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enthusiastickMy weekend was low-key but good. Friday night there was more LoTR Risk (trilogy edition) with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dippy423 and Brendan. I once again was the sole player for the forces of good. I fared far worse this time than last, eventually hunkering down for the long siege in Southern Rohan, having given up the ghost in Gondor (which is bad, as Gondor is worth 7 battalions every turn.) In the end I think dippy423 won anyway, but realistically speaking I was never really in the game.
Saturday I saw Breach -- 2 1/2 stars -- I went in predisposed to like this one, and I did. Its a moving and dramatic story reduced to a managable number of personal relationships, and I always like that. I'm a big fan of Ryan Phillippe and Laura Linney both, and neither disappoints here. Also I will never be able to see Dennis Haysbert as anything other than President David Palmer ever again. Even in those Allstate commercials, poor guy. Gary Cole is also distracting for similar reasons, although he's at least three different people in my head. Oh and Phillippe's characters wife is played by an actress named Caroline Dhavernas who is a total cutie. Anyway, enough digressions. Chris Cooper's performance was good but not stellar, and overall I found the film engaging but not particularly memorable.
Sunday my parents came up for brunch. At the tail end of the meal we were joined by my sister and brother-in-law, who were in town house-hunting. There was big news afoot: I am apparently going to be an uncle. Sometime around October I will be welcoming a niece or nephew into the world. How nifty is that?
Sunday night was the Legends Winter Feast. After a bit of stressing out about hitting the road on time (which we didn't, my bad) things went smoothly. It was a pretty good time, certainly fun to see some of those people again and whet my apetite about Legends Spring season. I've been thinking about doing a write-up for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
nachdemspiel, but frankly it wasn't all that eventful, particularly not for my character. The high point of the night was probably sleetfall winning a jar full of alchemy potions by correctly guessing the number inside (sixty-four, and he got it exactly.)
According to the folks at Legends this was the best Winter event in recent memory, which means that so far the game's upward trend continues, even in the face of the controversy surrounding leadership and ownership of the game. The player-to-staff ratio was really good and a lot of the staffers I enjoy were there in force, so that gives me hope that things are going to go well despite the occasional forecasts of doom. Drama and forecasts of doom seem to be part and parcel of every LARP organization, near as I can tell. With Legends a policy of ignoring them has worked for me so far, and I suspect it will continue to.
dippy423 and Brendan. I once again was the sole player for the forces of good. I fared far worse this time than last, eventually hunkering down for the long siege in Southern Rohan, having given up the ghost in Gondor (which is bad, as Gondor is worth 7 battalions every turn.) In the end I think dippy423 won anyway, but realistically speaking I was never really in the game.Saturday I saw Breach -- 2 1/2 stars -- I went in predisposed to like this one, and I did. Its a moving and dramatic story reduced to a managable number of personal relationships, and I always like that. I'm a big fan of Ryan Phillippe and Laura Linney both, and neither disappoints here. Also I will never be able to see Dennis Haysbert as anything other than President David Palmer ever again. Even in those Allstate commercials, poor guy. Gary Cole is also distracting for similar reasons, although he's at least three different people in my head. Oh and Phillippe's characters wife is played by an actress named Caroline Dhavernas who is a total cutie. Anyway, enough digressions. Chris Cooper's performance was good but not stellar, and overall I found the film engaging but not particularly memorable.
Sunday my parents came up for brunch. At the tail end of the meal we were joined by my sister and brother-in-law, who were in town house-hunting. There was big news afoot: I am apparently going to be an uncle. Sometime around October I will be welcoming a niece or nephew into the world. How nifty is that?
Sunday night was the Legends Winter Feast. After a bit of stressing out about hitting the road on time (which we didn't, my bad) things went smoothly. It was a pretty good time, certainly fun to see some of those people again and whet my apetite about Legends Spring season. I've been thinking about doing a write-up for
nachdemspiel, but frankly it wasn't all that eventful, particularly not for my character. The high point of the night was probably sleetfall winning a jar full of alchemy potions by correctly guessing the number inside (sixty-four, and he got it exactly.)According to the folks at Legends this was the best Winter event in recent memory, which means that so far the game's upward trend continues, even in the face of the controversy surrounding leadership and ownership of the game. The player-to-staff ratio was really good and a lot of the staffers I enjoy were there in force, so that gives me hope that things are going to go well despite the occasional forecasts of doom. Drama and forecasts of doom seem to be part and parcel of every LARP organization, near as I can tell. With Legends a policy of ignoring them has worked for me so far, and I suspect it will continue to.
