I am NOT Rebecca

I am writing this post, so that I can just link to it whenever somebody thinks I'm someone else (at least, one specific someone else). A few minutes spent now will save hours over time...

I am Rolfe B Bergstrom, NOT Rebecca S Borgstrom.

Rebecca Sean Borgstrom authored the Nobilis RPG, which is a very good game and a beautiful book. She penned it under the name R. Sean Borgstrom, which I presume she did to mask her gender on the covers of her earliest books in the largely male-dominated gaming industry. That's just a guess, though, as I've never met her. Could be she just really likes her middle name. In any event, her name appears frequently as R. S. Borgstrom, and shows up in enough different variants that some fans don't memorize her exact name.

It turns out she's also written some books for White Wolf in their Exalted game line. Exalted is the spiritual (well, at least mechanical) ancestor of Scion.

I've been posting on the Scion Forums and Wiki in the past few months. And I set up my account as r_b_bergstrom, to match my email, my blogs, several work-related accounts, etc. I had no idea Rebecca had written anything for WWP at the time I created my white-wolf account. Not that I'd automatically have done otherwise if I'd known - my name is my name, after all.

(As an aside: See the angry dude on the phone with the nasty scar on his shoulder? That's me. I hope, for her sake, that Rebecca looks nothing like me.)

As a result of this quasi-homonymic similarity, people keep calling me Rebecca when they respond to my posts on those forums, no matter how often I correct them. The last time I had this many feminine pronouns aimed at me was a Halloween party in '91.

I've even received a few posts and private messages from people who wanted to say something along the lines of "it means so much to me that a writer as talented as yourself liked my house rule" or "I've been a fan of your work for years" and chances are that few (if any) of them were referring to my little part of a book from Atlas Games or my old Amber pages from back in the day. And when I reply and shatter their misconception, I'm always worried that I come off as insult -ed/-ing.

Changing my profiles to list more data about me didn't help, as it turns out we both live in Seattle, and were born within 24 hours of each other. (Thanks to wikipedia for enlightening me about the parallels.) You'd think Gender would be enough, but people apparently see only what they want.

While the main point of this post is to end confusion, the secondary goal is to serve as multiple apologies.

Rebecca, if you are aware of any of this (which seems unlikely, but ya never know) I hope you find the situation mildly amusing, and don't think it's been in anyway intentional on my part. If you are aware of it, and it has vexed you, I'm sorry. I promise I've done nothing to promote this case of mistaken identities, and should our paths ever cross I hope you'll share a laugh with me about it instead of telling me to go somewhere unpleasant.

I'd also like to apologize to those who feel confused or misled. You're not alone in making this error, so don't feel too embarrassed. I'm certainly not insulted by your mistakes - 'cause frankly Nobilis rocks and I wish I had something that cool amongst my authorial credits.

And I'll try not to giggle the next time this happens. Instead, I'll just refer you to this post.

Arrival in Versielles

Straight from my prep notes for my Continuum Campaign, raw and unaltered: (though I added a classical portrait of Joan so it wouldn't be such a daunting wall of text)

1643 AD - September 8th at 12:00 noon - France - Piscean -
La Tour Jetee, Foxhorn Corner in a Castle. This the Hunting Lodge of Versielles. Playlist: 7th Sea Courtly

When you arrive: Kail has been here before, the small library in a European castle where Dale brought you when he was shot. The books on the shelves are less faded and aged now.

A variety of masks and odd accessories are hanging about the room, as though a pack of people had just undressed from a costume ball.

A young lady, perhaps 18 or 19 years old, is in the room. She is dressed as you would expect of a MALE servant.

Izzies courtsies to her, the girl bows as befits her odd attire.
“I am told we become close friends,” says the girl.
“Your older self is a mentor to my younger,” replies Izzy.

And that’s when Izzy introduces you all to the Maid of Orleans, Jeanne D’Arc.

Louis XIV is king, but he’s only 5 years old. His mother is Anne of Austria. 1st Minister is Cardinal Mazarin. We’ll be at the Hunting Lodge of Versielles, so it’s doubtful we’ll meet any of them.
Coffee drinking has recently become popular in Paris. Parcel post established in France. Things are just starting to feel modern in many ways.
However, nightgowns have not been introduced yet, and clothing in general is uncomfortable. We are at the transition between Cavalier and Baroque styles. Everything is layered, heavy satin and velvet with lace trim. Beautiful to behold, but a burden to wear. Louis XIV will be eventually known as the Sun King. In a matter of years this lodge will become the most impressive palace in Europe, and the center of Western Fashion.

“If you run into Dale, he probably hasn’t met you yet. We should be early enough to avoid him, but I know he spends a lot of time here in another decade or so. It is imperative he not meet me yet. He and I have a scandalous affair in the 1660’s here. We both thought the other to be levellers, and the Midwives have ordered us to have zero interaction. To be clear, if you mention me to him, it will frag us both. Your interactions in this matter will be considered when I vote on whether or not you ascend to Span 2.”

Jeanne D’Arc adds: “Galileo’s trial by Inquisition was just 10 years ago, so try not to appear as witches or sorcerors. Trust me, you don’t wish to battle the church. I know this from personal experience 200 down.”

Natural Selection

Back in the 80's and early 90's, especially when I was growing up in rural areas, gamers were few in number. So few, that we'd all game with anyone who was willing. It didn't matter how odious they or their habits were, or how much you hated their personal politics. When there's 4 gamers within a 20 mile radius of you, you can't afford to be picky.

Nowadays, I don't put up with that stuff. And, unless you're out in the boondocks, no one else has to either. Gamers are everywhere. Game stores are everywhere. Now we get to be elitist snobs if we want to. And I find my standards go up with every campaign.

(And if you haven't figured out the secret to finding gamers in your area, it's this - hang out at game stores. Find out what days they get new products in, and kill a few hours there and then.)

Blessed Internet

Would you believe that I was just contacted by Brendan Riley?
Who?
You didn't know that he was an old friend I used to game with?
When was that?
Did you even know me back when I was managing the movie theatre?
Was that in Minnesota?
Does the State really matter?
Well how'd he find you then?
How should I know?
Weren't you the one telling the story?
Are you suggesting I should have done more research before posting this?
Aren't you at least going to share what games you used to play with him?
Do you remember how much I loved Warhammer 40k back then?
Why should I?
Don't you think a true friend would keep that in mind?
Are you accusing me of something?
No - I mean - why should I?
Statement. Or repetition. Either way, it's 15-love.
Where were we?
Well what else did you play together in those days?
The Question Game, and sometimes Kevin Bacon.
Statement again. 30-love. Game point. Your serve.
Would you quit that?
Does that mean you have something against Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

Travel Itinerary for Corner L336

In Phase II of my Continuum campaign, the player-characters were to travel down the length of history. The intention had never really been to make the game a long-term campaign (though, since they enjoyed it, that's what it became). Rather, my goal was to try out the system (and more importantly the setting), see what it can do, and then go on to something else (as in a new campaign in a different RPG).

So after a couple months, I decided to move into an end-game that would show the players all the other, cooler, potentials to the game, above and beyond messing with one's immediate future and past. That meant History, Antedesertium, Crashers, the Fraternities, The Hunt of the Sun, Aliens, Inheritance, Atlantis. The entire Kit followed by the Kaboodle, all crunched into one rapid-fire time-trip. And so, Izzy (aka the Countess Isabela Vasquez) told the PCs to pack lightly as she gave them the following itinerary...

Travel Itinerary for Corner 336
Departing 6/3/2006 - USA - Piscean/Aquarian Cusp

6/3/2106 - Noon - USA - Piscean - Physician - Rochester Clinic

9/8/1643 - Noon - France - Piscean - Foxhorn - La Tour Jetee

9/8/751 - Noon - France - Piscean - Mentor Corner - Soigne Demasque

5/12/751 - Noon - France - Piscean - Mentor Corner - Soigne Demasque

5/12/-249 - 8am - Rome - Ariesian - Physician - Aedes Saluto.

5/12/-1248 - Noon - Illium - Midwife - Ariesian - Groeg Ydy Abar A Ognise Bod 'n Lladdedig Ail A Ail

5/12/-2244 - Noon - Norwegian Mountains - Tauran - Engineer Corner - Solfjellhytte

3/20/-3241 - 06:32 - Sumeria - Tauran - Dreamer Corner - The Womb - En Hakana, Travel Agent

3/20/-4238 - Noon - Pacific Northwest - Geminid - Quicker - Snomalshee Lodge

3/20/-5236 - Noon - Baltic - Geminid - Mentor Corner - Vadistokli Arkun

3/20/-6231 - 20:00 - France - Cancerean - Engineers - The French Resistance

5/22/-5582 - Noon - Africa - Geminid - The high cliffs of memory, overlooking Atlantis

Miss a session, and you'd miss an entire historical era.

My Dear Baron...

I have been recently named "Baron of All Nomiblog" by my fellow participants over at playnomiblog.blogspot.com, and so I've begun posting in-character. As Baron, I'm being most snooty, "ande I doth speaketh like yon faux Middle-English-er".

But hauling around this title of Baron just reminds me of the Munchausen RPG. There's another one I really enjoyed but haven't played in forever. Not since 4th of July in 2001, I believe. It's more of a story-telling party game than an RPG. It has more in common with Once Upon A Time, Nanofictionary and The Rocky and Bullwinkle Role-Playing Party Game than it does with D&D or Scion.


"My dear Baron, would you please tell us about the time that you, whilst armed with nothing but a 2-day old halibut and a half-empty jar of goat's milk, defeated the entirety of the Spanish Armada and the Mongolian Hordes simultaneously?"

Proclamation of Diswelcome

I had a situation. My PCs were being shuttled through an area by their mentor, on their way to a major plot point. En route, a couple of them had chosen to pick a fight with two very powerful NPCs. Proper in-character response would have killed the entire PC group instantly. Faster than instantly. While they certainly deserved that, it would have ruined my planned storyline, and abruptly ended the campaign. So, I chose to get creative instead....

Proclamation of Diswelcome

Petitioner: Jeanne D’Arc, Mentor to the Corner known as La Tour Jetee, residing in the area of Societal Spacetime recognized as France, during the years of Our Lord numbered 1555 to 1720.

Respondants: The Span 1 members of the corner known as Lab 336, originally located in the State of California, the Society of the United States of America, on the cusp of the Piscean and Aquarian.
Specifically, this proclamation extends to the individuals known to the Petitioner as:
Aaron Northbridge
Calvin Eckhardt III
Elizabeth (last name is included on the document, the PCs last name is unknown to the GM, but surely known to the Continuum)
Emily Moore
Lee Roberts Benjamin
Pamela Turner
Most Especially*: Kail “Supercress” McCrest
Most Especially*: Kelly Hanlan

Position: The Petitioner and her Corner maintain they have been slighted and affronted by the Respondants. They express that the Respondants are Poor Guests, having come to La Tour Jetee as friends, and having returned said hospitality with flagrant public violations of the 1st, 3rd and 4th Maxims of the Continuum within the time and territory of La Tour Jetee.
Be it clear that under normal circumstances, the Petitioner and her corner would have struck back with lethal or paradoxical force, and, under common interpretation of the Declarations of the 5th Council, would be entirely within their rights to frag the offending party out of existence. Several of Petitioners students, colleagues and charges experienced first-stage fragmentation resulting from the public As/As Not. Be it known that the Petitioner is also a yetted General in the war between Atlantis and Antedessertium, so such secondary strikes would likely be entirely one-sided distributions of justice.

Mitigating Circumstance: There is every reason to believe that the Comte de St. Germaine, suspected narcissicist and known sympathizer to the cause of Antedessertium, was present in Geminid disclosure at the time and space of the offense. History records that St. Germaine does not engage in war with the Continuum or Atlantis during the Piscean era, but his presence at this incident may be sign of covert manipulation intended to cause civil disrest between the Petitioner and Respondants. For this reason, and because of a Yetted appeal at the 23 council, Mercy is granted to the respondants. At least one of them has to live to Atlantis.

Exile: The respondants are declared Diswelcome, and banned entirely from the Petitioners Corner of Note, with the exception of the documented time when said offense was and shall be committed. This ban extends throughout the entirety of La Tour Jetee, being the area recognized as France, during the years of Our Lord numbered 1555 to 1720. The sole exception being from 9/8/1643, 11:59 to 9/9/1643 04:15, the Date of Violation resulting in Proclamation. Additional complication will be frowned upon. Willful violation of this proclamation shall be deemed as dishospitable and contemptuous, a probable act of Corner War, and a violation of the 2nd and 3rd Maxims with likely Narcissicistic intent.

*Additional Proclamation: Further, it is requested that punitive sanctions be leveled against the two prime violators involved, namely the Respondants Kelly Hanlan and Kail “Supercress” McCrest. The Petitioner requests that these two be rendered Graceless within all of Societal Spacetime until such Age as they attain Span Two or experience Second Death.

Respondant’s Options: This proclamation was and will be filed before the 16th Atlantean Council. It is recognized the Respondant’s have and shall appeal before the 23rd Atlantean Council. Further Information may be available There, but it is not Here.

I handed that document to the PC's lawyer (Lee Roberts Benjamin, as portrayed by Rob Daley) and told him to put the Appeal in his Yet.

I should mention also that "Graceless" has a mechanical meaning that Continuum players (and characters) will be familiar with. Effectively, this made them 10% less likely to succeed at every single die roll they made for the rest of the campaign, instead of needing to tie the difficulty of task rolls, they now had to beat it.

Hindsight is 20/20 and Amber-ranked

Counting off the top of my head, I've run 5 Amber Campaigns and 1 Amber-Everway CrossOver Campaign (and 5 one-shot ThroneWars) since first being exposed to the game in '92. Campaign #2 of 6 was pretty much the best campaign I've ever been involved in, or even heard of - and, with 5 years of gamestore retail under my belt, I've heard the details of more campaigns than you can shake a big glass dice cabinet at! That one had intense long-term plotlines, intricate mysteries, and character-development that transformed how individuals approached familial relationships in the real world.

Interestingly enough, the two most recent of those 6 Amber-related campaigns were the weakest. I've run excellent campaigns on either side of them, so I'm not sure why I'm having the issues I've been hitting recently. Perhaps I'm all-Ambered-out?

The Amber Campaign I ran in Albuquerque in early- to mid- 2007 was a major let-down after the Continuum campaign that went before it, and in hind-sight not at all the style of game I should have run just before moving away from that group of friends. I also did a very bad job of controlling the pacing. It was intended as a 6-session mini-campaign, but bogged down into 13 or 14 sessions and never wrapped up the major plot point. But, apparently it wasn't all bad, all the time. What Silence posted this list of memorable quotes from the game. Follow that link to read a few of the better moments.

In more upbeat news, all the throne wars have been immensely enjoyable, including 3 that had a dozen or more players. (If I recall correctly, participation was 12, 17 and 24 players at those three events, with 1, 3 and 4-and-a-half GMs respectively, myself being Head GM each time) I handled the crowd control and pacing elements just great those times.

I'd planned on running another large Throne War at the store before I moved, but I was so burned out from beating my head against that campaign (and in denial about moving until it was too late) that I just missed the opportunity. I really regret that. I was the biggest fish in Albuquerque's very small pond - here in Seattle, I have yet to establish myself outside a very select (and thus: small) group of friends.

Key to Continuum Campaign Notes

This will help you figure out who's who and what's happening in the other post. Consider this a Key to that post.

Those events are listed in level chronological order, covering the spans in 2005 and 2006, but mostly in the contested month of May, 2005. It may be hard to understand what's happening unless you bear in mind that sometimes the cause of something takes place at a later date than the event it caused. That's what happens when every PC can time-travel at will.

Guide to characters in my Continuum Campaign -

PCs Corner aka Lab 336 aka The Short-Bus Spanners:
Dale Dubois - NPC - PC's mentor - Span 3, but not terribly worthy, engaged in a long-running time combat with Brock that's keeping him from helping as much as he'd like with the PCs.
Pam - PC - Played by Sarah Bergstrom. Child prodigy. Nerd. Math-wiz. Unfortunate birth-mark.
Kelly - PC - Played by Liam Rapson. Ex-marine. Screw up. Flashbang! His Yet is a mess. He may be a Narcissist. The best unintentional villain ever. Liam, take a bow.
Elizabeth - PC - Played by Kristie Rice - Campus cop. Was police, but burned out over disturbing case.
Aaron Northbridge - PC - Played by Jeremy Rice - Art Professor. Chai Addict. Experiments with Drugs.
Lee - PC - Played by Rob Daley - Law Professor. Elderly southern gentleman. Think Matlock.
Emily - PC - Played by Amy Smith - Jock. Newest spanner in group, doesn't understand what's happening.
Kail - PC - Played by Kevin Smith - Slacker. Rocker. Secretly a murderer.
Calvin - PC - Played by Eddie Dethlefs - Narcoleptic. Cricket Player.
Shaun - NPC - Jock. Screw up. Member of PCs corner. Major plot device.

Major NPCs -
ProfG/E - NPC - Minor Villain - Narcissist, but incompetant - Being used by Brock - Math professor at the college. Had two names in campaign, one from when he fought Hitler, the other from when he hid from Continuum after killing Hitler. So, in one sense he's a good guy, and the Continuum is evil. He's now mostly hiding out, but runs afoul of the PCs when Kelly blows it trying to find out if he's a time-traveller.
Roger - NPC - Span 3+ - Investigating ProfG/E, Brock and Dale. Needs to know who the real villain is.
Brock - NPC - Real Villain - Next to zero screen time in Phase I - Real sicko - Using ProfG/E - Engaged in multi-century time combat with Dale
Izzy, aka Countess Isabella - NPC - PCs new mentor after Dale screws up. She's a Span 4, and acts quickly and decisively. She becomes instrumental in Phase II.

Minor NPCs and red-herrings:
Lana - NPC - Leveler - Grad student. Unaware her mentor (ProfG/E) can time-travel. She has a large role, but is mostly a red herring, and opportunity for Kelly to fail.
ProfG/E's TA - NPC - Leveler - Tool of ProfG/E. Teacher's Aide. Does his grading, unaware Prof is a villain.
Jennifer - NPC - Minor character. Friend of Emily. Tool of PCs for a scene or two.
Homeless Man - NPC - Poor drug-adled crazy man who keeps almost witnessing Spanning.
Pam's HighSchool Nemesis - NPC - Never occurs on-screen, but did horrible things to Pam the previous year that motivate certain actions.

Locations:
L336 - Location - Restricted Access Laboratory that is PCs "Corner" or HQ. Whenever a scene is here, it includes all of the PCs corner (Dale, Shaun, + all PCs) unless otherwise specified.
Lab 337 - Location - Restricted Access Laboratory that is Brock's HQ - Junior (white-period) PCs are there, being experimented on by Brock. He's the one who taught them to Span, but most have Yet of being good spanners (Kelly's just a screw up). Nuclear isotopes and EM fields prevent spanning in.
Rochester Clinic - Corner in Aquarian Age that Izzy takes PCs to in an effort to get them away from Brock's influence. This starts Phase II.

Astute observers will note: Parts of this plot were taken from a scenario synopsis in the main Continuum RPG, but then fit into a larger more sinister context. To make it worse, that's a Span II scenario, and I threw it at newbies. I also played with an twisted subtheme of Continuum - the "good guys" are often immoral an unethical, but they survive to write the history books. Dirty, rotten, bastard GM. Phase II was even more ambitious, but I'll have to post it some other time...

I expect a lot from my players, and they did not disappoint. Kudos and applause to everyone who played.

Continuum Phase 1 GM's Notes

The following is my notes from Phase 1 of the Continuum Campaign I ran last year. They'll be of most interest if you played in that campaign, but anyone with an interest in Continuum or time-travel RPGs could find this entertaining or useful. I'd rather not take the time to edit it, so it'll be a really long post...

First session begins at 16:00 hours on Sunday 5/28/06. Everything goes crazy from there. Because they can time travel, 5/28/06 is actually the middle of the dates Phase 1 covered, and the plot was well underway before the game began.

Late spring 2005:
Pam’s high-school nemesis tricks her with the vandalized dress. Pam eventually destroys the dress in a great bonfire. Elder Pam comes back in time, steals it and replaces it with a fake, heads up to 5/27/06 with it, returns back to 2005 and puts it back so she can burn it frag-free.

August 2005:
Chairs recquisitioned for lab336 building for new year. ProfG/E places a hidden luger in each chair of the batch. Every chair in the lab has a gun hidden in it.

Monday, 5/15/06
8:33 - Kelly and Lana meet at a Bar. Hit it off. All goes really well. She likes his sense of humor.
Last call - Kelly and Lana go back to Lana’s place. Stay there all night, then all day on...

Tuesday, 5/16/06
Kelly & Lana at her place, all day. Lana skips all her classes. Gives Kelly a copy of her apartment key. Mention that Lana is an Insomniac - when she finally catches an hour of sleep, she has wierd dreams.

Friday, 5/19/06
9:00 to 13:00 - Lana in Prof G/E’s class. Determines final project about statistical polling.
14:00-15:00 - Pam takes a pop quiz in Prof G/E’s class. She’s very confident.
20:20 - Kelly meets Lana at a party, and doesn’t recognize her. In Lana’s timeline, they slept together recently, so she’s very upset with him.

Saturday, 5/20/06
9:00 - Kelly and Elizabeth arrive at L336, spanning from 5/29.
10:00 - Elizabeth arrives at Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall near campus. Spots likely tree, scopes out buildings, spans ahead to broom closet in said building on 5/21.
12:15 - Mailman drops off mail at Shaun’s dorm. Kelly is in lobby, interacts with Junior Shaun. Kelly claims stopped because of cramp. Shaun says: “That’s probably a side effect of your estrogen pills”. Kelly heads outside to observe from safer distance.
12:42 - Kelly observes student worker drop off envelope #1. Tails student worker to admin button, where student starts making copies and doing filing. Kelly heads to strip club.
15:30 - Shaun finds photo #1 rolled up and scrunched in his mailbox.
16:00 - Shaun throws envelope #1 in trash.

Sunday, 5/21/06
5:00 - Pam arrives L336, note inside kelly’s room. spans off for a nap.
7:55 - On way to class, Shaun takes out his trash.
8:30 - kelly arrives l336
10:30 - emily, Kail, arrives l336
11:00 - Elizabeth spans in to broom closet at Kingdom Hall, makes a racket, heads out to corner.
11:00 - Emily visits Jennifer at apartment (on floor below where the MG-42 shows up in a fragging action vs Shaun and PCs). Elder Kelly arrives at same apartment complex, gains roof access, waits with dartgun full of ketamine. Plants note from Pam for Prof G/E. Kail is waiting 2 blocks away in van. Emily commits to attending a party on friday.
11:30 - Kelly walks over to the Kingdom Hall, meets up with Elizabeth. Camera is already in the tree.
11:40 - Elder Prof G/E arrives on apartment roof with MG42. Falls off, spans home. Spans back, falls again. GM curses his dice. Spans back, falls again, but catches self. Misses seeing Pam’s note because of all the falling. Starts setting up MG, gets darted. Taken by Em, Kail & Elder Kelly.
In process of all this, a random sleezeball hits on emily, says he’ll be at the party.
11:45 - Prof G/E’s TA grades Pam’s Quiz - “A.” Prof G/E never looks at it or grade book.
12:05 - Shaun, looking haggard, drives up with map and flyers. 12:12 - Drops lots of cash to ice cream man, starts argument with him and church workers, photo snaps. Shaun clearly knows where the camera is. Shaun buys icecream for church workers, drives away.
12:15 - Emily, Kelly, Kail, Drugged Prof G/E, Roger arrive L336. Prof G/E handed off to Roger by Emily and Kelly. Tie him to chair in Dale’s office and span out. Roger spans 100 years forward with Prof G/E before he can recover from drugs.
12:30 - Lana walks past Kelly & Elizabeth, Elizabeth shouts “you gave me Syphalis” at Kelly. Kelly wanders off. Lana gets camera from tree, strikes up conversationwith Elizabeth. They trade stories about Kelly.
13:00 - Elizabeth and Lana part company. Lana heads into Math Department, Eliz heads around back of building.
13:15 - Lana catches Kelly following her in Math Department. Calls him a stalker, and a few nastier insults. He improvs visiting Prof G/E, but that’s where she’s heading too. Kelly time questions Lana, she tells him the actual time. G/E answers kelly’s bogus question, Elizabeth is outside window. Both PCs fail observation checks. G/E time questions Kelly, who blows it and reveals that he’s a spanner and suspicious of G/E. Kelly flees G/E’s office.
13:38 - Kelly and Elizabeth span to 5/26.
aprox 15:00 - shaun passes blood drive pamphlets, feels frag because he now knows he really did intentionally skip something in his Yet. He lets it build for most a week, getting worse and worse before he goes to Pam for help on 5/28 (starting the game)
16:00 - Pam fixes her test score, spans out.

Monday, 5/22/06
14:00 - Pam in Prof G/E’s class. Gets her quiz back, it’s an “A”.

Wednesday, 5/24/06
19:00 - Shaun finds photo #2 under his door. Alarmed ‘cause team will kick his butt if they think he’s a commie.

Thursday, 5/25/06
15:29 - Shaun appears outside senator’s office with commie sandwich board and hand-outs, is filmed. L.H.Oswald reference.

Friday, 5/26/06
2:00 - Kelly, Aaron & Elizabeth span to Park across from middle school. All blow roll, takes a few minutes to find each other.
2:15 - Pam spans to Park (she botched Quick roll). Lands on homeless man, who stabs her hand - superficial wound. Pam shouts “I am the Muffin Man! Muffins! Muffins! Muffins!” Group reunites, heads to convenience store for bandages and Chai. Homeless man shouts “You aliens won’t take me this time!”
2:35 - Kelly & Elizabeth span to 5/20.
2:50 - planned rendezvous time.
3:38 they get on the bus
3:42:30 - roger gets off the bus “Thanks for the Frune”.
3:48 - Kelly/Aaron/Pam/Eliz get off the bus - 23 minutes at starbucks - span out at 4:17
19:00 - party at jennifers apartment. Social commitment for elder Emily, but not guaranteed to be in her Yet. Jennifer will be there, so will random sleezeball who hit on Emily on 5/21.
22:15 - Shaun finds photo #3 under his door. The one he didn’t show to anyone but Pam and Dale. Checks hallway, it’s empty. Considers spanning back a few moments, but fears he’ll frag himself.

Saturday, 5/27/06
12:12 - Photo # 3 is taken. Shaun & Pam in foreground. Unclear location (just outside L336). Pam is wearing her prom dress, which took some serious efforts a year down to retrieve.

Sunday, 5/28/06
10:00 - photo 4 delivered. shaun doesn’t get home to find it for hours.
12:00 - kelly gets crowbar and plastique
15:00: Aaron Northridge arrives at Gallery Opening.
15:00 - Kelly spans into l336, delivers picture and heads out
16:00 - Shaun finds photo #4 under his door. He finally decides to do something. Dresses up as a mime. Brings photos 1, 2, and 4 to Pam, since she’s in photo 3 with him. Does not mention photo 3. Talks past 17:06, fragging himself.
17:06: Two Shauns are in the Gallery. One gets thrown out while trying to find a picture of a big black butt. The second uses the diversion to kiss butt while dressed as a mime. Photo snaps. Security descends and Shaun spans out. Somewhere in the midst of it, Aaron spans back 2 minutes to get a better view.
17:25 - Aaron arrrives at L336, where Kelly, Calvin and Dale already are. Dale attempts to explain span boxes, but frags himself - double slipshank, plus a note from himself. Aaron shares about mimeness. Agree to rendezvous 5/29 by 13:38:20.
18:00 - Aaron, Calvin, Kelly go to antagonize Shaun. Shaun hit in head with lacrosse puck - black eye. Gather Pam, who has made a complex mathematical chart. All head to a pizza place.
19:00 - Talk a lot about what’s happening over Pizza and Beer. Get Shaun drunk.
22:15 - Prof G/E spans to Lana’s apartment. Pushes the buzzer, but says nothing. Lana heads downstairs and checks it out. No one’s visible - Prof G/E is watching from across the street, with a stopwatch.
22:16-22:18 - Prof G/E spans into Lana’s apartment. Grabs photos. To cover theft, Prof G/E grabs her panty drawer and leaves a trail of panties out the window.
22:19 - Lana heads back upstairs, notices panties missing. Calls Kelly, but there’s no answer.
23:00 - Kelly walks Shaun home. Both drunk, they fail to notice picture is just inside doorway.

Monday, 5/29/06
8:00 - Pam spans in, checks photo 4 before Shaun affects it.
8:00 - Aaron replaces all laxatives at walgreens with chai.
11:00 - Dale Dubois arrives at L336
12:20 - Shaun Hanover gets up and discovers photo # 5 under his door
12:42 - Shaun Hanover arrives at L336. Brings photos # 1, 2, 4 and 5 with him.
12:45 - Prof G/E arrives at coffee shop on campus. Drinks standing near counter and interacting with staff so as to intercept Aaron’s Chai order.
12:54 - Calvin arrives at coffee shop on campus.
13:04 - Aaron calls in to-go order. Prof G/E and Calvin both hear and see it.
13:09 - Prof G/E distracts staff and puts laxatives in waiting chai. He then heads to bathroom, spans out. Aaron is just walking in, so Calvin now can’t spill it without fragging Aaron and himself.
13:18-13:28 - Prof G/E is outside the building that Lab 336 is in. Probes with Time Question, identifies Prof Aaron Northridge and Pam Turner. Doesn’t probe Kelly Hanlan.
13:24 - Aaron Northridge arrives in L336
13:25 - Kelly & Pam arrive L336
13:30 - Elizabeth arrives L336
13:38 - Roger, not Diane, arrives L336, with Dossier. “Further Info...”
13:25 - Prof G/E spans into Kelly’s dorm room. Throws Lana’s panties everywhere.
14:37 - Dale & Shaun step to side room, others decide what to do. Aaron, Kelly, Pam, Elizabeth span to 5/26 at 2 am.
14:40-14:45 - Aaron, Kelly, Pam, Elizabeth return. Dale was saying in side room to Shaun “And then she said ‘I can’t hear you, I’ve got a banana up my ass.’” Story about the Countess Isabela, love of his life who he never saw again.
14:58 - Shaun, Aaron, Kelly, Pam, Elizabeth at Crazy Phil’s used car lot. Picture snapped. Kelly is holding crowbar, Pam’s hand is bandaged. Shaun is in the open trunk of a car, naked. Written on his chest is “I kiss (unflattering term that clearly denotes Pam due to Prom dress episode)”.
15:00 - Lana will approach car lot - conflict with Kelly. “Did you take my panties? I knew I should have gotten my key back from you!” Conversation ends with her waving a taser at him, and taking his notebook.
15:18 - PCs scatter to start time combat.
15:30 PC rendezvous time for Elizabeth - everyone else ended up rerouted. Any who return level find ultimatum taped to door. Izzie is waiting, and she’ll direct her to 6/3/06 hotel in Santa Barbara.
15:45 - Lana goes to a bar to unwind.
16:00 - kelly spans down.
16:02 kelly spans in
18:00 - Lana gets home, decides to work on project. Finds pictures gone. Gives desperate phone calls to Kelly, and to Prof G/E’s office. No answers?

Tuesday, 5/30
6:00 - Rendezvous at L336 - Aaron, Calvin, Pam, Dale, Lee. Dale is NOT in buckskins.
6:15 - kail arrives L336
6:25 - Elder dale and emily arrive L336. Elder Dale says this is the last one to be dropped off, and that he has no more dossiers in his yet. He leaves to do battle in the 1800’s.
6:57 - break for first sweep, rendezvous set for 5/31 at 6:00
8:30 - Emily asks time of Prof G/E - Kail watches. Inconclusive.
8:30 - the time Kelly has promised to return Lana’s stuff to her. Missing items include Camera and all her panties. Also includes her pictures for her big project, because she hadn’t noticed them missing when last she saw Shaun. Kelly fails to return to span here and return the panties at any point in the campaign. Lana now REALLY hates him.

Wednesday, 5/31/06
6:00 - Rendezvous at L336 - Aaron, Calvin, Pam, Dale, Lee, Kail, Emily.
Everyone spans off seperately.
Lee goes to watch campus security videos.
Kail learns security, plants camera in L337 truck, tech problems ruin reception, but at least the camera isn’t found by badguys.
Dale stays level, and gets magnesium for Kelly’s breaching charge.
Shaun goes to 5/27/06 to kiss Pam
Pam heads down a year to get her promdress, then meets up with Shaun on 5/27/06.
Aaron went where? RIT? Fruning?

Thursday, 6/1/06
6:00 - Rendezvous at L336 - Dale, Lee, Kail, Emily, Kelly, lee
7:00 - emily, kelly & kail walk to get disposable cellphones, and check out the apartment building where Prof G/E tries the fragging trick with the machine gun.
Lee stays behind with recordings of Prof G/E on security cameras. Makes dossiers for everyone for proposed rubber chicken isolate.
12:00 - Kail arrives l336, drops off a dozen rubber chickens.
18:00 - Pam shows up at L336, is told “Oops, you missed the meeting 12 hours ago. Writes note for the rooftop, spans down to 5/21/06 at 5 am.
20:00 - Emily spans in L336.
21:00 - Lee heads home levelly to get a good nights rest.

Friday, 6/2/06
6:00 rendezvous - Dale, Kelly, Emily, Pam, Kail, Lee. Discuss how the rooftop played out.
6:15 - Roger shows up in Dale’s office. With him is Elder Kelly and at least one other unnamed Elder PC. Elder PCs are cleaning Dale’s office. Roger wheels out the rolly chair from 5/21/06 with Prof G/E tied to it.
Prof G/E is wearing a futuristic neural inhibitor - it slows down brain activity, prevents spanning, and forces him to tell the truth.
PCs begin interrogating, Lee starts a recorder taping on the table. ProfG/E can’t lie, but does surprise them by saying “further information is not available” about Lab337.
Kail steps out to the restroom, rigs up chicken toilet prank since they wont be needed for the Prof.
They ask questions about Brock, and learn that he abducts or abducted several of the PCs. That’s when Roger steps in and says “Further Info...”.
Roger puts neural inhibitor into sleep mode. Starts wheeling Prof G/E away. Door opened to reveal Elder Kelly was listening in.
Kelly shoots Roger with ketamine dart. Long mortified pause as Roger slumps to the ground.
Dale has little choice. He slipshanks a wheellock and tells Kelly to stand down. Kelly won’t. Emily steps between them. Elder Kelly draws gun, aims at Dale’s back, Dale is unaware.
Lee gets up to refill his tea. Flings scalding water at younger Kelly. Younger Kelly fires. Kail leaps to knock Dale to safety. Elder Kelly fires. Dale fires.
Dale spans, taking Elder Kelly’s bullet, Dale’s wheellock ball, and Kail with him.
Younger Kelly’s dart hits Emily. Ketamine drops her.
Lee panics, spans away. His tape recorder is still running on the table.
Elder Kelly closes door, tells everyone in other room it’s all okay, further info..., Elders get quiet, presumably spanning away.
Younger Kelly wheels Prof G/E back over. Unable to operate the inhibitor, he just pulls it off him. Prof G/E starts coming around. Tells Kelly, Pam and drugged Emily that Roger had tortured him, feels like he’d shoved something up his nose, too. Starts looking around. Asks where he is, but no one will tell him. Asks what time it is, gets him nowhere either. Tries to figure out how to Slipshank in a place he knows nothing about. Decides his best chance is the chair - there’ll be an invoice for it in the school’s system, and he knows it’s here on 5/21/06. Picks it up, rips the covering off the bottom, pulls out a luger and shoots drugged Roger in the head.
Pam spans out.
Now the conversation gets real. Prof G/E lays it all on the line for Kelly. Nazi’s, fake Hitlers, Brocks’ predations, Roger in an SS Uniform, Antedessertium, Continuum working for Aliens who enslave the earth, the whole paranoia-driven nine yards.
This talk of aliens impacts emily’s hallucination. She stands up, thinking she’s being helped by a little gray man with big black eyes. Maybe she really is, their tech is so good.
Kelly tells Prof how many and which photos have been delivered. Kelly and Prof G/E agree to a truce. Prof G/E says assuming that there’s no attacks from this corner for at least one month of his Age, he’ll deliver the remaining pictures on time and engage in no further fraggings. Prof G/E spans away, taking Roger’s coat, the Luger he shot him with, and the chair.
Kelly puts Emily in her room, then spans away. Lab is empty except passed out em by 8:30 am.
The tape recorder caught all of it, it’s sitting on the table still.
1:30 - emily sobers up, spans home, and drives to clubmed.

Friday, 6/3/06
5:00 - Kail spans in L336
6:00 - Pam & Lee spans in L336
6:30 - Emily spans in L336
6:50 - b0mb
Span out at 8:00
9:00 - bathrooms at smoky crater - er L336
10:00 - leave robs apt for 9:00
11:00 - After shutting off anti-spanning tech, PCs span out of L337, blowing it up behind them.
level span to 11:00 on 6/3/06 at Lee’s Apt in Santa Barbara. this is the new rendezvous
12:19 - out of hotel
13:00 - kelly to storage
13:03 -span to the van
13:05 - knock on storage door
13:48 - kail spans out
14:26 - Izzy & Pam solve Pams Frag (spans to 6/3/07, then to 5/21/06, then here).
Izzy & Aaron solve Aarons Frag (span to 6/10/07, then to 5/29/06, then here)
All span to 6/3/2106, to Rochester Clinic, courtesy of Izzy.

Beyond 2006:
After this the PCs span around in a much wider range of dates, going back thousands of years, and my notes for Phase II were kept in a different file, which I may post some other time.