Gaming+Dancing=Win
Over to my brother Hugh's today at 2:30, so that six of us could play Twilight Imperium together. The game started at 3:30, and by 9:00 I had just started to get the hang of it enough to start scoring points. Sadly, this was also the point where I had told Julie things would be ending and I could come meet her and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
davesangel in the pub. davesangel was visiting fro, Dublin, and the two of them had been out for dinner - I was going to join them at the Jekyll and Hyde afterwards.*
What I had stupidly forgotten, was that this was because Ascension had just been moved there. I've been intermittently going to Ascension to dance to goth/bleep/crunch music for about ten years, and it's slowly shrunk while changing venues repeatedly. This was it's first night in the new one, and clearly a bunch of people had decided to come along and see what it was like - the numbers were up significantly on previous nights I've been to in the last year - probably 60-75 that I saw there, which did a good job of packing the place out. I got to dance to Lucretia and Headhunter, as well as a bunch of other stuff that I recognised to differing degrees - they're now down to one dance floor, but rotated through a variety of different styles over the evening. The place felt a lot more comfortable than the previous venue, being altogether less dank and claustrophobic. I'll definitely be going again.
* I hear that the game ended about half an hour after I left, with my brother leapfrogging to victory, as he so frequently does in board games.
davesangel in the pub. davesangel was visiting fro, Dublin, and the two of them had been out for dinner - I was going to join them at the Jekyll and Hyde afterwards.* What I had stupidly forgotten, was that this was because Ascension had just been moved there. I've been intermittently going to Ascension to dance to goth/bleep/crunch music for about ten years, and it's slowly shrunk while changing venues repeatedly. This was it's first night in the new one, and clearly a bunch of people had decided to come along and see what it was like - the numbers were up significantly on previous nights I've been to in the last year - probably 60-75 that I saw there, which did a good job of packing the place out. I got to dance to Lucretia and Headhunter, as well as a bunch of other stuff that I recognised to differing degrees - they're now down to one dance floor, but rotated through a variety of different styles over the evening. The place felt a lot more comfortable than the previous venue, being altogether less dank and claustrophobic. I'll definitely be going again.
* I hear that the game ended about half an hour after I left, with my brother leapfrogging to victory, as he so frequently does in board games.