tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764158821384594980.post5740246741555732463..comments2024-03-19T03:49:00.108-04:00Comments on Age of Ravens: Campaign Postmortem: Vampire (Part Two)Lowell Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02359280169506945906noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764158821384594980.post-52573262226108124752009-04-14T15:29:00.000-04:002009-04-14T15:29:00.000-04:00Erika was a semi-reclusive gamer/translator who li...Erika was a semi-reclusive gamer/translator who lived and worked out of a basement apartment. Her only real, tangible connections with humanity were her family and her online contacts. Once she was turned, Erika had to watch how the fallout affected what was left of her family, which had once been incredibly close-knit, and had already been hit by a previous tragedy. When she realized what her death had done to her father, she couldn't walk away from that. <br /><br />As a big fan of the old Mage: The Ascension mythos, I had a pretty clear idea in mind what it would mean for a character like Erika to have the universe opened up like that -- to be granted access to that magic and wonder and suddenly have it all ripped away in the space of hours. <br /><br />Those two things were what kept her from falling completely into the mindset of a true monster. She cared less about the wake they left when it affected strangers, but the realization that she had more or less destroyed her father -- and a subsequent promise he extracted from her later in the game -- bound her to what remained of her humanity.miakodahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15244398899013503966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764158821384594980.post-12725283723353301332009-04-14T14:07:00.000-04:002009-04-14T14:07:00.000-04:00Sorry--inadvertantly lopped off the last part of t...Sorry--inadvertantly lopped off the last part of the intended comment.<br /><br />Now--that's all great to say for character concept--but that loathing of vampirism wasn't "concept". Lowell built that up himself--as the only sane reaction to the experience for that character. At every early step, it was awful. That stupid song "All Kinds of Time" will never be anything but tear-inducing for me, just because of an offhand remark that the GM made. And even as we went on, got safe, figured out the landscape--it was still awful...just in a different way. We could have just ignored the wake we left, that the other vampires and supernaturals left--but if you noticed, then you cringed. Cringed deep down.<br /><br />Or I did.Auzumelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745556063535219123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764158821384594980.post-51598173846296053392009-04-14T13:58:00.000-04:002009-04-14T13:58:00.000-04:00Naomi was a civil engineer for the Red Cross. She...Naomi was a civil engineer for the Red Cross. She only went into the burning building because she noticed the response teams (city emergency) were acting wierd and that communications were broken down--and then some guy told her there was still someone in there in the basement. She KNEW it was stupid, but she was too frustrated to stand still.<br /><br />And she loathed being a vampire more than I can say. It had absolutely no cool-factor to her. Had she ever accepted that state, she would have been one awesome powerful kickass killing machine...but every death, mundane or vampire, felt like another defeat to her.Auzumelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745556063535219123noreply@blogger.com