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Chris and Midori's Homepage!

[picture of Chris and Midori in medieval garb]

Hello there! We're Chris Church and Midori Hirtzel-Church, and this is our very own home page! Even though we both have our own sites, we wanted this one to be "ours" as opposed to "his" or "hers." If you want to check out our other sites, you can follow the links to my site, Black Unicorn Wood, or to Chris's home page, Herne's Wood.

About Us

We're both from Cheektowaga, a suburb of Buffalo, New York, and were married on June 20, 1998. Chris is a civil engineer with the New York State Department of Transportation, and I'm a substitute teacher, working mainly in the parochial grammar schools in the Diocese of Buffalo. We own our own home in Cheektowaga, and share the house with our two cats, a male domestic shorthair named Ari (short for Arislan), and a female domestic longhair named Kerrigan.

Roleplaying with Chris and Midori

Both of us are avid role-players and gamemasters (though I'm probably more into gamemastering [or gamemistressing, as I like to call it] than Chris :-). For the uninitiated, role-playing is a form of interactive entertainment (sort of like improvisational theatre) where you create and then take on the role of a fictional character, and have adventures in a world created by the Gamemaster (or Gamemistress, in my case), a sort of director or referee. Unlike television or other passive forms of entertainment, in role-playing you get to decide what happens to your character. It's sort of like playing make-believe, only for grown-ups. Right now, we're gearing up to GM a Champions game based on the anime series Bubblegum Crisis.

If you'd like to know more about my career as a GM, follow the link to Midori's Roleplaying Page.

Games We've Run

(either individually or together)

D.C. After Dark: This was the very first game I was ever a StoryTeller (as White Wolf Game Studios calls the Gamemaster) for: a Chronicle for Vampire: The Masquerade set in Washington D.C. in the year 1997. I started running this game in the summer of 1994. It ran every Saturday for more than a year, and was the catalyst for my making a number of new friends...including Chris! So I guess you might say that gaming brought us together!
Windriders Unchained: The sequel to D.C. After Dark, this was a Chronicle for Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Set in the early twenty-first century at the Sept of the Windriders in Rock Creek Park in Georgetown, Washington D.C., it followed the adventures of a pack of young Garou (Werewolves) and their associates, all students at Georgetown University, as they carried out Gaia's will and attempted to make a name for themselves. This Chronicle began play in the summer of 1995, and ended in the winter of 1996.
Noxopolis Nites: The first game we co-ran! This was a campaign for NightLife, the role-playing game of Urban Horror, by Stellar Games. Set in the fictional city of Noxopolis, it chronicled the adventures of a group of Kin (what humanity calls "monsters"), as the attempted to learn about the world of the night and just survive from evening to evening!
Santa Angela: Another Chronicle for Vampire, this one ran for two sessions and then ended rather abruptly due to lack of interest. Oh, well.... However, a number of very nice web pages were created for the game, and I've placed them here on this site for your enjoyment.
Perchance to Dream: A Chronicle for Changeling: The Dreaming, this followed the adventures of a group of changelings (faeries in mortal flesh) as they discovered the wonders and mysteries of The Dreaming. Set in the changeling duchy of SilverWood, Virginia, this Chronicle ran from summer 1996 to spring 1997. I've since run two sequels to this game...
Perchance to Dream, Part 2: A Whole New World: This Chronicle took place some twenty years after Perchance to Dream, and followed the adventures of the changelings of the Free Holding of Heartwood. It ran from summer 1998 until the late spring of 1999, and is sort of unique in that I actually got to run the ending I had originally planned for it.
Perchance to Dream, Part 3: Lords of the Morning: Picking things up a year or so after the events of A Whole New World, this game followed the adventures of the members of the court of Prince Llew ap Fiona, ruler of the barony of The Silver Lion, and heir to the duchy of SilverWater. It ran from summer of 1999 until about mid-winter of 2001, embracing a large and varied cast of Player Characters in the process.
Winds of Change: This was the second Werewolf game I ran, and it also took place at Georgetown (though some twenty-odd years after Windriders Unchained). This game followed the adventures of a pack of young Garou dedicated to mending the relationships between the werewolves and the other shapechangers, and ran during the summer and autumn of 2001.
Strange Bedfellows: Our Chronicle for CJ Carella's WitchCraft. Set in the fictional city of San Tobal, California, it followed the adventures of a group of Gifted as they fought everything from demons to minions of the Mad Gods. Though the game didn't last that long, San Tobal is now the location for the WitchCraft adventures we GM every year at UB Con, a gaming convention held every year at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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Last updated -- May 1, 2002