What's the most lore-accurate thing that happened on your games BY ACCIDENT?
I was thinking about some stuff that has been happening in my games lately, and how sometimes things fit so much into the lore/mechanics even when not intended, so I wanted people to share their stories about this.
Here's my most recent one:
We are playing a (mostly) MtA game with high school characters. We have a rather big and ongoing setting that combines all WoD splats so, at this point it's hard to tell if something is a Mage game or not 😅
Well, sraight to the point: the storyteller introduces this character who is your typical blonde beauty. She's popular, rather bossy, believes that the school belongs to her. Not the bully type but, man, she has quite the temper.
The storyteller intended her to have an antagonistic role. Not as a villain, as she isn't actually bad, but as a rival.
Fast forward some sessions. We, as players, have completely fallen under her sphere of influence. We find her to actually be a rather likeable character whose goals align with ours (she wants to change the school for the better, she's just not so good at coming up with plans). And we realize that we have been dragged to her side by the force of her charisma and strength of character. I was playing a rather independent character who couldn't care less about being friends with popular girls, and I found myself going out my way to be liked by her.
So here comes the funny part: she's an Autumn Sidhe, and we had been inadvertently playing her kith's frailty. The storyteller never made us roll to be affected by it, as he'd rather give us freedom and just roleplay her as a highly charismatic person.
He didn't expect it to go this way at all, but we all found it to be rather cool: to roleplay being affected by a Sidhe's charm without even knowing it!
By the way, we have now adopted her (maybe she adopted us). Changeling and Mage views very much align, so we now have sort of a common quest.