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the endless void of space

Woke up in utter blackness, surrounded by the endless void of space. My alarm clock said it was 6:45 am. Big BS. It turned out there was a rainstorm outside, which is why it was so dark. By the time I got to the train platform, my socks and lower pant legs were soaked, as was my right coat sleeve (d...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Oct. 13, 2022

entity authorization & multiworld co-op

Been procrastinating on my current project. It’s an interesting project, but man, I have no energy lately. The clock is ticking. Nothing much else going on. I did two loads of laundry in the morning (it would’ve been one load, but some of my pants came out heavily streaked with soap, necessitating a...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Oct. 7, 2022

a walk and the passage of time

Got to work this morning and tried to use my house key on the office door. Not the first time I’ve done this in recent months. Gonna chalk it up to muscle memory instead of a weird Freudian slip. At lunchtime I took a walk and was newly struck by how magnificent this city is. I used to do this walk ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Sept. 29, 2022

revolving door

I’ve got mixed feelings about Gloomhaven’s retirement mechanic. On the one hand, it prevents anyone from being stuck in a class they don’t like (tinkerer). It provides things to unlock (we love unlocking things) and keeps the gameplay fresh from both an individual and team standpoint, since the team...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Sept. 28, 2022

a scoundrel & a sewer logjam

Retired team members:Vermling Mindthief (Dante)Orchid Spellweaver (HGR)Quatryl Tinkerer (me)Savvas Cragheart (numbers)  Current roster:Inox Brute (newbie)Vermling Beast Tyrant (Dante)Plagueherald (HGR)Scoundrel (me)Aesther Summoner (numbers)  Lots of roster swaps! I got to retire the tin...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Sept. 23, 2022

to those who endured every tragic turn

WE DID IT WE BEAT HESPEROS (it’s like an early birthday present!) We beat him on Saturday, fairly early into the lockout. The latest patch introduced the Echo, but we manually knocked it off for Hesperos 2 (I got to say “papa echo,” the classic Bahamut callout), and Kan put his 600 gear back on t...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Sept. 19, 2022

spoon

Roommate really doesn’t care what size spoon he uses to eat. We have some tiny teacup-sized stirring spoons, too small to even be used for a proper mug (the whole handle would be submerged). I have no idea why we have these spoons or where they came from. They just showed up after the move. Anyway, ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Sept. 13, 2022

bring your adoring fans to tears

After all the discussion, we didn’t raid last weekend—on Saturday I was out due to the wedding, and on Sunday, Silver was sick. Instead we resumed this weekend with a split schedule. Saturday we’re continuing Hesperos with Kan instead of Silver; Sunday we’re moving on to Pandemonium 5 Savage with ou...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Sept. 13, 2022

oozetown

This weekend, we did the first two missions of HGR’s personal quest chain. He’s the Seeker of Xorn, impelled to awaken an eldritch figure named Xorn. Concidentally, Dante just started playing Cult of the Lamb, which has a similar premise (a dark deity was sealed away by the four guardians, and it’s ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Aug. 16, 2022

gloomhaven, not foresthaven

Our Gloomhaven campaign is progressing well. Some of us are even approaching retirement. It works like this: Every character has a personal quest (randomly assigned at the start), and upon completion of the quest, the character retires and you get to roll a new character. New classes are unlocked ba...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Aug. 7, 2022

artificial gratitude

decided to put some of my gratitude journal entries into Inferkit (an AI text generator) to see what I’ll be grateful for in the upcoming days. regular text is mine, bolded text is what the AI filled in 82.  junkyard pizza!83.  grocery day, ft. limeade, the long-awaited Panera so...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Aug. 3, 2022

pies and chalk ink

It seems like everyone’s getting covid. Dante got it from poker night with the guys. newbie got it from an irl work meetup (“An irl work meetup,” said HGR, investing every word with as much scorn as possible) and nearly missed the Uganda trip because of it. Now numbers has it. He’s powering through ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - July 28, 2022

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