You're right, I should have posted the other two interactions. So here they are. After PanPan's opener her reply was (She's a LARPer, google it if you don't know, I headlined my opener with "Woman with a sword? Sign me up!"):
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A woman with daggers, actually... I'm not as good with a sword. Hopefully learning to fence will help with that, but until then, daggers it is!
If it helps, I don't think I'm a basket case (though, really, how can one know that about oneself?). Nobody's fallen asleep next to me yet, but there's no accounting for narcolepsy. And, seriously, I am a girl -- have been since the day I was born.
As for your other question....
1. My glasses.
2. A very good book to read -- right now I'm thinking "Love in the Time of Cholera". It's not my favorite book, but I read it every January and I haven't gotten tired of it yet, so it has obvious re-read appeal.
3. My set of boffer daggers. Firstly for entertainment, secondly because it's at least SOME form of exercise, and thirdly because I can easily strip them down should I need duct tape or PVC pipe.
Now then, I hope you thought of your own answers to that question, because I want them!
I gave her a hoop, and she jumped through it. Now she gives me a hoop and, now that I look at it, I went ahead and started jumping. My reply:
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Daggers are good too, as long as there's no backstabbing going on.
Have I thought about an answer to that question? Ha! I've spent entire evenings over a few beers discussing this question. Also, the way it usually works, glasses wouldn't count because I would assume you're wearing them when you're shipwrecked (also wearing glasses in this game is good. One can start a fire with the lenses). So here's my list:
1. A good axe. Can be used as a hammer, an axe, and a knife if necessary. It can also be used as a defensive weapon or to hunt with.
2. A set of Foxfire books. If you haven't read them, they are 8 books compiled in the 1970s by a high school teacher in the Ozark mountains. He interviewed the oldest people he could find about their way of life. Some were almost 100 years old and probably 100 years behind modern technology. The books can teach you anything, from bee keeping to keeping livestock to cooking a meal over an open fire. They are also very entertaining.
3. A coil of good, stout rope. Rope is good for lots of things.
Do you do Ren Faires? I can't think of a better weekend activity during the fall than dressing up in period cloths, going to a Faire, talking funny and eating turkey legs. Last time I went to King Richards I went with a group of nine other people. It was ridiculously fun. My mom's a seamstress and, due to Halloween and theater productions I've been in, I've got several costumes to choose from. If I recall correctly, there's a faire coming up in Hebron shortly.
Talk to you soon!
Ben
I'll give the divorce routine next. I've got an assload to learn.
CHAT
