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I'm the handsome purple figure standing on the table between the two large posters, of course.
Kawa Kon is really fun this year! My biographer @jonklement Game Mastered a role-play session for charity for the humane society.
The players bid at an auction for seats at the gaming table in the role of Power Rangers. Kawa Kon guest of honor Robert Axelrod (the voice of Lord Zedd) sat in at the table to do the voice for the villain!
Pics of that to come soon!
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Here at day 2 of TPK 4!
Here, Harrison Parker studies a 4-way chess board. In my travels throughout the Milky Way, I have noticed that some variation of this game (sometimes several) exists in almsot every culture. While most of them are 2-person games, this 4-way one puts some interesting twists on it.
Also, here is Craig Slate at the Hacktastic merchandise table huckstering the books gamers need to get their Hack on.
Today, I am visiting TPK 4 in Fenton, MO.
TPK is a gaming convention for the Hacktastic Role-playing Game by Black Pigeon Press. You humans of Earth have such impressive imaginations! Nowhere is this more evident than in your fantasy gaming events.
Here at TPK (which I'm told stands for Total Party Kill) the first person you meet is Mr. Corey Phillips, the President of the Gamer Enforcement Agency (GEA). He greets you at the door with his cheerful attitude (and apparently if you're a p'ckit dragon, a hug).
As you may remember from Twitter Adventure #3, I was drowning near a beach off the coast of Florida. Velocity Girl had run onto the water as the waves were getting choppier and choppier as a storm was rolling in, hoping to save two men who appeared to have capsized their small boat.
It seemed like the more I struggled in the water, the more I sank. I wasn't even so sure which ways were up and down anymore. The salt in the water stung my eyes, but I fought to keep them open because I thought I might see Velocity Girl or the boat or something that would help me get my bearings before it was too late.
The last thing I remember seeing as my air gave out convinced me that I was hallucinating before the end came. I saw a beautiful girl with the bottom half of a large fish, what you Earth humans call a mermaid. With her was a young male who didn't have the bottom half of a fish, but he did have webbed hands and feet and gills in his neck. Their complexions were olive-toned. Their clothes seemed to be woven of some kind of seaweed, but not the flimsy stuff I've seen in human health food stores. This seaweed looked more leathery and durable.
The mermaid had a look of concern on her face and the aquatic man reached for me. I was still sure I was hallucinating even though I could feel his fingers close about me as I passed out.
When I awoke, I could see by the light of a large, battery-powered electric lamp that I was in a tiny cave next to a pool of water. The air seemed kind of stale, but breathable. I knew I'd had a close shave, as you humans say, because I could taste salt water all along the inside of my throat. I felt kind of weak, cols, and wet.
I didn't have long to think about my surroundings, though, before the mermaid's head emerged from the pool in front of me.
“Hello, little one,” she said soothingly. She had a nice voice.
She heaved a sealed plastic box about the size of Mary's school backpack out of the pool and then climbed out herself. She began opening the seal on the box when I got myself together to say “hello” back.
She jumped, startled. Apparently, she hadn't expected me to talk.
“You can talk?”
“Of course, I can. All p'ckit dragons talk. I've met so many folks here on Earth being Vellocity Girl's official sidekick and exploring Earth culture through its Internet, that I forget not everyone knows about us on this planet.”
“You're not from this planet?”
“No.”
“Wow!”
Check back on Dec. 2nd for Twitter Adventure #5 to see how else things went between the mermaid and me.
So Velocity Girl was running on the water off a beach in Florida near Interstate 95 as a storm was rolling in. She'd never run on such rough water before and I was worried that her superspeed power would even work the same when the surface of the water moved so much, but it did. I knew that since she'd seen a boat capsizing out there and that people's lives were in danger, VG would put her own life (and, thus, mine, too) on the line to save them.
It's okay with me and she knew it. I'm her official costumed hero sidekick and we're cool like that. I learned soon after I picked her out as my symbiotic host that life with her would be dangerous, but how many p'ckit dragons get to be the sidekick of a famous, costumed hero? (Well, there are getting to be quite a few these days. Several of my family members heard about me and VG. They said to themselves, “Hey, if Smerd can have an exciting life as the sidekick of a costumed hero, why can't we?” But that's another topic, for another time.)
Anyway, I don't think either VG or myself saw the wave coming that smashed into us. VG was just close enough to the capsized boat that we could see that it was a motorboat large enough to be out on the ocean near the beach and in good weather, but it couldn't take what nature had dished out today. I wondered if the two men clinging precariously to their overturned craft hadn't checked the weather before going out for the day just like we hadn't. Even so, why hadn't they come into shore when they saw the storm coming? Why had they stayed out too long?
VG had just started to call out to the men, “Hey-” when the wave that was our undoing hit us. I was smacked by it and forced back into my pocket world for a moment. I shot through my living room, past my bedroom, and toward my main treasure vault. All of my furtniture and belongings that weren't attached to something or behind a closed door swirled around me. I was wondered how long I could hold my breath. I thought I could swim back to the surface of the pocket world to poke my head our of VG's pocket for air (if she wasn't underwater herself). Suddenly, the current reversed and I was swept out of her pocket entirely and into the windy, salty-tinged, Florida air!
I couldn't see VG or the boat with the men we were supposed to rescue anywhere. (Now, who was going to rescue me?!) I hit the water hard and quickly began to sink. P'ckit dragons don't swim very well. Most of us don't like water. At least, while I was shot through the air, I had had a chance to take a couple of deep, fresh breaths before be submerged again. I thought it was too bad I had been launched so quickly into the air and hit the water so soon. Otherwise, I might have been able to use my wings and start flying before I hit the surface.
I hoped VG was okay. I kept hoping that her gloved hand would reach down at any moment and snatch me from the water before I sank too deep or reached the limits of holding my breath. That didn't happen.
So, how did I get here, home, in front of the computer to type this up as a Twitter adventure? Check it out next time on Nov. 28th!
Smerd's Twitter Adventures #2
Well, as you may remember from Twitter Adventure #1, Velocity Girl had run at superspeed from St. Louis in Missouri down to Miami, Florida to get out of all the rain and depressing clouds we've been having here lately. I included a picture of us so you can see the goggles that I have to wear because of the windshear when she runs so fast. I think they look cool! I am one stylin' sidekick if I do say so myself.
As we ran down the shoulder of Interstate 95, I could see clouds coming in from the Atlantic and I thought, Great! We left one rainy region just to spend time in another. I scolded myself for not thinking ahead to check the weather. VG and I just assumed Florida would be sunny. I wondered if it weren't too late to try to run somplace else for our mini-vacation.
I dived into my pocket world and checked the Weather Channel on my TV. I have seen a lot about Florida's hurricanes on the news these past couple of years I have lived on your planet. Fortunately, it looked like this was going to be a quick storm of a more normal variety marking the change in seasons from fall toward winter.
Still, VG and I were only staying in Florida for a few hours before we had to get back to St. Louis for Mary Woods's bedtime. Funny how a costumed heroine who has fought aliens and criminals has a bedtime. Go figure! (Mary's parents are really the best though, I think, so no disrespect intended there at all.)
As we approached Miami, the storm hit. We had been enjoying a beautiful view of the ocean from the Interstate 95 south of Daytona Beach until the clouds had begun to roll in. The waves got really choppy and white-capped from the wind. I wondered what it would be like for VG to run on those. (She is fast enough to run on water, but so far I had only seen her run on water that was much flatter than the ocean was that day, like swimming pools and the Mississippi River near St. Louis.)
I didn't realize that I was gonna find out because she would have to go out there. Almost like she'd read my mind, she veered off the road and began carefully winding her way down through the terrain between the road and a rocky-looking beach (not a nice, touristy beach like Daytona).
“What's going on boss?” I asked through my headset. VG and I wear headsets so we can talk when she is going at high speed. Neither of us could ever shout loudly enough over the wind.
“There's a boat out there that looks like it's capsizing. Looks like people in trouble,” VG replied.
There was no time to respond before VG hit the water. I thought it might be safer for me to duck down into my pocket world, but I couldn't take my eyes off what was happening. The tall waves were like hills and valleys that she had to run over, hills and valleys that moved!
Before it was over, I wished I had listened to my common sense and not been hanging out of her pocket, but we're out of time for this episode. See you next time on Nov. 25th!
It had finally stopped raining! It's been raining and raining and raining here in the St. Louis area of Missouri almost every day for weeks. I couldn't take it anymore! I've been begging my host Velocity Girl to run someplace nice like Florida or California or Mexico at superspeed for just one afternoon, just for a few hours to get away from this miserable rain and all the clouds.
Don't get me wrong. Clouds and rain are good things for your planet. Life can't be sustained on a planet without them. In your solar system, Venus has clouds, but they are nasty chemicals indeed! Certainly not water.
It's just been so dreary this fall in Missouri, that I needed to get someplace else. Knightshade, one of St. Louis's other costumed heroes, is a teleporter, but he hasn't been around lately. Velocity Girl said that she couldn't run at superspeed on the slick roads because she'd slip and crash. She learned that the hard way, the first winter after she got her powers. That was before she found me and I bonded to her.
My name is Smerd. I'm a p'ckit dragon. We p'ckit dragons find hosts to form symbiotic relationships with. Once we have bonded with our host, we can generate a small world called a pocket dimension inside their clothes. I can jump into Velocity Girl's jacket pocket and pop out of her pants pocket or even a backpack or a purse if she had one. I live in Velocity Girl's pockets and inside them I have my home sweet home. I am four hundred and four years old and I've had other hosts on other planets, but Velocity Girl is my favorite so far in my life.
So, anyway, we finally had a sunny day this week and the roads were dry enough for Velocity Girl to run. I did the p'ckit dragon happy dance!
We picked Florida as our destination because I love beaches and I wanted to see the nearby Everglades. I'm a big fan of your planet's biodiversity. While Mary is in school all day (Mary is Velocity Girl's secret identity, but I can trust all of you reading this to keep a secret, right?), I can't be seen in public outside her pockets. So, I watch a lot of TV and use the Internet a lot in there. (Don't ask me how p'ckit dragons can have TV and Internet and electronic appliances in our pocket worlds. We're not allowed to tell humans that.) Anyway, I watch a lot of the Discovery Channel in there, and I see cool places like the Everglades with neat Earth ecosystems.
So, after school, Mary changes into her Velocity Girl costume and runs down to Florida. She can top out at 1,000 miles per hour in a flat area without obstacles like America's southwest desert salt flats where they test high speed cars. Zoom!
Well, when we got to Miami beach, we thought we were going to just enjoy a few hours of sun and nice temperatures. What we got was a huge surprise!
Unfortunately, I've rambled on and run out of time, so...I'll tell you all about me and VG's Florida adventure in Twitter Adventure #2 on Saturday, Nov. 21st!
About SmerdTheDragon
- Name Smerd Dragon
- Location St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Bio I have been on your planet for about three years, so it's high time I got a Twitter account. I am symbiotically bonded to the St. Louis heroine Velocity Girl.
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