Tue
02-Sep-2003

d&d and alpacas

Al, Matt and I headed down to Devon on the train on Thursday evening, with little more than a bottle of cava and a big bag of D&D third edition manuals. It was a long weekend, with WOMAD at the Eden Project on Friday evening, which we went to with Rachel, Chas and Josh, followed by D&D all weekend with Adam and Henry. Kayla and Matt weren't very interested in the D&D, alas, so we couldn't do as full-on a weekend as we originally intended, but then, we were trying to learn new third edition rules and getting to grips with playing after a long break anyway. We still had time to set up some characters, a water genasi fighter called Elekon, a half-orc psion by the name of Gothog, a dwarven rapier-wielding rogue called Zebediah, and a dreadlocked human monk called Crab. An amusing but believable bunch as it turned out, and they got to rescue a mad lord's daughter, defeat an orc poisoning a town, kill a zombie minotaur against all the odds, and inadvertantly release an Abyssal demon, a marilith, from centuries long captivity.

We just got back to London last night, and today Matt and I went to the British Museum to the mind and memory exhibition and had a wander round the Sir John Soames museum too.

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WOMAD on Friday was amazing. The whole thing was so well thought out, from the excellent quality food to the lit-up night-time biomes, and the way the various acts were spread throughout the complex. We sang along with a Zimbabwean mbira player called Chartwell Dutiro, who got us to join in with call and response singing, and bounced about to some Brazilian act. The beer was fabulous - with a nice Eden ale, and Belgian banana beer, which made me very happy.