Curtain call

[jethrien]

Well, my very first campaign is all wrapped up. *sniff* Thanks to my players for not totally derailing my plot, despite their best efforts.

Comments

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I was just deconstructing with feiran and finding out where all my damn pimples were coming from.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

*whistles innocently*

Yes, for the record, I had nothing to do with your character's complexion issues. Nor did I have anything to do with her developing noticeable STD symptoms. That was all the fault of Miss Sally Longshanks, there.

Oh, and it was her botched love potion that ended up with Alec and Dr. Cooper behind a tree.

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Ah...! Now it makes sense...I just thought it was part of the bad luck we were having due to the monkey.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

The worst part is - she dosed him in Paris. But botched. However, the monkey caused the funky drink you guys drank as part of the African ceremony (which was giving you slight boosts to morale and perception for that game) to interact with the traces of the original potion to reactivate it. Of course, given Dr.Cooper's natural inclinations, he wasn't going to fall in love with Sally like she'd intended...

[feiran.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes! FYI, Sally was in love with our good doctor, at least until Alec came along...

[shnayder.livejournal.com]

/me is very confused by the above discussion. And curious. And sad that /me hasn't had a chance to role play in a while.

[fairylane.livejournal.com]

You think you're confused, when I heard "campaign" I thought it had to be workplace-related.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

What, like an ad campaign?

In any case, she's talking about a story-arc of roleplaying games that she ran over the last couple of months.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Character A (Sally, a rather ugly and uncouth village wisewoman) was lusting after Character B (Dr. Cooper, a dapper physician who, unbeknownst to almost anyone else in the party, is gay). She tried to cast a love spell on him, but botched. To her knowledge, there were no effects.

A few days later, in game time, Sally successfully ensnared Non-Player Character A (Alec, a feckless fop with the brains of a chicken). Alec got dragged along with the party as they went to Africa.

In Africa, the party picked up a bad-luck charm, a wooden monkey. They did not realize for some time that it was a bad-luck charm (since no one bothered to examine it closely). They ended up participating in a pre-raid ritual with a tribe, and drank a noxious tasting liquid. The liquid was a potion that had minor effects that boosted their morale and perception. However, under the influence of Mr. Bad Luck Monkey, the potion interacted with the remnants of the botched potion in Dr. Cooper's bloodstream.

Several hours later, Sally realized that Alec had gone missing. When searching for them, she and another party member found Alec and Dr.Cooper in a rather embarrassing situation. Because Dr.Cooper's orientation was such that he wouldn't be attracted to Sally even if she were not horribly ugly, the potion rebounded and made him fall into lust with Sally's boytoy.

Horror and bewilderment ensue. The DM chuckles evilly.