I absolutely love when Brennan holds the players accountable for the wild shit they say to NPCs by repeating what they said as a question. Then you see their life flash before their eyes as they giggle in fear.
My favorite part of pre season 4 steddie fics is Steve being COMPLETELY honest and saying shit like “Sorry I signed an NDA, i legally cannot tell you” And Eddie just being like “…okay magic man keep your secrets then”
Eddie looks
up from the inventory sheet he’s bent over (the new shipment of records isn’t
going to record itself – Christ, that was awful, Henderson is
contagious) to see his coworker Kyle poking his head into the back room.
“Someone left
something for you at the counter.”
“Who?” Eddie
asks, brows furrowed.
Most everyone
in town seems to have let the murder accusations drop (embarrassed enough by
their own fanatical reactions that they’d much rather forget the whole thing),
but a few people still treat him like a felon walking free; it doesn’t hurt to
be cautious.
“Uh, real
normie-looking guy. Gives you a ride sometimes.”
Eddie blinks.
“Steve?”
“Yeah, sure.”
Kyle shrugs. “Says you left it in his car.”
Whatever
Eddie is expecting to see when he follows Kyle back out to the front counter of the music shop, a
brown bag lunch isn’t it. He most certainly hadn’t left that in Steve’s car
this morning.
Steve hadn’t
even given him a ride that morning.
But it’s got
his name on it, sure enough, in Steve’s weirdly neat handwriting. The asshole
even drew a little heart next to it.
If I can recommend you do 1 low-effort thing for the love of God it is this:
Keep 5 cards in your pocket. One will say “yes”, the second will say “no.”
If you lose your voice, or lose speech, or want to make a dramatic embellishment at the right time, it is an elegant and efficient solution that is right there at hand.
But what if people question you from there? “Why do you have that card? Why would you do this? How long have you had that in your pocket?” For this, or whatever else they say, the third card: “I don’t have a card for that.”
“What the fuck,” they ask. They laugh. They are bemused. You bring the energy back down with the fourth card: “I have laryngitis. I’ve lost speech. My throat hurts”. Whatever you expect to occur.
The joke is over. Rule of threes. Now they are curious. YThey wonder about logistics. “How did you know I would say that? Is everyone so predictable?”
As a three-part bit, nobody ever sees the fifth card coming.
“I have powerful wizard magics.”
Gets them every time
On it boss!!
[id: a set of 5 UNO cards upon which has been written, “Yes”, “no”, “I don’t have a card for that”, “can’t talk right now 😢”, and “I have powerful wizard magics 🙂”. End id]
the ideal GM/player dynamic is when one side says “here are some problems i caused” and the other says “thank you so much! i will make these worse” back and forth forever
