The Brick Testament is an interesting look at the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament by an athetist. 

I think I owe some RPG recaps, so I'll start with Jackson's FR 3.0 campaign on the first Friday of the month.  Everyone regathered in the evening, and the dragons returned.  The humanoids decided to remain at the inn for the night, but asked the dragons to return in the morning.  While Cyrus, Delome, and Zed explained that they had interupted a cat sacrifice being performed by the clergy of Umberlee, "Squiggy" came into the inn.  Cyrus went suddenly on guard, but Squigbarm warmly called him over to jon the group.  After some small talk over dinner, he revealed that he was there because a friend of his who worships Eldath had been killed by zombies.  That left his son with no one to look after him.  As Squiggy had heard a rumor that these zombies were released by Squigbarm, he had come to ask him if he would raise his friend from the dead.  Of course Squigbarm was totally willing to do so.  When asked about how he had learned about who released the undead, he just shrugged and confessed that he had kept his ear to the ground.  That's not too surprising, that's why we tracked him down in the first place way back when.  It's only fitting that he return the favour this time. 

So, because Squigbarm didn't have raise dead memorized that day, the two planned to strike out the next morning.  The rest of the team started making plans for the next day as well.  The rouges and bard planned to sell off all the good we've amassed thus far from foes over the winter, while Cyrus, Delome, and Skred planned to disrupt the lock system between Skullport and the ocean.  They planned to stop a supply shipment that was to be ferried out to the Rouge Dragon as it passed Waterdeep on its travels north to a shrine of Tempus. 

In the morning, Squigbarm and Squiggy flew up with the dragons to the Storm Keep.  Weirdly enough, Cyrus, Delome, and Ethan insisted on coming along as well.  That left Skred to be stuck hauling the loot around from store to store with the bard and rouges.  When the keep arrived above the hut's location, the dragons ferried us down to the area.  We found a couple of zombies there, which were quickly dispatched.  In the rubble of the burned down hut we found the remains of the human.  It appeared as if the man had purposefully burned down the hut with him and a couple of zombies still in it.  As Squigbarm perpared to cast speak with dead, the others detected some magic up in the trees a few dozen feet into the forest.  The decided to investigate.  They discovered another human male who was severely bleeding up in the tree who had a magic item on him.  Delome healed him, and the gentleman said over and over that "they" had kidnapped his friend's kid.  Meanwhile, Squigbarm asked the dead man if he truely worshipped Eldath, if he wished to be raised from the dead, and if he was raised if he would continue to promote good in the world.  When all answers were in the affirmative, Squigbarm raised the man just as the others returned. 

On the first Saturday of the month, Pitcher ran his FR 3.0 campaign over at Dustin and Kendal's place.  Apparently, Steve felt that it was either run the game there or lose Kendal to his girlfriend.  She has played Vampire:  The Masquerade, so she would watch the game that night and decide if she wanted to play.  Heidi was already looking at the books when we got there, and Jackson and I both found it funny that she was most attracted to playing a water genasai cleric of Istishia.  Dustin kept trying to talk her into a halfling rouge. 

Because the funerals for Master Hu Li and Caleb of Garl Glittergold were scheduled for the afternoon, we were encouraged to recruit new members to the team during the morning.  We managed to recruit a dwarven cleric of Haela Brightaxe (Dustin's new character, Grizwald Forgehand) and a halfling bard (Monte's new character, Twiggy Mossfoot).  After the funerals, we were told that it would be a while before they could translate the book we had found among the drow we had defeated.  Apparently not only was it in an ancient drow dialect, but worse it was encrypted!  So we were given a chance to relieve one of the patrols for the next day on a part of the town perimeter which we had not been to yet.  Grizwald and Twiggy accompanied the party.

In the morning, Ruben revealed that he and a group of riders were going to Myth Drannor to investigate some clues found in the book we had found.  He had apparently been inspired by Caleb's sacrifice, and multiclassed into paladin much to Mydorn's dismay.

The patrol group we relieved used a bait tactic.  They set themselves up to looklike easy prey, two people playing cards near the tent and one guy fishing downhill at the river.  The fisher had a sword one foot-flick away in the water at his feet and the cardplayers had bows hidden uphill so that they could surprise wouldbe ambushers.  When we told them they were relieved, all three began fishing. 

So we actually started patrolling, and we came upon the sound of battle.  As we rushed up we saw the men who had accompanied Ruben stabbing his prone body several times with their swords.  We quickly closed.  Cap called for them to surrender if they wished to survive, but Grizwald countermanded that and said they were all going to die regaurdless of whether they surrendered or not.  Most of them were quiet, but the last one standing said that Valor would avenge them before he fell.  When all but the one under the effect of Twiggy's sleep spell were dead, Grizwald coup de graced him as well.  This led to an arguement of Grizwald and Serran versus Capernicus.  Twiggy and Magnus seemed to agree that killing the sleep influenced villain seemed unneccessary, but they didn't seem concerned with the evilness of the act and definately wouldn't back up Capernicus in the arguement.  Grizwald said that if it was so important, we could take the bodies back to a powerful cleric and he could talk to the dead.  So we loaded the bodies of Ruben and his betrayers and headed back to town. 

After the game, Dustin started arguing with me about how I wasn't in character.  That if my friend was killed in front of my eyes I wouldn't show mercy either.  Considering how Grizwald had just met Ruben while Capernicus had traveled with him for weeks, the argument didn't make much sense.  He wouldn't listen to me when I tried explaining that Lurue's faithful prefer light banter, clever riddles, giving aid to the needy, and joyous exploration over battle.  He accused me of halving a video game mentality.  I don't even play video games!  He's the one who's always talking about theatest video games.  He's really trying my nerves.  It's one thing to have some cool role playing between characters whose goddesses both represent joy in different ways.  It's another to to tell people how they should role play their character.