Scenes You Have Always Wanted to Have...

[Pyrephox]

@Coin said:

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@Arkandel That would be an awesome relationship. Especially for vampires, who literally CAN nurse grudges into eternity.

I always wanted a Professor X/Magneto relationship - where two people who were very close personally had been split by ideology, and were each passionately committed to destroying the works of the other...all the time hoping that "winning" would make the other person realize that they were Right All Along and they could be besties again.

Dibs on the Ordo Dracul vs. your ... honestly, the Order can be an ideological enemy to just about any other Covenant. >.>

But they're all vampires. And vampires are terrible.

So picky.

I'm a picky bitch, it's true! I just never got into the appeal of playing Vampire. At least, as it seems to be played on MU*s. I can see the appeal of the scrappy, newly-dead trying to maintain sanity in the face of an eternity spent playing meaningless political games with corpses that literally have nothing better to do with their lives.

I have never been able to understand the appeal of playing the corpses that literally have nothing better to do with their lives than meaningless political games, and...that's the game.

All right. Mage then? [ducks]

Only if I get to throw some goddamned fireballs.

Changeling, then. I woudln't want Paradox to outshine me as your nemesis.

Hell yeah. Changeling crazy is the best crazy, and I get to throw goddamned fireballs.

[Coin]

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Arkandel That would be an awesome relationship. Especially for vampires, who literally CAN nurse grudges into eternity.

I always wanted a Professor X/Magneto relationship - where two people who were very close personally had been split by ideology, and were each passionately committed to destroying the works of the other...all the time hoping that "winning" would make the other person realize that they were Right All Along and they could be besties again.

Dibs on the Ordo Dracul vs. your ... honestly, the Order can be an ideological enemy to just about any other Covenant. >.>

But they're all vampires. And vampires are terrible.

So picky.

I'm a picky bitch, it's true! I just never got into the appeal of playing Vampire. At least, as it seems to be played on MU*s. I can see the appeal of the scrappy, newly-dead trying to maintain sanity in the face of an eternity spent playing meaningless political games with corpses that literally have nothing better to do with their lives.

I have never been able to understand the appeal of playing the corpses that literally have nothing better to do with their lives than meaningless political games, and...that's the game.

All right. Mage then? [ducks]

Only if I get to throw some goddamned fireballs.

Changeling, then. I woudln't want Paradox to outshine me as your nemesis.

Hell yeah. Changeling crazy is the best crazy, and I get to throw goddamned fireballs.

You probably would have liked my first changeling on The Reach.

[Pyrephox]

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Arkandel That would be an awesome relationship. Especially for vampires, who literally CAN nurse grudges into eternity.

I always wanted a Professor X/Magneto relationship - where two people who were very close personally had been split by ideology, and were each passionately committed to destroying the works of the other...all the time hoping that "winning" would make the other person realize that they were Right All Along and they could be besties again.

Dibs on the Ordo Dracul vs. your ... honestly, the Order can be an ideological enemy to just about any other Covenant. >.>

But they're all vampires. And vampires are terrible.

So picky.

I'm a picky bitch, it's true! I just never got into the appeal of playing Vampire. At least, as it seems to be played on MU*s. I can see the appeal of the scrappy, newly-dead trying to maintain sanity in the face of an eternity spent playing meaningless political games with corpses that literally have nothing better to do with their lives.

I have never been able to understand the appeal of playing the corpses that literally have nothing better to do with their lives than meaningless political games, and...that's the game.

All right. Mage then? [ducks]

Only if I get to throw some goddamned fireballs.

Changeling, then. I woudln't want Paradox to outshine me as your nemesis.

Hell yeah. Changeling crazy is the best crazy, and I get to throw goddamned fireballs.

You probably would have liked my first changeling on The Reach.

Probably! I stayed faaaaar away from that sphere during my brief time on the Reach, though. Seemed like too many people were going into it with the intent to reenact OOC grudges from previous games.

[Coin]

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Arkandel That would be an awesome relationship. Especially for vampires, who literally CAN nurse grudges into eternity.

I always wanted a Professor X/Magneto relationship - where two people who were very close personally had been split by ideology, and were each passionately committed to destroying the works of the other...all the time hoping that "winning" would make the other person realize that they were Right All Along and they could be besties again.

Dibs on the Ordo Dracul vs. your ... honestly, the Order can be an ideological enemy to just about any other Covenant. >.>

But they're all vampires. And vampires are terrible.

So picky.

I'm a picky bitch, it's true! I just never got into the appeal of playing Vampire. At least, as it seems to be played on MU*s. I can see the appeal of the scrappy, newly-dead trying to maintain sanity in the face of an eternity spent playing meaningless political games with corpses that literally have nothing better to do with their lives.

I have never been able to understand the appeal of playing the corpses that literally have nothing better to do with their lives than meaningless political games, and...that's the game.

All right. Mage then? [ducks]

Only if I get to throw some goddamned fireballs.

Changeling, then. I woudln't want Paradox to outshine me as your nemesis.

Hell yeah. Changeling crazy is the best crazy, and I get to throw goddamned fireballs.

You probably would have liked my first changeling on The Reach.

Probably! I stayed faaaaar away from that sphere during my brief time on the Reach, though. Seemed like too many people were going into it with the intent to reenact OOC grudges from previous games.

Yeah. That was a thing. I was ... sort of removed from it, but in the middle. Because reasons. >.>

[Pyrephox]

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

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@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Arkandel That would be an awesome relationship. Especially for vampires, who literally CAN nurse grudges into eternity.

I always wanted a Professor X/Magneto relationship - where two people who were very close personally had been split by ideology, and were each passionately committed to destroying the works of the other...all the time hoping that "winning" would make the other person realize that they were Right All Along and they could be besties again.

Dibs on the Ordo Dracul vs. your ... honestly, the Order can be an ideological enemy to just about any other Covenant. >.>

But they're all vampires. And vampires are terrible.

So picky.

I'm a picky bitch, it's true! I just never got into the appeal of playing Vampire. At least, as it seems to be played on MU*s. I can see the appeal of the scrappy, newly-dead trying to maintain sanity in the face of an eternity spent playing meaningless political games with corpses that literally have nothing better to do with their lives.

I have never been able to understand the appeal of playing the corpses that literally have nothing better to do with their lives than meaningless political games, and...that's the game.

All right. Mage then? [ducks]

Only if I get to throw some goddamned fireballs.

Changeling, then. I woudln't want Paradox to outshine me as your nemesis.

Hell yeah. Changeling crazy is the best crazy, and I get to throw goddamned fireballs.

You probably would have liked my first changeling on The Reach.

Probably! I stayed faaaaar away from that sphere during my brief time on the Reach, though. Seemed like too many people were going into it with the intent to reenact OOC grudges from previous games.

Yeah. That was a thing. I was ... sort of removed from it, but in the middle. Because reasons. >.>

There are always reasons. REASONS.

Ahem. Back to the more general topic. Another type of scene I'd love to see more often is referred to, in TV Tropes parlance, as the "wham episode". Something that significantly shakes up the status quo or the assumptions, and then everyone has to move forward from there. I love plot twists. I want more plot twists, and Grand Reveals.

[Coin]

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

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@Coin said:

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@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Arkandel That would be an awesome relationship. Especially for vampires, who literally CAN nurse grudges into eternity.

I always wanted a Professor X/Magneto relationship - where two people who were very close personally had been split by ideology, and were each passionately committed to destroying the works of the other...all the time hoping that "winning" would make the other person realize that they were Right All Along and they could be besties again.

Dibs on the Ordo Dracul vs. your ... honestly, the Order can be an ideological enemy to just about any other Covenant. >.>

But they're all vampires. And vampires are terrible.

So picky.

I'm a picky bitch, it's true! I just never got into the appeal of playing Vampire. At least, as it seems to be played on MU*s. I can see the appeal of the scrappy, newly-dead trying to maintain sanity in the face of an eternity spent playing meaningless political games with corpses that literally have nothing better to do with their lives.

I have never been able to understand the appeal of playing the corpses that literally have nothing better to do with their lives than meaningless political games, and...that's the game.

All right. Mage then? [ducks]

Only if I get to throw some goddamned fireballs.

Changeling, then. I woudln't want Paradox to outshine me as your nemesis.

Hell yeah. Changeling crazy is the best crazy, and I get to throw goddamned fireballs.

You probably would have liked my first changeling on The Reach.

Probably! I stayed faaaaar away from that sphere during my brief time on the Reach, though. Seemed like too many people were going into it with the intent to reenact OOC grudges from previous games.

Yeah. That was a thing. I was ... sort of removed from it, but in the middle. Because reasons. >.>

There are always reasons. REASONS.

Ahem. Back to the more general topic. Another type of scene I'd love to see more often is referred to, in TV Tropes parlance, as the "wham episode". Something that significantly shakes up the status quo or the assumptions, and then everyone has to move forward from there. I love plot twists. I want more plot twists, and Grand Reveals.

I love these. One of my favorite characters on The Reach (and his whole family) was secretly a dreaded cultist. His closest-thing-to-a-girlfriend and one of his best friends were both Ferals (which on TR were basically the world's response to Things That Must Not Be). He literally spent most of his time with the enemy. He loved them. He really did. He cherished them, loved them, slept with them, helped them, rescued them, was rescued by them, and in general acted and behaved like you would expect a nice guy with a bit of a violent streak but clear delineations regarding who he was violent to and with would.

But behind that facade, he was a baby-killing, infant-eating, human-sacrificing, Outer Thing-worshipping cultist.

I never got to play it out...

But I really, really wanted to eventually have it come out and have his friends--his loved ones outside his family--turn on him. Because he betrayed them. He constantly and consistently betrayed their existence and entire reason for being. And they should have wanted him dead, buried, gone.

But he was a Sin-Eater and they are notoriously difficult to put down and I would ahve loved to roleplay that--to roleplay the heinous, brutal shake up of that revelation and the subsequent small war that would have errupted, because believe me: he loved them--but he would have murdered them for his Lord in a heart beat...

... or would he?

And that would have been the best part!

[Pyrephox]

@Coin Yessss. That kind of 'it all comes to a head' stuff is wonderful. Especially if everyone involved plays it to the hilt.

[lordbelh]

I always wanted one of my characters to be murdered in bed by a fem fatal assassin. In the middle of loin grinding there be sudden death, and I look back and see all those little warning signs that both I and my character ignored, and I'm pretty sure I start giggling like mad.

I did the flipside of that once. Though I didn't do the murder I did a kidnapping by cuffing her up and selling her to her enemy. That was fun. I mean, sure, it blew up like crazy later in the story when some of her friends tried to do the rescue and it became an OOC nightmare I'm glad I wasn't part of (since my character just ran away at first sign of trouble). But for a while it was pure awesome.

[Coin]

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin Yessss. That kind of 'it all comes to a head' stuff is wonderful. Especially if everyone involved plays it to the hilt.

Unfortunately the kind of momentum needed often burns people out.

I had a Possessed character who ended up--at first inadvertantly and then because he essentially became fucking evil--drugged his girlfriend (whom he started dating before his possession). She had a sister who was also possessed. anyway, my character eventually broke down and confessed in a moment of clarity (and beating his demon back). The girlfriend acquired some distance, told her brother and friends, and it all looked like it was going to become some pretty spectacularly fucked up RP that I would have loved--

--and then her player got pregnant and everyone burned out and wanted to take a break and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgh, worst case of RP blue balls ever.

[Ghost]

Scenes I wanna have, pt2:

• The grid or setting relied upon is destroyed and a migration is needed.
• The status of power is destroyed, rendering the powerful to now sit in the same seats as his/her one time vassals
• Predator becomes the prey
• Waking up married and not knowing what happened.
• Accidentally stumbling into Mafia/Vampire/badguy activities and having to deal/run/talk/fight for your life

[Pyrephox]

@Ghost said:

Scenes I wanna have, pt2:

• Accidentally stumbling into Mafia/Vampire/badguy activities and having to deal/run/talk/fight for your life

Man, I love these types of scenes. They are so much fun.

[Coin]

@Ghost said:

Scenes I wanna have, pt2:

• The grid or setting relied upon is destroyed and a migration is needed.
• The status of power is destroyed, rendering the powerful to now sit in the same seats as his/her one time vassals
• Predator becomes the prey
• Waking up married and not knowing what happened.
• Accidentally stumbling into Mafia/Vampire/badguy activities and having to deal/run/talk/fight for your life

That last one: I have run that stuff. Sometimes it works out GREAT. Other times, not so much.

[Arkandel]

I seem to be incapable of running short stories. Like, one-and-done scenes are just not my forte, everything I do ends up being a saga made up of acts and many moving parts. I like figuring out the logistics and putting things in motion.

I'd love having players around who stick around for the duration. By time time my plots enter Act 2 either the game is seriously underpopulated and/or enough of the original characters (who possess important plot hooks) are gone, so the story dies a slow and undignified death.

[vanderlylle]

@Coin said:

I had a Possessed character who ended up--at first inadvertantly and then because he essentially became fucking evil--drugged his girlfriend (whom he started dating before his possession). She had a sister who was also possessed. anyway, my character eventually broke down and confessed in a moment of clarity (and beating his demon back). The girlfriend acquired some distance, told her brother and friends, and it all looked like it was going to become some pretty spectacularly fucked up RP that I would have loved--

--and then her player got pregnant and everyone burned out and wanted to take a break and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgh, worst case of RP blue balls ever.

On the plus side, you got to stab puppies and I got my throat ripped out before we all fizzled, so good times!

[Packrat]

Many years ago, when Metro was the place for all things WoD and I actually played WoD, I had a Garou character infiltrate the Wyrm sphere then klaive to death their leader. Apparently the head of the black spiral dancers through it was a sensible idea to shake the hand of an ambidexterous Shadow Lord klaive duellist who claims to be a traitor and has just spent the last ten poses playing with their klaive. He was dead, down to negative health levels from aggravated damage, but the sphere wizard threw a massive shit fit and decided that he survived it for reasons. Also that the reinforcements who tried to get through from the Umbra to stop me would turn up in two combat rounds despite their roll meaning they would take 10 minutes.

I even had a bag ready for his head and a getaway driver waiting for me after I jumped through the window onto the street.

Added: The worst part? My character was super sketchy and the NPC elders had demanded a Black Spiral Dancer head from me, elders run by the same staffer. Did she just expect me to fail? Would other murdered spiral dancers have been acceptable but not this one? I mean he seemed like a great RPer and I can see why you would not want to lose him as a sphere head but still. She was kind of crazy though.

[Lithium]

@Packrat Gah. Metro.

drinks herself into a coma at just the idea of all the things she could post about that place

[Coin]

@vanderlylle said:

@Coin said:

I had a Possessed character who ended up--at first inadvertantly and then because he essentially became fucking evil--drugged his girlfriend (whom he started dating before his possession). She had a sister who was also possessed. anyway, my character eventually broke down and confessed in a moment of clarity (and beating his demon back). The girlfriend acquired some distance, told her brother and friends, and it all looked like it was going to become some pretty spectacularly fucked up RP that I would have loved--

--and then her player got pregnant and everyone burned out and wanted to take a break and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgh, worst case of RP blue balls ever.

On the plus side, you got to stab puppies and I got my throat ripped out before we all fizzled, so good times!

Your closet's still made of glass!

[Jaded]

A witty bantering sword duel between Immortals ala Inigo and Wesley. Except at the end one loses their head. This could have happened on Shadowed Isles but the other Immortal players were cowards or used mages to get out of their Immortality or have death-avoiding teleportation amulets.

[Quibbler]

PC death by T-Rex. I got so close once.

[Quibbler]

@Coin said:

I love these. One of my favorite characters on The Reach (and his whole family) was secretly a dreaded cultist. His closest-thing-to-a-girlfriend and one of his best friends were both Ferals (which on TR were basically the world's response to Things That Must Not Be). He literally spent most of his time with the enemy. He loved them. He really did. He cherished them, loved them, slept with them, helped them, rescued them, was rescued by them, and in general acted and behaved like you would expect a nice guy with a bit of a violent streak but clear delineations regarding who he was violent to and with would.

But behind that facade, he was a baby-killing, infant-eating, human-sacrificing, Outer Thing-worshipping cultist.

I never got to play it out...

But I really, really wanted to eventually have it come out and have his friends--his loved ones outside his family--turn on him. Because he betrayed them. He constantly and consistently betrayed their existence and entire reason for being. And they should have wanted him dead, buried, gone.

But he was a Sin-Eater and they are notoriously difficult to put down and I would ahve loved to roleplay that--to roleplay the heinous, brutal shake up of that revelation and the subsequent small war that would have errupted, because believe me: he loved them--but he would have murdered them for his Lord in a heart beat...

... or would he?

And that would have been the best part!

The sad thing about this was how often my secretly horrible sociopath PC who was friends with him was bid to 'find out where the cultists were hiding'. RIGHT THERE, kiddo. Your hobbyjob has you working for them.

And she hated cultists and the idea of following a demon or other critter voluntarily and she was the type of girl who'd nod, take in the information, coldly divorce herself from pesky things like 'feelings', make a plan to kill her buddy, and then act when she was confident she could win without him ever seeing it coming.

WE COULD HAVE DANCED.