http://aprilblood.blog126.fc2.com/ ja http://aprilblood.blog126.fc2.com/blog-entry-11.html It was a few years ago that I realised I had a problem. Being young and foolish, it didn’t take much pressure for me to ‘give it a try’. “You’ll like it,” some people had said... and they were right... and soon enough, I became addicted.Before I knew it, I’d become a regular user and my life had started to go downhill. Sure the stuff gave me a high when I got a fix, but the time in between each Before I knew it, I’d become a regular user and my life had started to go downhill. Sure the stuff gave me a high when I got a fix, but the time in between each dose of ecstasy was an unbearable lifetime of insatiable craving. I became distracted by thinking about when and how I could get my hands on another fix; so much so that in my last years of high school, when my friends had a free period and I didn’t I would ask them to help me out. I knew I shouldn’t have asked, but I just couldn’t help it... the stuff was just too addictive.
Things didn’t get much better when I started uni. Having no one to talk to about my habit, I had found no way to alleviate it and was, by then, more of a slave to it than ever before. One of the first things I did upon setting foot in Monash was get connected. Somehow, perhaps instinctively, I knew where to look and pretty soon I had gotten myself into ‘the loop’ so to speak, and had managed to make contact with a dealer. The price per dose was pretty steep, but what other choice did I have? It had been too long since I’d last felt that tremendous rush and by that time, if I had them, I would have been fully prepared to give up my babies twice over for a fix.
It’s disgusting I know, but that’s what the stuff will do to you. It lures you in with its false promise and phony sense of wellbeing and once it digs its claws into you, you can’t escape. There’s no cure for it; there’s no miracle rehab, and even if there was, and you came out of the place clean, you wouldn’t stay that way for long.
That’s what bubble tea can do to you, guys. Once it has you hooked, it won’t let you go. So to anyone out there who will listen, please, I beseech you... don’t drink the stuff!!! The next time you feel the urge to get a bubble tea, do yourself a favour and give it to me before you get dragged into the gaping abyss of addiction. It’s already too late for me... so let me sacrifice myself for you... ;)

Hehe hoped you guys enjoyed that!!! ^0^
Catch!!! ]]> Category: None 2009-07-10T10:03:53+09:00 ~talipanda~ FC2-BLOG http://aprilblood.blog126.fc2.com/blog-entry-10.html hmmmm methinks its time for a quick update since exams and my short spell in hospital has forced me to put off talking about myself for MUCH TOO LONG!!! XPThat said, since i've been preoccupied with exams since about a month before swot vac (which is what I adamantly believe should be the period where you suddenly come to the shocking realisation that you have exams and start trying to cram 13 wee
That said, since i've been preoccupied with exams since about a month before swot vac (which is what I adamantly believe should be the period where you suddenly come to the shocking realisation that you have exams and start trying to cram 13 weeks of information into your head in time for that 9:30am exam for which you're sleep deprived and wishing that you'll catch swine flu on the short trip to Caulfield...) because I had two exams due before the official start of the exam period, there hasn't really be much going on and it makes me sad :(

Roleplaying has been put off for the past few weeks due to people needing to study etc... however, duing the few sessions that we HAVE had, there were many highlights ^-^
To begin with, poor Alex being caught up in a giant frat orgy while we were tailing a drug dealer at the behest of our latest client... XD
It all began when the beautiful and increadibly charming Lady Orchid, owner of the Black Cat strip club hired us through our contact Vladimir for a two day recon job. We were to shadow and learn as much as we could about a certain two drug dealers who had been causing her a bit of business trouble and to report our findings to her. We were told that one of the dealers hung out at an Orc Biker Club and the other hung around a university campus so while Dave and Oliver (our two orcs) headed off to the club, Alex and I (the two youngest members of the party) hit up the university. When we got there, we realised that because of the sheer size of the campus, we wouldn't be able to find him on foot so Alex hacked into the security cameras and after a few minutes we'd tracked him to one of the frat houses. Being a nerdy hacker, Alex decided to stay in the library away from the house full of jocks and surf the Matrix so it was up to me to try to find a way in :S Being unsure of what to expect inside, I decided upon a frontal attack... and knocked on the door :P The door was opened and a guy came out, gave me a once over and said "...sorry we're not interested in buying cookies". That was when I remembered that being an Elf makes me look like I'm 12 years old. So I promptly Astral Projected and collapsed on the front step!!! :D Searching through the room I managed to find our guy talking to one of the frat boys. Apparently they were to have a party that night and because some sorority girls (can't remember which one they were from) were gonn be there, they needed to get a big batch of drugs. Once the tansaction was complete, the dealer left and I returned to my body to find that I'd whacked my head on the front step and had a pounding headache :( Shaking it off, I proceeded to score myself an invite to the party. Apparently highschool girls getting into frat parties to hook up with college guys isn't as uncommon as it perhaps should be and the guy bought my story :D Apparently it was to be a pool party and bathers were optional... :S

So that night I headed back to the frat house to find the party already in full swing. The guy I had spoken to earlier, who turned out to be the president of the fraternity, met me at the door and immediately tried to get me to take one of the pills they'd gotten from the dealer earlier. Being able to Assense, I could see that it was the same drug that Oliver had taken in Europort when he had a very thorough customs check with a male Orc gigolo :P What the drug did was make magically mundane people able to see auras and to feel another person's emotions............. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand therefore enhance sex... -_-; The drug could be damaging to magically active people tho so I tried palming it... and epically failed my Palming roll T-T Luckily our magi group had just Initiated the previous week and my chosen initiate ability was masking which lets you maniputlate your aura to make yourself appear mundane or weaker or stronger than you actually are. So giving the excuse that I wanted to 'save the pill for later', I made my aura 'sparkly' like everyone else's in the room who had taken the drug ^-^ Unfortunately, because Alex isn't magically active, he had to take the drug and ended up losing his virginity to two girls called Christie and Alicia in the midst of the ensuing orgy :P By the end of the night I'd gained a new contact (the frat president) with both connection and loyalty of 6 (which means that he can get me anything I want and that he wouldbe willing to die for me :3)!!! XD

On the second day of tailing our dealers, the university dealer had a mysterious rendez-vous with a cop at a very shady no-tell motel. It turned out that he was actually an undercover cop. I don't think his assignment was made clear ormaybe I jsut wasn't listening when Brendan told us about it :S Anyhoo, at the end of the day everyone returned to the Black Cat to give our report to Lady Orchid. She then decided that the university dealer and his cop friend were too much of a threat to her and hired us to 'take care of them'. Given that we'd all already gained one point of 'Notoriety' during our shenanigans in Europort, we decided that making at least one of the murders look like an accident was probably the best way to go. So Amber, Oliver and I followed him to the Biker Club which appeared to be the hangout for drug dealers and Amber slipped an identical pill to the one I'd pocketed at the party (which she took from Oliver's stash :P) into the guy's drink. After a while, under the influence of the drug he decided that it would be a good idea to go for a joyride. We followed him (me probably riding in the sidecar since i'm the smallest T-T) and i summoned my new air spirit (called 'Windy' ^-^) with the power 'Accident' to take him out. It took a few tries (for a drugged up guy he had excellent control of his bike) but eventually the guy lost control of the bike and skidded under a truck... there wasn't much of him left when he came out the other side :S

As for the female cop, being the only one to have actually seen her, I used Windy's Search power to locate her at her office. Once that was done, Amber and Marcus decided that it would be too risky to kill her at work so they initiated a stakeout and waited for her to come out of the building. When she finally did, Amber followed her to her house and Marcus headed back to our base. Since our plan was for me and Amber to take out the cop, on his way back, Marcus called ahead and I used Windy's Search to find Amber ^-^ Since I was Astral Projecting from our base, I was there in a few seconds and we headed up to the cop's room. Since Amber had cast Invisibility on herself and I could walk through walls, we didn't run into much trouble.
Once outside the room, Amber knocked on the door to make sure we'd gotten the right person but because the room was magically shielded and she's a magical adept, she couln't actually get inside. So as the cop closed the door again, I cast Shattershield and broke through the magical barried before castingmy new spell Powerball at the door and knocking it clean off the hinges and sending the cop flying. Amber jumped in and proceded to use her awesome ninja skills and weapon-like fists to beat the cop to death. It was all over pretty quickly. However, since Katrina wasn't there with us, we didn't get to Sterilize the place... hopefully Amber didn't leave any hair or anything behind :S Anyhoo, since it was nearing the end of the session, we headed back to the Black Cat and got paid ^-^

hmmmm my quick update turned out quite long... oh well!!! ^-^



]]> Category: None 2009-07-04T22:24:08+09:00 ~talipanda~ FC2-BLOG http://aprilblood.blog126.fc2.com/blog-entry-9.html So tonight's roleplaying session started at 6:30 and since I only woke up from an afternoon nap about an hour prior, Pedro and I were forced to forego our usual Thursday afternoon/early evening dinner cooking session (more on this in a later post when I'm not feeling stoned from lack of sleep ^-^') to make it there on time. I guess at least we'd had a nice breakfast earlier that day ^-^Anyway!!!
Anyway!!! The session started with me, Olivehead, Alex, Katrina and Marcus -- unfortunately, the other members of our party (Owen, Dave and Amber) weren't present :( -- trying to escape from some sort of factory which had just come under the control of Saeder-Krupp, the largest and most powerful megacorporation in the Shadowrun world. To give you a bit of background, in the previous session our party had flown out from our base in Seattle on a job to test out the security system of Saeder-Krupp's newly acquired factory in Europort. To do this, we had all of our equipment of questionable legality smuggled into Europort by our employers and snuck through customs using expensive fake IDs. When we got there, we took up residence in a very shady 'no-tell hotel' (on our budget we couldn't afford much better).
We had been told that we had a timeframe of two days to complete the job, that our payment would be left on the top floor of the main building and that our employers were not too worried about there being casualties on either side. With this information in mind, we proceeded to conduct our infiltration of the factory.

First, our sniper (Marcus) and our hacker (Alex) took up their positions close to the building; Alex, who was pretending to go jogging, with more success than Marcus who failed epicly with his stealth roll and ended up falling not-so-gracefully on his butt while trying to scale a nearby building using the drain-pipe. To make it worse, because he failed so epicly he was also spotted by a civilian who he consequently shot. At the same time, Owen, Dave and Amber gained entry into the factory with their fake IDs which identified them as one of Saeder-Krupp's site inspectors and his bodyguards respectively. From past experience (namely our mission involving Star Genetics) we knew that this could go horribly wrong, especially considering who we were dealing with, so it was a pleasent suprise when it worked, especially since Owen the Cat started to panic when the guard at the main gates pointed out our sniper who was being led out of an alleyway by two police officers, one of them shocking him with a tazer everytime he tried to put up some form of resistance. In the end, they made it inside the factory with not too much trouble and Owen with the added bonus of a pair of soiled pants :P

While all of this was going on, Alex hacked his way into the factory's matrix security where he encountered the company's hackers and promptly soiled himself due to his combat paralysis. When he finally recovered, an epic Star Wars-like battle ensued and he came out of it victorious ^-^

As for the fate of the sniper... enter Team Distraction!!! This team, consisting of Oliver, Katrina (absent) and me, had been tasked to create a distraction outside the building so that Team Infiltration could set off several canisters of mildly-toxic but generally non-fatal sleeping gas in the air vents to knock out the factory employees. And what better combo than a drugged up, trigger-happy, intellectually challenged Orc and a sociopathic, pyromanic Elven combat mage to cause a distraction? XD First, against my better judgement, I took out the police officers and freed the sniper in case he would be needed later. At the same time, Loliver concocted a daring stunt whereby he duct-taped twenty highly explosive hand-granade to a rented moterbike, attached strings to the pins and rode it straight into the front gate with the intention to pull the pins as he dismounted the bike moments before impact. Unfortunately, Loliver failed miserably at his Logic roll which resulted in a critical glitch and his foot got stuck as he was trying to disengage. He was then thrown many feet into the air by the resulting explosion, had his eyebrows burned off but managed to pull off a great Athletics roll to sumasault in the air and land squarely on his feet, pistols drawn :D Then, using his awesome skills in Gun-Fu, he took out a bunch of guards and cybernetic dogs and my wolf spirits took out a guard and the rest of the dogs before I completely obliterated the magical barrier surrounding the building with Shattershield and cleaned up the rest of the guards with a Stunball cast at full power (coz I can :D). In the ensuing lull, I cast Heal on Pedro (who had suffered nine points of physical damage and was one point away from dying) and by some miracle got a fantastic 'resist drain' roll which meant that I didn't take any stun damage for healing him ^-^v
About a second later, Saeder-Krupp's combat mages, having been alerted by the collapse of the magical barrier, arrived on the scene...

......................................the battle was over in seconds..........................................

One of the enemy mages started off the battle by casting Stunball. This being an area effect spell, both Pedro and I took a small amount of stun damage. The other mage cast a dreaded Manabolt at me which I managed to dispell by counterspelling before returning fire with a full-power Manabolt which essentially blew the mage apart. At this stage, the two spirits that he had bound to him went rabid, one of them attacking one of the other mage's spirits and the other (more sensibly) attacking us. Pedro managed to dodge the attack but, because I have below-average dodging skills, I earned myself four points of physical damage before Pedro shot and killed the spirit with his magically attuned pistols ^-^ Then I took out the other mage with Manabolt, Pedro killed his last remaining spirit and my wolves took out the rogue spirit. We then proceeded to the mainbuilding's reception area and noticed a door sporting a security system at the far end of the room. Loliver demanded that the receptionist open the door and when she said that she didn't know how, he shot her dead in a fit of drugged-up cold blood :( In the meantime, I simply passed through the door (Astral Projection allows mages to walk through walls ^-^) and took out the guards with Fireball and a few seconds later, Pedro kicked down the door. We proceeded down a corridor and ran into Team Infiltration as they, having taken out all the workers in the factory with the sleeping gas, were running up a set of stairs which led to the room containing the briefcase with our Certified Cred Chips.

This brings us to this week's session, at which none of the members of Team Infiltration were present, and our daring escape from the depths of Saeder-Krupp's factory of doom... MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! XD

The session began with me, Pedro and Katrina running into a few members of the factory's management in the room with our Cred Chips. We were informed that because of the mess that we had made (namely killing two police officers and two civilians and carrying out a stunt which looked very much like a terrorist atack), we were no longer under the protection of our employers and that when SWAT arrived (in approximately two minutes) and began to ask questions, our discriptions would be passed over. At this stage, Pedro grabbed the briefcase with our money in it and ran while Katrina and I contemplated how to deal with this new threat. She tried but failed to alter their memories of our descriptions and a successful Assensing roll told us that these people were increadibly powerful and that we should run while we can. So we did ^-^

In the meantime, Oliver decided to satisfy his curiousity of what was in the suitcase by trying to shoot the lock off the case seconds before SWAT arrived at the front gates. He managed to shoot one lock off before Katrina made him change his mind with a well-timed Influence spell. She then cast Sterilize on the site so that no traces of our DNA would be left behind. Then Owen (NPC) hotwired a car and everybody but Katrina and I (who were now back in our bodies which we had left behind at the hotel) piled in and headed back to the hotel. Realising that we had been left out in the cold by our employers and that it was now unsafe for us to travel back to Seattle by plane and that we had a large amount of illegal equipment to smuggle back with us, we packed up our stuff and headed over to Amsterdam, the dodgiest place in Europort.

When we arrived, Pedro used his street smarts to seek out a drug dealer and proceeded to ask questions about acquiring "services". The conversation went something like this...

Pedro: "I'm looking for service, yah"
Dealer: "Vat services are you after, my friend? Asian?"
Pedro: "America. I vant service America to."

The dealer pointed him in the direction of a building with a red light in front of it and tried to interest him in a drug which would "assist" in his "services". Never one to turn down drugs, Pedro bought a large amount and immediately took a dose before heading over to the indicated building. Wondering what on earth he was doing stumbling away from the group, Katrina and Marcus followed him.

Upon his arrival, Pedro marched up to the reception where he spoke to a scantily clad female flacnked by two equally scantily clad, muscular men.

Pedro: "I vant services, yah. I has big package to in America put."
Fem: "Well let's start off with some basics. Human or Metahuman?"
Pedro: *looking confused* "Metahuman... Orc specifially."
Fem: "Very well. Male or Female?"
Pedro: "Male. I would have thought you could tell just by looking at me."
Fem: "No, sometimes it can be very hard to tell. Alright. Please go up to Door number 3."

Pedro did as he was bid and upon entering room number 3 he sees a big male orc dressed in skintight leathers with a biker cap perched jauntily on his head. The man begins to pull down a bed from the wall with the question...

Orc: "Whatcha into?"
Pedro: "Many things... I mainly do confidential contract work."
Orc: "Right. Well it's 300 nuyen an hour."
Pedro: "And it only takes vun hour?"
Orc: "That depends."
Pedro: "Vell since I am in a bit of a hurry I vould very much like it to take only vun hour. Do you need to see th size of zee package?"
Orc: "Not really. Now take your clothes off!"
Pedro: "Oh! Zis is vat zey call a Customs check yah?"

By this time, Katrina and Marcus had made it to the building and were asking about Loliver. However, the female behind the desk refused to give out any information about their clients so Katrina had to astral project to find him. She approached door number 3 and proceeded through it, but upon seeing Pedro being subject to a "very thorough Customs check" by the Orc and his mouth, she retreated immediately and immediately started to rage incoherantly about Pedro. In the meantime, Dave (NPC), Amber (NPC), Alex and I headed into the first bar that we could find to see if we could glean any information about where to find a smuggler. Apparently Dave's mafia-boss-like appearance and my level 8 Charisma attracted the assumption that our group was a pimp and his workers; we were told by the bouncer that they weren't looking for any 'talent' at the moment but hat if we headed upstairs, the boss might be able to point us in the direction. Deciding to take him up on that suggestion, we were escorted upstairs by a girl called Diva where we met the establishment's boss Roberto. Being the Face of the group and having been 'trained in the art of seduction', I proceeded to negotiate for the information we needed. I very nearly landed myself, Amber and Alex into a situation where we would be doing a stage show of our own but luckily, Roberto decided that he would do a little checking up on us first to make sure that we weren't police. A while later, his friend Antonio arrived, announced that he knew about us and that he would be able to smuggle us out of the country. He warned us that if anything went slightly wrong he would hand us oer to the police because he couldn't afford to have anything suspicious linked back to his business. We negotiated a deal (which didn't involve stage shows ^-^) and were picked up from the building half an hour later by a Limo. From there we were taken to an old overpass in Amsterdam's wastelands where we boarded a rusty tanker and spent the next two weeks to Seattle resting.

Upon arrival back at our headquarters, we were offered another job by our very influential contact Vladimir... but THAT is another story... ^-^

In conclusion, many many lols were had at tonight's session, tali was forced into roleplaying her british 12-year-old elf mage, everyone earned muchos EXP and tali is now dead tired from blogging... hence...

Tali out!!! ^-^v

]]> Roleplaying 2009-06-05T04:46:13+09:00 ~talipanda~ FC2-BLOG http://aprilblood.blog126.fc2.com/blog-entry-8.html and that makes it.... Long time no see!!!! OH LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL...not -_-;anyhoo, bad jokes aside, i thought it was high time i updated this bright pink strawberry infested web log of mine... So... what has happened since the last time I blogged? Well... lots of drama, lots of uni work and of course... CAMP!!! XDSo the MCAC camp happened about a week ago. It was a helluvalot of fun, like alot o
anyhoo, bad jokes aside, i thought it was high time i updated this bright pink strawberry infested web log of mine... So... what has happened since the last time I blogged? Well... lots of drama, lots of uni work and of course... CAMP!!! XD

So the MCAC camp happened about a week ago. It was a helluvalot of fun, like alot of litle balls of awesome all rolled into one one big ball of awesome that ended in the best possible way EVER!!! XD

To start from the top...

14th April (Day 1)
The day after my birthday I was picked up (not too early) by Owen. We spent a pleasent hour and a half driving up to Golden Valley Lodges on the Mornington Peninsula accompanied by a whole bag full of munchies to make the trip go quicker. The munchies failed at their mission however, when i discovered that Owen didn't actually like raspbarry bullets and I ended up eating most of the bag =/ the munchies were also balanced out by Owen's hatred of Nova 100.3 which meant we were listening to weird/ bad music the entire way there (sorry Owen ;p). Our clashing tastes in music did make for interesting conversation tho ^-^ oh and on the way there we saw some really weird sculptures on the side of the road... there was one that looked like a giant metal power plug... =/

When we got to Golden Valley Lodges, we were met by Phe and Khanat who were already there and they were kind enough to help us move our stuff inside (danke guys!!!) ^-^ We immediately got dibs on the only empty room left and threw our crap around to save beds for Olivehead, Ash and Andrew. I can't exactly remember what happened next because i was immediately distracted by the trampoline outside our room :D Hullos all round then bouncy bounce bounce (u people with ur sick, perverted minds... yeah I know what u were thinking... no use denying it...)!!!! XD

Before long Olivehead arrived and... YAY PRESENTS!!!! XD I was presented with a parcel wrapped in plain brown paper tied with string. I proceeded to untie the string and to carefully open the package without tearing the paper (as is my habit)... but before long I gave in to a severe case of peer pressure and just tore the paper off :P Inside was an awesome looking wooden box with one of those hook-latch thingies that keeps it shut. Inside that I found a handmade card rolled up into a scroll with a picture inside of a polar bear hugging a wolf ^-^ Wolfies being my favourite animal ever (sorry PhePhe!!!), many 'aww's were had ^-^ Aside from the card, the box contained several origami lilies which Olivehead learned to fold for my prezzie (and knowing him, he's probs forgotten how to fold them by now :P) and another small package wrapped in plain cloth. Under the cloth was a layer or bubble wrap... then tissue paper... then inside the tissue paper i found... a silver antique key with a sterling silver chain!!!! ^-^ Although I didn't tell him at the time, and if he ever asks i'll deny everything vehemently (because the Olive's head gets olivey and inflated when u flatter him too much :P), everything about the present was perfect, down to the wrapping. It was really nice to know that the seemingly weird and scatterbrained Pedro had actually taken note and remembered so many random things about me like my (then) eternal search for an awesome-looking antique key, my love of origami (and all tings japanese), my extreme love for awesome antique-looking wooden boxes and that random comment I made in Kikki K (the stationary shop where we were looking at stationary [suprisingly] early in the sumer hols) that i would love to recieve a package wrapped in plain brown paper and tied with string ^-^ nyah~! =(^-w-^)=

At some stage i believe I decided to go and unpack (by which i meant set up my sleeping bag so that i wouldn't have to do it later when i was too tired). I had bags'd (how on earth do u spell that word? o_O) a top bunk so setting up my stuff was slightly more time consuming than if i'd been on the bottom bunk because i spent alot of time trying not to fall off the bed ^-^'
Anyway, as I was unpacking, Damien came into the room and i yelled out an enthusiastc greeting. His response was "THINK FAST!!!" before throwing something green an squishy at me... With my awesomely superior karate/softball reflexes i deflected the lime green missile right into Andrew's face, knocking him backwards onto a bunk across the room :D as it turns out, the missile which i had sent flying off course was in fact a 1UP mushroom and my birthday present from Damien ^-^ of course when I realised this I squealed, leaped off the bed and rushed to reclaim it ^-^ Many, many, MANY, MANY thanks to the Baron for bestowing upon his vassel such a tremendously awesome and huggable gift!!!!! XD

Later in the day, we had some team building activities which were alot of fun ^-^ we did that hand-grabby-human-knot-circle-untangly one with reasonable success :D I was one of the lucky ones who got out of the crowd early and ended up playing kickball on the side :P after that we played dodgeball (I with less success than I'd hoped :P) and tug-of-war :D Methinks Group 2 was highly successful with 2/2 wins :D GO ASIANS +1!!!!!! XD (As a side note, since my group won twice and Olivehead's group only won once, it's clear who wears the pants, am I right? XD ) Poor Olivepip!!! ^-^

After team building games we had spare time until dinner :D I took the opportunity to go swimming since that was the only day warm enough for it. Those who accompanied me had their minds scarred by the sight of Oliver in his mankini (luckily fully dressed underneath) but i think we all recovered in time for dinner. Dinner was literally a sausage fest and then I headed to bed because I was feeling especially tired for some reason... perhaps i should have slept a bit more the night before...

15th April (Day 2)
Whoever said that if u go to bed early u rise early was a silly sausage... to be accurate, he or she was the silliest sausage in all of Rome because I accidentally slept in well past breakfast (even tho i was on breakfast duty... SORRY GUYS!!!!! T-T). Trampolined for a bit, then headed up for lunch :P Many thanks to Leon for my birthday chocolate!!! ^-^ After lunch I partook in a game or three of table tennis, then rediscovered that I suck at archery (although I did manage to hit the board this time :D). This carried me through to dinner time which I actually forgot about so I ended up going to the main dining place in time for dessert ^-^ YAY FOR FAIRY BREAD AND ICECREAM!!!! XD and bless Ash for letting me have his share of fairy bread (although I did have to fight with Oliver to near death for it) :P To make up for attempted fairy bread theft, Oliver got me an icecream while I set up Monopoly ^-^

Monopoly was a fun affair, and got a much better reception than I had expected... we actually ran out of both money and pieces for all interested parties before we'd even started the game... clearly something we will be needing to write to Mattel about... In the end, it was a faceoff between Ryland, Kenny, Seb, Andrew, Ash, Oliver, Anonymous-person-whose-name-i-never-ended-up-learning and myself ^-^
All was going very well until Oliver brought out the vodka :P Now as most people know, I cannot hold my alcohol... so after a few double vodka lemon squashes I was in an extremely happy mood ^-^ may I make a note here that I was NOT slurring at this stage :) This took a turn (for better or for worse... i'm not sure which one) when Seb started talking about fizzy poo and cherry popping :P I'm not sure hw many people are aware, but when Seb and I are within close proximity to each other we can't stop laughing even when there is nothing to laugh about. The end result is that we both spend about an hour in immense pain from laughing too hard and no matter how hard we both try to stop, if we look at each other we just crack up again... in fact, just thinking about laughing at Seb is making me laugh right now... SO!!!! MOVING ON!!!!
Seeing that i even happier than usual, Seb decided to do a little dance while singing "Pop my cherry, Pop, Pop my cherry" over and over and after a while Andrew decided to join in... ther synchronised routine made me laugh so hard that I actually fell out of my chair, rolled around on the floor for a bit before running outside in an attempt to recover. Looking in thru the window and seeing Seb staring at me and laughing made this a long and arduous process (Oliver came out to check on me after i was gone for 5 minutes... methinks he thought i'd laughed myself unconscious) but eventually we were able to continue with the game :P Time passed... Ash decided to purposefully bankrupt himself just so that he could be out of the game because he'd previously stepped away to attend to something and we'd neglected to buy him any property :P He'd also given up on bartending for my safety so in the end i decided it would be a good idea to estimate a double shot of vodka instead of measuring it out properly... :P not so great an idea because it ended more like a triple shot and a half :P
Eventually Andrew won the game by bankrupting Ash, Seb, Oliver and Me and gaining control over all our properties :( By this time, I was so happy that Oliver decided that for my safety I should go to bed... which begs the question how I ended up on the trampoline... =/
Sam came out after a while to put a stop to my antics and I think he was quite firm about it but I can't be sure... =/
So I got off the trampoline and obediently headed to bed... and tripped over my suitcase on the wy... then Oliver tripped over Ash's suitcase... but in the end I ended up safely in bed ^-^

Might I plead that, despite popular belief, I was not smashed... ^-^

16th April (Day 3)
Last day of camp!!! :( Once again I missed breakfast due to sleep in-age =/ on the plus side, I got to take a nice, reasonably hot shower before packing up all my stuff. I discovered that I had alot more stuff to take back than I had brought up but all was well coz i managed to fit everything into either my suitcase or a bag and my mushroom ended up in my lap on the way home ^-^ The trp seemed to fly by because I was entertained by my DS and got to leave the navigating to Oliver and the driving to Owen ^-^
Since I was staying the night at Oliver's room at uni, when we got to uni we just dumped our stuff in a corner and slept until 6 when Owen came back to pick us up for roleplaying. He was sporting a magnificent mushroom-adorned t-shirt and we took my 1UP mushroom along as well ^-^
We had subway for dinner, Oliver and I letting everyone else in our roleplaying group order first while we tried to negotiate the term for splitting a footlong sub... unfortunately we discovered that we have immensely different tastes (e.g. my favourite is the Seafood Sensation and Olivehead hates seafood) so we ended up just getting two six-inch subs and many lols were had at our expense :P

Roleplaying
That night's roleplaying session was lots of fun ^-^ we had just embarked on our second mission after (apparently) extensive planning. First we hi-jacked a food delivery truck which we had lured to an abandoned warehouse. Our ninja and our giant mercenary cyborg took care of one guy while our sniper took out the other with a hollow point bullet. Unfortunately everyone neglected to remember that since some of us would be wearing the uniforms to pose as the delivery men, we didn'twant them to be stained with blood and since the siper had chosen a hollow point bullet, ther were brains and fluids all over the uniforms. Luckily our GM reminded us of this fact and yours truely had the idea to get the other mage who specialised in manipulation spells (as oppoed to being a combat mage like me :3) to cast Sterilize to remove all traces of DNA from the uniforms. After that was done, we had our hacker (Alex) dress up as a delivery guy (most likely on work experience since he's like 18) and drive the truc containing the sniper and the cyborg through the gate of the place we were trying to sneak into. Once again, our plan went up in flames (this time because Dave got a really bad stealth role and gave himself away to the guards at the genetcs lab we were trying to sneak into) :P Then Oliver decided to amost get himself killed by enemy fire because he was high on drugs and, being the only mage with any health spells, I had to cast Heal to save him. After that I astral projected to the roof and took out the two snipers with Mana Bolt before noticing two enemy mages appear out of the roof accompanied by two spirits. I then pissbolted back to the group and healed Dave (and taking 9 points of stun damage; one more and i would have been knocked out and my spirit would have gone back to my body which was back at our base [guarded by a wolf spirit I had summoned ^-^]). Owen then managed to hack into the dog drones and make them turn on our enemy. Amber, our ninja, snuck inside and started to kill everyonefrom the inide. Oliver then blasted his way through the front door, guns blazing and most of our party followed. We proceded to kill and loot everyone in the building (as our mission was to send a message to the world about what the consequences of opposing our client were). Our sniper took a Mana Bolt and suffered a bit of damage, then I got sneak attacked by a mage and suffered way too much damage from another Mana Bolt (coz as an elf mage, my body is piss-weak :P ). Then Owen and I tag-teamed the two mages, Owen transforming into a giant kitty cat (awwwwwwwwwww!!!!! ^-^) and chomping one of the mages while I commanded my other, stronger wolf spirit to chomp the other mage while I Mana Bolted him... suffice to say that Team Kitty and Wolfie were victorious ^-^v unfortuately at this point we ran out of time (it was past midnight) and we had to leave our escape to the next session :(

At this stage I would like to point out the awesome features of my character:

1. She's a 16 year old elf mage who looks 12
2. She has the highest-rating Charisma and Influence skill group in the entire party and is consequently the Face of the group... meaning that all business transactions are negotiated by a 12 year-old who can charm the pants off anybody :3
3. She has wolf ears and a wolf tail which she can wag whe she's happy ^-^
4. She has a Magic rating of 6 and a sorcery level of 4, PLUS her wolf-shamanism and specialisation in Combat magic makes her awesomely kickarse
5. She often forgets that Fireballing automatic weapons is a bad idea :P
6. She now has a small army of uber strong wolfie spirits bound to her to help her in battle :3

Also, despite what Owen says, I am NOT A NERD (and I will deny everything)!!!! XD

That is all...

Tali Out!!!

P.S. I apologise for any misspellings in this entry... i have a crappy keyboard...

Tali (Really) Out!!!
]]> Category: None 2009-04-25T02:24:01+09:00 ~talipanda~ FC2-BLOG http://aprilblood.blog126.fc2.com/blog-entry-7.html My Darling Blog,Today was simply such a frightful day. I was happily attending a friend’s 21st when suddenly, out of the blue, a most dreadful person’s girlfriend decided to rear her unsightly mug in my most esteemed presence. Oh but she is so very beastly with the way she keeps her distance because she is aware that I have a tendency to explode in fits of animosity for no apparent reason in her
Today was simply such a frightful day. I was happily attending a friend’s 21st when suddenly, out of the blue, a most dreadful person’s girlfriend decided to rear her unsightly mug in my most esteemed presence. Oh but she is so very beastly with the way she keeps her distance because she is aware that I have a tendency to explode in fits of animosity for no apparent reason in her presence, then sob like an infant when she leaves. I mean, I know that I make quite public the fact that I ‘hate her guts’ and that I wish she would ‘just drop dead’, but really, is it quite so necessary to so carefully stay out of my way while maintaining a friendly air? I mean, it’s like I would ever stab her with a knife or anything... oh wait I forgot that I very nearly did once. Oh but really, I can’t be blamed for that; I mean, after all, she pushed me into grabbing that knife and threatening her with it. I mean surely she should have known better than to arrive an hour late to a meeting on Boxing Day with the person who is now her boyfriend just because she wanted to give me some time to talk with him privately. I mean, I was only more than an hour late after badgered him to lie about being stuck on public transport so that he could meet me earlier. But he, being the nasty beast that he is, refused to grant me even that one small request, although he was nice enough to agree to meet me. Would it really have been too much to lie to his “darling” for me? But I digress.

During the entire eight hours of the birthday celebrations I had to “tolerate” her presence. Really, she is so nasty for politely staying away from me the whole day. I simply can’t stand it when she chats quietly to her friends or looks like she’s having a good time. And playing ice-hockey with everyone while I sat on the sidelines playing cards... honestly, what was she thinking? Maybe it’s time for that girl to learn about being a godforsaken emo and be more anti-social for a change. Really she should take a leaf out of my book (‘Pride and Prejudice’ I believe) and engage in a self-induced isolation where she avoids all clubs and societies at university and refuses to chat to people on the club forums. She should learn to spout all her angst on her public blog in hopes of gaining sympathy from her very few readers and play hide and seek whenever she sees me around. Seriously, does that girl have absolutely no sense, what-so-ever? But...moving along...

After ice-skating, we were to take the train to the city. While I sat in the corner moping about a nasty email I received in response to a nasty email which I sent in response to another email about a set of photos of ‘said girlfriend’s’ boyfriend which I posted on Facebook and refused to take down when he said that he was uncomfortable with them being there, she was playing Big 2 with my boyfriend and several other people who were bored with the wait. The nerve of her!!! Really, I have never seen anyone so shamelessly having a good time in my life!!! It was simply appalling!!! Then Alex approached her asking to speak with her and she obliged him, the fiend!!! But that wasn’t the worst part!!! No, sir!!! She actually had a fantastic time at dinner chatting and laughing with her friends. What a disgrace!!!

But I suppose now I don’t really have to worry about her anymore. You see, dearest blog, after I spent the entire day glaring at her from a distance, trying to manipulate people to take my side, sending nasty emails to her boyfriend and generally being unpleasant, on top of which I might add posting nasty things about her on you, sweet blog, deciding that I hated her for an inexplicable reason, pretending to be her friend for most of last semester while trying to manipulate her (now) boyfriend behind her back and borrowing her clothes, shoes and a DVD and returning them all in worse condition than when I’d borrowed them (the list could go on I’m sure), she’s finally decided to give up hope on me and retract the hand of friendship that she’d been keeping extended for the last six months. Oh well, good riddance I suppose... it’s not like I really wanted her around anyway.

On another note, I wonder how people would react if she posted a rather nasty parody of my posts on you, my beloved blog, on her own blog. To be honest, by this stage I think she’s too fed up with everything to care...

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(serious post about Moo's awesome b'day to come later ^-^) ]]> Category: None 2009-03-08T06:47:08+09:00 ~talipanda~ FC2-BLOG