tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1678761812929125529.post622416466210241230..comments2023-05-27T11:14:02.426-04:00Comments on Some Space to Think: On the MarkAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14216103531396452644noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1678761812929125529.post-49440508129675979672010-08-11T10:37:10.588-04:002010-08-11T10:37:10.588-04:00I should have known better the moment Morgan and I...I should have known better the moment Morgan and I glanced at each other and said, "Let's split up the party to be less conspicuous." We just didn't say the flagging words: "We'll cover more ground that way."<br /><br />I had a moment of concern when Anna started to get stuffed in the containment unit - you know, the kind of unit used to contain a living, breathing nuclear device. I hope I did not overreact or annoy you or the other players. I *did* stop what I was doing to ask the other players if I was being obtuse - if there was some way out of being stuffed into the box that I was just missing. Fred dropped the hint about a flashlight that led to me thinking, "Fine, I have super tiny dremelesque tools taped to my person! Take that!" and coping. <br /><br /> In spite of the fact that Anna was *stuffed in a box*, I really really really enjoyed the session. Especially as I got to get out of the box, and the guys didn't show up to rescue a helpless box-stuffed-chick but a pissed off Anna who had already gassed the room with the box and was laying in wait for the next bastard to come after her. (Admittedly, she did this in the box - which is what cost her seeing Uncle Peter. Not getting to see Uncle Peter - or even recognize his voice!! - is thematically apt to the story, and I suspect it will take Grey a bit to connect him with 'Anna's Family' - at least until he hears her accent, or some such minute clue. I have decided that I really enjoy that Anna has No Idea.) <br /><br />The two - no, three - eh, four - highlights were: Bull's fight (which I maintain is the kind of fight that shows up in an RPG for justifying Bull's insane stats: 'they had to *gas the room* because the man had multiple broken ribs and Would. Not. Go. Down.'), Bull and Grey ramming the basement in Jeeps, Grey's amiable chat in an airduct, and Anna not getting to realize that it was Uncle Peter on top of the box. <br /><br />Fred remarked that I always seem to get really really really mad at the villains. He's right. I do. I hope that this is not an issue, and I can certainly tone it down. (In my defense, Davis is not at the 'make a list of the reasons I want to see him spiked, flattened, drawn, quartered, privities cut off, etc etc' stage. He's just at the 'Anna is definitely holding a grudge and wants to ruin the son of a bitch who tried to feed her to an alien and keep her in a *box*' stage.) <br /><br />I tend to be an emotional player, and my characters are rarely unemotional. Anna started out feeling bad for Davis when we were duct taping him to the windshield and when her boss tied him to the back of a horse and tugged him round the field. That was a little ungracious of us. But. Dude. He told her she would do a great service to her country by being _fed to an alien and kept in a box_.<br /><br />On a different note, it has suddenly dawned on Anna that it is possible that her employers do not have her best interests at heart. She always assumed that, being such a low level psychic, she wasn't worth using and thus had nothing to worry her about. Apparently, they will use anything, even the snow on the fields in Siberia. This worries a girl. <br /><br />I enjoyed this session. More, please.Deborah Donoghuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13757575115119206182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1678761812929125529.post-11741919785141030612010-08-10T19:08:46.940-04:002010-08-10T19:08:46.940-04:00(That said, I do like a little more traction in my...(That said, I do like a little more traction in my combat mechanics, but I do not NEED it; and I fear that if I got what I liked, it would render something that Deborah likes less. So honestly I'm happy with games run exactly the way last night was!)Fredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08362641974657304051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1678761812929125529.post-52325410122442279152010-08-10T19:07:48.128-04:002010-08-10T19:07:48.128-04:00I wasn't perturbed by the goon fight being fla...I wasn't perturbed by the goon fight being flat, for what it's worth. I mean, yeah, it coulda had more pizazz, but I got to burn the fate point on just ending it decisively with a combination of my psychic observation power and an inappropriately held machine gun, so it still qualified as "Gray gets to show off here."Fredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08362641974657304051noreply@blogger.com