At 09:06 PM 10/11/2001 -0500, Carl D Cravens wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Deb Atwood wrote:
>
> > Heh... we've done it.  We did a big semi-formal dinner with costumes for a
> > session of AoW once.  The session was to be a wedding of one NPC to another
>
>"Was to be"?  Did the event go sour?

The session went wonderfully.  The wedding within the session went, as I 
(the GM) knew it would, horribly wrong.  *smiles*  The PCs were unaware 
that it wouldn't work out, although they rather expected the bride to be 
the problem more than the groom.  As it turned out, they learned quite a 
bit more about the details of the world.

The world was designed specifically to be a place where the gods 
interfered.  A wedding was blessed by the god of the priest performing the 
ceremony, and an actual bond was forged between the two parties (or, er, in 
a later scenario in the same game *three* -- the gods are actually flexible 
and understanding).  However, a person could not be bonded if they had 
already voluntarily forged a bond with someone else.

As it turned out, in this case, in the eyes of Mirya, the groom was already 
bonded to another person.  He was entering the wedding to escape that, and 
knew it, but didn't realize the effect it would have.  It turned the 
wedding into a fiasco, and just cemented that poor Tessa's taste in men 
never worked out quite well.

It was a fun session.  Having the meal really helped the mood and it turned 
out well.  It was one of the really cool sessions I've run.

D.

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