Edge Of The Empire

22 Sep

The back end of nowhere is kinda pretty

Its been a while!

Its September, the month of… something. What normally happens in September? Schools start back… but I don’t care about that anymore. OH. No… wait… I don’t care about holiday prices dropping… OH!I DO care about all my friends being in the country again! Except those that fled to England. Or Scotland. Or, in one case, America. Did I really scare you that much? I’m sorry! Come back! I won’t do it again!

 

Anyway…. today is the 22nd of September. Or the 23rd… if you’re reading it tomorrow. Or in Europe! Or further east! But more likely tomorrow… This means it is now 3 weeks till my 28th birthday, and I’ll come up with something to do then. Maybe. Its a tuesday, so… yeah.

So what did I do over the past few months? I did several things. lets go in reverse order, so I can remember them…

I got a promotion! I’m now a ‘Senior Software Engineer’. Appropriate as I’m about to turn 28…

I moved to Belfast! Again. This is likely explained better below. My dad no longer has a manse…(yay promotion!) so we get to live in the city now! A small apartment…

I moved to Greenisland again! For 3 weeks. That means parents, and that means less fun 🙁

I moved out of Belfast! Ruth came home and wanted her house back 🙁

The Word weekend happened! I have to do the audio… I should get round to that tomorrow… but it was awesome!

I bought a Drone! Its currently out of action after a… let’s call it an emergency landing. But it’ll be fixed up soon!

We started a Second RPG group! they were much faster than the other group… just saying…

Tech Camp happened! It was brilliant. I’m tired and running out of words…

Loughbrickland connect happened! People were shocked and amazed at my ability to get internet in the back end of nowhere… but I did! Kids were brilliant and it sucked to leave for the next thing… which is above…

July happened! I don’t remember July much… nor June. What happened in those 2 months? Did i get my car in June? No? It was May? Ok then. I got a new car! Its a DS3. Its not a girls car. Its awesome.

I went back in time! Wait. No. I’m not supposed to mention that. It hasn’t happened yet.

 

 

Smile, you’re not turning 28. 🙂

Dave.

 

 

 

Oh, yes, the title. I’ve spent a lot of time in the back end of nowhere. And managed to get signal there! I took photos. They were pretty. I’ll put them somewhere.

3 Jun

Edge of the Empire: Its a saga. An awkward confusing saga.

Hello!

So, as some of you are aware, I, am a massive geek, and the geekiest thing I do is lead 5 people through an adventure of their own imaginations in the Star Wars universe.

Seriously its fun, you should do it. I can help.

This is known as an RPG, and I’m the GM, or Game Master, if you like using whole words. The most popular RPG is Dungeons and Dragons, but this is a star wars version, known as Edge of The Empire. The players control characters and I control the environment, and dice make decisions on anything uncertain which is known as skill checks. So, a bunch of smugglers, bounty hunters, and a droid, are in this particular game. They each have their own elaborate backstory, motivations and obligations that they MUST abide by, and complete the objective of the adventure. If they want to do anything in secret, the players communicate with me over facebook.

I’ve recorded the last 2 sessions, but the first session needs some explanation:

The initial player characters:

Kith – Played by Vicki, a bothan bounty hunter and owner of the ship.

Nate Draan – Played by Dave Luke, a human smuggler

R5-T16 – Played by Ryan, An astromech droid with a few… modifications.

These 3 characters met in the first episode and managed to get a mission from a Twi-lek called Reom to hunt down a lost Seperatist ship from the end of the Clone wars, believed crashed in the outer rim. They were forced to flee the station they got the mission from after some entanglements with other treasure hunters, but did obtain the Droid they needed to find the location of the ship.

Characters introduced:

Chenni – played by Gerard, a Wookie, An angry wookie.

Valo – played by Matt, A Chiss Bounty Hunter.

Episode 2 can be found here:

Beyond The Rim Ep2

And the next episode, here:

Beyond The Rim Episode 3

There’ll be another session soon….

Dave.