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POPCORN, CAKES, BRAINDEAD AND SLEEPING

        Although not really a story about our characters, this is a story about our gaming experiences. When we first gathered in our current group, we had another member to our group, who I`ll call J. J was about 10 years older than the rest of us, who were mainly in our early or mid twenties at the time. J was married and had two kids, and since his wife worked night shifts we gamed at his house (which was useful since the rest of us were staying with our parents), J also worked shifts which mean`t that we constantly had to shift our game nights around so that he was free.

POPCORN

        J was extremely hospitable and made us feel welcome, and one day had the bright idea of making some popcorn one night. We turned up for the game, and found a bowl of popcorn on the game table, snacking on it during the game, we enjoyed it very much, and found it to be a great idea, cheap munchies which didn`t last long at all.

        The next week we turned up to the game, we found three bowls of popcorn on the game table, sweet, toffee and salt. We polished off the bowls, and once again found it to be a great idea, different flavours for our differing tastes. But three large bowls of popcorn were perhaps a little too much for us, and we spent the evening feeling bloated and pretty sick of popcorn.

        The next week, we again turned up at J`s, but this time we found lots of popcorn, every recepticle in his house had been filled to overflowing with popcorn, every surface in the room where we gamed was covered in bowls. Salt, sugar, toffee, butter, the varieties of popcorn were unending. Although we may be typical gamers, and not the thinnest people in the world, we barely made a dent in the popcorn. Either J had severely overestimated our ability to eat popcorn, or it was actually an alien lifeform that was breeding and slowing taking over his home. Either way, we were sickened of popcorn, and had no desire ever to eat it again, something it took us several years to get over.

CAKES

        As I said before, J was extremely hospitable, as was his wife. As well as working shifts, J`s wife was also an organiser for the local girl guides, and would often get back to the house just as the game was wrapping up. And on many occassions would return and show us what she had gotten the guides to do that night.

        On this one occassion however she arrived back with a box full of cakes which had to be eaten and judged edible because they were for the guides cooking badge (or whatever the equivalent it). so we were drafted into this, and looking at the cakes they on the whole looked quite nice, with shortcake bases, some kind of icing and decorated with smarties. So we tucked into this box of cakes.

        However once we bit into them, we discovered they were extremely minty with a very strange consistancy in the icing. So we asked.

What`s this icing made from ?

Toothpaste !

What ?!?

        And yes indeed, the cakes has been iced with toothpaste, which is fairly nice when you are brushing your teeth with is, but when biting into large mouthfulls of toothpaste is VILE.

        Well, the cakes went unfinished, but as far as we`re aware the guides all passed.

BRAINDEAD

        Well, also as I mentioned above, J was a very busy guy, and although he volunteered to GM he couldn`t put the effort into it that it really needs which led to some problems, but on one occasion we turned up to the game, and J hadn`t had the chance to prepare anything for that nights game.

        So what he`d done instead was nipped along to his local video store and rented a movie for the night. So we sat down to watch a film he said looked "really interesting".

        The movie in question was called Braindead (not the Peter Jackson one), and we sat for 2 hours watching it. To say the movie isn`t very good, isn`t a judgement we can make, however, at the end a few of us were complaining of headaches, and we had decided never to watch a film recommended by J ever again.

        However, that night has turned out to have a side-effect, about a month after watching the film, all knowledge of it began to be erased from our minds. Out of the 5 or 6 people present, we can between us remember about 3 minutes of the film, and have only the vaguest grasp of the plot.

        It has been theorised that we didn`t actually game at J`s that night, we were in fact alien abduction victims, and we had our memories erased. Its also possible that the aliens resembled popcorn.

SLEEPING

        J as I`ve commented before, was a busy guy, and this was what led to us changing where we gamed, most specifically it was when J started falling asleep during the game.

        It became an often repeated situation, when we would turn to J to find out what he was going to do, only to find him snoozing away peacefully. But we began to account for this, and when he fell asleep we would just ignore him, until he roused once more.

        However, his habitual somnambulism began to cause problems when he was GM`ing. We would spend 15 minutes coming up with a plan, only to find out that J had collapsed into unconsciousness once more, and wasn`t in the best condition to continue GM`ing once we roused him.

        So we changed where we gamed, and J managed to make it a few times (even though he remained constistantly sleepy), but slowly drifted away from the group, which is slightly sad, but we remember those heady days :-) fondly.

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