{"id":874,"date":"2003-09-28T22:35:15","date_gmt":"2003-09-28T22:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=874"},"modified":"2003-09-28T22:35:15","modified_gmt":"2003-09-28T22:35:15","slug":"weekend-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2003\/09\/weekend-review-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend review 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Saturday:<\/b>  First half of the second session of the second story-arc in Nobilis (which of course would be designated <a title=\"chrysalis :: a nobilis campaign\" href=\"http:\/\/nobilis.bears-cave.com\/\">Session 8C<\/a>&#8230; don&#8217;t ask).  Four players who have never gamed with each other as a gestalt (or, in some cases, at all), so I&#8217;m really still working on getting the group to gel and build some momentum.  Folks are still finding their sea-legs, I think.  I hope.<br \/>\nTo aid this, I&#8217;ve hit on the simple solution of taking two fairly complicated plots (1. political wrangling over key &#8216;geographic spiritual resources&#8217; and 2. a plot to frame the familia for treason) and starting them up simultaneously while the familia is still making introductions.  Not satisfied with stopping there, I&#8217;ve also introduced a few key NPCs that should loom large in the story for some time and made notes about the far-reaching consequences of some player actions.<br \/>\nThings are coming along well, mostly: I&#8217;m a little unhappy with my own ability to keep gametime even (it *felt* about right to me, but I&#8217;m not sure if it did to everyone else), but I&#8217;m pleased with the group and the dynamics that are being introduced.  I&#8217;m looking forward to these initial plots (esp. the frame-job) concluding and where some of the loose threads might lead &#8212; also, I have some characters who are really designed to tell a strongly internal, personal story and I&#8217;m looking forward to exploring that some more.<br \/>\nFavorite bit: Jurai of the Cammora&#8217;s introduction and explaining his desire to meet everyone &#8216;just say <i>Hellooooo<\/i>.&#8217;<br \/>\nAlso&#8230; tumescence in it&#8217;s creepiest form <i>EVER<\/i>.  Bwuuahh ha haaa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday: First half of the second session of the second story-arc in Nobilis (which of course would be designated Session<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nobilis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}