GM: Sam Tillis
Players: Adrienne Mueller, James Lawton, Sean Nittner, Sarah Terman, Matthew Fisher
System: Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition
I was recovering from a minor surgery (nothing big, I just had a collapsed septum since high school and finally designed to have it fixed) so a lot of my attention was going towards not becoming a horror from mythos myself with random bleeding during the game. I was successful at that (huzzah) but my notes may be less comprehensive than usual.
Recap
Some goals we had for the session:
- Old Bundari, pay him a visit and ask about the Black Wind.
- Ndovu (where the bodies were found), go check it out.
- Endicott, pay him a visit and ask about the curse on his lodge.
Opening
Like a series of photographs being developed we see shots of the train arriving, Sam Mariga making it on, a cluster of men and women departing, the fires burning!
Catherine, knowing she was spotted by Országs and their companions did not dare follow them, but instead ran to Sam Mariga’s place to rally people to put out the fire. As she arrived the house was already crumbling to dust. Through the open door she saw the embers wrap around the tea box with the nine-legged spider as it’s logo. Though nearly all of his plants were destroyed, Catherine managed to salvage a single African Thistle that survived.
Catherine returned to Hotel Stanley, entrusted the thistle to Iris, and told her companions what she saw. Colby went to the Nairobi State Hospital to watch over Jimmy and make sure he was safe.
Morning
We were greeted by the friendly staff delivering us morning tea (of the same brand we had seen everywhere) but Evangeline refused it. “We’d rather drink boiling water!”
As usual we split up to make the most of our time.
Francois and Amos returned to the mission to pick up our guide Okomu. Lady Evangeline recruited the solicitor Ellwell as well. With Okomu’s advice we rented pack animals and made our way on foot to Old Bundari’s house. On the way Okumu said “normally it’s locals that take foreigners to the outside of town to rob them, so if you have any ideas, I don’t have any money to steal.”
Lady Evangeline, shocked and offended by the insinuation said “I would never go to someone’s home and steam from them.” We all smiled ironically at the hundreds of years of colonization we knew the British were responsible for in Naorobi.
Catherine asked her (acquaintance? friend? the distinction was very important to Lady Evangeline) Sgt. Bumption to keep an eye out for the Országs and their companions (staying at the Hampton House) and to please try to be discreet and stay safe. She could tell that urging caution was having no effect on Bumption. He wanted her to see him as brave. She wanted to see him alive. The point was probably moot as His Majesties Royal Lions Rifleman Brigade were probably never subtle in the best of times.
Evangeline similarly sent Winston to hire people to keep an eye on the cultists, to round up some tea that was not the seemingly ubiquitous brand marked with a nine-legged spider/scorpion, and to stay safe! I’m not sure which of those directives proceeded the other others.
Trek to Embakasi
With Okomu and Ellwell to help us find the way and translate Kikuyu, we made our way on pack animals to Old Bundari’s home in Embakasi.
Along the way Amos sought to befriend Okomu by speaking of non-western beliefs. Okomu said “Your god is lazy. He is supposed to be all powerful but does nothing. We believe in the spirts, but your people keep telling us we should forget them.”
When discussing the Black Wind he said it comes from the mountains and the best thing to do is avoid it (go away from the mountains until it disperses). He also said it comes when the moon is dark…just five days away. Oh boy.
People who are outsiders (like us) and people who have no tribe (they do not love and are not loved) join the Black Wind and worship it.
We arrived in the village of Embakasi and found it was a mixture of traditional mud brick construction and piecemeal assembly if discarded British materials (siding, fences, discarded lumber, etc).
Old Bundari
We found Bundari’s home in the late morning. A home of mud brick construction with gardens around it. There was only one entrance (a curtain of beads) and no windows. Iris walked about the grounds looking for signs of the occult and realized the entire garden and shape of the house is in the form of a single Elder Sign. Good thinking!
We tried caling a few times but got no answer, so eventually Francois pulled back the curtain and went in, with Catherine at his tail. On the walls we saw more protective wards and symbols.
In a small room in the center we saw and old man sitting on a run with his eyes closed, deep in meditation, or something more. We tried to wait him but it was to no avail.
Asking About Town
While waiting for Old Bundari to wake Catherine and Evangeline set about to explore the village of Embakasi (with Ellwell as their translator). The didn’t find much but they learned a few things
- The brand of tea that was so ubiquitous (even in a small village like this) was Tann Kaur, an Indian importer that controlled all the tea in Kenya.
- We found a tailor who could turn the bolt of fabric Catherine has purchased in Mombasa into a dress for her.
- Lady Evangeline has very strong opinions about Catherine’s proclivity for making “friends” (air quotes all Evangeline). Catherine does want to be taken more seriously though. She knew that Bumption was going to try and be brave and she was very scared he would get hurt doing so.
“Sgt Bumption might act with bravado even though I asked him to use discretion.”
“And that has nothing to with with your behavior?”
“No. Not at all.” Catherine blushed very red.
In Dreaming
Back in the hut, a young child entered. After getting over the surprise of seeing us the child told us (through Ellwell’s translation) that Old Bundari had been sleeping for many days and it was his job to feed him soup, massage his muscles, and bathe him. Old Bundari was in Dreaming!
The child knows an “activist” (hard to translate, but maybe Johnstone Kenyatta) who comes to visit Old Bundari from time to time.
Convinced that Old Bundari might not wake for many days (and that he might be in danger) Amos led Francois into Dreaming.
Amos. The dream started on a boat. Quickly he noticed one portal not like the rest. It lead to dreaming.
Francois. Dreamed of mists and change, in the manner of his meeting with Nodins. He heard the voice of Nodins that led him to an aperture in the mist, much like a photo lens. He stepped forward.
The first descended the 70 stairs into light dreaming. They were naked but men (or men-like figures) donned them with white robes.
Then the descended the 700 stairs into deep slumber, where they would meet. Amos with his Sword of Dreaming hanging from his side (even though he did not take the sword to Old Bundari’s home).
Interlude in the waking world
Catherine and Evangeline returned and Iris caught them up on the plan. As it would do no good for them to idle, the set off back to Naoribi with Ellwell to see if they could find Johnstone Kenyatta.
Return to Dreams
After they left, Iris found it hard to keep her eyes open, and eventually fell into slumber herself. Her dream started in a forest with Edward. In her dreams he represents what is lost and what could be. They talk at length as Edward is the only one she can tell how much all of this scares her. In this dream Edward guides Iris to an archway between trees and upon passing it she enters into dream herself.
When she descended the 770 steps into deep slumber she arrived at the same time as Francois and Amos. Time in dreams is more narrative than causal.
Francois inquired how they wake up and Amos told them it would either be when the dream was over…or with some risk, if they forced themselves awake [Make a Dreaming roll].
The were surrounded by woods that glowed phosphorescent under an alien sky. Unable to resist Iris examined the trees and found they were nothing from earth, or rather that the were the amalgam of many dreams of trees from earth and otherwise. See found seeds and slipped them into her pocket.
Iris also noticed woodland creatures that seemed part racoon, part chipmunk, and with tentacular faces. The stared at the group, but in particular stared at the Sword of Dreaming. As the group began to move, the creatures followed.
Amos warned that if Old Bundari was trapped in dreams, they would likely have to go to an very dangerous place to to save him. The dreamers reaffirmed their commitment and proceeded forward.
Amos led the way by following a spiraling outward path, much like the pattern of the elder sign and the began to leave this terrain and experience their own individual dream landscapes.
Johnstone Kenyata
On the way back Ellwell said that Johnstone was a troublemaker and Catherine liked him already!
The found him at the Kikuyu Centra Association. A secretary showed some reluctance to allow us to visit him, but we assured him we were allies.
Lady Evangeline examined the art on the walls of the center. It was tasteful and skillfully made. It spoke the story that we are as good as you are.
When introduced we told Johnstone that Jackson Elias was killed and that we were continuing his work. We also told him we had friends who were seeing Old Bundari now…
Dreaming
Each dreamer and their idioms
- Iris (scintillating) – the trees turned crystaline.
- Amos (yellowing) – snake moved across the dream landscape and as the snake moved so did they.
- Francoi (alchemical wedding) – the forest appeared like photographs developing with the three travelers bleeding into the images.
The dream was not trying to stop them, but Iris was distracted, Amos slowed by the pace of the snake, and Francois could not see very far ahead (it had not yet been developed). It took work for them to stay together.
Before proceeding the dreamers worked together to form an object in dreams that would bind them. A journal with each of their stories. The stepped forward again.
- Iris (Sun’s Splendor) – It is beautiful in here. Enchanting.
- Amos (Autumn) – At the precipice of winter. Surrounded by cliffs (into winter, into the abyss). The creeping chaos below. Moving towards death. Memories of the Stump with Branches as a face of our enemy.
- Francois (ash) -Autumn as well, but the leaves dissolving like film does when exposed to fire, turning to ash. In the ashes he saw reflections of his fallen comrades in the war, and sought the trenches for safety.
The dream was warping and going askew. Iris was fading out of existence as she became more enamored. Francois was hiding form his foes and moving erratically… towards the cliffs that only Amos could see.
“You didn’t warn me how pretty it would be.” Iris as she held a crystalline branch. Francois heard gunfire around him and fled. Amos has to call them both back together, back to the path.
Worlds Coliding
“The old ways are cruel. Ways brought to our land many years ago. I have tried to escape them and learn your ways. It is ironic that you come hear to learn mine” – Johnstone Kenyata.
In talking, we learned many things from him:
- Bundari uses his magic to fight against evil.
- His god Ngai, the god of Mt. Kenya, offers protection (but from afar)
- Mt. Satina is where the Black Wind comes from.
- Rumors were that the Carlyle expedition was seen after the massacre, specifically Brady was seen by Nail’s Nelson, who is here in Nairobi! He might be able to tell us more.
- Bundari’s plan is to fight the Black Wind with spiritual warfare, Kenyata is trying to make things better by disabling the political forces that allowed the Black Wind to take root here. He’s fighting for independence.
- Regarding the cult, outsiders has been pooling inside the Hampton House.
- They will soon head to the black mountain, where no sane Kikuyu will go. It’s a place of death.
- The only place the high priestess is to be found is in nightmares.
Deeper in Dreaming
- Iris (Drowned King) – She was offered a happy path and rejected it…so dreaming rejected her as well. Everything goes dark and she feels as if she’s falling, no… drowning. Sinking deeper and deeper.
- Amos (Copper) – He sees the machine parts from the designs of the pale viper but they are all made of copper. In the machine he saw reflections of himself and many possible futures. A startling few where happy and safe, so many others were filled with flames.
- Francois (Earth’s Heart) – Digging through grave soil. Smells of yew and rich earth. Decaying scent. Smell of the inside of the caverns of Giza.
As the moved forward, separated by dreams, the each encountered the Black Pharaoh!
“Oh, now you’ve gotten yourselves into trouble. What are you doing here?”
They realized [Dreaming roll] that this isn’t the Black Pharaoh, but someone dreaming of him. Iris dreamed her way to the others. The waters were never there, her clothes aren’t even wet. She entered Amos’ dream and saw his reflection in the machines, just as he was rebuffing the pharaoh.
“Why in the seven hells should I tell you anything?”
The Pharaoh lashed out and Amos began to unravel as a mummy losing it’s wrappings. He felt never before excruciating pain. [Failed power rolll]
Francois tried to tear at the wrappings of the Pharaoh but even as the wrappings unraveled, he felt his body gorged with grave dirt and worms [Failed brawl. Failed power roll]
Iris, who had never touched it before, drew the Sword of Dreaming form Amos’ sheath and slashed at the reflection, cutting it away to reveal the form of M’weru!!
Momentarily freed of her illusion, the dreamers had to decide of they would turn back now or delve deeper into her realm. “We are so close to Bundari, we can’t stop now!” Amos rallied the other to go deeper into dream!
The shared one more dreamscape (Against Nature) and had to wonder if the Crawling Chaos is an entity or a place. In this place, even thinking a thing can make it real.
- Amos concentrated on the sleeping image of Old Bundari.
- Iris carpets the land in New England flowers…that glared at her with ill intent. Glaring with squamous desire, gnashing teeth as flowers do.
- Francois recalled the sanctum of the Ulema, but the walls closed in around them.
As the path spiraled the found a room with Old Bundari awake and wrapped in golden chains. The also saw themselves sleeping in his presence, also wrapped in chains. “You’ve made your way into a trap.” Bundari greeted them “That is a very old sword.”
With no time for pleasantries Amos struck the chains that held him. Then he fried Iris and Francois. Before he could strike his own chains M’weru came around the corner and reached out to him, her arms snakes. They wrapped around Amos and tried to take the sword from him. He held fast and after many strokes, cut his own chains, freeing himself from her and from the dream!
A few more questions for Kenyata
Who is the sorcerer? She might be the one on the mountain, but she would have someone local…someone like Taan Kaur. He shared her address.
Can you help us do violence to the Black Wind (it may be the only answer)? I recognize the value of violence, but that is not my forte. And we encourage everyone in the association to find other means. If you want violence, I suggestion you turn to the big game hunters that come here.
Do you know Colonel Endicott? He owns a lodge outside of town, but it’s cursed. People go there to die. He sometimes comes to town to complain about the way the papers talk about his lodge…and then stays at the Hampton House.
Does Ngai offer protection to others from the Black Wind? He is a distant god. (This began some discussion of how close or far otherworldly entities are from our world).
Can you help us? Kenyata offered a guide that could take us to Ndovu and point the way to Mt. Satina (though he would not go here)
As we parted Evangeline complimented his art and he nodded with respect (and the expectation of receiving respect as well).
Awake!
Iris, Francois, Amos, and Bundari all woke in Bundari’s hut. Okomu was watching over them, holding Iris’ gun. Each of them now had to face the consequences of the horrors in the dream [sanity loss]
- Francois pulled out a lighter to provide light in the dark hut (and upset Amos in the process).
- Iris woke flounder as though she was sill drowning.
- Amos still believed he was in dream and tried to cut the invisible chains, until Old Bundari put his hand on Amos’ to calm him. He put his hands on Amos’ face, pushed open his eyes and said “We are not in dreaming anymore” And with that, Amos felt calm and the panic passed. [Bundari cast a spell Earthly Respite].
“I was in trouble and you did me a great service. I would have taken me days to break free of M’weru’s hold” (he had no fear of saying her name).
Bundari moved to the kitchen to make some non-labeled tea and spoke to us as old acquittances would. “Yes, Amos, I know you’ve been fighting the cultists for a long time, because people I have fought, have dreamed of you. Assume I know about your fight and your enemies.”
We told him we wanted to dismantle the cult and he told us about the Carlyle Expedition’s unnatural beasts that were sent to kill many and take them to the mountain. There were other (presumably M’wera and Hypatia) taken to the mountain as well.
There is a ritual…one that has been hastened and will take place in four days. In the dreams it is called a ritual of birthing! We feared the creature that could allow the Crawling Chaos would be Hypatia’s child but didn’t realize it would take five years to be born.
The Carlyle Expedition are hard to find. M’weru was in dreams but the others have cut themselves off. The only other he could contact was Roger Carlyle who he believes is far from here, hiding, and his mind is broken.
The Black Wind is not the marks, but the effect of the mask. What we fight is the bloody tongue. When the tongue lashes, the wind blows. It is the tongue that we must fight.
Bundari rummaged through his drawers and pulled out a horsehair fly whip. He gave it to Iris and told her it could help find (and resist) evil.
When asked about ways of fighting the Bloody Tongue. “In dreams I saw it. A sign, a sigil, that could contain a creature. It broke, vanished, went away. The Eye of Light and Darkness exists, or existed, or will exist. You have to tell your friend to stop moving sideways through time.” He told us of the sigil that could bind a god!
The pyramids and mountains! Were they create to let evil into our world or to seal portals that had already been opened? Bundari’s answer was unsatisfying. “You need to spend more time in dreaming to understand that these, like many things, are not just one thing.”
Bundari asked “Now that you are free. Do you intend to stop the birthing? If it does this, things will be much harder.” Francois, Amos, and Iris all concurred that they would stop it.
Francois brought up the Lord of Mists and Bundari asked if he met him in dreaming? Francois couldn’t be sure, but believed so. “Of all the creatures from other planes, he is the lord of dreams. If you need time to enchant his spear, there are places where you would have as much time as needed!”
As for the creatures, they are the zoogs. Quite friendly, the brew a lovely wine.
Iris asked if she could plant the seeds she brought back from dreaming. He pondered this and said “things shift between worlds more than you might expect.” Old Bundari is sure good at giving elusive answers!
Francois asked if the cost [power] to enchant the spear could be shared? “You can invest your power in it safely. You’re friends can try to help but it isn’t without risk!”
Local Defender Pub
We found Bertrum “Nails” Nelson pounding back a drink the the Local Defender Pub at night. He was not at all surprised to have two strangers sit down beside him and welcomed the beers we brought with us.
Nails, who liked to talk about himself in the third person, told us he was old chums with Jack Brady. They were soldiers of fortune together. He saw him back in 1923 in Hong Kong at the Yellow Lily Bar on Wang Shen Street, near the causeway. Jack was lying low, trying to hid form something Nails did not know.
He knows the way to the site of the dead and to Mt. Satina. He could take us there, for a payment.
Taan Kaur, in addition to running the tea business also runs a brothel, and Catherine accidently insinuated that Lady Evangeline was her competitor “You told him I was a madam? You told him I was French? How dreadful!!”). Nails also agreed to watch out who comes and goes from her compound as well.
When we surveyed the bar to see if there were any folks that looked like cultists, we saw none at all. Later on the streets the town felt as if it was deserted. The Black Wind is moving to the mountain!
That Night
Okomu found us and told us the plan to enter dreaming and perform the ritual. We would need to return to Bundari’s in the morning and bring with us a long bone!
Winston reported to Lady Evangeline that the members of Hampton House had all left Noaribi and headed north. He did procure her a small amount of tea, and by all signs, he was safe.
Bumption reported into Catherine much of the same news, but also that Catherine was the suspect in the two fires (on the train and at Sam Mariga’s house) because she was seen at both of them. The undersecretary was leading up the investigation. Catherine said she would get out of town but asked that if Recruit the His Majesties Royal Lions Rifleman Brigade were sent to detain her in the morning, perhaps Bumption could make a bird call to warn her. He knew many!
Amos, Francois, and Iris spent the night dreaming with Old Bundari [practicing the Dreaming skill]. He took them to the sunless abyss at the bottom of dreaming, Nodin’s realm. He told them that he is occasionally brought here because he breaks some rules of dreaming (they noticed he was not in white robes like the others, but his own garb) and Nodins keeps him in check.
He told them they would have a measure of safety there but that they should focus on the goal. Kill the thing that is going to make things worse. Kill the thing that is being born. Bundari put a spell into Amos’ mind “Earthly Serenity” and hoped it would help.
He told us that Nodins is our ally, not our friend, and not to confuse those. He also said that making sacrifices was a slippery slope. You make one sacrifice to do the thing that is needed, and then it is easier to make the next.
Endicott’s Lodge
In the morning (very early in the morning) Catherine and Evangeline packed up all their things, the needed items of the others and headed out (but did not check out of Hotel Stanley, they did not want to be noticed leaving).
In a bumpy jeep (Evangline hired a car for the day) the came to Endicott’s lodge. The compound held former majesty but it had decayed over the years, filled with an aura of despondency. The lodge was bucolic and verdant with beautiful views of the wilderness. Just far enough from town to feel like nature, just close enough to still feel like civilization.
At first startled by strangers arriving. Endicott quickly invited his old friend (“friend is it?” Catherine chided) into the lodge for cool tea.
Endicott’s mind was troubled. He faded in and out of lucidity and did not quite know the reality of the situation. Not as shattered as Warren Bessart, but clearly in great pain.
“Those bastards the Carlyles! They made certain promises …then went off and died. I hate them”
A moment later he did not recall what he said. We asked for a large bone form one of his hunts and he sent his servant Silent Joe (who we later learned could talk, but it served him better not to) to fetch one for Winston.
He was reluctant to talk in more details about the Carlyle expedition, but Evangeline insisted. At first he became agitated and moved to prevent us from leaving, indicating that we must spend the night. But when called out on his threatening behavior he collapsed and started crying “Poor Augustus and Sarah! They died years before but Penhew promised…”
“He could bring them back?” Catherine offered. Endicott did not reply, but it was clear that it was true.
Begrudgingly he lent us his favorite gun “Mrs. Caruthers” [big fuck off elephant gun, 3d6+4 damage]. Winston and “Silent” Joe returned with an elephant femur. We set out, but Catherine hoped to return.
Return to Dreaming
Evangeline and Catherine continued on to Old Bundari’s and we met up with the the team. Catherine brought her yith components as she hoped to make use of the extra “time” to forge another (more stable) device.
Lady Evangeline stood watch as the rest of us slept and entered dreaming.
For Catherine, her dream was ahead of her time. That of a noir private detective. Ewing’s the name, finding crooks is my game. Her client was George (from London). When he left the door to her office had changed, and when she followed him, she entered Dreaming.
Old Bundari took us all to the abyss. It was the safest place, and perhaps the best place to consecrate a weapon to Nodins. Amos and Iris created a dream construct to hold time in place by filling the space with clocks that each ran very slow. Amos conceived of them while Iris manually set each of their inner workings. With great effort they condensed as week of dreaming into a day in the real world.
Francois and Catherine both aided each other in making the devices they had held in the waking world manifest in dreams. The spoke of the details of each item, the length, the weight, the feel in your hands. Catherine was lucky, the yithian components appeared [successful dreaming roll] but for Francois he had to give up one of his memoires, that of a his first time he sold his photos and the faces of all his friends from that time in his life [failed dreaming roll, pushed and failed again].
Meanwhile, holding the dreamscape together Amos and Iris discussed how any of this was possible.
Amos began “There must be a science behind all of this.”
“Must there Amos? Why must there be?”
“There must be some structure. Rules.”
“Is that why this doesn’t terrify you? Because you believe there are some rules the universe is playing by?”
“No, but I’m comforted that not all things supernatural are connected to the crawling chaos.”
In the waking
Anaïs read to Evangeline while she fed Iris. Anaïs and Winston fed and cared for the others.
Johnstone Kenyata’s guide arrived and was very pleased when Lady Evangeline asked for all the particulars of getting to the mountain, having enough supplies, precautions in case of injury or fatigue, avoiding certain people, finding others, having enough water, our return journey, etc. Most outsiders ignore all of those details so the guide was very happy that Evangeline was paying attention to them. He told her that the jeep wouldn’t be able to make it far past Nairobi and that pack animals would be needed. All of the supply bearers, alas, had been hired out already.
Mark 2
Catherine worked with Iris, who was able to spare some time from tuning clocks to help Catherine tune her alien devices. Together they built a new and improved version of the yith artifact [extreme success on mechanical repair]. This new model could safely (that’s important) expel or absorb energy…or move it through time. It seemed to be that the energy from the first device was was powered this one.
Nodin’s Task
Francois spent the week in isolation first carving the spear and then taking it to the shores to let the waves wash over it. With each time he dipped in under the ways he saw there the waters ran through the runnels and carved a bit more so the waters moved perfectly through them.
When it was finished the four of us each put our hands on the spear and channeled our own life force into it. It was hungry for more, but thankfully we only gave what was required [successful power rolls all around]
One more task in Dreaming
While here, in dreaming, in this pace of frozen time, it was both more dangerous and more opportune to use the powers the yith gave Catherine to search for the Eye of Light and Darkness.
The vision thew her back in time to the pyramids. Rodger Carlyle climbing up the red pyramid to the seal. He performed some action she could not make out, and it was broken.
Some time later she saw in the sand below, a figure pick up half of the broken seal and place it in a leather messenger bag. Her vision alighted to show her the face of Jack Brady!
Catherine wondered at the possibility of not just seeing back in time, but going back in time to stop this all. It just just be possible.
Waking again
We woke with the bone spear and the yith artifacts in hand. And for the most part we all freaked out a bit.
- Evangeline saw the bone in Francois’ lap without any transformation at all was now a spear.
- Francois was weathered by the experience. His hairs whitened. Believes time has moved forward a week.
- Iris ran outsideand check the time, thankful for a clear sky!
- Catherine stares at her pocketwatch and swears the seconds have stopped ticking. She has to be shaken out of it.
Okomu saw all this, and all the things he had to translate for Old Bundari and said it was too much he was done.
Fair enough.
Thoughts on the game
The interactions between Catherine and Evangeline were DELIGHTFUL to me. So much back and forth about propriety, so many status shifts, so many misunderstandings. I loved it!
I think the yith device should be called and Energy Displacement Device (or EDD).
The bone spear needed to be carved from a single bone, but did it need to be a single piece? Perhaps the femur was bisected vertically to make two shafts fastened together for a longer spear, still make of a single bone?
The idea of killing Hypatia Masters and her unborn child is upsetting to me. The trope of womb horror, and the general way in which women (and women’s bodies) are seen as disposable plot devices is gross. The fact that Hypatia was coerced to have an abortion and is now bearing some kind of child of the crawling chaos just reeks of the way we societally disregard and kill women. I know this is what’s baked into the adventure, but I’m talking to Sam about ways we could address this in game.
Tasks before we trek out
- Ask the tailor to add black and green (flashback if possible) and pick up my dress.
- Pick up Colby in the hospital
- Investigate Taun Kaur’s stronghold.
- Recruit more big game hunters.
- Recruit the His Majesties Royal Lions Rifleman Brigade
- See if we can help Endicott. Bring him with us to get revenge? Something.
