Well

We got a dog..

This is Dyson. He's a year old Hound/Lab mix that we got from Animal Control. 

He was already fixed, came with his shots and chipped. For $15. 

He and Connor get along really well.

Kae is getting there. She's still kinda scared of him.

Look at that face.

Oh Jeez it's back

The pit...

We went backwards to the pit.

It's become a running joke with our group, a game of "would your rather" and the other is always "cross the pit."

Would you rather have dinner with your in-laws OR cross the pit.

Would you rather potty train a toddler and a puppy OR cross the pit.

The pit.

 At least I didn't get stuck this time. I rolled an 18 of 20 and strutted my tiefling self right over. 

We found out that every time we don't push forward to the next room, we get jumped by more Kobalds. Not looking forward to next week. Maybe the DM will take pity on us. I mean, we retreated to the pit.

Desk demon

Saturday night my desk broke. The keyboard tray fell off. I was leaning on it ::shrug::

Then Sunday night, while we were sleeping the whole thing collapsed. La la la zzz zzz zzz crash! Sh*t! Dafuq was that?! 

So today the kids and I went to ikea. 

I got a bookshelf, and a laptop stand. Now I just need to find a chair, and I'll have a cozy reading/knitting/computing corner. 

The Pit

Our Dungeon Master, Nyomia, is one of the nicest people. I'm sure she expected us to figure out the pit, and finish the whole encounter in like, 2 hours.

Nope.

That's me! Hanging from the edge, with my Raven laughing at me, and the elves face palming. 3 hours and we got across a 10 foot chasm.

We're special

May reading list

May 
3.31 10 best college majors for your personality (5/30) library 5 stars 
2.30 Skirt a Day - Nicole Smith (5/?) library 3 stars 
1.29 The Dead Travel Fast - Eric Nuzum (5/?) library 5 stars

I didn't read much last month. I got distracted by video game lol

Forgotten Realms

So the DnD campaign we're running is Forgotten Realms. Which i'd heard of but couldn't place, because the universe is so huge it's hard to remember everything.

I'd read the first couple Dragonlance books, and played a few video games set in the DnD universe. And that's where stuff started to make sense. 

baldur's gate, neverwinter nights, and the neverwinter mmo are all in this world. And the events of the neverwinter mmo follow the main story exactly, if you bother to read the quests! So I wasn't completely lost. Hurray!

Typically when you play one of the games, you start in a city, you. Wander into the local tavern

And are recruited for a mission by...someone. The captain of the guard, a wanted poster, a drunken brawl, something.

You wander out and bam! You get jumped.

I called this one early on, I said, leaving this tavern will bring kobalds. And sure enough. Our first encounter was a small band of kobalds.

Kobalds are stupid, and smelly. They speak draconic, but act like rabid rats. 

We had 8 minions (1 hp) with spears, and 3 regular non-minions with crossbows. 

Our healer got stinky, the rogue got glued to the ground, the other Mage caught fire. 

I hid behind a tree, flanked them, and blasted 3 of 4 minions. 

Shhhh you can't see me.

All in all it was a lot of fun. We won the day, found some silver. And discovered the dwarven mine shaft we were looking for. 

I had fun. Our DM is very forgiving of my newbness, she's really happy to answer all my questions, and understand that I don't really "get" it yet. This isn't like mmo's. The dice are confusing, and I had to be reminded a lot which I needed to roll. And math. So.much.math.

Role playing out loud is also harder for me. I'm pretty social, and have no problems being a total geek, and in that regard i'm among my kindred, on the other hand, I don't know my character well enough to BE her.

Do I see myself continuing with this? Yes, absolutely. I'd love to make an all girl game with my friends and hang out and have hard cider and kill dragons. 

Stay tuned until next week ;)

New venture

So I'll be blogging a little (maybe a lot) about a new past time for me. 

I joined an online community a while back called Gaming Mommies. It's mostly on Facebook, but i can link groups later, or you can google-fu. There are sub groups for just about anything your geeky mommy heart desires. I'm in :

- Pokemon

- Anime

- Archeage

- Crafty

- Reading

- Dungeons and Dragons

The last one, D&D, is new to me. I've been around it second hand since I was a kid. Friends older brothers played, tried to get us to play, there was math. We went outside instead.

My beast plays in a bi-weekly Saturday group of 4-6, right now they're running Star Wars. The ladies wrangle the kids instead of playing. I'm sure we could if we wanted, but the children might kill each other.

So Saturday night we had a character creation party. Online. Via Ventrilo. It took forever.

I'm now the proud owner of a Tiefling Witch named Numinya.

With a raven familiar named Orrin

Hiiiii

I'll post our first game session opinions tomorrow 😉