OOC: Non-game related (NOT required reading)
It was frightening, for me. My neighbors were setting off 6 inch Mortars, the rain of burst fuel rained down on our apartment. It started on the 1st and went until 23:00 of the 4th.
I enjoyed the time I reserved to game and work on game. I played a new game that start four days ago, called Realm Rejects. Five starting characters, but each player, and the ST, have two standby. Very much inspired by me privately streaming Shadows of Mordor to a close audience that among them, my roommate thought to GM a combat stunt centric game. It's loosely based on Final Fantasy, the idea of the plot being breakneck speed, but the players send their characters in cycles to train, labor, and fight. It's started in the Neck, and we have a Lunar that stays in beast form, an Eclipse that mostly uses their charms for the Ride extensions, and Terrible Ascent Driven Beast for their mate (the lunar). I played a Secrets but due to some numerical errors, I was retconed into a Fiend. Which was fine, my character has Ebon Shadow and Seafring Hero Styles for charms and that's it.
We have a Dawn that acts as a defend other (mostly for my character, actually), though that character and the Night share Forest-tongue. My character is the translator, and the Night only speaks Forest-tongue, which my character doesn't. The Night uses partial styles, Throne Shadow, Lunar Hero, and...I think Tiger Style. They have the Dawn as a Shadow Finger, so the Dawn is perfectly happy to let the mated pair have their corner, and the Night and I swing and skirimish with panache.
The whole game is panache though. So we had to take breaks, because it's so very action heavy, to do other activities. We played some Heroes of the Storm, Magic 2014 while my roommate (and ST) played Planet Zoo and worked on the game's themed antagonists.
Need to catch up on sleep though. Sitting and being awake too much are going to kill me (literally) more than my short stint smoking tobacco did.
I should probably clean the kitchen now, TBH. lol. TMI maybe. I love cooking, and I'm also limited to inside the kitchen, since I'm still working on car transported objects to makeshift as furniture. Anyway, I made Parmesan and artichoke stuffed mushrooms. Before that I made a carb-light quiche. Before that White Cheddar Mac and Cheese and Meatballs. I struggle to get to this point, from two Novembers ago, but this is probably the last year of gaming like this (realtime I mean). So I wanted to enjoy the fireworks as the ship goes down. ;)
Looking forward to getting back to GMing in a couple days though. Answering questions and filling more structure for what the PCs will initially orbit. Off to clean though!