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Friday evening attended Jenne's birthday gathering in Brunswick. She's a syncretic Jewish Pagan, and hopefully will be giving an address soon at the Melbourne Unitarian Church on such matters and their relationship to peace and healing. Saturday was spent at Supernova: Pop Culture Expo, by which they mean a sci-fi expo (indeed, it seems that contemporary pop culture is sci-fi). Spent some time chatting with Rowena Cory Daniells, especially on poor mapping by fantasy authors and then ran into Nyssa C-P where I got to play generous uncle by purchasing her a wooden cosplay sword.
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recumbenteer, Louise B., and tau_iota_mu_c where my culinary skills were put on generating a variety of middle-eastern dishes; I constructed Arabic salatet hummus, Turkish cerkes tavugu, Hebrew salat pichei avocade gezer bermitz tapuzim (I didn't think that would work), Persian dizi joojeh, Turkish imam bayilidi and Egyptian ruzz di sukkar. What? You want English? OK,chick-pea and onion salad; cold shredded chicken with walnut sauce; chilled avocado, carrot and orange; chicken and bean casserole'; braised aubergine with tomatoes and onions; sweet rice with raisins and almonds.
On Sunday our regular Young Gods game finished the crossover story of the epic flood of Yu the Great from Chinese mythology and an attempt by Sedna from Inuit mythology to reintroduce a new glacial age. It worked quite well with a combination of the very foreign mythology and some intra-party conflict of views. The eleventh issue of RPG Review is in its final stages, but as a preview there's an interview with Jonathan Tweet, one of the most important game designers of the last twenty years.
Saturday night we hosted a dinner party with Chiara B. (whom I haven't seen for 15 years plus),
recumbenteer, Louise B., and tau_iota_mu_c where my culinary skills were put on generating a variety of middle-eastern dishes; I constructed Arabic salatet hummus, Turkish cerkes tavugu, Hebrew salat pichei avocade gezer bermitz tapuzim (I didn't think that would work), Persian dizi joojeh, Turkish imam bayilidi and Egyptian ruzz di sukkar. What? You want English? OK,chick-pea and onion salad; cold shredded chicken with walnut sauce; chilled avocado, carrot and orange; chicken and bean casserole'; braised aubergine with tomatoes and onions; sweet rice with raisins and almonds.On Sunday our regular Young Gods game finished the crossover story of the epic flood of Yu the Great from Chinese mythology and an attempt by Sedna from Inuit mythology to reintroduce a new glacial age. It worked quite well with a combination of the very foreign mythology and some intra-party conflict of views. The eleventh issue of RPG Review is in its final stages, but as a preview there's an interview with Jonathan Tweet, one of the most important game designers of the last twenty years.