My BFF is only a rare guest in my #pnp games due to her tight work schedule. But the real problem is that we have this running gag where she asks me 1-3x a year to run a game for her and some friends, which I then prep and organize ... only to run it without her bc she fell sick just before the date. It happens so often that we have to assume a curse is at work here. We have a fixed game date once a year which usually works out but every other attempt around the year gets foiled by the plague. It is uncanny.

So, when I prepared the game for tomorrow in a way that I can easily shift the narrative function of her character to the others, I thought myself being pessimistic. But guess who got sick with a cold just yesterday. She is at home, hot water bottle on her lap, rolled up in a blanket and pissed at the whole thing but I am at the point where I start to see the humor in it. She has initiated so many games over the years that turned out to be great and memorable. And missed all of them. That has to be a curse.

Oh, well. I do hope she gets better soon. Probably right when the holidays are over. As a double f-you from the universe. I wondered if she angered a witch or something.

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