Nerves

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Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh!

Sorry. Two and a half hours until meet-up. Perhaps another hour/hour and a half until I run people through character gen. And then, depending on how that goes, there will be game.

And I am nervous. Very very very very nervous.

*deepbreath* I will simply continue to talk about theatre stuff etc with nightskywarlock until it's time to go. There's no sense worrying about it. But I'm going to do it anyway, because I don't think I can stop.

And don't tell me to visualise the audience naked. The group of seven comprises my boyfriend (so can do it from memory but it doesn't help), two married couples and two single guys. Not only is it incestuous and icky, it's kind of cheating. I mean, you don't go around visualising other people's spouses naked, do you?

Okay, maybe Jennifer Aniston and Alyson Hannigan's.

Storytelling

I don't know if I had good reason to be nervous. I think I may have done, but all the same, it went relatively well, all things considered.

Mark decided on another Ecstatic, this one a Klubwerks. Which, okay, very different from Kat's character concept, but after the cholten99/Andy O Hermetic thing, you'd have thought that my desire to have a broader scope would have held some sway. Anyway, because his character concept was so newly thought out, he wasn't really in character for most of the session. We'll see how he goes in a fortnight -- and at least he's playing a girl. Two females so far and they're both Ecstatics. This will end in fire.

Anyway, it all went pretty well. The Lucius Malfoy-based Euthanatos wound up with my most insidious creation yet -- the Singing Hatstand. Basically, we had a Son of Ether in the previous guests at Bokugo; this young woman (Marie) spent a lot of her time creating some very odd things. The gang like the microwave, and the Glomping Chair has been described as 'sweet' by the perky-Ecstatic, and the coffee machine that seems to build itself out of any normal coffee machines that come near it is kind of fun, but then there's the hatstand. Its default setting is Show Tunes. Then its other two settings are Opera and Backstreet Boys. And when it gets hungry (it eats hats), it starts in on Disney, specifically "It's a Small World".

They did damn well. Basically, they turned up at this Node and were told that it had been under attack by Redcaps and Trolls for three months. Why? Because a Sidhe Queen had lost her favourite storyteller, a Satyr who'd been at these 'parties' the Ecstatics were having in this Node. After nearly three months of Redcap raiding parties (the first of which wiped out three-quarters of those living in the Node), they sent an emissary -- a Pooka. They were given two weeks to find the Satyr. And the group the Traditions sent only turned up on the day (and, because of botched Drive rolls by two of the three drivers, most of the party arrived with maybe a half-hour to spare before dark, which was the deadline). Pooka turned up, was spoken to ... well, sort of, because communicating with a Pooka is hard. Eventually, it got through that asking a Pooka to deliver a "please don't kill us" message orally is a big mistake, so Skank (the urban primitive) wrote the Sidhe Queen a note -- "Hey Queenie, We're looking for your Storyteller but we need more time without being slaughtered and razed to the ground. Cheers, Skank Fetish :)" (He has promised me that Skank has a real name and I will learn it soon.) Pooka went away. They settled in for the night. Lucius discovered the singing hatstand, and Skank discovered the trapdoor near the fireplace in the common room.

Eventually, most of the group got down to the cellar, where Marie the Son of Ether had her lab. There were instructions for the Hatstand (which I have to write down for Toos), and there was a small metal cube (4' x 4' x 4'). A small iron cube. Skank's primitive, but that is not the same as stupid -- he didn't need to know more than that. After some fumbling with Entropy and some fiddling with a knife, they found how to open it and there was their very traumatised Satyr. Skank brought the Satyr out, then went to find the other denizens of Bokugo. When he found them, they knew to blame it on the Son of Ether, and this is how Skank was the only one of the group to meet ... well, let's call her the "creepy little girl" so we don't spoil things for cholten99. Anyway, she told him to bring the Satyr to the grave of the Son of Ether (Marie died in the first wave, which is why she couldn't really tell anyone about the fae she'd stuffed into an iron box in the cellar). He did (without telling anyone what he was doing, so they had to figure it out as they followed him along) and eventually, a bunch of Satyrs came out to collect the still traumatised Satyr.

Now they're proposing a trip into the settlement, and after some discussion with Threnody, I know what they're going to find when they get there. This should be good for a few sessions, and their first combat. In all, I think they had a good time, and laughed a lot -- I gave Toos an extra XP for dealing with the Hatstand so well, and Kat one for trying to teach it to sing death metal.

This is going to be so much fun...