I'm strangely Dissatisfied with my role-playing efforts of the past twenty-four hours. Despite the fact that we role-played for a good thirteen hours, had a full retinue of nine players, including my buddies Branden and Mike, who are usually out of town, and the copious amount of prep-work I'd completed...I still feel kinda lacking. The problem was, and I kinda saw this coming ahead of time, was that we'd just ended the previous adventure with just the six-person core group. It was a big turning-point sort of ending where the PC's had just discovered a secret military base embroiled in any number of dubious, devious, conspiracy-like activities. I spent multiple hours preparing and typing up the documents they'd find, creating a history of conspiracy that reaches back thirty years. Which was all good. I'd initially planned that the next adventure would largely be wrap-up. It would give the PC's a chance to revel in their victory, sift through the papers,...
Ted leaned the BMX bike against the wall of the shed, seeing JC's bike laying splayed on the ground a few feet away. He took a moment to root around in the undergrowth of the spindly pine near-by, getting himself a stout branch about a foot and a half in length. He gave it an experimental swing. JC was too trusting with too much belief in a just universe that would preserve the well intentioned. Ted was under no such illusions. A hundred backyard brawls over the course of his six years of life had cured Ted of that dangerous optimism. He knew that behind every smiling child was a ravenous wolf looking for an excuse. He walked around the corner of the shed, and saw JC kneeling on the ground, looking at a small construction of sticks and twine. At a quick glance it looked like an attempt at making a Tee-pee for action figures, but as Ted got closer he could start to make out the knots and lashes. There was a disturbing pattern woven into the twine, and the knots evoked a gut-ch...
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