[UA] Synchronicity

[Katie and Saul]

We had a little moment of synchronicity after the one-shot we played a week
ago.

A couple of days earlier, Katie (my wife and one of my players) had been
working on her character for the forthcoming campaign, including choosing a
name. She had pawed over a baby name book for quite a while before she chose
"Zoe". "What should her surname be?" she asked me. I was, at that moment
sitting at the computer working on a short story about a man named Frank
James, so I just said "James", not thinking she find the name interesting
enough. But she took it, and Zoe James she was.

Jump forward to last friday night. We had just concluded the game, and Ben
and Sam (my cousin and brother, respectively-- yeah, it's a family affair
;)) were standing up, getting ready to leave. Katie had gotten out the
notebook in which she had been writing about Zoe, and it was sitting on the
table. Ben glanced tiredly down at it. His gaze froze.

"What's that?"

"Just some notes about my character."

"Her name is.. Zoe James?"

"Yeah."

"But.. Zoe James is this girl at uni that I flirt with. I just spoke to her
today."

"Uh.."

So now Katie has to change her character's name, unless she wants a certain
image coming into Ben's mind at every session. It's not the freakiest
coincidence in history, I know, but Zoe is a pretty uncommon name... it was
a cool way to end a UA session, anyway.

Saul


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