Robinnnnn the hooded man

So, after watching Intermission, I had to add my Clannad album (a best-of collection) to my .mp3 player and have been listening to them again. The sound takes me back to high school, and also to the beach, and sometimes the music just sinks down into my brain and I regret, in that horrible melancholy way where the world could all be right and I'd still regret that I couldn't do everything. But it's also fun to listen to them, and while I probably don't have the Celtic soul noted in Intermission necessary to make me worthy of listening to them, I definitely have to conclude that I like Clannad pretty well.

Getting excited for vacation time as it nears!

But here is D&D summary, since I did not have time before now.

-We met back up in Lunel, where Esra identified the items we'd found before and we doled them out as fit. Llewain came away with a serrated dagger, Sabine with a frosty sword, Esra with a scroll and a wand and a ring of jumping. Denar had the FLAILSNAIL shell made into a rainbow mace that leaves shiny trails. And, he can use it twenty times to sap people's will to resist him, which is pretty impressive even without the glowy rainbow trails. Sabine also gave Esra the scroll of Fireball she'd asked Maligos to draft for her, and he identified that it truly was a fireball spell (Danny noted that it also had definitely been scribed by Maligos).

-We returned to Nys, pursuing Kelisandra and Korad. But we found them in the Greased Goose inn, where questioning, prying, and severe irritation with their deception yielded the information that, in fact, they had been posing as us under Maligos's orders.

-Esra may need to compare the writing on the fireball scroll with the writing on 'Bishop Dinta's secret notes; also, the scene I did the excerpt from earlier happened, as we checked our ship to be sure nothing much had been stolen.

-I'm also remembering some mysterious hooded figure had lunch with Esra waaaaay back at the beginning of the game, where by 'lunch' I mean 'a cup of boiled water, which he or she did not finish.'

-Hmmmmm. But yes: ritual murders have been happening in Nys, as have nightmares, so we figured we'd probably need to resolve that. This may all be connected to Dinta, Maligos, and the fact that anyone was ever interested in the Crown of the Speaker to begin with.

And Dustin kept claiming that we don't want our island unless it's threatened. To which I say no, we're just savoring it, man. Jeeeez. We're taking our time. We're being prepared, that's all. It's ours and we'll go when we're good and ready. ...probably.

We also made terrible jokes, including poop jokes, jokes about "pass womb", the spell that allowed a crazy knife-wielding NPC to escape his mother's belly, and so on. So on track and mature! That's us. :D

Reasons you shouldn't drink coffee

1. Coffee breath.

2. I guess caffeine, which you get a lot of in a single cup. And potentially sugar or milk, which both aren't that great for you, but get put in coffee often.

3. Buuuut mostly coffee breath. Yuck!

~This PSA brought to you because of coworkers with coffee breath and trying to raise awareness of coffee breath everywhere.~

I'm mostly kidding-- I've no room to talk, because I probably have garlic breath like, all the time (ALL THE TIME) and I generally don't care unless cute girls call me on it-- but coffee breath especially grosses me out because it reminds me of one of the last times I was with my Aunt N. She warned me that the medication she was on for her cancer not only caused her a lot of pain, but gave her halitosis that smelled like coffee breath. She asked me to warn her if I could smell it, because she had breath mints for it; her own sense of smell had been lost during the chemo.

Some people describe the scent of illness as cloying and sweet, but I have been fortunate so far in my life not to have too many friends or family succumb to wasting illnesses. So the only memory I have of such a thing is one of something like coffee-breath. I dutifully reported when I could smell it, and got yelled at by my mother for being insensitive.

I consider this important to note when kissing is on the mind, too. I already personally find mouth-to-mouth kissing pretty gross, but add bad breath to it, and wow. It's one thing if you both ate a garlicky pizza- you're not gonna care. But if one of you smokes, or drinks coffee, or had an oniony subway sandwich right before, it's gonna be gross for the other.

In German theater, the sorority girl who I was playing opposite specifically kissed me in that third way during our love scene on the first day of rehearsals. It was less sexy than it looked, dear classmates of the past! I assure you!