[Sorcerer] More Evil Is More Morally Taxing?
Callan S.:
Hi,
I kinda wonder if she didn't melt down because of being risk adverse, but because her character wasn't really interested in the events portrayed? Yet she felt as if (not necessarily a correct feeling) she had to interact with them? I'm almost kinda reading her demon seducing her into vampirism, in her kicker. A very one on one, intimate adversity. Does she read twilight or stuff like that? Obviously I don't know without asking her - but a female owning a male vampire? Sexual (eroticised vampirism) tension ahoy, it seems to scream! But then what comes up in play is this whole other thing where two people are fighting over a scroll and she's like "What?", perhaps? Probably worth asking her.
jburneko:
Callan,
That's probably a big part of it and partially what I think Ron was getting at in his original post. I needed a way to "link up" the elements on the two character sheets. The crime stuff come's from Rand's character sheet and Bavmorda and the scroll comes from Morena's character sheet. But I probably should have linked up Zenov and his agenda in some more interesting way than I did.
I tried playing Zenov as the seductive Vampire lover in the beginning and Morena ran from it, pretty hard-core. She went looking for Zenov's former lover and found her... in Ivan's captivity. That's a pretty standard bang right there. I mean Bavmorda could have been in ANY kind of bad situation, it just happened to be the one on the other player's character sheet.
I"m not saying I laid out the scenario flawlessly because this thread is being very useful in making me think that I didn't. But there's not caring and then there's finding elements you do care about in unexpected situations and deciding they're no longer worth the effort. (And I'm not talking about the character. If Morena wants to leave Bavmorda to her fate, that's fine but the player seemed personally distressed by the whole thing).
Jesse
Noclue:
Quote from: jburneko on July 21, 2009, 01:44:07 PM
There is almost a certain underlying personality trait required to play Sorcerer at all. If a player can not imagine circumstances *for themselves* that they would summon a demon were such things possible then they are going to have a hard time understanding the moral dynamics of the game.
Yes. You're playing Sorcerer with Dogs in the Vineyard Players.
jburneko:
Quote from: Noclue on July 21, 2009, 04:03:14 PM
Yes. You're playing Sorcerer with Dogs in the Vineyard Players.
Ha Ha Ha. Perhaps. But then you run into the naive assumption that Religion = Oppression.
Jesse
Callan S.:
Quote from: jburneko on July 21, 2009, 03:46:58 PM
I tried playing Zenov as the seductive Vampire lover in the beginning and Morena ran from it, pretty hard-core. She went looking for Zenov's former lover and found her...
Hmmm, why was she interested in who and where Zenov's former lover was? That's what I'd be curious about in play (after having read all this at my own pace and contemplated it, rather than in the heat of play, I'll totally grant). She hasn't ignored it/ran away from it entirely - she's just pursued this particular angle...indeed, it tickles my curiosity right now!?
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