In His Dark House


Campaign Name: "In His Dark House"
Type: Tabletop
Setting: Changeling World of Darkness
Premise: A ancient Freehold has emerged from the dreaming and the PCs are called to explore its dungeons to find the owner's lost memories.
ST: Abigail Corfman

Characters:
Hedge: A troll wilder who's fascinated by nature. Has a pet dog named Scruffy. Played by Naomi.
Jil: A knocker wilder who's studying architecture. Has a pet book named Seymour. Played by Becca.
Edda: Boggan baker/catburgler grump. Very grandmotherly. Makes pies. Is sensible. Played by Danya, then by Abigail.
Lord Gabriel Juniper: Ancient Sidhe Fae of unimaginable power. Kind of out of it. NPC.

Quotes

Becca (Whose character has Willow Whisper): I want to talk to the wall.

Abigail: So talk to the wall. But it’s going to be like talking to a wall.


Hedge opens a door, looks through, then closes it again.

Edda: What is it?

Hedge: Stabbity death.


Don’t even insinuate that I’m the dream of a hippy activist.

- Hedge

Hey Hedge, quick lesson in architecture. If you do that, we all might die.

- Jil

Jil: That sounds like the sound of our imminent doom.

Edda: Well, it’s a very quiet imminent doom, I can’t even hear it.

Jil: That’s the worst kind.


Think about that next time you eat meat.

- Hedge after Jil criticized monsters for eating a manatee

I’ll have you know that meat grows in refrigerators.

- Jil

Note to self. Don’t take over world. Take over google.

- Danya

Hedge: Knifemakers don’t eat you. They jus’ stab you.

Jil: Right. And then they take you to their lesser know cousins. The Forkmakers. And THEY eat you.


Whenever I think someone’s watching us, I’m just going to start knitting.

- Edda, abusing the Boggan birthright

I did not keep you in the know because that was not a know I had to keep you in.

- Blackwater on why she didn’t tell the PCs about Lord Juniper's past

Hey Sluagh. Sluagh! Sluuuuagh! Sluagh sluagh sluagh.

- Jil, looking for a Sluagh.

(Hedge glares at Jyl after encountering a particularly unpleasant piece of architecture.)

Jil: What? This is somehow my fault ‘cause I’m a knocker?

Abigail: Oh right. Jil, roll remembrance.


After Hedge gets eight successes at hearing a whispered conversation.

Becca: All right, all right. You hear the damn conversation.

Abigail: And not only that, but...

Naomi: I know their favorite color.


And I know, from the tone of their voice, that she had pasta for breakfast.

- Naomi

You are...loyal to my master and that incites fondness in me.

- Blackwater, trying to have a moment with Hedge

Come back anytime you’re in a great deal of pain!

- The Healer

I don’t do everything just to piss Blackwater off.

- Jil

I’m probably the most banal person here. I’m from Texas.

- Hedge

Jil: Is Boggan sex really quick?

Edda: That’s not work, dear, that’s play.

Jil: What about Boggan prostitutes?

Edda: We’re...not very popular, I suppose.


Hedge: Jil’s their surrogate mother.

Jil: Hedge is their surrogate lesbian mother.


The Healer is standing in his garden, hitting the plants with a stick and screaming ‘GROW!’

- Abigail

And I should penalize you for being large and blue, but whatever.

- Abigail on Hedge sneaking

Naomi: That’s my bunk..

Abigail: Roll it. I hate you all. Roll it.


Naomi: I wonder what her family thought when Hedge went unseelie.

Abigail: They thought she was having her period.


Jil (on the baby Knifemakers): Aren’t they cute?

Rose: They're terrifying.

Jil: Yes, but in a cute way.


I really, seriously doubt Knife will permanently injure her. Intentionally.

- Lord Juniper on Hedge's duel with Knife

I want a front row seat so I can see and if I need to rush in and do something stupid.

- Jil

Jil: If I get old and powerful, can I have my own castle with memories in it?

Lord Juniper: Only if you also take the cadre of tactless adolescent girls you will need to recover them.


Hedge: I think holding on when you need to...that’s more about being a troll than...strength.

Jil: You’re so cute.

Hedge: I’m not cute. Fuck you.