Okay, leaving date has now been set - we're leaving on Tuesday, just after our Europe railcards come. 

This is likely to be my last post here for some time, as the internet conection is not paid for as of an hour and three quaters ago.  It may still be working in the morning, when I remember whatever important computer-related thing I haven't done, but it's almost two in the morning, I didn't get enough sleep last night, and I really cant remember right now.  For regular updates, as well as a hopefully vast collection of photos, I will be on http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/chaosaccountant/,  because, as aformentioned, I can store an infinite number of photos there.  Which is nice. It also has the benifit of being seperate from this journal, and thus it won't get swamped with random mundaineties in the future.  That's not to say I won't be checking in here, and updating from time to time, but don't expect a detailed account of what's going on with the traveling here. 

There is a system whereby I can have people emailed when I update (I don't yet know how often that will be).  If that intrests any of you, let me know and I'll see what I can do when I next get online.

Okay, as it seems my last entry has broken, here are the quotes again.

Okay, back from lancaster. It was great, as always. Thank you muchly to people who make it this way.

As most of you now know, me and Steph are leaving the country soon, to go on a great and epic journy around as much of the world as we can. The leaving date is provisionally this Saturday, or early on Sunday, depending on the ferry times and how long the leaving party takes. You are all invited to the leaving party, of course, but I'm doubtful that you will be able to actually make it, seeing as it's at noon, here in Hastings. Still, if any of you are going to be within a hundred miles of me on Saturday, let me know and I'll sort something out.

There will be another post soon about what the arrangements to stay in touch are while I'm away. I'll be updating a blog, but not necessarily this one. In any case, there will be links from here.

The long-awaited final section of the Mutants and Masterminds game was fantastic. No-doubt everyone in Lancaster with any intrest in it will already have heard all about Group Therapy and Beth on Eating Souls, but the quotes are below. Anyone who doesn't know what this is about but is intrested in the quotes can find the rest here> westslide</div>

Unfortunately a combination of things are making it look like we won't be able to be in Lancaster after all. There are works on the railway lines, meaning the shortest journey is in excess of seven hours, including a bus ride and four changes (and meaning we couldn't get reservations, so most likely no seats either). That might be possible coming up, but going back like that when we'd both most likely be hungover just isn't an option.
On top of that, Seeker_dreamer has had a nasty cold, and while it's getting better now (thank you Erfalaswen, the honey and lemon is a life-saver), it's bad enough that it will make an already miserable journey intolerable.
Oh, and we overspent on Christmas, so money is tighter than it was supposed to be.
In all, rather than come up for just a couple of days now and then having to rush back to work, with all the above, we thought it would be better to make our way up for a longer, less hectic visit some time in the new year, probably sometime when we can go to a live, and a vip session, and do all the things that Lancaster is so very, very good for. We'll even save the mead until we come up - we got a bottle of it for Wintereenmas.

Sorry to disappoint people - we do love you all and want to see you, but it just isn't working out for this week.

I'll speak to as many of you as possible at least around the new year - those of you whose numbers I have at least. For those of you I'm not able to talk to, I hope you have a good one.

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So, about the same complaint a Yijadd, actually. How on earth did I get to third level when I can only cast cantrips?

I Am A: Chaotic Good Human Sorcerer (3rd Level)


Ability Scores:

Strength-11

Dexterity-10

Constitution-14

Intelligence-16

Wisdom-9

Charisma-10


Alignment:
Chaotic Good A chaotic good character acts as his conscience directs him with little regard for what others expect of him. He makes his own way, but he's kind and benevolent. He believes in goodness and right but has little use for laws and regulations. He hates it when people try to intimidate others and tell them what to do. He follows his own moral compass, which, although good, may not agree with that of society. Chaotic good is the best alignment you can be because it combines a good heart with a free spirit. However, chaotic good can be a dangerous alignment because it disrupts the order of society and punishes those who do well for themselves.


Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.


Class:
Sorcerers are arcane spellcasters who manipulate magic energy with imagination and talent rather than studious discipline. They have no books, no mentors, no theories just raw power that they direct at will. Sorcerers know fewer spells than wizards do and acquire them more slowly, but they can cast individual spells more often and have no need to prepare their incantations ahead of time. Also unlike wizards, sorcerers cannot specialize in a school of magic. Since sorcerers gain their powers without undergoing the years of rigorous study that wizards go through, they have more time to learn fighting skills and are proficient with simple weapons. Charisma is very important for sorcerers; the higher their value in this ability, the higher the spell level they can cast.


Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)

There seems to be a patern developing here. I'm planning to come to Lancaster in for the New Year, to see people and party, if there are people there and parties happening. And thus, my first post since the one coming back from Lancaster last time. I don't know why this is.

That's a lie. It's because I'm lazy, and posting to livejornal is a suprising amount of effort when you're working full time, don't have the internet at work, and really, really can't think of anything that's happened that you have any desire or right to announce to the world in general (there have been problems, but they've mostly only been my problems by accociation, so I won't discuss them here.) Seeker_Dreamer reckons I should get a facebook account. This might improve matters, or might mean that I'm not paying attention as a priate/zombie/werewolf rather than just as me.

However, there are some pictures of me dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow floating around on there, courtesy of one of Seeker_Dreamers old school friends.

So, is there going to be a New Years bash? Where will it be, can we come, and does anyone have a floor we can steal once we finally pass out?

Thank you all greatly for the hospitality, especially erfalaswen, darkluke and archangelonline for the use of the floor and copious toast.

The Darkside was extremely fine. I was quite drunk, and I think I exhausted myself headbanging. I don't know how some of you people can dance all night, I get wiped out after about half an hour and need water and drink.

Of course, after that I dance again. My neck has mostly recovered now.

Also, a chance to roleplay with anyone other than the three people I've been GMing for was good, even if it didn't last as long as it might have.

Damn, I miss everyone already. I'll try to come up again sometime soon.

And I'm going to post regularly. Honest. I mean it this time. See, I'm posting right now...

Any of you who read S*P will already know, but Robert Jordan, of Wheel of Time, died at the weekend.

Now it genuinly never will end....

So, seven songs that are on my mind at the moment...

How can you have more than one song of your mind at a time?  I don't think my brain has that much processor time.

Here are seven songs that have been on my mind recently (the last week or so).

1) Judas Be My Guide by Iron Maiden, because it reflects my current feelings on the fate of the human race.

2) Taking The Queen by Bruce Dickinson.

3)The Immigrant Song, by Led Zepplin, because of Shriek III

4)Temple of Love by Sisters of Mercy, just because I love it.

5)Beautiful Lie, by someone or other, because it keeps getting played loudly downstairs, and is an improvement on everything else being played downstairs.

6)Ghost of the Navigator, again by Iron Maiden

7)No, after ten minutes I really can't think of another song  tha'ts been on my mind at-all recently.  Mostly this is because my laptop, which has been slowly dieing for some time can now only really be used for one thing at a time, so I can't listen to music and, say, read LJ, or webcomics, at the same time. 

As for tagging people, I believe that yjadd covered virtually everyone I might have tagged anyway.  If you want to do it, feel free.

Okay.  Things have changed.  Again.  However, this time the change is permanent.  As in there will be no other changes.

I know I haven't been updating here, but I think just about everyone reading this will have the context in any case.

Bottom line:  Me and Seeker_dreamer will be leaving Lancaster.  Most likely at the end of the week.
I'm sorry to everyone who was expecting us to say, and I'm sorry we've dithered quite as much as we have and raised your hopes. It was nice to see so very many of you at the party.
Ultimatly, we love everyone in Lancaster, but the job that we needed to stay up here has failed to materialise, so we're pretty much having to leave.  It may not be entirely permanent, but it is at least indefinate.  I at least can see coming back to Lancaster at some future date, but not for quite some time, as in when I have a car and, heaven forbid, a career.  In short, not yet.  

I'm going to try and tie up the remaining loose ends before leaving (games etc) but at least some of that won't be possible.

I'm still going to be here on lj.  I'll update alot more regularly once I have a net conection of my very own.

I'll post a longer breakdown of our decision later, if anyone's intrested.

Thought I would get this done while there were still a load of untagged people on my list.

[Once tagged by this entry, the assignment is to write a blog entry of some kind with six random facts about yourself. Then, pick six of your friends and tag them; no tag backs. This explanation should be included.]

1.The more people tell me that something needs replacing, the more attached I become to it.  My wallet no longer fastens, and tends to let all my change fall out, but replacing it now would be loosing.
2. I have a habit of lying on my bed, throwing things at the ceiling and trying to catch them.  I often miss.  Sometimes they don't
3. I once created vegan chocolate-cake-pie for a friends birthday.
4. If I find an unattended lighter while even remotely drunk, I will attempt to make the flame bigger.  Often ludicrously so.
5. I enjoy match-racing.  If you want to know what this is, bring me a small cardboard box, and a box of matches, and I'll show you.
6. I read something in the region of thirty webcomics regularly.

Tagged: dark_dreamer06, mwkilburn</div>, pen_pen42, seeker_dreamer, westslide,

I just did the 'what drug is your personality like' test.  I won't bother posting the result.  You all know what I got anyway.

Okay.  I am now back from my holiday to .... Heysham.  No, seriously.   I have sunburn and everything.  There is a camping/caravaning site, just next to the power station (still deadly serious), built on land reclaimed by tipping rubble onto the sand of the bay until it stopped sinking.  This does of course mean that you are attempting to pitch tents there by driving metal spikes into building rubble, but it is there.  We went to Windermere, something I never got around to doing before (criminal, having lived so close for so long), and actually enjoyed the horrific weather (that is to say, when the boiler broke and there was no hot water at all, it was still pleasant to take a shower, because you could get shivering cold to delay getting hot again).  However, the drive back was unbearably hellish.  We were stuck crawling along the M25 at less than walking speed, in the worst of the heat, and then the water ran out.  I don't think we got a clear strech of road for more than half an hour the whole trip (and Heysham to Hastings is quite some trip).  Ten hours in a cramped minibus, with a seven people and a dog.   We don't get air-con or anything fancy like that.  We kept cool with water over heads, until it ran out.  Then we just got hot.

But aside from that, seeker_dreamer has graduated, and is now a Master of Phyiscs.  She is not only the most beautiful, wonderful, lovely person in the whole world, she is also insanly clever. 
And she's mine.
*Does a little happy dance*

I may be away from sweet internet goodness for about a week, so just to make sure I have something utterly mind-destroying when I get back:

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, (even if we don't speak often) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me. It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE. When you're finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people DON'T ACTUALLY remember about you.

Just don't expect me to respond in a hurry.

*sudders at the prospect of internet withdrawl*

seeker_dreamer has shown me where most of the Lone Wolf books have been posted on line, complete with random number generator and online character sheets. Given there's more than a dozen of them, it could fill a whole afternoon of sitting around waiting for Lurps to begin again so you can get your roleplaying kicks.

If you don't know Lone Wolf, it's decent Fighting Fantasy style gameplay, but with a lot less 'You chose left instead of right. We spin you out for six paragraphs, then kill you. And you never know what you did wrong.'  Also, it's set in an intresting world, with intresting plot, and recurring characters who you don't have to kill on sight.

Plus the combat system is so much cooler. And you get to play a ninja monk.

It's at http://www.projectaon.org/

(I think that link works now.  I could be wrong.)

I went to see Priates of the Caribbean with seeker_dreamer and her family yesterday, and needless to say, it was great. In other news, seeker_dreamer has complications to her surger.  Not serious ones, but she is now on Penecilin, and feeling down about things.  If I was in Lancaster I would take her to people who would make her feel much better, but here I don't completly know what to do.  Of course, there is also a much lower risk of her being unexpectedly bearhugged down here, so I suppose I has it's upside.  I'll be back in a week for graduations, and I hope to run into some of you then.  Let me know what you're doing that week!

Well, this post is going to be a long, tangentical, rambling and in all lightlyhood quite dull rant about the Stormhaven finally that just happened. So if you weren't intrested in, for example, westslide talking about Dariel, then skip

I did this lots of times, and this is the only one really worth posting...

Okay, the damn thing won't post as anything other than a string of code. Here are the answers, if you want to do it for yourself, look to evilbilbo.

If you were on a battlefield right now, versus everything...
Name Goeffrey Shockleigh
Gender Male
Age 28
Lover or a Fighter? Lover
Fight for good or evil? Good
Battle Cry: Cake!
Weapon of Choice Good intentions
Appearance Your Favourite Clothes, flanking from the sides on foot
Your Battle Cry... Would scare the demons of hell
Foes slain upon first strike: - 97%

What you fight Occupying Enemy Forces
You fight.... Because you are the right person for the task

Mmmm. Good Intentions. That sounds about right. Of course, Geoff isn't much of a lover, but he really isn't a fighter.

I kind of like this;



Athough the idea of darkluke as the voice of the ships computer is slightly worrying. 

You'd think that a party that had only four people would be less likey to disappear off in seperate directions, wouldn't you?  You'd think that a party consisting of three life-preists and a mage would stick together for their own protection.  Especially while leaving the city and wandering off into the forest.  No.  Noooo. 


I'd say 'never again,' but I say that after every live I run.  And for all the bitching, I do really enjoy it. 

Next time, I'll run something without a 'no neseccary combat' stricture, though.  That was tough to write.