Posts made by The Tree of Woe

I learned a lot from my mistakes at HM. I learned to watch how I behave when I don't get my way. I learned being quiet when I'm pissed is nowhere near as constructive as being loud, even when it makes me feel like a wanker.

But I also learned to keep my eyes peeled for how other people behave when they don't get their way. And Changeling @ HM was ruled by a fistful of the most two-faced, venomous fuckfaces I've ever seen. I think the only prominent Changeling player from there that I can remember who I still like is Zepherine -- which I spelled wrong.

I'm sure there are others, there always are. But it's been so long that picking out the individual specks of goodness from the congealed pixie-dust glittery bowel obstruction is impossible for me.

To quote Dorothy Parker, my memory of Changeling is not merely that it was awful, it was fancy awful. It was awful with raisins in it.

If you want something new-ish, try Final Nights. It's Camarilla Edition, more or less, but it replaces the 7 clans with exotics. Setites, Baali, Saubri, Assamite Vizier... I forget the other three.

Okay. drops the doll, stomps on it

There.

Which is to say, the doll is the game and my worn-out sneaker is Changeling.

I won't be sorry, Thenomain. Merely pained by how awful it will make everything it touches.

Eugh, Changeling. I dread the day.

I clicked on this thinking it was a MUX where I'd be able to futz around in the Cave of Time.

Oh, I thought the game was also going to have a Cybertron component. There's been enough back and forth that you certainly could. Earth/Cybertron/Space... though the humans aren't exactly enamored of the cybertronians right now, except for Thundercracker, who's writing scripts for television series....

Why can't she play him? I'm curious. It's not like he's dead.

I refuse to play that game, Jack, because some wanker will insist Sherman was the villain of the piece and I will LOSE MY GODDAMN MIND.

If you're that wanker, I apologize for calling you a wanker.

Like in G.I. Joe, when Dr. Mindbender (who is the worst scientist ever, Cobra really shopped in the budget bin for that one) creates Serpentor and Cobra Commander suddenly becomes the sole remaining voice of reason -- Latta nailed how fucking insane that shit was perfectly. Even Cobra Commander, an absolute lunatic, could not believe what the hell was going on.

My favorite was always this exchange:

Megatron: "Starscream, either you're lying or you're stupid!"

Starscream: "I'M STUPID, I'M STUPID!"

Man... I miss Chris Latta.

I love to watch Starscream fuck himself over by being an enormous turd! We both get what we want!

Megatron's "I want to LIVE!" moment being Starscream opening his mouth and him realizing that if he dies, Starscream wins was all kinds of brilliant.

I'm also enjoying Starscream's bile over the fact that Optimus stomps all over most of his fuckery by accident.

Like, recently they found one of Cybertron's lost colonies, and Starscream set shit up so he could rescue them and put them in his back pocket.

Optimus shows up, and they're like "Well, he's a Prime, and he's carrying the Matrix of Leadership, AND the hilt of the Star Saber so he kind of ticks off all our checkboxes for 'Messiah'. We're very grateful for your help, Starscream, but we're going to take our cues from the emissary of Primus."

Starscream's reaction was about what you'd expect.

My paternal grandfather's family wandered out of the woods and started farming turnips and dirt sometime before the Mayflower landed. One of my ancestors managed to become a wealthy farmer, and somebody (one of his kids, we think) bashed in his head and left his corpse in a ditch. Because he was also a dick.

Another of my distant relations (and one of said farmer's sons) was Ransom Clark, one of the survivors of Dade's Massacre in Florida. The Seminoles decided he was "dead enough" and left him there to die, and the miserable bastard crawled back to the fort. I mean that -- he crawled back. It took four years for his wounds to kill him, and he had like three kids in the meantime, if memory serves.

My paternal grandmother was a 50/50 Italian/Irish split (and suuuuuuuuuuuuuuper Catholic... though she married a Protestant... go fig). We're still Irish enough that we get invited to the McGuire family reunion every couple of years, I guess.

There's some Seneca in there too, somewhere. I have no idea where. I've had people I've never met look at me and ask me if I was part native. I don't see it, but apparently they do.

My mother's family is a 50/50 split between Scot and German. Grants, actually. One of these days I plan to get a tattoo of the clan crest. My great-grandfather on my mother's side bailed on his family by hopping a train. If anybody's ever heard of a "Red" Grant that showed up out of nowhere, let me know where he's buried, I need to go piss on his grave for my grandfather.

In other words, I am a complete mutt and I turn as red as a lobster with minimal sun exposure.

@EmmahSue Meh. Without them the other Traditions will happily live in the Land of No Consequences.

Why are the Hermetics a separate faction from the rest of the Traditions?

I had a lot of success with Mage set in England at the start of the War of the Roses. But part of that is just that Sorcerer's Crusade is more fun to play. Scourge is a much more fun system than Paradox.

Also, I once had astonishing success with a WoD tabletop set in Liberty City. I pulled the map out of the game case and went on from there.

@Wizz Sooner or later some idiot will show up to any game and play a Werewolf (and sometimes a vampire) who thinks he just stumbled off the longship.

Are you that idiot?

I had thought about it but I don't have the time to set one up and run it.

Speaking of...

http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/5263474.html#cutid1

Stings, doesn't it, Starscream?

Holds hand up high Optimus... down low You. Optimus... you.