RPG Weekend
So, now it’s over. We’ve finally returned to Luleå and are now just taking another breath at another place. The weekend was kind of successful even though it seems like some are a little disappointed over the weekend1. But it’s been fun and relaxing to leave the city even though I had a minor allergic chock the first day.
I suspect that the dogs with help from all the hay and such things gave me the chock. I haven’t had so many problems at once for a long time, but then again, I haven’t been sleeping in a little cottage with two dogs while being on the country for a long time. Even though you ignore your allergies it’s hard to completely ignore it when the effects are unmistakable and impossible to ignore as long as they demand things from you. Always sneezing, getting a minor fever, headaches and such things. Of all the effects the fever and the headache is the only one I actually could ignore, but not always.
Headaches are pretty easily to just push away but sooner or later headaches with fever gets you slow and you have a very hard time game mastering. Well, it doesn’t really matter; I don’t think it will happen here in the city. Here I barely feel anything at all from my allergies2. But the season for the worst allergies has just begun so it may be worse soon but it’s only to wait and see anyway. If PB is going to bring his dogs here during the full-day sessions maybe that may make it worse.
Well, what about the trip then? We went there by car, as you might already know, and the way down was pretty uneventful. It was just to drive on and on until we finally reached our destination. I had prepared some juice and sandwiches so I had something to drink and eat in the car. You know driving all day in that weather makes a car really hot, even though I have pretty good ventilation in the car it’s still useful to have something to drink in the car. I actually took a way I hadn’t planned to take, but it worked out alright anyway. I guess that sitting in the backseat all those times we went to Kusmark really have somewhat thought me the back-way.
I won’t be to long-winded about our visit but after showing them around a little and eating and such things we got dinner from Grandma. Per and his new girlfriend joined the dinner too so we ate and talked a little about this and that. Of course they were quite curious about my friends asking them a lot of questions and trying to be nice and all that. Grandma knows the whole world3 so of course she wanted to know where they came from, where they lived and what they did so she could tell them about who their parents were, etc, etc…
Let me tell you a little about my maternal grandparents. My grandmother have been a nurse her whole life until she retired about fifteen years ago. She is from a family where they try to make life interesting by talking behind each others backs all the time. With gossip being the most interesting to spend their free time on they meet up with a lot of other people just to gossip. They talk about everything they come over every little piece of information about everything. And the most funny thing when they talk about what they’ve heard they almost talked about it as if they were there or have heard the story in first hand. My grandfather though has been a teacher before he became a priest. He is very interested in philosophy and similar things to that and also are a great source to me for mythology when he have an indirect knowledge of many mythologies, or most of the ones that in one way or another is connected to the bible. He is a calm man with a great patience and even greater knowledge about how things work and how to do things. He is quite alert and full of energy to be in his age and if nobody stops him he would run around doing too much.
My grandmother is always nagging and complaining on grandpa but he seems to almost always ignore her and sometimes he talks back but only to interrupt later by doing something else. They fight all the time but so much that it seems to have become a part of their relationship. Grandmas is always worrying and want to control things around her while my grandpa just want to relax and do what he likes to do. A few years ago he almost died just because he is doing too much, and got a pacemaker. But ever since he got it he has continued almost as before, just a little more rest.
Both of them can seem to speak forever about things not many are interested in. Like if you ask a simple question to my grandpa; what is a lestadian? He begins with telling you about an immigration and the time frame in which it happened in and so un until he gets to the point, and after telling you about the thing you wanted to know everybody seems to be ready to move on to the next subject but he then continues to tell everyone about the effects and so on for a while until he have told you a complete summary of everything that have to do with your question. Grandma on the other hand is always trying to remember and figure out who someone is and if she know their family and so on, and she always adds something like; the son of Eva, who bla blab la.
About our stay, we mostly walked the first and second day. The third day we mostly stayed inside due to the bad weather. I decided not to play the campaign when it wasn’t finished. The last day before we were supposed to go I spent my time with Matilda instead of completing the characters and the scenario for the campaign so we will play it later I guess. But well, I’ve got time so it’s no need to rush things. I think I shall finish the seventh chapter before we get on with the campaign.
Best regards,
Herid Fel
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