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So last week I had most of the week off and made my twice-yearly trip up to Derby to meet a bunch of cool people, drink, stay up late and geek out in the nerdiest way possible. Over the course of this last event I played:

• A priest of the Undying Emperor in the 41st Millennium who exposed a conspiracy in the upper echelons of the local Priesthood to a visiting party of Inquisitors (and who successfully concealed his own corruption at the same time).


• A demure native guide and aspiring witch doctor in 1920s Kenya who almost single-handedly destroyed the devlil-spawn-child of the evil god Nyarlathotep with a few sticks of dynamite.


• A roman centurion in the universe of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere who helped resolve a dilemma concerning the selling of keys, and who led a battle of local people against the dreaded Croup and Vandemar..

I also played an excellent cowboy card game called Bang!, and also spent 10 hours playing a six-player game of the A Game of Thrones board game, and although I lost, I enjoyed every minute of it. Of course I also ran the live dress-up game I mentioned previously for a total of 32 people for about four hours. Luckily I wasn't doing it single-handed, but my partner in crime Dave turned out to have left just as much to the last minute as I had. There was much panicking and scrabbling about, but although we started over 1 hour late and I had to brief 5 people verbally it still worked pretty well, and apparently everyone had fun (phew). Pictures can be found here.

So now I'm back home and my body is wondering why it has to get up at 7am and why it can't stay up until 5am. Needless to say that work has seemed like a chore (well, even more so than normal). Thank god for Pro Plus!