May. 9th, 2006

Geek Pizza

May. 9th, 2006 12:45 am
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Monday Pizza was fun. Afterwards Tom invited us to go and assemble his bookshelves, which prompted much enjoyable discussion of the most efficient methods, and a bit of assembly. This is useful because his bookcase is very like the one I have another of against the weekend when I have enough time to unpack my boxes of "these books should be on display." Assembling one the SECOND time, especially with several people and a hammer, is much easier as you know what's important, so I feel comfortable building mine when I know I only have an hour or two available.

Alternatively, I may invite to *mine* for wardrobe assembly, and to play with my Penultima set which has easily distinguishable King-pieces and Pawn-pieces :)

Somehow Tom's half-furnished living room seemed conducive to a whole range of amusing conversations which aren't worth quoting, but was very pleasant.

ETA: I may have drunk more port than is strictly normal for a weeknight, but not enough to be a problem. I did want to shake some people sometimes and tell them to change their personalities, but this is normal :)

Penultima

May. 9th, 2006 12:52 am
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This is mainly a note to myself, but as I struggle to make Penultima rules I invent have interesting, tantalising, and somewhat helpful without being completely obvious[1] names that are poetry in themselves, and am not especially practiced at the same, perhaps making the names of the list of ideas I need to transcribe public will spur me to improve:

Repton
Boulder
Taxicab
Cruciform
Space hopper
Crocodile Dundee
Ray gun
Hovercraft
Bolas
[White/Red] Queen

[1] Not that I've ever seen a too obvious rule, even a couple of completely obvious not-too-powerful rules in a game would be fine, and I'm probably pretty prone to making not-especially-obvious rules.
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As I haven't played mao for ages and have been promising people I will for months, and no-one is willing to admit to having planned anything else for that day, I will invite people to Ambiguity to play Mao on:

7.30pm Saturday 20th May

Feel free to turn up later. Or if you tell me in advance and turn up at 6.30pm I will also feed you :)

My name is and:
Yay! I'll be there.
I'd like to, but I'm not sure.
I'm busy then.
Mao gives me a headache you insensitive sod.
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