Unsurprising consequences

Just got back from the Omega

LRP weekend. It was a good weekend from a role play point of view (my

character Perivale does not get involved with political machinations,

he's an Artificer so generally concentrates on making sure nothing

interrupts him when he's designing cool stuff).One interesting aspect of the weekend was the continuing influence of

Open Source philosophy in the

in-game world. Of course the main rationale to the characters involved

is not having to constantly re-invent the wheel designing yet another

set of tool plans and do more interesting things (like my current

favorite "The Wartinator", a pump).

Of course despite mentioning that Perivale was an easier character to

play (is so far he doesn't run around in armour hitting things) I

didn't factor in the effects that constant drinking of real-ale, an

almost entirely meat based diet and very cold winds have on the immune

system. I came down with a nasty shivery cold as soon as I got back on

Monday and had to take yesterday off work. I feel better now but I

hope I'm back on form by the weekend which I may have to take a little

easier than the last two :-)