Angst Force Sunday

Quick, quick. I'm between things, but I want to get something up before I get home later and new angst makes me forget the previous angst.

Angst Force Sunday started kind of slow. A couple of nice missions, though the warning, "We have a story for you!" had already come across in tells. A bit later, the point of the warning came through: Futura, prompted by Mason, had come up with a potential cure for E. Nanites. It was a brilliant idea!

But.

The only thing I heard was the grinding and knashing of gears as a monkeywrench was thrown into the plot. E and I came up with a plot that let him play his Mastermind as "Fyre's people," and would get Fyre over to the Rogue Isles for Team 3.0, Villain-Style. We'd turned it over and around and checked for leaks, and realized it left so much open for us, it was just about perfect. It left all kinds of freedom to run characters as heroes, villains, and things in between. And, of course, created angst. Practically perfect. Or at least as close to it as we were going to get. But... well, maybe not.

So, I blanked on a lot of stuff that happened right after that. I was too involved in thinking of a cover, or a way around. And, I got one. What if it's already been done? After some talking and a bit more thinking, that was the answer:

It's too late.

Mason, as can be counted on, upped the drama and much angst ensued, quite a bit of which that neither Fyre nor I were present for. Mason, E, and Frost will surely cover it.

Brief overview of the highlights (again, I'm on the clock here. Forgive me for the skipping around and anything important that I completely skip): Kit played counselor/peacemaker, and seemed to (almost) have an impartial view. Mason had an epiphany that he never asked anyone want they wanted, and he was making a lot assumptions about a lot of things. He asked E what E wanted from him, and E gave him some guidelines, including not picking fights with Fyre. That's going to be tough. And it's going to get tougher. Fyre is not going to be easy to be around. You know, more than usual.

Skipping ahead to the end of the night, Mason went to give E and Fyre "hugs" in his light-form. Fyre backed up, because she doesn't trust him, of course, but also because she was afraid of hurting him.

Frost, the character and/or the player, is getting too observant for my and Fyre's own good. It looks like he's catching a lot of those things that Fyre almost says but then stops herself, or covers over (hints? Well, sort of, but not necessarily meant to be).

Also, Mason's use of the word "veneer" is a good description for Fyre, as much as she and I hate to agree with him. A veneer is a front, or a cover, right? A thin over-lay. That's what Fyre puts up, more now than ever. Mason was way closer to the mark than he would have thought, I think.

And, TIME!