kmusser

As a P.S.

I am planning on being at the Great Big Sea show tomorrow and at faire on Saturday. Will see many of you there.

4/26 GCOM-Middletown
5/1-5/4 GCOM Game Days
5/10 Frederick Celtic Festival - featuring Enter the Haggis!
5/17 GCOM-Brunswick
5/18 Idol Hands LARP
5/23-26 Balticon - anyone else going that's interested in splitting a hotel room?
5/31 GCOM-Middletown
6/10-15 Free Spirit Gathering
6/21 GCOM-Brunswick
6/25-29 Origins - still fence sitting on this one, currently leaning towards not.
6/28 GCOM-Middletown
7/12-13 my next free weekend!
7/19 GCOM-Brunswick
7/20 Idol Hands LARP
7/26 GCOM-Middletown

Last Saturday was my last day at faire for the season. Sadly it was too hot to really enjoy, spent most of the day hiding in the shade, guzzling as much water as possible. Sunday decided I did not want to repeat that, so the rest of the weekend was given over to Civilization IV, so I'll talk about that instead.

Friday I got the new expansion, Beyond the Sword, which I highly recommend for Civ players (make sure to get the rather hefty patch for it as well). The expansion adds lots of stuff, including an espionage system, corporations for the late game, allowing you to split off sections of your civ into vassal states, beefed up diplomacy, and random events. Probably the biggest change though is largely invisible and that is a seriously more intelligent AI, the AI is now better at utilizing almost every aspect of the game, including actually trying to win in different ways. Means I'm currently getting spanked, but such is life, it's good to have a challenging game.

Tonight I help the fabulous wylddelirium celebrate her birthday, and then it'll be off to Pagan Camp for the weekend to get my Vodou on.

I had much fun at TCEP, many (pirate) games were played, was good to see people, especially blackpaladin and angel_vixen who came all the way from Pittsburgh. Also got to spend much time with the lovely auror which was nice. My apologies to stevemb and starmalachite who I didn't get to play any games with - I blame OOTS.

So, games played, Friday: Red Dragon Inn which you should all have on pre-order already, and The End of the Triumvirate a three player wargame that we were playing with only 2, I want to play again with 3 before passing judgement on it.
Saturday: India Rails (which took too long), Kahuna, Louis XIV, Puerto Rico, San Juan, Winds of Plunder (twice)
Sunday: a very long game of Order of the Stick (yes we actually finished, and I won even!), Plunder (which I still haven't decided if I like), and Skallywaggs (which took way too long for what it is).
Monday: Plague & Pestilence and pack out.

Since things were breaking up early on Monday I decided to head out to faire for a few hours. Still a little warm for me, but was very nice to see people and I especially enjoyed the Pyrates "Your Mom" Royale.

Next weekend either faire or TriaDCon, leaning towards con on Saturday and faire on Sunday, but will see what the weather is like.

Also extra-special reason to come to Brunswick this Friday as John DuRant (who some of you may know better as Jonathon Strum) will be hosting a bunch of renny musicians, including some of the Pyrates and meapet's band, Letter of Marque, at Beans in the Belfry starting at 7.

December 22-25 I'll be in Fredericksburg with zammis' family.
December 27-31 I'll be in Chicago with my family.
December 31 I also get to party with wylddelirium and ninjaslug.
January 1 I recuperate with queenmaggie and friends.
January 6 is Brunswick Games Day! - any of you in MD, VA, WV, or PA that like games should join us!

I'm hosting another Brunswick GCOM this Saturday from 1-7 at Beans in the Belfry.

Afterwards we're thinking of doing a haunted river float down the Potomac - also in Brunswick - anyone want to join us?

Sunday we'll be at faire.

Thank you all that came to our party, had much fun. Gaming goodness with Caylus and Apples to Apples. Then we discovered we had Rocky Horror virgins in the house, so we remedied that.

In other gaming news GCOM-Brunswick will be returning later this month, August 19th.

Also today is the last day to register for In The Dark Times.

I'm back from the '48 game - was wetter and more tiring than I would have liked, but still a great game. Congrats to the GMs. Also learned the tech stuff I need to know for In The Dark Times, which was the main reason for going. Now we just need to finish writing it :-)

Meanwhile I have a little over a week until Free Spirit. I plan on being there Wednesday through Sunday and will be repeating some of the events from last year, namely the Freeze and Paganism and Gaming. If you're there do come and say hi, I'll most likely be found at cabin 2.

Meanwhile, I hope I can spend most of this week sleeping. Urrrrrr.

P.S. I've not been keeping up with LJ, if you need to reach me ping me via AIM.

4/22-23 - California
4/29-30 - Beltane?
5/6-7 - GCOM Game Days
5/13 - Rosalia
5/20-21 - camping/Berkeley Springs
5/27-28 - Balticon
6/3-4 - 1948: Sedona LARP
6/10-11 - open
6/17-18 - Free Spirit
6/24-25 - NSVPA festival or Celtic Fling
7/1 - House of Slack party (Origins)
7/8-9 - Indiana
7/15 - MS Fantasy Ball
7/22-23 - Historicon?
7/29-30 - ITDT work weekend, Floydfest
8/5 - "Living in Sin" party (WBC)
8/12-13 - ITDT work weekend
8/19 - Brunswick gaming
8/26-27 - MDRF opens
9/2-3 - TCEP (this year with Rocky Horror theme)
9/9-10 - In The Dark Times LARP
9/16 - Brunswick gaming

For you California people,
zammis and I will be in the Bay Area April 20-23 for her family reunion. If any of you would like to try and meet up while we're there drop us a line.

Also my family is having a family reunion in southern Indiana in July - I don't think I have any southern Indiana people on my friends list, but if I do, let us know and we'll try and visit you too.