RetCon III Recap

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Defenestration: The act of throwing someone or something out of a window, Dramatic Roleplaying Tournament, DRT, Gender-Bending, Hilarity Ensues, RetCon, Supernatural Couples' Therapy, Werewolves and Vampires and Mages--OH MY!, World of Darkness

Much to my disappointment, I was not able to run my beloved GLITCH again at RetCon III; this was due to a combination of factors, including a terrible time-slot, last-minute addition of the game to the schedule, and a bratty player walking out because he was unhappy with not one, but two characters I offered him.

By and by, in a normal DRT you take what you’re given and you play it, you don’t get to pick and choose. The only reason I offered him a second character was I NEEDED the last player to make the module work; his tantrum literally killed the module for everyone.

BUT, all was not lost, for while my first module fell apart, it meant I got to go sit down and bother my favorite GM, Mage Mistress.

She was running a game of WoD: Innocents and already had a Bully, Thief, Prankster, and Mixologist at the table. When he slid the remaining PC options over to me my eyes lit up with glee at the sight of the Hacker (I immediately thought of Alec Hardison).

And then I saw the other option.

Two words: Con Artist.

I was sold.

RetCon III Recap: A Prelude

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Dramatic Roleplaying Tournament, DRT, Hilarity Ensues, RetCon, Werewolves and Vampires and Mages--OH MY!, World of Darkness

As I started to write a post last night, I realized that it was going to be much longer than I anticipated, and, due to several important real-life things (AKA trying to avoid being unemployed when my temp position is up) I had started the post much too late in the evening to have it finished on time. However, you will get a RetCon Recap this evening and it will include:

• Vampires
• Werewolves
• Time Travelers
• Con Artists
• Defenestration

And such fine quotes as:

• “Mike! Get over here so you can be a lesbian!”

I hope you will enjoy it!

The Starbucks Incident

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Acanthus Antics, Aenaiyah, Argus, Damien, Death Kitty, Hilarity Ensues, Innuendon’ts, Mage, Noel, The Shepherds, World of Darkness

This is a short story about the perils of chasing bad guys into public Starbucks bathrooms with an Obrimos Guardian of the Veil as your backup.

If at First You Don’t Succeed . . .

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Acanthus Antics, Aenaiyah, Argus, Damien, Mage, Mind Control for Fun and Profit, PCs + Drinking = Hilarity, Pub Crawl, The Shepherds, Time Warp, World of Darkness

Aenaiyah and her cabal, The Shepherds, spend an awful lot of time in pubs.

Perhaps this is because Aenaiyah (under the fake name Emily Brown) works in a pub called “The Hole in the Wall,” based on NYC’s The Ginger Man.

Perhaps it’s because strong spirits help you forget dealing with traumatizing supernatural things like . . . er, strong Spirits.

Perhaps it’s because The Shepherds enjoy an alcoholic beverage now and again, like other mature adul–Hahahahaha! I can’t even get through that sentence with a straight face.

In truth, The Shepherds just like to have a good, completely irresponsible time every now and again, and since that usually means Mage Mistress doesn’t have to plan anything for that part of the session, she lets us roll with it.

And so, PCs who can bend the universe to their will get drunk and hilarity ensues.

Unusual Suspects #1: Aenaiyah the Acanthus Mage

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Acanthus Antics, Aenaiyah, Argus, Arrow, Damien, Mage, Neils, Rex, Riff-Raff, The Shepherds, Werewolves and Vampires and Mages--OH MY!, World of Darkness

Now that I’ve gotten a few amusing stories under my belt, I thought it best to give a little background on some of the characters that will frequently get mentioned here, starting with the one nearest and dearest to my heart, Aenaiyah.

Aenaiyah is a character who already has a somewhat infamous internet reputation thanks to Mage Mistress and her blog. Aside from being one of the Greatest GM Banes in the Mistress’ campaign, Aenaiyah has the auspicious(?) title of being the first character I ever created for an RPG involving dice.

Innuendon’ts

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Crossover, Innuendon’ts, Werewolves and Vampires and Mages--OH MY!, World of Darkness

Sometimes games are unintentionally hilarious. Take, for instance, the World of Darkness Crossover Game I was in for a time (For your own sanity: DO NOT EVER RUN OR PLAY IN A W.O.D. CROSSOVER GAME).

We picked up a Vampire late in the game, and our Werewolf, Chase, was something of an impatient fellow. My much-stressed Hunter, Daisy Maza (named after my two favorite fictional cops), was leading a charge with most of the rest of our crossover group–Dusty the Promethean, our mages Bear and Relic, and our new Changeling–against a bunch of cultists who attacking The Dumbest Task Force Valkyrie Operatives EVER (more on that in another post). Instead of coming with us Chase takes the brand-new Vampire to an alley by the Task Force Valkyrie base. He points to the darkest part of the alley and says “Stand over there, close your eyes, and let what happens happen.”

To which the female Vampire spins around and says ”Excuse me? If there is ANY funny business I will shoot you!”

“No, no, no! Just–just stand over there, OK?” Chase demands.

Out of character we’re all dying laughing. We know that Chase is just trying to bring the Vampire into the Shadow Realm so they can slip past the gunfight that stands between them and the TFV base, but the Vampire as a character has no idea what’s going on.

To emphasize his character’s honorable intentions, Chase’s player says “He’s just standing there. He’s not following her.” Then after a pause he asks the Vampire’s player “Are you resisting?”

We all die laughing as the Vampire’s player bursts out with “Resisting what?” and Chase’s player realizes how terrible that sounded. He only meant “resisting being pulled into the shadow,” but, obviously, wound up with a terrible innuendon’t instead.

I-Con 31 Antics

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Carla, Dumb as Rocks PCs, Fuuuuuuuuuu--!, GMing, Hilarity Ensues, I-Con, Mage, Rippers, Rolling Rocks, Savage Worlds, The Dice Are Trying to Kill Me!, World of Darkness

Toward the end of March, beginning of April, I was at I-Con 31, and there were many, many hilarious things that happened.

For one, the lovely Mage Mistress (of Magemistress.com) got vengeance upon me for my Aenaiyah the Acanthus antics by playing an Acanthus herself in my Mage: The Awakening one-shot. The Big Bad in that module was tossed around, beaten like a piñata, and tricked into thinking success was failure and failure was success–meaning when he did successfully manage to navigate himself to the ground after having being levitated, he promptly fell over, convinced he had failed.

The Rippers (a Savages Worlds setting) game I ran was hilarious in another way–my NPCs kept rolling rocks. Picture this: a dim-witted PC goes to pick up a (possibly animated) stuffed owl to see if there is a key underneath it. The owl, ticked off, starts clawing at the PC. It doesn’t manage to hit him, but flies off to warn Master “THE PCS ARE COMING! THE PCS ARE COMING!” Naturally, I then promptly forget about the owl until we’re a few rounds into the fight. The Dim-Witted PC is engaged against an animated terra cotta warrior. The angry owl swooped in for an attack and . . . rolls a natural one. So, as the owl is swooping in, the terra cotta warrior raised his sword and impaled the bird. The owl–being that it was enchanted and not actually alive–proceeded to flail and flap its wings helplessly until the terra cotta warrior (who then also rolled a one on his attack) and it were crushed from debris falling from the ceiling (which had a massive hole in it thanks to a Magician PC).

Then I got to play in a Hunter: The Vigil game run by the lovely Mage Mistress.