Mkay so tomorrow we go to sheep island

Mmmmmmmkay

So

Hhhhh
We hafta get up at six

Coz its a long sail, like i said last time its an estimated ten hour total, so like five in and five out and then we hafta set up all the shit when we get there

Its sounds like its gonna be fun, the island (i think) is only like a few square kilometers, Anton said it takes like an hour and a half or so to walk around the whole circumfrence of it along the coast

Me and lars and... i forget who, somebody else, had this dun idea to play capture the flag where the WHOLE ENTIRE ISLAND is fair game
Or hide and seek
Ird be fuckn awesome

We got the lists for what boats were on
Of my friends i only got frederic and trygg
Its cool tho, i dont have any enemies here so yea

But yea were going in a convoy of five boats, and there all anchored in different places i guess, so for instance the boat im on os anchored further down in the fjord, so were gonna sail gor an extra hour, so the guy whos gonna be acting captain of our boat (they got a bunch of students from last year to be captains and firstmates for this trip, we have like eight new people with us) wants us to be EXTRA PUNCTUAL.

HHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhh😩😩😩😩😩😩😩

What else happened-

Gards back, hes good.
He trimmed his hair, and he DMd for us and it was really refreshing
He brought his gurlfriend and she stayed here yesterday and today

Uhhh

Oyea sombody set up a slackline in the lobby, so now we can tight rope any time we want, its really fuckn hard
I thought maybe my stilts practice would translate over but it doesnt really

Uhhhhhh

O i had 2nother beers with ingrid in the woods

We found this cool path that nobody seems to care about that looks over most of the town of rissa
We can see into all kindsa windows lol

We almost fell asleep but then it started to rain

Also Ingrid bought a tent for 600 kroner
~60 bucks

So we didnt really know what to expect like maybe it was gonna be lame or sommn but it SEEMS fine
We set it up in the front yard over here, and its got A LOT more space than my tent lol
Well not that much
But its got a cool fly module to put like bags and boots and stuffs
I THINK the reason it was so cheap was coz its just a casual car camping tent, so like
Not specialized or anything yknow?
Its got like the tarp bottom and the square base like super simple

The only problem is its got shitty stakes and dinky poles
But theyll work fine for now, i think she should get dope ass aftermarket parts

If the tent ends up being worth it of course

But

For the record

My tent is cooler

Uhhhh what else

Oyea i got new raingear coz i lost my raincoat somehow n it was fuckn annoying

So i got some rainboots and some new coatnpants

There GREE÷E÷E÷EN

Lol

FUCK

Odin just told me he came back from trondheim from a magic tournament and he gotsome cards

I MISSED THE CARDS YO

I ddint even know there was one coming out

He got some cards coz he won 4 of 5 matches and i was like b you better openm now else you gonna hafta wait a week n he was like
!!!!!!!
ILL JUST GETM NOW

lol

O also i peept the northern lights AGAIN HEHEH

they were sorta faint

But it still counts yo

But yea i cant really remmeber anything alse, its the fucking weekedn we got to chill a lot so yea

Sbeen like five days

UGruhhhhhhhhh

So its been getting harder and harder to recall shit chronologically coz  stuff is getting routine

For the most part

Lemme just think on some shit

And also peep my last post to remember what happened THEN

--

MKAY (lol its fun pretending that you guys hafta wait for me to do shit even though youll just read through it in five seconds)

So

Last week we were pukcing potatoes and i had my first beer and stuffs

Tyat was when lars fell off a cliff or whatever and hadda get airlifted

But yea, hes back here now but has a
Dislocated shoulder
Stutches above his ear
And is recovering from a concussion

So it was actually a pretty bad fall, and because of that hes taking this coming week off, coz he figured-
O wait i gotta tell yo guys what were doing next week first

Mkay so next week is our first big sailing trip
Were gonna do our first coastal raid, expecting to pull in about 300,000 krones worth in pillage loot
Were going in a comvoy of five boats, donning full traditional coastal raider attire
Itll be about a week long trip

Nah- what were actually doing is sailing to the sheep island
I forget what its called, but tue reason lars is skipping it is coz he doesnt think hell be of much use and hes probably right, but i dont think its worth leaving for a week

I mean, if he needs his time he needs his time
I askedm what he was doing that madem fall and he was like
"Lol ask Aron- i dont even remember"

Hell be fine

But yea, this trip to the sheep island is an expected total of 10 hours on the ocean
Should be pretty cool
What were doing there is were scouting out which sheep are the ones worth brining back to eat
I guess were gonna slaughter one ON THE ISLAND too, and Anton told us that if you wanna eat the mutton you hafta watch the slaughter which i have mixed feelings about

It just seems like
Dramatic, yknow?
Like
I KNOW the meat comes from an animal, and i KNOW that the animal needs to be dead for me to eat it
And like
I think that fact is enough-
I dont think that its a plausible standpoint to be like "No you donno the  full consequence coz youve never actually SEEN the life LEAVE the meat"
That doesnt hold any ground for me man
Idonno
It seems like all high-path-white-knight-wrongful-righteous kinna angle yknow?

Maybe im just an idiot, im sure ill deal with it okay

But yea so we sail onto the island on monday, and itll take all day-
We stay on the island tuesday wednesday thursday-
And leave on friday

Ideally

Other than eating a sheep and scoping out other ones to eat, i donno what were doing there
I dont think itll take three whole days to scope edible sheep yknow?

Maybe were just gonna chill the whole time

Thatd be awesome

Uhhhhhh what else

Me and Ingrid are official now, the news spreads slow but yea

I wont go into details

Id have more pics of us, but she really doesmt like getting her picture taken so eh

Gard still hasnt gotten back to me, but its friday so maybe hell be back tomorrow or something?

He doesnt realize that hes like

Kinna the center for the DnD crew, we cant even play it withoutm

I thought that maybe i could carry it, but i can only carry it when im engaged, and Trygg and Amelia are nooby DMs just like me, so as far as engaging players goes..............
Yea

I havent DMd while he was gone so i donno how id fare but

I dont think very well

But yea, i kinna just wantm to be back

And apparently hes trying to get rid of his laptop, he tried to dump it on trygg but trygggs attached to his (gard wants trygg to have a faster computer)
So yea, maybe ILL end up with it

Thatd be fuckn dope

Annnnnnnd uh

O we went back to the place where we felled all them trees a week or two ago and we pulledm down the mountain

I guess i was wrong when i said the tractor was gonna getm so we went up and down this steep ass fuckn path and dragged down these giant ass logs

Theres this little like

Super dinky bridge at the bottom and uh

When you pull a combined like

5000 pounds over a shittilly constructed bridge
You
You break it lol

We broke the crappy little bridge

We also have a theory that the far side of the bridge- like
The land- is completely hollow underneath so we were scared the whole time that we were gonna be pulling and then all the sudden onna the logs would just collapse this section of land
It woulda been cool, but it didnt happen

And uhhhhhhhh

O yesterday me and trygg were working on a prow or stern or something for one of the boats, and when it was time to plane it we planed a trench into by accident and messed the whole piece up

Yea

Basically we spent all day making an elegantly curved piece of firewood

But uts cool, the new one were working on is all in my hands now

So we wont hafta coordinate the approach

And ive done a smaller one already so yea

I dont like the big autoplaner tho, its too heavy
And unweildy

And kenneth gets cooler all the time

Hes kinna like a combination of Roman and Mr Sullivan

No, not just coz hes a sorta timid scandinavian person

No, not just coz hes an admirable teacher

He also has like a little casual class any time jes the on duty teacher
The on duty teacher is the teacher wholl get called on for emergencies m stuff at night
The teacher who stays and locks up the doors n shit

But anyway-
When its his turn he does cool stuff and hes got all this like
Weird outside knowledge

Like

I looked at his little like leson plan sorta thing on the bulletin board, and onma the days hes on hes gonna teach the basics of fucking AIKIDO
the guy knows AIKIDO

Phhhuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmm

Im forgetting stuff

Still not learning very much norsk

Norwegian class doesnt really help

Uhhhhhhhhh

Oyea, liv is definitely the most badass person here theres no doubt

Her and her family can only get into town via personally owned airplane across like 160 miles

She dogsleds everyday from mid october to late april

She did a presentation of her homestead life in canada

Well i mean she showed pictures and answered questions

So yea she could kick anyones ass for sure

Tomorrow the school packs up for the sailing trip, sunday we chill and mondat we start the raid

GUNIGHT

A lotta sick people, more potatoes and my first full beer

So there was a whole buncha potato pickn
And tons of worms

It got tiring really fast

But we all held out for the most part, some people were sick, some people were "sick" and some people just came straight off and said they werent gonna pick no mo fuckn potatoes.

Ther was gonna be like an "end of harvest" party thing though, so that got us through

Yesterday was the day we actually finishedm off, right before lunch but instead of staying at Nøst for lunch we all went back home and ate the saturday meal which is this like rice porrige stuff (its bland if you dont fix anything on it, but then you toss on some apples, some cinnamon, sugar, all kindsa shit and its pretty good. Its basically oatmeal.)
So after lunch we had the day free all the way to six, when we had to go BACK to Nøst and had this competition thing with multiple events- there where six teams, i was on team five.
There were
I think six events
And the teams rotated between them
The one ku team was at first was this one where you hadda hold a hay bale as long as you could with your arms just horizontal. It was fuckn hard i only got like 30 seconds.
The next one was where you hadda throw an empty aluminum container as far as you could, and i donno it was like a 5 or 6 gallon container or sommn
There was also an extra point awarded if you managed to land it standing up
But none of us got it very far and we didnt get it to land standing so eh
After that one we had like a horeshoes challenge where a hit on the post was one point, hooking it was five and then landing the horeshoe on top was a discussion lol
But yea a couple of us hit a few times
I almost hooked one, but nope
Then we hadda carry as many sticks as possible
My group got like
37 or sommn
These were BIG ASS STICKS
Nthen we hadda straighten as many nauls as possible in two minutes, but really it was who could be the most entertaining coz Joost was bored and also the judge of that event, so we ended up making a human pyramid
The last one was you had to figure out the distinguishing factors between 4 potatoes and 4 types of grain. I knew i couldnt be helpful in that one so i just chilled

So that was the contest, and then it was time for the dinner part of the party.
I sat with Ingrid on my right and Osman on my left.
The table was like REALLY fuckn long coz it had to accomodate like 70 people
We were eating in the second floor of the barn, with like the high ceiling and the big door and ramp on my left with a view across the fjord (it got foggy eventually though, still foggy now)
We ate this stuff called "Rømmegrøt"-yea i donno how to pronounce it either-but its basically yogurt made with sour cream, and you put cinnamon sugar on it
So it was kinna like what we had for lunch except it was

Well it was sourer

Was good though

We also had some deli meat that probly came from an animal at Nøst

Yea so we sang some songs  and cleaned up all the tables and stuff and then it was time for dancing
I knew Ingrid was probly gonna peace out so i kept an eye on her but she stayed
She didnt dance but that okay

So the first dance we did was the same one we did a few weeks ago- the pair based ine where you hafta do whack shit with someone you likely arent very acquainted with.

But yea so i was with this girl named camille, shes danish
Shes nice
Anton ahd us all hold eachothers ears again, then wheelbarrow walking, then one of us had to carry the other, then like
A three legged race typa deal
Its really not so bad

After you get through all the weird stuff you get back into pairs and Anton leads everybody through like
A coordinated line dance, where pairs get paired with pairs, and then the pair-pairs get paired with pair-pairs, so you end up with rows of eight-
And then the rows of eight join end to end and its one big spiraling line that twists inward, and then the inside flips and threads BETWEEN the outer layers.... itd complicate to explain but its real simple

After that dance we did these two like
Circle based dance where everybody links arms and does these cool steps that move the circle around and you hafta sing a song
And you step to the song
Its cool its just some simple coordinated movement but sychronized stepping is really fun coz it makes everybody one and once everybody figured it out you statt to go super fast and beforw you know it youve made a full circle and the song is over

The FINAL dance was basically musical chairs, except with us guys knees
So the girls are the ones actually PLAYING musical chairs, but they hafta sit on one of our knees
That one was fun if you ldont mind having achey knees after (wel i guess it foesnt really matter if your in for like three rounds, but i ended up in like the final 4 sooooooooooo yea)
And of course you have girls sitting on your knees so thats always fun

After that dance it was "kaffe og kake" which is "coffee and cake"
So i grabbed a piece of cake and me, beard lars, ingrid, aron amd cristoffer made a plan to go to a bar and get a single beer.
Thats what me and ingrid had in mind anyway

On the way there Trygg tagged along but he didnt stay for the drink coz he saud alcoholism ran in his gamily so he was just playin it safe, which is understandible.

And i didnt wanna do anything crazy coz id never drank before, AND i didnt have my wallet and wasnt gonna like
Have lars buy me maaaad fuckn booze that i wasnt gonna drink yknow?
So yea lars bought for me, ingrid and Cristoffer at least, i donno about aron-
So we sat outside and chilled with some strangers
I was just there really, obviously i dont speak norwegian so i was just drinking my drink and watching transactions unfold
Occasionally ingrid would turn to me and tell me that the drumk peopel were crazy, that they were really hilarious and behaving QQUITE drunk
One of them could speak english and asked me about VIDEOGAMES of all things- he said he spoke english everyday coz he was always online
And then lars was telling them how i was from new jersey, and he wasnt evwn drunk yet
N i was like "what man? Im from Boston"
So that was about the most excitement

Concerning ME anyway lol

But yea at about 12 or so me and Ingrid left, thanked lars n stuff, yknow the whole "yes rhanks man, see you guys tomorrow"

So me n ingrid walked home and talked abiut how cool the fog looked n she was like "aw man i wish i had my camera" coz apparently she has a cool camera with her thats pretty good that she hasmt taken out since she got here

And we were both planning to sleep in WAYYY late coz today is sunday of course

And we WOULD have except Ingrid had kitchen duty she almost forgot about and the rest of us got woken up ny the fire alarm at 8 30

Yea so we left the building and all that, turns out it was a false alarm of course, and when me and cristoffer got back to our room i was like "hey so you and lars and aron stayed at the bar yea"
N he was like
"Yea... we ended up uhhhh going to a party"
"Wait what?"
"Yea- just eith those peopel we were with"
(Hes talking about the strangers)
"What? Really?"
"Yeaa... Lars got pretty drunk, and he uhm.... ended up falling down."
"O lol is he alright?"
"Uh he fell down like uhh three meters"
"Wait WHAT?" (hes making like this flopping gesture with his hand)
"Yea and there were like rocks. N then he was unconcious for like... ten minutes."
"??????????"
"Yea we called an ambulance, and the cops came."
"???????????????????????"
"And then a helicopter came and flew him to Trondheim."
"Daaaaaaaamn man is he okay?"
"As far as i know hes still ik tromdheim i guess."
"Jeeez man"
"Yea- and then Aron was reeaaaaally drunk"
"What?"
"Yea so i had to walk him home."

Soooo yea

Then we went back to sleep and both slept till like one
Well i slept till like one and then woke up and took a shower, amd he slept till like two
Coz he like

Actually needed it lol

Uhhhhhhhhmm
But in other news

Gård is going back to Oslo for like a week or sommn
Like
Without warning
I donno what the deal is but imma textm just for some clarity
I donno his claim is that we like
Were mean or sommn i donno
Like i said imma textm

But yea
Had a drink
Another person in the hospital
A friend taking a break
Thats about it
Back to boat building tomorrow

Potatoes yo

So yesterdsy at Nøst was easy
We chilled around, leanred some "working techniques" which basically was like
"This is how you use your body the way its supposed to vox you guys are dumb and we had to take 3 of you to the hospital yesterday coz you donno how to use sickles"
But then it was funny, cox three MORE people got hurt, one girl dropped an old plow on herself while learning how to move it properly, another girl got her doot stepped on by one of the horses, and then thomas hurt his SAME KNEE skateboarding st the park (oyesla theres a stright up skatepark like

Almost on campus, its like a two minute walk

Kiinna makes me wanna learn how to skateboard and maybe i will)

But that was yesterday

The one fun thing was we had this challeng to do where we had to get a huge tractor tire, a rope, two wood posts and all members of our team around a loop- the thing was that one of the group members wasnt allowed to touch the ground, so all the sudden the challeneg becomes "how can we turn all this random shit into a method of locomotion"?

Which is why sverre was walkijg on top of the tire

No doubt he saw me walking on a barrel earlier in the day

I think im kinna develiping a name for myself as the guy who can balance on shit

Talkn biut making stilts, walking on barrels and balance beaming across felled trees

And then sitting on the edge of the balcony at night

I like being that guy lol

The main thing from yesterday thiugh was me and ingrid stayed up till 3 in the morning talking

So i emded up sleeping at like 330

And i have her kitchen shift now coz shes still sick, so i had to get up at 6 30

Which i did lol

But turns out, when you only get 3 hours of sleep and theb hafta puck potatoes for a whole day you get really

Fucking

Tired lol

I cant really complain though, it was my own fault

And now me and ingrid are sitting here in the same spots tonight (its only ten though, and im writing this and shes reading a book about three norwegian brothers who become engineers
One runs away to work on railroads in africa, and hasta fend off droughts, lions and canabals
One stays in norway and builds the (still standing) railroad from oslo to bergen
And it turns out the third ones gay and he decides to abandon railroad vyilding and run off with a german lord i guess lol

She says its good

So basically maybe well stay up again, though i think we both got smart from it so maybe not

But as for today

Today was boring ISH, it wasnt horrible

I mean obviously i was tired as fuck
And we picked potatoes all day once we started i just put my headphones on and listened to waaaaaaaaayyyyyyy too much radiohead, like im talking like 6n a half hours of these guys

I have a new appreciation for them now, which is good
And i found the song "decks dark" on their new album and like
Holy shit
Dope fuckn song

But as far as the headphones went, they worked pretty good
I think if it werent for the music ida been in a way worse mood
All my friends are suck as shut anyway, so i could onky talk to like
People i only sorta knew

So i just samg a whole bunch, and then at dinner i found a buncha radiohead fans coz thehy were all like

"He yea so that was radiohead you were singing right"

Amd that was good

O AND ALSO

i found someone wholl listen to the MGS preaching-
Its lars #3

Beardlars

He came up to me and was like

"So that patch is from mgs1 right"
N i was like

!

'Hell yea it is bro"

N then he asked me if i knew anythijg about the konami kojima drama n i was like
"O BOY DO I- HIS NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH SONY IS GONNA GIVE GREAT THINGS, HIS NEW GAME WILL BE AMAZING"

N then i amped him up enough for MGS the SERIES that he told me to stop talking about it coz spoilers coz he "realized he needed to play it"

And i was JUST about to showm the legacy trailer for Phantom Pain too

Its got spoilers thoooooo so

I couldnt showm coz itd ruin it

Sorta anyway

Uhhhhh what else

Ill still be ok kitchen duty tomorrow

And the guys im on with are pretty funny, this guy named Robin and this girl.named Helle

I cant speak norwegian obviously so they tell me they have this joke with eachother where when they donno what to do with something they think about just doing the easiest (obviously WRONG) thing, and the joke is that theyed vlame me and be like "nah, he doesnt know norwegian, its okay"

But yea i think thats about all thays goin on

Today was sunny, but its still mostly rains

I guess thats fall in norway for ya

I cant wait for the leaves to turn, the fjords are gonna look BEAUTIFUL

Maybe ill be able to upload pics by then

The weekend and Nøst

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmkay

So

We went to trondheim on saturday
It was a lot of us too

Like

Mosta the DnD guys went, but then there were all these separate parties that went too, just on their own accord
Like half the school wemt basically, all independently deciding to go with their respective groups.

It was kinna cool the entire back of the 450 was us fosenites

The trip to trondheim was kinna unremarkable
I mean we stopped at a comic store and we all geeked out for like two hours across all kinds of stuff
Yall maybe saw my snapchats- with pics of like
Big boss
And raiden
And metal gear ray
And the hunter gunship and whatnot
I got a Shadows over Innistrad fatpack for magic but didnt pull anything that cool
Also fat packs are like ~45 bucks here unstead of like 30 in the US, so it kinna sucks to buy them

We also stopped at gamestop
And gård bought me another thing unsolicitedly (if thats a word)
He got me tri force heroes for the DS- which was great, and i would play it

Exceeeeept we all neglected to remember that American DSs cant run EUROPEAN games for some stupid nintendo marketing reason

So yea, now i have a copy of a game i cant play

The other thing we did at gamestop was i managed to convince frederic to get DARK SOULS III
He has it set up in his room now- his room is like right across the hall from mine so.......
Its time to DSIII it up nahmean?

So yea that was saturday

N then yesterdaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy

O wait

Todays tuesday right?
Uhhhg
I donno
Well sunday was super fuckn chill

I slept in past breakfast n stuff

I taught (or reminded i guess) frederic how to play magic
N then Odin made him a deck yesterday

Hhh shit i know we did stuff on sunday
Like as a group

It was a free day buuuuuut what did i do?

Hhhhhh maybe it was just DnD

Yesterday was elective day
Thats mondays now
We have electives, so on monday ill be doing textiles stuff
Probly gonna end up learning how to knit and crochet and stuff
Probly be pretty neat
I dont think its quite engaged me yet but ill get there
The language barrier is a huge problem in that class, im the only english speaker.

After electives we played DnD where Trygg DMd
Hes alright
Hes got more to learn than me i think, but my opinion is obviously biased lol
We were using new characters for it too-
The figurines we oredered online havwnt come yet but were all mostly using the characters we designed around the figurines.
So for me that was naive pirate kiddo
Hes so young he doesnt have a class

After DnD i found out that Odin plays advance wars, so i gotta fightm at some point

I ended up teaching Ingrid how to play, and found out that shes a bad loser, and self concious about it

We talked until about 1:30 in the morning

Which

Which is good

Shes on kitchen duty right now, and she hates it i guess

You hafta get up at like 6

Sucks

Anyway today we went to Nøst, the school farm
In the first part of the day i sharpened log edges and debarked them, so they could be fire-hardened and turned into fenceposts.

Me and gard were doing it
It was fun actually, i like axework and debarking

At lunch i found out that trygg cutmself with a scythe and hadda get stitches (only three hes alright)
N then i found out that synne did the same thing (i donno how many stitches she got though, but shes walking around with a bandaid on her arm too, so i guess she hadda get a tetanus shot too)
N then ingrid cut herself but hers wasnt bad
N then of course after lunch i had to go cut wheat
With a scy- well actually their sickles
But yea so needlesd to say i wasnt very excited, if it wss that easy to cut yourself lol

I was fine, but its not as fun as sharpening logs

Their MAY be pictures of me doing wheat stuff on fosens facebook, anton was taking pics of us

But yea when we came home today i put my laundry in and then sat in the laundry room for like maybe 45 minutes with ingrid

Just us chilln

Thomas came down and talked about skateboarding shoes

And harold came down and i hadda tellm where i put all his underwear coz it was in the machine i booked

But yea then me and ingrid went upstairs and she rushed into the bathroom-
And im like
Ah shit
Coz i kniw theres a stomach bug going around, magnus was barfing this morning

And its like
Without warning

Yea so she comes back out and shes on kitchen duty so she had to ask me to spot her for kveldsmat, which is easy coz you just put out leftovers basically-
So i had to learn the ropes for a norwegian kitchen in like five seconds (i mean we dont do any cooking)
And i washed dishes afterward
But the problem is, since ingrid is SICK

She cant tske kitchen duty

So im stuck doin it for luke two more days

Which means I GOTTA GET UP EARLY

Its okay though, i know Ingrid really hates in
In a weird specific way

Amd it doesnt bother me

And i can have her spot me 2 days when its my turn
<:)

Mostly though i just want her to feel better
Also i dont wanna catch it
Gard told me that hea almost threw up like five hours ago
He said "outta nowhere"
So thats kinna scary

Maybe food poisoning?

I donno

Gard had a word for it, maybe its some weird norwegian shotgun virus

Im being careful

Mmmmmmmmwhat else

O lol

Gard and frederic are luke
CONVINCED me and Ingrid are hiding a relationship

And idonno

Itll probly happen, but its really unclear atm

Im being cautious, basically playing mirror right now

The reason Gard and Frederic are so suspicious tho is coz i wasnt at DnD, so Gard called me-
I answered (and i was on the balcony singing radiohead alone, coz i forgot about DnD) but i TOLD him i was in the basement hanging laundry, which i had been doing 5 munutes prior.
So gard hangs up-
And i just head to the library
Amd i get to the library and i dont find gard
And he asks me where i was
N i toldm i was at my room (i pretty much was, the balconys like five steps from my room)
But he claims he checked, AND he checked the basement, and i was at neither of those places
And of course im laffing my ass off at this point coz i see where hes going-
And then ge says that he walked past ingrids room and heard her talking
And i dont have an answer to that, coz how the hell would i know whp she was talking to-
But of course to him hes like
"OH- OKAY. Gaeb, Liessen, I doncare what you gise do- but i joss don want yo to get seeck, i need you for being a DM"

So thats pretty hilarious

I donno how ingridll react to it

Coz yknow gards pretty perceptive
Infact, overly so, drawing connections like he did.

But he means well
Cant blame m

But yea thats about it for today
Gotta get to sleep early anyway, with the kitchen shit

A harmony of chainsaws

Mkay
So
Im back from the felling

And man

It was nice i guess

None of the DnD crew is in my class except for trygg, so the DnD was at the back of my mind for the whole time.
And i guess me trygg and ingrid are forming kind of a trio of friends, or we did over the trip anyway.

So yea
The first day, we all piled in the van and threw all our crap in the wood trailer thing.
Wahts cool is that the site where we actually get the timber from is only like five miles away.
Its this farmer dude's property, and he has a secrion of old forest, and he wants to clear it to make muney.
So its kinna a little fucked up coz its like
Historic forest, but hes deforesting it regardless, so if it isnt us cutting it down, somebody else is, in which case its turned into like
Normal furniture
But US at the FOLKEHØSKOLE know how to turn the wood into cool boats
So i guess thats the logoc we follow
Works for me i spose

But yea

So we drove to this shooting range (made a quick stop at the chainsaw shop to get spare parts for the "mutersag" i think is the norsk) stopped in the parking lot, grabbed our personal packs and loaded up with some common use equipment, and walked up a steep ass hill to the a surprisingly marshy mountain side.

We chilled for a bit and the kenneth taught us how to fell trees and lemme tell ya sommn-
The way you fell trees for boat buildimg is like
30 times harder than just cutting for timber like i did at paul smiths.

ALSO, its actually kind of impossible to fell trees in this way in the US, because the comdition of the actual forest floor will not permit it.

Mkay
So when your building a boat, you gotta make it strong obviously
And to make something strong you gotta work with the grain of the wood
Now i still dont understand norsk, i donno EXACTLY what its for, but these longboats have this certain piece thats bent-
I think it might be for prows and sterns-
And in order to make this strong enough for the boat structure to hold, you need a root attached to the trunk so that you can use the trunk/root transition in the bent part of your boat, so there is no joinery required in the bend, and the junction is extremely strong, because the root hasta hold up like
A 2000 pound tree

SO
when you cut these things down, you hafta dig down to the roots

The reason this is EVEN POSSIBLE up here in scandanavia is coz the forest floor is like a foot or a foot n a half of marshy moss layer. (theres blueberries fucking EVERYWHERE, great for snack breaks, we all looked pretty hilarious- buncha viking loggers walking around with chainsaws and blue lips and fingertips; it gets on your clothes too)

Yea so in the US our forests have like
The hard dirt or pine needle packed ground
Well
For new england i guess

Yea but since it was marshy i remembered my boots sucked pretty quick
I mean
Same thing i said earlier- its nice to not hafta pour water out my shoe, but they provide NO water resistance whatsoever, sooooooo....
Yea
I think next time we ho out imma take my new boots even though im not very confident in THEIR water resistance either.

Yea so basically we sawed some shit down, and i was scared of the chaisaws for a bit, but then i got used to m

I felled two trees
And debranched one and a half with a chainsaw
I was sharing equipment with ingrid and lois
For the most part i was with will and ingrid tho, with lars helping the three of us

Ingrid ate so many blueberries

Uhmmmmm

OYEA

A TREE ALMOST FELL ON ME

So
Mkay
Will and lars where cutting one down
And im standing next to them, down a small hill like
Idnonno ten feet away (oyea these types of forests are UNFORGIVINGLY hilly, like with little cliffs n valleys and semi visible pits and micro caves and misleading mossbeads that are actually flowing creeks)
But yea
So the three of us are all facing the same way, im digging to the roots of the one im working on and will n lars are almost through the one their cutting
We expect it to fall FORWARD, away from us.
But yea so lars and will pause, their like
Stuck
Trying to reevaluate theur approach with the saw, while i continue to dig
And i had this feeling, just from standing under that tree at the bottom of that hill
I was like "hm that really looks like it COULD fall on me, but i trust lars"
So i was already kinna ready for it
But yea, im diggin and im diggin n then alla sudden
Lars is just like
"GABE MOVE OUT OF THE WAY GO BACK"
N i was thinkn "lol i totes called it"
So i just dropped the diggn tool and booked it like thirty feet back
Amd good thing

The tree landed exactly where i was standing

Lars was like "well that was unexpected"

But yea i made it fine

It was kinna cool, really

Its a good way to know what your doing is REAL yknow?
O shit, you coulda almost died, but your okay

Lol

But yea so there was a lot of cutting
And some wet feet
And a buncha blueberry eating
And some nice views of the farmalnd below

O shit also there was like a million ticks (frlott i norsk, i donno how its ACTUALLY spelled tho, and you say it fast enough that it just sounds like "flot")
I was surprised i didnt know ticks liked marshland
Ticks here are way smaller
Just
Fuckn
Devilish

I didnt have many, but i did get some
Checked myself thrice over in the shower today

I guess lymes disease is less common here

O i also found out that lard had lymes diseas AND it came with bels polsy AND menangitis, just like me

It sounds like his spinal tap was worse tho

There was this other bug there too

They callm tree wasps

I think that thwir real similar to parasitic wasps, like the ones in the US, except they look scarier coz they look like
Just big huge wasps like thumb sized
Theyre real docile tho
They buzz really loud when they fly, and they land on you
I got one on my shoulder, kenneth got one on his wrist

But yea after all the cutting we went up the mountain soem more to our camp which i guess some guys made while the rest of us cut more

It was a nice camp site

I threw my small knife into a tree succesfully at least 40 times, once on a streak of like 12 in a row
It was cool

It wasnt that far away tho only like ten or twelve feet

I did this cool thing with my BIG knife too
There was this old stump, yknow with its flat surface up

Like a table

So i took my big knife and i was making it do double flips and sticking it into the stump
It was cool coz the rotational landing was opposite the dirwction of travel so it was kinna like
A knife Gainer (a gainer is where you do a back flip but move forward)
I only made that stick like twice tho
Trygg saw both times so it counted lol

But yea then we ate camp food ontop of a fjord and stayed up around the fire and had conversations in norsk

Well i listend to them anyway

They talked about norwegian cinema coz i heard names like nicolas cage and liam neeson and paul walker

And then we talked about how GMOs are illegal here, and how the US is crazy
The US being lawless and insane comes up a lot

And then Thomas told this story about how he got a TEENY tick under his foreskin
And he was supwr drunk
And didnt know what to do
And all the people he was drunk with where really interested

It was funny

And i think soon after that i went to my tent and crashed

The next day

I woulda taken more pics but my fone was dead by then

We did more cutting, and we did a lotta hauling of logs

The morning was alright

The weather was okay, my shit dry, so i packed it easy

We walked down, kenneth showed us how to haul, and we got into hauling teams with ropes and pulled some shit out while some other people felled some more

It started raining at like
Lunchtime
And it SUCKED
coz it was a MARSH
and it has all these invisible moss covered creeks so youll be walkn n then alla sudden *SQWELCH* your whole foot is in muddy gross mountain water, except instead of just a little bit dripping into my boot its like
10 oz
Instantly soaking my wool sawcks :'''''''''''''''''''(

I was okay tho

The work keeps ya WARM
And lemme tell ya
Haulimg 450-750 pound logs across "UNFORGIVINGLY hilly, like with little cliffs n valleys and semi visible pits and micro caves and misleading mossbeads" is a lotta fuckn work.
N then you do it for 8 hours
In the rain
With non waterproof boots
In a marsh

Theres a point where you just dont even give a FUCK though
Like
I was wearing JEANS
the worst thing to wear in the rain
My legs and feet wear soaked
Like id been in a pool yo

But its just like
Who cares?

Lol

So you keep pulling your logs
And you pull your rope

And you stumble over Tryggs feet,
And crush your OWN foot under a log
And you step in an invisible creek
And you put your hand straight into a glob of sap
And you slip on the wet moss
And you get squished behind the rope
And you get gutted by a protruding stick
And you get sawdust all down your shirt

And it is so
Fuckn
Fun

In a really strange way
Like
Its not fun when you do it,
But you know that nothingll come of your current discomfort
And you know you have a job to do
So you do it
And then your in the van next to shirtless, smelly, punk-suspers-wearing, freshly arm tattoed (he got it like monday its actually a dope tat he designed it himself) lois, and your like
Damn

We all got wet

We pulled some shit

We hurt ourselves

We cut some shit

We got some ticks

N we aight

So yea we pulled all day and the sky eventually cleared up
We just pulled the logs to the top of the entering path, so we didnt actually hafta take them anywhere, but the furthest pull was maybe 300-350 feet across the same treacherous terrain.

We had som downtime now and again
Kenneth likes to encourage thw slow pace work, he knows its hard

So i found this one felled tree (the top half that we DONT use, we only take the root and about 3-4 meters of the trunk) bridging a PARTICULARLY large mini valley, with, by then, quite a formidible hidden creek, this was after the rain.
Passivley, i dexided to cross it like a slackline, and i did.
Like twenty times.
And i got sort of a contest going, a contest of which i remain the best. ;)
Anyway, the point is that now me and Thomas wanna make/acquire a REAL slackline just for the school campus, and complete its image as an American white people college campus
(Fucking Will rashed my life for that joke "actually its not a college" like-
Hhhhh okay dude i fucking know- technically the whole "white people" joke doesnt even apply here its fucking norway fucking everybody is fucking white, you dont hafta tell me my goddam joke is invalid FUCK")

But yea
We finay came down the hill to the parking lot
And dropped off our crap
And pulled a few more trees to an accesible location on the path, these last few at the bottom of the hill.
One of the ones we got from here was so huge we hadda get the whole class to pull it, even WITH the cool pulley system.

But yea

The last thing was kenneth gave us a little mini lesson on trees
Im norsk of course

Amd im happy coz he made a joke IN NORWEGIAN and i got it
There was this branch sticking out the side of a tree pointing up and he was like
(In english)
"So what is this?"
(N then in norwegian)
"Trecok?"
N everybody laffed, coz it means tree dick
So
Arguably its not that hard of a trandlation to make
But it was nice lol

And tbh it really did look like a tree dick

Hhhhhhhhh
But yea
Then we drove home and left all the logs for the landowner to pull out with his tractor problyyyyyyyy tomorrow

We got back just in time for dinner

And when i got to my dorm i found all the fuckn chocolate in my bed lol

If you follow my snapchat or instagram youll see a pic of it

Its like
Fuckn
32 huge ass candy bars that frederic and magnis left in my bed
It was funny coz gard beought me to my room, n was like
"Hey gabe i gotchi sommn"
N i found the two Urges (soda) at my pillow
N he was like
"Yea ya see anything else?"
N so that made me suspicious
N i pulled my covers back and BOOM

32 CANDY BARS

and these things are
Fuckin
Huge

Like

Maybe twice or even THREE TIMES
As big as those king size hersheys
Its like
One pound per bar
Im not even shitting you

But yea they actually gotm all for free
Ysee there was this little micro lesson on DUMPSTER DIVING earlier in the week, and so frederic snd magnus went and did it
I guess its TECHNICALLY not legal, but as long as you go late at night no one cares
And they found like
A two full crated of these raisin and hazelnut "melksjokolade"'s (just means milk chocolate)
All of the bars perfectly wrapped and a whole year before expiry

Apparwntly they dont kike this flavor, but they took a crate back anyway just to fuck with me coz they new i wasnt here

Its pretty fuckn funny

But yea i give out more than just OUR candy now, now im a chocolate guy too

Its like a whole years supply so yea

Ill put a snap up for how big these things are

Actually speaking of candy, i need more mccreas BAD
What very little i have left is all weather-affected and sticks to the cello

After all that we played some DnD

Not a particularly memorable session

Well actually i tried to escape being tied to a post usig my new hook hand but got such a bad roll my hook fell off lol
N then we got saved by dwarves
And we ysed the bew figurines, ao theres this group of dwarves and their captain is avtually from the zweiguy set, so its all these shott dwarves and this guy marketed as a human-
The story gard made for him though is he actually IS a dwarf, he just HAPPENS to be really tall, and the dwarfs follow him into battle because of that
so lol
A dwarf taller than me
EXCEPT
i talked to him in a quiet moment, and it turns out, hes actually NOT a dwarf-
Hes a defecting imperialist-
The royal empire is colonizing this island, which happens to be tha home of a huge dwarf civilization, so the dwarved fight back
Now this guy "the great collosus" decides he hates the empire, and joins the dwarves
Normally they wouldnt letm in coz dwarves are like that, except the empire created this brainwashing mist to assist their takeover, ao "the great collosus" is using the mist to keep them beleivikg hes a dwarf.
The funny thing about the mist is that its heavy, so it rolls like dry ice, and dwarves, being shorter, are effected sooner coz their mouths and noses are closer.

But yea thats the jist of DnD today

And uhhhhhh
That may be all i think

Yea

Hhhhhhhhh this place

Okay

Uhm

Fair warning

If this place like
Gets really tight

And like

I get norwegian down

Like

I cant really tell whats selling me on this place so hard but like

I can feel it building
Its building a nest inside my chest

Like

I can preemtively feel the pain of leaving

Ive only been here three weeks and im not even completely settled yet

Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh shit

Well i dont hafta think about any of this shit now
Like as far as staying another year or that kinna shit is concerned

As far as yesterday and today went tho- we didnt have clads yesterday, coz it was like a final tour thingie and then like a run through of like
The extra stuff the school has to offer and junk

Like i signed up for the woodshop class which is run by kenneth but its just casual woodstuffs

So we had a buncha free time after lunch yesterday, which is how we got time to fill and heat the "Stamp" which is the hot tub

Its sooooooo nice

It wasnt so hot yesterday though

Even with the fire coming out the top of the chimeny

I dont really remember yesterday

OH THATS NOT TRUE
Gards package came, and it had all little mini guys in it for DnD so we glued some together and did a little bit of painting

They look pretty cool so far

Oh also maja cut my hair, she managed to get a buzzer from uhiuh SOMEBODY.

I paid for it in caramel
(Which im nearly out of btw guys)

Today we had class again

I planed an entire boat stern, a lotta work but fun.
Yea it was funny Malte (the assistant boat buildimg teacher) just came up to me and was like
"You have somethin to do"
N i was like
"Yea, sorta- last time i was here i was cutting out bailers, but didnt get to finish"
"M- well do this instead"
And he just handed me this big curved piece of wood and was like
"Dont plane past these lines"
N im like
??????????- "mkay cool"
It was actually pretty great
I mean the grain on the piece of wood was a mess, so the actual act of planing it was a real challenge coz i hadda change direction ALL THE TIME but it was fun

N then it was dinner
And after dinner i was antsy, donno why
I paced for like an hour until i forced myseld to sit down and listen to REALLY LOUD OBNOXIOUS MUSIC
Namely "come to daddy" by aphex twin

And it actually worked lol

Then we went down into the basement and like 50 people watched kenneth use a lathe
Which looms really fuckin fun BTW
it was so funny tho he told us all yesterday he was gonna do a lathe demonstration and expected like twelve people amd then more than half the school came to see
Looks really fun

I mean the presentation was all in norwegian, but like i said in an earlier post (i dont rmember which) a whole lot can be understood WITHOUT language

And by then the Stamp was ready again
It can have the same water in it for up to two days

So yea i went in there

It was me, maja, lars, frederic and other frederic, nanna, joost annnnnnnnnnd halvar
Yallv only heard about maja frederic lars i think
Me and the two frederics were the only ones wearin anything at all
------
Soooooooo
Yea
Its weird its onna those things where insteada being weirded out by poeple around you being a certain way, your weirded coz YOUR not

Ill hafta work up to it i think

What else happened today

I got another compliment on my sing-
O I REMEMBER

Pffffffffffffffff
Imma just gonna come clean man-
Will drives me fucking INSANE
goddaaaammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I wont rant to hard, yall didnt come here to hear me complain about people
He told me to stop singing, it was "too annoying"
Which id normally have been only a little jaded and disapponted by, except he was fucking HOLDING CONSTRUCTION RATED EAR PROTECTION IN HIS HAND-
NOT TO MENTION THE FUCKING BANDSAW GOIN IN THE BACKGROUND
i mean, as far as i know, bud, everybody else here sees it as a neat little character trait.
Annoying?
Maybe, except peoplell join in, or dance, or ask me what im singing
Its a form of socialization bro

Shit i said i wouldnt rant
Its hard to hold back
He might come up later guys, im apologizing in advance

Hell figure it out, ill just hafta avoidm until then
Somebodyll showm whats what

Anyway

I gotta pack for a trip actually
Were goinna the woods tomorrow to get some more timber
Gonna fell some trees with just the boat class
Gonna be out tommorow and come back friday

Gnight

Mandaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhg

Mmmmm so tday was interesting i spose
No DnD unfortunately, tho gard is gonna have me DM a game over the weekend with people ive never DMd for before and he wont be there so
Uhhhh
Yea thatll be interesting
Specially coz theyve never played before so yea

But anyways
Today was gonna be a berry picking day (and it was, for your average student)

But us foreignerz-
Me, Maja, Trygg, Theresa, Liv and Will
We hadda go into Trondheim to do residency stuff
So we took the bus in, took the ferry across and the bus the resta the way (its real cool you take the bus and the bus goes on the ferry amd you ride the same bus off. You can get off the bus and buy snacks n shit on the ferry but you can juat stay on the bus)
Anyway the first place we wanted to go was right next to the bus stop
I forget what its called but we didnt exactly know what it was, we just new that the staff recommended we go there.
We thouggt it was for insurance n stuff maybe
But it turns out it was the place regarding taxes (coz state taxes are a big thing in norway coz theyre relatively socialist, so all the stuffs governmentally run with the free health caren shit.)
So the reason we were recommended to go there was so the state didnt try to take taxes from us as were not actually norwegian citizens
But they told us we had to go get the residency styff first, at thw police station, which makes sense coz we need proof were from other countries.

Problem was, they were gonna close in half an hour, so we were gauranteed to miss actually registering for that, so now we hafta go back like
Next weeked or whatever

Anyway we split up coz Maja needed to get here ukele fron the place she stayed at vefore she came to the school

So she did that and then the rest of us followed will across the whole city to getm a sleeping bag.

Then we all met up at the police station and went through the resodency stuff.
I was first, and sorta scared coz i didnt know what i was really doing hut they just took my fingerprints and some pics and asked for my passport-
And the residency card is in the mail.
Easy as that, it was like 3 minutes lol

We THOUGHT about staying in trondheim to catch the LATER bus back, but we decided not to coz today was the first "house meeting". Im not really sure what that is, but basically the school is broken up into six groups and then we meet up at certain teachers ON CAMPUS houses and like
Get the run down on comings up and goings on.
We went to ANTONS house and

Holy shit his house is cool

I shoulda taken pics, ill do it on the next meeting

Its hard to explain
I guess i could say that theres like
A central wood staircase with all the houses facilities branching out

Its completely wood btw

But yea the ride back from trondheim was really chill
Maja fell asleep like
All over me
And then i fell asleep
And i woke up on the ferry and then it rocked me back to sleep
And i was listening to radiohead

N it was nice

And then we got here
And we ate kveldsmat
Which was the other reason we wanted to come back "early", coz otherwise wed have gotten back at like 9 or sommn
Kveldsmat is at like seven

And then more chilln after
Student lars showed me some pretty hilarious norwegian parody music, these guys called "kollektivet"

Their best is "wash my ass like a man" followed by "just standing here"
Omg theres a part in "just standing here" that i think you would really like dad
Its so unexpected
I think its onna those things were you just completely loss your shit
Oyea and show them to rowan
Their KINNA explicit but hes fine i think

But yea thats about all that happened today
All in all a pretty nice day i think

Mmmmmmm sundays

Sundays are so nice

We get to sleep in to like 930

So i did of course

Sunday js like
Norway's national lazy day

Like
Everything is closed, no schedules run, and everybody relaxes

So for the first half of the day i sat in the wifi room and watched youtube videos for like three hours

That was kinna boring i GUESS but eh

I ended up watching macgyver episodes with Emelie, Gard, Ingrid and Maja

We all kinma made fun of it it was great

We switched to kontiki when the internet started fuckn around

N then we had dinner, but AFTER dinner is where stuff started getting interestingu

So we started up some DnD

We were coming up from a dungeon and ended up in the town we STARTED in from like a week ago, turns out the ship we landed here was xarryijg the plague so the whole fuckn place was just completely fucked
Just from our PRESENCE there lol
Amyway
Our goal was to secure a ship, and the navy happend to be in port
There was 9 imperial navy ships in port and we all decided that i should be the guy to try to procure one coz i still have that imperial navy disguise
So i go down to the docks while the other guys dig through the burned down houses (burned down coz i guess the local jurisdiction decided to burn the plague houses)
So i ask a nearby captain if i can commandeer his ship because i have special orders from the KING HIMSELF-
He doesnt REALLY take my bluff, ao he redirects me to the admiral.
I talk to the admiral and apparently ship 13 is without crew OR captain, because the captain was so incompetent that the crew made off with all the shit and abandoned ship.
So now the navy is stuck with an extra, run down ship.
Of course he wasnt about to give it to us for free, so i manage to convince him to give me the ship if i follow his convoy and pay certain STEEP fees of reinstatement and promotion from OFFICER (lol fake officer, coz im still not ACTUALLY part of the navy) to CAPTAIN.
he tells me i have an hour to form a crew from in town and he gives me a couple of extra deck hamds from his own ship.
Of course instead of actually recruiting new guys i just grab the rest of the players, and it turns out theyve found some neat stuff in the houses-
8 50 kilo barrels of PURE sugar, a valuable luxury in these times
30 steel ingots from the foundry
And somethijg like 40 kilos of dried fruit
So we take the sugar and the dried fruit onto the ship (not enough time to get the ingots unfortunately)
(We took the suhar coz 1 we all have sweet tooths and 2 its actually really good for trading and selling, we all rolled for history checks and Magnus "remembered" that its actually super valuable.

ANYWAY

were now leading a navy convoy (the admirals right behind us coz he wants to watch how good we are, were under scrupulous eyes as new crew)
So were tryijg to figure out how to shake these guys and escape with the ship
When all the sudden we see a rowboat being lowered into the water, the admiral gets in with 4 gaurds.
So were like ah shit
So he comes up to our deck
I askm what he needs, coz im acting captain
BUT
BEFORE HE CAN SAY ANYTHING
THERES AN EXPLOSION BEHID US-
The last ship in the line is on FIRE
All of us are like
???????????
Admiral is like
SHIT ALL HANDS RETURN TO MY SHIP-
but before action can be had BOOM
two more tailing ships explode
Its a convoy of nine
Magnus is up the mast, so he peeps out over there and he sees a monstrous, mysterious darkly painted three masted (probably a frigate) behind all the smoke-
He makes a particular observation; he sees about fifty IMPERIAL NAVY division flags all strung on the same line...
Between two masts of this huge three masted beast....
This sends the admiral into panic, were on our own
So i
As acting captain
Command the four gaurds he brought to immediately set to work unfurling all sails, were not equipped to fight a giant gunship like this-our craft is in shambles to begin with
So were trying to run away as all the remaining ships go down one by one-
We take down our division flag, #63
But its already too late
Theyve locked on
They fire once, but theyre far enough away that they miss

We decide a smoke screen could work, and all us wizards conjure up a particualrly effective one
Peoblem is now we cant see either
So we just focus on the flee

They couldnt see, we couldnt see, so a collision occurs lol
We sieze the opportunity to try to light them on fire with more arcana magic
And we succeed
Theres a few moments of relative peace, we hear a scary growling language from the smoke
Then silence
BUT THEN
POUM- OUT OF THE SMOKE IS A GRAPESHOT BLAST-
WE ALL ROLL FOR ACROBATICS TO DODGE IT.
Magnus dives to the floor without a scratch, Amelia gets grazed on her arm, i lose my right hand, Frederic was below deck, and TRYGG... o man he takes it FULL FORCE TO THE GUT. hes lucky it didnt cutm in HALF, he rolls for wndurance and takes it kike a boss, probly assisted by magic.
And MORE
A LOUD CRASH ON THE STARBOARD SIDE
AND THE SOUND OF DRAWING SWORDS AND STOMPING BOOTS
THEYVE BOARDED US

The admiral is hiding in the captains quarters
And a gigantic ORC CAPTAIN steps RIGHT up to me
He says that he was entertained by our fight, he figured such a shitty ship would go down in five seconds, but us humans have a pretty good spirit.
I figure its not enough to keep us alive.
He wants us to come onto his ship and play some GAMES.
i try my best to keep us on OUR (well... the NAVYs) ship.
He wants our division flag, but hes an orc pirate so he would never settle for just a square of fabric, turns out hell take the flag amd kill us for fun if we dont have anything to offer.
So i say
"Yknow the ADMIRAL of the Navy is on our ship RIGHT NOW. Think of all the division flags you could have with HIM under your control."
"HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA- IF YOU HAVE THE ADMIRAL ON THIS SHIP ILL JUMP INTO THE SEA."
so i say to frederic
"First mate- go grab the admiral i saw him run into the captains quarters."
Sure enough, we pull the the admiral up to the Orc Captain
"WELL ILL BE DAMNED."
hes a pirate though
gard ROLLED for the jump, but as an orc AND a pirate hes a backstabbing asshole, and instead of jumping into the ocean he cuts off the admirals head.
Just when im running out of ideas, tryg steps in.
Tryggs character was born in a dungeon and hes now 30 years old. This whole ordeal is his FIRST day on the surface.
Naturally he knows rhis dungeon like nobodys business.
So he says:
"EXcuse me mister Orkar sir- but if you let us live i can take take you to a cavern of IMMEASURABLE WEALTH (lol the rest of us guys didnt find any but anything to shake these orc psychos)
The orc doesnt buy it at first but there was some funny shit that happened outside the game at that moment and gard laffed his ass off so the Orc ended up lolling at Trygg (tryggs character is named trygg) and the orc decided hed follow us to the caves JUST because trygg had a sense of humor.
So
HOLY SHIT basically
These guys could have OWNED us
thet board their own ship
And we turn around
Were headed back to the island now.

But we gotta lose these bastards.
Theyre bad fuckn news.
We have NO WAY to take these guys on.

Or do we?

Now of course we all beleive we dont
And turning a side and attempting a broadside will get us killed, the pirates would know immediately what we werre doing and probly
1beat us to it, hitting us before hand and killiing us instantly (yea its like a 150 gun frigate)
2 take the hit like a boss coz we dont know what were doing and can only load 6 of our 80 guns at once, and then when its time to firem probly MISS coz none of us are actually sailors.

So were thinkn.
Were thinkn.
And then we remember

when we were in the dungeon where we found trygg, we encountered these creatures with the ability to turn people into stone.
Their power came from these crystals.
So, after an arduous battle, we killed all of them. (o lol one ofm actually grabbed my wrist but then DIED, and since theyre statues that tirn people into statues i know have a bracelet on my LEFT wrist of a hand, grabbing my wrist.)
So, as curious dungeon raiders, we find their powers stones, and on a history check, find that these gems are QUITE valuable and have the power to freeze people into stone.
So we steal three with the intention of selling them later.

ANYWAY,
WE REMEMBER THESE THINGS.

It just so happens that our ship has three AFT FACING CANNONS, and our threat is in PURSUIT.
So we make this devious ass plan
Were gonna fortify each gem, so they dont explode omin the cannons or on impact with the ship's hull, and then were gonna shootm out and hope for the best.
Coz
A stone ship with a stone crew aint sailin nowhere.

The cool thing was
That while we were devising this
We could SEE on GARDS FACE (coz hes the DM) that he was like FUCK coz he forgot about the "paralyzing gems", and if this WORKED, his WHOLE ENTIRE CAMPAIGN was fucking SCRAPPED.
so he was actually trying to figure out ways to get us to NOT do it
Except of course he hasta do it THROUGH THE GAME.
So were were being mad cautious, coz we KNEW that he was gonna try to screw us on it.
So we were sneaking everywhere and stuff so the pirates wouldnt get suspicious
And we used history n shit to make sure we had the most possible knowledge on how to fire cannons
And we searched the room to find anything that could help us aim the guns n shit
We actually found a book on aiming cannons in the library of the captains quarters.
(At this point gard kinna wanted it to work too but he wasnt gonna just give it to us yknow?)
So we load the cannons, i roll a 19 for the load, trygg rolls a 17 and melia rolls a 9.
So two cannons are loaded right, and ones loaded eh
We then fortify the gems, and one is fortified SO BADLY (AHEM TRYGG) that it actually BREAKS (10000 fuckn gold GONE) but ones fortifies with a 17, (well fortified) and the other fortified with a 20 (it starts to GLOW)
and then
We fire the well fortified one
It hits, but the stone effect doesnt happen-
And were all like FUCK
Was this in fact
A horrible idea?
Are we about to spend 30000 fucking gold
To try and turn a gigantic 150 man, 150 gun, 3 masted ORC PIRATE FRIGATE into stone and FAIL?
We figure WELL
If we lose
We lose 30000 worht in gold and then die, becasue the pirates will broadside us to a rather wet death to become fish food.
With EVERYTHING TO LOSE
we fire the next cannon
KBOOM
IT WHISTLES ACROSS THE WATER
DISAPPEARS INTO THE HULL OF THE BOAT
WE GEAR A SECOND THUNK AS IT BURIES ITSELF INTO SOEMTHING STURDY
AND
AND
AND
Gard held us in the fucking moment for like 30 god dam seconds
He was fucming KILLING US man
He tried his best to hold a poker face
Amd he picks up the d20
Amd reveals
A FUCKING 20
WE FUCKING CRITICAL HIT THE FUCKING BIGGEST PIRATE SHIP ANY OF US HAVE EVER SEEN AND IT FREEZES SOLID, CREW AND ALL, CAPSIZING SLOWLY AND VANISHING BENEATH THE UNFORGIVING DEPTHS
AN ENTIRE CREW FROZEN FOR ETERNITY
WITH NO HOPE OF ESCAPE
THEY BECOME A RELIC
A TESTAMENT TO OUR EPIC POWER

needless to say we all lost our shit
Fucming all of us
O my god it was fantastic
Holy shit it was a buzz man
We were fucking pumped

Gard said it was his most rewarding moment as a DM
to take the energy of the players and roll with it only to have his entire script blow into his face
All the material he made couldnt be used
We had to stop the game there just so he could make more content, back next week.

Fucking unbelievable

I mean shit

Its so cool coz like

All the DM does is have potentials
And then the players interact
So to have something from the past
Something that we expected to sell later (and was on my mind as a bartering item to bribe the admiral for a ship and as a token for a our lives to the pirate captain)
To come into play in such a different way
AND SUCCEED
COZ WE REMEMBERED IT AND OPENED OUR MINDS?
like
Dude

DnD is fucking dope

Cant make this crap up man

Amd we were ready
We were facing death and we were like
"Okay"
Like
We were all like
"Eh, yknow itd suck to lose this character, but lets just try ourselved for a final fling and then we can make serious ones for our next game."
But here we are
STUCK WITH THESE FANTASTIC FUCKING HEROES FOR MAYBE GAMES AND GAMES AND GAMES TO COME.

Mmmyeasterday and today again

Hmmmm so yesterday we worked in class

I know its possoble to start worming on the boat now, but im not comfident in my general woodskill yet so im sticking to all the side projects

Like i was planing out an Oar with this girl Ingrid yesterday

Shes pretty chill

I also ran a bandsaw, which is pretty realaxing despite how dangerous it can be

I also think im finding my long-term crowd, these DnD kids
So thats Gard, Magnus, Tryg, Emilie and Frederic (and screw scandinavian spelling i have no idea what im doing)
I have a couple friends outside of those guys too tho
Bendik, Maja, Lars, n Ingrid mostly
Not as close but thats how it is

But yea most of whats in recent memory is all DnD, we played yesterday and just finished playing again today
And again weird fuckn shit happens on the regular, like yesterday somebody tossed me a chain to bridge a chasm and i used magic to catch it, and it was so effective i actually made the chain longer.

But TODAY was fun (and kinna crazy) coz Gard had ME be the DM

Its hard and weird to get used to but its mad fun

Like

The shit i set up was really basic but whatever
I basically copied Gard's first scenario just for simplicity's sake
And i was getting concerened about not knowing what i was doing so i just said FUCKIT and we started the shit up

It was a shakey start but i eventually got the flow of it and in no time (well actually it was about six hours time) i was throwing and running mutinies and giant squids and collapsing masts and cursed treasure at my players like a boss

Gard told me i was doing good for my first go

So that made me feel alright

I also feel like i made a good call at one point-i accidentally skipped Frederics turn, but we didnt notice for before it was too late so i couldnt back up, so i gave him an extra action on his next turn

This was right at the end of our huge practice round (practice for my sake) and we concluded shortly after but i think it worked out

But yea tons of funny shit happened

Gard took a cannon out of the wall and faced it INBOARD to try to kill some mutinizers, and he GOT them, but it destroyed the mast
So i rolled a directional die for which direction it was gonna collapse toward
And it was falling towards HIM
So i quickly hadm roll for ACROBATICS FOR A DOGE

BUT HE ROLLED A ONE

so i tried to have the squid get in the way BUT THEN I ROLLED A ONE, MISSING THE SQUID

AND THW MAST SQUISHED GARD FLAT

Ir was pretty hilarious, he died

Tho it was a practice round so no permanemt consequences, we agreed beforehand

But thats all DnD shit

Today for class we had like a tour sorta thing of rissa
We did a buncha walking and it was STILL raining all the way from friday
Amd i couldnt understand any of the tour

All i got was the jist

Which was that basically there was convent around here
And a little mini castle
And some shit was around since like the 1200s

And uhhhhh yea

O also there was a landslide in the 80s

And we actually saw a little video of that

It was kinna surreal

But uhhh

Yea im so damn tired
DMing is really exhausting, specially when i hadda keep track of 8 entities at once (gard, magnus, frederic, emelie, melias boyfriend (hes visiting), the npc ship captain, the mutineers, and the loyal crew. O and then later the squid came in so thats 9.)

So imma fuckn go to sleep

Mmmmmkay today and yesterday

Hhhh fuck i gotta get used to fucking saving my god damn content i just lost like three goddam paragraphs again
Sorry guys

I was talkn about yesterday

Which sucked coz i was sick from the camping trip so bad i hadda miss class and slept on way late and all my friends were out coz theres like five trips right now

But today im back in it

I was in class and were working on these wooden vice things
Theres three pieces you hafta smooth out and they form a really simple machine comprised of like
A lever and two jaws
And you can clamp just about anything that fits.

I have pictures of some of these i THINK but yall know how this app is doing its shit with pics....
Theyre kinna hard to explain-
I had an OKAY description ofm before i lost my fuckin writing a second ago

Whatever

Anyway i spent basically all day tryin to deal with the uncooperative geain on all three pieces of my wood, its comparable to shaving, if you go the wrong way you hafta start the whole stroke over and mybe clean up some blood lol

Im at the point where it comes time to connect all the pieces together

Ill hafta do it tomorrow and maybe get a picture for you guys

Thw last thing we did in class was learn about chainsaws
Mostly just maintenance and starting them
No cutting
The saws here are a lot more managable than the ones at woodsmens school lol
I think its coz of how americans like overkill and machismo
I mean we were weilding like
Fuckn 45 poind saws at Paul Smiths
Here they got like
No heavier than 10 or 12
Its more reasonable
Less scary
But yea so we learned how to startm up, which is good, coz i forgot big time
Coz there onna those things that are more complicated than youd think
And then we learned how to take the blades off
And retensioning, and where to put gas and where to put oil (and where NOT to put gas and NOT to put oil)
Amd how to flip the "sword" over, thats the "bar" in american- the piece that holds the actual chain.
Kenneth is so funny
"Ookay. So. We haff to lern... how to pute- the OIL, in the mashine. Hm. Ukay."
"When the chain TURNS... the SWORD... gets WEAR. And so you must TURN the SWORD sometimes, so dat the WEAR is become- even. Hm."
"Dese blades must remain WERY SHARP. When the blade is dull, you dont cot anything."

Hes so brief with all his emglish instructions.

But yea after classes we ate dinner of course

And uhh

Oyea we finished one punch man, good show.
Gard talked to me a little about his plans for DnD on sunday or whatever.

OYEA N I TRIED TO START FLCL WITH THESE WEEBS AND
AND

I CANT BELIEVE IT

THEY

IT

THEY DONT GET IT

IM SO UPSET

THEY COULDNT EVEN GET TO THE FIGHT IN EPISODE TWO I DONT UNDERSTAND

(For all yall readers out there who dont know FLCL its basically the abime of animes- made in 1999 it manages to both DODGE EVERY ANIME TROPE AND INVENT ALL OF THE ONES TO COME. It is an incredibly important show to anime as a whole, and is on a whole 'nother level completely-
If your curious its a 6 part series conprised of 23 minute episodes, it wont take any more time than a feature length movie. It may be my favorite piece of cinema based entertainment OF ALL TIME.
also try to find the dubbed version, not the subbed version-
Unlike.most anime, the american dub is actually BETTER than the original japanese.
Well i guess thats my opinion.

You also dont hafta follow through on this at all, lol
You could completely dismiss it as a childish corny cartoon if you want, but lemme just say this: the show changed my life, and it vhanged the way i watch anime forever.)

Anyway yea.
Im sad
My animoo baby friends cant dig FLCL
They want to read subtitles, and all the abstract shit just flies right pastm
They dont have the confused love that you cant place at the end of every episode like i did when i first saw it
Theyre just lost
They all went to bed

And after i watched all of one punch man
:''''''''''''(
I mean
One punch wasnt bad, it kinna reminded me of like
One piece
With all the weird ass fin characters and the ridiculous OVERPOWERED MOVES of basically EVERYONE by the end
Like how im DBZ or Gundam the end of the show just becomes conolete and total laser porn and you cant even tell whats happening
The final fight is like this gorgeous display of effects and animation
Its great fun kinma like micheal bay but not completely stupid
Just kinna silly

Ah shit

Ill stop talkn anime

Uhhhhhhhhh

Yea class was fun

Another kid recognized my Arcade Fire actually
He likes "here comes the night time".
Means hes got good taste.
O lol
He also told me that he climbed a port crane last night
Hes a thrill seeker
I just hope it doesnt getm killed

I saw the crane he was talkn about, he showed me it last week
"Yo see uhhh that crayn over ther"
"Yea"
"Im uhhh goin to climb it"
"Wow really"
"Yea maybe you can uhhb come with me- ill maybe go uhhh next week"
"Lol yea okay maybe"
Basically fuck no i aint goin lol

Hes fine tho

But yea i think thats all folks