Taking Advantage, In Game
Doug’s once-a-month game on Saturday was a great opportunity for character development…and my character, twelve-year-old Celia, is developing into quite the little sociopath. She’s made a very smooth adjustment from life to unlife, and even said “I like other people better now that I know what they’re for” [food].
One of the side effects of having everyone a little (or more than a little) afraid of her is that she can get simple requests fulfilled with amazing ease. She hasn’t quite figured this out on a conscious level yet, but I doubt it’ll take long for her to start taking advantage. This is how we ended up at the zoo in the middle of the night. After a brief “discussion” about the relative merits of the plan (”Why do you want to see a polar bear?” “Because I’ve never seen a real f$#@ing polar bear and I want to!”) we ended up in front of the enclosure. When we got there, the bear was asleep. One of the other characters couldn’t let sleeping bears lie, and decided to try out her vampiric mind-control powers on it. Next thing we know, several hundred pounds of polar bear is doing its best to escape the enclosure. Everyone else hastily backed up. Celia watched for a few minutes and said “Cool. Can we get ice cream?”
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