On sunday we had another session with Masks and had a blast atfer a slow start. The first three hours were a bit filler as I was not on my best form. I had an idea about dream like game where one of the NPC’s developed dream controlling powers and he imprisoned people there and the PC s neede to save everyone. The structure didn’t really work – luckily we had good moments so it wasn’t bad.
The middle game was resolving the dream structure where I gave players a lot more to do, introduced more known NPC s which were in peril in the dreamworld and also went a lot darker. Players loved this and we had good latter two hours of dreamland school gaming. The ending was a surprise to all and left nice questions about the characters and about the school which dark side washinted a lot.
The latter half of the game returned to the school trip we are on. I had more NPC s join the group, had more lectures and activities that had absolutely fabulous romantic drama with photography shoot and the talks between being really emotional. One of the best elements – and the one I was really happy with – was the talk with the dream manipulating Jack who understood what he had been doing and was now been transferred to schools secret research lab – to be used for some unknown aim. He was horrified what he had been doing to the other students – who were understanding but still somewhat disturbed by his actions.
It was reallynice to see some background students show a villainous side and have somewhat villainous characters show a good and strong side. The romantic side also was on front and npc s really pushed their emotions on to pc s expecially the ones that were not the ones the pc s were after. 🙂