V5: Stolen 2.07

Vampire: The Masquerade

Stolen

2.07

The Last Hope

Beck

Robin

Vince

Robin takes the driver to the hospital and leaves him to be found, sneaking away unnoticed. He calls Beck.

“What?”

“Did you get the scroll?”

“Yes, it’s safe. I, ah, may need some more help tonight.”

“What about Vince?”

“Not his help.”

“... What do I get out of it?”

“We can discuss that in person. My superiors can offer more than I can.”

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Beck looks around the church, pausing at Alice, pressed against the wall so she can see the door.

Mother Melise lays the scroll out on the altar, presses a finger into a fang to draw blood and places it to a faded red mark in one corner. Blank areas on the scroll start to fill with writing in blood.

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Erin LeCount

I have not missed going through to Glasgow for gigs. Oh well.

Live footage if someone posts. In the meantime, an official live video of I Believe from a previous show.

Morecambe and Wise

Eric Morecambe (John Eric Bartholomew) was born 100 years ago today. With Ernie Wise he brought a big dash of surreal non sequiturs to light entertainment.

Osprey Games board and card division up for sale

Osprey Games have just announced that their owners, Bloomsbury Publishing, has made the decision to sell the card and board game division.

Link via Angus Abranson, ‪Iain McAllister‬ and James Wallis.

RPGs and Wargames are not affected, they’re staying with Osprey Games. It’s only the board/card division.

Angus

Witch of the Vale, Lovesongs For The Damned

Witch of the Vale, Lovesongs For The Damned on Bandcamp. Three new songs, four alternate versions, their cover of Hurt.

(Fake) Happy After Laughter Day

All that I want is to wake up fine

Another idea?

Might do a Star War.

The Crows

I was playing The Crow soundtrack and wearing my Hangman’s Joke T-shirt while idly thinking of a summer game when someone on the World Of Darkness Discord server asked what Eric would equate to.

I know a sign when I see one.

I have naturally considered this before.

Of course I’d use another system, better for action and unstoppable-until-not characters. Hell 4 Leather for a one-shot, what for a miniseries...?

Also do I have it star Sophie Thatcher?

Victorian Age Vampire

Could totally do Victorian Age Vampire though.

It still loses the juxtaposition of the seemingly mundane world with the monsters and all, of course.

Victorian urchin monster hunters

Not running a game about poor kids in 19th Century London having to fight monsters.

Not doing this. No having plot ideas.

No plot about Spring Heeled Jack. Or about having to blag their way into a fancy party with fake accents and stolen clothes to fight a rich cult. Or about having to hop a train to get out into the country to stop something evil rising in a stone circle. Or...

In the Buffyverse the Watchers would probably be able to find a slayer in London and hopefully at least offer room and board in exchange for pressing her into service, so I’d need a way to avoid that undercutting the whole setup.

Looping back towards The Nevers.

Still not doing this.

One day since finishing a game...

Summer TTRPG ideas.

Absolutely should not be thinking of a Buffy or somesuch RPG in Artful Dodger style scruffy Victorian London. No. Stop.

(I blame time travel in the Mage game. And we haven’t even done Victorian times. Yet.)

Keep Banging On Your Drum

Keep banging on your drum and your day will come.

A reminder from Craig Ferguson.

V5: Stolen 2.07

After a delay, closure achieved. And a moral quandary which split the group, as they will.

Sir David Attenborough at 100

Many happy returns, Sir David!

Jelani Rose

Jelani Rose on Spotify, as suggested when I was looking at Vampire: The Masquerade on Bluesky and a string of posts mentioned having found someone who sounds like that through videos of him sitting on TikTok as an example of not needing slop marketing.

Voting Time

Voting time

Time for you to go out to the places you cast your votes

Our hero

Cara the Akashayana Vampire Slayer monster hunter as photomanipped by one of the other players in our current online not-too-serious-for-it Mage: The Ascension game.

She is beauty, she is grace
She will stab you in the face

As well as by me.

Attending the Tradition Halloween formal.
Of course she could fight in this.

And the results making me want to look for a head for a figure custom. Darn the lack of Teen Wolf series toys.

PR0GR3SS!1

A couple of the buttons on the new TV’s remote control didn’t last as long as its first set of batteries.

Cool cool cool.

Sure, it’s the remote control equivalent of “return/enter” and a couple next to it, but that’s why keyboards have two of those.

V5: City Of Angels 39

Vampire: The Masquerade - City Of Angels session 39

Debts are repaid, suspicions are raised.

And Eve’s player waited till I came back from a break to make sure I’d heard about Eve planning to do something behind Paris’s back. Which was nice.

Interview With The Vampire at 50

Interview With The Vampire was first published fifty years ago, per Anne Rice’s diary. A seismic change for that monster as metaphor.