The End Of Something Awesome

[ladysprite]

This past weekend was my last time playing in Threads of Damocles, a campaign LARP that I've been part of for three years. The game was originally only intended to run for those three years, and while it's continuing on from here... this is what I wanted. I've told my stories, my character has finished her arc, and I'd rather stop here, while it's still fun and good, than let things go on to the point of burnout.

All the same, though, I am going to miss this game like fire. I know, intellectually, that there have been ups and downs, and that everything wasn't always perfect, but right now all I remember are the good bits - and that's something wonderful, and says some pretty amazing things about the campaign. I have had so many positive experiences, met so many incredible people, been part of so many cool scenes and stories, that I can't keep them all in my head at once. I had the best character, worked with the best players and the best GMs, and played in the best plots - I don't know how anything I play again will ever be quite as amazing.... and that's okay.

I'll miss the people, and the game, and the story, but right now most of all I'll miss my character. Last night, as I was taking off her necklaces and washing off her tattoos for the last time, it finally hit home. It's not fair to her to keep going - she deserves a break of her own, too - but still, she was pretty awesome. So, goodbye to...

Miryam O'Shaugnessy Laughing Fox
Daughter of Kathleen O'Shaugnessy (prostitute, Cowboy Pete's Palace of Earthly Delights) and Joseph White Crow (medicine man, Sac & Fox tribe)
Bartender, card dealer, and dowser for Maddy's Oasis
Core member of the Tribe of Three
Founder of the MacRorie Tribe, chief of the Seven Nations, and ambassador to the government of the former Midwestern United States.
Shaman of Fox, and sometimes Thunderbird, Hawk, and Gitche-Manitou
Scion of Christ, heir to the throne of DeGaulle's France, and Coffee Filter For Jesus
Godmother to Finn Thorne, who may or may not be a Mystical Child of the Morrigan
Beloved of Andrew Matthew Thorn, as much as a sociopath can love anyone, and John E. Grayer, even though it's complicated.
Friend of angels, dead pirates, voodoo priestesses, technomages, emotionally conflicted pilots, London werewolves, drug-dealing shadowmen, Mafia princesses, depressive cyborgs, temporal physics prodigies, stodgy immortals, Funfair refugees, serial-killing vampires, pompous windbags, kitsune half-breeds, diplomats, generals, and almost anyone else who would slow down enough for her to say hi.

Go. Have fun. Drink from the fountain of youth, wander the world with your lover and your tribe. And try not to wreak too much havoc in the process.

A little is okay, though.

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Coffee Filter For Jesus?

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

So Miryam tends towards creative and colorful turns of phrase.

When she and her cousins found out that they were Scions, the scion powers were explained to them by what I can best describe as extradimensional beings who didn't have much understanding of humanity, the world, or the English language - the scions had the ability to essentially exorcise demons, sometimes by taking them into themselves, but the explanation was long, unclear, and full of metaphors about filtering the evil out of the world through the power of our bloodline and containing that evil within themselves.

In an effort to sum this up for a cousin who wasn't there at the start of the explanation, I just told him that we were all, functionally, coffee filters for Jesus. The nickname stuck, much to my delight.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Yes, I can see why.

I'm now imagining the Last Supper taking place at Starbucks...

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the explanation. That phrase had me intrigued.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

That sounds like an awesome character. I can see why you enjoyed being inside her skin for so long.

[arachne8x.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had so much fun :)

[evcelt.livejournal.com]

Miryam was always a delight. Happy you enjoyed it so...