The game's a foot

Second session of that Victorian fairies game tonight. Things went *really* well. I was prepared enough for the players to throw spanners in every single plot thread I was weaving, and the chapter's final sequence (where they meet one of the big recurring antagonists) was *a little* too talky because I let the PCs start to argue semantics with him, but very satisfying on the whole. And the way they set up the scene was pretty much nothing I would have written myself.

Plus, all of this done with one of the players unexpectedly missing his *second* session.
(So I trashed his house, set his workshop on fire and had him arrested for heresy. That's what happens when you skip out on my game, punks!)

I know it's serious

Today was the World Steam Expo, the Neo-Victoriana convention in Dearborn. You folks have already heard my feelings about the term SteamPunk so I'm not going to go into that again. If you're a Joy Division fan who's ever been inside a Hot Topic, then you already know.
I'm also not going to go into the many reasons that I ended up not staying to see the concerts I came for. Suffice to say that I am frustrated and not very happy about it.
But there was dancing, and the costume watching was pretty good.