Well, technically, there aren't likely to be dice, because we're talking larps here. So, there's a larp where I have a musical character who plays the harp, which means ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mneme is trying to teach me a chord or two and a couple of string sequences, but is as like as not to be doing most of the actual harp work. And the GM is utterly thrilled that a) I can sing, b) between us, we have at least one decent harp player (i.e., mneme), and c) why yes, we're planning on actually bringing a harp. We think we can swing Clio.
So, I doubt this has spoilers, but am putting it behind tags just in case.
And then I learn that some other player has gotten back to the GM wanting to know what the heck my PC is up to on account of a song she sang in backstory. And I realize that if the GM's telling me this, it would probably be useful to sing the song in the larp. And between what we say to each other in email and what mneme and I try to do to help, and what my imagination on Silly Setting supplies, I come up with this dialogue, as if it were actually happening in a room with all of us.
Player 1: What is [Lisa's PC] Up To by doing this???
drcpunk: Is there a tune for this?
GM: Well, no, but I was thinking along these lines. [Sends link]
mneme & drcpunk: EWWWW! That tune doesn't fit!
GM: You can use a different tune. You sing! You harp! Happy GM me!
drcpunk: Great! Also, what is it with this part and then this part?
mneme: Yeah, [technical jargon] problem.
drcpunk: Er, I just meant [less technical jargon] problem.
mneme and drcpunk: WE MUST REWRITE!
Player 1: What are they plotting???
mneme: Here's a start, but I have other things I need to do.
drcpunk: Ooh, so I use your structure and the words as a skeleton and... hey! Got a draft! A whole draft you can rip to shreds and fix!
mneme: No! You keep using %*^(& Pick Ups!
drcpunk: I am using PERFECTLY FINE iambic tetrameter!
mneme: Those aren't iambs!
Player 1: What are they UP TO???
drcpunk: They ARE SO iambs! (googles) See? Iambs. IAMBS!
mneme: But you shouldn't be using iambs!
drcpunk: That is a DIFFERENT PROBLEM! These are iambs! Admit it!
mneme: Fine. They're iambs. Now, to fix it...
Player 1: AARRGH! I am surrounded by plotters!
mneme starts playing harp, improvising a tune.
drcpunk likes tune, so gets comfie and listens.
Player 1: They've gone QUIET! I am DOOOMED!
mneme and drcpunk, happily oblivious: We have conquered the FOUL SCANSION MONSTER!
drcpunk: Maybe we should reread our character sheets to see how this fits in.
mneme: Later -- let's do this one again. See if you can play this chord...
mneme is trying to teach me a chord or two and a couple of string sequences, but is as like as not to be doing most of the actual harp work. And the GM is utterly thrilled that a) I can sing, b) between us, we have at least one decent harp player (i.e., mneme), and c) why yes, we're planning on actually bringing a harp. We think we can swing Clio.So, I doubt this has spoilers, but am putting it behind tags just in case.
And then I learn that some other player has gotten back to the GM wanting to know what the heck my PC is up to on account of a song she sang in backstory. And I realize that if the GM's telling me this, it would probably be useful to sing the song in the larp. And between what we say to each other in email and what mneme and I try to do to help, and what my imagination on Silly Setting supplies, I come up with this dialogue, as if it were actually happening in a room with all of us.
Player 1: What is [Lisa's PC] Up To by doing this???
drcpunk: Is there a tune for this?
GM: Well, no, but I was thinking along these lines. [Sends link]
mneme & drcpunk: EWWWW! That tune doesn't fit!
GM: You can use a different tune. You sing! You harp! Happy GM me!
drcpunk: Great! Also, what is it with this part and then this part?
mneme: Yeah, [technical jargon] problem.
drcpunk: Er, I just meant [less technical jargon] problem.
mneme and drcpunk: WE MUST REWRITE!
Player 1: What are they plotting???
mneme: Here's a start, but I have other things I need to do.
drcpunk: Ooh, so I use your structure and the words as a skeleton and... hey! Got a draft! A whole draft you can rip to shreds and fix!
mneme: No! You keep using %*^(& Pick Ups!
drcpunk: I am using PERFECTLY FINE iambic tetrameter!
mneme: Those aren't iambs!
Player 1: What are they UP TO???
drcpunk: They ARE SO iambs! (googles) See? Iambs. IAMBS!
mneme: But you shouldn't be using iambs!
drcpunk: That is a DIFFERENT PROBLEM! These are iambs! Admit it!
mneme: Fine. They're iambs. Now, to fix it...
Player 1: AARRGH! I am surrounded by plotters!
mneme starts playing harp, improvising a tune.
drcpunk likes tune, so gets comfie and listens.
Player 1: They've gone QUIET! I am DOOOMED!
mneme and drcpunk, happily oblivious: We have conquered the FOUL SCANSION MONSTER!
drcpunk: Maybe we should reread our character sheets to see how this fits in.
mneme: Later -- let's do this one again. See if you can play this chord...