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10-4-4-4-4-5. I did break 30, but with the asterisk that I waited quite a for a coworker to walk by between the fifth and sixth sets.

Fall blossoms and the vegetation generally are looking good.

What's that Wily doin'?

The bulgogi turned out good! Could be used a tiny bit more cooking, but better than I've done in a while. One thing I did differently was that instead of putting the grill basket on top of the grill, I removed one of the grill sections and put the basket over the gap left by it. I think there were too many layers between the beef and the flames before. With this setup, I was able to do about two minutes per side, though 2.5-3 minutes of side may have been better.

I fudged the measurements on the cucumber salad (외무침), and it turned out too sweet and sour. I pretty much accept any flavored cucumber, so it was OK for me, but not for Katt.

The guy didn't try any. And he only had two pieces of bulgogi. He used to love this stuff'! I guess you gotta keep on naming and reintroducing foods kids like as babies on a consistent schedule throughout toddler stage. Unfortunately, no one with kids that age has time for a precise master menu schedule.

A side!

Your job is to absorb, beef!

Bulgogi marinade. Gonna get it right today!

Oh, also, Erik brought this amazing (literal) black box to the game. It printed out slips of paper via heat transfer (the way receipts at grocery stores work) that had on them:

- Cavern maps
- NPC stats
- Potion descriptions
- Tarot cards!

The device is called the Reliquery, and even putting game handiness aside, I really enjoyed it as art. It'd be great to just take a break from the day to go over to it to get a few slips to sit down and read.

The closet tables, however, *were* used. (There's two more for material and effects.)

Speaking of things not taken, here's what I think is a good example of content that's not so involved that it hurts to see it skipped, but also still helpful for creating a potentially good encounter. (He's a guy living in a boarding house.) I'm thinking maybe I should shoot for this level of detail.

It's been a while, but I think that was lacking in the last D&D session was good pacing. I mean, it felt more like an episode of Poirot than D&D. (I was going to say "epic fantasy" but our adventures are very rarely epic.) Some of it was partly because of the nature of being in a town and having mysteries to solve. (For example, Poirot was often in a town with mysteries to solve.) But perhaps I didn't have the right events to stir things up.

Back in the day (meaning high school), if I felt there was a pacing problem, I'd just have monsters show up and attack the party. Obviously, that is dumb, but most of the "insert anywhere" events I had worked out for this game were more mysteries or aspects of the existing mysteries. Almost none of them contained pressure of any sort and were not very capable of fixing a 🤔 sort of pace.

Well, the PCs did figure some stuff out and marched wirh unforeseen determination to a dungeon, so things will probably be a bit easier on that front now.

I went over the notes for our last D&D session and found this list of items. I'm disappointed that no one took the gray fur pants.

Medieval tapestry material

Saved note: "Whoa, shadows are freaky sometimes.

It's quite a bit of work to fly a kite on a low wind day. We gave up after fifteen minutes.

Syrup looks extremely good when reflecting light in individual square pods.