Didi 5

Up to now, our hero has run entirely on normal abilities and coincidental magic, being a distraction and/or irritant to the various bad guys (demon cultists, security for a sinister occult collector, various other idiots trying to recover a world-threatening artefact) but this time out I actually had to do a thing.

So her paradigm is based on uncertainty and distraction, like magic tricks (and picking pockets, but that's totally beside the point, ahem) so I've made her good at nudging vulgar magic to vulgar without witnesses if she can't make it full-on coincidental. "I bet if you hit the door just right you can get the hinges to pop out." She mostly uses her "I'm a wiiiiitch!" shtick to scare people in the know.

Didi 4

WORSTNESS INTENSIFIES

Added much insult to various demon cultists' injuries after our Akashic friend demolished them.

I'm sure some of the still conscious were deeply chastened by my words.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween, or as I call it, Us Day.

Didi 3

Was I THE WORST some more? YES.

I distracted some guards with a technique learned from Claudia Welles involving inappropriate popsicle eating.

Possible Didi background

Thanks be unto Reuel

"How do I set an alert again?"
"Damn it, Covenmom..."

Bad Times At The El Royale

Bad Times At The El Royale was more straight-up noirish and less comedy-noirish than I'd been expecting. Although it didn't skimp on shirtless Thor.

Didi week 2

Operation: Being THE WORST continues.

On needing to summon and question a demon: "We could go down to the crossroads with a guitar and offer him your soul?"

Didi Duvall

Achievement unlocked:

Didi is indeed THE WORST.

"I'm trying to be supportive and not take off my shoe and throw it at you. Because these shoes were really expensive."

"Yes I have a poster of The Craft on my wall, what is your point?"

The Hermetic occult scholar, Ecstatic DJ, Adept hacker and Akashic warrior must be so pleased.

Being just a player for the next few months feels weird.

Introducing Didi. She is the worst.

Vital Mage: The Ascension news:

Since someone else has chosen to be all heroic, I have decided to be a terrible sidekick.

I will at some point be reacting to a plan like this.

Or this.

Maybe also like this.

Possibly even this.

I will probably give her nice moments too. Probably.

Sometimes.

Gaming this autumn...

I'm playing Mage: The Ascension.

YES I'M A HOLLOW ONE

YES I HAVE A BLACK CAT

IT IS OCTOBER

MY TIME OF POWER

BATS!

Sins & Laments

An interview with Claudia Welles, an artifact of New Bremen from 2002. Thanks to Jonathan for hosting... for over fifteen years. :D

She saves the world a lot.

The last issue of Buffy from Dark Horse Comics came out today. I'm dealing.

L.A. By Night

The V5 game L.A. By Night on Geek & Sundry started on Friday night (Saturday morning here) and went well. Having just one newly-Embraced PC was a good move. (Helped by being a proper acting freakout!)

Not sure I'll stay up till 7 a.m. for every episode live though - depends how quickly it's available to catch up.

Helped as a TV-kinda-thing by everybody looking the part, which you can't always arrange in RPGs, even LARP. If you can get a monster actor as your Nosferatu, go for it!

Candyman

Candyman
Candyman
C- okay, I'll stop that.

I'm okay with the possibility of a remake, or a reboot, or whatever, and Jordan Peele would do it well - assuming it isn't a Guillermo Del Toro situation where he's attached to eight billion things.