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aishabintjamil) wrote2010-12-12 11:55 pm
aishabintjamil) wrote2010-12-12 11:55 pm
Writing progress and a game
This was a moderately productive weekend. I finished a final round of edits on my story for Val Griswold-Ford's forthcoming Swords and Swashbuckler's anthology, and sent it off for her consideration. As usual I'm not really enthused about the title I came up with, "Running from the Storm", but it will do. Finger crossed.
I also got another 1100 words written on Aliyah. The end is in sight, which is good since I signed up to take it to an intensive editing workshop at the beginning of January. Nothing like a deadline to make you focus on a project.
I also ran a one-shot game on Saturday night, using the "Diana Warrior Princess" rules set. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana:_Warrior_Princess ). I set it in North America, and started out the players in 1990's Chicago, as ruled by the legendary Al Capone. They spent much of the evening investigating a curse which causes the Chicago Cubs to have such a legendarily bad record. They happened upon the legend of the curse of the billy goat (google it for yourself if you don't believe me - I didn't make this part up), concluded erroneously that it was the problem, and set out to cure it. This involved a clever plan to release a herd of goats onto the field just before the 7th inning stretch to disrupt the game and the magic which they expected to be going on.
This caused great chaos and entertainment, but not much effect on the magic. THeir next approach was to go to the tavern mentioned in the goat legend, and hold a seance to contact the spirit of the *goat* to see if it was angry. They did succeed in contacting something which seemed to be the goat, but it turned out to be completely uninterested. (The curse having been uttered by the original goat's pissed off owner, not the goat...) Before they could try to contact him, they were interrupted by a police report that Wrigley Field was being assaulted by Canadian Mounties on flying motorcycles. They arrived there in time to discover that the Mounties were in the middle of the stadium, trying to excavate a path into the secret room the players had previously discovered beneath the baseball diamond, accessed by a hidden stairway and tunnel from Al Capone's private box. Local police were firing on the Mounties, the players detected magic happening in the hidden room, and concluded that Capone was up to no good and should be stopped.
They solved this by sending the Mounties and police a warning to evacuate the area, followed by shelling center field with a bunker-buster bomb from the submarine Nautilus (Captain Nemo was one of the players). This killed everyone in the room, which turns out to have been a who's who of the government of various North American city states who were apparently having some sort of secret meeting. They don't know why. This disrupted the magical effect going on, which released a veritable tsunami of power. The players, being closest absorbed as much of it as they were capable of, with varying long term effects. One player, Pocahontas the enchanted Disney Indian princess, cleverly said she was dispersing the power into her various hench-beings (the entire Disney pantheon), so it didn't overwhelm here. THIs will have serious long-term effects on the magical landscape.....
It also left a complete power vacuum. However one of the other PCs, Ron Shatner, star of the adult Sci-Fi drama "Buck Naked in the 21st Century" had made some pretty amazing crowd manipulation rolls during the goat episode at the stadium that afternoon. They decided he should run for mayor, since they were holding an emergency election to replace Mayor Capone. He won by a landslide.
So now they all want me to run this again. Whimper.
I also got another 1100 words written on Aliyah. The end is in sight, which is good since I signed up to take it to an intensive editing workshop at the beginning of January. Nothing like a deadline to make you focus on a project.
I also ran a one-shot game on Saturday night, using the "Diana Warrior Princess" rules set. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana:_Warrior_Princess ). I set it in North America, and started out the players in 1990's Chicago, as ruled by the legendary Al Capone. They spent much of the evening investigating a curse which causes the Chicago Cubs to have such a legendarily bad record. They happened upon the legend of the curse of the billy goat (google it for yourself if you don't believe me - I didn't make this part up), concluded erroneously that it was the problem, and set out to cure it. This involved a clever plan to release a herd of goats onto the field just before the 7th inning stretch to disrupt the game and the magic which they expected to be going on.
This caused great chaos and entertainment, but not much effect on the magic. THeir next approach was to go to the tavern mentioned in the goat legend, and hold a seance to contact the spirit of the *goat* to see if it was angry. They did succeed in contacting something which seemed to be the goat, but it turned out to be completely uninterested. (The curse having been uttered by the original goat's pissed off owner, not the goat...) Before they could try to contact him, they were interrupted by a police report that Wrigley Field was being assaulted by Canadian Mounties on flying motorcycles. They arrived there in time to discover that the Mounties were in the middle of the stadium, trying to excavate a path into the secret room the players had previously discovered beneath the baseball diamond, accessed by a hidden stairway and tunnel from Al Capone's private box. Local police were firing on the Mounties, the players detected magic happening in the hidden room, and concluded that Capone was up to no good and should be stopped.
They solved this by sending the Mounties and police a warning to evacuate the area, followed by shelling center field with a bunker-buster bomb from the submarine Nautilus (Captain Nemo was one of the players). This killed everyone in the room, which turns out to have been a who's who of the government of various North American city states who were apparently having some sort of secret meeting. They don't know why. This disrupted the magical effect going on, which released a veritable tsunami of power. The players, being closest absorbed as much of it as they were capable of, with varying long term effects. One player, Pocahontas the enchanted Disney Indian princess, cleverly said she was dispersing the power into her various hench-beings (the entire Disney pantheon), so it didn't overwhelm here. THIs will have serious long-term effects on the magical landscape.....
It also left a complete power vacuum. However one of the other PCs, Ron Shatner, star of the adult Sci-Fi drama "Buck Naked in the 21st Century" had made some pretty amazing crowd manipulation rolls during the goat episode at the stadium that afternoon. They decided he should run for mayor, since they were holding an emergency election to replace Mayor Capone. He won by a landslide.
So now they all want me to run this again. Whimper.
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Sadly, I didn't fire my lasers once.
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For the record, I suggested the name "Ron Shatner" to Val on chat that afternoon. I was there IN SPIRIT!