Separation anxiety

[jethrien]

Non-rpgers, you may want to avert your eyes from the patheticness about to ensue.

So I'm about one game away from ending the first campaign I've ever run. And I find myself surprisingly reluctant to actually finish plotting it out. And I don't want it to end. There were so many subtleties that I had thought of and never really got to. Moral dilemmas I no longer have time to set up. I keep thinking of this and that and wishing I'd done it better, and oh, I could fix it if I had more time. But I really don't have any reason to drag the plot out anymore - the natural conclusion is almost here, unless the characters totally screw up (in which case, I can end the world or just make them scramble across the globe some more). But I don't want to let go...it's like sending your children to kindergarten.

Comments

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Then don't! Let it go on and on! So Yasmin can be kidnapped some more!

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

But...but...I want to run things too...

[(Anonymous)]

you've created a monster, Chuckro. I could have warned you, but of course, you didn't ask. Woe.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

See, and I was thinking exactly that of Ivy and her Yasmin...

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

As far as monsters go, I can think of much worse. She's not drinking excessively, or monopolizing the TV, or terrorizing the neighbors. And if I ever need to distract her from gaming, I can always rely on her original addiction: Anything written.

[(Anonymous)]

Ok, but if you have to resort to that, have mercy and try to provide something more edifying than the shampoo bottle directions. ...and repeat...

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

She went to the library last night, and came back with seven books. I said they'd last her a week. She poo-pooed me, but then finished one of the books before bed. We're going to need to move next year when she finishes the library.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I only said that because Ivy's supposed to bring me more crack, I mean Jedi Quest books, soon.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Can I terrorize the neighbors? Can I? Can I? Huh huh huh?

Destroy Tokyo! Smash! Ooh...books...booksbooksbooksbooks....

[(Anonymous)]

Are you going to resort to trying to sell cookies door to door during major sporting events?

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Hey, selling Girl Scout cookies early on Super Bowl Sunday was a great tactic!

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

If I let this particular plot go on much longer, it's going to be totally ridiculous. And I'm also kind of looking forward to having time to write things other than plots...