Splosh!

Reasonable gaming session last night. Followed by driving home throught the aferwash of one of Chch's seasonal downpours. Particularly exciting was encountering a small lake (enough to float the car when hit @ 10-20 kph) in the middle of the road - indistinguishable from the rest of the wet roading surface.

This morning after I leave the house with enough time to get to Uni, find a parking space and reach my lecture on time I discoveer my car won't start. Turns over, but won't take.

I cast "Summon Mechanic", who fortunately offers to come around straight away. I mention the previous night's incident and it doesn't take him long to confirm that the sparkplug housing is full of water. He blows it out with some compressed air and my car starts. I am only 1/4 hour late for my lecture.

Epiphany

This simmering thread http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48674 on the rpg.net boards has caused a blinding beam of light to strike. Especially this comment, on the fourth page.

"What's happening here is that the gaming club attracts people who are interested in acquiring new players, gaming with different people, or starting new games. However, it completely ignores everyone out there who already has their friends in an ongoing game and doesn't feel the need to advertise one way or another. This applies to the gaming club, but also to whatever other methods you've used to meet other gamers. No matter what you try, you're not going to meet all the people with a casual weekend game with their existing friends, and these are the people who make up the lion's share of the gamers mentioned in that figure."

[Marsden watches as some of the people who know him start running for cover]