Amue Me III

[electricpaladin]

ladypimpernel and I had a great weekend. The highlight was probably babysitting the twins. Abby's cousin Brad and his wife Jennifer have recently produced a pair of adorable twin girls named Isabelle (Izzy) and Callista (Callie). Abby and I volunteered to give Brad and Jen the night off.

We arrived, settled in, and played with the babies while Brad and Jen got ready for their date. Then Brad bought us takeout (Indian pizza - the best food ever), put the babies to sleep, and left. All we had to do was hang out near the baby monitor, eat Indian pizza, and do what we would have done anyway - namely, sit around playing Exalted.

The babies were ridiculously cute. They're almost a year old, at the sit up and pay attention to the world, loves loud noises, smiles and laughs stage. They were very easy to please (even Izzy, who's the grumpy baby). All I had to do was snap two nesting plastic hemispheres together to form a sphere with a plastic cup inside so that shaking it made an unholy racket, and they were in heaven. When I invented the Power Spoon (sliding a smaller plastic sphere onto a large wooden spoon the twins like to chew on) I was probably voted best babysitter ever. Or would have been, if the babies understood democracy.

The upshot of the experience? I want to design a roleplaying game that uses babies as the randomizer. Just sit around with your gamer friends, a couple of babies, and see what happens. The concept needs work, clearly.

. . .

Question One

What is the story behind your online handle/LJ username?

Question Two

What was your strangest childhood fear?

Question Three

Well, on Friday I asked you what you expected from the debates, so now I'll ask the next logical question: if you saw them, what did you think of them?

Comments

[ladypimpernel.livejournal.com]

Honey, Callie is the grumpy baby, the smaller twin who liked to wave her arms at you. Izzy is the larger one, who was fascinated by whistling, and less grumpy. If Uncle Mark can't keep them straight, they're going to get a complex. I vote that one of your questions for Wednesday involve suggesting a baby randomizer mechanic.

Also, you know the answers to all the questions, but I'll go with it anyway.

1. I was Pimpernel on my first online journal, because I was mysterious and anonymous, and I loved the books and musical. Later it evolved to LadyPimpernel, because Pimpernel was taken most places, and I liked the fact that it sounded psuedo-medieval and also meant that I was sort of named after the Pimpernel's wife, Marguerite, who is badass.

2. Being abducted by aliens. Or alternately, mysteriously growing up and becoming a different person. People used to tell me I'd grow up and want different things and care about different things, and I couldn't figure out how that would happen without some huge, mysterious change taking place.

3. I had lots of thoughts, which you've heard, but mostly I wished Mitch would let us explain stuff, and/or make sarcastic comments. Next time, we should watch on my parents TiVo, so we can hit pause.

[educatedmonkey.livejournal.com]

This reminds of way back when I was little. There was color coding system. I forget if I was red or blue. This worked fine until my mother's mom didn't pay attention to the system, and now looking back a pictures we can't tell who is who.