Perverted Agon Player declares Epithets with his Indoor Voice
Soft-spoken Allen Shaw was almost kicked out of his tabletop group last Friday when he refused to shout out his name and epithets as he played Agon. Strife player Bianca Esposito says that everyone had seemed like they were on board for the game, but that was obviously not the case. She says, “Allen went through character creation just fine with a big burly hero dedicated to Ares. Perfect for bombastic Greek heroics. But then when it came time to play he simply stated what his name and epithet was, and then went to roll the dice. If you leave an Agon game with your voice intact, you’re doing something wrong. I let it slide the first few times, thinking it was just a joke, but when he refused to shout about his lineage from Hector while fighting a gorgon? That just messed up.”
Other players say that Shaw has shown other deviant behavior as well. “He only ever raises his eyebrows at nat 20s when playing D&D,” said Vince Nelson. “And his how-do-you-want-to-do-this descriptions are always some variation of ‘I slice them up.’ He doesn’t even go into detail about the spew of blood, or the specific shape of the slices across his enemies’ bodies. It’s unseemly is what it is.”
Shaw accepts that his play-style is unorthodox, but unrepentantly contends that his lifestyle choice of quiet appreciation is just as valid as any other player’s. “I’m not here to get a noise complaint, or to jump up and down at something that has a 5% chance every time the dice are rolled. I’m just here to hang with friends and have a good game. And Agon is great! I have a whole spreadsheet ready to game the Vault of Heaven/Divine Favor economy and speed through those constellations.”
