So, on the 11th Steve ran his FR D&D 3.0 campaign, like I mentioned.  Our team went up against a team of four wizards in the arena.  They were tough cookies.  They came out, already spelled up with mage armour and spider climb on themselves, and ran out to the tops of the four twenty-foot tall pillars in the center of the arena.  From there they peppered us with arrows until some of us proved dangerous, at which point they started casting spells upon us.  Tarin, our archer, was still recovering from his prior wounds and not with us (nor was his player, Smitty) so we didn't have much luck returning their conventional fire.  The others climbed the pillars and fought from a disadvantage while Cap changed into a harpy and fought them at their level.  Turok was finally able to successfully grapple his opponent, so he dropped the two of them from the pillar and pinned his to the ground.  Malekith cast a Wall of Force to connect two of the pillars together and allow adjacent combat at their level.  Eventually we finished the combat, but not until our game was a couple of hours past the DM's bedtime!  So not much roleplay that session. 

 

I missed the session on the 18th (my only in the whole campaign!), but I hear that Turok and Magnus each had solo fights as well as a duo fight while the rest of us recovered from the combat with the wizards.  Magnus fought some lizardmen and Turok a huge zombie.  Together they fought some quagroths. 

 

Meanwhile, in real life I fear for my Burl Ives holiday album, as the cassette tape is starting to not feed at equal speeds this evening.  That's how I lost Chant, Bridge Over Troubled Water, and The Division Bell last year.  They all started out like that and eventually wouldn't play at all.  Mr. Ives is one of my favourite performers, so losing one of his albums will be disappointing. 

 

Of course, I say that while people suffer and die in war, disease, and natural disaster worldwide.  Maybe I don't thank you enough for my blessings, God, but I do appreciate them.