So, onwards, ever onwards.

I haven’t done much. I came home from work, sat down with a tea and my copy of the Ravenor Omnibus, only to have my dad come home and tell me the shower’s broken and we need a new one, and that new one won’t be here or working until the weekend. Fantastic.

I get the feeling D&D won’t be up and running until Sunday, more’s the pity, and we’ll still be missing Retro. Curse his hedonistic playboy actor lifestyle. Still, I want to finish the Clockwork Tomb and see what the party want to do next. I have an option or two for them. Truth be told, I’d like to see someone else pick up the baton and run a separate campaign, so I can just hit things instead of having to plan out an elaborate plot, scratch build maps and design encounters.

It’s all good, though.

Well, I’m tired.

Pretty busy day. I came home, had my dinner, did my work, and fiddled with one thing or another. I’ve done the first sweep of my first assessment, pulling out the major problems, and tomorrow I’ll get a bit more in-depth with it.

I did finalise some details for later encounters for my D&D group, I just need to build them. Compared to the Clockwork Tomb, they’re pretty simplistic, but they’re not “easy” by any stretch of the imagination. One is going to probably scare the bejesus out of them from the off, the other probably will do it when they see what the “boss” can do.

Well, the Clockwork Tomb has got off to a start, albeit without their healer or rogue. They’ve cleared out the cultists of the Clockwork God Fernex, and have moved onto some rather strange inhabitants – Dwarforged Vessels, animate constructs that house the remains of long-dead dwarfs. What’s odd is that each of the shambling constructs has a scarab brooch on their chest that looks rather new…

Beyond that, I’ve not done a lot. I started reading Ravenor Returned again, as it’s there and I can read it, but I would like something a bit unknown. Still, I got a massive kick out of the Folklore of Discworld, and a few ideas and references have been followed up. It should be interesting to see where it leads.

So yes, an interesting day by some accounts.

Today wasn’t exactly a great day. Let’s leave it at that and move on.

TF2 didn’t happen, which is both shocking and appalling. I presume this was because everyone and their mother was playing Mass Effect 2, which I can’t play until I’ve finished my mid-course assessment for my Proofreading course. No-one is stopping me or anything, I just want to actually at least get to the halfway point before I start losing days and days to the damned game.

I also bought a rather nice copy of the OED for my work. And loose tea. Rock and roll.

Today was an exceptionally busy day. So much so that after work, I just got some shopping and more or less came home and sat in the bath for a bit. I’m tired and rather irritable.

I picked up The Folklore of Discworld, as like all other Discworld spinoffs, it explains the links and basis of these things in real folklore and mythology, which is usually pretty interesting. An added bonus is the extended reading section, which mentions the numerous books Sir Terry (And his assistant in this endeavour, Jacqueline Simpson) referenced to produce the book. It’s nice how it does tie together some interesting pieces of fanon (Like how Dagon is linked to Leshp, for example) whilst mostly explaining, in a roundabout way, where Sir Terry got the seed of some of his ideas.

Beyond that, though? I’m incredibly tired. I just want to get some sleep.

Well, it seems our problems (In regards to The Clockwork Tomb) have been, for the time being, solved. Thanks to Pix (For solving the connection issues) and Lothar (For helping with crazy lighting problem) for that. Now I just have to arrange a time that will be appropriate for everybody.

I heard about Needlemouse, and how it’ll be Sonic 4. I’m excited, the first time I’ve been for a Sonic game in over five years. It’s not a pleasant feeling. Still, if the worse thing about it is how Sonic’s running animation is slightly off, we’re in a good place.

Beyond that, I had a rubbish afternoon and I’m tired. Time for bed.

I’ll be honest with you, I’ve had better days.

The D&D thing seems to have hit a wall, thanks to MapTools. It seems whenever I try to actually get this tepid little piece of freeware to work, it’ll throw up yet another problem. This time, it seems to be in regards to hosting games. What made matters worse was every guide got progressively more complex or moronic, despite trying to find simpler and simpler ones. They all presume an apparent knowledge of computer network hardware/software that would render such a guide worthless, so they seem rather self-defeating. One, actually recommended by RPTools, is sixteen pages long and spend most of that waffling on about CEOs and their secretaries. Little hint, if you’re writing a guide that will be used online, people want the information quickly, in an easily accessible and understandable format. What they don’t want is a few paragraphs of allegorical horseshit.
So yes, thanks to this, we won’t be getting a game going. At least, until I find a way to get this hosting malarkey sorted in a fashion I find acceptable.

Beyond that, not a lot. I watched In Bruges, which is a surprisingly good film. Sadly, the above events fouled  what had been a pretty tolerable evening.

So, it seems the Clockwork Tomb is picking up steam, with the delve itself more-or-less finished, and the cast signed up and named. I just need to check that MapTools works the way I want it to for hosting and we’re laughing all the way to the bank.

Beyond that? I bought Mass Effect 2. I haven’t actually played it yet, as the idea is to use it as a delicious carrot to get me to do my bloody revision.

So yes, I’m still leading my life of decadent excess.

I’ll be honest, it’s late and I don’t feel like chatting much. But, I did get a fair chunk of our D&D 4th Edition intro game (The Clockwork Tomb) built in Maptools. With a bit more work, we should be done and life will be wonderful and glorious.

Beyond all this, I’m tired. I stuck a ton of stuff on LoveFilm, so I shouldn’t want for cinema, but as always, suggestions are welcome. Also, a few more regarding books.

And finally, I watched the Dimbleby Lecture, with Sir Terry Pratchett (Or rather, Tony Robinson) as the guest speaker. Sir Terry’s form of Alzheimer’s affects his reading ability, making a speech like this rather hard. Tony Robinson did a bang-up job, though. I suggest catching it on the iPlayer, not only for the wit, but for the message.

I think I ate a bit too much last night, as I woke up at five with unpleasant stomach cramps. It really was an experience I do not wish to repeat. I felt better in the end, but not by a great deal. Regardless, I seem to be cleared out now.

I did have something I wanted to write about, but ahriman_gonzo tweeted about how he’d come across the review of the one of the worst pen and paper RPGs ever made. I’d seen it before and suppressed the knowledge, but thanks to him, I recall every hideous detail.

So yes. What I had wanted to discuss has been forgotten. What has forced its way in doesn’t bear thinking about. Oh dear.

I’m tired and sluggish, quite possibly because of the stuffed crust pepperoni I had for dinner tonight. Urgh.

I wandered out, I came back. I watched the most recent Russell Howard DVD, which was wonderfully surreal, but beyond that, I’ve had a quiet day. Quite possibly because the rage from yesterday is still sitting in me.

And it seems the next TF line will have Legends/Minicon combiners, with packs that have combiner limbs as well as full teams. GLEE.

I have not had a very calm day. I would blame the Chilcot Inquiry. To say it has had a bad effect on me would be an understatement, as even reading the articles on it has me practically boiling over with anger. Hearing it on Radio 4 had me screaming at the radio, and just thinking about it has me clenching my fists.

Urgh.

In lighter news, I picked up Legends ROTF Devastator. He’s a nice figure, made up of interesting figures, and certainly is far more interesting and fun than the £100 one made up of non-transforming vehicles.

I went to work, then I came home. I’m an edgy maverick, me.

Truth be told, I did scrawl down some notes for that setting/idea/thing, but nothing solid or anything worth singing and dancing about. On a similar note, I did see one of the new D&D classes, the Battlemind. Yeah, I know, the sheer silliness is why I have a fascination with it too. But there’s a new race in the same handbook, called the Shardmind. For fuck’s sake, guys. The best spin on that, though, is just calling the Battlemind the Nogginslogger. Or the FIGHTBRAIN.

Oh well, not long until the weekend, where as usual I’ll do fuck all. But I like doing fuck all, it means I can get some proper sleep.

So, the Jesus Tablet has been revealed, with a price in crazy colonial money. Sadly, there isn’t a sterling price, but it does look nice incredibly nice. And by that, I mean what it has under the hood. Still, it won’t be out here for a while.

Beyond that, I finished The Odyssey. It was enjoyable enough, and things happened. Now I need to find something else to read.

So yeah, not a great deal. Going to get sleep.