Have any of you ever played the game Dragon's Gold? It's a board game where you basically kill dragons, and they have treasure. You and your buddies work together to kill the dragon, and once you do, the treasure is there for the taking. But how do you split it? Once you kill the dragon, you have one minute to argue with eachother over who gets what share. If time runs out, nobody gets any of the treasure. If you're playing it right, every deal ends with "Fine. You know what? Fine. Take your shitty fucking gold, and fuck yourself".

I also got to hang out with John Combs, Phillip, Efron, their friend from 3rd grade, and said friend's rock band. Six guys, two bass guitars. I even got invited to their show tonight, which rules! It's funny though, because for years Efron told me that "My friend from childhood moved away and NOW HE'S TOTALLY A ROCK STAR" and I was always "yeah okay, sure". And now he's here.

Anyways, we all went to Spicy City last night and ordered a shitload of food. They were ridiculously Chinese too, and neither party could understand what the other one was saying. We ended up ordering a shitload of food, and a few of the guys ordered beers, because they're foreign and don't check IDs. At the end of the meal, we realized the bill would be huge. We kept making the "okay. then we run" joke; apparently so often that the owners were getting obviously worried. We were the last people in the restaurant, and sitting in a little alcove. The bigger guys who worked there kept eyeing us, and sat down at a table to block our path, just in case we were going to run. whoops!

Oh right! They were in the krakken. They ended up fighting their way up to the brain, with tons of oozes and acid in the way. The brain itself had to be killed by cutting the tendrils connecting it, then finally stabbing the brain itself (while being electrocuted). Meanwhile the brain would try to mind control them, while a giant ball of misshapen nerve endings was trying to stop them. They killed it, and the corpse washed ashore. They decided to sleep that night, but were ambushed in their sleep by lizardfolk! These are exactly what they sound like. They ended up fighting through lizardfolk, and made it to the town of Oakham. There they met an annoying gnome who spoke with a stupid dialect that they didn't understand. They explained to him that their city-ship sank, and he told them that they had to go to the capital city of the entire continent and serve as representatives for their nation while the UN equivalent decides what to do about the sinking of such a cultural monument. Along the way, they figured supply-running would work out, since they'd be traveling from town to town. Out of the list of legal and illegal goods they could choose from, they opted for:

One crate of mail
One "secret box" that they bought from a shady man, which they must deliver without opening. I haven't actually decided what's in the box yet.

Unfortunately, they passed up on transporting "Magicjuana", as well as a crate of Beholder Bait. I was never going to actually sick a beholder on them, but just seeing the hilarity resulting from "OH GOD THE BEHOLDER IS COMING TONIGHT TO KILL US ISN'T IT" when they were actually perfectly safe would have been priceless.

Oh man, so I finally saw Wall-E today. Fucking hell, that was depressing as fuck! Also it is my new favorite Pixar film.

OTHER MOVIES I HAVE SEEN THIS SUMMER:
-The Hangover
-Up!
-Star Trek

MOVIES I NEED TO SEE:
-Terminator, even if it's shitty, goddamn

So the other day at work, a big group of asians came in to get yogurt. Normally I'm fine with the language barriers, since i can get away with hand gestures and simple words, but this time was easily the worst. They come in, and say "want... blue one... for me". ohhh happy day, this is going to be fun. For the record, we don't have a blue flavor. I had to have her repeat it several times before i realize that she meant that she wanted the same yogurt as a girl with a blue shirt. Of course since it's self-serve, i had to spend a while explaining that to her. They get over to the machines and try some flavors, and eventually they figure out how to work it all. finally it comes time to pay, and the total for each one was like 4 something. They hand me 4 dollars, open up their coin purses, and say "you help i not know". All in all, I realize that being a stranger in a strange land is very confusing and disorienting, and culture shock is very different. But the lack of an effort to even attempt to pay, and instead having me figure out all the change for them without any form of grattitude still seemed rather rude.

Anyways, the next day was a rousing game of dungeons and dragons. As I've said before, the party was a group of adventurers on a massive city-ship heading between continents. The party was sent after a gnoll, who was believed to be linked to a suspected plot to sink the ship and steal the treasures aboard. They chase after the gnoll, who it turns out was framed. Then the bombs went off, and they had to escape. This adventure caught them after they'd left a room with a shark, where the gnoll was ditched to die a horrible death while they escaped. The group met up with an elven ranger, while the drow rogue decided she would scout ahead to find a way off the ship. They battled their way through the ship's engine room, a room where the tentacles of a krakken tried to get them, and the ballroom where a crazy, four-armed sahuagin tried to kill them. He was weakened and tried to escape, when the rogue busted through the wall in an Apparatus of Kwalish (lobster-shaped submarine), and killed him. They then tried to escape, but were eaten by the krakken on their way out. The next adventure, obviously, will be inside the krakken.

Then the next day, i got to hang out with Sami. She seems to have gotten way less pretentious since she's anthonyless and goes to UCSD where there's even more pretentious people than her to crush her ego. She also has a cockatoo named Angel who is absolutely amazing, and I have decided that I want a cockatoo some day. And/or an iguana. Also mooch T____T

Look at that frog.

I want this game so badly. so very badly.

So I think I'm going to try and force myself to learn piano over the summer. My music class showed me a bunch of stuff, and I already know guitar, so it shouldn't be THAT hard, right? Regardless, I mostly just want to play this really badly.

Look what i found again.

Remember how I met that girl off OKC who moved off to Hawaii? If you don't remember, I met a girl who i messaged back and forth, and then she agreed to go out with me "sometime next week". A few days later she changed her location to Honolulu, and apparently she got kicked out of her mom's house and had to move in with her dad or whatever.

Anyways, I meet this girl off the site, and she actually messages me first! She also seems super retardedly cool! She says nice things about me and I about her, and she is down to get sushi and see a movie with me. I pick a few different date/times that would work, and message her back, and she just never responded to anything, even though she's logged on every day since and i sent her like three messages. So screw her. I need to just get the balls to put moves on girls I actually meet IRL anyways.

Meanwhile, I ran my first Dungeons and Dragons game today! Unfortunately, the game was supposed to start at noon, and we didn't get to start until three because half the people were late, everyone but grant still needed to print off character sheets, and to top it all off, Efron hit a car outside my house because he's a terrible driver. Of course, after all that the game went off without a hitch, and although I didn't get to make it to the last two encounters, they all told me they had a ton of fun. Of course, the next encounter was where a gigantic Krakken-type monster smashes it's tentacles through the ship and tries to kill the party, and the one after that was where a Sahuagin leader-guy battles them in the climactic boss-battle, but those are for another day. At least they managed to get through the big stuff.

School's out forever! currently living at home again. Parents already driving me bonkers.

Yesterday, Galen had a bonfire while he's visiting san diego. Maria Melnik was there, Phillip Thompson was there, and a whole bunch of other high school friends I haven't seen in forever. It was awesome, up until this weird 22-year-old showed up and crashed our party, and started drinking a beer he brought with him and creeping on all the girls. Things got awesome again when he left and Galen whipped out a pair of fire poi. We got pictures and everything!

Then TODAY, I played DnD. Except, this time I was the Dungeon Master! The players had to go through the lair of a succubus, who was trying to summon a Pit Fiend (a retardedly powerful monster that was 17 levels higher than the players). Succubi are cool, because they always play the damsel in distress. Once the players have fought off and killed all of the devils or the dragon, or whatever, there lies the lady. Normally it's game over, but if it's a succubus, not only do you have to fight it, but you also have to find where the REAL princess went! They all survived, meaning I did a bad job as a DM. I did almost kill the sorceror with an ice trap though.

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EDIT: Goddammit Cats.
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Welp. I'm more or less completely packed right now. Finals are over, and I'm getting ready to go home. All in all, fresman year is effectively over for me. It's been a good run, and it's been a hard run. I learned a lot about myself. Lots of stuff I didn't want to know, lots of stuff I'm not proud of, and tons of stuff that I pride myself upon. There were good times, and there were bad. Next year will be even better.

All in all, I think I'm ready to go home now.





MEANWHILE, My dungeons and dragons campaign starts sometime next week. Basically, the players all start out on a gigantic seaship, called The Infinite Border. The ship is several miles long, and is a self-sufficient city that crosses the oceans trading goods and culture across the known world. It's a cultural icon, and the characters all live aboard it.

Naturally, a bunch of Saguagin (horrible shark people) sink the ship, and the players have to attempt to get the fuck out before they are drowned, all while avoiding enemies that are way stronger than they are, and parts of the ship that are exploding for no good reason. Oh and of course the captain is going to turn out to be a shape-shifter the entire time and there's going to be some horrible conspiracy the whole time.

Oh right. That whole attention span thing. Hope my engineering final goes alright tonight!

Well, yesterday I got my first ever ticket. Coppers finally pulled me over for riding a bike on campus. Normally they don't really give a shit (I've literally waved at a cop from my bike and he waved back), but every cop's different i suppose. I don't know how much it'll be for since they just mail it to your house (as in, my house. I already told my mom about it), but I'm guessing probably around 50 or so (with my luck probably more) :c

Meanwhile, school is so close to over that I can smell it. SMELL IT. Then it'll be summer and I can work on forcing myself to wake up earlier when I don't have class.

Monday night was another DnD delve. This time, I played a badass wizard who could summon fire demons, and a Dragonborn Paladin who kicked ass and took names. The paladin is a cool class, because they have a shitload of hitpoints, wear full-plate armor, and walk around being smug as fuck. As a minor action, they can also challenge enemies who are being assholes into single combat, and if that dude tries to attack your pussy-ass warlock, he takes a crapton of damage. Since he was a dragonborn (a race of dragon people that are bad as fuck), he could also breathe fire on everyone. This worked out great, that is up until we got hit by the worst trap in the world. Basically, this unholy statue in the center of the room would mind control people with a retardedly high likelyhood of controlling them on the first attempt, and then use them to ruin the rest of the party's shit. It could also control as many dudes as it wanted to. Naturally, it grabbed my paladin and had him stomp everyone's faces, made my wizard summon a stone monster that dealt 5d6 damage whenever it felt like it, and finally made everyone dive headfirst off a cliff. Goddammit.

Meanwhile, I'm trying to make a to-do list for summer. Here's how it looks so far:
- Learn how to DM, run a DnD campaign
- Build a net gun
- Become a super-villain
- Go to Australia for a week or so

Buy these.

In other news, Apparently today is official star-wars day, due to the terrible pun "May the 4th be with you". Awful, just awful.

So I went into OKcupid earlier today, and sent a shallow girl this message, shamefully copy/pasted from Something Awful.

Titled: Your Body is like a Metaphor

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I haven't gotten a response, but OKC has confirmed that she read it. I'm going to hell.

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