Just got back from the Seattle GURPS game. Got to meet the new player, John. He’s pretty cool — more into the in-character role-playing than the rest of us (which is a good thing; you get more out of the NPCs that way). Like Torsten, Kristian, and Martin, he’s Canadian. Anyway, we were fooling around with the grail stones in Riverworld and the gods (Alien overlords? Enlightened spirits? We’re not sure what they are.) showed up and decided to boot us to another parallel somewhere beyond the reach of Homeline (and, presumably, accessible by Centrum). We tried to get some information from them about the “Riverworld experiment,” but they wouldn’t tell us much. Most of our questions were met with answers like “It’s beyond your comprehension.” My best guess at the moment is that Martin’s Riverworld (by his own admission it’s not entirely canonical) is a sort of forum meant to give every incarnation of a soul a chance to reach enlightenment without having to reincarnate multiple times. Of course, that assumes the Riverworld gods were being truthful with us (and we’ve already seen proof that they’re not as perfect as they claim).

Much to my chagrin, Martin wouldn’t reveal his campaign secrets even after the session ended (on the basis that we might still have further interaction with the Riverworld parallel). It’s a little like being one of the characters on Lost. I was actually contemplating having my character commit suicide just before we were exiled to see if the Riverworld gods would use their “soul catcher” on me (and, thus, give me a peek at the inner workings of their cosmic laboratory). But, obviously, it would have been an overly risky wager.

Man, I don’t know why, but I can barely keep my eyes open tonight. Got plenty of sleep last night, but I’m completely bushed at the moment. BTW, it’s freezing here. Below freezing, actually. I am not looking forward to walking the dog in a couple minutes.

I got a couple presents yesterday, which was kind of weird (but very appreciated). Keith gave me the Spycraft sourcebook for helping him move a couple months ago, and Anthony gave me this really fancy leather deck box for helping out his business (i.e. buying Magic cards and playing games there all the time). Pretty cool. Incidentally, when I was there playing Magic last night (after the d20 game), I got a look at this new scary deck Garret made. It’s a mono-red that uses Sneak Attack and Gratuitous Violence to put out tons of huge, hasted dragons very quickly.

Also, I did my absentee ballot today. I think it’s dumb that they charge you $0.63 in postage to send in the darn thing though. I mean, the tax payers already pay for the printing and distribution of the ballots; why not go that tiny bit further and cover the return?

Oh yeah, and I’m going to be in the Tri-Cities from November 2nd through the 12th. I’ll have my BlackBerry with me the whole time if anyone needs to contact me.

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