Post Thanksgiving Thoughts

[subplotkudzu]

 Now that the holiday is over, let us mull....

Much as my family may drve me slightly batty at times, we're all still pretty good. No feuds, no pointless arguments at the holiday table, no drunken rants. Having heard how bad other families can get, I'm very thankful for that. I'm doubly thankful that my parents and my in laws all get along, so we can host one big party on Thanksgiving rather than trying two visit two smaller ones. 

I'm also thankful that my parents will be taking the wee one today so we can have a night off. We're seeing Enchanted followed by dinner at a simple tavern for some low impact adult time. Much needed as the holidays approach and our increasingly mobile and willful toddler consumes more of mommy's life energy per day. 

I'm thankful that some aggressive pre planning means that most of our holiday shopping is either done or planned. One less stressor in the next five weeks. I'm also thankful that my parents seem to grasp the "donations in lieu of presents" idea so I'm not scrambling to list stuff I don't want.

I'm making mental notes on this as we're approaching the Emirikolian thanksgiving style celebration in game, neatly scheduled to coniicide with the PCs heroic return. This will likely include the cooking of a Grybulgon (a griffin stuffed with a bulette stuffed with a dragon), the traditional heroic feast as noted by 40yearsagotoday. The hard to find meats for this delicacy are generally procured by lower level adventurers, insuring that the wheel of "giving low level PCs things to do" continues to turn.

Comments

[40yearsagotoday.livejournal.com]

A gryphon stuffed *into* a bullette, etc. The order in the name is the reverse of the turducken.

Of course, if you want to do it the other way, don't let me stop you. Always just glad to contribute.

[brianrogers.livejournal.com]

Ah. That makes more sense, size wise. I suspect that your classic method is the one used in the capital and more cosmopolitan cities to the South, whereas in the North we have to make use of the smaller bullette's that one can find in the wild, rather than the farm bred ones you can get from Dwarven shadow farms.

Mmmmm, Bullette milk. Goes great with larks tongues.

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, you can stuff them in the order given in the name -- but you have to use the D20 Call of Cthulhu rules to describe the effect on the diners.

JLC

[brianrogers.livejournal.com]

It's maddeningly tasty!

[corylus-unbound.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had a good holiday and grown up time to boot!