Profile

kyrielle: painterly drawing of a white woman with large dark-blue-framed glasses, hazel eyes, brown hair, and a suspicious lack of blemishes (Default)
Laura

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

October 7th, 2003

kyrielle: painterly drawing of a white woman with large dark-blue-framed glasses, hazel eyes, brown hair, and a suspicious lack of blemishes (Default)
Tuesday, October 7th, 2003 06:55 am
I have a strange notion of beautiful, of course. Morning started dark, and has been gradually lightening, but only in the upper sky, which turned to cyan. The lower sky and the pasture were shrouded in dark clouds and fog and the whole stayed an indeterminite mass of dark grey that looked as if a cloud bank had eaten the pasture entire, leaving nothing further away than the bushes and trees just on the far bank of the little creek.

It's lighter, now, closer to true sunrise. The sky is a band of washed-out almost-white cyan, and the upper sky a cornflower blue; between them are ripples of dark grey clouds, and below the light areas of the sky is still the thick mass of dark grey clouds (which I think will not be as dark, when it's fully light, from the texture of them) and now I can just see the tree line at the far side of the pasture as a series of black silhouettes, hazed at hte bottom two thirds with the fog that (much paler grey now) still obscures the grass of the pasture.

Good morning; is it not gorgeous?
kyrielle: Cartoon image of a brown-haired girl with a sword (character (thanks Lorna))
Tuesday, October 7th, 2003 10:25 pm
Today was stressy. The game was great, a wonderful chance to recover.

Of course, it started out solemnly, as our characters spent a day burying their fallen companion. Then they headed out. We ended up in combat twice, both times with wildlife. One was fairly minor, but one of our hunting dogs was badly wounded; the druid attempted to heal it. He succeeded eventually, but first he rolled a critical failure. Fortunately, this one was kinder than his earlier ones; he cast the spell on himself. Minor healing on yourself, much better than the last time, when he cast opposite-effect of major healing on someone else.

Then, in the second combat, he tried to cast beast soother, and again critically failed. This time he forgot the spell. (This is GURPS: spells are not memorized and then forgotten when used. They're skills. He's forgotten this one. He gets to roll every week to try to get it back, but until he succeeds on that roll, he can't cast beast soother. Unless he wants to relearn it the hard way.)

The druid has sworn not to try healing for minor wounds, is doing all his magic as ceremonial magic except when necessary (urgent in-combat spells), and is developing a serious paranoia complex. He's also started swearing....

The poor druid. And the worst part is, I keep doubling over in hysterical laughter every time he loses it a bit more.... The sad thing is that his player hasn't made it in several sessions. I'm running the character for the time being, along with mine, because the GM keeps critical failing for him and was really hoping to pass him off to others, so.... But his poor player is going to be really playing catch-up on the events in his character's life if he comes back. And we were trying to keep him to the background and just use him for healing/interventions. That doesn't work so well when he critical fails so many....