thread: 2011-05-11 : The Un-frickin-welcome
On 2011-05-11, Vincent wrote:
Ben! Hooray!
I have a story too. I'm playing a hardholder in Apocalypse World named Barbecue. Meg's the MC.
One of the things of our apocalypse is weird animals. We've encountered these giant metal-eating underground centipedes, these mossy huge silent cyclopian wolf things, bats with little human faces, and a little girl with no eyes who eats the scraps and shavings from our metalworks. Meg says that she knows what's going on, what underlies all this, but I have no clue.
Barbecue really hates this stuff. These critters offend and terrify him. His gang boss, Hooch, gets along with them fine - he's able to take the world as he finds it - but not Barbecue. To Barbecue they're the breakdown of the world, and his whole thing is to hold his little piece of the world together.
In this last session, it came out that the little girl with no eyes who hides around our metalworks is the daughter of two of our people. They've been hiding her because they know that if the rest of the holding finds out about her she'll be in danger, but sometimes she sneaks out.
That's it for Barbecue! He can't be the hardholder anymore. Meg - all unknowing, with no roll or warning, but irrevocably - put Barbecue in an untenable position, and it's taken his holding away from him same as if she'd burned it down and murdered everyone in it. If the breakdown of the world is inside us, in our children, then Barbecue is done.
My choice is to deal with this, ask Meg to take it back, or quit the game. It'd be unforgivable whining bullshit to ask her to take it back, and I'm not going to quit the game.
