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A Month of Saturdays, Gaming Activities
Feb. 9th, 2015 08:59 pmThat was a busy Saturday. Early start on Saturday with a visit to three cafes in the morning with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
caseopaya, ser_pounce and hathhalla, starting off in Krimpers and Raw Trader. These are interesting because they're located in a tiny pocket of older buildings of La Trobe Street which date back from the area was a slum and the juxtaposition between these smaller and old red clinker bricked buildings in narrow laneways between the overbearing glass and steel modern towers that surround is a strong one. After those we ventured to Cat Cafe, which is as the name implies, a coffee shop (of sorts) full of rescue cats, along with cat-related products.
After these visits our troupe made its way to the Flagstaff Gardens for a picnic lunch, and then to the State Library where there is an exhibition on Bohemian Melbourne, which included an excellent collection of early films (1910s, 1920s), some ribald works from Norman Lindsay, plenty of Tucker material, and more contemporary material from the punk and goth era. Was amused to see some very familiar shots from the early 90s in the latter section. In the evening made our way to Pause Bar forredcountess's fiftieth birthday celebrations with good conversation all round.
I've also enjoyed two good social gaming sessions in the past few days. The first was on Thursday night with the opening session of The Laundry Files based on the Charles Stross novels. It's effectively Call of Cthulhu meets Pythagorean number mysticism with computer science. My character is country Australian with a broad accent, red hair (named 'Bluey' of course) and a propensity to blow things up at the first sign of trouble. On Sunday afternoon played throug the fifth session of 7th Sea Freiburg, which has been entitled The Vagabond Said To The Bishop. I had some ridiculously lucky die rolls, which causedusekh some concern. But all went well, and once again the party imposes their will on this lawless city. On a totally different matter, Sunday was also the day that I went to see an address at the Unitarians by Pastor Berlin Guerro, a left-wing priest who was adbucted and tortured by the government.
caseopaya, ser_pounce and hathhalla, starting off in Krimpers and Raw Trader. These are interesting because they're located in a tiny pocket of older buildings of La Trobe Street which date back from the area was a slum and the juxtaposition between these smaller and old red clinker bricked buildings in narrow laneways between the overbearing glass and steel modern towers that surround is a strong one. After those we ventured to Cat Cafe, which is as the name implies, a coffee shop (of sorts) full of rescue cats, along with cat-related products. After these visits our troupe made its way to the Flagstaff Gardens for a picnic lunch, and then to the State Library where there is an exhibition on Bohemian Melbourne, which included an excellent collection of early films (1910s, 1920s), some ribald works from Norman Lindsay, plenty of Tucker material, and more contemporary material from the punk and goth era. Was amused to see some very familiar shots from the early 90s in the latter section. In the evening made our way to Pause Bar for
redcountess's fiftieth birthday celebrations with good conversation all round. I've also enjoyed two good social gaming sessions in the past few days. The first was on Thursday night with the opening session of The Laundry Files based on the Charles Stross novels. It's effectively Call of Cthulhu meets Pythagorean number mysticism with computer science. My character is country Australian with a broad accent, red hair (named 'Bluey' of course) and a propensity to blow things up at the first sign of trouble. On Sunday afternoon played throug the fifth session of 7th Sea Freiburg, which has been entitled The Vagabond Said To The Bishop. I had some ridiculously lucky die rolls, which caused
usekh some concern. But all went well, and once again the party imposes their will on this lawless city. On a totally different matter, Sunday was also the day that I went to see an address at the Unitarians by Pastor Berlin Guerro, a left-wing priest who was adbucted and tortured by the government.