On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Carl D Cravens wrote:

CDC>Don't forget, "Yeah, the brochure said this is a Hero System game, but 
CDC>it's really not.  We just roll these big, fluffy 'dinosaur dice' 
CDC>(since when is a lobster a dinosaur?) and if you roll dinosaurs 
CDC>(lobster!), that's good."

I can live with that, if the GM is decent.  He wasn't.

CDC>Hey, the largest body of water this land lubber had ever seen was 
CDC>Wilson Reservoir in Kansas.  (Keystone in Oklahoma is bigger overall, 
CDC>but narrower.)  It never occured to me that there were _lakes_ so big 
CDC>you couldn't see the other side.

For the record, Carl the lifelong Kansas resident was also boggled by hard 
liquor in the grocery store.  Come to that, having lived here for several 
years by that time, *I* had a moment of "Whoa.  Haven't seen THAT in a 
long time.  Dang, that looks weird."

CDC>And the bus had a stupid 20-minute lay-over on the way to the 
CDC>convention center.  It wouldn't have been so bad if we'd gotten a good 
CDC>deal on the hotel, but it was one of the more expensive ones.  That's 
CDC>what we get for registering only a few months in advance.

At least it was a nice hotel.  Just think what it would have been like if 
we *hadn't* had a nice solid brick wall between us and the 2am belching 
contest.  (Also for the record, hotel security was *very* prompt in 
responding, other than it was about a twenty-minute walk from the front of 
the hotel to where we were.  *Big* hotel.)

-- 
Karen J. Cravens  silver@phoenyx.net