01-11 Life Log: Tabletop Gaming and Evening Plans 2026-01-11T16:54:09Z # — Life Log ## Title An Evening Game Session and Plans with Noel ## Time Context Evening / Night ## Life Log Narrative This evening was dedicated to your tabletop role-playing game. You were deeply engrossed in a session where you and your party navigated a complex scenario involving a "Black Knight," kobolds trapped inside, and a plan to use it as a Trojan horse filled with explosives. Your characters, Zuri and Ash, were at the forefront, dealing with everything from giant snake people and "mutalisks" to "kids with guns." The game involved a lot of strategic thinking, healing party members, and checking stats. In between the intense moments of the game, you paused to talk to Noel. It sounds like you're away from home, possibly in Singapore or about to head there, and you're coordinating your evening plans. You discussed whether to go out for dinner or stay in and swim at the hotel pool. You settled on a late dinner after a swim, sharing a sweet and loving exchange before you dove back into your game. The conversation ended with a funny story about how Noel's playful mispronunciation of "char kway teow" as "cowboy chow" has even started showing up in your own logs. ## Places Visited - Singapore (mentioned you're looking forward to going back and have been there before) - Australia (mentioned having played a game there) ## Activities - Playing a tabletop role-playing game (likely Dungeons & Dragons or a similar system) - Planning your evening with Noel - Swimming (planned) - Eating Thai food (planned) ## Key Moments - Realizing you were about to be in Singapore in the evening, clarifying the time difference. - The detailed strategic planning in your game, especially the idea of using the Black Knight as a "Trojan horse" with explosives. - The funny reveal that the formidable Black Knight was actually hiding two captured kobolds. - A tender moment when you paused your game to talk with Noel, figuring out dinner and pool plans, and ending with "I love you." - Joking about how Noel intentionally messes with your logs by saying things like "cowboy chow" for *char kway teow*. - Saying your goodbyes to your gaming group, promising to play again and mentioning you'll be traveling on Saturday. ## Conversation Topics - Strategy for your role-playing game (healing, combat tactics, using skills like "Thought Sense" and "Treat Wounds") - The characters and creatures in the game: a Black Knight, kobolds, snake people, hydras/mutalisks, and "level 1 gunslingers" who are kids. - Evening plans with Noel: deciding between going out for dinner or swimming and ordering in. - Your upcoming travel to Singapore. - Food, specifically *char kway teow* (and Noel's "cowboy chow" nickname for it) and laksa. ## People - **Noel:** Your partner. You coordinated your evening plans with him. - **Bond, Ash, Zuri, Vale, Grumble, Jafaki:** Characters in your role-playing game. You seem to be playing Ash and Zuri. - **Baba:** Someone you spoke to briefly, possibly a pet or a term of endearment. - **Nico:** A fellow player in your game. - **Emmy:** Mentioned in passing in the context of her mom not wanting to attend her graduation. ## Follow-Ups - None noted. 00:00:10 Yeah, yeah, Kyan broccolini and like I think you did. 00:00:59 you did like the plants versus zombies things you did like chili and snow peas. 00:01:58 Yeah, yeah. 00:03:09 Oh, I thought you meant now. Also. Yeah. 00:03:40 Homeownership isn't all it's cracked up to be. Yeah, I remember. 00:06:56 oh nice that you you've been there too yeah okay. 00:07:29 sure her mom her mom who didn't even want to go for Emmy's graduation. 00:08:08 Tiny house. 00:09:39 I'm looking forward to heading back to Singapore. Nighttime eh? We'll check. Checking. Seven. Ah wait no that's wrong. 10 40. So knight knight. 00:10:12 Oh 7 p.m is not yet knight? Viticulture. 00:11:09 Yeah. And you felt, you thought that you hadn't played it since Australia. I still enjoyed it. Yeah. Bye, the cats. 00:11:40 Me too. 00:12:16 Power bank. Why would you choose a country like that? 00:12:49 What are we listening to? 00:13:56 Is that granola? 00:14:59 Yeah. 00:18:44 from wait from where is the noise coming the the doors on the east oh inside the knight oh okay whoa cool. 00:22:25 Bond. 00:27:26 Um, yeah, I was gonna say I don't want to try to open it, but I want to make sure that both of us are maybe, like, flanking Bond to kind of cut off whatever it is and stop it from hitting Bond if necessary. Sure, but doesn't that take time? 00:28:03 Sure, I'm at 55. Yeah, for both of us, yeah. I'm 55 out of 120. But what about Bond 24? Thank you. Then we're for sure. 00:28:54 Shielding and ready to intercept attacks on Bondd. Yeah. Thanks. 00:29:50 Sure, I'll do Thought sense aiming inside the Black Knight. Oh, two? Okay. 00:35:24 Big what things? Snake things. How did you get in there in the first place? 00:40:31 If we spend some time talking to them and trying to piece together like a map of where they've been, do we get any extra information about that? Like anything that we don't know yet or haven't been to? 00:41:07 Yeah. Also, I don't know. They're kids, right? Okay. Oh, great. Level 1 gunslingers. Great! Kids with guns! Yeah. Yeah. Maybe you should try to talk to them and talk them into not coming back here, Bond. Yeah. Oh yeah, just they're safety. Their kids! 00:42:36 um I'm not sure yeah no. 00:46:09 It seems like it would take a lot of time to reprogram it or rejig it to do something that it didn't do before. What if we just think of it as a Trojan horse, load the thing up with explosives, and all it has to do is walk in? If Jafaki has black powder, that would only add to the boom. 00:48:04 Yeah, let's do that, and then the rest of us can heal and rest and nap, catnap and stuff. I will try to... Zuri will catnap and refocus. 00:48:40 That is her refocus and the extra temp HP. And then Ash will try to heal her. Like, the... What is it called? Treat? Treat wounds. Skill. It's so handy, eh? 00:52:25 Yes, he did treat, what did I just say, treat wounds on Zuri. Normal success. I just regained a little bit more health. 00:57:48 Imagine they got here even before us. 01:06:01 Yeah, sure. They're kids. We don't want them to die. 01:07:43 Yeah, and are any of them magical? No one. But we can all use lore of some sort, right? I could use occultism. 01:09:37 Grumble and Ash use shields. Physical shields. 01:13:50 I think let's yeah, let's go ahead and do that before we get any deeper nice. Is it just me? 01:14:48 What about Bondd? Are you at full Bondd? I'm only 9 down, 9 HP down, so I think I'm okay. I don't want to spend another 10 minutes just on me. 01:15:21 Nice. I think that would be while Vale is doing they're thing, like refocusing. 01:16:20 So, thought sense? Not that one specifically, but we know there's a soul there. No, thought sense is not telepathy. I just know whether a creature is thinking, like, at a certain intellect level. 01:17:02 Wait, so Vale took... did we take two more just now? We took two ten-minute breaks, right? One for Vale to refocus, and another one... what was it? Lay on hands and then refocus again, right? Okay, so one of those ones I would have been, because we're not doing anything else, so Zuri will heal herself. I mean, treat wounds. And it's okay. So I just rolled and I got 11. So I'm at full. 01:18:17 we could go check out the snake giant snake people. oh well should we kill it yeah let's kill it a what. 01:20:52 Who? Hydras? Oh, Mutalisks! Tara, let's go see the hydras. It doesn't feel like time for Grafana yet. 01:23:40 BRB Bio, but listening. 01:25:41 Thank you. 01:29:22 I like this. This is Zuri's favorite god so far. Blesses wildness and freedom and creatures who survive against the odds. 01:31:58 Hello, Baba. I paused. I mean, I muted. Hi, Baba. Hi, Baba. Did you miss me? I missed you. Really? You would have liked the monkeys. Yeah, because they were so cute. They were pretty cute. They were cute. They were right there in front of me. But it was like super hot and I was walking around in the sunshine and going to pulls and stuff like that. You wouldn't have liked that. 01:32:30 Hey, my nomad. How do you feel? If you're feeling like, yeah, I want to go out tonight and it looks like a good restaurant, then I'll just go first. I don't know. Let me look at the restaurant again. They have a pull at Queen's so we can also pull at Queen's. Then we won't pull together anymore here. I mean, it could also just order. It kind of feels like if you're feeling all hot and sweaty, you probably wanted to go now anyway. 01:33:00 That would be nice. If we weren't going out tonight, I would lie on the couch here for half an hour until you're done, and then we can go straight to the pull and order grab. Or I could do whatever. Why don't you go to the pull now? Cool off. Okay. And then we'll go out for dinner around 8.30? Yeah. Okay, cool. Cool. Love you. How's it going? 01:33:30 Good. We're looting stuff. Fun. Pillaging. It's always fun. The monster that we killed last time, a black knight. Yeah. We found out that it opens and two kobolds came out of it. They were trapped in there. Were they, like, driving it? No. They got captured and they're like, you know, we're not very strong, so we'll just hide in here because he's safe. 01:34:07 Then they got stuck. That's cute, right? Cute. 01:41:47 Why don't we go first? Like, Ash and Zuri can go first, cross the plants, go to the mutalisk. Oh, yeah, that's totally what I'm doing. I was saying, why don't we, why don't Ash and Zuri cross first? Cross the plants, get to the mutalisks, and then we can back Vail up, or bare the front of the attack, or something. Yeah, we won't attack if they don't, but I don't, 01:42:38 mm-hmm, yeah. We won't attack them unless they attack. 01:43:53 Yep, sure, we'll do that. Yep, we'll go. We'll go check them out and see if they're hostile. We don't have weapons, so we're not being threatening. Uh-oh. 01:44:57 oh 27 for zuri 27 for zuri 14 for ash oopsie oh wow. 01:45:56 Nice. Success, Zuri. Oh no. Oh no. Hmm. Huh? 01:47:53 Oh, what? 01:50:13 i can so did you say we got plus one for every ration we put down oh wow okay that's easy, what else do we need them for okay yeah okay i'll put down two. 01:50:56 who's highest uh ashes plus 10. can can we help, Can we help him or something? Ah, okay. Huh? 01:51:28 You want me to do it? Did you say you're plus 17? No, I'm plus 10. Ash is plus 10. 01:52:02 You do it nalang, Nico. Hi! They say hi too. good luck wow what's that about being canonically unlucky. 01:53:33 How do you act like a crab? Nice! 01:54:25 Wait! Bye-bye! Bye-bye. I just saw your message. Yeah. I'm gonna kiss you before... I'll be down by 7.30 or... 7.30 or 8. Huh? 7.30 or 8. I'll be back. Alright. It's a long time. Have you moved here? Well, I was thinking of 7.30, but I'm like, I might not be down by 7.30, I don't know. Hmm. Not probably. 01:54:57 Maybe I'll come down. Come up? Up. Bring your key, though, because if we end up going in different directions, then you can't... you won't be able to get back. I know. I miss you. 01:55:59 We have a spy. What the hell? 02:00:42 yeah we'll be where will we be in indonesia unless we have super bad internet yes. oh yeah bye i love you all. 02:01:51 I just tried the laksa one yesterday. Not as sarap. Yeah. Do you like it? Yeah. You don't? Huh? Why don't you think you'll like it? We haven't tried. 02:02:36 Uh, yeah, that's hard. how weird yeah it's really good we've had it several times in singapore. 02:03:07 i had it even last time i was we were there oh two two times before um that was here it's everywhere it's really good prawns. 02:03:58 Okay. Yeah. Char kway teow. Mm-mm. Sarap. That's just like pad thai. But Noel doesn't call it char-kway-chow. He calls it cowboy chow. 02:04:35 And now, tuloy, even my plod doesn't, like, when I ask it what we ate at the restaurant, it doesn't say char-kway-chow. It says cowboy chow tuloy. Kainis. He, like, he seeds my plod. He'll just reach over and say something para magulo lahat. Yeah. Bagong lahat. Yeah. Yeah. It's good nga. 02:05:16 okay we'll go now we're going for our last swim here and then and then we're going for thai food. typhoon yeah excited yeah probably just sleep i will be tired yeah weird saturday leaving on saturday at 4 20 and that's the flight pm. 02:06:16 We can still play something. Nice! So fast! Okay, love you all! Nice playing pa rin! 02:06:48 Bye!