Falkentein Weekend Party

I ran the group through the Weekend with Enrico Falgore a few weeks ago. The post on it was deleted accidentally and not noticed by me. I have now recreated it from the tiny information in the draft mode of the blog. Guess I was pretty lazy. They went through the game pretty quickly without stumbling over too much along the way. We started at 3:00 PM and ended at 1:30 AM. Since no one played the part of Chris that night (our constantly late friend) it was not

I had set it up as a birthday party for Falgore and the players were invited since they had confronted Evil with the host. He hopes to see them as friends and continue with the good will. The problem was that for the past several days Falgore was the victim of a series of accidents that would most likely have killed him were it not for circumstance and the players. Most of the adventure was a series of subtle clues with some of them pointing the the Awnshidhe farie. He looked like the bad guy and until the very end the group strongly suspected him. Falgore was saved and now owes the group a large favor. The group think little of this as they know him only as a bit of an annoying artist.

However, one of the characters treated the wounds of Falgore on a previous adventure and found that the wound patterns matched that of faeries and iron. She had no idea why this would be especially as the skin looked not to be broken. He later explained who and what he was: a knight champion of the Seelie Court, asking for her to honor a silence on this, whose glamour and shape changing abilities were strangely unaffected by normal steel and iron. He had taken the disguise of boisterous human opera singer to be allowed to sing and gain fame without the use of his glamour abilities. No one is as impressed with a Fay singer as they can always use magic to improve their voice, but a human one that good is truly impressive. "And obviously Signor Falgore is a human good sir as he just picked up that steel cigar case and did not grow pointy ears. No faerie could abide the touch of steel and keep an illusion of humanity crafted no could he?"

So at this point one player knows about him owing a major favor to the players, and exactly how useful he will be in the future. However, she has been sick or really tired the last several sessions and has not been able to explain what happened. For now the characters only suspect him of being something he is not since he was so skilled at Adventure!!!

Irish Moss drink ... Yum!!!

We went to the Buford Highway Farmers Market to pick up some food for dinners for the next week. We make a number of things that are not carried in normal grocery stores, or if they do it is freakishly expensive. Okonomiyaki, goyza, Pockey, and pork katsu. Sometimes I will buy something that I have not seen before just to see what it is like. This time I got Grace Jamacan style Irish Moss Sea Moss.

Now most people may look at this and see the moss part of it and go ick it has moss. Now do not worry it actually has seaweed. See, is that not so much better.

It does sound truly disgusting once you realize that it is a vanilla flavored sweetened condensed milk drink . It gets worse since it is very sweet (real cane sugar) with nutmeg and turmeric in it as well. When i opened it it was so viscus it would not pour from the metal can without an air hole in the other side. Once this happened I went to the wiki to see how to drink the freaking thing.

I found that many people drink it very cold over ice. I tried this and found that it was just weird tasting but neither bad nor good. I would not have drunk it again even if it were given to me for free. Then I tried the suggestion of adding rum to it. That made it taste great. I figure every thing in Jamaica has rum in it. This may explain the laid back nature and reggae. Damn the rum for reggae. I would actually drink this again if I did not have to pay to much for it.

next time I go I will not pick this up again. I will have to look for another freaky food to try and top it. Hopefully it will require the addition of rum to make it taste even better.