Stormbringer #12; UPS and others
Oct. 15th, 2005 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aWas off at RPGing today.
Very amusingly, I arrived today and Kevin, Dave W., and Dave S. were all already there. It was like armageddon or something. We played a few rounds of Poison while waiting for Dave P., then it was off to the races.
(With a few games of Poison under my belt, I can now say it's an entirely inoffensive game that's OK as a filler; review to follow this week or next.)
The main event of the game was session #12 of Stormbringer. I'm continuing to run one of the adventures from Chaosium's supplement "The Fate of Fools". As I usually do, I reread all the material this morning before the game, then played it pretty loosely from there, to keep the game more organic and more quickly moving.
Things went well. I built out a festival that was occurring in the city, and scarcely mentioned in the source material, into a sort of chaotic halloween, then watched as the players used that cover to break into a library in order to steal the Book of Brilliant Things.
There was much humor on the way, pretty universally generated by Dave S., who first tried to raise an army of beggars to assault the library (he got two) and then cross-dressed for the holiday and thanks to his excellent disguise skills started working on seducing guards.
Yep, that's Dave. And he seemed just a bit too happy about the opportunity for his character to wear women's clothing.
I left the players on the verge of breaking into the vault with the Book, having subdued all the guards.
We'll get back to that in two weeks.
This week's score: one sleeper (Kevin) and one game-player (Donald), though his new living room setup means that he can't sit at his computer constantly because he doesn't have room for dice and character there.
Of other amusement, to some extent, this week I had a number of UPS boxes en route. Two were supposed to arrive Friday and one was scheduled for this upcoming Monday.
Friday morning I glanced at my UPS tracking numbers (all handily bookmarked on one page) and was surprised to see that all three of the packages had arrived in our local distribution facility the previous night. "Wow," I thought, "I wonder if I'm going to get all three packages rather than the two scheduled to arrive."
Want to guess how many actually arrived?
If you said one you were right
Today UPS has updated their records for those two remaining packages and it no longer even knows where they are. It says it's received the shipping info for them, and that's it.
Ah, UPS.
Very amusingly, I arrived today and Kevin, Dave W., and Dave S. were all already there. It was like armageddon or something. We played a few rounds of Poison while waiting for Dave P., then it was off to the races.
(With a few games of Poison under my belt, I can now say it's an entirely inoffensive game that's OK as a filler; review to follow this week or next.)
The main event of the game was session #12 of Stormbringer. I'm continuing to run one of the adventures from Chaosium's supplement "The Fate of Fools". As I usually do, I reread all the material this morning before the game, then played it pretty loosely from there, to keep the game more organic and more quickly moving.
Things went well. I built out a festival that was occurring in the city, and scarcely mentioned in the source material, into a sort of chaotic halloween, then watched as the players used that cover to break into a library in order to steal the Book of Brilliant Things.
There was much humor on the way, pretty universally generated by Dave S., who first tried to raise an army of beggars to assault the library (he got two) and then cross-dressed for the holiday and thanks to his excellent disguise skills started working on seducing guards.
Yep, that's Dave. And he seemed just a bit too happy about the opportunity for his character to wear women's clothing.
I left the players on the verge of breaking into the vault with the Book, having subdued all the guards.
We'll get back to that in two weeks.
This week's score: one sleeper (Kevin) and one game-player (Donald), though his new living room setup means that he can't sit at his computer constantly because he doesn't have room for dice and character there.
Of other amusement, to some extent, this week I had a number of UPS boxes en route. Two were supposed to arrive Friday and one was scheduled for this upcoming Monday.
Friday morning I glanced at my UPS tracking numbers (all handily bookmarked on one page) and was surprised to see that all three of the packages had arrived in our local distribution facility the previous night. "Wow," I thought, "I wonder if I'm going to get all three packages rather than the two scheduled to arrive."
Want to guess how many actually arrived?
If you said one you were right
Today UPS has updated their records for those two remaining packages and it no longer even knows where they are. It says it's received the shipping info for them, and that's it.
Ah, UPS.