Preparing for Christmas in the Devereux household

Hello my minions,

So it's been four days since I last posted, I've been trying to post every two or three days but that doesn't seem to be happening. On the fifth I went to Ground Zero for the game day; I saw Dave who hadn't been there for quite a while and I believe He said that He's no longer running fourth edition at The Game Shoppe anymore which I was quite happy about. Living Forgotten Realms is dead, it's been dead for a while, actually with the Cavaliers it's been dead for a little less than a year. By the way our gaming group is called The Cavaliers, actually I believe last November was our ten year anniversary; I had joined the Cav's some time in '04 so for me I would've been in the group for six years.

First slot I played Rokugan, the table included three Crab, two Lion, one Mantis, and Me one Crane. So there was my courtier, Doji Yomi, with five people who were practically enemies of his clan and the one Mantis who he felt was 'useful'.  It was a fairly easy mod actually, We where bringing some soon-to-be Samurai to their Gempukku. Well, the shit hit the fan as the ceremony was beginning; The night before the Empress had declared that she was pregnant. Well as the ceremony was starting one of the Emperors guards killed her. I think that's all I'm gonna say because from there on it gets so fucking confusing, well to confusing to up down on paper. At one point one of the players of one of the Crab bushi said that I should be playing a Shugenja, a spell-caster. I respectfully said that I had played one of them before and that I would like to play something a bit differed; And to actually note  I have played a Shugenja, She was from the Unicorn clan and I've also played a Bushi and She was from the Lion clan.

And now I know that all of the people of my Queendom are enraged saying something to the effect of: My glorious Queen, how dare this man insult royal blood like that, He should be taken to the stocks, right?

Now, now. Calm yourselves My subjects, there is no need to be angered at his words. He spoke truth, I do usually play spell-casters. As of late I've been trying to play different things, Now being a face character isn't something I would normally do. He spoke no lies nor did he insult Me, now always remember the reward for a liar is pain.

Second slot I played Pathfinder, It went well I guess. The first fight which in my opinion shouldn't have taken as long as it did but almost no one was hitting.  Nearing the end of the first fight one of the players became angered I believe, over what I have no clue because either I don't remember or I wasn't paying attention. When his character fell he became slightly upset saying, "Everyone, your healing is dieing on the floor." Now I was playing a witch and my character had quite a bit of healing, so him falling wasn't much of a big deal, I mean he was level one with three or four spells one of which he had spent, I don't think he had any scrolls and if he did any caster with Cure Light Wounds on their list could trigger it. Now my witch had one free cure light for each creature, fifteen cure light scrolls, five cure moderate scrolls, and three spells readied. Aradia was packing the healing.

The second fight was a killer, We ran into a Summoner and her eidolon. First round She downed an invisibility potion and the Eidolon charged forward, The Druid sent in his Roc and the Inquisitor followed. The Eidolon made quick work of the bird, at that point Aradia said something about chicken for dinner, The Eidolon turned on the Inquisitor who was quickly retreating back to the party.

At some point they made it back up to the bar where the Roc carcass was sitting, a round or two later the Inquisitor was blown out of the water. At that point Aradia said, "Sorry everyone but I'm out." which she promptly turned tail and ran. A while later, after collecting the Inquisitors' body, the party coughed up their share of the money and still that wasn't enough to raise the man. Now no one really had any money other than Aradia and another, at that point I looked at the owner of the Inquisitor and said, "Aradia has just now bought a bodyguard." He looked at me like, What, then he got it while saying, "Yep, Aradia has a bodyguard."

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Nothing has happen since Saturday, a week or so ago they started to play Christmas music and for the last three weeks or so I've been waking up to Christmas music. Have I ever mentioned that I hate Christmas music, well I do. Christmas is one of the holidays I despise,  Christmas Carols and the light. If I could I would start hibernating before the carols start and I wouldn't wake until New Years Eve. I hate snow and for me the month of December heralds two things, Snow and Christmas; Here in Nebraska their isn't no such thing as a Christmas without snow, it's blasphemy. Now we have a few traditions in my family, they aren't all that original, We have a ham for dinner on Christmas eve and that night we would go to church. Now we haven't gone to church on Christmas even for a few years now, actually we haven't gone since my family found out I was gay and pagan; I also don't eat ham.

Another tradition of ours is that we decorate, that isn't the tradition really, it's my Grandmother bitching about putting the decorations up and then taking them down, she also bitches about the Halloween ones as well. She wraps the banister in gaudy garland and the fireplace too, She lugs out the pieces of the eight foot plastic tree from the basement. A wreath is nailed above the fireplace that is never used and garland is draped on it mantle, oh and I have pictures.



I know there crap-tastic photos but you get the gist of the decorations. Christmas is a very special holiday for my family, it's one of their favorites. Personally I hate it, no one gets what they really want and isn't Christmas about the birth of their Savior? Now for me the day of, "OMG THE LIGHT RETURNS!", is just another day. It's nothing all that special, none of the gods I work with regularly have anything to do with that, I believe. With most major holidays someone always gets into a fight, wait who am I kidding any time that the family gets together theirs fights.

So this year I know what I'm gonna say,

It´s Christmas, for goodness sake. Think about the baby Jesus, up in that tower, letting his hair down, so that the three wise men can climb up and spin the dradel and see if there are six more weeks of winter! -Karen Mother-fucking Walker

I'm gonna get weird looks for saying that but it'll shock them into silence. Well I think that's all I have to say for this post, Oh a few of my reader would like me to post about how I came to work with Hecate and what I do to worship her, hopefully within the next few days I'll have that post rolling out. I'm also surfing CNN.com for possible articles to post about and give my two cents on.

Well Goodbye my lovelies,

Her Imperial and Royal Majesty, By the Grace of God, The Defender of the Old Faith, Original Sin, The Queen of Harlots, Roses, Chaos, Heaven, Night, Empress of India, The Tsar of Hell, Ruler of the Underworld,The Whore of Babylon, Heaven, and Hell, Pope of Discord, The Saint of Sinners, The Beast, Lucifer, The Morning Star, Prophetess of the Old Religion, Priestess of the Greek Gods, Hecates’ Handmaiden, Sovereign over all, Daniel Ambrosius Devereux.