I stopped because I didn't like it.
Posted on: 24 December 2008, 13:48:28
So recently I took up the incredibly nerdy hobby of participating in roleplaying games.
Mostly World of Darkness and such.
Most people use World of Darkness as an outlet for "I'M SO DARK AND DEPRESSED ANGST ANGST" etc. The group I role with tends to be more laid back and humorous, so we just have fun being vampires and such. The current game we're doing is supposed to have all the WOD characters we played in other games, but as NPCs, and we play as humans, and so far it's tons of fun. Mostly because, no matter how hard we try, it doesn't stay serious for too long. Even during fight scenes (how few of them there are). One of our games ended with everyone in a car, screaming at the the top of their lungs, driving away from werewolves, while a screaming vampire was driving, and "A Little Green Bag" played on the car stereo.
There were also Promethean squirrels.
And I vomited on some people.
Anyway, I drew the characters I have made/played as for the Story Teller, since he wanted me to draw out the campaign as a comic, which I will. Maybe. if I don't get bored/lose interest. So yeah. Here are some of the characters I made.
The first guy up there (Top left) is Abraham Zohar. Jewish/Alcoholic/Software Engineer Extraordinaire! He's who I'm playing as now. At one point in the campaign I threw up on this Irish Guy (Who i found out last night killed my best friend/sort of girlfriend) because I was so drunk. I also destroyed my nose by getting hit in the face by someone turning into a mage, the Irishman hitting me second time I threw up on him, slipping in my own vomit, and then slipping again, sober, because I was running around with Iron poker. The irishman turned into a Tiger-Man later on when I punched him in the face with iron knuckles, while he was being held down by someone else who was a cop. He slashed my throat, and by some miracle I didn't die.
The crazy looking dude is Adam Baltimore, my first WOD character. he's human as well. He's a crazy insane asylum escapee who quotes Jack the ripper for some reason and wields a kitchen knife. He ended up accidentally joining a hunter conspiracy this way in a game where we were fighting zombies. That game never continued so he appeared again in a Changeling game as the only human in it. I was never with the rest of the group, so I broke into their house, drank their milk. I felt guilty, so I went to the store and bought more milk. They had also gone to the store to replace the milk. I ended up snagging the last carton and ran away, before they could. I then apparently killed an army of vampires. My memory is hazy at that point.
Then on the bottom is my Promethean Josef. I never actually got to play as him, but the ST introduced him anyway. He was created to basically be a sex slave for an old rich woman. Prometheans have this thing called disquiet though, which drives people around them insane, and it eventually kills them. So she died, and he wanders around as some sort of child-like being who only knows how to please women. This has led to some funny moments in the game. Most people see his disguised, human looking form. What he really looks like is a gold statue with diamond eyes. Cause, you know... Women like money.
Top left there is Tyger Lam. He's a changeling. I named him that because A) I like Blake's poems and B) Changelings are supposed to have stupid kinda-gay names, since Changeling:
The Homosexual Agenda The Lost was designed for the kids who got bored of being an apathetic, angst-filled, vampire, and wished to be an apathetic, angst-filled, fairy-person. I didn't play as him yet, but I made him look as crazy as possible. He's supposed to be a loki-type trickster who likes to scare people, and throws tantrums when they aren't.
The handsome fellow next to him is my vampire character, Schreck. He's a Nosferatu that I HAVE played as, in my first PROPER game. he's a an ill-tempered guy, who lives in his cave. of course, he's furnished his cave with all the modern necessities. Think of Yogi's cave. In the campaign he was in, he had to lure a hooker away to help feed his hungry teammate. Now, he said to everyone that he would make sure the other guy didn't KILL her, everyone but that guy was hanging on to some semblance of humanity. But apparently, they didn't hear him/me, since they all went into the alley with us for the same reason. Then a changeling stole our car. It's okay, we found it later, and I bit off the changeling's fingers. (I feel like that last one you sort of had to be there)
Bottom left is my Mage character. I don't remember his proper name, since Mages have to use aliases because names hold power and yadda yadda yadda. He has a tiny monkey as his familiar, who is repelled by the color green. Then Monkey is named Hans. In order to cover up the prescience of another Mage he was hunting down, my guy convinces some dude that he killed his own sister, and got him to turn himself over to the police. It was pretty funny at the time. And then, at the end, when a paradox caused some mind blowing cthuhulu-esque monster to appear from the void, he convinced it to go back. he did this by saying "... We're not the mortals you're looking for." and waved his hand slowly. Awesome.
The last one is my werewolf character I never played as, nor do I remember his deal. his name's Jack Randall though. And he's a novelist.
Oh and that Story Teller friend is running a New Wave Requiem which is basically "Vampires in the EIGHTIES" that promises to be fun. So I drew this guy for the game.
Haven't named him or anything yet. I just know he's gonna rock out.
And then there's a whole bunch of new stuff on my Devart that if you feel like looking up, you can.
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