response 1 of 59:

Jul 1 04:53 UTC 2001

Well, while Jason is recovering (grumpily) in the hospital Alex seems 
to be making eyes at his woman Maeve. 

Piotr and Gwynne have been up late many nights now doing 'research' 
(that's what they're calling it at least).

Faith has discovered the joy of sex and has been spending evenings with 
Kol.

Petey is still carrying around a headless bear, though most of the 
stuffing seems to be missing.

Robin is just calmly watching over her latest batch of children and 
wonders when Roki plans to come home from Liane's.

(And in the background... Chain has been seen around Ann Arbor, and 
word is out that he plans to work with a U of M professor, perhaps even 
teaching a seminar... The Nephandi seem to be on the move again, the 
boy from Isreal is still ducking Margo's radar, much to her 
displeasure.)

response 3 of 59:

Jul 4 22:29 UTC 2001

Honestly I've been spending more time converting sources from AD&D2E to 
D&D3E than I've actually spent playing.

response 5 of 59:

Jul 10 15:18 UTC 2001

And when not bored, or when two or more of us are in the room together, or....

One of these days I swear I'm going to have a conversation with Greg that
doesn't somehow involve gaming....or else I think he'll deck me. :)

response 7 of 59:

Jul 11 16:28 UTC 2001

Let's see... It's nearly June, the Petey-one is almost done with school 
(and she couldn't be happier) and is attempting to avoid the trip to 
Florida to visit grandparents that a short while ago she was so looking 
forward to.

In other news, Gwynne and Piotyr are still at the research, though 
given that they've come up with a few answers it would appear that they 
really ARE researching, much to everyone's surprise.

Faith has been off visiting her older brother and sister-in-law, but we 
expect her any day now. However, due to her absence she did miss 
Maeve's fabulous display of 'A Woman Being Attacked by Spirits.' 
Speaking of... the attack was quite successful- afterall, they got her 
to pay attention to them. However... don't leave steak alone with this 
woman, she has a hungry Timber Wolf to keep happy.

Speaking of hungry wolves... Alex and Jason have resorted to peace... 
via simply not speaking to each other. Alex ignores Jason anyway, and 
Jason (though he'd never admit it) is slightly intimidated by Alex. 
Then again, Jason does remember which one of them Maeve is engaged to 
and kinda lords it over Alex. Would they admit this was going on? Hell 
no.

Chain is still in town, what the hell, is he moving in or something? 
Anyhow, he spoke to the intrepid heroine Gwynne who tried the 'if I bat 
my eyes and play clueless he'll go away, right?' idea, sadly he didn't. 
I think he rather likes Ann Arbor, who knows when he'll leave?

Margo has been incommunicado with the lil Orphan Magies, but she is a 
busy woman with so much to do- no time to even drop a note via e-
mail... so sad.

Oh, and has anyone gone looking for Nephandi lately?

More later...

response 9 of 59:

Jul 12 06:47 UTC 2001

My job is to search for the Tekkies....

Intrepid Heroine?  I think the reason the eyelash batting didn't work is
because she had never tried it before in her life.

response 11 of 59:

Jul 13 19:37 UTC 2001

Devon Alek has managed to get herself a boyfriend now that she's 
entered her mid-30's and despite being a facless name in the crowd.

I got a free copy of Diomin last night - it looks really cool.

response 13 of 59:

Jul 16 17:28 UTC 2001

I dunno . . . we're not necessarily making this a serious item . . . 
what is Amalgam like, by the way.

I think one of the bad things about gaming is running into folks that 
use it to replace what's missing in their lives.  In other words, those 
who live it outside of game time.  I guess that's why I think I would 
not want to play LARP.

response 15 of 59:

Jul 17 14:24 UTC 2001

<nods>  Yeah, that's a whole different level entirely.  At least with 
tabletop, the "innocent bystanders" or other NPCs are figments of 
character creation and imagination.  There's no real-life consequences 
for what a player does with their character.

response 17 of 59:

Jul 18 20:24 UTC 2001

(yeah, tell me about it)

BIG NEWS!! ROKI CAME HOME!! 

And there was much rejoicing... well, after people got over the Petey 
Crisis...

What was the Petey Crisis you ask? Well, the little miss was lured into 
another realm by her avatar, she was gone a couple hours... but when 
she came back it was most apparent that wherever she was, well, it had 
been more than a few hours there...

So now Gwynne (one of our Intrepid Heroines- yes she is, don't deny it) 
has to cope with her suddenly 16 sister. Ah stubborness does run in the 
family... Did I mention that Petey has a really odd sense of ethics? 
She also has some really bad nightmares, though she's gotten better 
about not waking people up because of them... 

Maeve hasn't been seen much around the kitchen, but she's recovered 
remarkably from her spirit attack. She's currently learning self-
defense, with Faith, from Tall and Scary (Alex) (well, Piotor started 
calling him that! It's not my fault!). Jason isn't sure how he feels 
about this, so he's not saying much.

Faith is just trying to figure out what's going on, well, that and 
recover from having her mind turned to swiss cheese. Kol has been 
hanging around the house again, though Gwynne keeps threatening to have 
a Talk with him (though apparently the subject changes from time to 
time). This time I think it has something to do with seeing a raven fly 
in the house, I dunno.

On other fronts, Chain is still hanging around, though he does 
disappear from time to time. The Nephandi seem to be back in their 
places, save for the young'in from Israel... where'd he go?

response 19 of 59:

Jul 20 14:08 UTC 2001

Right... first she has to catch him. ;)

response 21 of 59:

Jul 23 18:17 UTC 2001

Yeah, just make a trail of tin foil balls into your room and corner him.

response 23 of 59:

Jul 24 06:44 UTC 2001

actually, she' just planning on asking Faith for his phone number.