Good grief.
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quislibetHey y'all! It's a Star Trek (classic) Chain Reaction on Sci Fi!
Unfortunately I need to study.
But first:
What the hell? I'm out of the loop, as always, even as it seems I am somehow in the thick of it as well.
I gather from other people's journals, as well as on the VHS list, that there's quite a Big Bad going on re: Saturday's game. "Certain characters," by which I am led to understand mine and probably Jim's, are supposed to be protected by the Hand o' God, thus causing problems for all. It has even been suggested that I should let people know I'm not upset with them.
Or, since vagueness is meant to be bad, Silas suggested that Sarcy and Khoury need to be told I'm not mad at them.
What the hell?
(In case it needs to be said, I ain't mad. My character's pissed at their characters, or would be if there weren't suddenly more pressing concerns I brought on myself. Why is he pissed at their characters? 'Cause they screwed over the bad guy. Yay them. Or, if they haven't screwed over the bad guy, other characters have managed to convince me that they have. [It's best if I not know which, even OOC.] Welcome to the wonderful world of Vampire: the Masquerade. But as for being mad at the players, well, that's bullocks. OOC I'm impressed by their apparent sneakiness and glad that the trouble it has caused gave me things to do in the game.)
Anyway. Here's the deal at least in my own small part of things.
I've enjoyed this chronicle. Sure, that's at least in part because I've been given a characther that has turned out in the end to have importance to the plot -- to my surprise on Saturday. (Yeah, I'd been thinking, there's some weird shit goin' down, and this vial thing is probably connected to it, but I'll worry about that later, if I happen to come across it; I've got a city to retake for the Sword o' Caine.)
Well, probably in the last game, if not before, it would have come out that this here vial containing the vitae of what is purported to be the Cappadocian Antedeluvian is stuck inside my character's body. As it is, Sarcy's character and others figured it out first and confirmed it. I spent much of the rest of the game figuring out how to try to remove it without killing myself. Finally I decided to try to "commune" with it. Guess what: I failed some tests and opened myself to temporary possession.
Apart from the original fact that the damn vial is there at all, that entire chain of events is player-driven, with Sarcy's actions being a very large part of it.
"Go play Cappadocius for the rest of the evening," say the STs. "For tonight you've got a bunch of Necro and Fortitude. Be a megalomaniac." And I go forth, yay verily, into the night.
WWCD? Well, he'd go and issue dire threats to any Giovanni that happen to be present. Off to one of the two primary locations to see if there are Giovanni. There's one: Hooray. So I go and issue threats. Sarcy's character comes up and demands to know who the hell I am. I think it would be funny to use "Soul Stealing" in response, and ask Muzzie if I can use it for a quick "suck it out and put it back" effect. "Sure, if you can win the challenges," says he. I do. (What would have been a truly crappy and evil thing would be if the STs had let me use that to turn everyone in the room into wraiths and ended the evening thus, but that's not what happened.) My plans to put the soul back immediately and continue with my planned exit are interrupted by a high-celerity Coutcher attack. I try to do likewise unto him, and fail tests, and more and more people come to attack. "Put it back," everyone cries, referring to Danny Carson's soul. (That perhaps only Caprina should have had any chance in-game to realize what the hell I had done, we leave aside.) Mayhem ensues. I take many many levels of aggravated damage. There are a lot of combat-mighty hosebeasts in there, and even with my temporary boost in |<3\/\/l p0\/\/3rz they could probably have taken me out, ending one ST-planted but player-driven plotline as well as killing off a Sabbat Badguy, all in one fell swoop.
But guess what? Other player characters intervened to stop the combat, unless, for instance, Shelby is an undercover ST. Which, come to think of it, he was joking about later. Hmmm....
Now, perhaps that scene isn't the problem. Maybe when y'all went out to find Jim's character afterwards all of the STs' NPCs appeared to stop you. I dunno. But I can assure you that that particular chain of events from the last game -- which chain of events I enjoyed immensely, and I'm sorry if some of you didn't -- resulted almost entirely from player-character actions and choices, some mine, some yours.
Anyway. I won't be at the next game, as I have plane tickets to France. There's a good chance I won't be at the following (and last) game, just because of my "curse," although I mean to try. Since we're talking possession here, it's very possible that the Cappadocian might show up anyway in the hands of the STs.
Now I'll tell you something: if the STs bring out Chthonic/Niki/Cappadocius/whoever, which they should feel free to do so as not to slow down a major plotline by my absence, I waive the traditional right to "Not Being Killed Because I'm Not There." I can only make it to one more game anyway -- if you all need to kill something, go right ahead. I'll play a dumb 14th-gen Caitiff in the last game and do my best to have a blast.
Unfortunately I need to study.
But first:
What the hell? I'm out of the loop, as always, even as it seems I am somehow in the thick of it as well.
I gather from other people's journals, as well as on the VHS list, that there's quite a Big Bad going on re: Saturday's game. "Certain characters," by which I am led to understand mine and probably Jim's, are supposed to be protected by the Hand o' God, thus causing problems for all. It has even been suggested that I should let people know I'm not upset with them.
Or, since vagueness is meant to be bad, Silas suggested that Sarcy and Khoury need to be told I'm not mad at them.
What the hell?
(In case it needs to be said, I ain't mad. My character's pissed at their characters, or would be if there weren't suddenly more pressing concerns I brought on myself. Why is he pissed at their characters? 'Cause they screwed over the bad guy. Yay them. Or, if they haven't screwed over the bad guy, other characters have managed to convince me that they have. [It's best if I not know which, even OOC.] Welcome to the wonderful world of Vampire: the Masquerade. But as for being mad at the players, well, that's bullocks. OOC I'm impressed by their apparent sneakiness and glad that the trouble it has caused gave me things to do in the game.)
Anyway. Here's the deal at least in my own small part of things.
I've enjoyed this chronicle. Sure, that's at least in part because I've been given a characther that has turned out in the end to have importance to the plot -- to my surprise on Saturday. (Yeah, I'd been thinking, there's some weird shit goin' down, and this vial thing is probably connected to it, but I'll worry about that later, if I happen to come across it; I've got a city to retake for the Sword o' Caine.)
Well, probably in the last game, if not before, it would have come out that this here vial containing the vitae of what is purported to be the Cappadocian Antedeluvian is stuck inside my character's body. As it is, Sarcy's character and others figured it out first and confirmed it. I spent much of the rest of the game figuring out how to try to remove it without killing myself. Finally I decided to try to "commune" with it. Guess what: I failed some tests and opened myself to temporary possession.
Apart from the original fact that the damn vial is there at all, that entire chain of events is player-driven, with Sarcy's actions being a very large part of it.
"Go play Cappadocius for the rest of the evening," say the STs. "For tonight you've got a bunch of Necro and Fortitude. Be a megalomaniac." And I go forth, yay verily, into the night.
WWCD? Well, he'd go and issue dire threats to any Giovanni that happen to be present. Off to one of the two primary locations to see if there are Giovanni. There's one: Hooray. So I go and issue threats. Sarcy's character comes up and demands to know who the hell I am. I think it would be funny to use "Soul Stealing" in response, and ask Muzzie if I can use it for a quick "suck it out and put it back" effect. "Sure, if you can win the challenges," says he. I do. (What would have been a truly crappy and evil thing would be if the STs had let me use that to turn everyone in the room into wraiths and ended the evening thus, but that's not what happened.) My plans to put the soul back immediately and continue with my planned exit are interrupted by a high-celerity Coutcher attack. I try to do likewise unto him, and fail tests, and more and more people come to attack. "Put it back," everyone cries, referring to Danny Carson's soul. (That perhaps only Caprina should have had any chance in-game to realize what the hell I had done, we leave aside.) Mayhem ensues. I take many many levels of aggravated damage. There are a lot of combat-mighty hosebeasts in there, and even with my temporary boost in |<3\/\/l p0\/\/3rz they could probably have taken me out, ending one ST-planted but player-driven plotline as well as killing off a Sabbat Badguy, all in one fell swoop.
But guess what? Other player characters intervened to stop the combat, unless, for instance, Shelby is an undercover ST. Which, come to think of it, he was joking about later. Hmmm....
Now, perhaps that scene isn't the problem. Maybe when y'all went out to find Jim's character afterwards all of the STs' NPCs appeared to stop you. I dunno. But I can assure you that that particular chain of events from the last game -- which chain of events I enjoyed immensely, and I'm sorry if some of you didn't -- resulted almost entirely from player-character actions and choices, some mine, some yours.
Anyway. I won't be at the next game, as I have plane tickets to France. There's a good chance I won't be at the following (and last) game, just because of my "curse," although I mean to try. Since we're talking possession here, it's very possible that the Cappadocian might show up anyway in the hands of the STs.
Now I'll tell you something: if the STs bring out Chthonic/Niki/Cappadocius/whoever, which they should feel free to do so as not to slow down a major plotline by my absence, I waive the traditional right to "Not Being Killed Because I'm Not There." I can only make it to one more game anyway -- if you all need to kill something, go right ahead. I'll play a dumb 14th-gen Caitiff in the last game and do my best to have a blast.
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Date: 2002-02-18 09:24 am (UTC)Motherfuck!
Date: 2002-02-18 10:27 am (UTC)That's my first instinct. On second thought, I really wasn't cleared for human interaction for most of this weekend, so it's probably best that I missed it. But damn, if that's how the vial plot went down, I am PISSED that I missed it. I could have done some serious progression on my personal goals with all of that.
Re: Wait...I was never mad at you.
Date: 2002-02-18 12:40 pm (UTC)So: I am not mad at the STs for plot-hammering my character. Especially as I have effectively only one more game left.
I was rather vocally uninterested in playing same old, same old. And as a result: "We have a special character in mind for you," they said back in September, "with Major Weirdness involved. You can even know what it is if you want."
"Cool," I said, and decided it would be more fun not to know what was going on.
So. Whatever has happened, I have effectively volunteered for it. I was given something of a time bomb to play, and character-driven events have set it off.
Anyway. I still don't understand quite what people are upset about, but I keep getting the impression that events surrounding my character are at least partly involved. For whatever it's worth, I'm perfectly cheerful about it. I'm having the best time I've had in a LARP in years.
Re: Wait...I was never mad at you.
Date: 2002-02-18 01:08 pm (UTC)=-)
Re: Wait...I was never mad at you.
Date: 2002-02-18 02:09 pm (UTC)I wouldn't try to haunt me either, Seattle is not a safe town for ghosts...
Re: Wait...I was never mad at you.
Date: 2002-02-19 08:14 am (UTC)Never said I was mad....
Date: 2002-02-19 07:39 am (UTC)*hugs* I was never mad about anything you did or at you in general. I wanted to know the truth. Now I do.
Band-Aid has been placed on boo-boo. All better.
Re: Never said I was mad....
Date: 2002-02-19 08:10 am (UTC)For the record, I misunderstood Silas as saying I needed to point out to you and Sarcy that I wasn't mad at either of y'all. (I wasn't.) In fact he was suggesting I make it clear to you that I was cool with what the STs had done to my character.
(I am.)
Re: Never said I was mad....
Date: 2002-02-19 08:11 am (UTC)