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Weeeeeeell, that was sort of a cop-out. Yes, Aidan did get to be a hero, and there were tears and last words and even his old Sidhe lover coming out of the woodwork. Everything you could wish for in a finale. Except for the fact that he didn't really die, exactly.
Okay, so there was this temple. There were warped and twisted Sidhe possessing people and Aidan wasn't exactly the first to go but he was a bit of a moron for going in there on his own in the first place but what the hell. Anyway, the warped Sidhe used to be bound in this old man trapped in a pillar of light singing a typical Vesten saga (one of my current character's ancestors actually pushed him into that shaft of light in the first place, which is how we worked out what was going on -- more on that later). The problem was that the old man, who wasn't old at all a few generations ago, was aged to capacity, even if very slowly, and was actually dying, which meant he couldn't sing anymore and all the spirits got released. So after all the faffing and killing of random possessed people and bloody McCormack showing off, Aidan got thrown into this shaft of light, ousting the old party and attracting all these 'shades' into himself, essentially becoming the guardian. Since whoever's in that light pillar obviously ages very slowly anyway, and since Aidan has Slow Aging and Immunity to Disease, he's going to be very bloody good at it for a very, very long time. He got to say his last words to Viola (suitably romantic, and Kat was such a bitch), and he gave her his sword. That's a big deal because, since anything it does comes back to him somehow, he had to put it in the hands of someone he could trust to do right by it, even if he's going to be trapped in that stupid light pillar until he dies. It was amusing when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
corone turned to Kat and said, "If Fiora was a different sort of person, she'd have said, 'Would it have hurt you to shag him just the once?'" And Alejandro waited until Aidan could make no further reply before saying something about how he wouldn't tamper with the machinery in the hotel cellar too much.
My favourite touch was the onecorone added. As we were sailing back, a Sidhe lady -- the Queen of the Sea, we figure -- approached the ship and asked to speak to the passengers. She then asked where the man who bore her token had gone. Eventually we managed to explain, and no one knew what she was thinking or feeling. Viola was crying at this point, and the Sidhe lady looked at her, asked her to approach, touched one of her tears, studied it for a moment, and then cried briefly herself -- obviously just because it was what she was supposed to do, but all the same, a nice gesture.
Still ... he's not dead. It's a very, very weird feeling.
It's her first session, so it's still too early to tell how Bera's going to get on yet. She's incredibly useful in some respects, as she has Velstand, which allows her to get help in just about any given situation from ancestral memory. This forces the GM to cough up information he wouldn't have ordinarily; it's a better version of Alison's scry-bowl ability. Plus Villskap, which basically allows me to cast lightning bolts. Fine, not very painful lightning bolts, and they don't go far yet, but it can still be useful. Plus, heavy weapons do obscene amounts of damage. I beheaded someone in a single swing! Can I just say impressive? Of course, one of the things I am forgetting at this stage is that, when you're in combat, you get wounded. And if your parry's not very high (and mine isn't), your passive defence isn't either and you get wounded a lot. I'm already bloody crippled. Good thing is that her Resolve is high -- had she been Alison, she'd have been unconscious by now. However, the thing with Alison is that most of her attacks are ranged so she doesn't have to engage.
Anyway, that was fun. As per usual, friends with Kat's character. Mark's character didn't notice me until I mentioned I was pretty, then got interested. Fiora thinks I'm a savage. Life is good. I need sleep. Work tomorrow, so maybe life isn't so good.
Okay, so there was this temple. There were warped and twisted Sidhe possessing people and Aidan wasn't exactly the first to go but he was a bit of a moron for going in there on his own in the first place but what the hell. Anyway, the warped Sidhe used to be bound in this old man trapped in a pillar of light singing a typical Vesten saga (one of my current character's ancestors actually pushed him into that shaft of light in the first place, which is how we worked out what was going on -- more on that later). The problem was that the old man, who wasn't old at all a few generations ago, was aged to capacity, even if very slowly, and was actually dying, which meant he couldn't sing anymore and all the spirits got released. So after all the faffing and killing of random possessed people and bloody McCormack showing off, Aidan got thrown into this shaft of light, ousting the old party and attracting all these 'shades' into himself, essentially becoming the guardian. Since whoever's in that light pillar obviously ages very slowly anyway, and since Aidan has Slow Aging and Immunity to Disease, he's going to be very bloody good at it for a very, very long time. He got to say his last words to Viola (suitably romantic, and Kat was such a bitch), and he gave her his sword. That's a big deal because, since anything it does comes back to him somehow, he had to put it in the hands of someone he could trust to do right by it, even if he's going to be trapped in that stupid light pillar until he dies. It was amusing when
corone turned to Kat and said, "If Fiora was a different sort of person, she'd have said, 'Would it have hurt you to shag him just the once?'" And Alejandro waited until Aidan could make no further reply before saying something about how he wouldn't tamper with the machinery in the hotel cellar too much.My favourite touch was the one
corone added. As we were sailing back, a Sidhe lady -- the Queen of the Sea, we figure -- approached the ship and asked to speak to the passengers. She then asked where the man who bore her token had gone. Eventually we managed to explain, and no one knew what she was thinking or feeling. Viola was crying at this point, and the Sidhe lady looked at her, asked her to approach, touched one of her tears, studied it for a moment, and then cried briefly herself -- obviously just because it was what she was supposed to do, but all the same, a nice gesture.Still ... he's not dead. It's a very, very weird feeling.
It's her first session, so it's still too early to tell how Bera's going to get on yet. She's incredibly useful in some respects, as she has Velstand, which allows her to get help in just about any given situation from ancestral memory. This forces the GM to cough up information he wouldn't have ordinarily; it's a better version of Alison's scry-bowl ability. Plus Villskap, which basically allows me to cast lightning bolts. Fine, not very painful lightning bolts, and they don't go far yet, but it can still be useful. Plus, heavy weapons do obscene amounts of damage. I beheaded someone in a single swing! Can I just say impressive? Of course, one of the things I am forgetting at this stage is that, when you're in combat, you get wounded. And if your parry's not very high (and mine isn't), your passive defence isn't either and you get wounded a lot. I'm already bloody crippled. Good thing is that her Resolve is high -- had she been Alison, she'd have been unconscious by now. However, the thing with Alison is that most of her attacks are ranged so she doesn't have to engage.
Anyway, that was fun. As per usual, friends with Kat's character. Mark's character didn't notice me until I mentioned I was pretty, then got interested. Fiora thinks I'm a savage. Life is good. I need sleep. Work tomorrow, so maybe life isn't so good.