Another disjointed post

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't a "fire watch" actually include a tour of the grounds at some point? In basic, our fire watches included touring the barracks, the bathrooms, and the drill grounds. Why do I bring this up? Because the security officer in my area at the hospital has called dispatch to check off on two fire watches tonight, without actually leaving his desk. 20 minutes later, he calls dispatch to check back in with an all clear. All clear of what? Things to do on the web maybe. Not to mention an abundance of personal calls tonight. I'm surprised at the employees here that make personal calls between 3am and 6am. Anybody I could call is most definitely asleep at that point, or at least tired enough to tell me good night and hang up.

On a different note (lack of transitions happen a lot on the night shift), Legends of the Five Rings fiction rocks. Mostly, it rocks because the players influence it. Take the big tourney at GenCon. Going into it, Crab was getting butt poked by Iuchiban's Hordes and the Tsuno, while Unicorn, Lion and Dragon were all fighting of a city, with Scorpion stuposedly on Lion's side, but who ever knows for sure where Scorpion sits?

Based on the top clan players decisions (and where the story team takes those decisions), Crab is intent on allying with Daigotsu of the Shadowlands to fight fire with fire and oust Iuchiban's Tsuno from behind the Carpenters Wall. For a little extra oomph, Daigotsu is prolly gonna find The Forgotten Tomb of Fu Leng, cause you can never have too much power when you're evil, yet honorable. On the other side of things, Unicorn wants to ally with Crab, while Lion wants to ally with Crane, so it looks to be a war of Unicorn/Crab/Daigotsu vs. Lion/Crane/Dragon, with Scorpion getting some good dirt on the Unicorn champion for blackmail purposes. That'll be an interesting melee if it comes to pass.

Of course, I could see Iuchiban holding back Crab/Daigotsu long enough to make it Unicorn vs. Lion/Crane, while Dragon just recruits an important Lion family member to become a monk and leaves. However, before Unicorn starts roughing up the blues and browns, Scorp'll convince Moto Chagatai that it's just a good idea to leave, because Chagatai did bargain with the Shi Ten Wie-ding (or whatever) to start spreading some altars to the Lords of Death...

None of this is as important as the anticipation of a Naga awakening and joining my boys the Ratlings, complete in Name and status. That should help us regain some decent warrens from the dark dark horde.

Holy crap, he just did it again. Cleared a fire watch and sat in the lobby to watch CNN. I think I'm gonna go to www.homestarrunner.com and see if Strong Bad can wake me up.