Games, friends, this and that

I ran tabletop last night for the first time since somewhere in college (aside from the one online attempt this spring.) It was an In Nomine game with four players. We were all fairly shaky on the rules, but I think it went well, for the most part. I had a severely split party that remained split through most of the game, which was a problem, and an utterly non-combat game in a situation where one of my players really wanted to fight, which was another problem.

The part that seriously worries me is that I think I may (in my sleepy state) have tripped on the religious sensibilities of two of my friends. Part of the plot hinged around the relationship between the Archangel Eli and a 16-year old girl, which resulted in her transformation into a Soldier of God, and was sexual. It wasn't explicitly sexual when I designed the game, but, considering Eli's nature, it MAKES SENSE -- and I went with it when the Malakite in the game used his resonance on the 16-year old girl because I was sleepy and not thinking straight about fitting plot to audience. Since one of the two people that I might have offended is the owner of the In Nomine book and suggested I hang onto it in case I wanted to run again, I can't have done too badly, but...

Why is it that I can always ignore 50 things that go right in favor of obsessing over one thing that doesn't? I could barely sleep last night for worrying about it.

And then my dreams plagued me with scenes about applying for new jobs and being rejected after lengthy and encouraging interviews. Good grief.

A lot of spiffy things have happened this weekend. But that's the one that stuck in my head strongly enough to be written about.

There are so many things I don't chronicle...

Odd.