Fragments.
O'Connor and Ellington playing hide the football (not as bad as it sounds).
Tom Braunlich believing that when you play Klingon Death Yell, you have to yell at the top of your lungs. And then I canceled it with Amanda Rogers. Over and over again.
For a nanosecond, in a meeting, I wanted to kill Rollie Tesh.
Bill Martinson "taking a walk around the pagoda."
Big Time telling me that he was "in the Navy in Germany."
Finding out the name of that kid in upstate Illinois that beat Tom at SWCCG, since we never could.
Being the judge for the questions on "The Erika Show."
Listening to Brian developing "The Decipher Lunch Game."
Yes, the crazy "100 Favorite Movies List," and I'm keeping mine up to date, dammit, need to post here soon.
Mkae noticing the "Imperial Shipyards" across the river at the first SWCCG playtest... now LWC works there.
Arriving late to an SWCCG tournament at The Fantasy Shop in St. Charles, Missouri on a steaming hot day when the AC was out, and meeting Special K.
Jonathan Q showing me wasabi and Goldschlager, two things I'd never seen before, at the same meal.
Joe breaking LOTR by playing 21 companions at the same time. The Rule of Nine was born.
On the last day of JK playtesting (and I mean the LAST day), I present Girard with the card called "Here's Your Fucking Mouse Droid."
Writing lore together, the best part of the Sensory Deprivation Tank.
The Matrix presentation, which the Uppers liked because it looked good. They like things that look good.
Working on things that nobody else wanted to do, like rulebooks and Ewoks and YJ, giving me have my own little space to do whatever I wanted.
Mike Bishop getting that amazing image pull for Lost In Space that showed the guy in the fireball.
Art that was done for Wars that I had written the description for, followed to a T.
Thirty-one different versions of Cochrane's Memorial, I think it was.
Brian winning a free pass to a water park on Decipher Casino Night, and giving it back, and then winning the Dreamcast.
Jason Winter asking me if I wanted to go on an "Eckerd's Run" on my first day, refusing to tell me what that was. Me failing the door test.
Evan's "Baker? You bake her, you brought her!" jokes.
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CK I read a bunch of these and thought, "Damn! Why didn't I remember that one?!" Especially the Erika show judge roll!!!
I'll also remember rolling around to your desk trying to be all, "Chuck! How are you? Good day?" knowing that if I was nice you might agree with some crazy wording concept I had dreamed up for a card:)
Ah, the Eckerd's Run. I think I could do a whole post of memories just based on that store.
judges?
(i don't know how to spell the buzzer noise.)
BZZZT!
As I just posted to Kathy's blog, reading this was very bittersweet. But mostly sweet. It brought a smile to my face. You reminded me of some truly great moments.
Kinda honored that I'd have two moments there that warranted mentioning...:/
I guess I kinda got over my Decipher nostalgia a long time ago, so the memories are a bit more sweet than bitter to me. The mere mention of the lunch game reminded me of all the random weird ideas again.
Don't really remember much of Eckard's, but they closed down shortly after I started there. Lots of good times at the Provision store and the Pharmacy...
Shit! Nobody brought up the Provision Store! Nice people working there. And the Asian couple that runs the Subway, couldn't be nicer people than that.
Warren's Dad giving us crap about long lunches and too many breaks. That was fun stuff.
Wow, I'm honored to have made the list. I figured it would have been "..Mkae and I deciding that Asteroid Sanctuary was just fine because the turkey roll-ups had arrived."
I believe Kathy and Tom have another reason why Asteroid Sanctuary wasn't caught that weekend. I'm still looking between the lines, but that's my theory.
Yeah, if you only read between the lines, the card's not wicked broken. :P
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