Nerd Party

After having Friday night dinner at MT’s, we headed over to the HRSFA house for more partying. I played another game of Basari which I didn’t win this time, as well as a game of Jungle Speed. And then there was Botticelli, which is really hard when the person running it chooses a name that starts with a vowel. And both rounds were this way. Vowels are evil!

It also probably didn’t help that it was 3am…

At around 3:30ish we headed back, and I went to bed around 4. I was hoping my body could do the thing where it wakes me up early without an alarm, since I wanted to eat lunch and then go to the LARP. And lo and behold, I woke up at 9!

( spoilers )

After the LARP there was more hanging out, and at around 7 I went back to MT's so I could have real food for dinner. After Shabbat ended we went back to the HRSFA house, and there was 1000 Blank White Cards, the game where you make a bunch of cards each with instructions of how to play the card on the back, and relevant artwork and the title of the card on the front,, and then you play them as written, no matter how broken the game might become. We ran out of white cards before Shabbat started, though I did take one so I could write it after Shabbat). We later made some colored cards, but those didn’t really end up being played because by the time we got through the blank white cards, it was really late.

My one blank white card was “No Cartwheels in the Con Suite.” The text on the back said “Do a cartwheel. No seriously, I dare you. If caught by the co con chair lose 20 points.

My colored cards included the D1 (Use A: Roll the D1. If you roll anything but a blank gain 1000 points. Use B: When you need to roll for damage, substitute the D1 for whatever die you should have rolled, and take no damage.) The Futuristic Space Bathroom (…with super powers of lazers. Beyond the obvious, it also makes a great place to hide), the Tapestry (You’ve finished a tapestry. Gain 20 awesome points) and Arrow’d (I forget how much damage this does, but you can roll the D1 instead).

The game was insane. There’s no other way to describe it.

Afterwards, MT and I headed back, I packed, took a shower, and got approximately 2 hours of sleep. Then I woke up and got dressed and finished packing my stuff, and we left the house at 6 so I could make my 6:30 AM train.

Much like the last time I took a train home from Maryland, the train in front of us today was malfunctioning, so we had to stop a while and get all the passengers from that train. Again, the train is completely full. But fortunately this time it’s only pushing us back 40 minutes instead of 2 hours, and also this time I have food with me. And I slept for the first half of the train ride. So right now I am not dying of starvation.

When I get home, I’ll probably spend the rest of the day doing Greek homework and studying for my quiz tomorrow. Though I’m sad I left the HRSFA party early, this was probably the right decision, since I actually want to do well on the quiz.

¹I thought that the True Love mechanism was like that of a thekinginyellow LARP, where a certain character was specifically designated as my True Love, and I needed to find him, should he exist…