I passed!!!
As the title may indicate, I passed... but anyway... I took my most recent karate test on Thursday and passed. I'm now officially Rukikyu (6th kyu) or second blue (time to find the electrical tape...).
Both the games I'm in are going along well. I managed to trick Karen into joining Dylan's game. We're finally going to have a ranger now, woo hoo! The nature-based divine has been horribly lacking since I chose to play a Cleric this time 'round. Still, though, it looks like it will continue to be quite fun.
In Devon's game we're getting excessively wierder and beginning to seem more and more like red-shirts. On the other hand, I got booku experience Friday night because Max ran off at the last minute. We needed his character so I ended up playing his and mine and got experience for both applied to my char. There's nothing like playing two very different Malks at the same time... and managing to annoy the group entirely... >.>... but that's a little hard to explain...
On a similar strain of thought, I've finally met the imfamous Raleigh Love. For those of you going, who the heck's Raleigh Love, he's kind of a legend out here... kind of? who'm I kidding? He is a legend around here. He graduated from here last spring, has achieved his Nidan (2nd Dan or 2nd degree black belt) from the Shorin Ryu group here on campus, and I swear to God he knows every gamer in town. I finally got to see the much-advertised ki-demonstration that Kate and Raleigh used to do all the time. It was quite entertaining more-so for the audience than for the performers. It's just a series of planned and practiced strikes to demonstrate Raleigh's grasp of Ki, his ability to resist pain in all its forms. The final strike is a blow to the groin with a steel-toed boot. There's nothing quite like watching every guy in the audience cringe in unison. What makes it so impressive is that she hits him and all he does is lift up a little from the force of the strike, he doesn't even feel the groin shot.
Truthfully, after all the things I've heard about him over the last semester and a half it was really cool to finally meet the man behind the legend... and stay up way to late watching the new Dr. Who, it's great, just by the way. Apparantly, he's not planning on running of to Easter Island again for a while (that's where he was before) so we may be seeing more of him. 'Course he doesn't actually live in Laramie, he lives in Rock Springs, but he's entrenched in the final plans of one of the games I'm not in, but I've been informed that I can watch anyway.
And now that I've rambled on for a bit I'll sum it up easily... he's a pretty kewl guy.
I think that that's pretty much it, ttfn
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Both the games I'm in are going along well. I managed to trick Karen into joining Dylan's game. We're finally going to have a ranger now, woo hoo! The nature-based divine has been horribly lacking since I chose to play a Cleric this time 'round. Still, though, it looks like it will continue to be quite fun.
In Devon's game we're getting excessively wierder and beginning to seem more and more like red-shirts. On the other hand, I got booku experience Friday night because Max ran off at the last minute. We needed his character so I ended up playing his and mine and got experience for both applied to my char. There's nothing like playing two very different Malks at the same time... and managing to annoy the group entirely... >.>... but that's a little hard to explain...
On a similar strain of thought, I've finally met the imfamous Raleigh Love. For those of you going, who the heck's Raleigh Love, he's kind of a legend out here... kind of? who'm I kidding? He is a legend around here. He graduated from here last spring, has achieved his Nidan (2nd Dan or 2nd degree black belt) from the Shorin Ryu group here on campus, and I swear to God he knows every gamer in town. I finally got to see the much-advertised ki-demonstration that Kate and Raleigh used to do all the time. It was quite entertaining more-so for the audience than for the performers. It's just a series of planned and practiced strikes to demonstrate Raleigh's grasp of Ki, his ability to resist pain in all its forms. The final strike is a blow to the groin with a steel-toed boot. There's nothing quite like watching every guy in the audience cringe in unison. What makes it so impressive is that she hits him and all he does is lift up a little from the force of the strike, he doesn't even feel the groin shot.
Truthfully, after all the things I've heard about him over the last semester and a half it was really cool to finally meet the man behind the legend... and stay up way to late watching the new Dr. Who, it's great, just by the way. Apparantly, he's not planning on running of to Easter Island again for a while (that's where he was before) so we may be seeing more of him. 'Course he doesn't actually live in Laramie, he lives in Rock Springs, but he's entrenched in the final plans of one of the games I'm not in, but I've been informed that I can watch anyway.
And now that I've rambled on for a bit I'll sum it up easily... he's a pretty kewl guy.
I think that that's pretty much it, ttfn
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