| From: | Shannon@*****.co.za (Shannon Buys) |
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| Subject: | Wow - what a turnaround for my game. |
| Date: | Mon, 3 Mar 2003 13:24:31 +0200 |
game was becoming. Well damn, what a turnaround. I got rid of 2 players
(moved them to a new game I'm starting) cause they where basically just
stuffing around the entire game. They can now do dumb stuff in their own
game and stop distracting the hard-core players.
My game on Fri nite was sooo cool. I had problems with players actually
role-playing their characters. Everyone looked out for themselves only,
even if the other guy was a lifelong friend etc. Well this changed bigtime.
Heres what happend for anyone that's interested:
The decker had tried to handle a system that was basically too far out of
his league and got hammered by IC. If anyone's read Shadowplay, it's the IC
that puts you in a bio-feedback loop with the deck, so that if you jack out,
you die, while they're tracing you.
Anyway, one of the other characters figured out they where being traced and
decided to pull the jack anyway. Oops, dead decker. No quarter given. The
player had put a lot of work into the character however and I felt very sad
to see it go to waste as it wasn't really his fault. So I decided he could
use his "Hand of god". But then again, nothing is free in my games.
The rest of the group grabbed his body and fled to one of their close
friends places, a high level voodoo shaman. The shaman said ok, there might
be a chance they could save this, if they perform an astral quest to get his
spirit back- RIGHT FRAGGING NOW! (Decker's body is quietly entering riggor
mortis).
The party's mage and the shaman start the ritual. I figured that since the
mage was about to initiate, this would be his trial as well. Anyway, after
fighting through the various places of the metaplanes, they got to my
version of the Citadel.
Inside was a prison where the mage could see the spirit of his friend
chained to a wall. After negotiating with various strange entities for the
release of his friends spirit, he was offered a deal. You stay here, and in
exchange, your friend can go.
The mage player just stared at me for about five seconds. It has pretty
much become known that in the games I run, I play for keeps. He realised
that his character that he'd put so much work into was about to 'die' for
all intents and purposes.
The player then looked at me, handed me his character sheet and said "I
accept." The decker player looked at him incredulously. "You'd really do
that for me?"
It was really a moment. Anyway, it was actually part of his test for the
place he was in. I didn't really expect him to accept the deal and figured
he'd either leave it (dead decker) or try find another way.
Just as the mage was being dragged off to another cell in chains, the jailer
transformed into a glowing being and said, "You have passed the test. Leave
this place, initiate."
It was a really wow game. Much karma was handed out for good roleplaying.
