karohemd | The Scottish Ball

We are brutally woken up by Kevin who needs to go to the 'ling ST meeting, so we head back to the hotel by train after some nice and cold water in the face.
Meet Vicky, Paul and Duncan at the station and have breakfast. Then off to Paul's room to change for Changeling.
There are some nice costumes and Krys' strokey dress. Too bad she was playing a Childling ;o)
It's a reasonable game which turns quite dramatic in the end and the Nockers need to be prevented from saving the world by burning down the Freehold again. There is a still unresolved scene, so I won't get into details here.

Then, back to Paul's room to change into Tremere costume. I feel a bit odd at first but soon get used to it. The Clan Meeting gets gatecrashed by CheeseOfDoom[TM] but no major harm is done. I head over to the Pasta place afterwards and get some lovely Penne a l'arrabiata. I already felt naked without my cane... ;o)

When back, Paul tells me that somebody had found my phone, so I call it and agree with the finder that he's going to mail it to me. He calls a couple of hours later and even brings it to the hotel. Phew! Well, it shows that there are some decent people left in the world, after all...

The C/A game is a rather quiet affair with mostly social interaction and some interesting announcements. I found it actually rather easy to get into my new character, who is a lot different from my other characters. I think the - for me - rather severe costume helped. I just need to finish it off with my own cane and a pocket watch. Some fancy cufflinks are on order, I hope they arrive before the Tremere only game.

Head back to Paul's room to change yet again and pack all our stuff to go to the Gossip party. There's again a huge queue for taxis so we wait for Chris to chaffeur us to Keef's in groups. Kudos to that man!

I even find a place to sit on the corner of the bed where Lorraine (sp?), Keef's girlfriend, is sleeping like a baby. Bags of sugar products, bars of chocolate and bottles of alcohol are passed around (my bottle of Amarula was basically empty after the first round) and everybody is having a great time.
There are actually three groups: the hardcore gossipers/revelers in Keefs bedroom, the philosophers and those with morals (apparently, as if we hadn't any) in the hall and the people actually wanting to sleep in Doug's bedroom. This is all I'm going to say in that matter, as I've been sworn to secrecy. ;o)