unforth | Immense Cuteness...

Well, I've been looking forward to the interlude for sometime, now, because, well, I've seriously missed being Kathryn. I know it's only been a month, but there I enjoy being clueless so much...even though I feel a little bad, because I know that I play it worse than my number of negative traits would suggest, but, well, I've noticed that sometimes once you've played a character for a while, they just are the way they are, and the character sheet is somewhat irrelevant, and doesn't really explain why they are how they are.

I had great fun last night over all. Many thanks to

kniedzw for scenes with Dino...romance and cuteness are guilty pleasures of mine, and that's pretty much all that I did at the interlude last night...Amelie and Kathryn discussed plans for Valentine's day (which entailed Kathryn noticing Amelie wrapping something and asking what is was for, and when Amelie said it was a gift for Careg, Kathryn being like..."Is it his birthday?" ...she'd managed to completely forget about Val Day...fortunately, there was Amelie to bail her out, she had great ideas...)...and I finally got to play out the movie "date" with Dino, and I got to ask the question I've been planning to ask, "should I just leave you alone?" In truth, I very much expected that he would say yes, and I was oh-so-happy that he didn't, cause Kaye would have been most angry when I moved to Ember Hold (assuming the Baron would allow me to), which I would have done in that situation...indeed, much to my surprise things seem to be going *well* ...who'd have though? ;) I mean, "well" is a strange choice of words, but given Kathryn's personality, and Dino's personality, the fact that they're interacting at all counts as a win. ;)

buzzermccain commented to me after the game that I was glowing, and I thought that was fairly amusing. It got me thinking about romantic plots in games, and how I generally react to them. In my old table top group in Binghamton, romantic plots were a bit more rare - though certainly not unheard of, I got married to a PC in Golden Age (a supers game I played for 4 1/2 years) and in Black Ops (a MIB game that ran a year and a half) and had intimate relationships in at least three others I can think of (the drow game I generally call Menzoberanzan, the Vampire game that had rampant Gangrel sex - seriously - and a D&D game) ...most of these have been in the last few years, though... it's funny how much I enjoy this kind of gaming. When I was involved in the Black Ops relationship (with an NPC named Dave who I generally count as one of my crushes in life) I would be in a good mood for days over it. One time, when the GM who played Dave told me (in a very serious voice) that he needed to talk to me, I spent *three days* completely nervous and freaking out over this, only to find out when I finally ran the scene that he was going to propose. But just knowing that Dave was concerned about something could put me out of sorts for three days of real life...I wonder why that is? So it doesn't surprise me that good conversations with Dino could leave me glowing...at least I'm not spending extended time after words trying to remember every little thing that happened and writing it down (which I used to do with Dave, lol...)... I love playing romantic story lines (happy sigh...)

I was way tired after the interlude, yet somehow ended up hanging out with

drake_rocket and

buzzermccain until past four in the morning. Funny how that happens. We babbled about lots of stuff, but I was especially happy to get to play out a scene or two with Marcus, and pursue some little Hogwarts stuff that needed wrapping up between us (not that getting turned into a werewolf should have any effect on IC interactions, not at all.) There's still more to do (there's always more to do...) but it was nice to get done some little stuff that could be easily accomplished with nobody else there...

Anyway, stuff to do, stuff to do. Tomorrow is the next Hogwarts game, my first as an ST, and I'm a bit nervous...

But I'm oh-so-happy that last night was the night of immense cuteness. I had so much fun...