Adventures in Tabletop Roleplaying
Ok so I know I was supposed to be taking a break from LJ. (And Facebook for that matter, but that effort royally failed eons ago.) But this is just too amusing not to share before I forget.
I am currently involved in two alternating tabletop roleplaying games with two different groups of friends. One is a pretty standard D&D campaign, involving lots of battling and such creatures as halflings and elves and dragonborn. The other is a modern game set in Camberville/Boston, involving magic and fae and changlings and vampires, among other things... I am going to discuss an amusing exchange in the latter game that occurred tonight.
The current adventure/challenge in said game (well I shouldn't say "current" anymore as it was resolved tonight) involved finding and rescuing a missing girl, the sister of a friend of my character. Said friend *apparently* is unaware of the supernatural. I, as a player, did not know this. Assuming, since my character is a vampire and all, that she knows that vampires exist. Well apparently not.
(My character's name is Shira. When I list "Shira" you can assume I am talking in-character, whereas when I list "Nikki" I am speaking out-of-character.)
So we found this missing girl, Meredith, who was, shall we say, in a rather zonked-out state when we found her. Another character who has a lot of familiarity with the supernatural investigated her, and discovered that the source of her state was being fed on by an emotional vampire.
So I called Meredith's sister (whose name I am currently forgetting, but let's call her Beth), to let her know that her sister had been found and that, though currently a bit spacey, she is overall healthy and safe. The following exchange occurred (roughly paraphrased from memory):
Shira: Hi! So good news, we found Meredith!
Beth: That's great! How is she doing?
Shira: She's doing ok overall, but seems to be a bit zonked at the moment. I think that something was done to her.
Beth: Oh no. Like drugs?
Shira: Something like that.
...(time passes)
Shira: Actually, my friend has been looking into it, and it seems that Meredith had a nasty encounter with a White Court Vampire.
Beth: (awkward pause) (dotdotdot) A what?
(Cyn, another player, is cracking up at this point.)
Cyn (out-of-character, being sarcastic): I am not here! I know nothing of this!
Nikki: Well, technically-speaking, that is true. Your character isn't around right now.
(awkward pause continues...)
Beth: Is that some kind of gang?
Shira: ...um, yes! Yes, it is a gang. But she's with us and safe now, and that's all that matters!
;-)
I am currently involved in two alternating tabletop roleplaying games with two different groups of friends. One is a pretty standard D&D campaign, involving lots of battling and such creatures as halflings and elves and dragonborn. The other is a modern game set in Camberville/Boston, involving magic and fae and changlings and vampires, among other things... I am going to discuss an amusing exchange in the latter game that occurred tonight.
The current adventure/challenge in said game (well I shouldn't say "current" anymore as it was resolved tonight) involved finding and rescuing a missing girl, the sister of a friend of my character. Said friend *apparently* is unaware of the supernatural. I, as a player, did not know this. Assuming, since my character is a vampire and all, that she knows that vampires exist. Well apparently not.
(My character's name is Shira. When I list "Shira" you can assume I am talking in-character, whereas when I list "Nikki" I am speaking out-of-character.)
So we found this missing girl, Meredith, who was, shall we say, in a rather zonked-out state when we found her. Another character who has a lot of familiarity with the supernatural investigated her, and discovered that the source of her state was being fed on by an emotional vampire.
So I called Meredith's sister (whose name I am currently forgetting, but let's call her Beth), to let her know that her sister had been found and that, though currently a bit spacey, she is overall healthy and safe. The following exchange occurred (roughly paraphrased from memory):
Shira: Hi! So good news, we found Meredith!
Beth: That's great! How is she doing?
Shira: She's doing ok overall, but seems to be a bit zonked at the moment. I think that something was done to her.
Beth: Oh no. Like drugs?
Shira: Something like that.
...(time passes)
Shira: Actually, my friend has been looking into it, and it seems that Meredith had a nasty encounter with a White Court Vampire.
Beth: (awkward pause) (dotdotdot) A what?
(Cyn, another player, is cracking up at this point.)
Cyn (out-of-character, being sarcastic): I am not here! I know nothing of this!
Nikki: Well, technically-speaking, that is true. Your character isn't around right now.
(awkward pause continues...)
Beth: Is that some kind of gang?
Shira: ...um, yes! Yes, it is a gang. But she's with us and safe now, and that's all that matters!
;-)