@Solstice said in Memorable Scenes:
@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.
I have the log of this posted, lol The world’s deadliest werewolf relay race.
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.
This is 100% my pick for RedwallMUCK too, particularly the winter. It was just an incredible amount of really fun RP that tumbled into an organic storyline that lasted for, uh. A few years, I think.
I’ve also used it as an example for when sometimes it’s really good to shake up the status quo of a game by just pulling the rug out from under it. Not always, not often, but when it works, it works really well.
I thought I had some specific ones for both GarouMUSH and Arx, but sitting and thinking about it, it’s hard to settle on just a few. I really enjoyed the character arc of what turned out to be my longest played character on GarouMUSH, a permanently base strength newly minted fostern Glass Walker metis who showed up in town answering the werewolf equivalent of a help wanted ad, discovered she was somehow the highest ranking person there, and was then told in no uncertain terms that if she was staying she was leading. Thus a wild, decade long rollercoaster where she effectively pig-headed her way from ‘bad at being elder of this crazy tribe’ to ‘not so bad at being elder of this crazy tribe’. When I put in a request for a Willpower learn, all I provided as a reason was ‘Is Glass Walker Elder’. I was told there could be no better justification.
I cannot possibly choose even a small number of stand out scenes from Arx, I had more fun RPing on that game than I have anywhere else. So I’m going with character arc again. Shard started as a mouthy, bitter little shit obsessed with getting revenge who hated every last little thing about Arx and the Compact. She was only a sellsword because she followed Audric, and she hated that too. I figured she was probably also going to follow Audric right into Team Evil as a means to an end, and thaaat…is not what happened. Instead she tripped from the wrong crowd into the right crowd when Audric told her to go ask Aleksei and/or Aislin about her mystery talisman.
Mouthy bitter murdering secret werewolf thief who wanted nothing to do with anyone ended up a reluctantly-royal werewolf leading the Red Wardens, who didn’t necessarily like most people but who was pretty dedicated to protecting them. I mean, she also kicked off the end of the world, so her definition of protecting people might not always align with everyone else’s.
