The Vampires of San Francisco

Kara: “I don’t know if Georgia would be familiar with term papers or book reports.”
Jason: “Well, these are papers written about magic that look very similar to papers you yourself may have written at one point long, long ago. Back when you were an apprentice and the world was young.”
Chris: *dry, rote intonation* “Over the summer I read The Path of Corruption. It was a good book. I really like the chapter on making people’s skin decay while they are still wearing it. I would recommend this book to most people, with the exception of people who do not like books about skin decaying.”

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Kara: “I cast prestidigitation.”
Jason: “What’s that?”
Kara: “It’s a DnD spell.”
Jim: “It does a very wide array of very minor things.”
Jason: “…Okay, well, you cast prestidigitation, and a pirate appears.”

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Jim: “I’m debating grabbing Rabenholz in bird form and flying over to the other ships. But can bird-form carry him with fifteen strength…?”
Me: “Maybe if you grip it by the husk.”
Jim: “It’s not a question of where I grip it, it’s a question of weight ratios! A three-pound bird cannot carry a 150-pound Rabenholz!”

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Jason: “Colleen. What do you do next?”
Me: *flipping back through notes* “I think…I need to actually find Thrace, but where…? Did I talk to the Nosferatu about him already?”
Jason: “I don’t recall, but I think so.”
Me: “What did they sa–” *reads another page, stops* “–Oh. My god.”
Jason: “What?”
Me: “…I have to go to fucking Chinatown.”

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Jason: “First off, let us have a moment of silence for the passing of Dr. Corwin Everton.”
Kara: “…You guys! We killed the Englishman! We completed our initial quest!”
Me: “ONE quest checked off the list!”
Chris: “Level one! Done!”
Jason: “Oh good, I can give you the level 2 quests now.”

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Alternate title: Blader

So despite my extreme backlog of regular writeups, my last movie review post seemed pretty well-received, so I decided to keep this project going, for awhile at least. I will admit, though, despite promises otherwise, I actually rather liked this movie. Apparently the people of 2001 agree with me, since according to Wikipedia it earned the most of the entire trilogy. Compared to the first one, it’s a lot better made, more tightly plotted, and has interesting worldbuilding accents. So I’ll probably have less snarky-shit to say, but there definitely are things to comment on, so here goes:

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Jason: “Where you headed?”
Me: “Urg, I don’t want to go to fucking Chinatown.”
Jason: “We can never go back to Chinatown!”
Me: “It’s funny, Scout doesn’t actually know why she shouldn’t go to Chinatown, but the whole gestalt of Chinatown just feels like…don’t. Cause when you’re in a parallel fantasy universe and someone creepy tells you to go to Chinatown, you do not. go. to Chinatown.”

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Me: “Kara-Tremere is best Tremere.”
Jason: “I will say, Kara, of all the Tremere players I have seen–which isn’t a long list, but it’s not a short one either–Georgia is definitely my favorite.”
Kara: “Aw, thank you. I think.”
Jason: “Well the rest of them are just assholes, whereas Georgia is…many things, but not really an asshole.”
Kara: “No, no…but that doesn’t make her good, does it?”

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