BadgerCon part 3

[lathany]

Am I a practical, sensible parent or just one of those women who never should have sprogged ? Either way, I didn't once ring the grandparents to find out how they (or the twins) were getting on (although I admit I was expecting them to call).

Tuesday

Tuesday morning dawned and, some hours later, I staggered out of bed. I was just in time to see ealuscerwen and frax head off to Millom whilst I stayed in, ate croissants and washed my hair. Having seen ealuscerwen prove that bateleur's filter-coffee-providing fix didn't work I switched to tea. Fortunately "instant coffee" was on the shopping list so that it arrived as I was starting to develop withdrawl symptoms.

My Tuesday game was the initial one I had planned to run at the Con and I was nervous about how it might go. Actually it was about the fifth incarnation of "Dawn's BadgerCon Game", meaning that I had already rejected all sorts of game ideas for being too impractical whilst starting to wonder whether I would actually be running anything (particularly anything non-Swordsmastery) at all. However, inspiration had finally struck towards the end of April and this was the result.

I had named it Working With Children on the grounds that the player characters would be. I had some experience of my own in this area, having worked with my mother (she taught 6-8 year olds) during my post-exam post-school weeks. Consequently, I know I would make a rotten teacher. My players (bateleur, smiorgan, lanfykins, triskellian and cuthbertcross), on the other hand, may all be missing their vocation in life.

Working With Children's memorable moments :

• triskellian following the spirit of Zoe's character sheet and deciding that her daughter "little Charlotte" was likely to be on a special chocolate-free feeding regime. "I've never seen wholemeal yoghurt before."


• bateleur having the cheek to suggest that Fred's fashion sense was worse than his own (due to the long, dark green suit he wore to work)


• The horror of the teaching staff when they spotted "Visit to Legoland" on the week's schedule


• Jenni's (cuthbertcross's) interpretations of Mr Papworth's handwriting. "Is that 'camels' or 'castles' ?" "It's 'consequently'."


• Anjali's (lanfykins's) handling of Samantha's long absence on a visit to the girls toilets. "There's so much blood."


• Manny's (smiorgan's) instructions of how to draw "breakfast" pictures and their result. "Sadie has chocolate milk for breakfast, Mummy."


• The fairy tale stereotypes. Farmer's wives bustle, Stewards fuss and all barmen are beaming, stout, red-faced men with aprons.


• The fact that Jenni was quite prepared to dismantle the throne-room suits of armour with the King watching her.


• Lastly - my favourite - Manny's diversion speech to the Ogres. You had to be there; no aspect of their lives was left un-mentioned or un-insulted.

The party successfully handled the two classes, rescued the brothers from Fairytale land, nearly drowned Oliver (class problem) at Legoland (bateleur thinks that "little Charlotte" pushed him) and saw the brothers head off to join their mother. Sadly, I never did get to finish "I was riding a pig in a bright yellow wig".

Wednesday

Wednesday morning was the morning of much Hut paranoia. Again, a subject better handled in bateleur's LJ.

The rest of the day was Talos which was bateleur's "mechanoids in ancient Greece" game. I played Laesti; a ward of the temple of Aphrodite with an appearance score which roughly approximated to a Charisma of 19. This little detail meant that she was rather insulted when inskauldrak's complete letch (Captain Narosus) failed to make a sufficient effort to chase her. This was, in part, due to ealuscerwen's Veridian (follower of Artemis) glowering at him whenever he made a move - but not sufficient excuse, I feel. The other party members were Rob's "High Priest of Zeus" Koidar and two_nukes's "Scout of The Dodgy Governor" Erezantias.

Talos's memorable moments :

• Captain Narosus going out "for supplies" in the lunch hour and coming back looking both flushed and smug (he also remembered the supplies).


• The shameless bribing of the Oracle of Delphi (Apollo got some temple defense and a shag out of it).


• Veridian's defense of Laesti's "virginity".


• Laesti's obsession with the Talos Titan.


• The fact that the Hades Titan had a skirt.


• Koidar smiting the Hades Titan with a lightening bolt to finish it off.


• Erezantias failing to see the huge circle of undead guarding the courtyard due to two_nukes's complete incompetence with dice.

Athens eventually fell to the Spartans but I got to keep Talos.



It's now baby releasing time, so the last couple of days will have to wait for a final entry.