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Flatliners - Film Review

I have a Cineworld pass and love films, I like to go to the cinema as much as I can because you get a better experience with the big screens and the surround sound... And there's ice cream there - I think I might like ice cream more than films so it's win-win really. The best thing about the Cineworld card is giving you a different mindset, there are a lot of films - such as Flatliners - that I likely wouldn't have seen without it. Cinema tickets are quite expensive now, and would put me off going to see a film I was unfamiliar with or had poor reviews - ironically these have been some of the better films I have seen. It does help that I am also easily pleased when it comes to the big wide world of cinema. I'll just chuck it in here, but of course, there will be SPOILERS from about here on! A film I saw about a month ago was Flatliners, which was very much a spur of the moment decision in our little group. We sat in the car, huddled around an iPhone screen to w...
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A Roll Of The Dice - Chapter 3 - Once, Twice, Three Times An Encounter...

We rejoin our intrepid explorers as they gather themselves from the previous weeks fighting and falling and spiders... Why are there always spiders? And not just small ones, the type that would hit you with a newspaper. The party sets out in a direction to an oddly named place to try and return their mushroom friend to his home... That was a close one - I guess we're also quite lucky that the ooze was polite enough to try and kill us another time. Jim Jar has a rough idea where we are and gives us some options. There's a dwarf stronghold, a deep gnome settlement and a city of humanoid fish. All are a substantial distance away as we're on foot - no amount of fudging is going to change that. We choose to head south, to the city of Sloopadoop? Sploopdadoop? The place where the first people live is how I will remember it. We choose to divide up the jobs, a lookout, a guide, a mapper and a forager. And Helga's there to fumbling around in the dark - Quornian has bee...

A Roll Of The Dice - Chapter 2 - Prison Break

Just a quick side note, we're five sessions into this adventure as of the time of me typing this post so as you may imagine - there'll soon be a delay in proceedings for new posts once I get through these. So we rejoin our party, cold and confused in a stone cell with a strong wooden door. There are many a mixed race and a certain mushroom telepathically driving everyone insane. However are the intrepid group to escape? Its gruelling work this, just hammering solid stone with a blunt pick. I am not even sure what we are supposed to be digging for - we're in the Underdark for Pete sake. Maybe it's just a way to keep us tired so we don't try anything to escape. Helga seems to be enjoying herself though, the Drow just keep putting larger and larger rocks in front of her and timing how long it takes her to get through it. The most confusing thing is every day, they have left a pick next to Stool the mushroom; I am not entirely sure what they are expecting ...

Stand Up To Cancer 24 Hour Game Marathon

I've always said that I would like to do more for Charity, I was just never sure how. I am not exactly great at running, and I am already known at work for wearing colourful shirts and ties so that wouldn't be anything out of the ordinary. I was walking past a bus stop one day around a month ago and I saw "Stand Up To Cancer" which I know is Channel 4's annual event - and at the bottom it said "Game On". I thought that sounded interesting, and had a little Google and there it was - my niche in charity fun raising. Playing video games! So I spitballed a couple of ideas, and settled on doing a 24 hour marathon, playing through the Dark Souls series and Pokemon Omega Ruby with a friend, hopefully ending on Bloodborne. This then developed into a 24 hour live stream in the shed/cabin in the back garden as to not disturb anyone. First we had to get the miracle of the internet into the shed, which at first seemed quite simple, we had a 30ft ethernet cable...

A Roll Of The Dice - Chapter 1 - New Beginnings

So first a little context to what this is and how I will be writing it. I am part of a Dungeons and Dragons group who have decided to venture into the Underdark following Wizards of the Coast's "Out of the Abyss" . We have played some other pre-created adventures and some of our own creation and many times have said "Wouldn't it be great to read this back over?" So now we can, and may entertain some others along the way. We are playing 5e rules and starting at level 3 due to the challenge involved in this adventure. I myself, usually play a holy warrior fighting for the greater good - this time however I have decided to play an Elf Ranger called Rolen Ovar  - mainly because I was requested to not make my name a pun. It failed. Rolen is obsessed with the hunt, particularly when it comes to the denizens of the Underdark. Next is Quornion Accordion  which is by far the easiest name in the group to pronounce. Also an Elf, on this occasion a druid wh...