Players: Randy Lubin, Raphael D’Amico, Andrew Cedotal, Nick Punt
GM: Sean Nittner
System: Blades ’68
My most over the top Blades ’68 game yet!
We started with the Frame Up, but after these labor activists were created, we switched it up to be 1000′ Above Doskvol, with Chago showing the Ministry of Mayhem his operation in hopes they would work for him to cause chaos in the city as cover for his operations. Then everything exploded!
Our Scoundrels:
- Crail, radicalized by labor conditions. Close to Stoker, a fearless journalist who first got him started and always at odds with Russo, a rival activist who just wants everyone to take drugs and check out.
- Coralis Slide, a simple guy who does factory work and paranormal experiments on the side. He shares secrets with Chime the Whisper but fell out with Peding, the Strelari operative when he learned what they do.
- LG45K, pronounced Lagghak, is a hull owned by SMF sent to do heavy labor on the docks.
- Elden Oldman, aka Captain E.O. A time traveler from the past sent to protect the towers from their imminent failure…caused by his design.
The action started, as expected with the airship blowing up (LG45K and Coralis on board) and Chago showing off his luxury yacht to Elden and Crail as the explosion happened…trapping them with a leviathan spawn to have their souls absorbed. You know, as you do.
Highlights of the game:
- Crail, very onboard with dealing, and doing drugs. Ready to make deals with Chago!
- LG45K gripping the hull of the airship powerhouse, rending steel under his grip.
- Coralis shaking free a SCORPION Syndicate enforcer while still gripping onto a lieutenant himself. It was a chain of slipping would-be survivors.
- E.O. Opening his mind to the proto-leviathan and [accepting Level 3 harm “Mind Shattered” as a devil’s bargain] experiencing the memories of the thousands of drowned sailors it had consumed. And then offering it more!
- LG45K sensing a resonance entity (or the fragment one one) ahead in the cockpit and firing himself and Coralis from yawning cargo bay into the hallway to the cockpit, only to have Palace Agent Baine slap a massive explosive to his chest that adhered to it instantly. Thanks goodness it was on the door to hidden compartments. The door was popped off and the bomb tossed away. Now they were just…compartments!
- As Baine slipped though a spatial anomaly, Coralis used his resonance accelerator pack to lasso the entity through the anomaly and draw it back, but because of the sympathetic laws of resonance exchange, his own echo (read: soul) was pulled through the anomaly just as it closed. [Andrew now playing the Echo playbook].
- Crail, observing the deatlands horror was stated (for now) began placing explosives on the thick glass windows of Chago’s ship when he was interrupted over the PA “I’m not sure why the Ministry of Mayhem have it out for me, but please don’t blow a hole in another one of my ships”. Crail argued that he didn’t blow up any of Chago’s ships (yet) but all the explosives he had packed seemed evidence to the contrary. Still, he convinced Chago to let them out (with the proto-leviathan Elden had named “Merb”) rather than wreak more havoc.
- As the airship crashed Coralis’ unconcious body feel into the pool on the top of Comber tower, while LG45K head detached from his body (Bebodied? Incapitated?) and as the body crashed down 40 stories below, the head, equipped with minor jet propulsion landed safely…
- …just as Crail and Captain E.O. riding on the back of Merb (who had ferried them to land on a small boat) was climbing Comber Tower eating the resonance of everyone who was foolish enough to be near the windows when his tentacles smashed through them).
At the end we ended the game with our scoundrels (what was left of them) departing, Coralis woke in a room that was blinding white, filled with transparent walls. Through the ghost field in warbled tones, he heard Baine’s voice “It seems we each have something the other wants.”
Wow, that was about as over the top as I’ve ever gone with ’68 but it all made sense as a natural consequence of the players actions. I loved it!
