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same_difference) wrote2007-06-23 11:52 pm
same_difference) wrote2007-06-23 11:52 pm
I won't wear dresses...
...especially chain mail ones. Which is why I've spent most of today modifying my suit of chain mail. Pre-modified it went down to below my knees, the sleeves were long enough to cover my entire arms and hands leaving an inch over lap, and it's chain mail so the weight tends to pull it inwards, making it figure* hugging (well figure squashing). If it weren't for me being a 20-something male, and it being made of chain mail, I could be described as looking like a little girl playing dress up in her Mum's dresses.**
I think tomorrow might kill me, still that would make things nice and simple for me (though less simple for the GM's). Before I removed bits it weighed 19 kilos, I've taken a few inches of the sleeves and split it at the bottom (so I can walk), so I doubt it's all that much lighter. Plus there's plate to go top. Still if I survive it might help me get fitter.
If I start going to the Medieval Martial Arts regularly, and salsa fortnightly I hope it'll get me fitter. Both are fun so that's good. Even if it may take me a while to pick up salsa well enough to keep up with the pace of the lessons. Then if I actually start swimming like the physio recommends to build up that muscle group in my back that I otherwise never use, I might be reasonably fit again.
Anyway enough self mocking, here's a meme for you to do so instead:
Ask me or my characters up to five questions on anything - opinions, politics, my life, your life, whatever, and I'll try to answer them. I reserve the right to ignore or mock the rude ones.
*Not that I have one.
**I'm not sure I want to be giving you that particular mental image of me.***
***I am sure you don't want it either.
I think tomorrow might kill me, still that would make things nice and simple for me (though less simple for the GM's). Before I removed bits it weighed 19 kilos, I've taken a few inches of the sleeves and split it at the bottom (so I can walk), so I doubt it's all that much lighter. Plus there's plate to go top. Still if I survive it might help me get fitter.
If I start going to the Medieval Martial Arts regularly, and salsa fortnightly I hope it'll get me fitter. Both are fun so that's good. Even if it may take me a while to pick up salsa well enough to keep up with the pace of the lessons. Then if I actually start swimming like the physio recommends to build up that muscle group in my back that I otherwise never use, I might be reasonably fit again.
Anyway enough self mocking, here's a meme for you to do so instead:
Ask me or my characters up to five questions on anything - opinions, politics, my life, your life, whatever, and I'll try to answer them. I reserve the right to ignore or mock the rude ones.
*Not that I have one.
**I'm not sure I want to be giving you that particular mental image of me.***
***I am sure you don't want it either.
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Well I was talked into LARP by Matt the Hat on a society pub crawl, though I don't remember which one I have a suspicion it was a fencing one for some reason.
Roleplaying I got into at 6th form college, with the friends I met and got to know there, though I only did a little of it because we were too busy playing all the cards games in the world. So again it wasn't till university that I started playing regularly.
2. What's your favourite book?
I don't do favourites, I just don't compartmentalise the world in that way. Having said that Good Omens is the one that sprung to mind when I read that question, and I would put it near the top of a list a favourite books even though I don't have such a list.
3. If you had superpowers, what would they be?
Ah plural good, asking me to pick one would have been difficult, so:
- Teleportation with some sort of scrying ability. No point being able to travel between two locations instantaneously if you can't see where you're going to end up.
- The ability to stop and starting time at will is tempting, but I can't find suitable solutions that don't involve me accidentally suffocating, or causing serious harm to things around me.
- Perfect lie detection with no limit on range, or medium. I don't necessarily want to know what people are thinking, just if I'm being lied to.
- The power to make people relive every potential consequence of stupid behaviour in a dream like state.
- The ability to cure illness and suffering at will.
- Telekinesis, because well why not, of the big and small variety.
- Invisibility, flight and invulnerability because again really why not.
- And the most important the one ability to ensure no one knows about the rest of the powers.
That's just off the top of me head.
4. In the current political climate (okay, assume we're a couple of days in the future and Gordon Brown is PM), who would vote for if the general elections were held in two weeks' time and why?
I've become very much turned off with politics recently. It's clear no ones going to assassinate* certain political individuals which means I'm stuck with the idiocy of the general populace in the way of getting rid of the people I dislike. I don't see a viable opposition, but would be tempted to vote for whoever would get Gordon Brown as far from any sort of influence as is physically possible. Realistically I'd vote conservative purely to remove Don Foster locally, considering labour will not win here, regardless of what I felt about national issues. Some things are just worth getting done.
*If you could assassinate people without causing distress for anyone, that would be amazing. That's what would bother me the most about that solution. Actually add assassination with out effecting anyone else in any way shape or form to my impossible powers above.
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