Sun Nov 11 18:15:16 EST 2018 Slept from twelve-thirty to seven — not well, but better than last night. Mostly sunny, but cold enough that the hotel's fountain has a partial skin of ice. Last day of U-Con. Ed went home this morning, skipping his last couple sessions. 9–11 AM: Swords & Wizardry, "Return to Nature", GM David Perrin. Three kids playing (two boys and a girl) and three men. A simple, get courier mission from NPC, travel, fight some goblins, collect widget, fight drow, deliver widget scenario. Nothing particularly interesting about this session, but nothing particularly terrible. Read a little of the Bob Woodward book between sessions. Also took a thirty-minute walk. Looked at the golf course and lake. 2–5 PM: Cats of Cthulhu, "The White Stag", GM Gabriel Carlson GM had played with me in Friday's Blueholme session. Four men and three women playing. Signed up for this session as a second choice, thinking it _might_ be fun, and it was a lot of fun. All the player characters are more-or-less mundane (but intelligent) cats. I imagine this game doesn't work well for a group not willing to commit to the premise. A few interesting mechanics in this simple, fast-playing system: - roll _N_ dice and try to get _N_ number of yes/no successes - easy action as one success, normal actions need two, and hard/dire need three - normally, roll two dice to decide action outcomes - PC's have one of several classes (e.g., studies humans, scrapper, acrobat). If the rolls falls within your bailiwick, that gives one automatic success. - Cats have nine lives. They can "spend" a life to re-do a roll or add a die to a roll. Got home from U-Con around six. I almost backed-out on Friday, but I'm glad I went. Much more fun than I expected. I'll go again next year. Watched some Netflix. Catalogues from the Hirayama Fireworks company, early 1900s: http://blog.presentandcorrect.com/stand-well-back http://www.city.yokohama.lg.jp/kyoiku/library/digitalarchive/hirayama.html Breakfast: banana, tomato, bread with peanut butter, coffee Lunch: coffee, pulled pork sandwich, orange Dinner: pizza