Life Outside

After returning to my flat and then work for one day in the half term, I just thought to myself screw it and why sit in a dingy three room cell when I could be back in Hawkhurst relaxing properly? So I went back to visit my mum at her sit. And more relaxation took place. We walked the dogs, sat and talked, and I managed to get some notes drawn up for Dark Heresy. Not many though.

There is a huge field just outside of the village. Actually, there are lots of huge fields. But there was one in particular that I wanted to visit. So I did. I met a couple of deer on the way and the weather was both warm and sunny. It was a great break and I do feel refreshed for it.

In case you didn't know already, Eragon is a terrible film.

Speaking of film, I made a short GTA IV video and posted it on YouTube.



With the bare handful of notes that I wrote for Dark Heresy I actually managed to piece together a game. And it worked. I gave everyone new characters to start a side-story linked to the main plot. Matt trundled over from Tenterden and participated in his first RPG game. I gave him some background to the lore (although there is more lore and background to Warhammer 40,000 than a human mind might comprehend) and a character. An assassin called Varn who was armed with a hunting rifle, a composite bow, and a phobos stubber pistol.

As far as I could tell, he enjoyed the game. The more we played, the more pro-active he became. He made suggestions and came up with ideas that the others did not, and even had his character perform incredibly daring stunts while managing to keep his actions within reason.

The stunts included, but were not limited to, leaping from one landspeeder to another while they roared around the upper levels of an up-spire hab dome on a hive world. Then he managed to get into the cockpit and grapple with the pilot, an assassin and acolyte of an Inquisitor the guys are trying to track down. The landspeeder, already damaged by a shotgun blast to the engines, was spluttering out black smoke and many large sparks. The landspeeder went into a steep, uncontrolled dive. Sam's techpriest character wrestled with his own (requisitioned/borrowed/stolen) landspeeder, trying to stabilize the one heading for the ground by bumping into it. Nick's character used a clip harness as an insurance policy and also leaped to the rogue landspeeder, kicking the pilot in the face and knocking him unconscious. After that, there were several tense moments as the craft grazed buildings, rolled left and right, and finally stopped just short of a large rockcrete wall.

This is all after making trouble in a gambling den, fighting off gangsters intent on monopolising an empty cargo bay, and causing a lot of trouble in a cathedral (yes they leaped through a stained glass window).

After giving Sam a lift home, I got back to the underground car park where I store my bike and found a fox (male or female, I couldn't tell), sitting half asleep on top of one of the cars. I thought it would have run off when my bike approached, but it didn't look in the least bit bothered. It didn't even bat an eyelid as I stood ten feet from it, staring in disbelief. It was just sat, curled up, muzzle tucked under its tail, on top of a car which bore a rain-cover. If only I had a camera on me, or a phone with a camera built-in. The fox opened its eyes and looked up at me periodically, but wasn't bothered at all by my presence. It had blue eyes, large ears, and very tidy, clean-looking fur.

I know that a lot of animals like foxes and seagulls have become more or less accustomed to life in human villages, towns, and cities; but this fox was acting like a domesticated cat or dog rather than a wild scavenger.