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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Peni Griffin" data-source="post: 3763308" data-attributes="member: 50322">In the RHOD game with all the soap opera, one of my players wrote his character background as the result of a teen pregnancy.  His mother was a little wild, and realized when he was about 8 that the people she was hanging out with were a bad influence on him, so she parked him on her brother.  Ten years later, she's finally settled down, grown a wisdom point, and writes to her son asking him to come to her wedding.This is their first meeting (bluebooked - I think it's important to bluebook as much one-on-one stuff as you can, so nobody's sitting around twiddling their thumbs on game day):By the time you can see the roof of a large building with an exterior ampitheater below, which he points out as your destination, you hear a voice cry:  "Gerik?"  Hurrying uphill toward you, pushing her way through the crowd, dodging traffic, comes a blonde, blue-eyed, 17 CH woman with a build like Jayne Mansfield.  She is dressed simply, but well, in an outfit that brings out her eyes, and she has roses in her hair.  Ivellio smiles for the first time, and waves at her.  She breaks into a run, barrels into Gerik, and hugs him tight.  "Oh, I'd know you anywhere!  You've gotten so tall - and so handsome!  I didn't realize you'd be handsome!"  She's a couple of inches shorter than Gerik, and glowingly happy, though a little out of breath.We play out the meeting, which happens in front of some of Gerik's friends, one of whom is a little younger than he is, and another of whom is a young female paladin with a crush on him.Male friend:  Dude, your mom is hot!Gerik:  Shut up!  That's my mom!Female friend:  I'll hold him down while you thump him if you like.  I think your mom is very nice.Now, I chose Jayne Mansfield because I was remembering her as the woman in the Cross-your-heart bra commercials (We full-figure girls have a problem).  This is actually Jayne Russell.  So I'm not very good at names.  Anyway, the player is young and the name didn't even ring any bells, so he googled her.  If you try this, you'll see why his response was "Dude!  Gerik's mom is hot!"I had briefly considered, but discarded as too cruel and too complicated, pulling a similar stunt, only with his future stepsister, but that would have been pushing it.</blockquote>

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