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Y'know, now I've joined writing_shadows I have even less excuse for not writing my Talks-With-City Awakening fiction I've had in my head for some time now...

So, after some discussion and a few mild hijinks, or Garou pack settled on Quicksilver Fox as our totem. Now all we had to do to convince him to be our totem was do something in London that he'd find impressive.

So we're looking at style, cunning, and so on, and eventually we pulled off the following:

Went and got some special monopoly money printed off with a foxes head on it.

Got it dedicated to our Ragabash alpha dainul.

Found a poker game that was being run as a scam (it was rigged), managed to get one of the pack into the game.

While he was playing, the rest of the pack were in the Umbra. The Ragabash disabled the cameras by means of disabling the relevant spirits. At which point, the two Ahrouns (myself and pmp) drop out of the Umbra behind the guy guarding the safe and knock him out.

The Ragabash then follows through, uses sneaky Ragabash tricks to get the safe open, and swaps out the cash from the poker game (still going on) with the foxopoly money. We then peg it out, using a couple of gifts to ensure we get away clean.

The remaining pack member then proceeds to win the rigged game, despite it being rigged, whereupon the switch is discovered, and he is apologised to, and walks away with a promise of his winnings once the thieves are caught.

We then donate the money to a fund for rebuilding Camden (in the game world, it got hit by a freak sandstorm that devastated it. *twitches slgihtly as another character*).

And walk away with a new totem, and a small degree of smugness (as well as some apprehension, as we have some thoughts about the identities of those we robbed).

But hey, it was fun, and it was really nice of all the people involved who STed and NPCed to take the afternoon out to help us enact the abridged version of Ocean's 11, Garou-style :-)

I had this random thought a while back, whilst in a sillier than normal mood, and came up with a film list for my Sluagh spy/assassin/loremaster (the dream of the evil mastermind of the sort who could and would do his own dirty work).

So, without further ado, I present Nachtherr's top films:

What Dreams May Come (And Kill You)

Scream (But Quietly Please)

Nightmare on Your Street

I Know What You Did Last Summer. And Last Winter, Last Month, Yesterday, and This Morning.

Requiem For A Dream Who Poked His Nose In Somewhere He Shouldn't Have.

Anyone doing owt in London that I could be involved in? Preferably cheap/free?

ION, had fun time at ZG today. Very enojyable Garou game (and somwhat stunned Garou character). Still the sanest as my Malk in Cam.

And some git stitched up my Amenti. Time to call in a few favours...

Something else I remember from yesterday's post-Mithras diablerie scene....

My Ductus: *takes out stake and looks questioningly at me*
Me: *nods*
Ductus: *tries to stake me. Stake shatters*
Me: That was unexpected.
Ductus: *gets out second stake. Tries to stake. Stake shatters*
Packmate: *hands ductus another stake*
Ductus: *tries to stake. Stake shatters*
Me: Well, this is embarassing...

Took my Sabbat character out to a scene with his pack. We were supposed to prevent a severely weakened Mithras being diablerised, and simply destroy him.

Unfortunately, Mithras, for various reasons wanted to be diablerised. And what Mithras wants, he gets.

Good news: I diablerised Mithras, and showed that devious and sneaky wins over the direct brute force approach, even if you have loads of kewl powers.

Bad news: I diablerised Mithras. So there's a very real chance of me becoming him. Here's hoping my loads (and rising) of willpower, and Luck merit can help.

Memo to self: When the evil undead wizard you play is providing information to a bunch of fanatical goodly types, and you copy and paste this info from your downtime return prose, do remember to edit out the internal commentary regarding "those goodly fools" in future.

Hmm, I have the sudden urge to play a superhero. This has nothing to do with recent watching of the Incredibles and certain new TV series'.

Any tabletop groups with slots running something (must be viable for me to get to in London), or anyone want to start?

I know a few super systems- I'm quite partial to Aberrant. Well, the rules set, anyway, if not the background.

Gotta save money until payday next Wednesday, as, well, I have virtually none.

So it's computer games and downtimes for me, probably.

Don't forget, among other Zeitgeist things, this Saturday afternoon is Mummy!

Now back to re-imaging a few entire computer rooms...SysAdmin, away!

Well, this was the major Zeitgeist LARP weekend of the month, with four games. Possibly Of Doom. I enjoyed myself immensely, even if my Amenti character is having a near-permanent stress headache at the moment :P.

( To spare the uninterested... )