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Kapcon 19 was really good.

Round one was a horror game set in the 1940s called Diminishing Regrets, which was the third in the "Children of the Blitz" series (you didn't need to play in the first two to know what was going on). It was fantastic and I was delighted to find out at the end that the GM was running the other two at this Kapcon as well - for the last time. I could only play in one other (round four Sunday morning), but it was also excellent.

Round two was a game called American Gothix in which you played a group of teenage goths in the 80s on a road trip to a nearby city where The Cure were playing in a concert. The only problem was the bratty 13 year old sibling of one of the goths had to come along, or they couldn't use the car. I played the bratty sibling and it was really easy to think back to going on long car journeys with my siblings. Lots of fun and I highly recommend it.

Round three I played in a Shadowrun 4th ed game in which we were a bunch of shadowrunners hired to ensure that a visiting celebrity had a really good time at a club in Seattle. Highjinks ensued, we got the job done, and were payed double - but a week late.

The LARP was Saturday night. It was the most amazing and immersive set I have ever played in. It would certainly beat some BBC productions for set design! There wasn't as much space as usual - not all the rooms were used - and there was a giant machine in the centre. My character was from a very insular faction, and as such, I spoke mostly to my own people, and one other group. Got home about midnight, had a shower, and spent the next couple of hours reading until I couldn't stay awake anymore, even if my brain didn't want to shut up.

Fourth round Sunday morning was the aforementioned horror game, this one called Fear of Dreaming. Six kids on a trip through a NPC's disturbed unconsious. We thought we were dead for most of the time, but kept going nonetheless - what else were we to do? I played the slow kid, and seriously, I find it so much harder to tone things down to that level. It was a nice way to start off the day.

Fifth round I played Steampunk! With Zombies! We were members of a super-secret organisation who had to retrieve a sarcophagai from Greece for the British museum, and once we got it back to London, hijinks ensued. Also, the GM provided cake.

Sixth round I was going to try a fourth ed D&D game called Undead Hunt. Unfortunately, there weren't enough players for it to run, but by that stage I was hitting the wall, and my incipant cold was starting to be felt. Played a small card game of Evil Overlord before fading out to read for a bit. Was asked to be door warden, and did that before most people wandered over to N's for post-Kapcon wind down.

Got home about 1.15am, thanks to mashugenah, and promptly crashed. Woke up shortly after 11am this morning, and have spent most of the day in bed, generally feeling ill. Can't taste anything, my ears are generally blocked, and I've spent a fair amount of time dozing. Feeling slightly brighter now, but not enough for anything involving much concetration or many of the higher brain functions. Thinking about calling in sick tomorrow morning, but will see how I feel. Now, if only my shoulders would stop aching.

I have volunteered to run a game second round next year and to take over running Confusion, so artemist can have a break.

Thanks also to Vic who gave me a ride there both days and Ruth, who gave me a ride home on Saturday night.

Since I left Wellington yesterday morning, without hassle since the cloud was more in Wilton than Kilbirnie, I have read on of the three books I brought up with me, purchased another, wandered through what there is of downtown Tauranga, done a few rows of crossstitch, thrown a frisbee on the beach and seen the comet with my own eyes from my parents backyard! And that was just yesterday.

Today I slept in, despite the heat, went for a walk and then for a swim. The swim was absolutely delightful - still, clear and just the right temperature. Very relaxing. Have done very little since then.

maudlinrose, could you check my Tamora Pierce to see if I have Cold Fire, Bk. 3 in the Circle Opens series. Am also getting recipes and ideas off Mum to play with, some of which I might use, some I won't. They like our pesto, though.

Had a very good Kapcon - played a lot of increasingly silly games and enjoyed myself thoroughly. The LARP went well, which was a relief and have only heard generally positive comments and the occasional constructive criticism for future LARPs. Have a idea for another one, but I think it'd be better as a May one and not til next year.

I hear that it was an absolutely horrible game of Ultimate last night. I'm very sorry and I hope that no one leaves over it.

The latest sga_flashfic challenge has hit me with an idea and I think it's time to go find a pad of refill or something and start playing with it.

I don't know why I do this to myself. I know what I need to do for the LARP character editing, I knew roughly how much time it would take, I knew when I needed to get it done by. Yet I still waited until the day before the meeting to go through and edit things. It's mostly done now and I'll stop for the night I think. I just have to write the background for Pruss and Vane and then I'm done. I'll do that at lunchtime tomorrow, I think.

It's just incredibly stupid. I hope that I create better habits when I start the Legal Executive course in February. The enrolment pack arrived today and once more I am glad that my parents saw fit to give me multiple copies of my birth certificate signed by a JP when I left home. I just pulled another one out of the plastic sleeve and attached it to the document. A much harder thing is my ID photo. I think I still have one left from five years ago, however, I certainly do not look the same anymore. And I don't really want to have to trek out to Porirua just to get my photo taken!

I am currently rereading Curse of Chalion interspersed with other books. It doesn't quite grab me in the same way as it used to (I actually have to be in the right mood to read it now and I only read it three or four times a year) but is still really enjoyable. I can just sink into it and follow what happesns and it stays good even on the somethingoranother reread. I'm not sure how many times I've read it. I stopped counting around 12 or so. It must be 20+ now.

What I really need to read, of course, is a non-fiction book for my santa resolution. It's nearly two weeks into the year and I haven't started one. I think I'll go and pick something easy now and stick that into my bag. Then I won't have a choice!

Have been listening to an old Amy Grant tape (The Collection) a lot lately. I should probably find a CD of it so I don't wear the tape out. This is the tape, that along with a couple of sing-along tapes (GT & the Halo Express etc and two sing-along tapes of Bible verses) that kept my siblings and me occupied during long car journeys (anything over half an hour). I still associate this one with going to Anaura Bay in the summer, with my head leaning against the window, half dozing and half watching the scenery go by, the wind brushing through the top of my hair and warmth.

The weather is ridiculous. I am really really really looking forward to going up to Tauranga after Kapcon, not only because I have two weeks off work, but also because Tauranga has to be having better weather than we are here and I am so tired of grey skies. Coldest December on record for 70 years, I bet this is going to be the wettest January! And I'd be glad if the weather decided to prove me wrong!