Mistakes of Lantern Cove

Overall I’m very happy with Lantern Cove and how it’s gone, but there are a couple of things I’d go back and correct, for sure.

The first is that period of time where I just… forgot that Fate had a Deceive skill, and in my brain’s struggle to figure out what someone would roll to deceive others, just went with Rapport. For like an entire episode. I remember doing the audio editing afterwards and listening to myself, and suddenly remembering that Deceive exists and realizing I’d been a very silly GM.

I’m happy to say that the players have never let me forget that for a moment. Any time we’re taking a moment to think of what skill to use for something, they pipe up with ‘Rapport!’

The second thing is, I don’t know where the name Molly came from. Looking back at what Lyra gave me before we started playing, I see that Freyja did indeed have a good friend, also into poetry and such… named Mary. Somehow when I set things up for the first dream episode, Mary turned into Molly and I completely forgot there had ever been a Mary. In fact, if I’m remembering right I later made the librarian’s first name Mary instead. (call me out on that if I’m misremembering.) So where the name ‘Molly’ came from I’ve no idea. I don’t even know anybody named Molly in real life.

Happily, Lyra never got upset about it - they just went with it, and it’s been Molly ever since.

Sera