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janestarzTuesday saw us swimming and going to D&D. Since NoKey had traded in one day in the previous week for work, he had Monday and Tuesday off (a fair trade for us indeed). And as he suggested we'd go swimming, I could hardly say no. We drove to the Lansingh in Krimpen, and had a blast in an almost empty pool.
The muscleaches were non-existant, so I should probably have exerted myself more than I did.
D&D was fun. We even saw Lorian again. Only this time, he was a vampire. Eeek! And, as we hit him, there was another vampire, who raised about 40 skeletons to keep us busy.
So we ran. And then we ran some more.
And then Keffie's character, wearing all his armour, suddenly got exhausted, the whimp. So instead of running, we chose to fight. Damn, that was a rush. I did a Greater Turning or a Destroy Undead or whatever Mariel is good at, and it caused half of the skeletons to crumble, doing another such round the next round. Before even Uthar could crush one, they were all gone. W00tness!
If the vampire had been around, it would have been much more trouble, but he stayed at the tower.
We then proceeded towards Margden woods, where Mariel comes from, and ran into some gnolls. I chose to play Mariel a lot more militant when it comes to gnolls, because they have been at war for ages. Normally, Mariel is very shy and lets the fighters take care of fighting. Only with the gnolls, she didn't hesitate and just whacked them with her staff. Not that she hit, but whatever.
And then we were taken to meet the Elders.
So D&D was good, and my character went up another level. Mariel is soon level 6, and I thought that level 5 got me some nice spells already!
Wednesdaynight we were invited over to Lorian's (Goofy's) place, and we dropped in on Keffie and him playing Heroes of Might and Magic. I forgot how much fun that game was. We watched for a while and then we played Burn In Hell. I was right about that game, with more players you can do more fun stuff. Keffie scored 300+ points on his first circle (which was more score than we had in the game with just the two of us, but then again, we applied an optional rule). Basically Burn in Hell is Go Fish with four variables. If you score just one variable, you get 2x the score of the circle. But if your circle has all four variables in common, you get 2x2x2x2 = 16x score. Luckily, this did not occur. (that is the optional rule, by the way). Goofy didn't seem to enjoy it as much at the beginning, but he got the hang later on, and got us 10 degrees of playing time when Hell had already frozen over.
Keffie won, by a neat 50-point margin, and I was second. He was just lucky to have a Saddam Hussein-like card at the end of the game, which allows you to take all Slothful/Prideful/Envious souls from the pit. So suddenly he had a major number of cards and could form some kick-ass circles and kick me out of the lead.
Yesterday I've been catching up on the household a bit. Steelweaver had come by on Wednesday and the house was a mess, and I really needed to do something on that. Vacuumed, did the dishes, you know. Nothing interesting there.
I also watched The Phantom Of The Opera when NoKey was off to taijutusu. My gods, what a sweet-as-sugar movie that is. It's so syrupy it's disgusting. First of all, it's a musical. Soit. But then at least cast people that can sing. The phantom himself had a voice that was only slighty okayish when he was really putting some effort and lung capacity into the higher notes, and when it went a little less, it was just disgusting. The music itself was repetitive, probably for the audiences' sake. Say, what do I know this tune from? Oh, it's the exact same song as five minutes ago. Gee, they changed the lyrics. Somewhat.
Then on to the characters: Christine is a major bimbo "I thought it was the Angel Of Music". Grow up you stupid twit. And also: enchanting someone by singing? Is that a new form of hypnotism?
The Phantom is murderous but slightly fake. Murdering for murder's sake. I only liked his murdering when he strangled one of the stagehands. We all hated his ass anyway.
The cute boy who plays Christine'sgirlboyfriend runs off to get his sword in the middle of a ball when the Phantom shows up...wtf? Just jump the bastard and punch his face symmetrical again.
The only character I really liked was Carlotta, if only because she was the only one with at least some depth. Granted, she's a nagging soprano, but at least she played the part well.
And the costumes were okayish. Nothing too bustly, but many nice Victorian corsets. I wonder if ballerina's in those days wore those clothes too. They seemed too naked for the period. I liked the cinematographic effect of hauling the chandelier up and going back into time, switching from grayscale to full colour in the process.
Well, now I'm off to do some groceries for DG, and packing the last bits before Steelweaver comes by for tea.
The muscleaches were non-existant, so I should probably have exerted myself more than I did.
D&D was fun. We even saw Lorian again. Only this time, he was a vampire. Eeek! And, as we hit him, there was another vampire, who raised about 40 skeletons to keep us busy.
So we ran. And then we ran some more.
And then Keffie's character, wearing all his armour, suddenly got exhausted, the whimp. So instead of running, we chose to fight. Damn, that was a rush. I did a Greater Turning or a Destroy Undead or whatever Mariel is good at, and it caused half of the skeletons to crumble, doing another such round the next round. Before even Uthar could crush one, they were all gone. W00tness!
If the vampire had been around, it would have been much more trouble, but he stayed at the tower.
We then proceeded towards Margden woods, where Mariel comes from, and ran into some gnolls. I chose to play Mariel a lot more militant when it comes to gnolls, because they have been at war for ages. Normally, Mariel is very shy and lets the fighters take care of fighting. Only with the gnolls, she didn't hesitate and just whacked them with her staff. Not that she hit, but whatever.
And then we were taken to meet the Elders.
So D&D was good, and my character went up another level. Mariel is soon level 6, and I thought that level 5 got me some nice spells already!
Wednesdaynight we were invited over to Lorian's (Goofy's) place, and we dropped in on Keffie and him playing Heroes of Might and Magic. I forgot how much fun that game was. We watched for a while and then we played Burn In Hell. I was right about that game, with more players you can do more fun stuff. Keffie scored 300+ points on his first circle (which was more score than we had in the game with just the two of us, but then again, we applied an optional rule). Basically Burn in Hell is Go Fish with four variables. If you score just one variable, you get 2x the score of the circle. But if your circle has all four variables in common, you get 2x2x2x2 = 16x score. Luckily, this did not occur. (that is the optional rule, by the way). Goofy didn't seem to enjoy it as much at the beginning, but he got the hang later on, and got us 10 degrees of playing time when Hell had already frozen over.
Keffie won, by a neat 50-point margin, and I was second. He was just lucky to have a Saddam Hussein-like card at the end of the game, which allows you to take all Slothful/Prideful/Envious souls from the pit. So suddenly he had a major number of cards and could form some kick-ass circles and kick me out of the lead.
Yesterday I've been catching up on the household a bit. Steelweaver had come by on Wednesday and the house was a mess, and I really needed to do something on that. Vacuumed, did the dishes, you know. Nothing interesting there.
I also watched The Phantom Of The Opera when NoKey was off to taijutusu. My gods, what a sweet-as-sugar movie that is. It's so syrupy it's disgusting. First of all, it's a musical. Soit. But then at least cast people that can sing. The phantom himself had a voice that was only slighty okayish when he was really putting some effort and lung capacity into the higher notes, and when it went a little less, it was just disgusting. The music itself was repetitive, probably for the audiences' sake. Say, what do I know this tune from? Oh, it's the exact same song as five minutes ago. Gee, they changed the lyrics. Somewhat.
Then on to the characters: Christine is a major bimbo "I thought it was the Angel Of Music". Grow up you stupid twit. And also: enchanting someone by singing? Is that a new form of hypnotism?
The Phantom is murderous but slightly fake. Murdering for murder's sake. I only liked his murdering when he strangled one of the stagehands. We all hated his ass anyway.
The cute boy who plays Christine's
The only character I really liked was Carlotta, if only because she was the only one with at least some depth. Granted, she's a nagging soprano, but at least she played the part well.
And the costumes were okayish. Nothing too bustly, but many nice Victorian corsets. I wonder if ballerina's in those days wore those clothes too. They seemed too naked for the period. I liked the cinematographic effect of hauling the chandelier up and going back into time, switching from grayscale to full colour in the process.
Well, now I'm off to do some groceries for DG, and packing the last bits before Steelweaver comes by for tea.
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Date: 2005-10-14 08:05 am (UTC)hey. i don't care too much about that phantom. but do you actually get to see his whole face. that's always been the one thing i wondered about that dude.
and musicals with bad singers? what the fuck!?
ah. swimming. yay! i love swimming. its just the bathingsuit/bikini part i don't like ;)
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Date: 2005-10-14 08:10 am (UTC)I thought the musical in Scheveningen of Phantom was okay. I did miss some of it because we couldn't see parts of the left of the stage, and I was still very young.
At least Moulin Rouge they sang themselves, and well! The story and songs were captivating enough to remain seated in stead of making tea while the same tune comes by again. As musicals go, Moulin Rouge is hard to top. But I guess that's the difference between Andrew Lloyd Webber (Broadway Producer, known from Cats, made Phantom of the Opera) and Baz Luhrman (Moulin Rouge, he also made that great movie rendition with original Shakespeare texts of Romeo and Juliet).
Oh yes, I'm definitely a Baz fan.