Neoscream's Life: 6th to 12th of May 2013

MS-11 Ace Zaku

Welcome to the Neoscream's Life post. This is a weekly post of some of the things I have done last week and news on stuff from Crooked Dice Games, Mantic Game and the Geek Goddess AJ Lee. This week I decided to go a little old school with this post by doing a day by day event than just talking about the main events, however I will has the news stuff below and barely talk about them in the day section.

As Monday was a bank holiday, I had to work. However I started at 12PM instead of the normal 10AM. Because of this I was able to go food shopping with my mum and have breakfast out. After work, dinner and posting the Model Painting post I continue to tidy my and piling up stuff for the Bring and Buy at Champaign while listening to a K-Pop group called Girl's Day. Yes I did say K-Pop and not J-Pop. I heard of Girl's Day from a friend on MFC.

On Tuesday morning I went to Optical Express for an annual eye check at 9AM. I had a little wander round the city before heading home. When I got home I continued spring clearing my bedroom. But I stopped when I got my HeroClix Iron Man 3 brick.

On Wednesday I was reorganising my HeroClix figures and card, DVDs, conceal games and spar miniature bit many. 

On Thursday I was super busy listing all the stuff I was taking to the Bring and Buy and finishing of tiding my bedroom. I had to cancel HeroClix as I had an early start on Friday, the reason why is posted under Fridays section. Also I needed the extra time tiding.

Friday was I BIG mystery day. For about a month now my parents have been telling me to leave the whole day totally free. Odd thing is that my parents are both working and both Richard and Darren H claim they know nothing about it and that they are work. Then the week before last my dad stated that I have to be ready to go when he gets home which will be about 7AM. WTF! However my dad never turned up, but Richard and Darren H did 7:30AM. They had been the masterminds planning this outing all the time and yes they were late. The three of us went to Thorpe Park. They realised that they over estimate the travel so we stopped at a motorway service station for a bit to let the traffic die down a bit. At Thorpe Park we went on The Swarm, Colossus, Nemeseis Inferno, Tidal Wave, X, Storm Surge, Quantum, Logger’s Leap, Rumba Rapids three times, Rocky Express twice and Richard did Stealth by himself. We did not do Saw or Samurai as they were not working all day. Also we all won prizes. I won a alien, Darren H won a gigantic pirate meerkat and Richard won a ball shaped cow white he gave to mum to give to one of her co-workers. It was a very enjoyable day. However I had problems getting to sleep that night.

Saturday was another early morning as I had to get my Bring and Buy stuff (with the help of Richard) to Champaign before 9AM. We took four boxes and a bag of stuff to sell on the Bring and Buy. I noticed several great looking Warmachine and Hordes deals at the Bring and Buy. A Protectorate of Menoth force for £25 and a Khador force for £60 to name the two good ones. During the day I managed to get two games in. The first one being Napoleonic air balloon attack game and the other was a demo of Warmachine. After the Warmachine demo I decided to pick up one of the Warmachine forces and with the help from the people running the demo I picked the Protectorate of Menoth and a booster with a Vassal of Menoth all for £30. That was a 33 point force. This was much better than the possible £150 for a 35 point Convergence of Cyriss, and can be use as a force to get me into Machine before getting a Convergence of Cyriss and let me build it up slowly than all at once.  I manage to make £75.15 from the Bring and Buy so far on the first day. When I got home I found my second DreadBall shipment had arrived. More about that in the Mantic news section.

On Sunday morning, both me and my mum went to Champaign in the morning where I slashed the prices of the stuff that did not sell yesterday. My mum brought a suit at the Centre MK and then we had lunch at Pizza Express. After lunch my mum went home and I returned to Champaign. I got two games of a racing game called Silent Running. At the end of the day I made an extra £5.85 at the Bring and Buy. Sadly Sundays do not normally do well. This brings the total to £81 and three boxes of unsold stuff to bring home.  However my dad did take the old White Dwarfs and books to a charity shop, which left the HeroClix doubles and several other small bits. Champaign was enjoyable but is getting smaller and smaller each year and Salute is miles better. However you can not get any where near the Bring and Buy at Salute as it is so packed.

Now for the Mantic news. Saturday was Mantic's open day, but due to Champaign being on the same weekend, I could not go. However also on Saturday my DreadBall second shipment arrived. Hippy. Like recently there was a mistake in the delivery. They sent me two extra Robot teams and an extra Mee'Kel Judwan as they forgot to note down that I got him at Salute. C'est La Vie. One extra Robot team is useful as it pumps the Jacks to maximum, but two is too much. Sadly I was not able to sell the extra team at Campaign on Sunday. With the Deadzone KickStarter, during the week the extra goals that were unlocked were: an extra Yndij hunter in the Reb Faction Starter; an extra Goblin Sniper in the Marauders Faction Starter; Scenery only Pledge level and add-ons were add; a 3rd Generation Plague with Heavy Machinegun in the Plague Faction Starter; an extra Scenery Sprue to Recon level and above; new scenery based pledge levels and add-ons; the Landing Pad Battlezone; a new specialist for each of the Factions that (not include in the Starts Factions); an extra trooper figure to all the Faction Starter sets; and a new scenario to Nexus Psi Digital Campaign that involves a yet unnamed DreadBall MVP. Also the active goals for the Deadzone KickStarter when I went to bed on Sunday night were: the Fortified Defence Line BattleZone at $450,000; and a new scenario to the Nexus Psi Digital Campaign for every 500 backers.

Next is Crooked Dice Games news. There was nothing this week sadly.

Now for the RoboTech: RPG Tactics news. This week will be the last week of this KickStarter This week the extra goals that were unlocked were: three extra standard Battlepods to Battle Cry level; all cards will now be laminated; size of the Artillery (was calling them Support) Battlepod add-on from two to four; Super Valkyries; three Gnerl fighters were added to the Battle Cry level; one more Spartan and Phalanx Destroids has be added to the Battle Cry level; and Zentraedi Heavy Infantry. The active goals when I went to bed on Sunday night was Queadluun-Rau at $700,000; a special character Queadluun-Rau (Miriya) for Battle Cry level at $7250,000; two more Artillery Battlepods will be added to Battle Cry at 3,200 backers; and decal sheets added to the Starter Set at 3,500 backers. Other units planned to come in the future are the Armoured Valkyries, VEFR-1 Electronic Warfare Valkyrie, QF-3000E Ghost, SF-3A Lancer II, VF-01D Valkyrie, and Zentraedi Light Infantry. Let's see what can be unlocked in the final week. It is already less than £1.50 per figure with the Battle Cry level (including Postage and Packaging).

Now for what AJ Lee has been up to this past week. AJ was on Raw twice this week. The First time she was supporting Dolph Zigger with Big E Langston. Dolph was up against Alberto Del Rio. In the middle of the match Zeb Colter and Jack Swagger came out and joined the commentary. Del Rio won the match by disqualification as Big E throw Del Rio into Swagger. Swagger then beat the crap out of everyone (apart from Zeb and AJ). The second time AJ appeared on Raw was in a six Diva tag match. It was AJ and the Bella Twins verses Kaitlin and the Funkadactyls. This ended up being a three on one match as the Bella Bitches walked out on AJ during the match. Why? Because the Ballas are a bunch of Bitches, that is why. This led to AJ losing the match.

AJ was on Smackdown twice. The first time she and Dolph were supporting Big E in his match against Swagger with Del Rio on commentary. However the match never happened as there was a big bust up between Dolph, Del Rio, Swagger and Big E. AJ was safely out of the way. The second time we saw AJ was when she was trading insults with her former best friend Kaitlyn.

We now move on to the Watch, Listen and Read section of the blog post:

Monday

Watched: Last week's episode of BBC’s Click.

Tuesday

Watched: Episodes 228 to 230 of the subtitled version of Naruto Shippuden.

Listened: Episode 362 of Anime Pulse.

Received: My brick of HeroClix Iron Man 3.

Wednesday

Watched: Episode 1041 of WWE Raw, episodes 18 to 20 of the dubbed version of Naruto Shippuden and episodes 231 to 233 of the subtitled version of Naruto Shippuden.

Thursday

Watched: Episodes 21 to 26 of the dubbed version of Naruto Shippuden

Friday

Won: An Alien teddy bear.

KickStarter: OVA: Anime Role-Play Game.

Saturday

Watched: Episode 674 of WWE Smackdown.

Brought and Received: A 33 point Protectorate of Menoth force from the Bring and Buy at Campaign for £30 and six figures for 7TV. Two of them are based on Sherlock Holmes and John Watson from BBC’s Sherlock.

Received: My DreadBall second shipment finally arrived.

Sunday

Brought and Received: A pack of Daughters of the Flame for Warmachine (and will maybe double for something for 7^th Voyage in the future, a pot of Purple paint, some trees for £1, Savage Species for DnD and two random robots for a pond each.

Until next time, armour up.