Weird day

[green_dreams]

For the fifth time in four years, saved the world. Am now attempting to save self. (Kerry, the great virtue of ADOM is that the saved game files are tiny, so I can e-mail you Helen if you want.)

Biked for two hours in miserable heat, with brief stop in the middle for fabric. Arrived at destination. Jumped in swimming pool. Got out, changed into bathing suit, and went for swim. (You know, if I could find dye that would get my jeans that black when they're dry, I'd be a happy woman.)

Relaxed. Took John out to dinner to celebrate aforementioned fifth-saving-of-the-world. Raspberry margaritas taste like Campino candies.

Saw /Witch Hunt/. Horrible horrible movie (although Angelo Badalamenti did do the music), and a whole lot of referential names that pretty much had nothing to do with what they were referring to, but there were a couple of neat things therein. "I needed to hear what they said, so I hid an empty bottle on the boat, and poured out the conversation once they got back." Finn Macha and his eye. "I take what's inside and I bring it out."

(Finn Macha bears no resemblance whatsoever to Macha of Celtic Myth. OTOH, the general creepiness (which was a pleasantly dark spice in a movie that was mostly bland tapioca) and the diseased eye with ties to his magic are passable tips of the hat to Balor, who killed her.)

Comments

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm rather enamoured with Helen after you showed me she could spit acid.

Was the music at least good in Witch Hunt?

[torrain.livejournal.com]

> Actually, I'm rather enamoured with Helen after you showed me she cos uld spit acid.

*grin* Drakelings are fun that way. Now if they could only cook, they'd be the perfect race.

> Was the music at least good in Witch Hunt?

Didn't notice. Busy suffering through watching a 1950s Hollywood PI named H/ Phillip Lovecraft.

[corradus.livejournal.com]

Maybe if you drank enough Campino candles you could forgo the margueritas?

OR maybe you could so Raspberry Margueritas with Campino Wax Shooters?

I am sure you've drunk stranger shit.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

> Maybe if you drank enough Campino candles you could forgo the margueritas?
> OR maybe you could so Raspberry Margueritas with Campino Wax Shooters?

Reread. Particular attention to the distinction between 'i' and 'l' is recommended.

> I am sure you've drunk stranger shit.

Weren't you also sure I was British?

(No, I mean really. I have no idea who you think you're talking to, but she's bearing less and less resemblance to me these days.)

[corradus.livejournal.com]

*rereads* LOL! So it is! I kinda thought the word Campino was familiar for reasons other than candles. Of course, a Campino candle might be interesting.

So you haven't drunk anything strange? I mean even a busted watch is right twice a day.

And there you go again today, out in the oppressive heat biking like a crazy person. Everyone knows only 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen Go Out In The NoonDay Sun' I could conceivably be forgiven when combining that with your overall aspect to think your stock came from the British Isles someplace...

Wether I'm talking to you or someone else just do try not to roast yourself alive outside yeh?

And take it easy on those candles....

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

I think I read candles too, but knew what Campino was so i still thought it was candy.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

*sigh* You can make all the assumptions you want. I'd really prefer if you didn't bother sharing them with me, thanks; they're consistently off, and it'd be annoying in that "I hate being accused of fun I'm not having" way if any of them at all involved behaviour which was enjoyable.

[corradus.livejournal.com]

*holds up hands in supplication* okay, okay, keep yer hair on, I'm just playin with ya a little....you know I don't mean anything by it...come on..cheer up...here, have a real Campino...I prefer lemon myself...

[torrain.livejournal.com]

I am caring less and less whether you mean anything by it.

Please go away, okay?

[corradus.livejournal.com]

Done and done.

Bye

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Take care.

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

As much as I like Julian Sands, and like the character, he can't do a bloody Irish accent to save his life.

Neat setting, though.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

It is. Reminded me a fair deal of /Who Framed Roger Rabbit/; I'm thinking I should look up another movie mentioned when I was looking up Macha, whose name is escaping me at the moment--something about a Hollywood PI trying to get tthe NEcronomicon back to/away from the owner.

Hollywood is oddly safe as a setting for weird supernatural movies. Everyone's pretending, which could be played as a "you're living a lie" theme but which I think I more often see as lending a "hey, look, this is all a joke" tone to the proceedings.

(I'm going to go come up with sentances that involve the word "gumshoe" now.)

[zenten.livejournal.com]

What's ADOM?

[torrain.livejournal.com]

A free (technically postcardware--I need to send him another one) game, available for download at www.adom.de, in which you play Yon Protagonist who is expected to either save the land of Ancardia or make sure they're in charge of destroying it. You can do other stuff too, the game just won't make a note of you winning unless you hit one of the four endings.

It's a roguelike and, like most roguelikes, does not give you the option to restore the game if your character dies. You can save the game, at which point ADOM shuts down and you can go do other things, and you can restore a save at the start of the game, but if you have a bad encounter and die there is no option to pick up again from the last save point.

This makes it, IME, difficult but not impossible to win. I usually get a win every six months, but I stopped playing for most of 2004.

It's a horribly horribly addictive little game.