The Story of Family Man, Part 2 of 2

[dave_littler]

So, yesterday I told the first part of the story of Family Man. To sum it up briefly, a player in a large live-action Vampire: The Masquerade game which I was running, who was not apparently taking the game seriously at all, had his ill-conceived character’s life torn apart as a result of careful and painstaking machinations by another player

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[zeddidragon]

Gotta say, that Moriarti sounds like he could get pretty far in a political career.

[dave_littler]

Oh, I imagine so. He had this remarkably beguiling affable facade which had me entirely fooled for over a year. I had no idea the scheming manipulator lurking below the surface. It was shocking.

[cyranothe2nd]

That was total bullshit. And also, is it bad that I laughed at your description of how Coma Kid died?

[dave_littler]

In all honesty, a lot of us who knew him laughed when we heard how he had died. We grimaced as we did it, and we felt pity for the poor fool, but there's not a person who I spoke to about it who didn't say "Yeah, I saw that coming a few years away..." while chuckling ruefully.

[nerdfury]

This sounds familiar on two levels. First of all, every V:tM game I played or, in fact, White Wolf game at all, always attracted the most unstable of people: all manner of goths, wiccans, vampire wannabes and other unstable weirdos. Every game was punctuated with talk of how much they liked drinking absinthe, what with wormwood being such a 'gothy' product, and how it was illegal in a lot of countries (although, not in Australia, rendering their 'I'm so awesome because I drink an illegal alcohol!' theory moot!), and how they were on pills for mental troubles, and how they enjoyed such exotic sexual exploits like bondage, and cutting, and anal

[verysmallcat]

and my friends always wondered why i wasn't interested in joining the Cam.

[archmagekyros]

i've always seen running a V:tM game for strangers or associates is just setting yourself up for failure. the worst RPers seem to gravitate to them, just as the worst fiction readers gravitate towards twilight. if i don't know the mental quality of my players, V:tM is never even going to come up. also, i find it quite amusing in your story that there's far more intrigue and politicking outside of the game than inside it. we heard you like games...