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May. 2nd, 2021 06:43 pmToday I:
- made a rose cake with a sweet cream glaze. It is a loaf cake - I make a loaf cake every other week and then have enough cake for each of my work lunches, plus one slice for the in-between weekend and one to split with mom and dad immediately after the slicing process. (I make bread on the alternate weeks and thus always have either half a loaf of bread or cake in the freezer, waiting.) This one came out quite nicely.
- got to sit outside in the sun and knit. Yesterday was very gloomy but today was very sunny and not too hot. I am not very much a sunshine person, but being able to knit and watch the swallows at the same time is very nice. I am nearly done with my current shawl - I have to finish one last beaded row (beading makes for very slow knitting) and the bindoff, and then block it. I maybe already have plans for the next shawl.
- played my first session of Starforged. (Well, my first rp session. The book has a nice note about how prep for an rpg - especially a solo game - is itself a kind of gameplay, which I very much agree with.) It was super fun and the preview version of the game is definitely entirely playable on its own. There's some stuff that I'd like more clarification on and a few things I was confused about but sort of kludged together from my knowledge of Ironsworn but those are the kinds of things that will be dealt with more in depth in the completed game. I like the way the game mechanically rewards forming and maintaining relationships with NPCs by making the Forge a Bond move a progress move rather than an action move now; I like the way some stuff from Delve has been incorporated into the main game; and all of the worldbuilding setup oracles are rad. I'm still feeling out who my character is and how exactly the setting works but I had a fun adventure that led to some cool unexpected directions that the story could go in the future and I'm very excited about it.
- made a rose cake with a sweet cream glaze. It is a loaf cake - I make a loaf cake every other week and then have enough cake for each of my work lunches, plus one slice for the in-between weekend and one to split with mom and dad immediately after the slicing process. (I make bread on the alternate weeks and thus always have either half a loaf of bread or cake in the freezer, waiting.) This one came out quite nicely.
- got to sit outside in the sun and knit. Yesterday was very gloomy but today was very sunny and not too hot. I am not very much a sunshine person, but being able to knit and watch the swallows at the same time is very nice. I am nearly done with my current shawl - I have to finish one last beaded row (beading makes for very slow knitting) and the bindoff, and then block it. I maybe already have plans for the next shawl.
- played my first session of Starforged. (Well, my first rp session. The book has a nice note about how prep for an rpg - especially a solo game - is itself a kind of gameplay, which I very much agree with.) It was super fun and the preview version of the game is definitely entirely playable on its own. There's some stuff that I'd like more clarification on and a few things I was confused about but sort of kludged together from my knowledge of Ironsworn but those are the kinds of things that will be dealt with more in depth in the completed game. I like the way the game mechanically rewards forming and maintaining relationships with NPCs by making the Forge a Bond move a progress move rather than an action move now; I like the way some stuff from Delve has been incorporated into the main game; and all of the worldbuilding setup oracles are rad. I'm still feeling out who my character is and how exactly the setting works but I had a fun adventure that led to some cool unexpected directions that the story could go in the future and I'm very excited about it.
