So, quite a bit of gaming happened in the last weeks and I really wanted to talk about it more on here.
Let's start with #VivaLaQueerBar, a #DescendedFromTheQueen game by @plotbunnygames. When I went to visit my #Monsterhearts group, we didn't intend to actually play any rpgs that Saturday. Unfortunately, public transport is kind of a clusterfluffle right now, so when we left at 9 in the evening, we spent about four hours getting home, with a "fun" mixture of trains, trams, busses and platforms. Luckily, I was traveling with two great friends and had the small Viva La Queerbar booklet with me.
When the conversation died down, I slapped the little booklet on the ICE table, they downloaded an app for drawing from a virtual deck of cards and we imagined ourselves in a better world, where the onboard restaurant of the (punctual!) high-speed train between Berlin and Cologne is actually a well-known #queer café, beloved by the revelers returning home after #ChristopherStreetDay parades. Conductor Max (close to retirement age, still looks dashing in a uniform, impressive mustache) keeps an eye on the café and cook Rita (pink highlights in grey hair) is always there to patch up celebrants who just *maybe* have overdone it a little.
We didn't play for very long, but I felt like imagining ourselves in that space definitely helped us get through the mix of annoyance and boredom that usually accompanies travel with late departures, cancelled trains and other problems.