yes its true that I believe I'm weaker than I used to be

[enthusiastick]

My weekend in review:

• Friday night was $5 buy-in poker (no limit Texas Hold 'Em, of course) at sleetfall's. Selected members of the Tuesday night gaming crew combined with Rachel, the girl Jon is currently pseudo-dating, to get drunk and lose money to one another. I did well early on, several big wins in early hands including a miracle straight on the river. Then I made a couple of bad plays, which by the light of day I chalk up to being drunk, and abruptly lost interest. Fortunately the game was not far from wrapping up at that point. After poker we played a little Apples to Apples and a little Fluxx, both always enjoyable, although being tired and still inebriated I had nowhere near the required mental capacity for Fluxx.
  
  
• Saturday I drove out to the Lincoln/Sudbury area to rendezevous with thablueguy, who had invited me to staff at the one-night non-combat Prophet's Fall event that evening. The Maruto Jen (the pan-Asian culture'd Japan analogue in that game) were holding a trial for a Nyphian Duke accused of killing a Jen foreign ministress. The fact that he had killed her was not highly disputed; the Duke attempted somewhat unsuccesfully to convince the court that the ministress had become a Chaledon (sp?), a vampire-like monster that the insular Jen were largely unfamiliar with. He was doing pretty well until right at the end, when he inexplicably admitted that there was a Nyphian Prince who had also become a Chaledon but had not been murdered. Things went rapidly downhill from there. I played the role of cultural liaison in the form of a Vallesan with knowledge of Maruto Jen culture who was there to interpret and explain the trial procedure to the accused. Nyphians hate Vallesans, you see, because Vallesans are frivolous and generalky useless (think, say, Brujah opinion of the Toreador.) It was big fun, and hopefully there will be a PF weekend in September I can get out to.
  
  
• Sunday I recuperated and generally knocked around. That pretty much brings us up to date.