For all that I wrote up and posted the final turn of the Hel Fenn battle report today, it is now the better part of 2 weeks since the game itself was played. During this time I had a number of people regularly querying where I was at with the report. One of these people was Owen the Puddingwrestler (from over at Terrain for Hippos). I think I must have snapped at him at some point about giving me time to get it ready, because he took it upon himself to write the following piece for me, to help explain why it is that these things take a little while to prepare. If you're a little baffled by the hippo references, head over to his blog and all will become clear. Or infinitely more confusing, depending upon your state of mind...
Writing a Battle Report
A lone hooded figure sits crouched over
the dim light of a laptop screen in the dead of night; completely
still save for the fearful flickering of his fingers over the
keyboard. Occasionally he lets out an insane giggle. He is watched by
a silent mass of small, grey hippos, all waving banners bearing
messages of support. Every now and again, a woman will come over and
place a supportive paw on his arm or offer him a glass of Coke. A
child is pushing a Thomas the Tank Engine around his feet. Outside,
fiends and wild creatures howl and batter at the windows, demanding
that the manuscript is completed at once. The figure types on, doing
his best to blot out the gibbering of the creatures outside.
He is Greg the Hoodling, and he is
completing a battle report.