Fall – Episode 5: “Watch your Back”
This episode doesn’t have an official, GM title yet but I’ve dubbed it Watch your Back for reasons that will hopefully become evident.
This episode was very much a Calvin-centric episode which was a great change in pacing. It has of course already been written up, as always, by Jenni. So I’m going to summarise the episode and go into detail on the bits that were most relevant for Alex.
The episode starts up the day after our trip to the woods last time, at school. Someone tries to curse Calvin, by sticking a piece of paper on his back, but is only successful in cursing his lab partner Melinda who picks it off only to have the weird symbol drawn on it dissolve into her hand and then a few minutes later collapse with a high fever. Calvin, in an unusual display of heroics, takes her to the nurse before setting out to hunt down the person who tried to do it to him. He attempts to physically intimidate William Ham into admitting it was him, but only gets a bunch of bruises for his trouble.
The rest of the episode very much revolves around Darius and Megan researching while Calvin and Alex go in hunt for the other likely perpetrator, Xavier (another guy Calvin beat up for information, seeing a pattern?). The research goes something like this:
- Darius and Megan do research (their players, as always due to the very high intelligence and the really good occult library, rolling in the high teens which equals high successes)
- Megan finds the curse, and draws out the symbol
- Said symbol then disappears into Megan’s hand (as it did into Melinda’s earlier at school)
- Megan then throws drama points around to find a cure, before passing out in Darius’s door way.
Darius then quickly calls Calvin and Alex with the indrediants they need to find in order to make a pultice that will draw the curse out. The duo on their way to do this when Alex realises she’s late for her date with Mason (which was arranged earlier at school). She calls and tries to brush him off (so she can continue driving around in cars with his best friend helping to save someone’s life) by saying her mum wants her home. He replies to this new rejection by replying,
“I’m at your house now.” Dead silence…
Alex quickly jumps out of the Kermit and runs home, through the rain of angst, only to get there just as Mason’s car pulls out of the drive way. She then walks aimlessly in the rain until she stubbles upon the slightly restless ghost of Lissie Borden, who is Fall River’s previous Slayer. Apparently her parent’s were possessed and she had to kill them, which lead to the famous ditty (though the Lissie Borden in this world died young, after 6 months as a Slayer, this was quite a shock to Alex). The talk for some time about Slayers, Watchers and such like. She also tells Alex that as a Slayer she needs to separate herself from others in order to keep them safe. The risks are too high otherwise.
Meanwhile Calvin has managed to find the ingredients for the sure thanks to a new-agey health food shop and saved both Melinda and Megan from the curse.The episode’s hero for sure.
Will this week find Alex cutting ties with all of those she calls friend? Will Calvin beat the snot out of Xavier again? Tune in to find out!
7 Comments to Fall – Episode 5: “Watch your Back”
I just can’t see any other solution to the Xavier problem….
Now there’s a surprise!
FraserApril 26, 2009
Hey Soph,
Been reading the play reports of Jenni’s and now yours too! Sounds like an awesome game.
Do you have an LJ syndication feed so I can add your blog to my flist?
FraserApril 26, 2009
Hmm, if you don’t think you’ve got an LJ syndication then you probably don’t.
It’s just a special feed that people with paid LJ accounts can make from blogs and non-LJ RSS feeds so that they can be added to an LJ flist. 
Don’t worry, I’ll check in periodically, but this way, I won’t know what’s happening in your life as it happens!!1!
Ah, then no. We don’t have one of those. And this blog isn’t really about my life, it’s about geeky things and is shared with my brother. I’m not much of a blow by blow blogger, though there is always Twitter!
April 30, 2009
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