we are kind of in need of some distraction, does anyone have anything cool they want to talk about or something
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@Felthry we GMed a session of a game a while ago and we thought it went really well and we were really proud of what we did - we could talk about that if that sounds good?

@packbat sure! i don't know if i'lll have much to say back about it but if you feel like talking it'd be nice to read <3
-F

@Felthry 👍🏽 🎒 ( 🐲 ?)

so, like, one of the folks in our GM-practice group showed us this system called Freeform Universal, which we've been using the core of for this

the premise is that the protagonist is an ambiguously-anthro snow leopard who is a long-distance trucker, but who ends up in various weird situations that they then have to resolve

we wanted to aim very deliberately for mystery-of-the-week self-contained sessions

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@Felthry like, we'd had a few sessions so far, and they'd been fun, but we'd done very little prep - basically just "what would be something weird to be going on?" - and especially in the next-to-last session, we felt like we didn't have any good way to wrap up the plot

so, for this session, we decided to use some random generation to help, and drew three cards to create prompts for:
- the situation,
- the problem, and
- a character the protagonist meets

@Felthry because we kinda knew it already, we using this system we made up for a 52-card playing cards deck

our three cards were:
- Situation: 10 of Diamonds = teaching + beating challenges/getting money
- Problem: Queen of Diamonds = second-highest in a hierarchy + beating challenges/getting money
- Character: 10 of Spades = teaching + exploring the world

so what we came up with was a delivery to a university with a rivalry between colleges over who brings in more money

@Felthry ...and from there, we decided that:

- the delivery was to the chemistry department, which was the most profitable
- their rival, the business school, decided to do a curse to divert money from the chemistry department to the business school
- the curse decided that the cat trucker's shipment of chemicals was valuable and therefore should be diverted

...which fits our "something weird is happening here and you have to fix it" mold, but has a natural resolution

@Felthry (brb)

@Felthry (back)

so, the cat trucker found themself in an impossible geometry situation: wherever they tried to go on campus with their truck, it would always end up being warped to travel out on some other road and wind up at the H.W. Chapman School for Business and Finance

which, like, hopefully wasn't just funny to us, because we had so much fun saying that entire name every time they wound up at this dark-brick blacked-out-windows cube of a building

@packbat Is that a specific reference to someone, or just a businessy sounding name?
-F