{"id":11272,"date":"2007-10-06T10:11:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T17:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/10\/06\/the-daring-magpie.html"},"modified":"2007-10-06T10:11:49","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T17:11:49","slug":"the_daring_magpie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/06\/the_daring_magpie.html","title":{"rendered":"The Daring Magpie!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lots of fun at last night’s Spirit of the Century game at Doyce’s<\/a>.  Aside from the meta-enjoyment of camaraderie and tons of bad puns, the Daring Magpie<\/a> finally came into his own.<\/p>\n

The two previous adventures I’ve been in were largely two-fisted adventures — fighting talking gorillas in Venezuela, fighting a mummy in LA — where Lord Aleister, my gentleman thief, isn’t at his best (if for no other reason than he carries a sword cane, not a gun). <\/p>\n

This time, though, not only was there some fine action in a truck-to-truck chase, but I got to spend a lotof money, infiltrate a fiendish plot against the city of New York at a jazz\/swing festival, case a joint, be charming, draw on my knowledge of German spies from the Great War, come up with a cunning plan to steal away the arch-villain’s chief henchwoman, and have a brief, torrid (and, doubtless, witty)affair with Dorothy Parker<\/a>.  The only thing I didn’t get to do was steal something … but that’ll happen soon enough.<\/p>\n

Good fun.  Just wish I hadn’t been so sleepy by the end. \ud83d\ude42  The hazards of gaming on a Friday night …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lots of fun at last night’s Spirit of the Century game at Doyce’s.  Aside from the meta-enjoyment of camaraderie and tons of bad puns, the Daring Magpie finally came…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10736,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/08\/the_century_club_presents.html","url_meta":{"origin":11272,"position":0},"title":"The Century Club Presents …","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 8-Jul-07 10:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Had our first full Century Club\u00a0game over at Doyce's today.\u00a0 Well, it was the second episode, but the first one I was at, so I consider it the first.\u00a0 While...","rel":"","context":"In "Gaming"","block_context":{"text":"Gaming","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/gaming"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12182,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/29\/weekend_in_review_6.html","url_meta":{"origin":11272,"position":1},"title":"Weekend in Review","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 29-Oct-07 11:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"I had separate posts for all of this, but time's a-wastin' ... 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