Favorite Moments, November 2014

[Nixon]

I want to say that I value ALL of my interactions with the players. As Hartighan I have so many small moments with others that it is difficult for me to keep track... but I value all of the players who attempt to interact with Hartighan.
Some of my Fav's of session 4

Coming upon Alice at the opening Friday night... omg Kat, I <3 Alice. For a bunch of reasons. But you totally bring it.

Ed, Ethan, Hank and Ondrej. It is hard for me to consider any OR without your characters. Now I am going to have to. Clock - that was an amazing performance. Ethan's performance at lunch was vivid... and amazeballs! So jealous!

Victor and Vanessa. So weird how you both are like family now.

Huddled against the barn... defeated. I never felt so much like 'Wolverine' in a game before.
"Cool your jets kid... the fight has been over for about 20 minutes."
Thank you for the players who let me 'lay it down'. You know I was right. But it sucked to say it... and I cannot imagine that it was fun to hear it. Still... wounded and limping... what a great little vignette.

Everything surrounding the DemonHunters from IFA... once again Alice is the first to warn me (this does not escape my notice 'little one') and Gus is there to make it all better.

Ah. Gus.
The extent to which he went for me... Just twisted the knife later when he was gone.

Then feeling like I had no right to mourn Gus or Hank, or anyone. Cause I'm a thing. I'm not a person. Soooo many feels.

Solidarity - Sympathy for the Devils from the ONLY likely source... each other. The meetings of the *#%$^er club (you know who you are). What a pathetic and wonderful collection of WH second-class-citizens! If the town knew how we felt...

Gabriel is my new favorite 'Book'! Sorry everybody... Gabriel actually told Hartighan something that made him want to STUDY!!! Achievement unlocked. Oh, and I love fighting next to you.

Actually - since 80% of the larp does not speak to me, I will call out to the interaction that I DO share... fighting alongside EVERYONE this last game was fantastic. I found some great comrades in some very tough fights and tried very hard to let all of you know... but wow. I felt like I was on-fire during some of the fights... but I also felt like part of a team. Was very nice. This includes Maxwell... who is always there for me when I yell "Robots!". I yell "Maxwell" now, but in my head I still hear 'robots'.

Loved all the robots... the big and little ones.
Loved meeting "our friend" for Lunch. Made me soooooo hungry.
Loved talking tools with Monty.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand the tough parts -
I loved the look on Ronnie's face when he Diagnosed Nile's body. Dude turned white. ty. I don't know what look I gave you, but It felt like acting.
TY Adria for bringing 'it', again. "Love" stories in a horror LARP are weird. and this one is a tad... interesting.
I don't know what most players think about it... but from my POV it is beautiful... and I am glad to share it (and everything else) with you.

Loosing Pandy was very tough, for all of the reasons that she knows. Calling it a 'talk' is inadequate. Wow.
Taking a moment to meet Alana... and the great RP she brought after the Cave. Wow.

All around it was a great event.
FYI: It is weird playing a PC that not many Players like, want to speak with, or talk to... but I always find a way to make great connections. One by one, I've made amazing RP connections. (amazing what hiding bodies does for your friendships!)
To all of you who dare call me a friend, comrade, or even family... thank you.
It makes a tough roll better having friends. (you know who you are)

See you all in 2015... cause I am totally coming back to punch this big-evil-shadow thing right in the face!

-nix

[Sally]

*My game started when Hartighan and Nile knocked on my door to lend help on whatever was going on Friday night. So, sneaking up behind a bunch of Shadow Cultists with the two of them, hearing other players point and say "More of them, incoming!" (we'd stayed dark), and then getting to roll a whole clutch of Shadows from behind with some of Blackstone's finest. It was just in and CLAWPOCALYPSE from there.

*Who gets Mages off Craigslist? Leslie Evan Marshall, that's who. Bros had to get their Zipcar back to Boston so they could be home in time for work... at Newbury Comics... the next day. That whole ridiculous encounter, and getting to let out some Sally frustrations that would be very, very telling about what was to come. Leslie & Gabriel were such bosses there, even if Sally did get stuck in the Magic Circle. The palpable fear that went out when we thought You Know Who was about to show up. Cecil & Cedric better show up again, damn it.

*Randomly walking to the AAA and coming across Aowyn, King of Dawn Court, trying to make nice, and going "Hey, can I have one of them cookies, I didn't get no breakfast?" The look on his face was fabulous.

*...Rats. Giant rats. Rats gnawing on posts. Rats grooming people. Rats stealing food. Rats pulling on loose fabric so they can go make nests. Rats trying to figure out of Victor's cat-purse-belt was a real cat and get scolded. Rats trying to steal food from Mr. Morsi and ... sniffing out... that he's a giant fucking crocodile and then running the hell away in a panicked terror (the look on Morsi's face as he lazily leaned against that post was just *so* reptilian calm). I may own 5 rats IRL.

*Sneaking around the Boonies in broad daylight, offing Shadowfolk. Getting to be an actual Special Forces dude instead of Big Dumb Hollaring redneck. The look on Mason's face when he gave me the OK to go get my rifle, seeing as we'd be doing protection for a Federal Agent. Leo & Sherman going to town in rapid order with those things. Getting to find LIberty and make sure she went on a run of this mod "This is yer kinda shit, Blue." Phil & Gabby sneaking around and peeking through windows. Broad daylight, but so quiet.

*Hardware Store of the Dead. Jesus. Just, jesus. When in danger or in doubt, throw goddamn bricks at them.

*Fucking Yakuza Mansion. Watching Dan Doom be Dan Doom all over those fuckers. Trying to fight Mark Danskin and Lefty's NPC at the same time (don't... don't ever try that) and getting shot in the chest & 5-damaged in the leg at the same time, but protecting Ness.

*Phil's nonchalant, "Are you scared" speeches. I got three or four this event and they goddamn brilliant each time.

*Getting to see the Power Loader for the first time... AS TWELVE YEAR OLD SALLY. Being very, very impressed with how pretty Victor, Nile, and Jackal are (and their reactions), and with wide-eyes, getting to ask "Are you from Louisville? Are you in HIGH SCHOOL!?". Professor Challenger's numerous ways to keep Sally from running out into combat, including "You want to be a Marine, right? So, you have to be able to DROP AND GIVE ME 20!" Pandora. Oh, sweet Jesus, Pandora, tending to nutty Sally. The heartbreak Scott felt when Vaciliy asked him if he wanted a "A Pop". The confused look on Corvus's face at "Small" Sally's accent.

*Dr. Kennigan's hand-shake.

*Trying to talk Hank down after Gus died. Talking with Alana in the AAA after ward. Mason nearly smacking the shit out of Sally for wanting a drink. Everyone's reactions, their heartbreaks. The sadness and fury behind Kelsey's eyes.

*Talking with Billy & Leslie about Adam's death and being just ... so... angry about it.

*Hearing about Billy's info session. As a dude that's half Native, I'm continually glad that we're handled so well in game. I'm really sad to have missed the talk itself, but glad he got the chance to do it.

*Gog and Magog. Getting to go on a Monster Hunt with Kelsey and making her a promise about Adam's killer- getting to know Roberto & Xavier. Billy's Balancing The Scales in the middle of main street. Gog and fucking Magog. So, so, so awesome. Agent Caraway's reaction to 12-year old Sally running at a dead sprint (I didn't climb the stone steps up. I straight JUMPED them) to babble about "GOG AND MAGOG BIG MONSTERS ON MAIN STREET!"

*Moon. Pie. Sky. Moon. Pie. Having all the other players around me as Sally tried to talk with those 2 *things*

*The Rabbi mic-dropping and walking out. Talking about it with Mason.

*Reactions to JD & Sally being shackled together.

*Storming up to the Gaeia's Soldiers thing, seeing that Super Hippy Jerimiah (?) had been captured, seeing it was the same shithead from last Spring, and shooting him for Agony, then walking on. Fuck that guy. (Ash's "NOT COOL, MAN!" was beautiful).

*Everyone so desperately trying to save Pandora. Trying to duel Derrick's Protean, only to have Hartighan backstab him (hahahahaha). Drone strikes. GRENADE! Realizing that Sally may now be Chaotic Good instead of Chaotic Neutral:

John had taken the Belltower and was Sniping people. I see him start to motion a shoot Gabriel and threw myself in front of Gabriel to block the shot. Gabriel was turning away at the time, and I don't think he even knew what was happening. The bullet went BETWEEN our heads as John tells it.

I jumped in front of a sniper for a goddamn demon!? I'm the guy that came into game with demon ears on a necklace!

*Herne. "They want monsters, Sally? Let's give them monsters then." The look on the Proteans faces when they threw open #3 Main Street and, rather than Pandora, found a fully shifted Were-Gator.

*The Talon Grendier (aka Jake) walking by and repeatedly Maiming me while I was getting 1st-aided (I may have broken his arms at one point via trickery).

*Liberty's offhand suggestion that, since Pandora was simply property, we could buy her back.

*Corvus & Mason relaying Pandora's message about having escaped before.

*Kelsey's "Do you have time for this not to hurt?" before quick-fixing my maimed leg.

*Book club trying to save Hank. Poor, poor Hank.

[Owle Isohos]

[Taranis]

I can neither confirm nor deny any allegations brought up by Moggie concerning myself and a certain dragon.

[Coco]

Somebody: Dr. Kennigan, you move pretty fast for a lady on crutches!
Ellie: Yeah, I've been on crutches before.
Henry G.: Why was that?
Ellie: Y'ever played hockey, Mr. Gondorf?
Henry G.: What kind of hockey?
Ellie: ... Ice hockey. What other kinda hockey is there?
Billy St. F.: Well, there's field hockey...
Ellie: (disparagingly) That's for girls.
Billy St. F.: ... (shakes his head and laughs) Don't ever change, Doc.

[Tesla]

[sndwurks]

[Coco]