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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Not in Nargothrond, or, Glaurung's travels

« on: September 03, 2015, 02:32:29 PM »

Greetings from Sardinia! I arrived a couple of hours ago. The temperature is about 30C (88F), and I think I might melt if I spend too long outside. Fortunately (and deliberately) I have a hotel room with air-conditioning - I'm tempted to shelter here for a couple of hours.

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The Welcome Hall - Start Here! / Re: Hello from a traveling Polish Game and Web Dev :)

« on: September 03, 2015, 09:00:26 AM »

Welcome to Exilian! I think you'll find plenty of interesting things here - please feel free to ask if you have any questions.

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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Not in Nargothrond, or, Glaurung's travels

« on: September 02, 2015, 11:25:28 PM »

Sounds like a good time, G.

Yes, it was, definitely. Lots of places I hadn't been to before, along with some that I had visited previously, but not for a long time. I can see me doing some more trips like that, though perhaps not in the hottest part of the summer!

Think you'll pop over to the States again some day?

That's the plan: August 2017, for the solar eclipse, as I think I mentioned some while ago. That might well be another four or five-week mega-trip.

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The Welcome Hall - Start Here! / Re: Friendly hello, hi

« on: September 01, 2015, 12:11:52 AM »

Hi there! Welcome to Exilian - I hope you enjoy being here. Please feel free to look around and comment on stuff.

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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Not in Nargothrond, or, Glaurung's travels

« on: August 26, 2015, 08:56:52 PM »

As advertised in the "Going to be away" thread, I am once again travelling in Europe, this time Spain and France. I flew to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain on Sunday, and have since made my way via Madrid, Valencia, and Barcelona to Nîmes, almost on the coast in southern France. All this travel has been by train, of course. So far everything has gone according to plan: I've had a couple of late trains, but nothing with onward connections to worry about.

At the moment, I'm sitting at an outdoor restaurant table, digesting a rather good pizza, and lubricating it with some pleasant house red wine. Tomorrow I head into the Massif Central on some more scenic lines, hoping to avoid all the rail replacement bus services.

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Announcements! The Town Crier! / Re: Exilian Jam 2015

« on: August 22, 2015, 09:47:13 PM »

One question, to clarify things for competitors: you've quoted the start and finish times as "GMT" - do you mean the UK standard time, practically equivalent to UTC, or do you mean current UK legal time (British Summer Time), which is UTC + 1?

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History, Science, and Interesting Information - The Great Library / A Letter of Mr Isaac Newton

« on: August 22, 2015, 01:27:20 AM »

I ran into this today, and thought it might be of interest: the Royal Society has digitised and put online some of its early publications, and these include the copy of Philisophical Transactions that contains Newton's original work on optics.

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Change a Letter III

« on: August 21, 2015, 09:09:13 PM »

If you want to declare my move illegal and unwind back to CG's last one, please feel free. My move was just the first (and so far only) thing I could think of, and I had forgotten the restrictions on adding/deleting letters.

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Change a Letter III

« on: August 21, 2015, 01:52:28 PM »

... with extensive marine habitats on its coastline.

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

« on: August 20, 2015, 07:32:24 PM »

Steward

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

« on: August 19, 2015, 08:21:26 PM »

Believing

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Change a Letter III

« on: August 19, 2015, 08:20:43 PM »

That would be bad, if it's a moral being.

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Announcements! The Town Crier! / Re: Going to be Away?

« on: August 18, 2015, 07:34:00 AM »

Yes, the film title was going through my head as I wrote the words. I'm hoping that automobiles will not need to feature in any part of these trips: I don't drive, taxis are expensive, and any other unexpected interaction with a car is likely to be painful.

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Announcements! The Town Crier! / Re: Going to be Away?

« on: August 18, 2015, 12:27:58 AM »

Advance warning: I may not be around much for the next month or so. After not going anywhere for the first half of the year, I'm about to have three foreign trips in very quick succession:
- Sun 23 to Sat 29 August: a railway meander from Santiago de Compostela to Strasbourg, via Madrid, Barcelona, southern France and hopefully a bit of Italy
- Thu 3 - Mon 7 September: Sardinia, trying to see the bits that were omitted from the tour I went on last October
- Thu 17 - Wed 23 September: another meander, through the Balkans this time, from Kosovo via Macedonia and Thessaloniki to Athens (or that's the intention)
As you might guess, much of my free time when I'm not on holiday will be taken up organising bits of holiday - booking planes, trains and hotels.

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Tabletop Design - The Senet House / Re: Vurt: The Tabletop Roleplaying Game

« on: August 17, 2015, 01:29:07 PM »

A few queries since I don't know the setting (I guess the closest RPG I've played might be Shadowrun)...

• Why Manchester? Does the specific city make a lot of difference?

It's Manchester because that's where the book is set, and in turn that's where Jeff Noon (the author) is from. Though I'm fairly sure that the Manchester in the book is not exactly like the real one, even when the book was written in the early 1990s.

I can see I'm going to have to dig out my copy of Vurt and re-read it...