1997

[karohemd]

puddingcat gave me this year to see what I could remember of it

in no particular order of chronology or importance:
- the year I turned 27
- my second year in the UK, slowly adapting to a life completely on my own and away from home (I'd lived on my own for six years previously but my parents were only 100 miles away) but still quite shocked at rent prices in Cambridge. There was no way in hell I could afford anything but what I had (and still have now). Due to the exchange rate at the time, things like clothes were actually still reasonably OK.
- slowly building a firm group of friends (the Druids lot, mostly, when people were actually still playing games at the pub). I think this was the year of the first SLA game run by raggedy_man (with Akira, his girlfriend and Phil)
- a lovely week's holiday driving around Ireland around the first May BH
- I'm not sure, I think this was the year the Earthdawn group run by crispy3ed (with Druids Mark) started but it could have been a year later.
- playing the second Discworld freeform, and my first Cam game (the intro game run by mrmmarc, where I created the character that would later become Alucard) at GenCon.
- Met up with Paul Wallis, who ran the Stratford Cam game at the time and was about to move to Cambridge and set one up here but his job offer fell through so he moved back and I visited regularly. Met raggedhalo when he was still ginger. ;o)
- Spent most Sunday afternoons at the Blues Jam at the Boat Race.

Oh dear, I was a really sad gamer then. ;o)

Comments

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

We ran a couple of good freeforms at Gencon that year. Happy days! And I was running a big weekly freeform in Oxford, and an irregular CoC campaign. Plus two other one-off freeforms during the year. Where did I get the energy?

[(Anonymous)]

I have no idea. Damn this getting older thing. ;o)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

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