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TL;DR - I went to Sheffield. Saw flickums. There was much snuggling.

I arrived at Manchester via sleazyjet. flickums was waiting at arrivals! Much huggage ensued. Didn't really do much except snuggle, watch Despicable Me, and more snuggling. I want a minion! Flickums made quiche! It was amazing!

Saturday we went to York. Met with sister of Flickums and ate all the food in the pub! She seems to like me! Yay! I am approved of. Looked for Stonegate. I believe we found it. Also had a stroll along the wall. I like walled cities! York is a fine example.

York also has a The National Rail Museum (dirt cheap as well - £3 per person and that's optional). Flickums insisted on paying. Felt a bit guilty abut that but she is very stubborn and wanted to fuss. I got to be a train nerd! Flickums found my enthusiasm "adorkable". Can't get her too fired up over an A4 locomotive though. It's a rather good exhibition for the nerdy railway enthusiast. Lots of trains. Two notable famous names (Mallard and Evening Star). Lots of examples of royal coaches. Edward VII had a bath in his train! They also had the front part of one of the original bullet trains. There was a pointless and dull game about getting the right food for a dinner on the Flying Scotsman.

Did learn that in the early days of onboard catering, if the kitchen was running low on supplies they'd hollow out a potato, put a note in it and throw it at a signalbox. The signalman would telegraph ahead and the next station would have the supplies ready. No information on the number of signalmen injured by low fying spuds.

Went home. There may have been more snuggling.

Sunday, Nova stopped by and we played a game of a Dark Heresy. Will talk about the adventures of Captain Fabulous and Minty later on. Saw dispicable Me 2. Flickums cooked roast ham for us! It was very very tasty! Saw Dispicable Me 2. I still want a minion!

Monday was our last day! :( Spent a lot of time watching silly videos on youTube and played a never ended game of Worms, where we both kept killing everyone through epic incompetence.

Also there was snuggling.

The adventures of Captain Fabulous and Minty!

Dark Heresy! Warhammer 40K based rpg. A bunch of heroes here to quash the rebellious gangs on a planet. The tone was set by Minta singing "the wheels on the tank crush the heretics". I was an arbitrator by the name of Thaddius. I was randomly given the quirk of "pierced ears", and it was decided that this was because that was fabulous. Fabulous Thaddius, or Captain Fabulous to my underlings. I suspect his actual rank was much lower than Captain. We alos had a psyker with us. He seemed a little too sensible though. Also his scruffy robe and constantly rotating eye wqere distinctly unfashionable.

We were invited to the captains table. Captain Thaddeus chatted about fashion. Minta ate a lot and at some point started to be referred to as Minty.

Ship broke.  Weird stuff was happening, so we went to investigate. The tech priests didn't have a clue what was going on. The Navigator had some vague idea. Minty realised that some of the food had been stolen and went off to investigate that.

We eventually checked the manifests, found a weird-ass devicce claiming to be an "artwork" that was giving off nasty psionic noise. Minty tracked down the food to some random passenger and shot them.

Shortly after the ship was invaded by weird mech type things. Captain Fabulous let out a heroic girly scream and ran away. Minty pulled out her granade launcher and started blowing the alien things up. Captain Fabulous contimued hiding. Our Psyker set about killing the beastly alien things in a methodical businesslike way. Eventually Captain Fabulous regained his nerve. Marched back in there, guns blazing. doing some serious damage at one of the boarders. Minty took a shot and accidentally killed a security redshirt.

Captain Fabulous then picked up his club, made a death curdling (but still somewhat girly) scream, and charged the nearest enemy, leaving the remaining one to Minty - who could now go back to her precision grenade launcher and finish off the last invaders.

Turns out the beastly alien invader things were after the artwork giving off psionic noice. It was now gone.

Our report skipped the part about Captain Fabulous's girly scream, and made it quite clear that the redshirt's death was a mercy killing.