On a plate

We got our asses handed to us in Game on Sunday (this actually is a fairly regular occurrence, as our chars are very low-level).

We've been playing 7th Sea for a few weeks now. queleb, ktbee and I play siblings whose father has been murdered/assassinated and we're investigating. We followed a trail of breadcrumbs and on Sunday we figured we'd finally found the one(s) responsible. So queleb and I hitch a ride on the bad guys' carriage (as neither of us have Ride and so couldn't follow on horseback), ktbee steals a horse and gives chase (("here, have some chase!")), and we are all off to find out where the bad guys are going. Perhaps they're off to murder someone else. Perhaps they're rendezvousing with another conspirator... Who knows? But we're going to find out, heroic swashbuckly heroes that we are *strikes manly pose which doesn't work so well since am not manly*. So Bub and I are just hanging out, riding on top of the carriage, and it occurs to us (with the help of an ooc comment) that there may be even _more_ bad guys at the end of this. So suddenly, stopping the carriage in the middle of nowhere and putting the two villains to the question without reinforcements around sounds like a good idea.

So we clamber up over the top, queleb pommel-strikes the driver on the head, and we manage to stop the carriage without crashing it (surprising, since we don't have Drive Carriage, either). We jump down, throw open the doors on either side of the carriage, pull out the bad guys and throw them to the ground. Our blood was up and we were feeling all flashy and good about ourselves. "You killed our father, prepare to die!" failed to get a response. *pout* At first they claim not to know what we're talking about, and then they become amused by our questions ("You really don't know, do you?"). Buckly swash ensues. Now, my character has two pistols (one shot each and then an insane reload time) and a knife. She should _so_ not be a front-line fighter. But somehow that's always where I end up: the first one to take a shot at the bad guys, thus the first to become a target, and the first to fall, despite that I can take half again as many hits as the other two. There are two of them, both with swords, and three of us; me, Bub the Swordsman, and ktbee the archer with _no_ short-range combat skills. They take us down one by one, though we put up a better fight than Jordan (the GM) was expecting us to - we Crippled at least one and possibly both of them. I fall, then Bub, and then it's just ktbee left against both of them, and it doesn't take them long at all to get inside her range. *sigh*

Our characters wake up an indeterminate amount of time later in a dark, windowless dungeon. *sigh*

Turns out the purpose of the exercise was to get us into the dungeon. But Jordan hadn't thought we'd pick a fight with the Villains (as we knew or should have figured they were _much_ more powerful than we); he figured we'd stick with the carriage, and then be captured at its destination because we'd be outnumbered. Okay, that makes us feel a little better, knowing that we haven't actually "failed." But, damn, we could have done it without getting so punked up! I swear, my character is spending half her life in the care of doctors! Spend a week, get healed, go running about for another week, get Knocked Out, go back to the doctor for another week.... It's a frustrating trend.

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Forget Santa, I decided to ( Write Cthulhu )

Much-needed humor

Who needs Santa when you can write Cthulhu?

Oh Great Cthulhu!

I have been an extremely assiduous devotee this year.

In August, I sacrificed queleb to Cthulhu (500 points). In October, I wore an Elder Sign (-10 points). In July, I stopped alphadsnz_fb from defiling Lovecraft's grave (-20 points). In December, I fed johnnies_darlin to a Shoggoth (250 points). In May, I recruited queleb as a new cultist (30 points). When the stars were right, I made a burnt offering to the Dead Dreamer (100 points).

In short, I have been very good (850 points) and deserve to be promoted to High Priestess.

Your humble and obedient servant,
JanetLin

Submit your own plea to Cthulhu!

*kicks heels in laughter*

Much-needed humor

Who needs Santa when you can write Cthulhu?

Oh Great Cthulhu!

I have been an extremely assiduous devotee this year.

In August, I sacrificed queleb to Cthulhu (500 points). In October, I wore an Elder Sign (-10 points). In July, I stopped alphadsnz_fb from defiling Lovecraft's grave (-20 points). In December, I fed johnnies_darlin to a Shoggoth (250 points). In May, I recruited queleb as a new cultist (30 points). When the stars were right, I made a burnt offering to the Dead Dreamer (100 points).

In short, I have been very good (850 points) and deserve to be promoted to High Priestess.

Your humble and obedient servant,
JanetLin

Submit your own plea to Cthulhu!

*kicks heels in laughter*

In order to share the brain-warpage...

... so kindly offered by _on_a_stick: I would warn you, but that would spoil it.