A good week and half a weak week

Oops, I am Super Late updating. That probably means I'll skip next week entirely, and just update at the end of the ten-day, assuming I survive it. Work is behind, but not fatally so, and gym is back to even for Lent, where I wanted it to be ahead going into the ten-day tomorrow. Both of those would have been in much better shape if I had updated Sunday night, but this week's been lame. Not sure if I'm mildly sick, or what...

Last Monday: Left work early to get annual physical. Don't think I did anything special afterwards?
Last Tuesday: Stayed home sick. Would blame the flu shot I got at the physical, but fearless stayed home too, so maybe it was something else. Possibly I just haven't ever completely shaken whatever it was, as I've been running a little empty since... Did make it to Auria in the evening, where I got killed. :-(
Wednesday: Saw Stones in his Pocket at the Lyric. It's a two man show where they play a bunch of different characters, on a film shoot in Ireland. They're mostly the extras in the film, although some of the more important parts of the film get to be bit parts in the play. It was fairly well acted in general, and they pulled off the character-switching well, but I thought the underlying play was only so-so. Call it 7 days of game before drowning in a pond. Too tired to make it to VBL after.
Thursday: Short GM meeting for my new SIK game with The Police Chief, but Killbot was stuck in dormcom, so we didn't do too much.
Friday: Off to Intercon! I had no LARP Friday night, so mostly took it easy with lionofgod and her husband, playtesting a board game that someone there wrote. It seemed fun enough, if a little fiddly. It's cooperative, but with enough variability in what the different characters can do that no one can really play it for you. (You get unique hands of cards, and play some number of them as you can afford to spend power, and everyone selects which one's they're playing in a turn secretly at the beginning of the turn.) We won the first game easily, and the second game less easily.
Saturday: Three LARPs! Accorded Neutral Ground was a Dresden files game, with a bunch of low-level-talents hanging out at McNally's for a paranet meeting. It was reasonable, and the closest thing to a guild game I played the whole time, in that there were secrets and characters competing for plot wins and the potential for combat and stuff. But it wasn't inspired. If it was running at the guild and the only game that weekend, I would happily tell people to play it, but I wouldn't recommend it as "the LARP you should clearly play" at an intercon style "pick one of these N to play in this slot" event. Call it 7 days of game before being killed by Marconi's guy. Pantheon Protocol (run by a friend of gotspit, I think?) was next - it's a politics-ish game about "the cycle is turning and the gods must change - which one will you become?" It was much more about exploration of character and the ideas of "what sort of person would the person you are now choose to turn into?" than about 'plots' per se, although most people had a few opinions about what other people should turn into, as well as themselves, and had some ability to effect that. It was probably the most fun of the games I played at Intercon, call it 8.5 days of game, before sacrificing itself that others may live. The third LARP was Plan 8 from Outer Space, which is a madcap Dilbert-esque planning session by alien invaders, whose whole point is to be terrible in funny ways at each other. It was an amusing enough acting exercise, but not really a game at all.
Sunday: More Intercon! Final LARP was an Iron GM game, which turned out to also be a Dilber-esque board meeting about being terrible to each other. It was probably more fun than the Plan 8 one, in that it got noticeably more mad-cap as there were things being thrown in by the GMs fairly regularly to up the chaos level, but it suffered from the fact I'd just done it the night before, and with a similarly broken character. It had some truly hilarious moments, but went on too long to hold my attention. (Deliberately not scoring those two, as they weren't really games.) Then headed home, where I decided I was too tired to go to work, but did have ice cream with Killbot in the evening (he came out to Davis).
This Monday: I think it was mostly skyrim?
This Tuesday: Decided to skip gym and punt on work and get to Auria on time. I thought about skipping Auria too, 'cause I was tired, but decided that playing someone who's dead isn't actually that much work, and that turned out to be true, as I watched the rest of the players run around on a quest to save my soul. (Not as the normal party, which had cast Raise on me at the end of last run, but as the old party's proto-god, who had never actually had to return a soul to it's body before.) Skipped VBL again.
This Wednesday: Final run of Children's Stories II. They reclaimed the final Feng Shui site, and sealed the Wall against the invading Amberites. Then played a game of screaming instructions at each other with networked iPads with Jelom and mjperson, which was quite wacky.
Tonight: My original plan got canceled Monday, I canceled my backup plan this morning 'cause I was tired, and I failed at my mini-plan when I was too tired to realize I was at Kendall and should get off the T. Bought some comic books and came home and played Skyrim.