The con

I spent last weekend at Gaelcon, which was being run by Andrew, a friend of mine. It was the first con he'd ever run and I have to say he did a fantastic job on it. This one went up to 11!  I didn't actually play that many games, only three if I include the left for dead tournament, but those I did play were a great deal of fun.

I did run a game written by Ian, which I had helped play test for him, set in the discworld. Its worth pointing out that it's the first game he's ever written, and it came together brilliantly. So brilliantly in fact that he won the best game award (You should have seen his face). 

I won something as well :)

Apparently being a paranoid devious bastard helps you roleplay better when anyone could be your enemy.

The auction was good fun, especially the start when they surprise awarded a charity with €10,000. The representative was nearly in tears, heart strings were being tugged. We bought a nintendo 64 and some D&D stuff by Keith Baker, all told €200. Played the 64 last night. God those graphics are awful. I think I'll go play it again now though :) .

Exam madness

Well I've had an interesting day today. It was my end of year exam this morning, 10:o'clock to be exact, so I headed off to the Marino institute (The one that isn't actually in Marino) as usual to take the exam. I started to get suspicious when no other students, or even exam officials were there by 9:30, so I double checked at the desk. 

Long story short, I was in the wrong place, I should have be in UCD sports hall, which is very far away from the Marino institute. The opposite side of the city actually. So I sprinted out of there and grabbed the first cab I saw and got to UCD sports center.

Fun fact: there are two UCD sports centers, one of which is in Blackrock. Can you guess which one I went too and which one I should have gone too. Back into a taxi I go. At this point I'm already 20 minutes late for the exam, so I'm worried about not being let in. Eventually I get to the second sports center, half an hour late now, and have to spend a further 10 minutes looking for the exam hall, which turns out to be cunningly hidden behind the cafeteria.

Thankfully they let me in to the exam hall without any trouble what so ever, and the exam went reasonably well so all in all the insanity turned out okay. Looking for the Blackrock dart station was fun too. For such a big building its damn hard to find.