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Happy Little Dinosaurs & Here to Slay update

  Last Thursday Joey said "Let's go away for the weekend." So we looked for a Van Der Valk hotel which had availability. This was not that easy, but eventually we found two rooms in the Van Der Valk hotel Utrecht-De Bilt for two nights. We had to get 2 rooms, because Cloud, our 18 year old son, also came. Since I still had work on Friday (and we had a hard time finding a hotel with available rooms) we left home at 19:00h and came at the hotel at 20:00h. We had dinner there and then, very full, went back to our rooms. The next day we drove all the way back to Heerhugowaard. There was a Retour Depot pop-up store. They have packages that were sent back to Amazon, Bol.com and other webstores, but apparently got lost or something. So they anonimize it as much as possible and then sell these mystery packages for 2,49 euro per 100 grams. So we bought a bunch of packages unseen and back at the hotelroom we had fun unpacking all the (crap) stuff. It felt a bit like Christmas. Th...

DnD: Dragons of Stormwreck Isle (session 2)

  Yesterday we played our second Dungeons and Dragons session. The first session consisted of two sub-sessions, one at night, one the following morning. Probably we'll continue this morning. After Esh (Jilenko's character) left Heiko (Vash's character) and Tilo (Olysia's character) last time, a new hero appeared. Aurrun (Jilenko's new character) joined Heiko and Tilo aboard the Compass Rose, looking for an explanation of why a lot of ships shipwreck here on the coast. Unfortunately the heroes, especially Heiko and Aurrun, don't get along that well. Here's what happend (images created with AI, based on the designs of Vash, Olysia and Jilenko):