Last weekend Deirdra and I went up to visit my parents in Memphis (and fix their computers, natch). While we were there, we got to visit some very old friends of mine that I haven’t seen in years. One of them had a birthday and remembering his fondness for comic books, I picked up a copy of Capes from my Friendly Local Game Shop.

While buying it, I was thrilled to discover that a shipment from Indie Press Revolution had just arrived. There were copies of The Mountain Witch and Polaris and Inspectres and Dogs in the Vineyard and a bunch of other games that I’m fairly certain never would have made it to Jackson if I hadn’t been pushing indie games in people’s faces. That really makes me feel good.

So anyway, we roll up to Mempho, fix computers, hang with the parents, and Saturday night we hook up with my old pals Davery, Jaime, and Jeff over at their place. I haven’t seen Davery and Jaime in about four or five years and even longer for Jeff. Another old friend, Aaron, showed up as well. It was a pretty great reunion. We talked comics and movies and television. We talked roleplaying games and video games. I gave Davery his copy of Capes and ran a demo for them and they all seemed pretty excited about the potential. I showed off some of the other stuff I’ve been playing and Primetime Adventures really seemed to grab their interest as well.

On Sunday we again met up with those guys and en masse we drove out to Horn Lake to meet up with some other friends, Jerm and Krissi and their friend Maddie. I’d been trying to introduce the two groups for a while and being able to do so in person was a real treat. We played through a quick hand of Fluxx, a card game that I keep forgetting to pick up, and then I pulled out my Capes demo again to show Jerm and Krissi.

Jerm cooked some burgers and brats on the grill for everybody and we spent the rest of the evening watching Sopranos, talking about games and gaming, and I’d have to say that it was a fine old time.

My one regret is that I didn’t actually get to really play a game with any of these people. Some of my fondest roleplaying memories are with these folks, and I’m really eager to sit down and play some of these cool new games with them. I’m really hoping that I’ll get to go back to Memphis soon and make this happen.