AN23 began on Bnet2 with Forrest, Ducky (yay!), Smea, and Vince. We moved to Bnet1 after deciding nobody else was coming.
There we discussed things such as the Head, which lead to a debate on teh validity of GURPS, which lead to a discussion of roll-playing and WW's eRPG (bring it back!), which lead to a discussion about books... and so on. Eventually we played "Heart of the Stone" and tried to do the bridge-trick, but failed and just won normally. But still, we won! We also pontificated on the meanings of the runes.
Then we played "The Smiths of Muirthemne". Forrest and Smea pointed out the engraving on the Tain artifacts to Ducky and Vince, and Forrest postulated that the Fetch were not only of the same world as the Spiders, but the same evolutionary chain - that under their humans skins they were some sort of bug-women, perhaps that little thing portrayed above the Myrk faces on the Tain gate.
He pointed out that the Fetch were summoned from another dimension, the Tain forces people into another dimension (see GURPS), and the Tain apparently has shrines that send people to the world of the Spider-Gods in another dimension (see comic). Smea pointed out that, if the Fetch were from the Tain world, why do they still serve Balor if they're alreay home, and why do they still get smitten by Wyrd when their skin is punctured? Forrest countered that the Tain is just an intermediary world between the two dimensions, neither here nor there, and that thus the Fetch aren't home yet, and can still be smitten by Wyrd.
Someone pointed out that the magic crystals are actually tiny, pulsating Tains!
We won that level.
Then Ducky had to go, and Plague Bearer joined. We played 5 Champions and won easily. Then we played Out Of The Barrier and while discussing an Asylum HL amongst other things we died. Then again, and again. The last game Smea disappeared. After it Vince went to look for him and never came back. Darth Bane from CGHL joined, but left while Nick and Forrest were discussing his validity in participation (in private chat). Forrest didn't want to play with just two people, so we disbanded.
Film at 11.
