Today was, alright I guess, nothing fantastic. I mean, I enjoyed it once I actually got around to it. Played a decent 2 hours of Suikoden (damn Mathiu's father), about to reobtain the caste (though the damn Dragon killed me the first time by doubling up on it's breath. I have no idea why Claude (main character's name this time around) takes 1/2 to 1/3 as much damage as everyone else (that'd be good if he didn't deal out a similar amount less damage). So, I'm currently saved at the top, I'll have to strike him down tomorrow (or today if you care for the technicalities of time).

Speaking of time, since my Car decided not to work my clock is totally off, it's fun telling time with 9:34 PM being the default (Ie: 9:34 PM equals 0:00/12:00/24:00 (depending oh how you think), meaning that 9:35 PM is 12:01 by my car). It's actually kinda frightening how quickly my mind translates the numbers though.

At about 3:00 I went over to John's for a good 5 and a half hours of Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. Basically it's what you'd get if you took Gauntlet's style meshed to the workings of Dungeon Siege in the world of Baldur's Gate (same voices I swear), all to the tune of 3rd edition rules (heavily altered, but hey). Only 3 classes at start: Human Archer, Dwarven Fighter, and Elven Sorceress. I don't know why I bother with the details, but I will anyways. As far as stats go it's every two points past 10 equals another bonus (precisely how 3rd Edition works it, though the bonuses are different). Strength yields +1 to hit and +1 to damage, Constitution = +1 hp per level, Dexterity = +1 AC (which still counts upward. Ie: Studded Leather is + AC 12, my fighter had some odd 60 AC when we stopped), Intelligence = More mana (+3 I think), Wisdom = +3% Exp, Charisma = +5% Sale Price -5% Sales Price (fun fun fun). Every 4 levels you get to increase a stat one point. Also at every level you get a number of skill points equal to the level you just graduated from (ie: 1 at level 2, 2 at level 3, etc.) For a fighter the highest cost is 10 for a hammer slam attack to all nearby enemies). The highest cost for a Sorc was Meteor Swarm at 21 (for the first rank at least). Anyways, John chose the Sorceress so I got to see 1st level Burning Hands (Diablo 2's inferno), Magic Missle (only one rank, but extra missle every to levels, very fun to look at), Mordakainen's Sword (Think a fast moving D2 scimitar that attacks enemies) and Ball Lightning (if you were to make Frozen Orb alot smaller and deal lighting damage (with animation being a bolt of lightning just arcing to the target continously while target was in range) this would the that). I didn't see Lightning, Meteor Swarm, Fireball, or Fire Shield. The Fighter, my choice since archery is very hard from a top down view, has mostly passives (Increase Attack Speed, Increase Critical Chance, Increase Critical Damage, Improved Attack and Damage, Improved AC, +3 Hp, Improve AC with Shield, Use weapon as a shield) but I opted instead to focus on Intestinal Fortitude (Life Regen skill) and Bull Rush (think Charge) which was very fun. I did get whirlwind but getting that many enemies around you simply isn't safe to begin with so it wasn't a very good choice.

At Kyle's I did a decent amount of DDR (nothing too insane) and managed to get in 4 random team 2v2 Random race games of Frozen Throne. I pulled off victory with Night Elf twice, Orc once, and Undead once. The best moment was my reaction to my ally getting mashed by mass steam tanks (we were both NE that game). I simply produced 4 ballistas and built a PotM with true shot to stand by and laugh as they tried for my bridge (A bridge too near).

In thinking about it, I've decided that it's not so much that tomorrow is going to be taken away by recital (2 hours tops) and Bachaluareate (2 hours tops as well), but that the timing for the two leaves me very little time in between so my day will be shot save for the morning (when I imagine I'll be sleeping) and the evening (and no one ever does anything Sunday evenings, so it'll be time for reading, Suikoden, Brood Wars with Jeff perhaps, and doing my French essay).

Why is the "non-storyline" Life of Riley more than a dozen strips ahead of the main page? Is there something that I'm missing about this?