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Today was... interesting.
I decided I needed new dice. This necessitated a trip to the Shop Of Gaming Goodness, of course. And there, today, assembled for a near gigglefit, was the full range of stereotypes. I personally blame their M:tG tournament for this.
Still! There was the scrawny know-it-all bespectacled twelve-year-old playing against the balding middle-aged socially awkward accountant. There was the employee with the well-developed moontan and more spots than a labrador convention. There was the other employee, who finds things like this incredibly amusing. There was the fifteen-year-old flipping through albums of Magic cards on a mission for something-or-other. There was the large, dribbling, sweaty individual with a bag of Stuff™. There was the D&Der affronted by the presence of Other Games on the shelf. (No Serenity in stock; I take this as a good sign.) There was the 'goth'-looking guy peering intently at Vampire. There were assorted non-stereotypical geeks, ranging (at a glance) from harmless and awkward to pleasant and personable.
And there was me, who instantly fails at being any of those - making me the token gamergirl, who generally avoids all of the above except the employee who finds this all incredibly amusing; incidentally, the one as is likely to actually, y'know, talk. And so it was over to him I went, to look at pretty dice for a while.
There followed talking, Serenity geeking (and squeeeeeeing), the revelation that they sold out of blank dice (if I can't buy some gorram fudge dice, I'll make them all. by. myself.), and the news that dice were apparently very popular yesterday today. He theorised that there must be a lot of D&D going on; I noted that my dice - lacking twenty-sided ones - are utterly useless for D&D.
The D&Der shrank back from me a little as I left.
Then came a trip to the comic shop; a journey that involves walking a whole block from the gaming shop. I went to try to find Serenity comics. Interestingly, the comic shop was completely stereotype-free. Turns out, their shipment of Serenity comics was delayed leaving the US and will be in-country on Thursday. And it also turns out that the shop owner suddenly decided that he should see Serenity tonight, possibly on account of a convincing filmsquee from a comic-shopping browncoat.
Not to mention I've had a Kaylee-esque demeanour all day.
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apathy_games has new and useful content for those planning on playing. I'm going to assume now that all have joined as plan to; the joining process is now moderated, so latecomers will need to be approved to join. There's 8 players in, thus far.
I leave you now with my musings on a random person on the bus, who repeatedly elbowed me while reading the Weekend Australian. It's the newspaper for Anne Rice; they make up their own original stories with their own original facts.
I decided I needed new dice. This necessitated a trip to the Shop Of Gaming Goodness, of course. And there, today, assembled for a near gigglefit, was the full range of stereotypes. I personally blame their M:tG tournament for this.
Still! There was the scrawny know-it-all bespectacled twelve-year-old playing against the balding middle-aged socially awkward accountant. There was the employee with the well-developed moontan and more spots than a labrador convention. There was the other employee, who finds things like this incredibly amusing. There was the fifteen-year-old flipping through albums of Magic cards on a mission for something-or-other. There was the large, dribbling, sweaty individual with a bag of Stuff™. There was the D&Der affronted by the presence of Other Games on the shelf. (No Serenity in stock; I take this as a good sign.) There was the 'goth'-looking guy peering intently at Vampire. There were assorted non-stereotypical geeks, ranging (at a glance) from harmless and awkward to pleasant and personable.
And there was me, who instantly fails at being any of those - making me the token gamergirl, who generally avoids all of the above except the employee who finds this all incredibly amusing; incidentally, the one as is likely to actually, y'know, talk. And so it was over to him I went, to look at pretty dice for a while.
There followed talking, Serenity geeking (and squeeeeeeing), the revelation that they sold out of blank dice (if I can't buy some gorram fudge dice, I'll make them all. by. myself.), and the news that dice were apparently very popular yesterday today. He theorised that there must be a lot of D&D going on; I noted that my dice - lacking twenty-sided ones - are utterly useless for D&D.
The D&Der shrank back from me a little as I left.
Then came a trip to the comic shop; a journey that involves walking a whole block from the gaming shop. I went to try to find Serenity comics. Interestingly, the comic shop was completely stereotype-free. Turns out, their shipment of Serenity comics was delayed leaving the US and will be in-country on Thursday. And it also turns out that the shop owner suddenly decided that he should see Serenity tonight, possibly on account of a convincing filmsquee from a comic-shopping browncoat.
Not to mention I've had a Kaylee-esque demeanour all day.
apathy_games has new and useful content for those planning on playing. I'm going to assume now that all have joined as plan to; the joining process is now moderated, so latecomers will need to be approved to join. There's 8 players in, thus far.I leave you now with my musings on a random person on the bus, who repeatedly elbowed me while reading the Weekend Australian. It's the newspaper for Anne Rice; they make up their own original stories with their own original facts.
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Date: 2005-10-02 12:15 am (UTC)According to my boyfriend, Mal is a tribute to Harrison Ford's Han Solo. I wasn't looking for things like that, i was just loving it. Lots. (And my boyfriends DAD, of course, noted that the two Jewish aqppearances in the movie were the businessmen [the twins] and the internet geek [mr universe]. Sigh.)
Now I'm wondering where the game is happening in relation to the movie events. Like, the strength of the alliance is different on either side of the timeline, for instance. And our characters - will they remember seeing The Broadcast, or will this be way before it, or will it be in an alternate whee none of that happened?
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Date: 2005-10-02 12:20 am (UTC)The strength of the Alliance won't be significantly different; it still has all the power, and it's a long way from collapsing. Also, we have UK folk in, so the game has to be non-spolierish. I think maybe a few months before Serenity is a merry kind of starting point.
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Date: 2005-10-02 12:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-02 12:29 am (UTC)Once you've been in Serenity, you never leave.
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Date: 2005-10-02 12:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-02 12:44 am (UTC)It's a series!quote. You'll have to watch Firefly at some point, for the full experience of the Big Damn Fandom. :)
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Date: 2005-10-02 12:46 am (UTC)(Is it really Inara? How exactly does one pronounce Inara so it sounds like Alanora? Besides, I'm sure he nicknamed her Nora at some point...)
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Date: 2005-10-02 12:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-02 12:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-03 06:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-03 07:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-02 08:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-02 08:14 pm (UTC)- Serenity
- The Train Job
- Bushwacked
- Shindig
- Safe
- Our Mrs Reynolds
- Jaunestown
- Out of Gas
- Ariel
- War Stories
- Trash
- The Message
- Heart of Gold
- Objects in Space
That may help some. Serenity (movie) comes six months after Objects in Space.no subject
Date: 2005-10-02 08:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-02 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-02 08:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-02 08:36 pm (UTC)They showed them out of order because they did everything they could to kill Firefly. This might sound like a conspiracy theory, but there really is no other explanation.
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Date: 2005-10-02 08:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-02 08:41 pm (UTC)And then they started selling DVDs, and Fox were very embarrassed by the exceptionally high sales.