unforth | Finishing the hastiness...

So I'm out of class, and can conclude my earlier post, woohoo.

First of all, I'm oh so excited, I talked to my professor, very hastily, about doing an internship, and though we didn't work out any details at all, I'll be doing an internship with spiffy crazy professor Jim Canary this summer, second summer session. Woohoo! I need to check those dates, though, and see if they mess with either of the cons, I may have to pull the "family reunion" card that I always use when Origins or Gencon interferes with summer classes - it's awesome, cause my mom backs me up. ;) Best excuse EVAR.

Anyway, the other things I wanted to rant about briefly is actually stupid and should be ignored. Unless you like reading other people gush about gaming stuff of the past (like I do). ;)

Something that

deadmanwade wrote about reminded me of an awesome, totally enjoyable thing that happened in Golden Age. One of the fundamental premises of the game was that there were alternate realities, some very similar to our own and some radically different. Highlights included the Nixon-verse (which I know the name of but not the details), Ashoka, which was a bizarre high-tech Indian planet, one whose name I don't recall which was ruled and completely controlled by a lower class Kansan from our reality...but there were many more. Time was also highly fluid in the game in general (for example, the Scout, my character's husband, was from 1998). Another fundamental facet of the reality was that there are 9 demons, one of whom is always in accension (wow, I'm realizing my story requires a lot of back ground. Trying to keep it brief. ;) ). During the war it was...uh...I think it was Strife? (

deadmanwade will surely remember...). The one in accension in the 90's and present is Apathy, I know that for certain.

One time, Doc Hollywood (

deadmanwade's character) made a trip to an alternate universe, where it was the 50's and things were all messed up and weird. McCarthyism was running rampant, and Doc needed some help, so he decided to look up the alternate versions of the PC's. As a result, I got to play the evil alternate version of myself (not that Doc knew I was evil when he decided to look me up) and it was totally fucking awesome. See, about a year before Doc did this, Enigma found herself in a lousy position: she was the doorway through which one of these 9 demons could enter this reality. Zebulon Zed, who was possessed by this demon, had pretty much tricked me into concluding an evil ritual that set in motion a string of badness that would culminate in my allowing the demon into the reality (goddamn failing EVERY FUCKING ROLL TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON. Out of game, I'm like, crap, this is an occult ritual, I know it is...GM, can I roll Occultism again? Yes? Fuck, I failed AGAIN. And again and again. Then I crit failed a Will roll. And I was drunk. And it was very, very sad, and yet totally awesome. ;) Did I mention it was Halloween and I was dressed as the Statue of Liberty? And if I recall, I'd been shot the previous session, and it hurt a lot...;) ). Anyway, in the normal game continuity, I went to Scout (who my character had a major thing for, but this was before they'd ever hooked up) and together they went to Istanbul (it's a long story why) and there they confronted Zebulon Zed, and really without Scout's contribution (which was massive, he conned another PC into "lending" him a mystical artifact called the "Crystal of the Moon," which I was smart with and used correctly and stuff) I probably would have gotten my ass kicked. Things were good, the demon was sent back into the abyss to wait his turn at supremacy like a good demon, Enigma gained massive psychic powers from the Crystal (I had been saving XP for no good reason, I sank like 50 points wholesale into it, which in game which gives 3 XP a week was a shitload), and life went on.

In the evil alterate universe, Scout didn't help Enigma, and she went and confronted it using the method I had been planning on using before I got Scout's help - I was going to let the demon into my head and do my best to control it from within. As it turns out, that wasn't the best plan, and evil alternate universe Enigma (henceforth called Evilnigma) was really awesomely twisted. She had massive amounts of emotion control, and used it to completely abuse innocent people, but at the same time would be nice to people just because they amused her. She and Scout's alternate ego (The Wanderer, who is a long story in and of himself) and this love/hate relationship, and Doc made us work together, and it was just so much fun...sigh...I can't even put it into words...just seeming nice and reasonable, and then destroying people's brains...yeah...then, about a year of real time later, I got to play her again when Scout decided that he needed to talk to her, and god was it messy...you know, my inability to actually describe why and how it was so much fun makes me sad...

I have been surprised recently to discover that I really miss Golden Age. I've been thinking maybe I should talk to

xaniquen and convince him that he needs to be Scout for a while so we can just putz around, I wonder if he'd be interested...I'd use my LJ to ask him, but he's a jerk who never actually READS LJ, or posts in it, grr...

Anyway, that went longer and was more vacuous than I expected it to be. ;) Oh well - if I remember details that poorly now, it's for the best that I write it down, because, well, it was only like 3 1/2 years ago, it's further in the past every day...Funny how that works...