Memorable Scenes
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What were some memorable scenes you’ve had over the years? Silly, emotional, outrageously boring, frustrating beyond all reason - I dunno. All of it and more!
Give a little synopsis of what went down and then say a few words about what made it memorable for you.
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one scene I think back to a lot was my first GM’d staff response on Arx with Valenzo.
he was the captain of a ship who had been cursed in some mysterious way thad had led to him being hunted by a pack of assassin demons and also coincidentally having a demon doppelganger known as a mirrorborn. the scene involved Valenzo deliberately calling the mirrorborn, who was trying to convince him to make a bargain to release it into the world in exchange for his protection. Val only knew bits and pieces about the nature of his curse, but two key things weighed on him – the assassin demons were extremely dangerous, but mirrorborn could only sustain themselves in the world outside their realm by preying on humans. realizing that by saving his own skin he’d be putting others at risk, he ultimately refused the bargain, and the demon left in disgust – after telling him his best friend’s life was in peril.
I remember this one so fondly because not only was it a defining moment for a character I really enjoyed playing and one that informed pretty much the rest of my time with him, but the GM was just amazing. I’ll always remember one pose, which was SO sinister and gave me RL goosebumps, that she conveyed in just a few words – basically just the demon leaning forward and touching the surface of the mirror when it looked like Val might let it out – but the implications and the tension were ramped up sooo much more by everything she didn’t say. masterful stuff that still makes me grin when I think about it, and really appreciate how magical this hobby can be.
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The one where I first Impressed a dragon on PernMUSH in 1997.
The ones where @tsar and I were in jail together.
The one where @tsar burned down a bar with our characters still inside it.
The one where people just kept eating all the cannabis gummies, like you’re supposed to eat an entire bag.
The one where the combat code was broken on GH and the enemies just wouldn’t die!!!
The one where @Pyrephox HAD THE DRUGS and tased my character.
The one on the same game where we just kept running in the stairwell FOR EV ER because of how the dice were rolling.
The one where the bomb went off at the fancy party on LA2043.
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When @ham’s character died to a fucking doorknob and we came back to the apartment we had all been sharing and saw his pillow (with the Barbie pillow case, I think??) and started crying.
In that same game when that giant NPC came running into the apartment and broke through the door and straight out the wall on the opposite end
When @Pyrephox’s character punched out @KarmaBum’s and broke his nose in the middle of a dinner party and that girl was like, “okay well it’s time for the salad”
That time when my character got hitched to @Snackness’s in a bookstore after dating for like a week lol
almost all of my scenes with Mercy on LA2043, but esp the one where she taught my character to shoot guns and we got into a fistfight and it was awesome -
@bear_necessities said in Memorable Scenes:
When @ham’s character died to a fucking doorknob and we came back to the apartment we had all been sharing and saw his pillow (with the Barbie pillow case, I think??) and started crying.
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@Wizz he touched the doorknob and instantly died, it was pretty unexpected. But the big bad was behind the door so I guess that makes sense?! Anyway it was really sad.
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@bear_necessities Doors are, historically, the greatest enemy of any RPG character.
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@kalakh GarouMUSH, when an entire hive of giant hornets were corrupted and rampaging, and the only way to get them to stop was to kill the queen and smuggle out the uncorrupted queen larva, and my coward of a ragabash stealthing through the entire complex tunnel system, grabbong the queen larva and bolted like he was carrying a football and running for his life while being trailed by hornets while all the fighty types kicked ass outside of the hive.
@Herja Arx, Pretty much anything having to do with Sydney’s family, but definitely the final moments of Petraea hit me like a gutpunch, and having her lose one of the last little shreds of her family far more quickly than she expected to was absolutely gutting. The writing was on the wall that she was terminal, but having that timeline move up from ‘maybe a year or so’ to ‘this is happening today’ was just so shocking, and everything that played out in those last moments was just awesome to witness and be a part of. And really, what’s the point of having long hair if you can’t wail and scream and saw it all off in a moment of loss?
Let’s see…
PridesMUCK, finally taking revenge on the person who killed my character’s mother, only to find that vengeance was hollow and just made her feel empty and dirty.
RedwallMUCK, the entire earthquake event, rallying together with survivors to try to make sense of the disaster and plan what was going to happen next, with a bunch of people who really didn’t hang out together living in close refugee quarters, and the ensuing squabbles.
Super Robot Tensei MOO, when my taciturn, logical, and otherwise completely emotionally unavailable character was told that the former leader of the cult of personality that made her join up with the military that led to her being complicit in war crimes (yay!) was too useful to the faction she was a part of to have tried for his crimes or executed, and she just lost. Her. Shit. At the leader of said faction, snarled, cursed, cried, threw her ID badge on the ground, gathered her things, and was off the station and was off into the sunset by the end of the night.
…So, yes, I think I like my big melodramatic payoff scenes an awful lot, but I think that’s part of the joy of character dramas!
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These are both from Tenebrae back in the day:
Being in a dungeon crawl scene and having the warrior PC have a breakdown IC and OOC because “no one is searching for traps!” He ragequit and the next thing posted was a pose with a character saying, “I found a trap!”
It’s been like twenty years and the players I keep in touch with from there still reference it to this day.
The other was when my head of the thieves guild was in a territory dispute with another thieves guild that was trying to take over at the same time as the city was being raided by an outside force. I had some bad rolls and got captured and the Bad Thieves insisted that she lead them to the secret thieves guild lair in the city.
She lead them to the headquarters of the people invading the city instead and they slaughtered each other. The GM didn’t realize what I was doing until the very last second and then was like “goddamn. That was a good plan.”
Then there was one on Devilshire that I REALLY wish I had a log of, where my character interacted with a character whose mind was broken and scattered in time and he did the entire scene BACKWARDS (like started with “See you later!” and ended with “Hello!”) and I still don’t know how it worked but it was amazing and hilarious.
That time Wren and I cornered the market on Arx to make a dress with 1000 lace to model. It was so stupid but so fun. Also breaking the modeling code early on by rolling a crit during an Assembly of Peers with every high ranking noble including the king in the room. That was great. Sabella and Nik making a sketchy plan with Alessandro and Margaret just in case both marriages were nixed by their families to ensure they could still be together. Luckily all families went for both matches, but it otherwise would have been hilarious!
