elanya

I had a weird, and funny dream last night! Which is good because I otherwise slept for poop :p

I dreamed that for....reasons? We were trying to recreate this scene from a Diablotin game in real life. I don't know *why* we were doing this, whether we were doing a LARP or something. But being a dream, of course it was not something that actually happened. It was the scene where someone was murdered at Kalman's father's house. Not the time that someone was actually assassinated at his house, but a different, fictional, murder.

We, or I, was trying to get the table setting figured out. I don't think we were going to do the whole table, but we needed certain props, or else maybe his father had been dining alone in his study or something. We wanted one representative place setting, anyway!

At first we were just pulling stuff out and setting it all along the wall/railing at the top of the stairs. This was like a combination of my mom's house, House of Heathers, and maybe Xypharan's house? We were bringing stuff up from the basement though.

Eventually I declared this unsafe, and we decided to set it up in this room that basically only had a round painted wooden table - it was like if my craft table was a circle instead of a rectangle. There was also another table (I think it was a white folding table?) along one wall.

We were trying to figure out what dishes would have been used by reading old game logs and such - there was one specific scene which mentioned Kalman having soup, and we had gotten out a soup bowl before we moved to this room, but were not trying to identify it from the other dishes, which I eventually did. All the dishes were glass, and they may have been pomona? Or maybe some other kind of etched glass?

For some reason framlingem was there helping us set things up, but she had gotten out a while bunch of glass (she was sitting on the floor sorting it out) and we were like "wait why do we need all this?" And she was working from a book that was basically like a combination of different books I actually own that had descriptions of glass place settings used in colonial homes (lol no). So we had to explain that we didn't need a full setting, just whatever they would have had out for use for this particular meal, which was more for close friends, which we would be able to figure out from the logs. Also there was something about Kalman's dad having some cutesy nickname for him that wold have been okay to use in this particular company?

I remember trying to walk around pictures or posters that had been set out on the floor as part of the preparations as well, but I'm not sure what for. Also we were expecting deliver of food that was somehow related to all of this as well...

I woke up when my brain realized how silly this whole exercise was!

naryrising has declared this to be Ralf and Ander day. I am okay with this! My contribution to this worth celebration is a drabble, of course!

( Made )

Another (even) day, another drabble from naryrising :)

Meanwhile... *flails about Yuletide* Gotta start my second pinch hit tonight!

( 50% of the time... )

Another drabble from naryrising today, since no one gave me a topic! The end of the month is pretty open, so feel free to leave me a prompt of some variety: On DW|On LJ.

( Book Club )

Today, sorceror asked me about games I have run! Well technically he asked me first if I had run any, but I certainly have! I'll try to remember what happened to them all...

( GM Lannie )

Well - that got long! But here is your regularly scheduled reminder that I still have open slots! On DW|On LJ

This *is* my daily post. My tooth is still being a bit of a pain,but it is manageable. Another drabble today, but tomorrow you will get an actual factual text post!

As always, slots remain open: (On DW|On LJ)

( Girded )

It occurs to me that I could have not done this a s a drabble,but I started it late so it was probably still the smarter choice :p I definitely have more than 100 words to say about them though!

Anyway - there are still slots open! (On DW|On LJ)

( Courtin' )

So I said I would take topics or drabble prompts this month in my last post (on DW|On LJ). So far I have one prompt, for today, from naryrising. I half expect it will go on like this, with her tossing me daily drabble prompts... Feel free to prove me wrong ^-^

For now though... ( Arek and Babies - Eyes of the Innocent )

It's been a while... I've been really busy!

( Last weekend was Webercon! )

I still owe True Detective meta for the finale, but I didn't have time to do it last week, and now I think I'd like to re-watch it first.... soon!

I have talked myself into running a Murder Mystery at a mini-con thing that some of my local friends (and extended feremily) are running at the beginning of March break. I'm using a house-ruled D&D campaign setting from a game the lovely curtana has been running for some years now, the basics of which can me found over here. I wanted to do this live action, because I think it will be more fun that way. I've improvised a set of rules, based on past LARP experiences, that I think will be easy to use in this kind of setting, that preserve some of the basic flavour of the setting without being overly complex. I know that many of my friends are gamers and are interested in game creation stuff, so I thought I'd post them here to see if anyone has any comments, ideas for improvement, etc. There isn't really a leveling system, because this is for a one-shot, and characters should be pretty balanced, since I'll be pregenerating them all to facilitate the style of game I want to run.

Suggestions on what I might want to rename "House abilities" are especially welcome, as I think that would be a better name for what is currently called Special Abilities.

So.... ( Diablotin LARP system v.0.1 )

Right, time to get back to cleaning @_@