Yes, I probably spend far too much of my energy pretending to be other people.
Luckily for me, my parents can't tell me to stop. I've done lots of local
theatre, and in some ways that's far more satisfying. I don't have to try and
think of what to say next, because I'm not good at spontaneous cleverness.
But Role Playing lets me really get into a character, how they think, how they
react, the whole Stanislawski thing. Right now, most of my RPing is online,
on MUSHes.
Garou:the MUSH
This is where most of my RP goes. A game about the social lives of werewolves in World of Darkness setting. We're elitist bastards, and require applications for all characters. But if you read the news files and come to the Lounge with questions, we're often quite happy to help you along in the process.Adam was my first character, arriving while the place was still ajar. He'd come over from Masquerade, which meant he had a ludicrous and unbelievable background. Luckily, I didn't have to submit an application, or the wizzes would all have had apoplectic fits and died laughing. And I would be sad if Aspen died. Adam was a Fianna turned CoGgie, who came to Washington fleeing his past.
Rik was *supposed* to be a character I created who would just log in and pound on things. A brick imported from Chicago to create havok. But something went wrong. Terribly, terribly wrong. Now he's an ex Glass Walker elder who lives in a cabin in the woods and keeps a garden and has a crush on an old schoolmarm.
Buick was literally born to die. He was created as a crunchy for somebody else's plot. In fact, I was told that his application wouldn't have been approved if he weren't. But the plot never happened, and Buick forgot to die. Another Chicago boy, Buick was Shadow Lord kin who just never seemed to get along with the local Garou. Currently, he runs the local Homeless Shelter, the Regan Hope Project.
Arik
was, in the best of lights, a failed experiment. To the
best of my knowledge, he was the first WoD *Gypsy* on GarouMUSH. Unfortunately,
he had no contacts in town, and associating with the gaje (except for hustling
them out of some extra cash) was likely to contaminate him. Since he hadn't
brought any friends with him, he was kind of bored a lot of the time.
The best thing about Arik was that it gave me the opportunity to RP with
Jess.
Cyrano started life as a cute little lounge robot, so I could keep an eye on people OOC and avoid their Machiavellian ruminations while still getting in some RP. A cute little coyote spirit who eventually ended up as either a foil or an NPC.
Cutter was my next attempt at a character who wasn't always nice. He's been much more successful. A young ShadowLord from New York, a freak resulting from the breeding of two Garou, he does his best to be a cold and heartless bastard. But he still has a soft spot for a couple of people. In literature, we call that a tragic flaw.
Jenny is another human in my attempt to pump up city RP. A local for once, Jenny is a classical guitarist and Fury kingirl who's just found out about this whole WereWolf thing and is trying to deciphre where her place in all of it is. She's not having the best of luck.
Priest and or Suli are not the same person, but they're both NPCs that I created to hang out in a local gothclub(tm). Priest is tall and wiry, has impeccable goth fashion sense, and is one of the few black men I know of in St. Claire. Suli is small, and a sort of Fairy Queen character. She presides over a small court at the Temple.
Random Stuff
If you have any logs involving me and want to share, or want to set up RP with one of me, feel free to drop me a line.
Other MUSHes
Okay, I suck less. I've got a few logs in this section now.
Connal Raith at Cajun Nights.
Duncan Duibh at Tir Ruadh (horus.anth.utep.edu 6250)
Lola/Lolita at Mountain Cauldron (heaven.gofast.net 7777)
Zingaro the Senior Apprentice Harper at PernMUSH (pern.mccr.org 4201)
Onyx Sauvignon Hercule de Touraine, Marquis of Carabas
The Touraine are an upstart noble house, nouveau riche in the grand scheme
of the game. I try to play Carabas as if he were Robert Downey Jr. in one of
those lush 18th Century French period dramas crossed with George Hamilton
in Zorro.
My return to epic heroic fantasy, with knights Templar, angels, and the end of the world. It lasted a few sessions, and I suspect I'll have to turn it into a book at some point so the story gets told.
My second (or third, if you count Hamlet) attempt to test and further refine the Tarot gaming system. Inspired by the Storm Front books and on HBO's classic film noir _Cast a Deadly Spell_, the setting tries to blend the world of noir with a hint of magic.
This is my in-the-works proposed sequel to the Ar Noir game, a spy thriller taking place in a Cold War scenario with magic--in the style of James Bond, the Avengers, Mission:Impossible, Our Man Flynt and Man From UNCLE.
I'm finally in one of Jeff Campbell's games. It's about ordinary average people discovering alien technology. Not a lot of combat, and even less mechanics than in my game. (:
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