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I wasn't sure I'd want to go, and then I woke up from my nap chipper and cheerful and ready. So I gathered a few things together (meat and cheese and olives as well as a dessert, because I knew it was likely to be heavy on the cookies and light on the food) and headed out. I drove because I was already fashionably late.
They were playing Doctor Who on the big screen when I came in, various Christmas episodes, involving Ten. JD was there, and Jed, and Dave, and many of the merry men. There was mulled wine. Yay mulled wine! I settled in to a quiet corner. After a while the game chatter got louder than the Doctor, which was all right -- it just made things much more surreal. At length I recognized a section of Cubeville, and
was delighted to see the iconic pop-up Doctor moment. It's really surreal to have your first exposure to a show be through image macros and gifsets, so you weirdly recognize things when watching for the first time. I particularly appreciate Ten's hair, and the moment in Smith & Jones where Ten has thoroughly disarranged his hair in his assorted dismay, but then with no particular chance to repair it unless some hospital bathroom had a lot of product handy, he emerges all smoothly poof-crested again.
I hadn't really had time to get a gift together for the pirate gift exchange, but there were extras so I was invited to play anyway, which was very kind and also proved to be hilarious!
Someone had brought a box wrapped in some external paper which they tore off before the game started. ( And this is where the fun starts. )
They were playing Doctor Who on the big screen when I came in, various Christmas episodes, involving Ten. JD was there, and Jed, and Dave, and many of the merry men. There was mulled wine. Yay mulled wine! I settled in to a quiet corner. After a while the game chatter got louder than the Doctor, which was all right -- it just made things much more surreal. At length I recognized a section of Cubeville, and
was delighted to see the iconic pop-up Doctor moment. It's really surreal to have your first exposure to a show be through image macros and gifsets, so you weirdly recognize things when watching for the first time. I particularly appreciate Ten's hair, and the moment in Smith & Jones where Ten has thoroughly disarranged his hair in his assorted dismay, but then with no particular chance to repair it unless some hospital bathroom had a lot of product handy, he emerges all smoothly poof-crested again.
I hadn't really had time to get a gift together for the pirate gift exchange, but there were extras so I was invited to play anyway, which was very kind and also proved to be hilarious!
Someone had brought a box wrapped in some external paper which they tore off before the game started. ( And this is where the fun starts. )
