they come out.
I'm still waiting for Jonathan Boakes to release Blackenrock, but in the meantime I've been introduced to Funcon's (Tørnquist) The Secret World. My first MMO, it was suggested by a combination of
chrisvenus, ao_lai and Alistair J to fill our Wednesday evenings which we previously uses to play Diablo III, Diablo II and Titan Quest. I found it hard to get into (probably not helped by having never touched a MMO before), frustrating in places (bugs and problems with lots of people attempting the same mission) and very addictive. I'm now both soloing and playing a party character and both belong to the Templars faction. TSW is based on the idea that there is another face of the world attached to the normal one where magic and stuff happens. I'm currently kicking around Kingsmouth ignoring Lovecraft references and beating up zombies. In short - I'd recommend it.After some months (years?) of considering it,
bateleur and I added The Wire to our Lovefilms list (we always wanted to see it, but it was a question of whether to buy or rent). Two discs (five episodes) in and it's very good. I'll write a review at the end of season one.Oh yeah, and if anyone wants to see Reeve in the newspaper, he's at the top here.