Goddammit my
Changeling the Lost group is dysfunctional. The players are nice and all, but in-character we never seem to get along or even work together to a point where we DON'T end up either arrested or shot at (both have happened). We have a more-than-beastly Hunterheart (essentially a Leopard furry with a lethal natural attack) whose impatience has led to a gunfight, almost being kicked out of the safehouse and one particularly nasty incident involving the living room carpet; my character, a careful (read: cowardly) Mirrorskin (a shapeshifter who suffers ill effects in daylight) who tries to talk the group into working together for some goal, whatever it may be; a hermit Manikin (giant, copper-skinned man) who is monomaniac about getting home; and a prissy Fairest (think of Galadriel on ecstacy) who treats everybody as her personal servants. Our games are a bit mind-fucky since you never know what's gonna happen - in a bad way.
Last time, for instance, we were supposed to scout out the home of a possible serial killer in preparation for dealing with him (ie. removing him from the area, either true persuasion, brute force or murder). The guy seems like a survivalist with a high, fenced-off 'burbs home. The Hunterheart grows impatient, jumps over the wall and goes to knock on the door. Nothing happens, we go have lunch in the nearby park.
Just then, four police cars appear, and the Hunterheart - who has a measure of military experience - understands that we are being surrounded. We try to make a run for it. My Mirrorskin gets caught while trying to find a place to hide, and the cops surround the rest of the group, guns pointed at them. The Fairest uses her powers to spellbind the policemen into letting her go, and I - handcuffed in the back of the police car - decide to help as well, using a power that makes the commanding officer afraid and susceptible to persuasion and threats.
Unfortunately his gun goes off, and everything goes south from there.
When we stopped for the night, the Fairest had managed to run away, the Manikin surrendered after being shot, the Hunterheart is in a coma, the Fairest managed to run away, two cops are dead and one is wounded - and my Mirrorskin is still in the back of the police car, having changed shape to a beat-up older man. I'll see if I can pull off some decent lies about "being beaten up by some punk and shoved into the back of the car" to get the hell outta there.
Oh, and did I mention? We're supposed to deal with the serial killer in the next 24 hours or we'll be kicked out into the street from the safehouse. Not gonna happen, I fear.
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It's an honest mistake. It's not as if it's never said.