A Great Day

[liralen]

Yesterday was a beautiful, wonderful day.  Rain and showers and sunshine and we drove for hours and hours through it all and got to see poeple I haven't seen for probably a decade and I played my first solid game in over a year and it was really, really satisfying and the write up for it is filling my brain with some really lovely, haunting stuff.  But that's what I get for playing a game filled with teenage angst and dream fighting robots built out of relationships that can crack at a blow from alien powers...  

The meeting with old friends was with marypcb and sbisson at Ramen Halu in San Jose.  I'd been there once before with umetaro, years ago, and I had to go back, and it was great to see them. I think the last time I saw them it was on a whirlwind business trip through Germany, France, and then the UK, where I got to stay with them for a night or two, attend a dinner party with them as hosts, and then wander through London a bit before going back home.  It was so good to see them again!  I got to envy Mary's hair and be glad that I'm not on that kind of travel schedule.  They're happily insane.  And talk and eat great ramen.  The broth was to die for.  Happy me.

It was great talking with them, but we had another place to get to and an hour's drive there and pick someone up and then another hour's drive to get to where we had to be at a certain time.  So we left and had plenty of time... to get to dinner and gaming with diony and space_parasite and amberley running Bliss Stage.  The game was really, really good.  A short, hot action sequence where everyone burns through relationships like forest fire through kiln-dried wood, and then brief interludes to try and "make up" before the burn is supposed to happen again.  It was intense and wonderful and strangely touching, too. 

I have to write it up.  It's the way I started writing... so I gotta do it.

Comments

[calmingeffects.livejournal.com]

what game?

[space-parasite.livejournal.com]

Bliss Stage!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Just like space_parasite said! That!

Teenage mighty fighty dream robot angst in spades!!

It was great fun, and everyone played beautifully!! And much fun was had by all and much angst and relationship fall out was had, and wow... I am so divinely happy.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

space_parasite's link is the appropriate one. :-)

[calmingeffects.livejournal.com]

lol sweeet!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

It was very, very angsty. *laughter* And eventually very sweet as well. I found that playing an anchor was really, really good.

I'm realizing that roleplaying feels like speedficcing, really. Having to come up with stuff FAST and it's pressurizing, but with the right people it can be really, really good.

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

it was lovely to see you - and lunch was very yummy!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

It was wonderful to see you, too!! Yay!!

I'm so glad lunch was good for you, too. I love these authentic places, but when I drag people off to them I never know how they'll meet other tastes. I'm so glad it worked well for you! Yay!

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

we have catholic small-c tastes and we love japanese especially...

[liralen.livejournal.com]

I had to admit that I assumed so. *grin* Given how you write about food and how much you've traveled, I was assuming you would probably love it, but it's always good to hear that what I thought was true.