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So, as most of you know, I’m an RPG nerd. Not, y’know, as much as I was a teenager, but still – I’m an RPG nerd. I had a few years break a while back, but then, on a whim, I got a group of friends together, and started running a game of White Wolf’s old game, Mage. I came up with a plot that I thought would take about a year or so to play, assuming a three to four hour session every other weekend – a game based on a gnostic murder mystery and a series of conspiracies and mad bastards as old as the human race. As it turns out, I was a little off in my estimation.

Tonight, three and half years later, playing more or less every other weekend, we finally finished that game, and it went exactly as I might have wished. The players saved the world against impossible odds, and in the end it all came down to one final roll of the dice – either they would triumph, or they would perish, and triumph they did.

It seemed appropriate to mark it. Three and a half years. I’ve had important relationships that didn’t last that long. :)

So, thank you to everyone who has ever taken part in it – marysiak, Danni, wmute, tintintin, cairmen, tyrell and most especially to burge, stu_n, chrisisiddall and anw.

And in two weeks time, we start something new. Thanks, guys.

I wasn’t going to get an iPhone. Not gen 1. The next gen will have better battery life, more hard drive, etc etc, and will be out within 18 months. And it’s 270 quid, plus 18 months at 35 pound a month for a contract. But my Vodaphone contract ran out last week, and I’ve just been playing with one in the 02 store, and they really are that nice to use…

Must… resist…

Aside from cairmen (and I admit I should have been suspicious when he said “The first one’s free…”) is there anyone else reading this playing World of Warcraft? My copy arrived last night (when the fucking account creation server was down, of all the bastard luck), and I got it all patched up this morning, so I’m looking forward to getting started when I get home tonight…

And more to the point, is there anyone that fancies starting up a new character on a UK RP server (of if you’re still reasonably low level, waiting for me to catch up to where you are), and teaming up with me on a reasonably regular basis?