Rocknerd Birthdays, Werewolf Cockroaches, Other People's Genius

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This past week started off with txxxpxx's x0th birthday party at their beautiful apartment which never fails to impress and nor does txxxpxx's organisational and catering skills, not to mention the entertaining performance of Three Fat Pirates. It was a great night and I have been reminded that I must organise a smaller gathering of such people for an exploration Willsmere, as many have not had the opportunity to properly explore the grounds of the former asylum. At the other end of the week but equally of alternative rock star sensations, caseopaya and I attended Pop Crimes : Roland S. Howard tribute, courtesy of The Dwarf. My impending review will mention the extraordinary who's-who of Australian alternative music but also note the variation in sound quality at various points during the show. With any luck the next review will be for Dream Theater.

Gaming this week started with Werewolf:The Yugoslav Wars with a journey into the heart of the Siege of Sarajevo. Research of these topics is pretty off-putting but necessary for verisimilitude. On Thursday, a couple of players were unable to attend the usual Call of Cthulhu game was cancelled and replaced by a one-off of the narrativist game, The Shab-al-Hiri Roach, which poses the question are you willing to swallow a soul-eating telepathic insect bent on destroying human civilization? No? Even if it will get you tenure? (to which the competitive New England 1920s academics rush to agree in the affirmative). Previous reviews rate it very highly; whilst very enjoyable I will be more circumspect.

Congratulations are due to ozraptor4 for their artwork in Nature. Ubuntu has it's 10th birthday. Around the same time imajica_lj ordered a special cake, expressing some joy at recent experiences with said distribution (the fact that it said "Happy Birthday!" underneath was a beautiful coincidence).

Comments

Shab-al-Hiri

[goatunit.livejournal.com]

My game library isn't so vast that I can go unsurprised that we both own this weird little gem. I haven't played it yet, though.

Re: Shab-al-Hiri

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

It was good fun; Morningstar's games do have a common procedure of internal competition with narrative and this is no exception. It would be good to add a few more expansions and settings to it which would be relatively easy to do (e.g., the Roach meets Death on the Nile, for example).

[txxxpxx.livejournal.com]

Did you just call me a rock nerd? *giggle*

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

I did indeed. I'm also a Rocknerd on account of reddragdiva allowing me to occasionally publish rants on his 'blog with the same name.