SEASON 8 - The Grand Opening

[headquarters]

Believe it or not "gentlemen" - our next session will be ep.1 of our EIGHT season.

I did have a splendid time playing S07E04 - I certainly hope you guys did as well - those of you who had reported in requests for the session had some luck. There was two skirmishes - one in a radiated zone, an airship vs helicopter dogfight and some cloak and dagger stuff that we didnt really get into before our time was up. We started quite early but didnt get into serious gaming before app 3 hours or more. Well thats how it goes. Next time it will start all the quicker due to the meticulous preparations.

Speaking of next time - I want to get a few dates settled as soon as possible.

If you hva a date you is available - post it.

[headquarters]

These are the weekeneds I can make it.

Or else its april. Please respond quickly so we can settle it straight away.

Who is in ?

[FMDeCorba]

10th sounds good for me - 17th is less certain..

On a completely different note, has anyone seen Africa Addio? It´s one of the most brutal collections of authentic footage I´ve been able to see through, it´s quite thought-provoking to say the least.

These mercenaries are reminiscent of many a character. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYNSIV-ZtFw&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fresults%3Fsear ch_query%3Daddio%2Bafrica%26oq%3Daddio%2Bafrica%26 aq%3Df%26aqi%3D%26aql%3D%26gs_sm%3Ds%26gs_upl%3D0l 0l0l30916l0l0l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0)

[FMDeCorba]

Africa Addio on Google videos (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4540134202583442015)

[headquarters]

one more and we have a go.

who will be the lucky one.?

[FMDeCorba]

Well, Johnny´s in, I spoke to him yesterday:)

That would be cool, but the more the merrier naturally!

[headquarters]

who is doing the hosting - ?

[headquarters]

I move to postpone til April.

1) Only 1 player signed up for sessions in February
2) This gives more time to prepare
3) A host has yet to materialize - even though DeCorba is willing.

Lets hear it.

[FMDeCorba]

I beg to differ: two players, yours truly & Johnny declared willing and able.

As for hosting, I can only restate my willingness - I was under the impression that you didn´t need further confirmation.

[headquarters]

I beg to differ: two players, yours truly & Johnny declared willing and able.

As for hosting, I can only restate my willingness - I was under the impression that you didn´t need further confirmation.

OK.

I was thought J-man would post his confirmation as this is after all protocol.

Let get back to you after checking my schedule out.

As for the rest of you - post your "attending/ not attending" ASAP.

[General Pain]

10th of feb.+weekend should be douable in schweigaards .

[FMDeCorba]

Seems we´re back to square one - although I really do appreciate your hospitality Pain jr., I kinda dislike the implication (given that I know you fairly well) that you would rather not play anywhere but your own place because it´s too much stress to shift your corpus outside your comfort zone:)
Imagine for a second that HQ had a similar attitude - then I seriously doubt we would have been in our 8th season..

[headquarters]

DeCorba
Pain
Devil
and yours truly.

As DeCorba really wants to host it I dont see why not. But as I am slow in getting my ducks in a row - I need to check finance/ticket/wife situation first and then I can confirm.

[Sanchez]

Will be in the Canari islands on the 10th
17th ok

Sorry for late reply

Big fan of deCorbas cabin in rural Norway
Can most probably organise fast one-way car transport from Oslo to deCorba for those who need it

[FMDeCorba]

You´re welcome of course - but does your car only roll in one direction? If that´s the case then my faith in german engineering has been severely undermined.

In other news, I now have a 6-man Römertopf™ (http://www.roemertopf.de/english/) !!

That means, of course, that the food will cook itself while we engage in extended flights of adolescent fantasy, a very rational distribution of time if you ask me.

[headquarters]

I am not going to make it the 10 - 12 of feb.



Sorry for the late feedback on this - hope nooen had too much trouble with arranging sparetime for this.

Will post new dates shortly.

[FMDeCorba]

Well, in the meantime there´s always rednecks on the internets:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddk0dolFldc&feature=related

And shouldn´t that suffice to jog the apocalyptic imagination, then perhaps this article will provide some inspirr :

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2022636,00.html

[Rupert Willies]

Do we have any new dates up for consideration, or is it just a vague idea of some time in April?

[Sanchez]

14th and 21st of April work for me

[FMDeCorba]

Yah - anyone else?

[headquarters]

14th and 21st of April work for me

have bar exams until mid april.

rounding it of with a 2 day bender session would be great

[headquarters]

Hows about this weekend ?

Sanchez is in.

Anybody else?
Who is hosting?

[Sanchez]

I nominate DeCorba as host and will participate on Saturday. For those of you coming by air I belive you can safely land at Rygge, in DeCorbas back yard.

[FMDeCorba]

Y´all welcome of course - but I won´t insist. I´m for whatever gets it off the ground, this has dragged on a bit too long.

Btw Sanchez, didn´t you use it as an argument that it would be easier to get two days off for nerdism if took place somewhere else? It would be nice to have you around for the initial rounds as well.

On a different note, although that´s probably not an option this time around, I suggest we get together at HQ´s place sometime during this fiscal - or shall we say geekal - year. That way, I can combine it with familial duties - and, if we manage to make it an extended weekend in season it can be set off with a day of duck hunting! Can you imagine a better combination - a dash of healthy outdoors activities to balance out the utter depravity that is sure to follow, not to mention the chance of getting tits de canard for dinner!

HQ - Can you imagine this, or does your mind clutter with the inevitable logistic challenges?

[General Pain]

Seems this date is not able 4 me.

[FMDeCorba]

Jeez Louise - are we going to through an entire quarter without playing at all?

[General Pain]

I've not missed a single session in 7+ years.

I think you could bear whitout me 4 a single session ;)

[General Pain]

apr. 27-28 ? @ the SCHWEIGAARD BACHLERPAD:D

[headquarters]

these are the weekends possible for me in the neaR FUTURE

4 may - weekend

11. may - weekend

1. june weekend

as for the autumn session - I could definently see it at my place. We could definently do the duck hunt / session / canard

Lets get this settled.

[Sanchez]

I belive all of those should work for me

[FMDeCorba]

4th of May, ok I guess

The other dates are a little too close to exam deadlines for comfort for my part..

[headquarters]

1 - 2 juni

22 - 23 juni



3 - 4 august

24 - 25 august


I ask you to pick one of these for a regular session in Oslo and / or one for the boathouse sessions. Of course - the boathouse need s final clearance fro GP.

Bear in mind that I need time ahead so if you guys wait to long it will be to late.

[FMDeCorba]

22-23 !

[headquarters]

22-23 !

GP, Devil, Sanchez and the Don - chime in on dates and hosting!

[General Pain]

THE GAME IS ON.

BRING YOUR FLACK-WESTS or whatever

Kevlar was actually invented by a woman - :)

Da håper jeg alle kan stille.

Om det er noen som ønsker å komme før fredagen så må jeg vite det snarest.

-Ghost of General Pain

[FMDeCorba]

Very sorry to be a pain - but is there any chance to move this one week back?

I am afraid I had miscalculated the opening of the summer exhibition opening that I am obliged to parttake in..

So, if there is any chance of doing it 15-17, that would make my life so much easier. If not, then my participation will be limited and I really don´t wanna miss out on one of my absolute favorite unhealthy activities:)

[General Pain]

your generous host has pr request - changed the date for an hopefully final-date.

No more jibberjabber you scallywags

15-17 of june 2012

be there or be square

end of communication

PS: do you guys want to play more D&D - or merc btw ?

as u might know I have a very succesfull campaign going weekly now :)

[Sanchez]

I will attend on Saturday 16th

[FMDeCorba]

EGG-cellent

[Rupert Willies]

My son is performing in "the Battle of the Dream" at Kilden theatre on the 16th. He's dancing his part as an imprisoned bad guy, who happens to be a break dancer. I need to be there and support him, and will therefore not be able to attend the Grand opening. Sorry guys :(

[headquarters]

coming over the 15 will be arriving around 1830 in GPs pad

leaving 17 around 1300 hrs.

looking forward to see those of you who can make it.

to the rest - we will catch up next time.

HQ

[headquarters]

this thread started 14 of december 2011. date of first post.

Here we are only 6 months later and already we have a date!!

Sadly we didnt have time to plan so that everybody could attend - but oh well. If only we had a little more time to plan we could have made it.

[headquarters]

coming over the 15 will be arriving around 1830 in GPs pad

leaving 17 around 1300 hrs.

looking forward to see those of you who can make it.

to the rest - we will catch up next time.

HQ

OK guys.

Strap in

Tune out

alertstatus high

get down

lock and load


Will try to deliever the goods from fri 15 at app 2000 hrs until saturday 16 until 0300 hrs.

end transmission

[Sanchez]

Now, after the cheese fiasco at last session (enjoyable yes, but I admit I somehow overestimated the finesse of the audience), we should perhaps settle for something easier consumable and more traditional.

I have in the later years taken a liking for white wines, and I would very much like to prepare a meal that will complement a nice white wine. This session held almost at the lightest day of the year only reinforce my belief that this is the correct choice of drink.
I have two reciepies that are both tried and tested and should work fine with white wine. This is merely a suggestion and I would wery much like to hear your relipes and perhaps even better suggestions.

Proposition 1:
Tenderloin of pork baked with bacon, served with potatoes broth-sauce and a salad.

Proposition 2:
Salt baked chicken with rosemary and thyme, potatoes, creamy sauce and salad.

What do you think?

Ps: This time I must insist on a split bill. My current status as an unemployed man doesn't allow me to pay for the whole party unfortunately. However, given the quality of the food, the price for each should be modest.

[FMDeCorba]

The cheesefest was no fiasco - just a new experience:) We were simply too hungry to behave properly I suspect.

Tenderloin sounds very nice indeed - but won´t you be occupied in the kitchen for hours preparing all this?

[Sanchez]

45 mins if you help me put the plates on the table

[FMDeCorba]

Alrighty

http://underskog.no/cache/image/286934_620x.jpg

[Sanchez]

Something has come up, and I will not attend on Saturday.

Instead I will attend on Friday.

[headquarters]

Something has come up, and I will not attend on Saturday.

Instead I will attend on Friday.

chicken please

pork is good too

[Sanchez]

I try to arrange it with Mr. pain so we can have dinner immediately upon HQs arrival.

Are you home at 1715 Friday, Mr Pain?

[headquarters]

update.

[headquarters]

its over .

for now...


The party successfully entangled them selves in various ploys and travels to get to their objective - Pain Jr and DeCorba are shooting it out somewhere in the grey zone while th erest of the party try to dig up leads in the Secure zone.

Looking forward to our next round - please state your boathouse dates asap. As time goes by and august approaches it becomes increasingly difficult to get this orgnized.

[FMDeCorba]

Javeeeel!

22. eller 29. er HELT OK!

3. er derimot VELDIG STRESS, fordi jeg skal i min lillebrors bryllup den 4.


Håper dette ordner seg slik at felst mulig kan stille og pig out i fellesskap:)


Dc