Me and my hands

A chat with an A&E nurse returned the opinion that I was most likely okay, and it was likely just minor and temporary effects of the cold. Was given the option to stay and see a doctor (with the slight guilt trip/warning about how long the next person in line had been waiting, but decided that the Nurse most likely knew what she was talking about, and went home. A bit of self diagnosis suggests I've probably got some kind of flu or somesuch as well, which explains the "My brain needs defragmenting" feel on the last day of 'strom, which has only partly been cured by 14 hours of sleep.

Still somewhat cold, annoyed to discover that the room heater I've had no need of until now appears not to work. Have resorted to wearing normal clothes + dressing gown + trenchcoat + robe, and new bandanna around the colder of my hands (slowing typing somewhat). Amused to discover that the reason I thought I had bad circulation (getting cold hands and feet easily) is actually a sign of good circulation, as my body is protecting my core. Not sure how my semi-frequent head-rushes figure into that though.

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Maelstrom was good, though not great for me. I got lots of little things done, but relatively less big things.

Good things:

• New Eidolon rules


• Clarification of some religion stuff


• Creating my usual huddle of ref's debating some difficult question I've proposed for an extended period


• Finally finding a tricorn that fits me


• New gloves and bandanna!


• One native utterly correctly RPing their relationship with their eidolons by loading up on dutch courage before going to talk to the eidolons


• Tontom getting the next event


• Beating down an insufficiently respectful mortal.


• Having several people fail to recognise me in various guises


• Making more friends & contacts


• Joining in the killing of someone I actually recognised


• Bloodstained notes


• Debating which mutilation effect would be appropriate if a certain character fucks up again


• Another busy event

Bad things:

• The cold. Initially only vaguely annoying, but shut my brain down on the last day


• Wanting some OC socialising on one of the evenings, failing to find it and instead ending up time-ish for anouther hour or so.


• The ref discussion I caused leading to me missing one of the scraps I'd really loved to have join


• Other peoples OC relationship issues being annoying


• The busy-ness and the feeling that I can't really stop, slow down or relax – I walked away from watching both the sumo and the fireworks due to the fact that my character would have little interest in such.

In other news, I'm now very interested in tracking down some larp safe claws, preferably somewhat impressive, preferably not hideoously highly priced. Anyone got any suggestions?

Time now for bed. Should've hunted down some forms today, but was feeling craaaaap, so I'll dp that tommorrow/