That's the Spirit! Sept 1 Review Thread

[Dr. Moran]

This event was a rollercoaster for me from start to finish. I went in expecting a pretty normal event but by far this ended up being the best roleplaying experience of my life. Huge thanks to the NPCs and Shapers, particularly Ange for her pro make-up, Ivanna, and Lucy. So here goes.
 
The good:

• I actually really liked the sleeper agent possession thing. While instructions were a bit unclear at times it was fun to try and figure out what an outsider looking at your characters memories would think. Led to hilarious RP when I and another possessed complained about our meat suits.
  
• Sassing certain divine entities which really shouldn’t have been sassed. Retrospect is one hell of a thing.
  
• Pancakes and Pandora. Campbell is a champ.
  
• The reverse robbery.
  
• Saturday fae shenanigans with Akiko and the two true fae. The PC reactions to all of us lunatic possessed people were great, getting tied to the tavern and finally convincing somebody to cut me loose only to have both arms fractured by a true fae was hilarious. The physical riposte on the single, half-hearted kick that followed still makes me laugh. Also I am very proud of my amazing escape roll to get away from Ange’s suddenly-not-a-fox true fae.
  
• TREASON PICNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC
  
• Malek throughout that whole thing. Poor guy just wanted a vacation and instead he finds one of his followers possessed, has to chase her across town for vital information, then she starts acting like Lilith.
  
• Me: “Wait. I heard something.”
  Wisp, in a complete monotone. “Hhhhelp.”
  Tel: “Well nevermind that then.”
  
• The mineshaft mod. I liked the thing with the boulders, it was a bit confusing at first but once we figured it out it was hilarious to see NPCs carrying these massive beach balls towards us at high speed.
  
• I have never cried so much at game, period. Thank you to everybody who was legitimately OOG worried about me and to those who sat around while I tried to string a sentence together without making gross crying noises.
  
• Seeing some old friends from last Hallows and remembering just how my spiral of bad choices started. Oh, how far we’ve come. Thank you both so much for doing that on short notice, it was amazing.
  
• *sees Cat in chains as an NPC* "Oh fuck I thought slavery was illegal here I need to go kill these people- wait no nevermind it's the Oarhouse."
  

The not so good:

• There was a bit of a lull Saturday afternoon but really I might just not have noticed mods going out because I was sitting in the tavern trying to figure out how to Lilith.
  
• There seemed to be a lot of miscommunications amongst shapers when it came to special mechanics like possession. Some were saying it ends on bleed, others on death count, that you could get double possessed for maximum possessive fun times, etc… I know this happens but it lead to a broken telephone chain of PCs trying to figure out which was right before it got clarified.
  

That’s about it, though, otherwise it was a really quality game and y’all broke my damned heart and then stomped on the pieces. But like. In a good way?