July 11, 2000
Boohooing
And here you thought I was going to break my streak. Ha!
Honestly though, it's been a rather bleah couple of days. I had a neat conversation with KT last night about our respective games. The stuff she's got planned for her games sounds like a lot of fun. Of course, I'm back to actively planning for mine again, as it sounds like we're playing Changeling this weekend. I got a flash of inspiration for how to tie the plots and subplots together for this next session.
And then I talked to Brand.
I finally heard details about a plot he's had in mind for a year now. He told me the entire story, or at least the main points. By the time he was finished, I was in awe, and crying. He has this amazing knack for coming up with stories that take your character, the character you've come to love and identify with on at least some level, and just shredding her, leaving only the elemental fragments of her personality, leaving you to put them back together. It sounds horrible, and it is, in a way, but it's extremely satisfying as well. The conversation went something like this:
Me: *boohooing* I hate you! You're bad!
Brand: *cackling gleefully* I am. I like making women cry. [He's done this to countless people he's GMed for, mostly females.]
Me: No, that's not what's so bad, what's bad is that you make them want you to make them cry!
Basically, he put one of my characters (Caitlin to be exact) in a position where she, the character who'd never loved anyone for most of her life, who was tough and hard and a force of nature, was dying and pleading with her killer to spare the baby she'd been protecting. The baby was the orphaned child of the only two people Caitlin had loved. How Caitlin ended up in that position is a long, long story, but that mental image was enough. I could see how she would end up in that position, could envision the scene, and that's it all took. I lost it.
I have already established that I cry at the drop of a hat, right? That and I'm Miss Hormonal this week.
All I can say, is that if you've ever cried reading a book or watching a movie, then take that experience and amplify it to the point where you can feel the main characters' emotions, and you'll understand what I'm talking about.
Posted by Lisa at July 11, 2000 11:45 PM
