taffdan

So come to the end of the first week here,...

Lots of cool people out here and a really good community going on which is a win, quite hard to remember everyone's names though, ah i'll get there.
Had a lot of chats through the week about where is decent to board, how to get into italy or switzerland on a snowboard, avalanche survival gear and courses, the stories of the Aiguille du Midi and the crazy backcountry stuff starting with the ice bridge of death, followed by amazing vast open mountain till you get to all the cravas areas and stick with your guide like glue, or possibly end up falling into 500 meter deep ravine's...scary...maybe not quite yet. Probably about the same time im ready for heliboarding come feb/march

Bars here really cool, people all very friendly, had a good set of laughs so far and got a little drunk a few times and am deffinetely suffering for it today, ah but was worth it i tells ya.

Deffinetely liking the life. Back to lounging now

So woke up at 4am to shower and pack my wash stuff etc before my parents arrived to drive me out to brizzle airport...sad I didnt get to see everyone I wanted to and say goodbye's properly, just ran out of time or messed up my chances to do so...ah well.

Got to bristol without too much bother, checked in bags and found my weighing of my suitcase last night wasnt exactly accurate, both my snowboard bag and suitcase were over my allowance by like 7kg between them so had to fork out £10 per extra kilo, what did they expect? I neeeeeeeed a million clothes and stuff and things! My mum offered to pay and I gratefully refused but my dad slipped me £50 anyway when I went to change some cash. Tbh my parents are amazing anyway and was really nice that I got to see them and not get a bus on my own there...

Flight was quick and painless as always to Geneva, saw some snow on the higher fields and got my luggage out in record time and into the car to come up here. Some really lovely autumn forest scenery, lots of vivid coloured leaves on the trees, crystal (though freezing looking) rivers and of course huge mountaints topped in snow where the clouds wernt hiding them.

Chalet is really cool, room isnt huge but is lovely and warm and comfy, just need to work out where to put everything and try not to mess up the en suite. Has a nice big wooden terrace outside on the first story looking over the garden of this massive old delapadated house that looks like it belongs in harry potter, oh and if i look left or right I can see the snowy foresty hights up to about 4000 meters, including some of the lower slopes that have started to have a bit of snow on them too!

The town seems pretty quiet atm this early in the season, met a bunch of people already as Laura walked me round to show me some cool shops and what bars are any good. Sharing a room with Tom from sweeden when he gets here on Thursday, I need to decide before then if I want the top or bottom bunk,...all in all feeling pretty cool and positive and looking forwards to going out later and seeing some more of this place.

Foolishly forgot the cable that connects my phone to my laptop so cant upload pictures, maybe will find one lying around, or get a french phone with one.

Still receiving texts as normal, but recieving calls costs me money, and none of my free minutes or txts work booo, hence getting french sim card at least.
Bit sad that cant share this with you guys n the girl I wanted to, ah well. Ce'la vi

So Monday I fly out to Geneva and from there head up into Chamonix town in the French Alps,...going to be a bit of a scary ride and the first time since Uni that I picked up and went somewhere really unknown but this is a little bit further.

Feeling apprehensive, but also quite excited, have had a bit of a shitty week at home, but seen how awesome my mates are yet again and sad things ended with my girl, but I guess it means a completely fresh start out in the snow.

Knowing how crazy fast updates wizz by on facebook im going to try to make an active effort to keep a journal of how im doing out there, what its like and the works.

In preperation this week I have washed a billion bits of clothing and packed them away neatly, got my suitcase out of the shed, spent "some" money on new snowboarding gear trying to not get carried away, spend time just thinking about stuff and getting ready for the move, and fielding calls from mates checking I am ok which is lovely...oh and spent waaaay too long looking at long stay travel insurance, sending off for my EHIC card, checking my sports insurance stuff n finding things I need to do.

Have toyed with the idea of going up to the Unicorns event on friday to see people I havnt already, but I need to see my family n will probably have a few drinks out in Cardiff on saturday night n try not to be as emo as last week, n love to see anyone who's still about for some fun goodbyeness

EDIT: and its started snowing out there now :)

So this weekend is Halloweeeeeen again and no more hordes of dead pirates, tho we did always look amazing.

The vague plan seems to be hanging out, going out to a bunch of pubs and ending up in a club full of similarly mentally dressed types...imagine people will want to goto Bogiez, cant say I wouldnt mind a last trip to Metros but can wing it...

People are variously dressing as Rats, Neverware kind of stuff, alice in wonderland or anything random people fancy and can manage..

Anyone coming down that wants crash space hope we can squeeze everyone in various places, be very cool to see mates before moving out to France

Hot

The fae (players) who'd have thought id ever say that?
Awesome monster crew
Seeing luggage, al, chris, jo etc etc all our awesome mates
Being offered buffs all weekend
Doing some proper scouting and ranger style stuff
Cool fights
People nicely checking in on me sat night
leon, pat n dug getting me there n back and somewhere to stay
Tribe being amazing
tepes, poor frod :(
foreigners being cool n helpful
WINNING!!!

Cold
friday night brrrrr
aches n scratches all over legs from jumping through brambles, must remember to consider my clothes next time
people upset
not getting or liking plot, though liking the encounters pretty much
being a lil ill didnt help
not keeping al n luggage in cardiff last night

Has someone borrowed it from my house :(

So turns out I have some documents to make, replies to send and interview to prep for so not doing Maelstrom

So gonna have games round mine on Saturday instead, depending on whos about will see what board games there are for us, more likely such fun as munchkin and illuminati and flux etc

So mine at 8ish on saturday. Bring your own booze tho, you drank all mine already :P

Hot
Lex for getting me there and back, pat and foggy for helping with kit
The Tribe, for feeling that we were the biggest giantest awesomest family in the world. Letting me be the fascist thats kinda needed for a group our size
Jo for stupid many years of hardwork and us getting to keep her all to ourselves now
House Tepes for being cool as always to hang out and roleplay with and discuss "roleamaplay" with ic, and for munchkin and arguments
The Morningstars
Lesters gig and not being as drunk as last time
Vipers being massive and awesome
Tribe winning the World plot and our group background#
new and old people back in the group
Getting some sweet ritual results on mates that have well deserved them
Looking at new bits of kit (didnt get round to spending tho doh)
Hearing how awesome GOD and stuff were being
Finding out how helpful security were about a few things, including a manic trying to find Si just to tell him his car was as screwed as he left it and hadnt been vandalized at all heh

more than that im sure but brain smarts failing, back to sleep


Not
The Midnight dissapointment as others have mentioned, was waiting round the circle for about an hour or more n was gash
ooc rumours and stirring upsetting mates
leaving my bag with my spare contacts AND glasses in lex's car last night
Lesters gig for not being as drunk as last time ;)
Waking up early each day n crashing out so soon after time out didnt get the chance to hang with mates
Not monstering for the Jackals like i said id try to fit in

Was awesome....

did more work than i expected, but not in a bad way, megga sunny today so am a bit red now, and lovely weather all through the weekend, pretty sure awesome does sum it all up.

Now for the looting of dug's empty house

Does anyone know of anyone thats at the moot and planning to go down to the wedding in the morning apart from Gary and lyn?

Or is going vaguely near Derby I guess tonight or tomorrow morning?

Lyn is looking like he's stuck at the moot currently :(

Contemplating going to give maelstrom another bash...but am like who is there that i enjoy playing with and can hide in their group and make something new

and by the sounds of stuff i may be a bit lost...hmmm

time to watch more chuck and think :)

So Chris 'Purple ninjawa fae warrior' Baron asked if I could post this up and see if people have a few minutes to try help kate get a break

im guessing its something to do with ROLL-A-MA-PLAY :)


Hi all

A friend of mine Kate Evans who plays Gerogie in the Urchins in the Harts Faction has managed to get herself into the last 4 of a competition to win an all expenses paid trip to Gencon USA (Probably the best roleplay convenion out there).

The last step of the competition comes down to public votes, so this is a shameless beg for any of you who have a few minutes to head on over and vote for me if you feel so inclined.

The website is www.tellmeaboutyourcharacter.co.uk and you will need to vote for her character, Renette

You do need to register before you can vote but this only takes about 30 seconds and your information will be deleted as soon as the competition ends so you won't get any spam, etc.

Voting is done in a knockout style tournament, so if all goes well and she gets through this round I would ask you all to pop back to the site on tomorrow to help get her through the final and win.

Needless to say this is a once in a lifetime opportunity and I would be eternally grateful to anyone who wouldn't mind helping her grab hold of it!

If you could please ask any of your friends, relatives, neighbours, people you meet on the bus, etc etc to vote for her I will be eternally grateful!

Cheers

Chris Barron

One of the traders at GEF had some really nice but simple tunics in different colours, looked like decent material...think I may have seen some harts in them...

if i remember rightly they were next to big rich's stall...any idea who they were?

EDIT: looking at the darkblade site its similar, but the one I had in mind was one of the smaller stalls I think, possibly without much weapons and available in white...

Any of you fine people got any metal or norton gauntlets/bracers and greaves i could borrow for an event....

too skint to buy my own atm and need more armour for this outcast milarky

:)

You Are 100% Evil

You're the most evil person you know. The devil is even a little scared of you!

Although I changed a few things....notably
"You've looked at nudie pics at an event (ic I would add)"
"You've sent prank messages/posted them"
"You've taken the piss out of bards/jesters or stabbed them up cos of what they were"
"You enjoy very violent games/pasttimes"
"You've shot a magebolt at someone's face,...and liked it"



taff is however only

You Are 72% Evil

You are very evil. And you're too evil to care. Those who love you probably also fear you. A lot.

So just got a ramdon text asking if i knew any bands in cardiff that were available to play tonight....

so if your up for not getting paid but having free drinks for the night and have some sort of band let me know. Its the End live music night

ta x

So tradition dictates

Hot Hot Hot
TRIBE this year i feel like it was when there were only a few of us, but on a bigger scale. Felt like family willing to back anyone up against anything. Felt amazing.
Especially loved Walks and Snowy
WOAD amazing as suddenly people see how big the family is, especially in a giant circle of vengeance calling most damage calls in the system
BREEDS nuff said
House Tepes - fun as ever to hang out with, Aleena, Frod, Radu, Anton and Aysha especially
our NPCs and Vipers as a whole
Learning stuff
Socialising with new cool people
Getting to know some of the characters in teh jackals id talked to but never for more than a minute
Dicky, Wackeem and the Sheik
Gwion
Making Rosamunde cry
other stuff, falling asleep already am weak
Big bad bob and Saul Derby

Naaaaaaaahhht
Breeds :( nuff said again
Confusion, not understanding, seeing mates so upset
Monsters trying to finish loccing people rather than defend themselves while being wailed on

Does anyone pass through camden normally?

trying to see if i can get a mask that a shop there apparantly sells...

the shop is at the back end of the market under the arches and has a few full sized costumes and puppets outside....chuck me an email if your likely to peek anytime soon n will let you know what im looking for if your that awesome :)

Moot

Very cool friends helping me out with stuff i couldnt buy for the weekend like food and booze as cashpoint crashed en-route and ate my card

Vipers being awesome
Squires and Aleena
Drunk Stalks
Jackals being cool as ever
Cool kids dying and taking it like total champs
Rites not killing me
Getting to monologue as a massive entropic lord while people beat me to death telling them they cannot destroy me...i'll be back
Lon liag
rats everywhere
The group working so well together, all backing each other up
Woad
Rediscovering my acting talent. Gold
Getting introduced to daeowyn's battle sister, telling her how she died, making myself cry, then bursting out laughing...was funny for everyone else too

Noot
getting too drunk thurs to talk friday morning
not doing a bunch of stuff i wanted to
the wedding throwing me out by a day
1 hr max monster roles extending to about 2 hours, but good reasons to give mates a good end
not spending enough time with ittimin
feeling crap after the event

Has anyone seen my brown leather armour please?

It appears not to be with the rest of my kit



EDIT: Found it eventually after searching through all my larp kit, under the stairs, in all the boxes and bags of larp kit in the shed etc

it had been "tidied away" by my helpful brother, to BEHIND(!) the washing machine....helpful