I felt like I learned a few things about pregnancy while playing in a Firefly roleplaying game last year. My character was pregnant, and I did a lot of research for the character, coming to the table with notes, and adjusting the timetable of the pregnancy in real time, according to our travels through intrastellar space. I tried to simulate some ( Read more... )

We see the Fandango flying at full burn. After a few moments, the juice cuts out. Then, an explosion, rendered silent by the vacuum of space.

The Fandango drifts.

( We mourn injuring the Fandango, Jimmy the Spy, the caper at the Jade Fan, and meeting Saint Joan Hogarth

The Firefly season finale is tonight, so I had to get this up! )

Five days have passed since our last episode, and our heroes are mostly recovered. Over dinner, our Big Damn Heroes discuss how to proceed. Perez, lays out two things that need to be accomplished for his plans to proceed in dealing with our enemies. The first is that we need to plant some evidence to get the 49th and Lao Fang's forces to fight ( Read more... )

Firefly was fun last night, and it was great to blow off some of the steam that had built up last time, although my character did have an extremely awkward conversation with her husband as part of the episode (I shall post a full summary later), but it wasn't overly adversarial, so it was still a break from the… more hostile intensity of the last ( Read more... )

Since I've not written anything about this game in the past, Previously, on Firefly…

• Cap'n Tes is the captain of a small firefly-class vessel. She is a member of The Family, a group of spacers with strong family ties, who meet, on occasion, to mourn or celebrate events. Her crew is also her family, and she cares deeply for them. Tes has been ( Read more... )

With most traditional storytelling games, the player's ability to direct a game's plot doesn't extend far beyond her ability to direct her character within the story. Generally, the player's opportunity to extend her reach beyond her character happens in the initial planning stages of the game, as a character's background and plot are a way for ( Read more... )

For those of you who aren't aware, I'm currently in a 'Verse game, in which I'm playing a former Alliance military commander of high prestige, turned engineer on a firefly-class ship. This is a capable woman who is empowered by her family, her training, and has used that power to great effect in the past.

( Cut for your convenience. Gaming information and stories are mostly interesting if you're in the game, you know? )