In Which John Eats a Kangaroo and Role-Plays

Yesterday was a most magical day. Team America spent the afternoon and evening around Sydney, culminating in a dinner at Darling Harbo(u)r. There, I ate kangaroo. And it was delicious.

"What?!" perked up baby Roo, paws covered with chocolate from Tim Tams. "You found a kangaroo and you ate it?!"

Um, no, it was just called kangaroo.

"Okay, you had me worried for a bit there."

*phew*

On the ride home, I realized that I was experiencing one of the most perfect moments of my life.

There was this commercial from a few years back in which four young friends, having just completed a day of fun, rest on a train ride back home at night. They are filled with excitement from their adventure, but they are all exhausted, so they just rest and smile in peaceful bliss. I've always wanted that to happen in real life. And it did last night, with just the four of us. Everyone was satsified with the day. I happened to be listening to Sufjan Stevens at the time. It was a perfect moment.

That night, I listened to a rock cover of Zombie. That song is perfect in any form.

Today, I got my New Zealand travel package ready, with airline tickets and everything. It's hard to believe that "Spring" Break is coming so soon. I've barely done anything for my classes yet.

Tonight, I did something I never thought I'd do: I played Dungeons and Dragons. It was actually a fan-made game loosely based on the rules of Dungeons and Dragons, but it was role-playing nonetheless. The theater group here is really big on the game. We started a new game tonight, and it will last the semester. It was difficult to get started, but after a while, I began to have fun.

It was a lot like creating an epic movie on the spot. Everyone has their character and the gamemaster decides what happens in the plot, but you are free to react in any way. There were 8 players plus the gamemaster.

Our story was set in a sci-fi space world. Our characters started on a planet that was about to be hit by 8 meteors. Most of the spaceships had left the planet evacuating citizens or trying to destroy the asteriods. By the end, there was one egotistical diplomat who managed to get his pilot and medic onto an evacuation ship and do with it as he pleased, ignoring the civilians on board. A smarmy crime boss and a rogue psychic eventually snuck onto a military vessel, after receiving a lot of flack from the Gamemaster. I was an orphaned soldier (like the Artful Dodger, if he were drafted) who happened to get into the personal ship of a Jar-Jar like pilot and his engineer, and we took out two of the asteroids (although the diplomat took all the credit). Two other asteroids were destroyed by other ships, two crashed into major cities and one crashed into the ocean, resulting in a tsunami...wait, that only makes for 7 asteroids. The Gamemaster messed up somewhere.