I had one of those "Ah ha!" moments yesterday. Back story, last Friday night  freakfish,  raisinbottom,  teh_cassius, and my wife Carol played Descent. I also receive an expansion for it called Road to Legend (RoL) which adds a campaign to the normal game. I read the game and love it.

I am a gamer that likes the long extended campaigns for games. I like having a character that I stick with and watch them progress and improve. One shot things are fun, but only up to a point. I got into one of those zones were all I was thinking about was RoL. That bubble was burst when I found out not all gamers are like me (what?! Impossible!!!). I had to chuckle at my stunned reaction and how deep I was in my own little world.

Anyway, Last Friday was a really fun night and I hope we can do it some more. I am not available this Friday, but maybe the next Friday, the 29th.
 

Nathaniel 10/27/01

Blink.

Ah, another night has come. What is the date again?

Blink.

4/25/09?? No that is not right.

Blink, blink

That’s right. 10/27/01. Ugh this is going to be a dreary night. Where am I? Paris? All the places simply just run together at times.

Blink.

No, I am in Asbury Park… New Jersey… Maybe Final Death would be preferable…

Blink, blink.

Why do the Princes continue to torment me with their attention? All I wish to do is live my unlife as easily as I can and that does not include being the part of Camarilla politics.

Blink.

Why the hell am I blinking? Stupid habits of the living.

Time to go down stairs. Ah, Cassius is up. He seems in his normal surly mood. So young to his death that I can almost smell the life in him. You would think he would have more fun now that he is a superior being, but so many of my kind seem to not enjoy how much better things are now. Time to brighten my day by bothering him. Some nice quips and Cassius strides faster away from me. Too easy. A few more quips and Cassius is almost running from me…. “Knock, Knock”… Great, my entertainment is now interrupted by… Another vampire… Sigh, the smell of death is even more overwhelming than usual as a vamp named Dainty, Dumby? Gah, why do my kind have to come up with pretentious names to try and bring more meaning to their life after death? He blathers something about becoming alive again and a drug. TJ,,, oh! Did she come over? Burns the substance.

Ah TJ, yet another of the Kindred that have no fun. Everything is soooo serious with her and she lives way too much in the now.

Where was I? Oh yes, TJ burns the stuff, walks outside and stares at the night sky. She claims to see a strange glow over the city. Auspex of course, but never let an amusing moment pass I say! I play dumb and the look on TJ’s face is priceless as I banter about nothing with Cassius, he may actual not know what she is doing, but it does not matter. Serious people like TJ are more fun when they are not taken seriously, because they simply become annoyed.

Well, the moment passes and the vamp lacky of Don Tony leaves at some point and it looks like the boring night is going to continue as we all pile into Cassius’ car and drive over to some psychic shop (maybe dealing with the black stuff, but that would have required me to pay attention). An eternity of listening to Cassius’ attempt at music from his car, we arrive…. And then just drive past… sheesh, how exciting… And no we stop at a sandwich shop. We go inside and the place clears out and then a wrinkled old Nosferatu comes out, and the night just gets better and better. The Nosferatu starts to whine. What is it with the Nosferatu? They are such hypocrites and self possessed martyrs. Just because their face wrinkles up they think they are suffering. Spare me the drama! We all are what we are and why go through the rest of eternity suffering? They could enjoy unlife like the rest of us, but no they would rather “suffer” and whine and complain. I have no patience for it. Finally the whining stops and I make a flip comment and the little whiner gets upset. Who knew the Nosferatu skin conditions included thin skin? He throws me out, which is all I have been wanting. I think things might be looking up, but then TJ appears in my vision and starts in at me. Blah, blah “respect” Blah, blah, blah. It never seems to end until Issac (our token Nosferatu) comes out from his one on one.

We pile back into the car and go back the psychic place. This time TJ goes in. Bored, bored, bored and then TJ turns the corner and the look on her face it priceless. She must have though the rest of us should have does something. I guess there was some point to the boredom. What a cute little pout she has.

Tj and I stop briefly at a place called Pump. Nothing worth mentioning here. NOTHING!

We go back to the house and then get in a very nice BMW and start driving again. Sigh, will the boredom never end? I was hoping to relieve some boredom at Pump, but nothing happened there, NOTHING! I finally see the lights of New York and we stop at an apartment complex. TJ had mentioned something about… blah, blah… Sabot… blah, blah. We start going up the stairs and I notice a look between Cassius and TJ. It looks a lot like the one they had when I said I wanted to go to Pump, where nothing happened, NOTHING! I steel myself for whatever they think will happen and we reach a door up some flights (like I paid attention to the stair count). They open the door and a naked female Kindred appears…. Like I have never seen a naked female??? Obviously she is someone important, your can tell by TJ’s deference. I put on charms and am satisfied by another shocked look on TJ’s face. Ha! The rest of the night is tedium, though the naked woman is more amusing than the other three…. Hrm… we seem to have lost our token Nosferatu, gee. that’s. too. bad. What was I saying? Oh yes, the naked women is more amusing that my other two companions combined.

I drift off into dormancy at morning and think I hear something later on. It is still day, so it cannot be that important…………..