Roll for Initiative, Monkeyboy

If you understand "initiative" but don't know where this comes from, please take the time to visit the Knights of the Dinner Table part of Hoody-Hoo. "When Critical Hits Attack" and "Man versus Archeticture" are the best, in my opinion.

The last few weeks of school have been spent desperately trying to keep up (a failing effort) with my gargauntuan reading schedule. In between sortes with my books, gaming has thrived in the dark places of Lewis & Clark. There is much D&D afoot on campus, much of which I have participated in. Additionally, I plan to pick up the Vampire: Dark Ages book to run an elders game; should be fun for all.

But the most engaging activity has taken place on the weekends... "Ninja." Several gamers on campus have combined capture the flag with boffing weapons. Every saturday night, about a dozen of us gather in lower campus (where all the classrooms are and such) at 1 am. There are two teams, one are the gaurds who have an "object" (i.e. a flag) to protect. The other team are the ninjas, who must start at the top of the field and sneak/run/fight there way to the object and make it back up to their starting point again without dying. The ninjas are clad in all black and wield black boffing swords, while the gaurds wear white shirts and get to use walkie-talkies to communicate. Without getting into too much, the game has bunch more rules, like one gaurd is a Shogun who coordinates gaurds and ninjas can kill with unarmed attacks making it a "stealth kill." Needless to say, the game is awesome. There have been all kinds of crazy stunts attempted by the ninjas and gaurds such as:

• Ninjas hiding in the rafters of a small covered area on the field
• An epic battle that was fought down approximately two flights of stairs
• Ninjas leaping off a ten-foot wall with varied success (I sprained my ankle, for instance)
• One Ninja killed five gaurds by himself... At the same time
• Another ninja managed to evade eight gaurds at once without getting hit, even when surrounded

We've become lore on campus now. Whenever some of us are seen carrying weapons late at night, people who walk by will say "he's a ninja, I heard about that..." Every week more people show up, even though we're not supposed to talk about it much on campus; much like fight club. Someone here in Stewart (my residence hall) wants to come film and photograph us, which I will post online as soon as they're available to me.

Oh, and if anyone requests it, I can post pictures of Adnan in drag, if you'd like. Apparently, he was a big hit at the drag ball this year.