ragnhildr actually arrived (slightly) early for gaming yesterday, so we got started pretty much on time with a game of
Princes of Florence with her, me and
leolac. I've had this game for a while, but not had a chance to play. i of
i_and_t arrived about half way through the game, and observed until the end. (Apparently t of
i_and_t was naked, in the basement at home, playing WoW and wouldn't come out.) I won the first game of Princes of Florence, and
succulentpoet,
scubajim, and
pezchica arrived just as we were setting up for a second, four player, game. After some complex negotiations,
leolac bowed out (being quite tired), and
scubajim stepped in. I won this second game as well, and we then negotiated a game switch -- with (after some discussion) the same 4 core gamers doing the gaming, and the three socialites continuing to socialize. We decided on
El Grande for our third game, and
ragnhildr triumphantly stomped on me right at the end to allow
scubajim a narrow victory. For this manoeuvre,
ragnhildr collected many hugs and congratulations.
El Grande does allow for a certain amount of "gang up on the leader" or "gang up on the threat" type play since it is a competitive control type game, whereas in
Princes of Florence there is far less possibility to do this.
At this point,
pezchica stated that she'd been waiting for a chocolate raspberry martini for several hours, and that I was remiss in my hostly duties of providing such. But, it being about 7pm, and despite the wonderful Mexican lasagna that
pezchica had brought, we decided we were all too hungry to have drinks right then, so we went out for Vietnamese food at the Mee Xim. We managed to order enough food that even
scubajim ran out of capacity to eat.
After dinner i and
ragnhildr pumpkinized, and the rest of us went back to my place, where I made the martinis for all but
leolac, which is just as well, as she ended up cutting
scubajim's hair. (If she'd had a drink or two, the result might have been amusing, rather than good.) More flirtation, cuddling, talking, laughing, and good times happened, before everyone headed for home.
Thanks everyone, it was a wonderful day.
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Date: 2005-08-15 08:07 am (UTC)Was feeling sick all day which is why I didn't come over. Annoyingly, I am still feeling icky. Which is not a great thing on your vacation. Oh well.
(But, I admit, I did play wow all day..sit in front of the TV feeling sorry for myself or the computer, might as well be the computer)
As for the naked, yeah, ok, but, I did actually put pants on at around 6pm.
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Date: 2005-08-15 08:22 am (UTC)As for the naked, yeah, ok, but, I did actually put pants on at around 6pm.
I certainly hope that you eventually put on the bikini as promised! ;-)
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Date: 2005-08-15 08:28 am (UTC)oh yeah. guess what he's doing now. more naked WOW. maybe I can convince him to put on pants before 6 pm. or at least do something more interesting pantsless before 6...it is my vacation too...
;->
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Date: 2005-08-15 08:30 am (UTC)flirting?
Date: 2005-08-15 08:18 am (UTC)*thrilled*!
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Date: 2005-08-15 08:40 am (UTC)martinis
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