Update on the Games

In Shadows we are busy sticking our noses in to the world and life of Mistress Lilith, one of my character's alternate selves. This has generated much conversation OOC between myself and our GM about the hazards of roleplaying the opposite gender, etc., since he is playing Her.

In WFRP we have managed to escape from the haunted mansion back into our own time period, with surprisingly little loss of limbs !

In Requiem this month I learnt that my character is much more able in combat than I had imagined. Oddly, he chose to aid Le Ferrier this month. Someone suggested that it was a sort of "Yes he's an a***, but he's our a***" type of reaction...

I've been doing a lot of Requiem related 'behind the scenes' stuff this month relating to the Manchester Ordo Dracul. I've also been helping out with ideas towards the Regional game, which is in March. plus I am working with an American player to devise background between our characters as well. Much fun being had.

Dreams and Reality

I'm posting today in the relatively small hours of a Sunday because last night's Cam game got into my brain sufficently as to wake me early. One of the plots running in our game is about Dreams Which Become Reality. I've been dreaming more lately anyway, for whatever reason, but tonight I dreampt about being a novice LARPer again, and discovering that a quite good game was running from a street corner near me. I went off on an adventure with my best LARPing mate of old (hiyas to Mercy), managed to survive, and even ended up in an IC pub at the end of it. So now I am awake, with all that energy still in my head (and possibly adrenalin in my body too ?).

It's not the first time I've had gaming-related dreams. I have a recurring dream about our (much expanded) tabletop group running games in a (imagined) venue that used to be (imaginarily) used by my original LARP group. I've also dreampt about going back to my (now non-existent) old LARP game and having a great time there.


Anyway, the Cam plot is interesting. Apparently it's actually gone global. Cudos for our DST. The Thing that ate the Ordo Dracul in Manchester recently was apparently a phantasm, a piece of dream which crossed into Reality and wrought some very real effects. Not a nice thing to be dealing with. Seemingly the power is being weilded by an aggressive Christian group, which makes you really hope none of them start dreaming about daylight.

I'm going to claim my own bit of cudos here, and say that the Cult which the Christian group massacred to get their plans off the ground were my brainchildren, seeded by a couple of random rumours I wrote for the game at the DST's behest in November. The original rumour seeds were:

• Some very dangerous 'fireworks' have gone missing, presumed stolen.
  
  
• A religiously / new age-y significant local area has been cordoned off.

Our DST ran with those and has developed an entertaining plot from it which should keep us going for quite a while.

Manchester will be hosting the Northern Regional in March, so this plot plus the leylines / portal plots and a couple of the Manchester characters presenting their Masters to the Ordo authorities should keep Ordo players amused, at least.

Do come along if you can. 23rd-25th March, details on the Cam UK website.

Update on the Games

Requiem LARP

Vampire has been good lately. I'm being bombarded with 'Plot', which always makes me happy. We had quite a few new players and quite a few 'Visitors' last game - people who aren't resident in the local game - and that was excellent.

Elijah is now 'Viscount of Cheshire'. He's still working out what that role entails. He was quite surprised when one of the other Viscounts appointed happened to be a non-resident of the City. That seemed very odd. He's conscious that appointment sowed discontent with some of the residents, who feel both snubbed and offended.

On the Ordo side of things he's been madly busy too... He's up to his thighs in wood glue and mortar presently, amongst other things... He's hoping to gain a new Coil soon and meantime has been supporting his Ordo colleagues through their present difficulties.

Too many pies, not enough fingers... or should that be tentacles ?


Shadows

We're on a very long break at the minute with Shadows, because our game dates fell awkwardly in relation to the big holidays. Lilithai has been having a 'long think' about her erstwhile son,. Tez, and other matters. She's had an interesting chat to their Navigator Gliber, too, whilst her alter-ego's Maitre D' was busy getting himself murdered...

Lili likes where the party is at right now - very leafy and the air is breathable without need for a chem suit ! That's a first on Fractured Earth ! She's hoping she'll get to chat with one or two of the 'sirens' eventually, once we get the blood out the carpet...err...leaflitter.


WFRP

Personal life interfered with my attendance at the last couple of games, then the holidays, but I'm hoping to make the next session, provided I can shake off the cold that's bugging me at present. Not sure where we are up to in WFRP right now.