I probably never mentioned this but thanks to a VERY wonderful history teacher in college I found myself falling in love with history. I've always been interested in medieval times and regency times in England and around the world. More recent history isn't as interesting to me as history before the 1900's. Anything after that is just... well a little boring to me. It's too recent.
So just think how much a gamer girl like me (Did I forget to mention that?) rolls around in bliss when I'm getting ready to play a table top game that takes place in the late 16 hundreds early 17 hundreds. I'm like a kitten rolling in a large batch of cat nip! ^_^ he he. last night to get away from the house for a while I went over to the TA were a friend of mine, John works. He works at he truck station, where trucks take a ticket and park. They have so many hours they can park but if they don't buy enough gas or items at the TA they need to pay 25$ on the way out. Normally not really an issue. So for the most part he does just about nothing and sits around watching TV. For a while there he had an xbox 360 set up and he was playing games at work.
Since his Aunt is his boss it's not really like he's worried about loosing it. heh. Anyways, out of all the guys in the gamer group I get along with john the best. D, known as Dennis, is mikes BFF from highschool... possibly sooner? so they think of each other as bro's. So me sitting there is kinda like I'm an impostor so sometimes I like to just kinda leave them to their ... what ever.
This weekend we have a friend of John's coming over from Spring hill, he's planning on ST'ing (That's Story Teller to those that don't know) the table top game. We're playing BESM 3rd ed (Known as Big eyes small mouth. It's an anime type of gaming system) since it's pretty easy to use it for just about ANY type of game and we're all a little bit more familiar with it. Last night around 11:40 ish which is just minutes before John got off work, I showed up.
Since he didn't have any big plans that he HAD to do we stepped off over to this picnic table that was sort of off to he side after his work. We talked for a bit but then he had to clock out. So while he did that I went pee, parked the car in the normal parking lot and met back up with him there. Jimmy called him and then both him and Jimmy got the idea to put him on speaker phone and so we started to talk more about the game. Where it was taking place, talking about history... you know what not.
Hell it was fun! I think we talked that way for about 45 minutes? had to stop before John's phone died... speaker phone takes a lotta power out of cell phones.
My character is this French aristocrat, the daughter of a Duke. She was stolen from her home by gypsy's when just a babe and when she got older, 10 or so, she was found by her father and taken back in. Normally this doesn't happen with rich aristocrat family but considering she was his only child and something had happened *Cough firing accident* that prevented him from ever fathering children again. From her experience as a gypsy she learned sword fighting, tumbling, and gypsy magic.
Secretly angry at her father for taking her away from her free gypsy lifestyle she continued to learn sword play and practice gypsy magic under her fathers nose. As the servants liked her they tended to keep this information from the Duke. Finally at the age of 16 she was married into a marriage of political interest for her father. Her husband not really caring about having a child for a wife and having only married for the convenience of it. Was more than happy to give his wife a stipend (Basically an allowance) and let her travel where ever while he enjoyed what he really wanted... which was to enjoy his mistress's.
Okay for those that don't know. It was all the rage (popular) for men to have a mistress and show her off and all, but it was considered outlandish and outright rude, to show off your mistress to your wife. especially in a political marriage it insulted your wife's family as well, which was a big no no. Since duels were more so permitted back then you might find yourself challenged to a duel and killed. They were highly frowned upon in the late 18 hundreds but some aristocrats still did it.
... anyways bleh. >.> ... so yah. Mike is too sick to go to game tonight. he doesn't want to get everyone sick like I did a few weeks back. (Still feel bad about that) so instead he's just going to work and after work he is going home. John is gonna stop by sometime and pick me up for game. take me to the store so we can get some pet food for the girls (Gerbils; Saffron and Celest.) They're all out and right now I'm just letting them nibble on the log. I didn't notice it but they'd been knocking their food bowl against he glass letting us know they were hungry and out of food. 0.0 gerbils are smart? who knew!?
I'm just glad that CK, our 7 month old kitten, isn't interested in going after them. She just watches them sometimes like a cat does looking at a bird outside the window. it makes them dream and they are happy. CK is a sweet kitty. ^-^ *purr purr*
Okay I should get ready to go now. *wave*
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