Hey everyone! How were your weekends? Myself, I had a great one!

Friday, I got together with friends to play a round of Quarriors (with two new expansions since last time). Sadly, my undefeated streak at Quarriors ended at 3 games. After my devastating loss, we played through the second chapter of Mice and Mystics. Our intrepid group of mice heroes were able to save Lily the mouse from the mousetrap she was stuck in and together we defeated Klitter-Klak the centipede. A good night indeed.

On Saturday, I finished last minute preparations for the second Age of Animus Storytelling Game playtest. Then it was off to Zone 51 to pick up my comics and finally to La Bande Dessinerie for the game. The date I scheduled the game happened to coincide with International Tabletop Day, so we were able to participate in our own way in the celebration of tabletop gaming. The evening started with some take-out and then a few statistical revisions to correct some mistakes I had detected on my players’ character sheets since last time we played and also to take some revisions I made to the game into account. With that done, we were able to dive into the new scenario I prepared. This scenario was to serve as a bridge from our first session to the scenario we were supposed to play the first time but didn’t since I hadn’t transferred my notes to my USB key.

When we left off last time, the players’ characters had just been hired to deliver a package to Constable Copley in Lancton, which is a seventeen day walk from Sixtus, where they were starting from. The scenario covered the trip and concluded with the story hook for our next adventure together. You can find out more about how the trip went in the upcoming installments of From the Gaming Table and Furship Chronicles. Once again, I don’t feel I was as prepared as I could have been, but that’s what happens when you leave too many things to the last minute.

On Sunday, we went to see GI Joe: Retaliation. I liked it, maybe even more than I liked the first Joe movie. I’ll need to watch it again when it comes out on DVD though to really decide. One thing I didn’t like about the movie was that it doesn’t provide a suitable follow-up and exit for the characters we saw in the first movie. Because we don’t see most of them on screen at all, it does leave an opportunity to feature them in future installments (except Duke) even though the scenario was pretty definite on their fates.  I mean, it certainly looked like Stormshadow died in the first movie and he’s back for the second. Anything is possible.

The movie was a matinee. When I got back, I drew the next page of Animus Wars and started on a Funnies strip before supper. After supper, our crew got together at Fab’s for a karaoke night. We sang songs for a good six and a half hours. I got home at 2am and crashed on the couch until a quarter to 11.

This morning I finished the Funnies strip I started yesterday and I just now completed the second strip of the weekend. I think I’m going to take it easy for the rest of the day. I’m wiped.

Have a good week everybody!