Actual Play – Page 55

The Circles (1/29/2020)

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Malik and Mordecai are recovering from injuries sustained in the last mission. Malik is suspicious that Jessica knows more than she’s sharing, shares with the others that she did in fact offer the spider doctor lady a job in CISRA. After a comment about how it’s not right to give “monsters the keys to the city,” Stasia takes it personally and storms out.

The Quiet (1/15/2020)

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Introducing…Pancake Special! Everyone’s called into Jean McCleud’s office to meet the new addition to our team. Maroon plaid suit, short red hair, sparkly fingernails, carrying a holstered frying pan. McCleud says that PS was on a covert ops team but all the other members are on a long quarantine from their last mission, so has been assigned to us.

Downfall (1/13/2020)

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In Downfall, you choose a Flaw you want to explore and build a unique and irredeemably broken world around it. See how Greed destroys a city, how Loyalty corrupts a kingdom, or how Curiosity betrays a galactic empire. You’ll craft traditions that bring your society to life, then see how it all comes tumbling down.

Arachne Genesis (1/6/2020)

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The camera pans in from an aerial view to Jessica’s home in the suburbs. We zoom into her dreams: she’s Spiderman in San Francisco. A raspy voice whispers “All this and more can be yours…” Jessica awakes!

Elvis Has Left the Building (12/12/2019)

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Malik comes bearing donuts, which means the case isn’t one we’re going to like. But it’s right in DC.

Downfall (12/9/2019)

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The Hasty and the Hateful (12/8/2019)

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We race for the same reason we breathe—it is life, the connection to the pavement is like our connection to family.

Ghosts (12/6/2019)

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Tonight the dead may seek to live again. But the night is short and the path back will not be easy. May I guide them skillfully as the Eagle, Crow, and Owl watch over them. Welcome to my campfire, Ghosts who seek life!

Abyssal (12/4/2019)

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Abyssal is a Forged in the Dark role-playing game about humans, monsters, and the people in between. In this game, you will play a group of no-longerfully-human, not-yet-fully-monsters, called Liminals—people who have been touched by supernatural forces, but not entirely overcome by them—who are working together to accomplish something truly extraordinary.

Hollow Lake (12/2/2019)

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Malik is called into the director’s office—Jean MacCleod re: forest fire. Very unhappy with covering for that, also the sample from the fungus we’d captured is inert. This next assignment seems almost like a punishment, “back to the basics”—Hollow Lake.