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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. 46) - 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. 46) - 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. 46) - 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. 46) - 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. 46) - 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. 46) - 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. 46) - July 28, 2022

time kompression

6/20/22: omfg I put down the date as “2021” in this journal and I’ve been copy-pasting it into each entry. what even is time   edit (6/21): also I wrote today’s date in my food journal as “Jan 21”   edit (7/6): today I looked at this production order from February 2021 and thought “wait, i...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - July 27, 2022

hybrid life

Still enjoying hybrid life. Wednesday there was a minor transportation snafu. As I neared the platform at 7:30, I saw the train pulling out of the station. (That’s not supposed to happen. I take the 7:37.) Ten minutes later, I saw another train approaching the station. Ah, I thought, who knows what ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - July 22, 2022

back to the garden house

Visiting parents for the weekend. It’s been nearly a full year since I came here as a refugee in the dead of night after the apartment fire. Now I have a sweet condo in a much better neighborhood, and my parents’ house is back to being an occasional vacation spot. Life is good. On Saturday night, Mo...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - July 17, 2022

demigod double

Last week, we made it to Hesperos 2 again—another down-to-the-wire finish. “Imagine being a sexy vampire and you turn into this,” said newbie. “Is it really so sexy?” Dante said. “It's a treatise on what people will do for power,” said numbers. Then newbie and numbers got into a debate about whether...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - July 11, 2022

gloomhaven

We’ve started something new: the board game RPG Gloomhaven. Our squad:newbie the Inox Brute (our big strong baraka lancer. we’re living the dream)numbers the Savvas Cragheart (basically Titan) (also a ranged carry??)Dante the Vermling MindthiefHGR the Orchid SpellweaverAchaius the Quatryl Tinkerer&n...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - July 5, 2022

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