Weekend:

[the_eggwhite]

Friday Evening: Sabbat game
Well, I don't think I should have been allowed to stand up, let alone be left to run scenes at a game, but nobody seemed overly annoyed by my incoherency. For reference, I felt like I was quite hideously drunk despite not having touched a drop. Things went a bit pear shaped this game as we had quite a lot of people not turning up... which kind of left us a little screwed for some of our planned plot. We ended up upgrading a low-level subplot to greater significane than it deserved and bunging a bunch of stuff in on the fly... but I think we pulled it off. I think this game also had the shortest lived named character NPC with background, ideals etc. He lasted just under an hour before being torpored by a pack of wild dogs and taken away...

Saturday Daytime
Most of saturday was taken up by getting stuff ready for sunday's mage game - writing NPC briefs and the like. Of course, I say most of saturday daytime was taken up by this, but what I really mean was "Most of saturday daytime that I didn't spend watching Babylon 5 DVDs, I spent prepping for mage". I also spent a bit of time talking to various people who appeared at the house at various stages.

Saturday Evening: Cam/Anarch Game
I spent the early part of the evening milling around, chatting to people about not a great deal - getting my primogen (lawrencegillies) to badger people about the foolish security & CCTV recording arrangements. Didn't work. Looks like I'll have to resort to other methods.

Later in the game, I decided to try the "go and do something random and make the STs make stuff up on the fly" approach to getting plot. Players always used to do it to me when I was STing the game, so it's my turn, damnit! Scarily, it worked.

Post game, I went home because I was a shambling corpse, and wasn't sure how long I would even remain able to shamble properly. I was very pleasantly surprised later still when sea_cucumber turned up unexpectedly!

Sunday Morning:
Much shambling and last minute preparations for mage, followed by a bit of food + lemonade at the pub.

Sunday afternoon: mage game
The Mage game. This was immense fun! I think we broke them, with the kind of plot that I think can work exactly once with any specified group of players... It's been building for ages, and was one of the sessions that urizen & I planned right from the beginning... Many thanks to our extra NPCs barty, sebastian_oaks and Richard for a fine job, and I think that the session went very well indeed and happened at just the right time...

I am still vastly entertained at the seething clash of ideals that was taking place about the morality of the technocracy, and the way that this discussion was entirely forgotten when somebody ran in and announced that they could do vulgar magic without paradox (I'm not going to say why - there's players around...), at which point practically everybody stopped talking and did exactly that!