Washington, DC
"Now our Tin Man’s found his Heart, it looks like it’s almost time for our Lion to put up or shut up with the Courage..." Angie had been playing at a coffeehouse in Washington DC for a couple of weeks. She was drawing crowds, and Blind Joe was only showing up half the time. ShallonyOsman, a coffeehouse friend, said she could put Angie in touch with someone in Chicago if Angie moved on. LewisFelt approached Angie with an MP3 of JudgmentDay and said he'd been hunting Angie and Joe since Memphis. She tried to put him off with IAm rhetoric and failed. He said not to trust Joe, and gave her a card with DelilahWest's info on it; told Angie to call Delilah. His card had the alchemical symbol for gold on it. Joe tried to summon TheMan, but got RobertJohnson. Johnson called Joe a coward and said he was stealing luck from the other PCs, which wasn't a big enough betrayal to get the Man's attention. The rest of us arrived and we decided to set up another meeting with Felt. Joe chose a poolhall in the bad side of town. Black noticed that his luck drained a little after drinking with Joe. At the meeting, Felt and Joe and Reese played the question game. Felt claimed the symbol on his card stood for feces, Joe lied about why he couldn't play the blues anymore, and Felt told the story of Coronado and the Turk. Joe avoided more questions by talking about white devils and instigating a bit of a riot in the bar, assisted by Reese's bad attitude. Felt ran for it while Black had to shoot a man to get Reese and Joe out safely. He then burned a significant charge to get away from the police Angie had called. We fled the city, as per usual.Meta: Writing it out like this doesn’t really do justice to some of the neat things that I thought were going on in this session: there was a kind of symmetry between Robert Johnson’s taunting of Joe and Joe’s disgust at the pool hall patrons who wouldn’t stand up to the Man; there was also the discovery that Joe was stealing luck from Black (with his well-established fixation on loyalty to friends), contrasted with Black’s fierce determination to stick up for Joe and Reese back at the pool hall; there was also, I hope, a pretty stark contrast between the sane and cheerful world Angie had found herself at the coffeehouse and the carnage and weirdness that surrounds her chosen traveling companions like a cloud. I dunno. Is it just me seeing these things? (Possibly.) Do I spend too much time thinking about these non-existent characters? (Almost certainly.) Anyway, you guys all play really well and I just wanted to acknowledge some of the levels of what’s going on (for me at least) in these sessions... even in sessions that don’t have big time weirdness like living coal mines or giant alligators. [Rob]
- Rob: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/UnknownUSA/message/504
- Dear Brother: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/UnknownUSA/message/678
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