So.  Here I am, sitting in the game room at AAC.  I'm working security, so I get to go everywhere, and do just about anything.  Like write a blog entry.  In the game room.  While checking badges.  I'm pretty sure someone spiked that iced tea I just drank two cups of, and I'm pretty sure I know who.  I'm not saying though.  AAC has been fun so far, if a little overworked for me.  Friday was fun, I got up here around 10:30ish, though I left with Carl_G to pick up one of his friends at the airport.  We got back at around noon, and we went and put our stuff in the room.  I'm rooming with Carl, his brother, and another friend of ours.  Not that any of us actually really sleep.

Friday was cool, but mostly uneventful.  I played in a SoulCal tournament and came out third.  I didn't figure I'd even get to fifth.  I spent most of my time guarding the staff area.  Pacing back and forth.  Eh, good exercise.  About 1 am I decided that I'd had enough for the night, and I left to go up to my room.

Saturday: Woke up at about 7:30.  mmm, Oreos.  I went up to the sixth floor green room for a donut for breakfast, and went downstairs to the con.  BLAMM67, who was head of security for that shift of the con immediately found me a place to "secure".  Video room.  Yay! Anime!  Started with Outlaw Star, which is just awesome.  Then, we moved on to "Mao-Chan".  Mao-Chan is... lemme put it this way.  Imagine you had the most stereotypical, the most overused, the most badly thought out anime idea ever.  Now imagine you had all of them.  In one show.  It IS a parody.  Like Excel Saga... only not as good.  And, just my luck, nobody came to relieve me.  So, after watching six, count them, 1 2 3 4 5 6 episodes, I felt like my brain was going to explode.  Into cute little aliens.  You need to have seen the show to get that reference.  Next on the list was Desert Punk.  Not a bad show.  In fact, quite good.  But, six episodes in a row is not recommended.  Not if you favor your sanity.  So, after four hours in a cramped little freezing cold room watching (admittedly mostly good) anime, I decided that I needed a break.  Not so coincidentatly, this was just before the DBZ movie was scheduled to play.  Don't ask me which one, I don't know, I don't care.

I got out, just in time to help run security for the echostream concert.  If you've never heard of echostream, I suggest you immediatly go see them live. echostream (the band's name is actually lowercase, AFAIK) was actually opening for another band, whom I didn't like as much, but who were still quite good, Hsu-nami.  There was a signing after the concert, although I was immediately relieved of duty and told to go eat something.  Oh yeah... food...  After I ate, I spent some time wandering as I tried to figure out what to do next.  I ended up going to the game room, and, here I am.

Next Morning:  Well, I just woke up, and realized I hadn't submitted this blog yet.  Last night was a blast.  I was up until 3 in the morning (when they closed the game room) playing SCIV, DDR, and Rock Band.  Not to mention all the talk and such.  I'm going to post a second, hopefully shorter blog later on.

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Last time, my adventurers finished killing the goblin chieftan, and made off with the loot.

Now, they've returned to town, returned the stolen merchandise, made friends with the locals, and promptly decided to split up.

That can't be good for the cohernece of the group, can it?

They arrive separately in the city of Krave, after the elven sorceress Morwynn decided to critize a barber on his spelling, and immediately refuse to join together.  Well, one way or another they have to adventure together, right? This is a group thing at the moment, right?  So they get thrown in jail.  Obviously, Polmund the drunken dwarf decides to attack the sheriff, and nearly kills him.  A squadron of city guards rush into the guardroom, where they promptly die.  Morwynn casts detect magic, and discovers that the magic that killed them is necromatic in orign.

Adventure hook, right?  One would assume... but my players would rather play 5 separate games of D&D rather than one big game...

We ended up with the political cleric, Gustav, sending the rogue, Vincent, to blow up the headquarters of the facist party in the city.  Meanwhile, the dwarven crusader, Dolthin, and Morwynn are tramping up and down the dwarven section of the city, trying to make contact with someone for Moradin knows what reason. Polmund is somewhere while this happens, and they eventually meet up at the city square, though not without some coaxing.  At this point most of the inhabitants of the city have fled or been killed by death spells of some kind.  A little seaching finds a cursed dagger on both a dead mugger and a dead guard.

Dolthin, in his inexplicable manner, attempts to retrive as many of the cursed daggers that he can find.  In a moment, he finds out that the daggers randomly give off bursts of deadly magic to their possesor.  He continues to attempt to complete his collection.  Polmund finds the location of the necromancer, and off they go!

Or not.

Knowing the location of the evil necromancer behind the mass murders, they decide to visit a church in the city.  They wrestle the one remaining cleric to the ground, and demand information from him that he couldn't possibly know.  They make another pit stop in the city square again, and then decide to sleep through the night. At this point the crusader has amassed about 15 cursed daggers, the cleric is plotting against the now non-existant opposing political party, the rogue is trying to make out with the cleric's wife, the drunk is still drunk, and the elf is in hysterics.

I guess what they say is true... with friends like these, who needs enemies?

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So, I'm new to D&D, not to mention all live RPG games.  However, I decided that I wanted to play D&D, and not only that, I decided that I wanted to DM.  Probably not one of my wisest choices, but, like the rest of my life, it is interesting to watch.

So, after weeks of attempting to finalize a location and time, we started playing.

The adventurers are a fairly rag-tag group of god-moding heros.  So when a man bursts into the local tavern in the middle of a thunderstorm, screaming about goblins stealing his merchandise, they couldn't resist.  The adventurers travelled to the cave where the goblins lived, and slayed a large number of them in the quest to find the merchant's things.  They eventually killed the greedy goblin chieftan, and started to make their way back, but upon exiting the cave, they were beset by 12 kobolds.  Heroically defeating them, the party managed to prevent the kobolds from making off with their loot.

First off, I probably have bitten off more than I can chew, but I'm loving every minute of it, and so are my players, so I can't be that bad, right?  Secondly,  I don't care who tells you otherwise, but never, ever let your characters god mode from level 1.  I can never quite tell what level encouter to throw at them, although I must need more difficult ones, because they've only once had any reason for the cleric to use his spells.

Anyway, I digress.  I guess being a DM is not as difficult as it would seem, as long as you have an understanding and supportive group.  And if you don't... then why are you playing with them?

--Shishire Maiga

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