Creeping towards the finish line.

37,719 / 50,000 (75.4%)

I did a good scene. Creeped me the hell out, but more by concept than by actually being standard horror movie fare.

Anyway, I really need to get to bed soon. Work in the morning. Ick.

Not a Morning Person

And yet another office learns the joy of Pocky.

Being somewhat skint at the moment, I decided to pack lunch today (so in case dodgyhoodoo is wondering, that's where the noodles went). While I was at it, I brought along the much-neglected pack of Pocky that's been sitting on the dining table being ignored in favour of chocolate-covered espresso beans. Morning necessitated coffee and I broke out the Pocky at the same time; being the generous person that I am, I passed the Pocky around to the three people who are actually in today. Everybody blinked at it in a "WTF is this?" sort of way but everybody tried it. And, as you might expect from the first sentence, everybody liked it. Michael's comment was actually, "Mmm, these are gorgeous! Where'd you get them?" Since he knows North London fairly well, he was familiar with the general concept of Colindale and knew precisely where Atari-Ya is. (Not sure we're talking about but if they both have Pocky, does it matter?)

It's amusing, given the limited number of people in the office, how many of them actually live in my area. Michael either lives or used to live around the Finchley / Barnet area, and Udoka gets on the tube a stop after I do, so we run into each other either on the initial Northern Line leg of the trip or on the platform at Tottenham Court Road on a regular basis. This is not the nice event it seems. Not that I don't like Udoka, don't get me wrong. It's just that ... well, I don't know about anyone else, but I don't commute well with others, at least not first thing in the morning. I'm not fully awake, I don't want to be as awake as I am, and all I really want to do is drown out the world of Other People with iStress and either read a book or doze off for a half-hour while the train takes me to my destination. Other People needs to wait until I've had my second dose of caffeine. I am not a morning person.

Trying to distract myself from the daily slog, I find myself in the process of considering Dragonmeet. Well, it is less than three weeks away now. Mostly this is to do with practicalities:

Booth set-up: oh gods we're gonna need at least one sign, and I'm trying to work out in my head what 6' looks like so I can contemplate the best lay-out for displaying the items that doesn't leave the leftover space looking like some vast wasteland.

Demo game scenarios: they've already got the games listed on the Dragonmeet site and I'm taking it I have to send scenarios to the appropriate people if I want it to be included so I guess I should start working on scenario now... Agh!

Timing: Two demo game runs on a system no one's used before -- this may take awhile. Between games, I'm going to have to take my turn at the booth to give the others a break. However, I am not -- repeat, am not going to miss the opportunity to go shopping at Dragonmeet. I need new dice, for one thing, and I can say that with all honesty because now that we're RPing in the house, Yuki keeps using the dice as cat toys and now I can barely find any so it's back to the Bucket o' Dice and I need a few sets of d10s because I don't have one matched set to my name at the minute. Anyway, the point is that I'm going to have to perform dazzling feats of time management to get it all done.

The proofs should be with us in a couple of days. Gleep. I don't think I want to see proofs. Well, there's no point in stressing about it now. Proofs will be forthcoming, time will tick on and Dragonmeet will happen, and I cannot hide under the duvet and wait for it to go away, much as I'd sort of like to.

...*whimper*

Argh bloody argh argh argh.

I now get an e-mail from the Dragonmeet folks, as a follow-up to the one that got sent before I signed up (one follow-up e-mail in a month and a half? WTF?), basically saying, "We want all the details for the game you're running, including scenario name and player numbers, by midday 16th November".

Yeah. Tomorrow.

dodgyhoodoo and I were (and still are) going to dinner and a film tonight. However, instead of nice random 'just the two of us' chat, it's going to have to be me with my little red notebook, a pen and the biggest stress attack since Thig died.

Less than 24 hours and I need a scenario? FUCK!

[Edit: 5:00 pm -- I have a scenario. Now I just need a name and a short overview. Thankfully my brain works fast when threatened.]