The doorness of doors
Maybe I’m going to suck at this GMing thing. Maybe Monrroyo will end up self-destructing.
But I tell you what, I got my money’s worth tonight, only the second official day of play.
One player is running a Criamon mage who for various and sundry reasons doesn’t like to touch things. Well, gee, the obstacles there practically write themselves! Am I going to resist the obvious? I am not.
I brought him right up in front of a door. A closed door.
He promptly turned to his apprentice and delivered an ornate oratorical discursus on, well, the Doorness of Doors that had me in stitches. The end thereof:
“It is easy to think of doors as a way into someplace, an entrance. But think on it carefully, for in fact that is just precisely what they are not. The purpose of a door is to prevent entrance, not to invite it. They present an image that is not at all like a wall, but there is where they can deceive, for in fact there is often little difference. And that, my apprentice, is what I find most striking about this door.”
Ximun turns his head to again face the carven wood and iron.
“That, for all this time, it remains closed.”
The door is indeed still closed. I can’t wait to see what the apprentice (another PC, so it’s out of my hands) makes of this… but I tell you what, they’re going to regret it exceedingly if Suhayla has to roust her aged bones out of her chair to come open the damn door.
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