Too soon for a favorite/funniest moments thread?
One of mine had to be being told to “f*** off” when bidding for the freezey machine in Gordian knot, because i had no idea what a credit was but liked big numbers.
Or watching the “Pretty Prince” and his jealous cousin compete over who could kill the most bandits in Knightshade - poor bandits!
Too many moments to list while sneaking onto Diatribe in a quick down-time moment at work. Will ramble on in great detail later though, fear not.
I will put up more later as I get time, but talking Knightshade.
Watching Mark’s character walk away from the other characters, past a wall to investigate a body, totally missing the 3 bandits hiding quietly behind it. I motioned for them to attack him. They come charging out, and his character realised and went “screaming” back to the others in a panic.
I had lots of favourites.
Patrick’s uncertain reaction in Knightshade to a village maiden (me) fluffing his feathers and massaging his armour after a hard day’s battle, and him not realising that I had already tricked him into marriage when offering him a drink. He must have been wondering ‘what the hell?’
Knightshade again - hearing about how the ‘piggies’ weren’t thriving because of the weird plants in the forest. Taking up the cue that pigs were very important to our village and offering everyone pig related products including pig fat to protect swords and chain mail from rusting. 
Gordian Knot - watching people’s reactions when my character, Ebony from Pumice who had never been off her planet before, bounced up to them and asked them if she could have a skin scraping for her DNA library. Even funnier - asking out of the blue if they wanted to have sex.
You are Cordially Invited To… I enjoyed growling at people when they looked at me and startling them. Funny to watch the reactions. My first ever skirmish/fights were in this LARP. I got stabbed with a silver dagger and ran away dodging around all over the hall only to be told I was already dead … oops.
Ch’Akta Peace Accord - Telling my boyfriend Matthew very seriously that I was dumping him because he lied to me about having nanites, and then he and I both having to Time Out to crack up and laugh our heads off.
Boffo’s Birthday Bash - Highlight definitely chatting to Hyacinth as the two formidable Aunts who abused each other rudely and then companionably chatted over tea. Also trying to achieve my goals by bringing scissors along to “trim” Lulubelle’s hair so that my Duchess would win Top Dog and then having yelling match with Lulubelle’s owner Sneaking jewellery and a ten pound note with ‘Property of Lady Dora Ellington’ scribbled on the back into Madame de Valois’s bag so I could frame her for red-handed theft. Spreading rumours about Boffo’s syphilitic condition from trawling brothels in London.
I had a ball quite frankly. I like the many moments when whoever I was role playing just cracked up and we laughed.
Most random moment… You are Cordially Invited to… I am standing there being a werewolf minding my own business (shortly before being stabbed by Dean Winchester the werewolf hunter) when Nick Cole sidles up to me and informs me that we’ve just had word that aliens from Saturn are attacking Earth and can he count on me in the upcoming fight with them. What use is a werewolf against aliens from Saturn?
Especially a bad ass loner werewolf.
Tanya
There’s far too many to list, but here are my favourite moments on a per-game basis.
House on Haunted Hill - my face off with the mob boss, which got really intense, shortly before punching him. The smug look on his face was great, knowing I was the best damn fighter in the room. Gunning down all the surviving players was also fun, even if I was killed shortly after by the only remaining ghost.
One Night In Heaven - Getting my magic box back from Buddha, and using it to give an angel a penis, and Anubis two stones which gave him/her a penis as long as they were being knocked together.
Stop That, It’s Silly - I’d hardly call being killed by that bloody rabbit fun, but I thought I should make a mention of how often I died in that game: At least 40 times. And being killed a combined 6 or so times by Gaffy AND the rabbit in 2 minutes was really bloody annoying. However, during the post-game “Oh you did that??”, Daphne yelling out “You mean you actually talk like that??!!?!?” was priceless (FYI I was playing Tim the Enchanter, and I really am Scottish).
The Gordian Knot - Running around staring at everybody’s neck while asking if they’d been bitten was oddly fun. I’m sure I freaked out a LOT of people.
Corbett & Grimes - A few moments here worth mentioning: Firstly, Tigger deciding before game that my character used to be a porn-star called ‘Tripod’ 
. Then having all the actors try and one-up all the crazy stunts I would have to do (the winner was having my face dragged along the concrete at 100mph. Damn useless assistant director).
The Scummit - A fantastic game for RPing and probably my favourite for the entire weekend, for me my favourite moment was smuggling 7 guns in without anybody noticing one of them. And then, despite being gunned down my an army of Russians at the end, learning that I was still able to take out 12 of them before they killed my character.
All the OOC moments, especially with all my roomies in Room B. You guys are the best.
And finally, a huge thanks to EVERYBODY there. Anna, Roweena and everybody for organising it. Elle and her kitchen hands. All the GMs for such fantastic games. Everybody I played with. It was my first time at Chimera, and I promise I’ll be back as long as it continues to run.
Bad Dreams- My favorite part was finding out after the game that pretty much everyone in the game was a Serial killer of some sort or another when I thought I was the only one. Pre-game I had decided that my assistant, who turned out to be at the hotel was in love with my character which is why she was acting strange and then find out post-game that she actually had multiple personalities. Also I started talking to myself during the game from the stress and to have people actually react was quite fun.
One Night in Heaven- During the game I somehow managed to quite my group and join the Europeans then when the new groups were being formed to actually end up in the European group was somewhat ironic.
The Nun/Priest Game - The whole storyline involving my daughter was probably the most fun. At least it was the most emotionally charged one. Nice going Patrick and Yuli.
Gordian Knot- The fact that I was playing a confused forgetful old man was pretty much a lot of fun. And the fact that I was constantly forgetting/mixing up the names of my sons was pretty cool. My best single moment was interesting with the Lady from the supposed System Scourge, my character was both scared and confused as he was afraid of her and confused as to why she was talking to me. Thank you for that.
Corbett and Grimes- I tried to keep myself out of the roleplaying for my game, but you guys did a great job. I’m sorry about the whole character sheet situation, but you did brilliantly regardless, thank you for putting up with a GM who wasn’t quite sure what he was doing and being a player or two down without me even realising. I hope you all had a good time and enjoyed yourselves.
Scummit- This was definitely an interesting game. I’m sorry to Dave that I couldn’t give it my all for this, but I was tired and sore and pretty much trying to keep myself on my feet throughout. Still somewhat enjoyable regardless. Will hope to play this game again at some point.
Cinead - you asked me about FOUR times if I had been bitten. For the last time, NO!!! (Ebony from Pumice) Tanya XX
What a great weekend! I had so much fun in all my games although feeling a bit braindead right now.
On to the favourite moments:
The Doll-Maker’s Wife
Making the doctor very uncomfortable by flirting with him while he kept dropping extremely unsubtle hints about his fiance. The end game in the kitchen was fun waking up with body parts strewn around us. I hope I didn’t annoy anyone too much with my screaming but I really got into the whole Saw feel of the scene.
Snow White
Thanks for the votes on this one guys!!
I really enjoyed playing the victim card and trying to cast suspicion on Snow White’s sweet, innocent persona, although she helped me out a lot by running off with the dwarf! Thanks Mila for not outing me . I think my favourite part was making Snow White infertile and somehow still managing to not come off as completely evil. I also loved Patrick’s portrayal of the handsome, charming prince. Oh boy did he know it! Nicky going down in flames at the end was also very cool, and a complete shock to me.
Gordian Knot
Finding out I was pregnant and being ditched by the father was totally crushing, but lots of fun to roleplay. That gave me the emotional fuel I needed to give up my former life with it’s cutthroat, achievement-oriented social hierarchy and save the gimps! Meeting Mila’s character, my cousin who had run away and seemed to be having the time of her life really helped as well. I decided to keep NannyOne’s data for myself. I’d like to think my character set up her own, ethical research lab somewhere new while raising her baby.
I would love to know what the Dysons’ thought when they found out we stole their ship. Did that happen before game end?
Corbett and Grimes
I just loved it all!
I’ve never played the tough chick before so that was really fun and new for me. The back and forth with Tigger’s character - I don’t remember his real name but I called him Fabio - was pretty funny.
I wanted to kick a bit more ass but ended up being taken hostage, being dumped in the boot of a car and then tied to a chair and saved by Corbett, my partner. My character really wanted a second season of the show and couldn’t argue with the ‘bondage sells’ argument hehe. Just too damn professional.
My romance plot with Zane’s character was so fun because we were trying to introduce a romantic subplot into this gritty, film noir tv show.
It was great when the photographer came in and I had a good in-character excuse to go “Oooh, promo shots”.
I know Joseph said not to hold out hopes it’ll get edited into a film but I still hope it does, or we at least get to see some of the shots!
Boffo’s Birthday Bash
My favourite moment was ‘walking in the back gardens’ with Boffo/Cameron’s char and having everyone run out yelling “Don’t murder her!!”.
I loved interacting with the psychic and how she set it up so everyone got true love in their future. Since almost every (except the psychic! 
) got engaged, I think she was pretty accurate.
I talked way too much, especially after I started drinking the ‘special tea’ that Mrs Price introduced me to so it was fun forcing everyone to be terribly impolite and interrupt my ramblings.
I thought you were really good as Madison the American. Pity you had to marry a penniless pox-ridden posh Pom with a policeman helmet fetish.
Aunty Dora Ellington
and Duchess - tell me, did Duchess win the Top Dog in Show competition?
Tanya
Bad Dreams: The standout: the hotel owner’s daughter coming through covered in blood and holding a roasting dish saying “Meeeeat, meat meat meat meat!”, also going to the bathroom only to discover 4 dead bodies, most frustrating as I had gone there for ooc reasons!
One Night In Heaven: Running around for 20 minutes trying to find a way to give Uriel the equipment he needed, only to be told he wouldn’t do it unless we got married…so we got married- “Can I play with your sword?”…“You can play with both of them”. Also Athena’s reaction when I told her I had thought about what she’d said about forming a female pantheon, and I’d decided to help her- by finding her a man.
Stop That, It’s Silly: Chasing Sir Robin around, first with a snake, then, as Cardinal Ximenex with the soft cushion (I believe I may have yelled out ‘you cannot escape Christ’s judgement!’), watching through the window as Tim the Enchanter ran away pursued by Steph Pegg with the Rabbit, who was being chased by Daphne as the MI6 Dentist.
Gordian Knot: Not something a lot of people would have noticed, but I have to shout out Alice M as my slave, Sanna- she was there whenever I turned around, wouldn’t let me carry anything, and even asked permission to go to the bathroom- then the conversation at the end where I told her that there was nothing wrong with her genetically, it was just that our race needed to interbreed, and that if she was open to a relationship with one of the Camfordese, she could have a baby and then she’d be free- Alice: “But how would I serve you?” Me: “Ummmm…”. Lizifer saying the exact right thing to make my character, who was very much about Science above everything else, put aside her dislike and start working together- which thanks to us working the negotiations, plus some help from Zara/Madigora giving us super-awesome tech secrets, meant we were going to go back to the Mothers of Mort and kick ass and take names. The Decline will be stopped! More babies!
Circus of the Spectacular: finding out that Chris R as the Bearded Lady had lost his beard- “but how have you attached that one?” “With glue!” gasp!- that was a lovely, subtle performance- he had some great feminine mannerisms going on, really enjoyed roleplaying with him. Dave Agnew as my flustered fiance- the emotional scene where I told him I knew the truth, and agreeing we’d get married in the very next church we could find. Feeling totally horrible for being unable to be around poor Binky the Clown without laughing. Also the balloon swords.
The Scummit: A scene which nobody else would have seen because I was in a room off to the side with Scott, in a husband/wife scene where I persuaded him (with well-timed interventions from Daphne and Freddy/Stein) that what he was doing wasn’t God’s work, and that the Rabbi was an evil man. It was very emotionally charged, talking about how Selma had thought that Eli was the good in the world before he had changed, and that she just wanted things back the way they had been before. Then the words said over the dead after the Rabbi had been shot. Breaking off my affair- “You think we should…stop?”…“I’m stopping this. I’ll always care about you but he’s my husband and I love him.” And, finally, getting the hell out of there just before the Russians sent in their gunmen.
[quote=“snakefang”]I thought you were really good as Madison the American. Pity you had to marry a penniless pox-ridden posh Pom with a policeman helmet fetish.
Aunty Dora Ellington
and Duchess - tell me, did Duchess win the Top Dog in Show competition?
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Wow nice alliteration
I’m not sure why we didn’t have the top dog competition but I think Duchess would have to win after Lulubell’s haircut!
One of my favourite moments at Gordian Knot was when Morphine finally found the woman who was unknowningly gestating his baby. It’s about to burst out of her abdomen and kill her - the Physician shouts at him what to do, his response: “I don’t know, I’ve never had a child before!”
You and Lulubelle suck, Ophelia Wainwright, Duchess rules!
The MEAT MEAT reference above reminded me of a non game moment that tickled my laugh meter - Ellie in the kitchen at midnight on Friday night with a large cleaver chopping up a huge bag of gravy beef, while staged in front of her coincidentally were a bunch of severed limbs.
Tanya
Oh boy…where do I start…?
Asterix and the Council of Canutes
This game was amazing. I missed out on a whole bunch of awesome moments since I was a roman (and consequently spent half the game being beaten up by those foul Gauls), but there were a few moments that stood out:
The first was when we romans were at our post and Cacofonix came prancing through the forest, unleashing the Gaul secret weapon of ear-piercing singing. We promptly ran over, beat him up and captured him. Tying him up and gagging him. We immediately settled for feature-torture to make him spill his secrets and geared up another roman to impersonate him. Many times we ungagged the bard only for him to sing! How horrifying! Of course about ten minutes after we sent off the Cacofonix impersonator, a horde of Gauls came and beat us all up. (Also, it was scary how well Walter played Cacofonix…)
Another part was when I found Getafix in the forest with three woman. Cheryl’s character immediately chugged a magic potion and went to fight me. But being a roman who knew enough about the magic potion I decided to keep talking to get Getafix to talk. And it worked! Three minutes later I laughed saying “Of course I know something you don’t know that I know! I know how long the magic potion lasts!” and immediately attacked Cheryl. At which point Meredith, who had been quietly standing beside Getafix immobolized me. So they strolled past me, as if this was just a day in the life…
Yeah, that game was so very Asterix it wasn’t bloody funny.
The Gordian Knot
I had a blast with the character I was given. I had an organic ship that I was selling with my character’s sister, along with the help of an evil doctor named Medulla. Not long after the game begin I got told that there was some plant-wench that escaped. We had a plan! We purchased a drug that would get her in a state where she was susceptible, and I managed to talk to her and gain her trust and slip her the drug. Everything was going perfectly when the drug hit her system…now was the chance to do horrible things! …at which point EVERYONE who had some plot thread with me decided that now was the time to talk. Each time I quickly dealt with someone, someone else would come along. Again and again and again!
Late in the night, because of our failure to deal with her, the two people I worked with ran. Apparently stole my boss’ ship and let a whole bunch of people ride with them. Which was just fine with me. He wanted to send security after it, but I convinced him not to. If only because I ever so loved to see him panicking and frustrated. Too bad I didn’t get a chance to kill him before the night was through…
Stop That It’s Silly
…seriously people! Stop throwing the snake at me! Being Brave Sir Robin, every time it was thrown I had to run away. I was exhausted!
Boffo’s Birthday Bash
Considering I was thrown in this game at the last minute, I thought I wouldn’t enjoy it. Boy was I wrong.
My “Best friend” had sent a letter of love to the woman I loved, asking her for an engagement. Which was a mistake since he wrote two letters, one for me and one for the woman he loved…and got them mixed up. We spent half the game going back and forth with increasingly hair-brained schemes to get this fixed. Which mostly involved us making fools of ourselves. When we finally got things sorted, everything seemed fine. I got my lover’s dog to hold and I was in a daze feeling good. At which point some evil lady snatched the dog from my hands and immediately cut some of his fur! The horror! At which point she found out and things got worse. So I thought I’d take matters into my own hands! I managed to steal the evil lady’s own dog and give her a taste of her own medicine! Muahahaha. At which point the guy who was taking care of the party decided this wasn’t on and took me outside for a sound grilling. …and instead he congratulated me. (Yeah, I cut that dog’s fur worse than what she did to Lulubelle)
So things finally quietened down again. Things seemed to have been solved. All was happy. Until some lady said that she heard that Boffo was going to kill someone! Gasp! So me and my best friend immediately jumped up yelling “Where’s Boffo?!”. We ran towards the door at which point practically everyone who was left went to stop us! But we couldn’t have this. We could never let our friend do something so stupid. We immediately punched the guy who was trying to stop us from leaving and ran to our friend’s rescue! “Don’t do it!” we yelled, “It’s not worth it!”. And eventually we found him with some woman and yelled that he shouldn’t murder her.
…it then turned out that he was merely going to ask for her hand in marriage. Oops!
First things first. AWESOME! You folks really know how to make a Chimera virgin feel welcome Thank you all so very very much!! Just like Tanya, I thought I was going to be incredibly overwhelmed by the length. depth and scope of the weekend. Well and truly worth it, definitely planning on going back, may even get tempted to help run a game lol.
Favourite moments not in a game:
Working with Elle and the kitchen crew ™. Beautiful peoples with their hearts and minds all in the right places
Carrying on with Robza about the importance of keeping the name “Rob” active 
Flo and Junior … HUGS
Staying up drinking with all the other nutters on Saturday night … till 7am :s (Man those boys can sing!)
You are cordially invied to …
Everyone! What a fun and fantastic way to kick the event of for me. Special thx to Mrs. Meads for being my love interest and letting me dodge every attempted wedding suggestion
One Night In Heaven
Cha’akta Peace Accord
The Gordian Knot
The Circus
Boffo’s Birthday
Especially Meredith (the aforementioned dear sweet love) and Prema! O.M.G!Exhausted, wrung out, tired, sleepy … When can we do it again???
So much fun, as always.
Bad Dreams
Thank you Vanya and Porl for a role that was WELL outside my comfort zone but a lot of fun to play.
Being the reincarnation of Hitler, making racist comments and stalking anyone who wasn’t white. Oh, the shame!
I tracked down the very man I needed to make my Aryan Supremacy army immortal and extremely biddable. My organisation would fund his research and provide any required subjects for as long as needed to acheive the goal of permanent resurrection. Norm, your mad scientist was priceless.
Epic fail on the serial killer aspect, with a body count of only one before being taken down myself. Ah well, you can’t keep an evil-mastermind down, I’m sure someone will resurrect/clone/reincarnate me again.
One Night in Heaven
Crazy fun game.
Being asked by Venus if I, as a fertility goddess, knew anyway to give an angel (Uriel) the necessary equipment. 
Dragging her over to Degei the Serpent God and asking him to let Uriel open his magic box and see if there was a penis inside. The look on Degei’s face was priceless.
Thank you Venus, for returning the favour by casting a love spell on Anubis, who I married, only to discover that he also was ‘gender neutral’. Poor Degei.
Conning Cleopatra into looking after the magic eternal youth apples in Asgard and sharing them with me. It was apparently a full time occupation and I had other things to do.
The Gordian Knot
My first ever game as a “Must talk to you now!” character. Wow, well outside my usual area of expertise, made my branches twist. So many people to talk to. Got a major, major case of “shoulda, woulda, coulda” about this game.
My little delegation from Pumice, you were all awesome and Pitch (sorry, real name?) you were amazing to rp with as the terribly earnest politician trying to save his people.
Being told by the rep from the Mining Corp that my “cellulose mind couldn’t possibly handle the complexities of politics” and retorting that I didn’t see why his “meatbrain” was any better suited. Thanks Mike. In truth though, you weren’t wrong. So much info!
Buying our own damn spaceship back from one of the men who stole it in the first place. ARgh! Even though I knew it was you all along Cameron, we didn’t really think we had much of a choice in the matter.
Avoiding the medical scanners and security people all night, because strictly speaking, I’d been banned from the entire event.
Sounds like y’all had a blast on Sunday too. Sorry I couldn’t be there.
Had a great time in all tree games I was in. Thank you all.
One Night in Heaven;
Bloody Cleopatra and her snakes and flirts.
Bloody Venus and her belt and strategically placed hair. Saw that and thought there is no way in the underworld Anubis would ever get the guts to act on his crush and try and make her fall in love with him/her/it.
“Sure Ra, I’ll ask Huitzilopochtli if he is free on Tuesday, I just need to go and propose to someone first…”
Hey Kara what was your characters name? Possibly should have confirmed that before marrying her…
Debating other options if I couldn’t get a penis out of the box. I will never look at Anubis’ nose the same again, thank you.
Then to get rocks which can magically grow a penis in 10 minutes, gods only know what would have happened if I put them down too soon, there was no way Anubis was going to do that since it suddenly found itself accepted by someone who wasn’t Egyptian and in love and married to them.
An Ecumenical Matter;
Sacred undies on a stick!
The (accidentally?) drunken, recently sea sick, Archbishop vomiting on the sacred stone in the middle of blessing it.
Father Eamon, Amen! No I said Father Eam… Amen! Amen!
Gordian Knot,
Thank you Ellen for being such a nice master. It was amusing to see your facial expressions when I kept trying to get the medical bag off of you (and mostly succeeding). It was a pleasure to shadow you and act like walking furniture, even though it was damn hard not to ask questions ‘cos that’s not what a good slave would do…
Wahoo My slave was going home with the hope to get knocked up by a tree-person, yay? God imagine giving birth to something with branches…
There were alot of good moments
Bad Dreams
Thinking i was the only serial killer and getting myself killed in the first half an hour of the game, then watching as three other people got killed in the space of three minutes and my sister being reincarnated. all of this while sitting on the toilet as my murder decided to drag me there, kinda akward to be honest with you O.o
Star Wars
Looking at my charcter sheet and seeing the following stats at the top:
Hacking: 1 you only just started
Engineering: 8(actually its 1…but it should be 8!)
Fight Level 6 (Actually its 1 but you feel like it’s 6 after all you are awesome right?)
pretty much got us all into trouble, if anything went wrong “I can fix that” often causing more problems. Discovered the Jedi though, so not totally helpless…
Favourite Quote : Curiosity killed the Ewok
The Ch’akta Accord
Getting three out of my four goals done in the first hour or so, then while trying to get the third done, looking around my museum and seeing three people being killed in three different locations, sitting down on one of the chairs and thinking to myself, “huh”
The Gordian Knot
Half the game i cried and half the game i was happy on happy pills. 15mins into game found out my parents had been killed by Matirx. was very upset, then was given happy pills and danced with my favourite NASA guy “he taught me the Earth dance, the robot”. Then had to re-watch my parents getting killed on the hologram, and cried again, no-one really cared, was given a forget pill so went back to being High-Happy. People looked at me weird for the change in emotion, wasnt my fault i swear Smuggling about 10 guns into the event, also shooting matirx, him taking the second gun id shot him with off me, and trying to win me over, at which point i pulled out a third one and shot him again he really should have died then
Knightshade
Crewing and spending my time as a drunk loony speaking if the Lich, how he was evil and infected people through the water, thats why i drunk the alcohol. was amazing because two girls had to marry some guy by washing their hands, so kept asking people that. it then came back later when i was ranting about the Lich someone asked me why they were asking about washing hands, i then replied “Its the Lich its how he infects you” though it really wasnt, nice part of role-playing two unrelated things helping me achieve goals, i didnt win though, they left without killing anyone
The Scummit
THE BEST BY FAR. I was playing Bellatrix but crazy, favourite moment was walking up to Martin, trailing my hands down his face and saying “pretty Kitty” for him to later work out that my last kitty was crucified and was burried with the other 36 cats i had and to see how he tried to not be left alone with me. Also being used by Walter as a way of walking to and from groups of people without fear of them attacking him because EVERYONE was afraid of me. I LOVED IT
Non-game moments
trying to put stockings on while already in a corset, didnt really think that one through. The wonderful moments of being in room B guys i love you, adn bringing my bear down in the morning pretending it was me, while i woke myself up with the tasty food there, and people actually asking my bear questions instead of me <3
Lokisson - what was your real name? Tanya
Ahh, Chimera. Always one of my favourite weekends of the year, and this year was no exception.
I spent most of Friday afternoon at work bouncing up and down, waiting for the evening to arrive. Then it arrived, and I, of course, realized I hadn’t packed a couple of things. So there was much panic. I can’t imagine the several cups of coffee I had over the afternoon helped much.
Friday night was when I ran my first game ever- or at least I was part of a two-man team. So I was a bit stressed. A character sheet disappeared, there were one or two players I hadn’t seen that evening, so I was a tad worried about them not showing up, and (as I said) I was hopped up on caffeine, so there was a very twitchy panicky Dave running about.
But luckily, things went really well. Thank you so much to all the players in House, you made it work so much better than I ever hoped. But I have to be honest here. I really wasn’t expecting everyone to die. Particular thanks to Lucy, Mark and Freddie, my excellent crew of Employees. Thank you so very much for the help in the kitchen. I suspect I would’ve killed everyone (and OOC, at that) if I’d done all the cooking on my own.
Saturday morning bought Star Wars, where I got to play an Initiate “Weather Priest”. Ahem. It was so much fun getting to indulge my inner Hayden Christensen, and whining or angsting my way through most of the game. I had some awesome roleplay with Yahn and Ben (and an amazing little exchange with Zane “Curiosity killed the Ewok” “Ahh, but satisfaction healed the Sarlacc”), which eventually lead me down the path of the Dark Side. If the game had lasted three minutes longer, or I hadn’t had a drink of the calming tea, I would’ve renounced my master and gone off with the Sith lord that was hanging about. Wish I’d got the lightsaber, though.
If I wanted to sum up my character arc in a single sentence, it would be “Screw you, Jedi Dad! fist shake”
Then came Ch’akta Peace Accord. Was definitely one of my favourite characters of the weekend. Agitating for android rights, trying to help out the sprawlers, attempting to drop hints to as many people as I could that my brother was stopping me from doing good deeds, so that maybe someone could do something to him, and getting frustrated that
A) Almost nobody would listen to me, and
B) Almost everyone in the room assumed that, because I was one of the Dyson family, I was automatically evil.
Favourite moment was telling the men arresting me to hold on for one moment, ranting for a bit about how everyone should help each other, and make the world a better place, punching my brother straight in the face, and finally being taken away (only to be turned loose, because “Nobody touches the Dysons”.
Gordian Knot was also a lot of fun. Spent the first half of the game hunting for a sealed brain, comforting a sobbing Mani, and promising that I’d help out with revenge. The second half of the game was spent trying to stop people from blowing up the ship, who I’d just spoken to, and was a lovely person. I like to think I helped foil a few evil plans in my time, and that I would have made an excellent pilot for Kate. Also, the sneaking in many weapons (half a dozen or so), just in case. I didn’t use any of them, but I did pass them out to those who may have needed them to shoot a certain Slaver at least three times.
Playing the flustered Colonel Sebastian T. Rawhide gave me a bunch of great interactions with people. So, it turns out that about the only two “normal” people were Daisy Belle, my beautiful fiancee, and myself. And I’m not so sure about the first. Alien Policemen, an extra-terrestrial Vampire Clown, a Fairy Princess, a Regular (albeit bearded) Princess, a Humanoid Dragon, and more. My favourite interactions were with Rob’s character, Jack Bungling, the rival Circus owner (“Oh dear, Jackie, it looks like you made a bit of a bungle there” “But at least I didn’t fall onto my raw hide!”) and the aforementioned Daisy Belle, played by Ellen. Oh, and I was only asked once what the T stood for, so I, of course, replied “Tiberius”.
And finally, The Scummit. My first attempt at GM-ing a game on my own. Despite having a bit of a panic at having a few drop-outs and not knowing which characters I wouldn’t have, I had a blast! All my players were amazing, and they all did great work. I was really pleased (and quite surprised) at how it all turned out. I think my favourite moments as a GM were seeing Zane, playing the Private Eye, and Patch, playing an insane murderer, leading Kerry (who was behind a lot of what was going on) into a room. I thought to myself “Well, Kerry’s not leaving that room alive” and, sure enough, about 30 seconds later, I was called over, and discovered Kerry being stabbed. The other favourite was when the Russians and the Jews made their exits fairly rapidly, and Russian henchmen burst into the room, killing everyone who remained.
OOC, I have to say thank you to everyone in Room B with me (Martin, Mani, Zane, Freddie, TK, and, of course, Catherine). You guys made everything that much more awesome. The food was great, everything was awesomely organized (especially when it came to replacing drop-outs in Scummit. So much relief when every crucial character was filled), and… yeah. This is getting a bit TL;DR, so, in summary…
Chimera: The best time you can have with your pants on. Or pants off, depending on the game.