[Breaking the Ice] Post GenCon indie love

[GreatWolf]

Indie love<Steal Away Jordan, Breaking the Ice, Shock:, and Sign in Stranger.  So, on Monday, she and I decided to relax a bit and play a game of Breaking the Ice.

As an aside, do I get an award for the first GenCon attendee to have post GenCon play?

 Indie love<<Meet the Parents<claimed<other<Breaking the Ice<Breaking the Ice

[GreatWolf]

The First Date, or Smoothies and Soul Food<Dirty Secrets

[Emily Care]

Dear Seth,

The Spill is such a perfect screwball comedy move.  I loved how the drug dealer character opened up for you once the word web got rolling. "Home business", wow. Those threads of connection...

Looking forward to the rest. Thanks for playing my game! Hope you both had a good time.

best,
Emily

[Ron Edwards]

Hi Seth,

Sigh ... one of these days, you will play a game that does not include crime, moral failure, questions about God, doubt and hope regarding one's country, shocking violence, or traumatic sexuality.

Either it will be a great day, or the time/space continuum will hiccup and we will all have to do existence over as dull-ish lava lizards.

Best, Ron

[GreatWolf]

Hi Seth,

Sigh ... one of these days, you will play a game that does not include crime, moral failure, questions about God, doubt and hope regarding one's country, shocking violence, or traumatic sexuality.

Either it will be a great day, or the time/space continuum will hiccup and we will all have to do existence over as dull-ish lava lizards.

I actually laughed out loud over here when reading this.

That day actually did happen at GenCon when I played Sons of Liberty, but I fell back into my poor habits upon getting home.

Seriously, though, I plan on addressing this at the end of the writeup, which I will now proceed to work on some more.

[GreatWolf]

The Second Date, or Gardens and Gazing<Compatibility:  appreciate beauty<Compatibility:  enjoy solitude< Compatibility: lonely

[GreatWolf]

The Third Date, or Trials and Tribulations<Compatibility:  Family is hard<Compatibility:  Job struggles<Compatibility:  Us against the world<Aftermath and Coda

In the final analysis, we had 6 Attraction and 6 Compatibilities.  A happy ending for us!  Yay!  So we answered the three questions.

Do they stay together after the third Date?

Absolutely.

When did your character fall in love with the other?<What are the long-term chances for this relationship?<Next post, I'll talk about our post-game reflections and our thoughts on the game.

[Ron Edwards]

Wow.

I was thinking of referring to you in the future as Seth "I play black people" Ben Ezra, as a kind of humorous and defiant provocation to gamer culture which cannot typically accept such actions except when stereotyped, but then decided it would ultimately devalue the point.

It's just a great story. I think, especially, that the decision about the restaurant is the part that touches me most deeply.

Best, Ron

[GreatWolf]

Post-game reflections, or How Meg Ryan saved our story <Breaking the Ice<said he would change.  But, instead, he remains the same loser that he was before.  Increasingly, things become worse and worse for the woman, but she stays, because he keeps promising that next time<System stuff<Final Thoughts