Camp Nerdly continued to be among the best weekends of the year!
Every game was great.
The stand out game was Jay Treat 's Starship Freeform. And the best moment was Cinnamon Bunny facilitating a wedding for the chosen of the space whales, who asked for his sex to be flipped to female to match the desires of her beloved.
Friday night, I arrived in time for an 8 o'clock pitch session. I immediately pitched The Forgotten. Despite a couple AV troubles, it went off really well. Any feedback I get in writing I'll send over to Drew.
Saturday morning, Starship Freeform. This pitch has been perfected: star trek meets firefly, with distributed GMful mechanics. Jay Treat . I'm happy to talk at any length about thoughts and suggestions.
At 1 o'clock, I pitched and played in Apportionment. This went a bit different from how I expected, as they drew a map around the world and said one government, rather than making a dividing line.
Dinner, and project blind drop! Hooray for tacos.
After dinner pitch session, I gravitated to Within My Clutches, David Berg 's game. This was one of the first games I played at Nerdly a million years ago. It has changed, but is still recognizably the same game. I got to really connect with Dave and Arnold Cassell
I helped make the fire for Witch: The Road to Lindisfarne. I love camp fires, and building lean toos is lots of fun. We burned the maps from my run of Apportionment, so there is no evidence! Muhahaha.
I missed the super late games and pitches, but I was pretty tired anyway. Hung out in the main cabin for a while, dancing from conversation to conversation. Or at least blundering.
Sunday morning (hooray for french toast!), played With Great Power, Michael Miller 's game of super heroes. This was facilitated by Patty Kirsch , and was absolutely beautiful. The villian wound up being my character's sister, stealing money to take care of our ailing mother and stealing scientist's to cure her dementia. In the end, we reformed her and combined our powers to research together.
Sunday Morning Nerdly game continues to be a positive, uplifting beat to end the weekend.
I'd come prepped to run larps for days straight. To pitch at every session. That proved completely unnecessary, as there what, 3 larps pitched every session? At least?
What's that feeling when you're ready to emphasize something that you love, only to find that the community that you adore also loves it? Peace, maybe? Contentment? Joy?
Something like that.
Which was great, as after Apportionment, I lost a lot of energy. That took more out of me than I expected.
Not really having a chore, because its a work of love the rest of the community is doing meant looking around for more work to do. :-)
I may be missing something. I feel like I am. But jeebs, that's only a half dozen games and joy and tears and wonderment. What a wonderful weekend.
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I can't wait to hear more about how they hammered out a coalition unity government. I can't imagine.
ReplyDeleteThe architect of that plan, near as I could tell, were Charles King as the despotic President who'll happily control the bureaucracy without direct authority, and Lena Marvin for the Combine, who emphasized that everyone gets a voice in a consensus democracy.
ReplyDeleteI'll let them talk for themselves. :-)
Clever Combine!
ReplyDeleteIt was great to see you man! I am proud to have helped you through the door to "too tired to think straight" with the aid of mechakinesis and energy-storing powers (somehow named after poop) and helicarrier-backed golden touches (not showers). Although I guess credit for that last one is all on you. :)
ReplyDeleteAlso very cool to hear about Apportionment! That sounds like a thing I'd like to try sometime. Hmm, actually the same is true for Starship Freeform... and Witch... and With Great Power...
ReplyDeleteDavid Berg Those powers went crazy. All I wanted was to be the first alien president of America. Is that so wrong?
ReplyDeleteApportionment is a really interesting experience! I think there is some work I want to do on it to process my experience.
There were a lot of levels to what happened in Apportionment. I managed to sway power hungry President into agreeing to a worldwide democracy via consensus from electoral districts rather than majority vote. I also facilitated a secret arms pact between the leaders of the revolutionary forces, promising them that when the time came, we would fight the alliance together. Why else do you think they agreed to that shit deal from the combine?
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, I (probably) got electoral control of two of the planet's voting districts, including the holy city of my faith and our holy sites in the other district.
And the planetary government can't force me to do anything I don't want to, because my consent is required for unanimous consensus ;)
I had a lot of fun there too, and it was great to get to play with you and hang out for so long, William.
ReplyDeleteIt was great to run into you and chat, even if we didn't get to play anything together!
ReplyDeleteJames Stuart Heck yeah, it was good to meet you.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, many years ago I used to read the okcupid data blog, and loved the looks of anger from my friends who had purity about statistics. It was delightful.
Cinnamon Bunny You may have got democratically elected mayors and governors, but you gave up control of all the resources to the planetary government.
ReplyDeleteYou also missed the part where the Combine insisted upon the complete de-militarization of the planet. Immediately after that we got an event where a whole continent seceded, and we all immediately went "This is your problem now Combine, you said so."
I for one throughly enjoyed Apportionment.
Yes. The Combine insisted on demilitarization. Of a planet full of secret rebel forces. We agreed to that. We lied ;)
ReplyDeleteI do wonder if I made the wrong choice to play the character who wanted to rule a religious theocracy in a behind the scenes sneaky way instead of as an outspoken critic and spoiler of modernist values.
ReplyDeleteI guess I'm just really fed up with obstructionist crap in real life.
ReplyDeleteOf course you lied, I'm just not sure it'll be enough to overcome the larger peacekeeping force the Combine committed to.
ReplyDeleteI didn't pick up on the sneaky-ness at all (being to busy with my own) but I don't think you forgot about being a spoiler to other factions values, you were pretty adamant about that.
And yea I agree with you about obstructionist crap in real life, hence my attempt to limit the amount of consensus. That's more prone to deadlock than letting people fillibuster.
That was basically why I insisted on it. Meta deadlock and obstructionism was on my agenda, but I wasn't up for obstructing the apportionment process itself, which is where my character sheet naturally seemed to lead.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I think Noah's character was supposed to be my religious foil and spoil my goals, but Noah is quiet and shy, which is why I was uncharacteristically attempting to be more fair to and include his character because I didn't want him to feel left out.
For Apportionment notions: https://plus.google.com/+WilliamNichols/posts/JDFaGa1qRqp
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