Happy Hogmanay

Plans for New Year's Eve are vague and depend on the weather. These are the best kind of plans.

Christmas

Presents have been opened! Some of a book has been read! DVDs have been tested to see if they work! Soup and chicken and potatoes have been eaten! Cake has also been eaten! A movie has been watched! Family have been phoned!

(The book is Blackwood by Evan Dorkin. The DVDs are The Expanse S1 and 2. The movie was Moana getting its first TV showing.)

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays, whatever form they take.

A long quiet night

Happy winter solstice!

Game group hanging out and gift sharing achieved! Game not achieved, figured it wouldn't be.

400 posts!

Hello world.

Star Wars

The Rise Of Skywalker was pretty fun except for a couple of bits which are really important.

Red Sands: Twelve

Vampire: The Masquerade fifth edition

Red Sands

Session Twelve

Louise kicks off her heels and the fresh polish on her fingernails cracks as they start to extend.

The leader of this particular anarch gang considers.

"Okay, guys, we're new in town and they knew where to find us." Simon raises hands for calm.
"Which is interesting in itself..." Jamie notes.

The anarch leader half smiles. "Okay, well, now you've heard that sales pitch, you should come by Mission Beach, Sunday night. See a proper town meeting."

The five vampires step away, all in different directions.

Jamie hands Louise her shoes back. Louise glowers but puts them back on.

"It's nice how everybody wants to invite us to things," Jacob deadpans.

At the hotel, the shoes go back in the box and the box goes back in Jamie's room. Louise showers, takes off her wrecked nail polish, gets changed, and goes to scout out the beach. She goes looking for anarch graffiti tags indicating where to go. She finds some and makes her way to look in on the nomads, and they point the way to an old scrapyard. Nobody there right now, but she can tell it's seen use recently. And one of the pits for getting under cars to work on them has been opened up, and it smells like it's been used for fighting. And there's a clear ring around it...

Red Santas

Not really an appropriate point for a Christmas special in my V5 game. Darn it. Because it's September in-game. And also the characters have been in the city for about four nights. And we did a fancy party episode last time.

Red Sands: Eleven

Vampire: The Masquerade fifth edition

Red Sands

Session Eleven

Elizabeth makes polite inquiries about each of them, and makes sure to introduce them to other local Kindred - and also to mortals that they might find useful, as a way of showing her useful contacts and the like.

One of the local Toreador knows Jamie by reputation, and his mask of polite disinterest slips for a moment.

Jacob is introduced to the court just like the vampires, though given a chance to talk to some of the clearly in-the-know mortals and perhaps ghouls as well.

Baptiste keeps an eye on all of this.

Jamie goes out for a "smoke break", and sees another vampire watching in the coffee shop across the street.

A band plays, and Simon asks Louise to dance. "Since we got all dressed up."

She smiles bashfully and takes his hand. Elizabeth and Baptiste observe. She doesn't really notice.

But on the way back out, Jamie casually mentions that the watching vampire is following them, and so are four more.

"Isn't this what these kind of parties are supposed to prevent?" Louise growls.
"I imagine they're here to prevent these kind of parties."

The five wait for them to reach the parking lot before dropping down to surround them. All of their eyes gleam reddish in the dark.

"So. Learn anything from the queen with no crown?" the leader asks, baring his teeth.