Climbing the Third Stair

There is a new base set for L5R coming out this summer; Celestial Edition. One of the upcoming Crane strongholds can be seen here at the Home of the Crane website. I AM IN LOVE!!!!!!

Shiro Daidoji
7PS
4G
6FH
Your Samurai have +1F while defending.
Battle: Even if this card is bowed, bow your target Personality: Ranged Attack with strength equal to his Force. Gain 2 honor.
Site of the oldest dojo in the Daidoji lands,
it is the symbol of their greatest pride.

OH MY KAMI THIS STRONGHOLD IS HOTTER THAN I-80 IN AUGUST AND I WANT TO PLAY CARDS AGAIN BECAUSE IT IS A DAIDOJI BOX!

I'm not sure how I would even find a playgroup now. Though, it's the beginning of an arc and I'm now within convenient biking distance of a game store. On the other hand, I now have multiple writing projects and a vegetable garden to care for.... Decisions, decisions.

OH MY KAMI MY COPY OF ADVENT CHILDREN ARRIVED TODAY AND I'VE ALREADY WATCHED IT ONCE AND I TOTALLY WANT TO REWATCH THE SCENE WHERE CLOUD AND SEPHRIOTH ARE THROWING DOWN BUT THAT WOULD REQUIRE ACTUALLY FIGURING OUT HOW THE DVD PLAYER ON MY MACBOOK WORKED AND THE BOX FROM AMAZON ALSO HAD THE COPY OF THE PARADISO BY DANTE AND I CAN'T READ AND WATCH A MOVIE AT THE SAME TIME. WOE! WOE IS ME!
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Oh, hey, my keyboard does non-caps. I guess I'd forgotten about that for a minute.

So, my box from Amazon arrived today, two days earlier than they said it would. I was impressed. And giddy, as it had my long-desired copy of the Advent Children dvd. AC is based on the world of one of the Final Fantasy games (VII, I think, but don't quote me) and I only know it because my friend Brent showed it in our hotel room at Gencon a few years back because he thought I'd like it. Brent knows me entirely too well, though admittedly you don't have to know me that well to guess that a movie involving sword fights, motorcycle chases and guys with long hair would make me happy. It actually has a decent plot as well (though at one point it makes no sense whatsoever) and it deals a bit with redemption and friendship (two themes that will almost always meet with my approval) but honestly I tell people about the sword fights first. I have shallow tastes in entertainment and I've mostly given up feeling embarrassed about it.

So next I'm going to make myself some dinner, and then I'm going to take a bath and start reading Dante's Paradiso. I'd first read the Inferno about twenty years ago after reading an X-Man special issue where a sorceress wanted to get revenge on Nightcrawler and imprisoned him in a pseudo-hell modeled after Dante's version but I'd never gotten around to reading the other sections of the Divine Comedy until recently. I'd found a copy of the Puragtorio at a used bookstore in Madison WI by the same translator as my copy of the Inferno, and since I was already on Amazon ordering AC I decided now was the time to complete my set. Sadly, its cover does not match the other two's, but at least now I'll know how it ended.