unforth | The Changeling Post I Mentioned

Well, I finished my paper, it took even less time than expected. That's one class down. Yay! This is a master post to help people towards a bunch of Changeling posts I'm unlocking from the past.

For a while there, especially over the summer, I was going and writing down everything I could remember about the sessions we were playing. These were written for me, and focus on the things that I was doing, so if you're not interested in that sort of thing, I wouldn't bother looking at them. I spirited away a fair number of what passed for my characters secrets in these posts, though, and I always figured that, come the end of the game, I'd unlock and share them. This is a master post that'll point towards those older posts. I also hope to go back and finish up all of the parts that I never got to (I don't think I ever got past May or so of last year). A lot of this is pretty personal, so I won't feel bad that it's all about me - it's my stickin' character. :)

This was originally started back last March, when I wrote a really long normal post about stuff that had happened to my character that night, then decided that nobody else would really care but that I wanted to keep it, so I cut the parts I thought were mostly irrelevant and saved them in a private post. That post is: March 11, 2006. Looking it over, I see that this over all is going to require some commentary, though - because it was private I apparently didn't bother explaining some things.
"If I can't find it here..." : I was in New York City when I made this post, and I intended to search high and low for a prop for Kathryn's birthday gift from Dino, which was a small crystalline anvil on a necklace chain; the anvil was a piece of dross. I did in fact do so: I looked through three jewelry stores and a few other places at probably about 1000 different charms with the help of

mistress_sin but I was unable to find a prop. I kept looking until June, when I was forced to use this piece of dross. However, the anvil made a reappearance - I ended up making a charm for it out of clay which I wanted silver, and it dangled in the middle of Kathryn's headdress that she wore in Arcadia. :)
"I feel like I should do what I did for Dave..." : I played in Black Ops game run by

deadmanwade and a guy who I will call Fisher (his last name) for a year and a half. My character in that game was named Julie. Julie was the least likely black op ever - she was incompetent, uneducated, and incredibly timid. She had been abused horribly by her husband and father. She was a nobody who worked at Walmart. However, she also secretly had the potential to be an incredibly powerful mage (she didn't know this, of course) and her aura showed that, so she was recruited into the black ops. In the course of the game, she fell in love with an NPC played by Fisher. This NPC was named Dave. While I was playing Black Ops, after each session I would sit in class on the following Tuesday and write down everything I could remember about the things that had happened with Dave. It made me happy and helped me remember the details of an IC relationship I was enjoying a great deal. This post was me doing the same thing for my IC relationship with Dino. :)
The weird level of detail sometimes: I was trying to include as much detail in all of these posts as possible, because the key to me was to make it so that in 20 years, when I want to remember this story I had so much fun working will all of you to create, I would have as many details as possible. :) However, since there are often details I didn't know when these posts were written/still don't know now, sometimes the detail varies strangely. Also, this post in particular was made like two days after the events it describes, and so I remembered the birthday date (it's topic) much more clearly than any of the other things I wrote about.
Everything I Could Remember on March 12 about the events before Samhain and on Samhain of Kathryn's Experiences: March 12, 2006
Some things I forgot in the previous post, a discussion of SMART, and the events of the day after Samhain: March 14, 2006
The trial for high treason (December Interlude): March 21, 2006
Yule: March 22, 2006
January and February Interludes: May 14, 2006
February Game, the Duel between Leander and Sergei: May 16, 2006
That's the last one I have time to unlock right now, because I have to get to class and I've been reading them all (I really shouldn't be. ;) ) More to come, though! :)

Edit: Now that I'm back from class, I'll finish up.
The second SMART mission to Prague: May 17, 2006
A few things that had been left out, the March Interlude, April interlude and April game: June 14, 2006 This entry discusses a trap involving a large shiny rock, encountered by Kathryn and Amelie. There is story here that I enjoy a lot and so will share. In the Hogwarts game that myself,

buzzermccain,

drake_rocket and

saracariad were running last year, we designed a dungeon for the players to go through. We came up with a bunch of traps; my contribution was the "something shiny" trap - put something shiny and apparently valuable in an obvious place, and I guarantee someone will go for, and then you drop them down a chute, and there you go, captured PC! It was the simplest, stupidest trap ever, and I was very amused by it and really hoped someone would fall for it. Sure enough, one of our players did, and I bounced around gleefully for the rest of the evening. Later, I was telling

sapphohestia, who was along with the group that encountered the "something shiny" trap, about this, and she was amused also. The large shiny rock encountered in the Monkey quest was her revenge - she later told me that she had been hoping against hope that I would be the PC who would encounter it, and sure enough, I was, and I was the PC who went for it. Full circle I guess. :)
An in between game evening spent scene-ing: June 17, 2006
May Interlude: June 24, 2006
Beltaine: June 26, 2006
Another in between game evening of RP, and the June interlude: September 22, 2006 At the bottom of this post is also a brief outline of everything I had done IC up to that point (meant as a reminder to myself for whenever I'd be writing those parts)

That's every thing I covered completely, though I have a schedule that describes in brief outline everything that follows that until just before the Arcadia game. I've been too busy to work on any of it, but I hope to get to it soon. I should also probably type of Kathryn's (currently hand written only) diaries. :)
This post, from September 20, is one that's special to me; it includes the content of the letter that Kathryn sent Dino when she died, the letter that Dino implanted in Kathryn's brain in case something happened to him, and the letter that Dino sent out to all of Muses write after the September game - at the time all three of these reduced me to tears. :)

As I write the other posts on this topic, I expect I'll just make them public to begin with, and I'll probably also update a master of some sort, mostly so that I can find these posts easily. :)