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regency_rhi. This room seems to have been very shoddily converted from a newsagent. At the back of are all the usual motel things: bed, bathroom, TV, wardrobe, a little desk, but at the front there's about 5 metres worth of magazine stands, still full of magazines, now about a month out of date. The front of the room is a roller door.
Rhi asks me to go out to get "the other XBox magazine", as she wants to read the review of her game, which has just been ported to XBLA (previously it had been just a phone game). Her game came directly from a conversation we had last night: it's a town construction and management game, where everything's made of candy, with licorice allsort houses and so on. She holds up the XBox magazine that was on the rack, so I can be sure that I don't get the one we already have; it has Gary Busey on the cover, dressed as Ken from Street Fighter.
I arrive at an old library, which seems long abandoned and cathedral-like. Shafts of mote-laden sunlight angle down from above. The shelves stand utterly empty.
Jaime, Nick,rachelsoma and thebluefairy are sitting at a gleaming dark wood table, playing a card game called Disenchanted!. It's a cooperative (but with the possibility of betrayal) deckbuilding game set in the unnamed wizard school from a Fiasco game I played with Jaime, Rhi and Luke: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/7066207#7066207
Rachel has two wands (props that come with the game, which you can use if you get the right cards). She can use two at the same time because her character is Blancmangeous Flowerpink.
In a thick surfer dude voice, Kristen says "Let's grab some brews, bros!" and plays a Butcher House card named as such. Everyone gets a potion card.
On the corner of the table is a large, glossy book. There is a big blob of deep red seeping from between its pages. I grab some napkins and wipe the edge of the book, but the fluid keeps coming. I flip the volume open. Ryan Gosling lies supine, cradled in Emma Stone's arms. The red goo is his blood welling up from the page, but simultaneously, he is only bleeding because someone spilled sauce on the book. It is some kind of thick, spicy tomato relish.
Ryan looks up at me, plaintively. I keep trying to staunch the bleeding/clean the page, but to no avail.
He compares it to a scene in a romcom where the other people in the newsagent politely look away from the main characters as they engage in their temporary misunderstanding-based breakup. Tears mingle with the sauce. They are Emma Stone's.
Gosling starts singing a song. It is a merry tune, whose lyrics consist of "Let's meet a lady named Linda the Plant. She's Linda the plant and she is a plant. Linda Linda Linda the Plant."
Linda dances, dressed in a leafy, flowery costume, with a skirt that looks like a pot.
I know that the song means that she is not only flora, but has been placed in the library to spy for the Man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_(person)
regency_rhi. This room seems to have been very shoddily converted from a newsagent. At the back of are all the usual motel things: bed, bathroom, TV, wardrobe, a little desk, but at the front there's about 5 metres worth of magazine stands, still full of magazines, now about a month out of date. The front of the room is a roller door.Rhi asks me to go out to get "the other XBox magazine", as she wants to read the review of her game, which has just been ported to XBLA (previously it had been just a phone game). Her game came directly from a conversation we had last night: it's a town construction and management game, where everything's made of candy, with licorice allsort houses and so on. She holds up the XBox magazine that was on the rack, so I can be sure that I don't get the one we already have; it has Gary Busey on the cover, dressed as Ken from Street Fighter.
I arrive at an old library, which seems long abandoned and cathedral-like. Shafts of mote-laden sunlight angle down from above. The shelves stand utterly empty.
Jaime, Nick,
rachelsoma and thebluefairy are sitting at a gleaming dark wood table, playing a card game called Disenchanted!. It's a cooperative (but with the possibility of betrayal) deckbuilding game set in the unnamed wizard school from a Fiasco game I played with Jaime, Rhi and Luke: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/7066207#7066207Rachel has two wands (props that come with the game, which you can use if you get the right cards). She can use two at the same time because her character is Blancmangeous Flowerpink.
In a thick surfer dude voice, Kristen says "Let's grab some brews, bros!" and plays a Butcher House card named as such. Everyone gets a potion card.
On the corner of the table is a large, glossy book. There is a big blob of deep red seeping from between its pages. I grab some napkins and wipe the edge of the book, but the fluid keeps coming. I flip the volume open. Ryan Gosling lies supine, cradled in Emma Stone's arms. The red goo is his blood welling up from the page, but simultaneously, he is only bleeding because someone spilled sauce on the book. It is some kind of thick, spicy tomato relish.
Ryan looks up at me, plaintively. I keep trying to staunch the bleeding/clean the page, but to no avail.
He compares it to a scene in a romcom where the other people in the newsagent politely look away from the main characters as they engage in their temporary misunderstanding-based breakup. Tears mingle with the sauce. They are Emma Stone's.
Gosling starts singing a song. It is a merry tune, whose lyrics consist of "Let's meet a lady named Linda the Plant. She's Linda the plant and she is a plant. Linda Linda Linda the Plant."
Linda dances, dressed in a leafy, flowery costume, with a skirt that looks like a pot.
I know that the song means that she is not only flora, but has been placed in the library to spy for the Man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_(person)
