I know, I know. I said I’d not be blogging over here for a while but I managed to find a long lost manuscript in my desk at work today whilst clearing out pedestal.
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Many many moons ago when our group averaged six or seven players per game we decided to run a Hunter game where we played ourselves. Willie would be the storyteller and everyone else drew up a character as close to themselves as possible. It’s been one of the few times that I’ve gamed where the trip home at the end of the night still had me on edge.
As part of his character Mark wrote a journal detailing his findings and what had happened to us. Rereading it still gets the hairs on the back of my neck standing.
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And God said “Let there be light” and there was light.
And God said that light was good and God separated the light from the darkness.
God called the light Day and the darkness Night.
To whoever finds this journal.
The entries in this journal may seem like a fantasy story, the ravings of a lunatic, nothing more than an imagination at wild. I can assure you that it is not.
I am fully expecting to die or disappear in strange or suspicious circumstances. Paranoia has become my watchword. If you are reading this then it is most likely that I already have. Perhaps what you read here may sound outrageous but stop and think. Do you know anyone who might be interested in this journal? Perhaps the strange guy at the office who talks about monsters. Perhaps your brother-in-law who attacked someone while shopping last week because the voices told him to. If you can pass them this journal you will be doing them a far greater service than you can ever imagine.
“There are more things on heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
I’m babbling now, so it’s best that I stop now. Be careful out there.
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When you get involved with specific games for any length of time and involve yourself with the world surrounding the creation of those games your bound to come across people in the industry at some point. Back in 1999 and 2000 I was quite involved with the WoD-L mailing list whilst at college. I’m not sure if I became that involved because I lived and breathed White Wolf at that point or because i wanted to waste time but either way quite a few of the authors involved with WW were active posters on the mailing list.
One in particular was Clayton Oliver who was just going through the final stages of the Revised Assamites Handbook. One day after Clayton posted one of his usual messages a few of use decided to start up an unofficial fan club. We loved his work that we had read on the Assamites to that point and as he seemed to be a fun guy, all be it a fun guy that had access to lots of guns, we decided to show our appreciation.
Over the course of the next few days we followed Clayton about the mailing list like a group of star struck teen pop fans following their idol about the shopping mall. We created a fake newsletter and came up with designs for a Claytonosaur plushie toy that would be available for members only. It was obviously all intended as a laugh and in good spirits but I get the impression that after a few days of this Clayton was getting a little annoyed with us. One person even created the fan site web page for us although I think that lasted half a day before we took it down.
Of course this is all coming from someone that used to sign off his posts to the mailing list as Ol’ Shuggie the ancient and decrepit keeper of Haqim’s half eaten ham sandwich. I was never someone that found humour easy at the best of times.
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So the World of Darkness is a very scary place. So scary in fact that every night your supposed to find someone to drain blood from. You might even have to find a few furry creatures and empty them instead if your a little upset at the thought of drinking another humans blood. Now just how scary a place is your WOD really?
I ask this as I’ve started to notice the advertising for the new TV series TrueBlood and part of it’s main focus is on how the vampires are being able to feed without resorting to biting folk. That’s right it’s the bottled blood from the grocery store that I’m talking about.
It’s something we’ve used for as long as I’ve played in WOD games all be it in a more limited way. The Masquerade is still in place but in certain places like nightclubs or bars that the vampires frequent and are run by like minded individuals you were able to get various kinds of blood in drink form. Completely negating the need to feed from humans if you didn’t want to whilst at the same time keeping the masquerade up. It took almost all the horror out of the game for me I think. On the rare occasion we do roleplay a feeding encounter it was brushed over a little as the group we play with are from a fantasy/sci fi background and it’s not really what they look for in a game.
How do you guys treat this sort of thing in game? Do you RP it in great detail or do you not even bother and settle for the wants of the sword and ale crowd?
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