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This is a continuation from this post I made over in the Bad Day thread. Long story short, my cat, Rugby, snuck out of our house 3 weeks ago and has been lost ever since.    Today, we found

Kobold King
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Ah, nothing like young love. Walking together on starry nights. Chattering excitedly together about whatever the other's interested in. Seeing the smiles of someone you care about more and more each d

TwiLyghtSansSparkles
TwiLyghtSansSparkles

I let Bruce sleep in my bed last night. At first, he lay very still when I turned out the light, as if he were thinking, Maybe she hasn't seen me. If I just lay right here, she won't see me and I can

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Delightful

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16 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

@Deliiiiiightful Tell us how it went! 

Well it started off with the guy swearing at the secretary for making him come down to the front desk to pick me up rather than letting me into the building alone. Friendly exasperated kinda thing.

There are office signs to the effect of "Do not enter unless you have cookies"

He was joking with his co-worker about having lunch together to discuss a movie. 

So + for office atmosphere.

I basically had to say why I wanted the job, make observations on a recorded lesson (writing said observations while the interviewer was in another room), do a short 3rd grade quiz thing proving I know the difference between there their and they're etc. And I had to attest that my Hebrew is good enough to at least read names. Yes, it is lol. 

And the interviewer kept saying the place was like piccadilly circus so I asked if that was an actual circus (its not) and a coworker who happened to be casually sitting in the room working on a laptop surprised the interviewer by not knowing what it was either and never having asked. So lots of joking and friendliness. And then he complimented my purse. Called it snazzy. :lol:

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Slowswift

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I hit 30K words on my novel! :D 

I know I said elsewhere I'd hit 30K, but it turns out that it was actually 29K. And as I said then, It's not quite as impressive when you realize I've been working on it on and off for almost two years. :P 

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Shqueeves

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5 minutes ago, Slowswift said:

I hit 30K words on my novel! :D 

I know I said elsewhere I'd hit 30K, but it turns out that it was actually 29K. And as I said then, It's not quite as impressive when you realize I've been working on it on and off for almost three years. :P 

Sweet! That's more than I've ever written on a single project in my life

StrikerEZ

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So, I just got home from our Mid-Winter concert about an hour ago. I'm not even sure why we do a Mid-Winter concert though; we've barely had any time to learn the music. Anyway, it went pretty well. I really like the first and sixth movements of the second piece we played. The second is pretty, we didn't play the third of fifth, and the fourth is okay. But at the start of the fourth movement, something really weird happened. It starts with some clarinet pick-ups, and then the girl that sits next to me, we both play bass clarinet (her name will be Katy for this story), and I come in on the third beat of the first measure. We started off in time, but then everyone got really out of time and it was weird. I just kept playing, and tried to get back in time, but Katy stopped playing (or maybe she didn't, I couldn't really tell). I noticed my band director giving me a weird look over my music stand, and then Katy elbowed me slightly. I was already kind of freaking out becaus of the chaos, so I thought she was telling me to stop playing. We came back in after some rests later, and the rest of the movement was fine. Anyway, Katy told me after the concert that she wasn't telling me to stop playing, she just thought I wasn't seeing my band director's look. 

Now I have to get my solo going....

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Claincy

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Ok, so D&D tonight was kind of crazy.

The short: An old player came back to play as a different character pretending to be his old PC. The session ended with him shooting a keg of gun powder (with a pistol) that another player was holding in the tail end of an intense fight. The next session will begin with a bang ;)

Without going into too much detail the players were going back to a cave they'd gone through at the end of the first campaign to take care of some unfinished business (for gold!) and some new business. Last time they were here 2 of the PCs ended up in a no-holds barred fight (the players had discussed the possibility in advance) which thanks to wild magic got rather crazy and involved an accidentally summoned unicorn. One of those characters disappeared on the horn of said unicorn and has since reappeared as a villain. The other character (Kar) ended up walking off deeper into the cave and hasn't been seen or heard from again...until now.

Kar was a bard with a fondness for the bagpipes. I talked to the player a little while back to set this up, he lived near where we were playing so I just gave him a headsup when his character would be entering in ~10mins and he came round and waited out front. The PCs were fighting an evil giant in the entrance area to the cave and I rolled initiative for his character secretly. When his turn came up I described a sound coming from further back in the cave as a figure steps into view, turned off the music, and turned on a youtube video of bagpipes. Then he knocked on the front door. :)

The second (and final) fight of the session was centred around a "Spellforge" and the creatures guarding it, who had been bathing in it and were now considerably stronger than when the party first met them 3-4 levels ago. The fight itself got kinda crazy and pretty early on in it a couple of the PCs stumbled on Kar's dead body in a side room. They weren't entirely sure what to make of it as they've run across duplicates of PCs before (long story) so they continued with the fight. The guy decided to burn an invisibility spell on the body to stop the rest of the party from seeing it which worked fine until the party's fighter sprinted through that room and tripped over it :P

In the end the PCs had just about won the fight, though all of them were on perliously low health and one of the enemy creatures was still standing. The guy saw his chance and lit the fuse on the keg of gunpowder he had and dropped it into the spellforge, (destroying it was always his task). He then yelled at everyone to get out of the room quickly and ran out himself. Most of the other players decided that was the best course of action and booked it. But one decided to try and save the spellforge and climbed in, managed to grab the keg and start hurrying towards the nearest door, where "Kar" happened to be standing. Seeing his mission about to fail the guy decided the one option he had left was to shoot the keg before the other PC got too far away from the spellforge (not knowing that it would blow at the end of his turn anyway), he rolled and hit. And that is where we ended the session.

I think it's safe to say that the next session will start with a bang! ;) 

(I apologise for the (presumably) rubbishy grammar in that, I have a lot of sleep to catch up on.)

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Jondesu

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I used to work with the children's ministry and then the youth group at my church (for I think 12-13 years at least), but I've often felt I was just kinda...there, not really all that meaningful except to run the computers. Today I had expressed that feeling and got a wonderful message from one of my students about how much I had meant to her and had kept her involved. It was really awesome to hear and something I needed today.

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Delightful

Delightful

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I got the job I got the job thank G-D I have a job!!!!!!!!!

and an apartment!!!

and life should finally settle down now :D

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Claincy

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58 minutes ago, Deliiiiiightful said:

I got the job I got the job thank G-D I have a job!!!!!!!!!

and an apartment!!!

and life should finally settle down now :D

Congrats! :D

marsoupial

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9 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

Made steak for the first time and got a perfect rare!

Wow! That's a rare feat. :D

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Briar King

Briar King

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16 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

Made steak for the first time and got a perfect rare!

The only way to eat steak is to have that blood gushing down your chin! Nom nom

Jondesu

Jondesu he/him

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33 minutes ago, Briar King said:

This Super Bowl is making me happy! Go Falcons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm honestly shocked. I was rooting for the Falcons, but thought they'd lose. They're shutting down the Patriots almost completely instead!

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Briar King

Briar King

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Just now, Jondesu said:

I'm honestly shocked. I was rooting for the Falcons, but thought they'd lose. They're shutting down the Patriots almost completely instead!

Indeed and it's F ing glorious! Underdogs killing it. 2 more quarters to go though.... 

TwiLyghtSansSparkles

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26 minutes ago, bleeder said:

Wow! That's a rare feat. :D

Just a medium rare one. :P 

18 minutes ago, Briar King said:

The only way to eat steak is to have that blood gushing down your chin! Nom nom

Agreed. ^_^ 

5 minutes ago, Jondesu said:

I'm honestly shocked. I was rooting for the Falcons, but thought they'd lose. They're shutting down the Patriots almost completely instead!

Heh. Everyone I know is rooting not for the Falcons to win, but for the Patriots to lose. :lol: 

Sunbird

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Re: steak, I also abhor overdone steak, but I do like it a little more cooked than y'all apparently do. Medium is how I usually like it. I've never cooked it myself--just ordered it at restaurants or reaped the benefits of friends' or relatives' grilling--so sometimes it's a game of trial and error to figure out what to tell different restaurants in order for it to come out how I like it.

Silverblade5

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26 minutes ago, Jondesu said:

I'm honestly shocked. I was rooting for the Falcons, but thought they'd lose. They're shutting down the Patriots almost completely instead!

Kind of like when the Broncos played the Raiders.

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