My weekend can be summed up pretty easily. Played NWN and read Harry Potter books 1 and 2.

NWN:
I played this rather disturbing little series (only 2 of 5, but the last 3 aren't completed yet) called Kunoichi. Basically you're trying to become a female ninja. Then add in adult content and major warnings and you start to get to the disturbing part. You're required to kill 5 novice ninjas to be accepted, your first mission involves pretending to be a geisha (one of the few times in the game someone does not try to take advantage of you, go figure), talking a girl into becoming one, grave robbing, and bringing a girl back to your master who had refused his advances. He sets out to rape her, and when you try to step in, in rapes you, too. And the language was MUCH more crude than normal, even for an adult rated mod. It had adequate warnings that there was mature content and be careful, but I still feel a bit sandbagged. :\ And then, of course, I run off and play part 2. It's like staring at spiders even though I'm scared to death of them. *shrug* Any rate, I can see where this is all going. The one light-hearted moment is where your character meets a noble young samurai and starts to fall in love (he's the one who doesn't take advantage of you as a geisha). You run into him in part 2, but he doesn't recognize you, and you fall for him a bit more. (Doesn't hurt that he's damn near the only pleasant NPC in the game.) Your third mission is to go to the Daimyo's palace. That part isn't out yet, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize you're going to run into him again and the fact that you're a ninja on a mission is going to get in the way. I figure it's all building up to a big decision where you either give in and stay a ninja or somehow get revenge on the master who raped you. The possiblity of a happy-ending romance is there, but it seems more and more doubtful, because I just can't see how you could be truthful with him and have him STAY. *shrug* But at the rate the mods come out (a year or more work per part, written first in French-Canadian, then has to be poorly translated) I might not even still be playing NWN when they're all out and finished.

So, I went to play lighter, happier, GOOD mods instead. (Demon, but with my good monk and her paladin husband. Goodness abounds.) And got stuck. It's looking like I got a bug in one of my save games and am going to have to start the mod over. Completely over. I hate that, since it was several hours of play and some of it was NOT easy to get past them. Plus, I was running into 'bugs' others had reported. Soooo not fair.

HP:
Yep, read 1 and 2. Finished 2 last night before going to bed. One thing that struck me was that you'd think all of the adult supervision at Hogwarts would watch Harry more carefully by now. You know, operate under the assumption that trouble is going to find him and thus be ready for it. But I know I'm not supposed to be looking for reality in Potter, so I'll try to keep that under control. :) (Yes, I know, it sounds weird asking for a measure of reality in a fantasy children's story.) I'll start #3 today.

Looking at the books all lined up on my shelf, has anyone else noticed how they're getting progressively thicker? #7 is going to have to be a good 4 or 5 inches thick at this rate. ^__^ And it still is only 7, right? One for each year he's in Hogwarts? *is soooo out of touch*