Dorchadas Plays Baldur's Gate II, Part XVIII: Liches Get Stitches

Before I get into doing anything else, let's check my quest log and see what the game thinks that I should be doing:

• Head down to the docks and meet Mook to help the Shadow Thieves.
  
• Recover Kangaxx's body.
  
• Find a caretaker for the orphan Risa.
  
• Investigate the back rooms of the Copper Coronet.
  
• Meet the elf Aegnor in the Government District.
  
• Finish the armor started by Rejiek Hidesman.

Huh...that's it? I definitely expected that I would have more loose ends to tie up before I went to talk to the Shadow Thieves. I mean, I do want to explore Athkatla a bit more, but I don't have many formal tasks.
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Darker than Black, Week 6: Raaka Virgin Chocolate Pink Sea Salt

Sea salt is one of my favorite dessert flavors, though I usually get it in caramel or toffee form. One of the highlights of trips to my grandparents' house in Oregon when I was a child were the bags of sea salt toffee that were in all the stores along the coast. That trip was the only time we would get it, too. It was during the summer, close to my sister and my birthdays, so it's not like we'd get any in the mail as presents. We would look forward to that trip for the whole year, anticipating going to the beach, swimming in the pool in my grandparents' retirement community, looking in tide pools, and eating sea salt toffee.

It's too sweet for me now, of course. Insert profound statement about how the delights of childhood turn to ash as you age here.
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Could my stomach settle down, please?

I've spent most of today with my stomach trying to dissolve its way out of my abominal cavity. Or maybe trying to compress its way out? At least it's not quite as bad as it was earlier this afternoon, when I also had a pounding headache and was sweating in room temperature.

I thought it might be leftover anxiety from LARP, since I spent a lot of yesterday feeling the same. It got a bit better during the actual LARP, since I was able to relax and get into character, and then ramped up a bit when we left and apparently went into overdrive overnight. I woke up feeling bad, then it went to awful, then it went to bad again, now it's just at . I wasn't able to attend Call of Cthulhu today because of it--I would have been utterly useless with the headache even assuming I did manage to make it out there. And then I ended up feeling bad because I hadn't missed a game until this point, had blogged about most of the games, and here I was staying home. And yes, it's because I was sick or the next best thing, but if this were logical it wouldn't be happening at all, would it?

I feel slightly better now--no more headache or sweating, at least--but my stomach is still trying to escape and has been pretty much non-stop all day. I thought that staying home and relaxing would make be feel better? Ha! How can I when I'm thinking about what I'm missing by staying home. Pretty cool no-win scenario my brain has set up for me here, isn't it?

Hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow, and hopefully I won't be saying that tomorrow since it's what I said yesterday.