OT: My boys...

[natehale1971]

hello everyone, you've all been so great, and supportive of my situation i thought i would share these with you. i laughed and smiled for the first time in almost a year today.. Jack called Daddy when Emma wasn't around. And he kept wiping my tears away.


Me and Jack


Zachary opening his gifts.


Jack right after he called me "Daddy" again.






Has anyone else incorporated the quest to find out about their family into their T2k campaign?

My character CW3 Nathaniel Hale Spaight was driven about getting back to his family.. learning anything he could about them. his last letter from 'home' was telling about how his family was dealing with the post-TDM nuclear exchanges. How his father had become a local community leader that had ran afoul of CivGov who had taken the family property (a 40 acre farm, and the kind of severe missmangagement that the FEMA people had been doing... and alot of other things as well).

[Targan]

Family is likely to play a very important role in my campaign. The PC CO in my campaign Major Anthony Po is the heir to a massive fortune since his parents died and he has no siblings. The only relative he has left in the CONUS is his granny and he has reason to believe that MilGov has her in "protective custody" somewhere around San Francisco.

A major NPC in campaign met the PCs during a quest to find his son, a US Marine, in the Poland part of the campaign. The sad part was that his son had been one of the PCs earlier in the campaign but was killed.

[natehale1971]

Originally Posted by Targan

Family is likely to play a very important role in my campaign. The PC CO in my campaign Major Anthony Po is the heir to a massive fortune since his parents died and he has no siblings. The only relative he has left in the CONUS is his granny and he has reason to believe that MilGov has her in "protective custody" somewhere around San Francisco.

A major NPC in campaign met the PCs during a quest to find his son, a US Marine, in the Poland part of the campaign. The sad part was that his son had been one of the PCs earlier in the campaign but was killed.

We had a set of adventures in our campaign where the Joint Cheifs-of-Staff had come across some information that GOA Jonathan Cummings older brother was in a Med Alliance P.O.W. Camp located outside Saarland and hadn't actually been killed when their airborne command post had been shot down as originally was believed.

But in fact it was an elaborate trap that was meant to draw MilGov into making a disasterous move by elements of CivGov to discredit MilGov by restarting combat operations during the erstaz peacetalks that was being sponsored by the Swiss Confederation and Vatican between the NATO Alliance, the Med Alliance and the Warsaw Pact.

[JimmyRay73]

I find that family can be a great motivator and character hook in campaigns, mostly because family is a great motivator in real life. Good to see you and the kids having some fun.

[natehale1971]

Originally Posted by JimmyRay73

I find that family can be a great motivator and character hook in campaigns, mostly because family is a great motivator in real life. Good to see you and the kids having some fun.

Thank you so much.. i've missed them so damn much. and they said they've missed me. that they love me. and jack called me daddy. emma had said i was nothing to jack, that he didn't even remember me. he sat there in my lap and watched TV and played with the toy chinook helicopter i had bought him.

if anyone knows where i can find him more chinook helicopter toys please let me know. that's his favorite helicopter, and he's been wanting one so damn bad, and when i handed him the toy in it's package he was so excited that he couldn't open it. i had bought him that helicopter because something in my heart said to get it for him. he's my boy no matter what that bitch says. he picked me to be his daddy, and he's in my heart for eternity and beyond. and he's proven that i'm in his just as much.

i dont care how muh they cost... if you guys can find chinook helicopter toys, please tell me. so i can get them for my boys.

[Targan]

I think as adults we all understand that relationships sometimes end badly and we expect our ex-partners to sometimes say hurtful things but using kids as emotional weapons - I'm sorry but I consider that to be skirting the edge of evil. No matter what one parent might think of the other parent it is just plain wrong for one parent to bad-mouth the other to their kids. Just. Plain. Wrong.

I feel bad for you Nate, I really do. I rarely get to see my daughter because of how my ex and her family feel about me so I understand some of how bad you must be hurting.