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A photo of our dining table with a Warhammer Quest game set up on it. There's lots of cards and dice everywhere, and in middle are a bunch of variously-shaped tiles connected together that look like the inside of a set of buildings. There are four hero miniatures at the right (one heavily-armoured warrior woman with a sword, a vampire hunter with a long leather coat and a big hat, a steampunk dwarf, and a priest with a rich red robe and a big staff) plus ten skeleton warriors at various points on the board. They're wearing rusty armour and tattered red cloaks, though four are unpainted because I haven't gotten around to them yet. There's also Watch Captain Halgrim in the middle who is attired similarly but is carrying a massive halberd.

This afternoon with @wobin we finished off the next Big Bad in our Warhammer Quest adventures, the skeleton warrior Watch Captain Halgrim!

We were all inspired from the first half we did last time, but even so we absolutely destroyed everything, only to realise right at the end after we'd finished that there is a whole separate event table you're meant to roll on at the end of each turn and the bottom half of that is filled with things like "All the skeletons come back". 😬 So uh... oops! For the next game, it's the same sort of journey as this one (destroy another big bad) and we need to have done both before we get to level up to Level 3. I've made a note to remember the new event table, and it's going to be quite the fight because it's against Gorslav the Gravekeeper who not only hits like a truck but also makes zombies a lot nastier as well, and we'll be facing all ten of the zombie miniatures that come in the Cursed City box.

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Posted on 30 November 2024, 21:40

A screenshot of my Tiefling Barbarian. She's tall with broad shoulders, dark red skin, black eyes, and two short grey horns protruding up and back from her forehead. Her hair is long on one side and shaved on the other, and her neck is completely tattooed in dark blue, with the top of it being a flame motif coming just up past her jawline.

I decided to go back to Baldur's Gate 3, started a new character, and apparently the theme of all of my RPG characters of late is "extremely large horned woman". 😅

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Posted on 26 November 2024, 19:47

I'm Staying Home This Christmas

As part of our #LPlatePlayers collective, our esteemed leader @[email protected] wanted to write a Christmas song for #RememberingGeordie since he was such a mad fiend for all things Christmas. It was very collaborative, she did the base song with vocals and details of the key and chord changes, and then the rest of us piled in for the various parts and she pieced it all together and mixed it. I offered to do both bass guitar and drums, and am so impressed at how well the song turned out!

I'm definitely getting a feel for the drums at this point, for the song it was pretty much free reign other than wanting to ensure there was an open/close hi-hat at the last beat of the bar, and of my original take there were only a couple of minor improvements that @[email protected] suggested (well, that and a bit of quantisation needed), plus some back and forth figuring out how the intro should go. For the bass guitar, my timing was quite good and there was only very minor quantisation needed. For both instruments, I ended up recording it in sections rather than attempting to go through the whole song in one go, and that made it FAR more manageable.

I'm also going to get the original stems for the song and see if I can turn it into "I'M STAYING HOME THIS CHRISTMAS (DEEP TECHNO MIX)". 😈 (Or at least, some sort of electronic version anyway; we'll see how good my Logic Pro skills are. 😛) I did something similar a couple of years ago and it was great fun.

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Posted on 23 November 2024, 14:50

A photo looking along the very tall hedge that's between us and our neighbour. It's very overgrown and looks messy as hell. And when I say tall I mean well in excess of two metres.

The same view, but now the hedge is all neat and tidy.

Trimmed the hedge today before it got too hot.

If you need me, I'll be over here not lifting my arms above about waist level.

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Posted on 23 November 2024, 11:05

A photo of a large and angry-looking storm front looming over a leafy suburban street.

STROM. #SydneyWeatherTooting

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Posted on 17 November 2024, 19:10

A photo of an underground carpark with a whole lot of hotted-up Subaru WRXs parked in the bays, with people standing around talking.

Ah, I see it's time for the local Subaru owner's club meetup in the underground carpark at our local Coles again.

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Posted on 15 November 2024, 20:14

A photo of a handsome-looking stainless steel portafilter for an espresso machine. The handle is made of a reddish wood.

Upping my coffee game with a bottomless portafilter, thanks to @SeaFury. 😁

I also have a better basket on the way, but it's taking longer to arrive.

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Posted on 15 November 2024, 12:52

Slow going (I have too many other hobbies completing for my time 😅) but that's the second piece of the Hivestorm terrain finished!

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Posted on 11 November 2024, 21:20

A photo of some sort of striped lizard with very long claws that would have easily been 30cm just from nose to back legs, with its tail being even longer, hanging vertically on the red bricks that make up the outside wall of our house. It's directly in the afternoon sun and was probably wonderfully warm.

We had a visitor today! During our game of Warhammer Quest I got a message from our next-door neighbour with a photo looking out of his kitchen window to the side of our house of this handsome fellow just chilling on the wall.

I went to see if I could retrieve it and deposit it in the bushland across the street it so the Indian mynas didn't attack it, but it was WAY faster than the blue-tongue lizards we normally have to rescue and there was no chance I was going to be able to coax it into a container for relocation, which in turn meant I don't think the mynas would have had any chance of getting it either.

(To be clear, this isn't the photo the neighbour sent, I took it myself because our houses aren't THAT close together. 😅)

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Posted on 9 November 2024, 20:45

A photo of Emelda Braskov, one of the hero miniatures of Warhammer Quest, who is wearing heavy plate armour and holding a massive sword, facing off against four skeleton warriors in rusty armour and tattered red cloaks who are wielding spears and shields. Next to them is one of the "mysterious object" markers, which is a gallows pole with a skeleton hanging on it. The skeleton is clutching at its through where the noose is, and is pointing off to the left with its other hand.

We had @wobin over again for a continuation of our Warhammer Quest adventures, and it went a lot better than last time. This game was a "Decapitation" journey where we're off to kill one of the big bads, it's split into two stages where the first one involves fighting through to find their lair, and the second is actually killing the boss itself. We did just the first stage tonight, and ended up getting almost everyone inspired within the first two turns, which meant we were steamrollering through the hostiles for a while, though our momentum ended up grinding to a halt when @yayKM's warrior was extremely badly wounded taking on a room full of skeletons and had to hang back until we could heal her up. Next time it's going to be taking out Watch Captain Halgrim, the skeleton warrior boss, and nothing except his skeletal Ulfenwatch minions.

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Posted on 9 November 2024, 20:36