Friday Has a Bit of a Cold
Not only do I have a cold, and that invincible drowsiness which comes with it, but being self fucking employed I can’t even have a bloody skive! God dammit! I feel like Kevin the Teenager from the Fast Show, it’s just so unfaaaaair!
Anyhow, to explain myself, yes that really is an armoured dinosaur up there at the top of the page. I did a Google image search for ‘heavy cold’ and apart from a bewildering array of machetes, that image featured quite prominently. And it’s an armoured fucking dinosaur for goodness’ sake! More such mental (and rather cool) illustrations can be found on the site whence I pinched it.
I remember a lot of friends of mine at school were very keen on their fantasy RPGs, but I never really got into it myself. And, a little like being a music obsessive, I suppose it can come across as a bit sad and nerdy from the outside. But whenever I walk past Forbidden Planet on the Royal Mile, particularly on a Winter evening when it’s cold and rainy outside and warm and light inside, and all the fantasy fans are in there with their figurines and dice and cards and whatever other accoutrements they have, then it really does look like a very sociable and very enjoyable thing to be doing. I guess I just got nabbed by records instead.
So, as Winter slowly approaches, coughs and sneezes abound and the Scottish night becomes dramatically longer, why not pretend it’s not cold and shitey outside, delurk for a change and chip in five silly answer to five silly questions on here, and then blether away talking shite with other skivers and slackers for the rest of the afternoon.
1. Name your armoured dinosaur.
2. Pick one crucial feature an armoured dinosaur must have in order to be truly fearsome.
3. What is its secret Achilles Heel?
4. You know those really cool half and half animals in fantasy stories? Which two would you mix?
5. Do you actually like fantasy stories or films or whatever, or do you just find it childish nonsense?
Navigator – Danger Dragon
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Sunset Rubdown – Dragon’s Lair
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