Death and Trauma
Aug. 12th, 2007 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lathanyOn Friday evening, in Timelike Contingency my character was hit by a lorry, whilst changing a tyre, and died almost instantly. This was the first character death I had faced in a long time and I was still rather traumatised by the end of the session when it became apparent I was now alive again and had the next session in which to find a way to properly save myself.
So in Saturday evening's session, we (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lanfykins, bateleur, A.J. and I) tried to correct the time line. We did just that, several times. So, I no longer died in a lorry accident, instead I died two years earlier having been tortured to death by the former school bully who was possessed by a Great Old One. Then I was tortured along with my best friend by said person. Then I avoid this fate by dying some months before that at the hand of a Black Spiral Dancer outside an exploding factory. Then we mitigated that and I went back to the lorry crash. However, finally, we managed to deal with the torture timeline and the lorry death timeline... at which point I discovered that my true fate was to be embraced (although I ended as Brujah rather than my starting point of Tremere).
There ended Timelike Contingency - which despite my constant wails about my lifeless fate, I regard as a truly excellent game.
Sunday was Infinity (lanfykins, zandev, chrestomancy and myself) which also runs multiple fates and timelines. Half-way through the session I shot myself at point blank range with a blunderbuss.
On the whole, I think the death-by-torture left my character saner at the end of it.
So in Saturday evening's session, we (
lanfykins, bateleur, A.J. and I) tried to correct the time line. We did just that, several times. So, I no longer died in a lorry accident, instead I died two years earlier having been tortured to death by the former school bully who was possessed by a Great Old One. Then I was tortured along with my best friend by said person. Then I avoid this fate by dying some months before that at the hand of a Black Spiral Dancer outside an exploding factory. Then we mitigated that and I went back to the lorry crash. However, finally, we managed to deal with the torture timeline and the lorry death timeline... at which point I discovered that my true fate was to be embraced (although I ended as Brujah rather than my starting point of Tremere).There ended Timelike Contingency - which despite my constant wails about my lifeless fate, I regard as a truly excellent game.
Sunday was Infinity (
lanfykins, zandev, chrestomancy and myself) which also runs multiple fates and timelines. Half-way through the session I shot myself at point blank range with a blunderbuss.On the whole, I think the death-by-torture left my character saner at the end of it.
