Yesterday we played Episode 4 of the 4th season of Slayers East. It was my character Cass' spotlight episode.
Cass' main issue for the season so far is feeling isolated and seperate from the others, being the new girl, but not really new, in town. Her somewhat older boyfriend was living back in NY while she had been exiled to Exeter. Morgue and I had decided that in this episode, Bene, her boyfriend would come to Exeter and break up with her.
So, I knew it was coming and I had to decide how she would react, which wasn't really how I expected.
When I first started this game, I thought Cass was gonna be this Sassy Fashionista and she kinda is, but she is also the first real Loner character that I've ever played. She's turned out to be reasonable reserved. Very.... cool and distanced. She makes an effort to hang out with the others, she goes to places and talks with them about stuff, but she is still feeling very much on the outside. She feels things strongly, but doesn't really show it. She internalises a lot.
One of the scenes morgue set had Cass walking in on her teacher and another NPC discussing her relationship with her boyfriend and how he had said that he was going to break up with her. She just watched them, absorbed what they had to say and moved on. I worried that it might have come across as me being lame and unable to think of a way to react, but that wasn't the case and I think the others got it.
At the end of the episode we had shots of what the others were up to, including Cynth and Candy assuming that Cass was with Bene shacked up in a hotel room. They didn't know that Bene had rather abruptly broken up with Cass and the last image was her walking into her house, past her grandmother, up to her unlit room, closing the door and collapsing, sobbing, on her bed.
It upset me, I kinda wanted to cry and I'm still a bit upset by it. It was a very good game. Hopefully others will blog about all the other fun stuff ("I AM THE SLAYER!") that happened. This is just the stuff that I dwell on.
Point of Fashion: cold
Current Obsession: procrastination