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Rosa's been roleplaying on the computer. I don't think it's a named game, just a freeform crossover something-or-other (though I'm not sure, actually). Tonight she was researching snakes of Siberia for her game (there are apparently only three species of snake in Siberia) instead of going to bed when told.

I am a horrible terrible mom because I am rather gleefully gratified that my kid is doing roleplay research instead of going to bed.
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I hit the Sleep-Dep wall at about 10:30 last night, and crashed. I left Amber Nights early. This never happens!

Yes, I am an addict. After eight Amber games in four days, I get home and what do I do? Game some more. :-)

Slept like a pile of bricks until I woke around seven to the sound of a small voice saying "Mommy! Where are you?" "I'm in my room, Rosa." "Mommy, where are you?" "In bed, Rosa, come to mommy's room." And a rather smelly toddler climbed into bed with me for a few minutes' snuggle. She got bored, and went to look out the window. "Look mommy, it snowed!" And so it had. The ground was covered with a couple of inches of wet gloppy snow. It's quickly turning to slush, now.

I still owe a report on the last three games.

Slot 6: The Doom that Came to Amber, by Bolthy. I played Llewella Marsh, silent film star, as an Opener. She made an alliance with Random Flaumel almost immediately, and cemented it with a night of sex. He had no particular preference but joined her side; they then forged an alliance with Bleys and Fiona West of the Tir na'Nogth Asylum. Everything seemed to be going along swimmingly, until Fiona turned out to have been doublecrossing us. She was a Closer. Oh well. I had a marvelous time playing cagey and trying to get information out of people without giving any away.

Slot 7: And He Called for His Fiddlers Three, by Sarah Bear. Another talky game (my favorite kind). We actually spent well over an hour on a series of conversations about philosophy and ethics: should my character Marcella destroy shadow beings to avenge her foster parents? By the end of the game she had finally taken in the fact that she was indeed nearly immortal and by the standards she'd known, more than powerful.

Slot 8: Weirmoomin, also by Sarah Bear. Absurd heights of silliness and vulgarity. I was by far the quietest person in the game, but that's alright. I laughed harder than I have in weeks, and my face ached afterwards. Yet another of my characters got laid. It seemed to be against his will, but he was pretending. He liked it that way. Oberon the submissive. It explains so much.
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Mmmm. I'm having a marvelous time at Ambercon. Staying up far too late and getting up at the very last minute before the next game, but I'm not actually all that tired. dj and I seem to have gotten most of the way to a good and comfortable place and I'm very glad about that. Someone inquired Thursday night "Are you dating?" and I could answer in the negative quite peacefully.

Right now I've got a several-hour break before my next game: this was an eight-hour slot but the game only ran four hours. I'm really glad of that, since I don't otherwise have any free slots at all.

Games so far:
dj's "The Hunt', which went very very well, surprising him I think. Despite having been in on parts of the game design, I did not know what was going to happen and enjoyed it as much as anyone. My character Merit Helgram's postgame fate isn't pretty: I think she ended up mindwiped by Oberon so completely that she lost even her name and is now known to history as Faiella. She finally got a little self-awareness back after Deirdre was born but it was only enough to let her commit suicide. This was the game in which we learned *why* Benedict has such a big chip on his shoulder, and why he has such an awareness of invisible assassins.

"Julian's Wedding", by Rain. The game in which the worst possible bloodcurse would have been "I curse you all to be straight." I played Merenue, who was very happy because she got to have sex with a cute and femmy redhead daughter of Bleys. The game was a ton of fun, but poor sweetly besotted Julian was left at the altar by his intended. It wasn't quite the carnage`that the guests were half-hoping for, but it was a good show nonetheless.

"Mementoes of Amber', by Jack G. Fun, complicated, and difficult. But we killed off the whiny brat Merlin. That is always a plus.

"What number are you?", a semi-LARP by Jack K. This one stands out for having had two Fionas, one of them me. We seemed to be on very much the same wavelength and it was highly entertaining rising to ever-greater heights of sarcasm.

''ShadowQuest", by Jeremy. I played Corwin's actor, Darren Buckingham, as the worst of William Shatner. Did almost nothing of consequence but got to be hailed as the savior of Amber anyway. Which was exactly as it should be.

Three more games to go..
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Paul asked me to play Aria tonight, because she was suddenly needed for a scene in ACW2. It had been years since I'd even seen Liss play her, but I think I did pretty well. ([livejournal.com profile] devilmuse, I'll send you the log if you like, and you can pick holes in my characterization.) Paul thinks I did a good job. ::pats self on back::

I really enjoyed playing two characters at once. Made me feel a GM-ish urge again. I must get AE:R going again. Three months of dead time is pathetic.
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Games are coming in...Black Road...our LARP is not listed. Is we or is we ain't? ;-)
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Jen came over last night to game with me. I love her so much; she makes me so happy just being around her. We have so much fun taking everything the wrong way, and commenting behind the backs of the other people we game with. We laugh together continually and seem to read each other's minds, making the same sarcastic comments at the same time.

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