Chronicles of a Sleepy Rabite

First, let me say that it’s such a relief to be able to post one of these again, seeing as we hadn’t roleplayed in quite a while. I really miss this stuff, and I sincerely wish I had more time for it.

The Method and the Madness

Hooooooo.

Okay, so to recap since the actual TM&TM forums are private now (but if you want to register to lurk, please, please, PLEASE go ahead!), Christopher (AKA me) got attacked by a creature of sorts. He managed to tranquilise it, but he ended up with a nasty bite in his shoulder that unexpectedly healed over a couple of days. Most of you can put two and two together and figure out that he was bitted by a were and that he has lycanthropy.

Sky let me decide how far this was going to do since he doesn’t like railroading characters. I could have said “nope, nothing happened!” but that’s just not me. I was a little wary of having him become a full-blown lycanthrope, however, because of the following reasons:

• He’s at the University of Enlightenment as a spy for Westminster Collegiate. If he becomes a were, then the Collegiate might sever their ties with him. This isn’t too much of a problem, though, and I can handle this.

• I don’t want to be relegated to NPC status. I know I’m the co-GM of this game (that’s a whole other story altogether), but with all this stuff happening, I’m worried that Christopher will drift from being a PC to an NPC just because I might lose control over him. (Silly, I know, because I’m co-GM.)
• I don’t want to be the star of the show. It’s the whole worry that people may think I’m getting preferential treatment because I’m the GM’s wife and all that, and I feel bad enough that I’m at the centre of this current plot. I mean, everyone will eventually come into the spotlight, but it’s the whole “argh, I’m co-GM, this shouldn’t be happening to me first”.

Yeah, this is all silly and I’m probably worrying for nothing, but hey, I worry.

We’re at the first major event in the story, and I gave Sky the go-ahead for “it” to happen. I wasn’t prepared for the actual post, however, and it makes me look really, REALLY bad… and I find myself panicking.

It’s been a very long time since I’ve feared for the life of one of my characters, so this hit me like a ton of bricks. This is affecting how Christopher should act, which is not good. He’ll go “WTF?!”, sure, but he won’t go into a full-blown “zomg wtf ahhhhh /panic” like I am right now, so I really have to get into his mindset for future posts.

This has the makings of some EPIC RP, though.

Mare Infinitum: Second Verse

For those of you just tuning in, the thread for the reboot is here. (You don’t need to register to see this thread.)

I’m struggling a little with writing up the stuff for the Risidor system, and I think it’s mostly the whole “hurr hurr this is sci-fi and you sux at it” thing working against me. I’m having a hard time writing anything in greater detail than “some guys crashed on a storm planet, nearly got wiped out, survived underground, then found out that future generations were becoming pretty much immune to the storms so they started building above ground, and they found out that some could use pattern magic on technological doodads”. I mean, see? I just wrote it! Don’t know why I’m having so much trouble with this.

Carnelian

I… haven’t played in a while. I think I need to be in a specific mindset for this, and I just haven’t been. There’s also the fact that I’m having a really hard time playing Kyden… I mean, REALLY hard time, and I’m stressing out (WHY?!) over it.

I think we’re going to end up playing more once we’re done the library and have set up the gaming table, since this game DEMANDS a gaming table because we’re using those D&D tiles for maps.

Chrono Crisis?!

Hunter’s thinking about rebooting this game as well, which makes me really happy… except for the fact that I’m not sure I can play Korin right now.

I mean, Korin was okay… just that he was a brooding, angsty teen that was made of DOOM and GLOOM. If I want to play him, I’d have to change his personality, and if I do that, he wouldn’t be Korin.

What I’m hoping for is a seperate game in the same universe, but with different characters so I can play that Earth Mage concept I was thinking about the other day… (HINT HINT BEAR.)