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zdashamberYesterday's double session of Heavy Feathers was really neat. I'm enjoying the heck out of playing my character, Keket (mentioned before here). She's built up a great set of relationships. Perhaps the most important of those is with Amun, a NPC; they've been more-or-less together for decades. They worry about each other, do stupid things for the sake of each other... Keket can be silly around him, which is something she doesn't really do with any of the rest of the family, save occasionally her dad Horus (who maps to Gérard, and who early in the game became pharaoh of Amber). Oh, and I suppose there was that bit towards the end of last session, the one that lead to the title quote.
Anyway, Jeff (the GM) recently threw in something with an admitted purpose of adding some trouble to her life: turns out Amun never got around to mentioning that his mother was not only still alive, but actively working to get Horus. Suborning his cult, sending assassins to kill him... In the hornets-nest flurry following the discovery of who was behind this mess of spywork, determining what to do about her and Min (Random) who was hiding her, negotiating an end to Min and Amun and Unut walled up and arming in Min's temple, Keket didn't get the chance to talk to Amun about what it meant for them.
Instead, she dove into a portal to the cross-shadow-Ganges, chasing the Chaosite who murdered Ptah... And when they stopped to talk, she ended up sleeping with him. And then eventually murdered him in bed, which made me feel rather iffy, but it was necessary, since walking into Chaos and facing Shiva and Ganesh and Agni and Indra alone... Not so great, and letting Skanda report back on how much fun Amberites were to kill: not any good either.
I'm thinking that perhaps part of the iffiness I'm feeling is that Keket was just using Skanda, not to get back at Amun, but to put them back on an equal footing with each other. But as one of her main purposes with Skanda was as part of her relations to Amun, killing him in the middle of sex was perhaps cutting a bit close to her fears. Something she hasn't really spoken of was how very much the potential of sacking Min's Amun-defended temple sucked. What if one of Amun's secrets, the ones Keket trusted he'd tell her if they'd affect her, means that they'll be firmly affixed on opposite sides of a larger conflict?
It's amusing. Thinking from her perspective, my thoughts lately run, "It would make no sense if the appearance of the Chaosite and the beginning of the disappearances and the heartlessness of Isis all happened in the same place at the same time, and yet were unrelated. ...What does he see in me, anyway? What if he's dating me only so that I won't look in to his secrets?"
One of my favorite parts about Sunday's session was that after she finally got back into Trump range of Amber and Amun called her, and they had an argument, Amun suggested beer, and they started drinking. And after a bit Keket mentioned that she needed to go let Horus know what was up with the Chaosites, and Amun was like, "He's been doing a fine job while you were gone, why don't you have another beer?"
I guess it was that it was nice to know he'd still like to have her around.
Actually, that turned out to be all talk about recent soap opera-y Keket/Amun stuff, while I was intending to hit on the other interesting relationships she's picked up, like with Khonsu or Bast or Weret... Or, apparently, Anubis. Dear god. For that one, basically, so, you know that someone can read the surface of your mind while you're in his temple. How long do you think it will be until you happen to be picturing him in flagrante delicto?
Dear, dear dear dear. Anyway, I'm still planning on putting up a proper Keket character post.
Anyway, Jeff (the GM) recently threw in something with an admitted purpose of adding some trouble to her life: turns out Amun never got around to mentioning that his mother was not only still alive, but actively working to get Horus. Suborning his cult, sending assassins to kill him... In the hornets-nest flurry following the discovery of who was behind this mess of spywork, determining what to do about her and Min (Random) who was hiding her, negotiating an end to Min and Amun and Unut walled up and arming in Min's temple, Keket didn't get the chance to talk to Amun about what it meant for them.
Instead, she dove into a portal to the cross-shadow-Ganges, chasing the Chaosite who murdered Ptah... And when they stopped to talk, she ended up sleeping with him. And then eventually murdered him in bed, which made me feel rather iffy, but it was necessary, since walking into Chaos and facing Shiva and Ganesh and Agni and Indra alone... Not so great, and letting Skanda report back on how much fun Amberites were to kill: not any good either.
I'm thinking that perhaps part of the iffiness I'm feeling is that Keket was just using Skanda, not to get back at Amun, but to put them back on an equal footing with each other. But as one of her main purposes with Skanda was as part of her relations to Amun, killing him in the middle of sex was perhaps cutting a bit close to her fears. Something she hasn't really spoken of was how very much the potential of sacking Min's Amun-defended temple sucked. What if one of Amun's secrets, the ones Keket trusted he'd tell her if they'd affect her, means that they'll be firmly affixed on opposite sides of a larger conflict?
It's amusing. Thinking from her perspective, my thoughts lately run, "It would make no sense if the appearance of the Chaosite and the beginning of the disappearances and the heartlessness of Isis all happened in the same place at the same time, and yet were unrelated. ...What does he see in me, anyway? What if he's dating me only so that I won't look in to his secrets?"
One of my favorite parts about Sunday's session was that after she finally got back into Trump range of Amber and Amun called her, and they had an argument, Amun suggested beer, and they started drinking. And after a bit Keket mentioned that she needed to go let Horus know what was up with the Chaosites, and Amun was like, "He's been doing a fine job while you were gone, why don't you have another beer?"
I guess it was that it was nice to know he'd still like to have her around.
Actually, that turned out to be all talk about recent soap opera-y Keket/Amun stuff, while I was intending to hit on the other interesting relationships she's picked up, like with Khonsu or Bast or Weret... Or, apparently, Anubis. Dear god. For that one, basically, so, you know that someone can read the surface of your mind while you're in his temple. How long do you think it will be until you happen to be picturing him in flagrante delicto?
Dear, dear dear dear. Anyway, I'm still planning on putting up a proper Keket character post.