How to play a good familiar

(or a little Bender in everyone…)

 

 

Yes, I know, been a while… I had things to do (and you know these were my two weeks off from the girlfriend – how lame are you?!?) sorry to disappoint you but I think this is how it’ll be from now on – twice per month (still more than Faygetz’s sexual encounters…) – no, don’t sigh all at once, you try maintaining such an enterprise (while studying – Faggy), I think the only one who can pull this off is bender – with all the free time he has waiting for the bus (I’m gonna get me another hotdog!) – you should consider it (and maybe even write to a gay worm magazine…).

 

 

 

Well, it was quite eventful (after all, three weeks has passed since I wrote anything that had nothing to do with data-bases or economy…) game wise was incredible (when I was there – that is, but I’ll get to that later) last time I wrote, Durtiz died (Hmmmm… nope, still good!) and we were off to some wizard and his yaser-mephit (I hear there’s a seminar on how to pick a good familiar, you should give it a try…) to our horror (and surprise) he was crazy (NO!), had a weird haircut (GET OUT!), a weirder accent (NO WAY!) and he was a PC (guess who…) – now, I must say we were always a hard bunch on the newcomers, it’s sort of a tradition to reject the covenant wannabe, but given the circumstances, one must be incredibly dumb not to think of the obvious: be sane.

That’s right, we’re good (and even beyond that) we took a bender because he was good, it’s in our nature to support those who wish to help us (or those who wish to exploit us and are good at concealing that…) nevertheless, I realized that when a certain neurotic person picks a character, he does so while considering seven things:

 

·       A quirk (compulsive strider, overly musical, etc.)

·       A shtick (modified wall of force spell, psionic bends etc.)

·       A lisp (be it Rumanian, Durtizian etc.)

·       A pic (drawing one takes from 3 to 52 weeks)

·       Some hair chic (matted blond – all over, Prodigy’s Keith – punk like – reverse mohawk etc.)

·       A sidekick (a toad, a dragon, Yaser Arafat etc.)

·       A tic (macabre, botany etc.)

 

Don’t you ever consider things like – I don’t know, say, personality?

How about some depth?

Maybe a life philosophy?

No? Ok, you just continue combing that hair of yours (just like Yoav goes to the barber to have a slasher tend to his hair so does Sergio…) a-la Yudale from Eskimo Limon…

Better yet, the goblin incident got me thinking, well, I’m sure you’d agree with this concept of Alister.

 

 

 

I was meaning to address this one some time ago, and as time passed it became obvious, I think we all (even Hadi, who is immune to most persona changes and effects – being so hadish and all…) got a little of the modron at first and now some worm…

I’ll start with myself, at first I thought everything was caused by fatigue (playing Fridays is no picnic to me…) but when I noticed I have to have a few moments with the flea colony on the couch on a regular basis, it hit me! Further inspection revealed that Yoav started changing characters, whining about the fact he has no free time (being whipped by Chen and in the working place), not to mention all the attempts to bend everything… Faygetz (Shayketz + Faggot) developed his own worm, MGM burps, chain farting and hydraulic peeing ability. Hadi escaped the worst effects (like in prismatic spray, some take more than one effect while others escape with a mere 20 damage…) he started dating relentlessly (preferring the more “mature” if you catch my drift…). None were unscathed…

 

 

 

I thought of giving it a brake, but I just remembered yet another thing about Jachnoon wonder, if there’s one thing I found myself able to do, it was to restrain myself while you hug on Faygetz for attention, that’s ok, it doesn’t mean you’re gay (although other things do point out you have some serious mazo complications…), but when things were all turned around you were so annoying – I know you’ve had you’re share of amorphia (and gliders) but still, don’t you think you went a little too far?

The whole point of the place is the conflict and making evil more complex – if you have a problem with us role playing characters who ponder about things, you can always try the couch… besides, if you’d see the movie with us you’d see how complex evil characters would be like in your world… I dare not mention the plagiarism of our characters and ideas all over the movie – guess what, no character of yours was in it…

 

 

 

        Good Idea

 

Playing a sane character.

 

     Better Idea

 

Playing a sane character without an accent.

       

     Best Idea

 

Playing a sane character without an accent whose haircut is normal and he’s familiar is a standard one.

 

    Bad Idea

 

Letting Yoav pick his own character…

 

    Worse Idea

 

Playing Alister, having a Rumanian accent, using a lawn-maw to do your hair and adopting a stuttering terrorist as a familiar…  

 

    Worst Idea

 

Bringing back Durtiz!

 

 

 

    Bad Idea

 

Going against Luna…

 

    Worse Idea

 

Going against Luna and the trees…  

 

    Worst Idea

 

Listening to Alister when you ponder about the destiny of the land and it’s people…

 

        Good Idea

 

Being a druid.

 

     Better Idea

 

Tending to trees.

       

     Best Idea

 

Feeding Alister to the trees…