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General Chatter/Pointless Stories
So a lot of us seem to post things about what we're up to and what's going on in the out of game threads for games on here, and that's cool, but sometimes I just feel like rambling on things that may be related to a game only very tenuously or not at all, so in the spirit of run-on sentences, I've previously pondered starting a thread for general out of game chatter for anyone interested. I don't think it's unreasonable to do the whole "how was your weekend?" thing in the actual OOG threads, so maybe this won't go anywhere, but we'll see.
Pointless Story #1:
It's big. It takes up a good chunk of most any wall you put it on. It also seems like it would be great for some kind of wargame, so basically since we got it, I've been saying that sometime, my wife's going to come home from a long weekend, and I'll have the map off the wall and setup on a table, and I'll have put in red lightbulbs, and I'll be wearing my ushanka:
and listening to Holst's Mars and pushing mechs around the map with a stick. Yep.
Pointless Story #1:
So one time at Ikea, my wife and I got this map:Posted By: orklordShe stands near you, opens the paper and begins to read while humming some tune to herself. It sounds like something from Holst's The Planets.
It's big. It takes up a good chunk of most any wall you put it on. It also seems like it would be great for some kind of wargame, so basically since we got it, I've been saying that sometime, my wife's going to come home from a long weekend, and I'll have the map off the wall and setup on a table, and I'll have put in red lightbulbs, and I'll be wearing my ushanka:
and listening to Holst's Mars and pushing mechs around the map with a stick. Yep.
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(thanks for the thread, I love it!)
I spent all weekend cleaning house...sigh!
Getting better, just teaching him to play Othello, which he is remarkably good at.
Also, I haven't played Othello in a long time. I used to be sort of okay at it.
Arnold (show co-host) and I are talking about a possible game together and recording very soon. We need to do the year-end Canon Puncture wrap-up.
One of the characters in my face to face AW game wants to retire, and in doing so, wrap up the major plot thread of the game, but 2 people weren't there last week, so I didn't want to do it without them, and now it's probably going to be a while before I can get everybody together. I guess the good part of that is, if we all get together after the holidays are over, it'll be easier to move into another game instead of just dropping things for the holidays and never coming back.
I still need 2 more threats. One threat I already have are the workers of the mine. They fear the mist so much they will do anything to get better, and better pitchstone, impulse: consume. Little do they know, deep in the mine, the better pitchstone also can cause Psi-harm and is linked to the quarantine's facility some how.
My other threat are the Deerskins. They fear the pitchstone. They manage the mists (in their deer skin suits), but think the Pitchstone corrupts reality. They will eventually attack the hold. Wolf pack: Impulse to attack and dominate.
I figure that is enough to start, but would like another threat. Any suggestions?
What's the psychic maelstrom?
PCs don't yet exist, or they do? You talk about the quarantine, suggesting a PC's existence, but no others; unless I'm confused. Did they bring issues with them?
Are you looking for individual threats or fronts? Who's looking for the quarantine's facility? Isn't The Mist a front? Who buys steel made by the locals? Who's offering false claims of protection from or remediation of The Mist?
This is post first session write up.
We have a Hard holder, a Brainer and Quarantine. Hardholder has the mine.
Issues were mostly attached to the mine, that deep in there mysteries abound.
We started an informal thing with our f2f AW games. I give players the option to write beliefs (ala BW).
One belief is about a missing lover, and the answer to what happened to her is in the mine.
The other belief is that the Deerskins have a solution to the food problem.
Fronts and threats is where I feel most wobbly when I MC AW.
I gave special moves to the Mist as setting color, but I did not give it a threat, per se. I probably should go back and beef it up to a threat.
We established people visit via the gondola. And people visit from boats from the lake.
False Claims of protection of the mist ... that is a good direction. Will need to ponder.
Gracias.
Everything is suddenly new.
Also, my interview with Mike Sands about Monster of the Week, his AW hack Indie Go Go thing is now up. It was pretty cool, he's a nice guy. And I think I added to his workload with some ideas from our game on here!