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2018 might not have been a terribly fic-cy year but I did find time amidst the study to participate in a surprising amount of collab writing - which is to say, I went back to my roleplay roots! Some panfandom (almost ten years to the dot since the last time I went down that path), which has proven exactly as challenging and addictive as I remember; some one-on-one with a friend over email, which has been sweet and fun and a terrible callout of my inability to write paragraphs quickly; and tabletop for the first time ever, through long-distance text over Discord with a group of Quixote's local friends. I still don't own any dice though :( We use a humble generator named Oddbod the Wodbot, all the better to curse it out directly.

Tabletop has been interesting. Good interesting, mind! My greatest hurdle is usually working out what I can and can't do, as it exists in that fuzzy zone between freeform storytelling where anything goes and a video game where all the possibilities are streamlined for an easy user experience. We're also playing one of the World of Darkness sets, Werewolf: the Forsaken, which comes with a veritable library's worth of deeply involved lore that I have still not quite managed to memorise. All the other players have participated in a W:tF campaign before so they know their werewolfery quite well, but at least they're kindly tolerant of me forgetting the rules of spirit communion and what a Ridden is, etc etc.

( the campaign is a werewolf murder mystery )