Dying in Your Bed, Lying in Your Head....
Well it has been a very strange week for me. When I left you last time I mentioned that I was going to go and see Niel Gaiman at a book signing in Camberwell, and I'll tell you how that went shortly, but there are other things on my mind at the moment and though I will go into further detail later I want to hook you now so you will keep reading... I made an application to become a Deli Second-In-Command at work during the week, already found out the result of my application.
Lets talk about the book signing. I had read in Saturdays paper (on Sunday before work) that Niel Gaiman was in Melbourne and whilst he was here he was making multiple appearances and signing books. The newspaper article pointed out that on Monday night he would be at the Dymocks in Camberwell, along with other appearances at times and places I couldn't get to due to my work schedule. So I went to the Camberwell signing. This was quite a journey to get there - I took along Sandman 1 (Preludes and Nocturnes), American Gods, and Sandman 8 (Worlds End) - I was reading the last one - it took me an hour just to get to Camberwell and I was going to be a half-hour early for the signing. I wasn't aware of how long it was going to take me to get there and I decided it would be better to be early than late. So I looked for the place and found it quite easily, and when I went up to the door it had a note on it saying that the newspaper article I had read was wrong and that he had already made his appearance at Camberwell in a different venue with access restricted to those who had already booked. I was not happy. It took me an hour and a half to get home. At least I finished reading Worlds End...
Tuesday night I went and played Warhammer 40K with my brother and two of his friends (I say his friends because I met them through K-Man, even though I associate with them even when he's not there). This is going to be terribly uninteresting to anyone who doesn't play 40K, those people should probably skip to the next paragraph, there is nothing for you here. We played a 4,000 point battle - 2 teams of two with 2,000 point armies. It was Ravenguard and Blood Angels (me) vs 2 Black Legion forces. There were three special characters on the field; Commander Dante (in his debut), Commander Shrike, and Typhus (in his long awaited return). It was an Alpha level recon mission, all that matters at the end of the game are scoring units in the enemy deployment zone. Because we all had other commitments the game had to end after three hours, this meant that we had only had three turns played by the end of the game. Some of the highlights: K-man hitting Shrike and a unit of Assault Marines with his Defiler's battle cannon in the first turn, killing all but one Assault Marine. Chaos (this is now the name for K-Man's teammate as he hasn't been mentioned before) firing a Vindicator into one of my Rhino's destroying it and a pair of Veterans. And a mass assault of Black Legion down our right flank, led by Typhus in a Land Raider, were the main highlights for Chaos and K-Man. After Oberon (my teammate, also new) lost Shrike he was not happy with our chances. But on turn two I got my charges in. Dante led a unit of Assault Marines and a unit of Tactical Marines into one unit of Chaos' Chosen (who had already lost one of their number when a greater Daemon appeared) who were slaughtered before the majority of my forces rolled into the Terminator Lord and his retinue of Champions that were sitting behind. In that same turn my Death Company massed into a unit of Plague Marines destroying all who were in range after losing the Chaplain. the shooting for that turn was also interesting with my Dreadnaught taking out half a unit of Khorne Berzerkers, my Vindicator damaging Chaos' Dreadnought, my Rhino hitting the Defiler with a Hunter-Killer Missile obliterating it and Oberon's Predator destroying their Vindicator. The next turn was a bit messy, we lost more footing on the right, though only one of their units got into our deployment zone they massed on the unit of Death Company that was in their deployment zone with no less than three units charging into the combat and pulling them down due to weight of numbers. the terminators and Greater Deamon managed to win combat and all of the GD's opponent were dead which gave him some freedom and the Terminators were stuck until our turn. we then decided that the game would end at the end of this turn (our turn three, they had just had their turn three and it was almost 9pm) which led to us trying to scramble into their lines with all the scoring units we had. Problem was, we had only one that was close, my Dreadnaught. We moved in everything to try and help him get across the line but it was going to be close. Fortunately, due to the sad loss of the Death Company, there was a unit in charge range of the Dreadnaught, the Khorne Berzerkers. Charges were announced, In goes the Dreadnaught, Dante decided that he had to charge the Greater Daemon, and another Assault marine ran into an Obliterator. With the game on the line we kept the dreadnaught combat until last. The Assault Marine couldn't kill the Obliterator with his power sword, but was spared death with his combat shield, Chaos' Terminators killed the remainder of the Tactical Marines and turned towards Dante, who had destroyed the Daemon and ran into the new challengers. On our right flank Oberon's Chaplain was brought down by Terminators, holding them up long enough to keep them out of our Deployment Zone. Oberon's Dreadnaught was held in combat by Chaos' Marine Squad, a mere 3 inches from our deployment zone. And finally, My Dreadnaught vs Chaos' squad of 4 Khorne Berzerkers. 2 Went down to my attacks and now we just waited on the powerfist to do its damage.... which was none, and to our luck the other two fell over to combat resolution, and the Dreadnaught romped home to save the draw.
Now onto my 2IC application. I got the job. I don't know when I start but hopefully I enjoy it. It will be interesting having a department manager for the first time.......
Lets talk about the book signing. I had read in Saturdays paper (on Sunday before work) that Niel Gaiman was in Melbourne and whilst he was here he was making multiple appearances and signing books. The newspaper article pointed out that on Monday night he would be at the Dymocks in Camberwell, along with other appearances at times and places I couldn't get to due to my work schedule. So I went to the Camberwell signing. This was quite a journey to get there - I took along Sandman 1 (Preludes and Nocturnes), American Gods, and Sandman 8 (Worlds End) - I was reading the last one - it took me an hour just to get to Camberwell and I was going to be a half-hour early for the signing. I wasn't aware of how long it was going to take me to get there and I decided it would be better to be early than late. So I looked for the place and found it quite easily, and when I went up to the door it had a note on it saying that the newspaper article I had read was wrong and that he had already made his appearance at Camberwell in a different venue with access restricted to those who had already booked. I was not happy. It took me an hour and a half to get home. At least I finished reading Worlds End...
Tuesday night I went and played Warhammer 40K with my brother and two of his friends (I say his friends because I met them through K-Man, even though I associate with them even when he's not there). This is going to be terribly uninteresting to anyone who doesn't play 40K, those people should probably skip to the next paragraph, there is nothing for you here. We played a 4,000 point battle - 2 teams of two with 2,000 point armies. It was Ravenguard and Blood Angels (me) vs 2 Black Legion forces. There were three special characters on the field; Commander Dante (in his debut), Commander Shrike, and Typhus (in his long awaited return). It was an Alpha level recon mission, all that matters at the end of the game are scoring units in the enemy deployment zone. Because we all had other commitments the game had to end after three hours, this meant that we had only had three turns played by the end of the game. Some of the highlights: K-man hitting Shrike and a unit of Assault Marines with his Defiler's battle cannon in the first turn, killing all but one Assault Marine. Chaos (this is now the name for K-Man's teammate as he hasn't been mentioned before) firing a Vindicator into one of my Rhino's destroying it and a pair of Veterans. And a mass assault of Black Legion down our right flank, led by Typhus in a Land Raider, were the main highlights for Chaos and K-Man. After Oberon (my teammate, also new) lost Shrike he was not happy with our chances. But on turn two I got my charges in. Dante led a unit of Assault Marines and a unit of Tactical Marines into one unit of Chaos' Chosen (who had already lost one of their number when a greater Daemon appeared) who were slaughtered before the majority of my forces rolled into the Terminator Lord and his retinue of Champions that were sitting behind. In that same turn my Death Company massed into a unit of Plague Marines destroying all who were in range after losing the Chaplain. the shooting for that turn was also interesting with my Dreadnaught taking out half a unit of Khorne Berzerkers, my Vindicator damaging Chaos' Dreadnought, my Rhino hitting the Defiler with a Hunter-Killer Missile obliterating it and Oberon's Predator destroying their Vindicator. The next turn was a bit messy, we lost more footing on the right, though only one of their units got into our deployment zone they massed on the unit of Death Company that was in their deployment zone with no less than three units charging into the combat and pulling them down due to weight of numbers. the terminators and Greater Deamon managed to win combat and all of the GD's opponent were dead which gave him some freedom and the Terminators were stuck until our turn. we then decided that the game would end at the end of this turn (our turn three, they had just had their turn three and it was almost 9pm) which led to us trying to scramble into their lines with all the scoring units we had. Problem was, we had only one that was close, my Dreadnaught. We moved in everything to try and help him get across the line but it was going to be close. Fortunately, due to the sad loss of the Death Company, there was a unit in charge range of the Dreadnaught, the Khorne Berzerkers. Charges were announced, In goes the Dreadnaught, Dante decided that he had to charge the Greater Daemon, and another Assault marine ran into an Obliterator. With the game on the line we kept the dreadnaught combat until last. The Assault Marine couldn't kill the Obliterator with his power sword, but was spared death with his combat shield, Chaos' Terminators killed the remainder of the Tactical Marines and turned towards Dante, who had destroyed the Daemon and ran into the new challengers. On our right flank Oberon's Chaplain was brought down by Terminators, holding them up long enough to keep them out of our Deployment Zone. Oberon's Dreadnaught was held in combat by Chaos' Marine Squad, a mere 3 inches from our deployment zone. And finally, My Dreadnaught vs Chaos' squad of 4 Khorne Berzerkers. 2 Went down to my attacks and now we just waited on the powerfist to do its damage.... which was none, and to our luck the other two fell over to combat resolution, and the Dreadnaught romped home to save the draw.
Now onto my 2IC application. I got the job. I don't know when I start but hopefully I enjoy it. It will be interesting having a department manager for the first time.......
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