Haha, that's awesome.

I've had both kiddos on my knees playing Minecraft with me the last couple of days. Haylee was NOT happy with daddy for the environmental lava disaster that killed all those trees on the hillside, lol.

Bennett is all about GET THE BAD GUYS DADDY.

| Arkham Asylum

Thanks for the recommendation on this Rude and Aeryk! I'm almost done (just down to a couple boss fights I think). Love the slick design, finding things is fun, great graphics, and really good combat. Always satisfying to finish a fight with one of Batman's big "non-lethal" moves. For the couple of you that might not have played it, it's definitely worth picking up cheap on Steam or for PS3 sometime. Next up: Demon's Souls!

I was playing Minecraft today and got really freaked out when I thought I heard a zombie right behind me -- turned out it was just my kid snoring.

Been great goofing off in MC with y'all. It's good to have the Jones back!

Found a giant underground city under my keep that is crawling with buddies.. I'm gonna need help with it I think. Adventure time! lol

In other MC news, almost done with the shell on the southern tower.. then just another 1000 blocks for the north tower, weeeee!

Not quite sure what to do with the interior space on these things. Guess i could throw in some beds/chests for the guard barracks levels, lol.

Can you even make "fireplaces" anymore? Thought I remembered hearing about people going into the aether level to grab glowstone..?

At any rate, Im still a ways off from having the goods to make a portal.

PS Jeez Aeryk, try letting your wife and kid out of the house once in a while, sheesh!

Heh, that was a fun campaign. One of my favorite moments was the super awkward expression you got when invited to the funeral for the people you'd been sent into the Sunless Citadel to find. (You'd found them, beheaded them after finding they'd been mutated into plant monsters, then lied and said the bodies were missing.) Enron had some classic moments in that campaign, mainly opening the escape hatch, but also telling some random merchant you met on the road about your secret mission, at great length, while everybody kind of looked on baffled.

Aeryk the "lizard monsters" were Slaad, capable of innately manipulating the chaotic energy of Limbo. Read your Planescape, son! :)

CabinCon/GenCon -- I see no reason not to do both! They are very distinct experiences and fun in their own way. I know what you mean about Kubla. If we get some kind of quorum on GenCon and CabinCon I would maybe be OK with skipping Kubla this year and actually spending Memorial Day weekend with my wife for once.

Oh and Rude -- yes, Sunday is totally skippable. Thursday-Saturday is primetime. Nobody's really around Sunday, and the con closes down around 3:00 anyway.

| Our Cast of Characters:

Brother Simon, Priest of Heironeous, the One God
Felix Jaegar, Combat Specialist and Tactical Analyst
Ro Kevlar, Security Consultant
Koryn, Magical Missle Expert and Self-Taught Master of the Arcane

Former Companions:
Heironymous
Saucor

| 10th Level or Bust! (Bust. I blame SF)

Fantastic that we took a 'team picture' for the campaign! QuikMemories recap:

- Opening the "Emergency Door" in the vault that led to the crazy planar travel bit: flying salamanders that left light trails through space we could walk on!?!?! WTF?

- The awesome sunken town

- I can only remember the characters Ro and Brother Simon, what were my and Enron's names?

- That goddamn crypto-puzzle machine in the bank that had us pulling our freaking hair out. It was some sort of control relay that handled the vault access or something?

- Virtua Tennis

- The Red Eye of Sauron

- Meepo, who has since been immortalized as a D&D figure, and become some sort of dragon-lord. We were there when all he was doing was stealing baby dragons!

- A vampiric tree growing out of a corpse?

- Some sort of kobold slaughter where I think only one character was conscious and had to haul everyone else up or down some stairs?

| found my old 3rd Ed PHB that had these pictures on it

| Oh, also.. from teh funnies...

I apparently now have two squids living in my waterfall, lol. Dunno how long they'll stay there, but it was funny to go walking through the keep and see two of em hanging out!

| We have a slight problem with the reactor...

So I got the bright idea to dump a bucket of lava on some creepers and zombos' heads and well.. it sort of got out of control, lol.

I thought for a few minutes the whole forest was going to go up in a massive fire but I think the rainstorm kept it from doing so. The massive wall-o-lava going down the entire north side of the hill seems to be slowly disappearing. I think. Only lost maybe 10-15 trees in total.

Yikes.


Rood, I'm using Dokucraft which is 32x and rocks. I've used the comic one before that you linked, it was fun but I like the slightly medieval look of Doku. Also, as of 1.8 / 1.9 it's completely customizable which is nice.

Dokucraft Linky

Oh I would much rather do another CabinCon also! I'm not even excited for Kubla other than getting to see the gang and game. The atmospere doesn't sound as fun to me this time. Think I'm spoiled by murdercabin gaming.

| No GenCon for Me

99% sure I will be out, even 9 months in advance I have a pretty good idea that it will still be too expensive - we don't go on family vacations, so adding another personal gaming vacation in addition to KublaCon and CabinCon II just ain't right, son.

Best dad EVER! :) I think I could swing it this year. I would have to probably fly back Sun though if I did go, so I don't know if that's a primo-day of gaming or what.

| GenCon!

I've been thinking about GenCon a lot. It's the little things. Walking to Chik-fil-A in 100-degree heat. Drinkin' absinthe with Pump over a game of Death Angel. Throwing ourselves at mission 2 in Gears of War for hours, failing every time. Chili dogs galore. And I kinda want to go back! Would any of you guys be up for a trip of epicness to this year's GenCon? I wouldn't want to three-man it again, but if we could get 4-6, I think it would be pretty awesome. I'm pretty sure I could work it out without feeling like the world's crummiest dad. Would any of you guys be up for it this year?

Speaking of Mikencraft, since my texture packs were all mad out of date, had to go check out what the new hotnesses are for that scene and here's some of the one's I'm gonna try:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/188034-18-19-pre5-ovos-rustic-pack-v16/
(Looks great! 64X)

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/376784-16x-32x-64x-128x-256x-512x19pre5-sphax-purebdcraft-v095-271011/
(wOW! 128x)

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/220918-16x19pre5-wayukian-pack-wipat-long-last/
(Looks nice and clean. 16x)