tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28585863938570506132024-03-14T12:47:12.879+10:30ST Wild: On RoleplayingA roleplaying blog that discusses how to play and run various pen-and-paper roleplaying games.Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.comBlogger890125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-10374329066059196222017-01-23T15:43:00.003+10:302017-01-23T15:43:39.516+10:30Dark Before Dawn: Puzzle Briefing
This is the document I handed out to everyone shortly before the last Dark Before Dawn session. Since the actual session used hard skills (though pretty easy ones) to keep folks busy and engaged, but World of Darkness rules uses dice to sort out conflict, I had to create a bit of a middle ground between the two schemes. You can see how I did it below.<br />
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Swap
around when you feel the need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
shouldn't feel stuck at a particular station.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">If
you can't solve a puzzle, FIND SOMEONE ELSE WHO CAN.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are all encouraged to work together and
to draw other people onto a puzzle to give them the chance to try it out.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">NO
CHEATING.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only does cheating show
contempt for all of my efforts during this campaign but more importantly it
deprives other players from the chance to show off their skills and actually
enjoy the game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>GIVE OTHER PLAYERS A GO.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">When
you first enter the Hall, until I turn on the overhead lights, all puzzles are
non-functional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may look but you
can't touch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only exception involves
adding vitae (nothing else) to the power nodes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You will find the red powder in small bowls on the window sills.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">If
there's a black screen on the terminals, they are non-functional.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The
music represents your time limit and the sense of urgency caused by the
gathering power flow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Increases in tempo
will reveal that you are running out of time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">If
you're not sure how a puzzle or situation works, ask me first rather than
attempting it with faulty or incorrect knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is fully empowered to deal with combat situations though Tim is
empowered to provide information and guidance based on vampiric
disciplines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either may request
assistance from the LEAD GM.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The players
should take their word as law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those
involved in such combats will have two GMs to draw upon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This should be enough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Typically
the NPCs will have a fair idea of what can and can't affect them and how their
puzzle stations operate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You CAN
approach me for further guidance if you have additional ideas that aren't
likely to be covered by their briefings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Skill
tests are not completely overridden by powers and dice checks, but they can be
complemented by certain mechanics on your sheet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes certain puzzles can only be used by
people with a specific skill level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There will be OOC cards near standalone puzzles which will provide you
with further guidance when and if these will occur.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The same is true for NPC briefings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, you can't solve the Computer
Terminals with a simple dice check.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
*must* use your own skills as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is to prevent our epic finale from becoming a row of players occasionally
rolling dice at each other in response to description.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">You
may use a STONE to fill a power node or to automatically complete a puzzle.
However you should wait until you find a puzzle that is too frustrating to
solve or until you begin running out of time so that you don't remove someone
else's opportunity to be awesome.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The
red sand you find in small containers next to the power nodes on the window
sills are not there in-game and cannot be removed from that spot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sand is there so that vampires pouring
vitae from their veins into the power nodes can do so quietly and
secretly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unless it's actually in the
Power Node (i.e. vial) or being held by a PC as an offering to an NPC, it's not
in-game and doesn't exist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please don't
panic when you see these red sand bowls.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Unless
otherwise stated, you can't move a puzzle station elsewhere.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Some
puzzle stations have special rules, such as that you may only transport one
alchemical concoction at the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Please read the nearby Rule Card before you begin or enquire with the
Lead GM so that you don't accidentally break the game.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-42376202011686238482016-09-09T10:52:00.001+09:302016-09-09T10:52:03.952+09:30Making Boffer LARP ClassesI've spent the past few months working on a new set of boffer LARP mechanics for a Science Fantasy game involving a "interdimensional solar system" where several inhabited planets (plus one uninhabited planet) rotate not only in their own systems and dimensions but also, when looked at through an inter-dimensional cross-section, around a strange celestial body of ropey flesh known as the Writhing One.<br />
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Thus each world belongs in it's own universe with its own rules on how reality operates -- ranging from the utterly magical to the entirely technological with all kinds of variations in between. I'll be starting off with a year of theatre style LARPs in various locations to help do some world building and exploring a variety of different LARP types. You can check out my poll on which games to run <a href="http://s15.zetaboards.com/ARC_Inc/topic/8552471/1/#new">over here</a>. Please don't vote unless you actually plan on attending them though feel free to comment in the General forum threads.<br />
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So I have 150 pages of rules, background and GM thoughts (i.e. monster traits, modules) and I'm in the process of editing and changing them to bring them further in line with my plans. You see, I initially had the semi-typical fantasy list of classes that included: Alchemist, Artisan, Diplomat, Exorcist, Hexcaster, Ritualist, Mesmerist, Merchant, Outdoorsman, Performer, Physicist, Ranger, Thief. Outdoorsman was kind of like Ranger but with non-mystical abilities.<br />
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Later I realised that those roles didn't really fit my ideas of an inter-dimensional colony settled by citizens of other worlds as part of a scientific research facility that included both magical and non-magical representatives (as this world allows both magical and technological sciences, so long as the technology is "hidden" from whatever runs this place). <br />
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For starters, when you're selecting new personnel you'd never choose "Thief". That's far too antisocial. And yes, you could create a Security Ops person but that wouldn't work for certain skills such as Pickpocket. So I traded Thief for Journalist. Same abilities: Stealth, Pickpocket, Escape Artist and Lock Picking but an entirely new vibe. Now the person breaks and enters for the big scoop, picks pockets to find scandals, and sneaks about to get the news for their next article. Not only does it create a more prosocial position but it's one that's deeply embedded into the colony and suggests a wide range of goals.<br />
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As for how classes work, well, each one is sort of like a specific skill-set that is tied to a particular role. When you select a "class," you gain a core ability for free and must spend one of your three skill-slots on a class skill. From that point on you never need purchase another skill from that class again. You can mix-and-match! But you can never get a core ability from a different class.<br />
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I'll give more information as I think of it. Just thought it'd been awhile and I might as well put in my thoughts. You ever dealt with boffer LARP classes? Got any handy tips for me? Any thoughts on what I've put up?Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-10719212900923357632016-08-31T11:07:00.001+09:302016-08-31T11:33:21.098+09:30Demonic NPCs<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">I've
re-read the entire Masks book with an eye for demons and I've decided on who
will actually be a Fallen and who won't be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I've also decided to muddy the waters by having the Grand Ritual allow
for the escape of every fallen in the pit alongside additional power to the
more dangerous and utterly insane Earthbound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This will give the players some conflicting motivations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do they unleash Hell on Earth?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or do they leave their ancient family
trapped?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">So I've decided on a few changes to the cast list because as things work out in play I come up with better ideas than the usual. Initially
I was going to have Belphegor as M'Weru, but then I read about Markeeva who was
responsible for the water in the womb and that ties in too much with the Spawn of Nyarlathotep. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">I also figured that Belphegor, the Defiler Twinsoul of the Radiant Champion, would make for a very interesting Ambrose Mogens so I came up with a complicated tale of time travel and horror. Basically in the Victorian Era, Ambrose Mogens is Belphigor (the Radiant Champion) but by the mid to late 1890s he is pulled out of his body by his sister who assumes his place. As a Defiler of Transfiguration, she has the special power of being able to appear as any other Fallen while in her true form so she can better masquerade as him.</span><br />
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What does she do with her brother? Well, desperate to finally make him understand her she used Zipacna to use one of her gem's to allow herself to impregnate a woman with a nephilim and then used a dark ritual to place her brother's fallen essence inside that baby shortly before it were born. It took a few tries but she was eventually successful using the assistance of the London Raveners to whom she now owes a great debt.<br />
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She then reared this nephilim-brother at one of the places of business controlled by Mogens Institute. I'm thinking inside the Half Moon Hotel so that he was right under Gipontel's nose the whole time. Due to the similarity between her name and her brother's, it was a relatively simple matter to hijack any invocations meant to go to him, but she cut out her son's tongue as a baby just to be sure. This is also a good idea because he can control people with his words.<br />
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Belphigor is more confused than most fallen as his memories are all the more buried. He is growing up institutionalised, monitored by Zipacna and the trusted few in sections of the hotel that Gipontel never explored (since the tour convinced him that he saw all he needed to see). His nephilim heritage also pulls him in dark directions as he lacks a normal mortal physiology to fall back on *and* he has no host memories to shroud his own. He'd be completely mad, if not for the fact that his body is human enough.<br />
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His twinsoul now acts as his father and is trying to groom him in a particular direction, to become like her, but he is at his core so very different to her and that's starting to show. The poor boy ages slower than mortals, though, as fallen do not age if they have any faith within them. Thus she has had to use a Drain Power spell to remove that from him, costing him mental torment here and there, while he was a baby, or cutting him so that he would be forced to heal it.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><o:p>She also used a few links from the Devil's Chain, an ancient artefact that prevents a fallen from using their magic and keeps him constantly cuffed, though the cuffs themselves aren't always meeting in the middle. So that's going to be an interesting change.</o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><o:p>The other Fallen you will find in the campaign (not including several fallen whose names and summoning rituals are included in scrolls and tomes) include:</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Micky
Cohen - Kel Asuf the Deceiver (Devil Faustian-Turned-Cryptic).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">M'Weru -
Markeeva the Crucible of Shaping (Defiler Faustian).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><o:p>Egyptian Priestess - Mythocht (Devil Luciferan).</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Carl
Sanford - Sauriel the Releaser (Slayer Ravener).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">High
Priestess of Bast - Bastet the Playful One (Devourer Cryptic).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Ssathasa - Ga Gorib (Devourer Ravener).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><o:p>Justin Geoffrey (author of the People of the Monolith) - Valac (Slayer Cryptic).</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Then I
realised that Ho Fong, in one of the fictional accounts, returns from the dead
when slain, which matches the Fallen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
randomly rolled for Ho Fong and got Devourer which works because as I don't
want to unveil the Deep Ones yet (want some surprises left for Innsmouth), I
can instead gift him with the ability to warp people's forms toward aquatic
ends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The Bloody Tongue - Ladon (Devil Reconciler).</span><br />
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The Black Wind - Riyazgor (Scourge Ravener).<br />
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Cthulhu - Belial (Defiler Ravener)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sphinx - Abaddon
(Devourer Faustian)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The Dark Pharoah - Asmodeus (Fiend Cryptic)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The Bloated Woman - <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Befana (Malefactor Cryptic)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The Sand Bat - Fossegrim (Devil Reconciler)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Sleeping Thing Beneath The Australian Deserts - Tiamat (Defiler Ravener)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
NOTE: I include the factions of some of these people simply because the Fallen might recall them from the pit and not because the Bloody Tongue God holds any connection to Reconcilers (or indeed, to Devils) or the like.<o:p></o:p>Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-68944582381243315482016-08-31T10:43:00.000+09:302016-08-31T10:43:16.670+09:30Trail of Demonic Cthulhu (Devil - Draclan)
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Fallen
Name: </span><strong><span style="color: #365f91;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><span class="Heading1Char"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Draclan</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Titles:
Angel of the Burning Voice (Devil).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Sub-House:
Flame (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nusku</i>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Legion:
Ebon (War At Any Cost).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Luciferan (Military).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Demonic Powers<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Draclan
Personality Traits and History:</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> He always wanted to be somebody and
strove to be the best devil he could be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Initially he worked for Fossegrim the Bright Eternal, and followed him
into the Ebon Legion where his liege soon became Fossegrim the Unyielding,
Ravager of Innocents, after the Cainite atrocity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They worked to enslave humanity from mortal
villages where his master would often assuage his own lusts or making them
fight and die to entertain his troops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Yet
when his master heard of a nightmare spawn of the chaotic outer reaches was
preying upon mortality, he armed himself and sought for months to destroy
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a week of constant battle, he
managed to keep the Beast obey until the threatened mortals escaped their
ruined citadel … then destroyed the beast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">His
lieutenants wondered at his actions, and he replied, "Mortals are our
playthings, our property, and that makes <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">us</i>
responsible for their preservation and their destruction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No misbegotten aberration of chaos may be
permitted to prey on humanity, for such is our province and may not be
usurped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those mortals saved from this
monster now know that their lives belong to me - not to God, nor to some
abomination - and thus is the pride of the Ebon Legion preserved."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Draclan
served his master well, though partially out of fear alone, and when he reached
the Abyss he did what he could do distance himself from that master by
professing his allegiance to Lucifer alone.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Host
(Lewis Mackintosh): </span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Draclan
came into the body of a privileged young adult in Liverpool whose parents
bankruptcy in 1922 left him with such rage and spite that he assaulted a
wealthy older man walking down the street and stole his money and his watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That older man was the one who benefited the
most from his father's losses, stealing in to purchase his business and
properties and becoming quite wealthy from them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Unfortunately he was recognised and the
wealthy man had the police call in to pay him a visit, beating him bloody while
the old man watched and being forced to grovel and kiss the man's boots or else
be arrested.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was arrested anyway</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">While
in a jail cell awaiting trial, he gave another police officer some lip and was
beaten bloody.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Left to choke on a
ruptured lung, his prayers sang out at the unfairness of it all and Draclan
answered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Draclan rose from the floor,
spat fire into the face of the officer who had jailed him, and then walked on
out. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one wanted to mention what they
saw.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Few could truly remember it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So no one went after him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">He
had been on the run ever since until Sir Aubrey Penhew heard of him through
Edward Gavigan's surveillance of odd things in England.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Penhew didn't trust Gavigan to meet with the
young man and so had an invitation sent out for the boy to meet him in
Shanghai.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At a loss and desperate to
meet people, especially a likely other fallen, Draclan went.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There he gladly gave his celestial name and
was quickly ensnared by the Earthbound (Great Old Ones) that encircle this
conspiracy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now he serves them,
grudgingly, and waits for a way out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Whether that comes before or after his sanity dwindles to 0 will depend
on the PCs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">He
will be sent to kill Theodore's family once the investigators start sniffing
around as a means of distracting them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It will take a week for him to arrive in England, however, from the
point they arrive in England so unless the investigators stick around for seven
days they will miss him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Inana is ready to counter his actions with
water and Belphigor retains a few links of the devil's chain with which to undo
his magic.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Physical Form
and Powers:</span></u></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Aruru Power (Flaming
Death):</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">
Draclan can set fire with a thought to anything flammable and may spend a point
of Faith to set fire to typically non-flammable materials like concrete *or* to
create a burst of intense heat and size (effectively doubling it).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He can also create and hold flame in his
hands though can't do much with it that one couldn't do if they were holding a
burning torch but it makes a neat party trick.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span><br /><em>
Namaru Ability </em></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(Wings)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: </i>A pair of
eight-foot-long golden wings extends from his shoulders which allow him to take
off from a standing position and glide up to three times her running speed.
These wings have long pinions that are sharp as razors and quite flexible (+1
damage), which allows the Devil to attack opponents in the middle of a movement
which will likely leave them out of reach of melee opponents.</span></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Nusku Form
Ability #1 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">(Burning
Spit)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: </i>Draclan can spit burning liquid
that counts as a +0 weapon and otherwise acts as a thrown weapon in terms of
range and usage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This liquid can melt
through thin metal with constant exposure (i.e. if he can bring handcuffs to
his lips).</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Aruru Form Ability
#2 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">(Creature
of Flame)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: </i>He suffers no damage from
heat or fire, whatsoever, and those who are within Scuffling range will take 1
point of damage every time they damage him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ACTUAL
STATS<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Abilities: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Athletics 7,
Health 11, Sanity 4/9, Scuffling 6, Stability 7, Weapons 3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Faith: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">3; spells - Summon
Fire Vampire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Hit Threshold: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Alertness Modifier: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">+0<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Stealth Modifier: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">+0<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Weapon: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">0 (Burning
Spit).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Armor: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">0 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-63329997670128507102016-08-02T11:36:00.000+09:302016-08-02T11:36:00.801+09:30Dark Before Dawn Session Summary: Gangrel Thing<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-267WEgOg7DI/VjWsd1-AjcI/AAAAAAAACC4/sPW112PYofQ/s1600/IMG_4906.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-267WEgOg7DI/VjWsd1-AjcI/AAAAAAAACC4/sPW112PYofQ/s320/IMG_4906.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">FatherMother, Skully, Siobhan and Talitha, again from the<br />
Cassandra session as I have no Split Session pictures,<br />
but both Siobhan and FatherMother are Gangrel.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
And then we had the Gangrel meeting…. Kindly enough, the hosts (Gustaf Freya'barn and FatherMother) allowed non-Gangrel to attend so long as they were willing to get involved in the festivities. We set up the big hall so that the little stage at one end was the fire pit, the big painted circle on the floor was the bear pit for later duels, and the cross hatched paint work to one side stood in for two cages - one cage filled with animals and the other filled with unconscious humans with nasty back stories (i.e. bad guys) who were doped with particular drugs. The Gangrel had etched the name of said drug into their foreheads. There was also a set of chairs in a circle that people could move around as they pleased.<br />
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There was no music and there really didn't have to be.<br />
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When Siobhan rocked up with Seamus and Walther, she immediately punched FatherMother under the mistaken impression that she had blood bound Bennett (whom she had a crush on). FatherMother thought they were playing and put her in a painful headlock and then when Siobhan kept going in the fight, she threw her in the bear pit and leapt in as well. Soon enough Siobhan frenzied (she was hungry anyway) and that just increased FatherMother's gloating though she did take a little damage. Eventually, Gustaf threw in a dog that Seamus had used Animalism on to force the dog to attack Siobhan (a poodle) and distract the frenzy. FatherMother then ran up the wall of the pit to clamber out. Siobhan's frenzy redirected to the dog (she was hungry) and she drained it of blood.<br />
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Then she grumpily left the cage and ate all the other dogs in the dog cage out of spite. She didn't touch the humans.<br />
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Other highlights included a series of cage matches with Peter Walsh:<br />
<ul>
<li>First the human, Torvald, from the Freya'barn ghoul family. Torvald found Peter Walsh's massive defence (9) annoying and also his irritating lack of interest in actually throwing a punch at a human. Torvald scored a couple good punches, took a few weak ones, and was rewarded with ghouldom from the family's vampire leader (Gustaf) for his efforts.</li>
<li>Crowley entered the ring and threw some solid Vigor-backed punches but Walsh managed to get in some cheeky shots and - mostly due to an inability to hit each other - Crowley left with a few bashing damage.</li>
<li>MaidenLad entered the ring with her dog and was far more successful once the dog dragged Walsh down in a grapple. MaidenLad clawed him across the face several times, damaging the Daeva's pretty face in a way that worked on him, though he healed so fast it barely lasted. Walsh hadn't fed yet kept healing. How much blood did that boy have in his system? Walsh won in two surged strikes. One involved hauling up the dog and body slamming MaidenLad into the wall (before being dragged down again) and then later lashed out with a kick against her ankle. She hobbled away with her dog and drank a guy spiked with all of the drugs to death.</li>
<li>Finally Walsh fought with Bats (after Bats kindly told him to go and feed which he left for five minutes to pretend to do). When they entered the ring, Bats stayed in the shadow of the bear pit. The two had difficulty hitting each other until Bats got him in a grapple, damaging him a few times in spine crushing hugs, until Walsh decided enough was enough and erupted bone spurs that would have damaged Bats if not for Celerity. Bats knocked Walsh on the ground in a pin, foot planted beneath the spines, hands gripping Walsh's wrist and pulled back, demanding Walsh yield. With an inhuman snarl, Walsh twisted the bone spurs out of his back, wrapped them around Bats leg and managed to sever it with another strength surge (lethal not aggravated damage). This was the first visible sign that Walsh wasn't a vampire but few of the other vampires actually twigged to this -- or perhaps they didn't care and merely accepted that Walsh was an enigma too bothersome to uncover.</li>
<li>At that point, a high on PCP FatherMother leapt into the cage and elbow dived onto Walsh. Bats quickly Obfuscated the two of them. Worried that someone might die, Bats Obfuscated the two of them and FatherMother was left to wander the place in confusion. Walsh and Bats then merely sat there, talking, and then they clambered out as FatherMother tried to attack Seamus who had been walking on the walkway to tell Walsh to stop and who now simply faded (Ignore Me type of spell) out of there.</li>
</ul>
Gustaf jumped over the fire pit while naked (flashing off his Giant Size + Striking Looks combination) and used resilience to avoid taking any damage. He managed not to frenzy from the flames.<br />
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FatherMother wasn't so lucky and frenzied during her first attempt to vault the flames. So Gustaf used his web ability from Protean to stop her from killing folk and Walter brought her out of it by grabbing one of the prisoners and throwing it at her (under orders from Gustaf).<br />
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Siobhan convinced FatherMother's ghoul, Daryl Whicker, to proposition Seamus O'Baoill whom she had recently discovered was gay. Daryl put a hand on Seamus' shoulder and asked him if he'd like to go off with him. Seamus first used Auspex to figure out what kind of woogie was being put on him, and when he realised the man was genuine, Seamus simply let him down gently - admitting that he had envisaged his first time being different than a random pick up and one night stand.<br />
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Walsh and Bats spoke telepathically for awhile (Bats' power) and then Seamus told Walsh to come with them to leave as Seamus had had enough of all of the Gangrel shenanigans and low Humanity hijinks. Walther Hawke and Siobhan followed the family patriarch as they left with Walsh quickly trading numbers with Bats before leaving. Everyone leaving at his command gave Seamus that little bit more of a status boost. Like he needed it.<br />
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I waited until after the session to roll Humanity for people, querying if anyone wanted to cancel out any breaking points in exchange for banes, as I felt the vibe of a Gangrel gathering should be one where you don't really pick up on your loss of Humanity until afterward. I did pre-warn the players that this would be how it worked before they entered the session. There were a lot of banes earned that day.<br /><br />NOTE: In the new vampire rules a vampire can adapt to monstrosity by choosing to gain some supernatural flaw in exchange for no longer caring about a particular inhumane act. Since vampires can otherwise lose humanity when they do nasty acts, becoming closer to the Beast, if they don't do this it creates quite the incentive. Of course not caring about an inhumane act has its own problems as certainly occurred with Seamus who gained the Bearing Witness bane so that he no longer cared about the horrors around him until he made a point of getting involved. This made him colder indeed.
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Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-78386765494519130652016-07-26T11:26:00.000+09:302016-07-26T11:26:01.995+09:30Dark Before Dawn Session Summary: Covenant Meetings<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GXXRfAHvS7c/VjWrcDgAONI/AAAAAAAACCw/h5uSdgxqocY/s1600/IMG_4893.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GXXRfAHvS7c/VjWrcDgAONI/AAAAAAAACCw/h5uSdgxqocY/s320/IMG_4893.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture from the Cassandra session but it shows three of the Crone<br />
and the now deceased Ordo Dracul, Gary Dodd.</td></tr>
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After the events of the last session, there was interest in running a few split "faction-specific" sessions which included the Ordo Dracul, the nascent Circle of the Crone and then finally a Gangrel-led clan celebration. Rather than attempting to go through all of the details on a forum that would be quite slow or an IRC chat room which would creak and sag under the weight of a dozen players, I thought it best to combine them all into a single day.<br />
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Since one of our players had to leave for hockey at 1:00PM, we began with the Ordo Dracul game at 11.00AM with people advised to attend as early as 10:00AM for pre-game chatter, meetings and conversation. The fellow who had yet to play a vampire (namely because he was playing the human, Henry Peterson, in the last game) sat in as Louie Bonaldo, the castellan's security minded ghoul.<br />
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I'd printed out several copies of the Agenda and after chatting to a few players of the Unsworn, I found the only person happy to MC the meeting was the player of Siobhan O'Baoill. So with that settled she sat down with the Agenda and started going through the following items:<br />
<ul>
<li>Preliminaries</li>
<li>Present</li>
<li>Welcome to Kettral</li>
<li>Apologies</li>
<li>Business Arising from Previous Meeting</li>
<li>Juris Draconis</li>
</ul>
Most of the business passed easily, until they reached the heavy weight of the final item. Michael Novichkov declared a Juris Draconis on Thomas McAllister based off Seamus O'Baoill's testimony that he had seen diablerie marks (basically soul eating) on Thomas McAllister aura. Shortly before Novichkov could even declare the Major Judge, McAllister said "Bye-bye Darling," and dropped Feral Infection. This meant that every person in that room had to roll versus frenzy (had the pre-rolled frenzy checks sorted in secret with the online rolls available to be seen on the forums because doing a dozen rolls in-game kills tension dead). Even the humans risked an anger frenzy!<br />
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Rather than telling people the results of their rolls, I instead informed them that they could spend a willpower point to avoid a frenzy for a round and that such willpower points would give them each a +1 bonus to their final roll. While typically you would pre-declare just how many points you would spend at the beginning, I decided to keep to the one-willpower-spent-per-turn method as it felt more organic and gave more leeway. Only once they ceased to spend willpower, or after things settled down, did I inform them of whether their bonuses were enough to go anywhere. This matches how the game normally progresses as typically you don't make your roll until after you stop spending willpower.<br />
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Talitha immediately frenzied on her sire. Professor Jasmine Hadley barely managed to get out of the way - she scrambled over the table but tripped over Walsh at the end due to a bad Athletics roll. Siobhan also immediately frenzied, having no willpower to spend, and she turned on Hadley and scratched her with her Gangrel claws. Walsh slipped out from under Hadley and went for a loose floor grille in preparation to slip away and hide. The new vampire, Walther Hawkes (Siobhan's brother whom she only learned was her brother at the meeting itself), sensibly hid beneath the table.<br />
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McAllister dropped into Obfuscate on his next turn (good Initiative check) which meant that Gary Dodd (who had used both Coil of the Wyrm to immediately Ride the Wave of frenzy which allowed him to pick an objective to attack in a frenzy) could only pace the room and search for him. Novichkov ran to defend one door. Regrettably Kettral, Taylor and Epcott decided that retreat was the better part of valour and rather than block the other door they opened it -- though this gave McAllister a chance to escape the room it may have also saved everyone's unlife when Novichkov finally succumbed to his frenzy after almost everyone else had left.<br />
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By the time Novichkov stopped spending willpower, everyone had cleared out of the room. It was only then that I informed him of his natural 1 on the roll. So then he went in an anger frenzy after the other vampires. First he ran toward the exit, damaging the locked door in its frame, in his efforts to locate someone. Once that were done, he came charging through the haven looking for prey.<br />
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At this stage, Taylor was hiding in Gary Dodd's room behind his desk. Kettral was in his room. Siobhan had come after her frenzy only after Hadley Dominated her into draining Hadley's ghoul to death -- and the two had slipped through the bilge to the security office. Epcott was hiding in a hot desk office that anyone could access which had two doors.<br />
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And Gary Dodd had tracked the Obfuscated McAllister's movements into the library where a pile of folklore books sat in a pile ready to burn. McAllister set off a flare (still in obfuscate) to burn the books as Novichkov stepped into the room. Gary tried to kick the flare into Novichkov to distract him but failed to dislodge it from the books and burned his foot instead. Novichkov charged over to him, struck him a blow that stunned him, and then proceeded to shatter his skull. On the second Vigor punch, the Blood Potency 6 frenzying elder managed to hit him so hard that Gary Dodd immediately ashed upon the blow.<br />
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Then Novichkov came out of frenzy. McAllister set the alchemy lab on fire and snuck around before finally using a crowbar to pry open the exit and escape. After an hour of searching the Chapter House for him, they went to finish off the meeting. Important things needed to be spoken of.<br />
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First there was discussion of the need to call a blood hunt against McAllister. But there was no Prince since Harry Saeed had left the country in a previous downtime period. And so Professor Jasmine Hadley opened a discussion about the possible Praxis.<br />
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And then on to other Agenda items. So many of them were meant to be covered by Dodd and again and again there was a moment's silence when these items came up. All knew that Novichkov wouldn't have stopped until one had died and all knew that Dodd had sacrificed his unlife in the line of duty. People kept as upbeat as shock allowed them and even Walsh seemed relatively peppy as he discussed his own agenda item.<br />
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That was to change later during the Gangrel meeting.<br />
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Dr. Jonathon Taylor also mentioned a certain fellow he had kept in torpor … who was awoken after being found in the Women's & Children's Hospital as a "patient" and was staked and put in a barrel. A fellow called Marco Giovanni.... The meeting ended with his revivification and introductions to the rest of the court. And no, Marco wasn't a replacement character for Gary Dodd. None of us really knew what the outcome of that diablerie accusation was going to be.<br />
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The Circle of the Crone covenant meeting, on the other hand, was mostly a meet and greet between the new and old players as well as some natural discussion about the problems of the city and the way forward for the covenant. Since no Kindred died, I feel it best to let them keep their secrets. They initially wanted to have a Chorus meeting for those interested in the covenant but whom belonged to another covenant but by the end of it they didn't really have a plan of what to do with them -- the Chorus that is -- and decided to worry about that later once they had more time to discuss things and get to know each other.Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-85574734134581563722016-07-19T11:03:00.000+09:302016-07-19T11:03:03.478+09:30Dark Before Dawn Session Summary: Taylor's Special Door Session<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cZTYHBIU-1Q/V3sQ1dH3sSI/AAAAAAAACaQ/p7vS8ysWW0M5Wi1hDdjHRgmiUx1NTuPGgCLcB/s1600/Nurse%2BCassandra%2BSkull.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cZTYHBIU-1Q/V3sQ1dH3sSI/AAAAAAAACaQ/p7vS8ysWW0M5Wi1hDdjHRgmiUx1NTuPGgCLcB/s1600/Nurse%2BCassandra%2BSkull.jpg" /></a>Dr. Jonathon Taylor was coming down off a red pill stolen from the fae realm in the second door session and it left him feeling pretty down, as fae pills tend to do. He was feeling so depressed he chose to activate his stone to see where it took him.<br />
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We held the game in my house so that it looked nice and homely, put a roast in the oven, took out a Christmas tree and put birthday decorations around. When he first stepped into the realm, a set of warped Christmas songs (Very Scary Christmas) was playing and everyone but Seamus O'Baoill (actually a representation of Seamus possessed by the Taylor demon) was pretending to be dead around the table.<br />
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When Seamus encouraged Taylor to sit, everyone popped up with a "Surprise!" There was much laughter and mirth from everyone but Taylor. Then Siobhan had to blow out the five candles on her deathday cake and Taylor was invited to cut it into slices for them … slices which oozed with jam (representing gore). Although it was ostensibly Siobhan's deathday, Taylor kept being invited to do things as the guest of honour.<br />
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There was a rousing game of Pass the Parcel with a note from one of Taylor's old patients beneath each layer which Taylor was invited to read to the table no matter who got to unwrap the layer. The patient notes were sad because they were from children in a palliative care cancer ward but they were also inspiring because they were patients he had legitimately helped as he had never harmed any children. As you may be starting to realise, the entire thing was a play on his old miseries and horrors designed to either break him or motivate him to actually accomplish his dreams.<br />
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His guests tied into such guilt. His prior self (or rather the Strix he had become) was responsible for Embracing Siobhan (using Dominate on Seamus), torturing and killing both sire and sibling (Hadley and Talitha), and creating the demon that possessed Seamus in Campaign one, everything tied into that. There was also an NPC called Julia Dannenburg who had been spying on him under the guise of a depressed Suicide King present for these festivities. <br />
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The final layer of the Pass the Parcel was blood stained and when he opened it he found Nurse Cassandra's skull with a little identifying note. I was also portraying Nurse Cassandra, fetching knives and bringing out the cake, giggling and never speaking (my character's tongue was ripped out but he never really looked at me long enough to notice).<br />
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Then there was a game of Musical Chairs. Taylor was very reticent about playing and tried to fail on several occasions but the second-to-last person kept refusing to sit or even walked away saying they'd already lost. Only a few people were allowed to win on their own. Siobhan "won" the first time and was really excited for her present but when people started saying her prize was to be tortured, she became very scared and started begging Taylor not to hurt her. When Taylor refused to harm her, Talitha went to do so and when he Dominated her to not hurt her, he instead had to allow her to cut off one of his thumbs.<br />
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And then Siobhan eagerly said that they should play Musical Chairs again!<br />
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And on they went, though this time the winner was Talitha.<br />
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The final time it was Taylor himself who won and Talitha Salvatore tortured him quite well under the gentle instruction of "Seamus O'Baoill" who had dropped his Irish accent in favour of Taylor's odd style of speech. I went off to get dressed as the final NPC (the Evil Queen Fae) as the rest of the Cast poked and prodded him emotionally to see if he would break or harden his resolve. After he made a heartening speech about doing better, the Evil Queen arrived and spoke with him awhile, gave him clues as to how to break Cassandra out of the core and he was allowed to leave.Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-19716698965628392292016-07-12T11:01:00.000+09:302016-07-12T11:01:02.978+09:30Dark Before Dawn Session Summary: Welcome Session 2<div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gustaf, Gangrel Crone.</td></tr>
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The first session of Season 2 was a bigger session than usual and was most similar in form, function and structure to the very <a href="http://stwildonroleplaying.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/dark-before-dawn-session-1.html">first session</a>. In other words all of the vampire characters were spirited away to Cassandra's realm to be tested and littered with various clues as that ghostly figure determined what to do with them. As it was a new season, it was a good time to advertise and include new players. After our advertising campaign, we had a total of 12 expressions of interest from new players though only six could make it in the end. This brought the total number of players up to 20 though only 15 could attend. <br />
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The new characters included:<br />
<ul>
<li>Two humans who had been trapped in the Mirror World for a few years which in the real world equates to seventy years (both NPCs);</li>
<li>Hex was one of the proto-vampires called larvae who had been beaten into torpor during <a href="http://stwildonroleplaying.blogspot.com.au/2016/06/dark-before-dawn-session-summary_14.html">Session 7</a>. Prior to this session he was uplifted into Clan Daeva by Lewis Epcott;</li>
<li>Gloria Brown, cousin to Amity Fine, sister to Lewis Epcott and niece to Duchess Alicia Brown;</li>
<li>Kettral, sire to McAllister and grand-childe of Yzador;</li>
<li>MaidenLad, childe of FatherMother</li>
<li>Crowley, childe of the infamous Grandma Hollis of FatherMother's initial circle who was also an uplifted larvae from <a href="http://stwildonroleplaying.blogspot.com.au/2016/06/dark-before-dawn-session-summary_14.html">Session 7</a>. </li>
<li>Gustaf, new character from an existing player, had newly arrived to locate some family members in the city.</li>
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Many of the new characters were designed with a strong degree of inter-connectedness as it eases participation in the game and gives people a quick vested interest in the new characters. Many of these characters were pre-generated with the option for players to either adopt them or give them back in the end.<br />
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So what happened during the game?<br />
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In short, a lot!<br />
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We had five hours in two main rooms. The session started with the Circle of the Crone plus humans in one room and the Ordo Dracul in the other room plus the one Carthian PC. The doors between those two halls were locked (padlock image blue tacked to the door on each side to represent this) and the doors would only open when it was unlocked by both sides (padlock image removed from the other side). You needed Larceny to do it so it gave the thief-types a chance to shine and it allowed the two groups to moderate when they would mingle. There were other ways to cross that barrier individually (shrinking down to spider form or using Auspex 5 or even Acute Senses).<br />
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In each room there were two projectors showing a static blurred figure and occasional text in Typewriter font interspersed with lengthy periods of ambient music. I'd learned my lesson from last time by using a change from ambient to lyric-based music to signal when the text would display but made the error in having the text move too rapidly (it reads differently when you're sitting at a computer screen compared to reading a projection). I also made all of the clips add up to six rather than five hours so I had to skip ahead occasionally through the blank spaces between text clips. This also meant I accidentally skipped some text. Luckily that text, while cool, wasn't strictly necessary and can be used again.<br />
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There was also an alchemy lab set up which had the ingredients necessary for a couple puzzles and which could be used to forge one of two styles of love potions -- one made with Changeling blood and one made with Vampire blood. I won't say how many were made, only that far fewer were made than expected and none were given to player characters, which is nice of them.<br />
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There was also a blood bowl people could drink to replenish their blood, though no one did, and a back table set up with nice snack foods and sweets that would only taste good for the mortals or those who bought MaidenLad's Flowers of Demeter (which had been given to MaidenLad by Grandma Hollis).<br />
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Three of the characters arrived high as kites on special fae drugs, which led to some interesting scenes. A Major boon was spent by one high character to force another character to take a drug. This was poor Dr. Jonathon Taylor who really needed more conditions to deal with.<br />
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The characters soon discovered that Nurse Cassandra wasn't giving them Strix to glean information from and exorcise like she had last time. Oh no, instead they had a certain amount of time to solve certain puzzles around the room which would summon certain individuals in to talk with them. These individuals would slowly deteriorate over time in unique ways and the other characters could either save them or destroy them. Leaving them too long without a decision would cause terrible repercussions … like madness leading to pyromania or spontaneous combustion. <br />
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Each time someone was summoned or something similar happened, the bell would ring. Each bell that rang those who were out would find their curse progress. This ensured that there were never too many cast out at the same time.<br />
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How did I get the cast? Well, I pre-arranged with some players that when a certain puzzle was solved I would appear them with a bell as the ghost of Nurse Cassandra, tap their character on the shoulder and lead them to the summoning sigil. They would disappear, a mask would appear in their place, and the player would then leave to dress up as the NPC. No one knew what arrangements had been made, what NPCs would arrive or which players would disappear.<br />
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The characters and their puzzles were:<br />
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<ul>
<li>Nicks (necromancer) could be summoned by setting fire to an offering bowl full of bark chips (LED candles hidden in the bark chips to represent fire) at which point his pyre-flame marionette egg would appear in the middle. He could be saved by convincing him without mystical power to give someone the orb or slain by stealing it from him (which sped up his death).</li>
<li>The Blue Girl (true fae) could be summoned by playing her deck of cards "Love Letter" in the usual manner. She could be healed by giving her the warming potion (she was growing increasingly icy) or harmed by giving her the sleep draught (which had a warning label that it would worsen the symptoms of hypothermia).</li>
<li>Skully could be summoned by opening the safe (whose combination was a letter riddle for OWL which could be converted into numbers using the telephone beside it which had say ABC listed over the button for 1, etc.) Skully could be saved through tears of genuine guilt or damned through being shot with the phosphorous rounds.</li>
<li>The Maid (Rider -- weaker custom variant of a Geist) could be summoned by answering the riddle put forth by the four paintings that were placed on the window sills (which luckily enough actually had a number permanently etched into them) and then finding a nail which was described via the riddle.</li>
<li>The Oracle (Rider) could be summoned by getting the deck of faux tarot cards (actually language teaching cards) from under the scorpion in a box contained in the safe. Normally a riddle had to be answered from the scorpion but the person using Animalism was so polite that they managed to convince the scorpion to simply hand it over. He could be saved by someone giving him a guilty secret powerful enough that it could get them killed.</li>
<li>The Cultist could be summoned by three people drinking out of the communion cup but instead of that technique she was pulled out due to a request given to the Blue Girl who simply wove her magic into the sigil to retrieve the woman. This happened right before the end so that no one really understood what the cultist was raving about.</li>
<li>There was also changeling who could be summoned by a game of Gloom (native to Wonder City) but no one got around to finishing that game.</li>
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Strangely enough, each and every NPC summoned was saved and their information largely delivered. I'd expected that the Blue Girl would be purposefully slain and Nicks accidentally killed when no one bothered to gain his trust. Instead, full win conditions all round!<br />
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This time they dealt with Compassion rather than Mercy as the angels sent by the God Machine. Compassion's shawls fell off her as she ran through the room, sporadically pausing in a seizure mid-speech as she babbled at them about all kinds of matters. Finally she stopped by one table and held out her hands and told them to vote for either Order (the Throne) or Chaos (Cassandra). Each person who had a stone (new characters) had to vote by placing the stone in one of her two hands.<br />
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The characters who had been around awhile all encouraged them to vote for Cassandra in the hopes that by empowering her enough they could remove the gloom walls. When they left they found the gloom walls were all still intact.</div>
Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-86034870613836434992016-07-08T10:47:00.001+09:302016-07-08T10:48:02.484+09:30Masks of Demonic Nyarlathotep (Telegram from Mr. Elias)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">SATURDAY, 10<sup>th</sup> January<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">WARNING: These are the session
summaries of my Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign adapted for Demon: the Fallen
but using much of the Mythos in a similar capacity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus if you are a player eager to play in
that campaign you really shouldn't read along due to the inevitable spoilers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Lady Gwen and Lord Theodore
(Gipontel) manage to convince their parents that another trip to New York is in
order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sincetheir previous trip and
visit to the Mogens Estate proved so lucrative, and since the twins are now
eighteen, it was agreed upon though their mother, Countess Pettinghew,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was to come along with them as a
chaperone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially since the
exuberant Letty Harrinton, youngest daughter of Lord Harrington, would be
coming along.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">They travelled on the Mauretania
shortly before New Years Eve and arrived to a very cold and snowy New
York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lady Gwen and Miss Letty remained
as excitable as ever as they disembarked and went to the two taxis provided for
them by Ambrose Mogens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are taken
to the Waldorf-Astoria where they meet with two guides provided to them by
Ambrose Mogens - one very sophisticated guide for the countess and a very
nervous Ingrid Kensington (Nithriel) who was feeling all the more
self-conscious in the dress she had been given for the occasion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">They have two days of tourism
which pass by very nicely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">MONDAY, 12<sup>th</sup> January<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Nithriel returns to work and
finds Rupert Harper, feeling very smug about a particular telegram he'd been
sent by an author who worked for Prospero Press (owned by her parents).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A certain Mr. Jackson Elias who wanted an
investigative team to help him with an expedition and who had seen fit to
telegram an acquaintance rather than his employers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nithriel managed to convince him to hand over
the telegram, which he happily did because he didn't want to get messed up in
any additional work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">A corpse arrives for their
investigation who turns out to have died from drowning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nithriel attempts to resurrect him but the
man just lies there, catatonic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems
that her powers have a certain time limit in freshness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nithriel simply covers his face with a
sheet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr. Harper forces her to spend
the night in the morgue, in case he wakes up and starts doing anything
crazy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then heads home early.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Nithriel has to sleep on the chair
not far from that creepy not-dead man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After several hours, the fellow expires again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thankfully.</span></div>
Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-1151281585901486172016-07-05T10:46:00.001+09:302016-07-05T10:46:31.905+09:30Dark Before Dawn Session Summary: Rodazy and the Domovoii<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">This gathering was held at the Apothecary (in-game venue not real world venue, unfortunately) and it was relatively quiet social gathering. Little did the other vampires know but it wasn't the Elder Mekhet Primogen running the event but his reflection, Rodazy (Yzador backwards). You see, Yzador had made a deal with his reflection to allow him to host the event in exchange for providing some information in return on the Mirror World.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Yzador also had five Flowers of Demeter sale for a trivial boon apiece (courtesy of Grandma Hollis) and some reasonably priced Lacrima for sale.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> As always, we used Ferrero Rocheres as Flowers of Demeter and iced tea for Lacrima.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The main leaders of the vampire court spent the entire session in a back room as they have a wont to do so people didn't really see Prince Harry Saeed, Seamus O'Baoill, Michael Novichkov or Professor Jasmine Hadley very often at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The lower ranks enjoyed their drinks, purchased Flowers and Lacrima, and had themselves a party. Rodazy (whom they thought was Yzador) encouraged them to indulge their vices, messed with the spirits of the house (who had already been awoken and inspired to act) and otherwise kept those in the main rooms thoroughly entertained.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">At one point a drunk Siobhan O'Baoill convinced most of the room to go with her to the state museum to steal their meteoric iron to better combat the fae.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sheriff FatherMother (I believe, it's been awhile) went to the back room to rouse the elders to stop them and it was left to Seamus O'Baoill to go and fetch them back in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
I'm sure more happened but, as I said, it's been awhile. Hopefully my players will tell me if I miss anything significant.Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-84622826586279772842016-06-17T10:26:00.000+09:302016-07-05T15:12:33.097+09:30Demonic Trails of Cthulhu: First DowntimesAs the last<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> session took place in July 1923 while the next
session will begin on the 9<sup>th</sup> of January, 1925, we have almost two years of downtime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So what do the characters get up to?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well they each get two free
skill points they can sink in any skills and this is a great time to justify
those spends.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Nithriel does some work for the Mogens Institute,
bringing a few dead individuals back to life who died from some of the
pharmaceutical tests, as well as some individuals of importance to the cult.
She's also told to bring likely bodies to be frozen in the Institute's own
morgue to be reawaken for possession by a demon once the summoning rituals are
complete.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all she can still raise
them even if they've been dead a day, they're just mindless and therefore
perfect hosts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">She also gets to know the other two Fallen who work
for Belphigor and the only two other Fallen known to him in this world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These included Zipacna (earth forging angel
called an Annunaki) and Ezurial (angel of the wilds called a Rabisu).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She mentions their names to Gipontel during
an invocation one night, though both are Faustians, Gipontel is eager to know
that another Annunaki was on this world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">She reveals herself to her boss, Rupert Harper, who
freaks out and wants her to stop and doesn't take kindly to her raising a
random dead person in her true form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
tries to make sense of her history lessons on a chalkboard but later keeps
forgetting many of the details (partially on purpose).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">During her speech she made a point to invoke Haruta
while bitching about him and so later on after she had dropped the connection,
she kept getting invoked by a mad Haruta in the abyss (or so it seems). He
demanded she find a way to free him, and she agreed so long as he ceased
invoking her, though to begin with she had no desire to do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until she found out Gipontel's plans and then
figured why shouldn't she invoke her oldest friend?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Nithriel also gets to talking to Jackson Elias at
Prospero Press about his cult investigations and gets some information (<a href="http://www.yog-sothoth.com/topic/29175-cult-writeup-formats-and-requirements/">Text Can Be Found Here</a></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">)
on how to deal with cults.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She starts
reading his books and gains two temporary 1-point pools to help her in her next
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">adventure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sons of Death gave her a
1-point </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span class="5yl5"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">History for how
previous regimes have tried to stamp out cults while Way of Terror gave her a
1-point Assess Honesty for identifying cult-like behaviors.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Gipontel returns to his boarding school where he
must spend the next year and a half learning how to be a gentleman until his host finally reaches the age of eighteen. Unfortunately it takes him awhile to realise that his body won't age while he has Faith in his system and so he still looks quite young by the time the trip back to New York takes place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He makes a point to pick up Arabic and learns
some tidbits on occultism and theology from the library as he seeks to summon
forth his old friend, Ahrimal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Learning
that Belphigor has successfully summoned Zipacna, he invokes Belphigor from across
the way and demands all of his research materials on that summoning
ritual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two debate a little bit,
politically rubbing up against each other, before settling on Gipontel having
access to those materials -- but only in New York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Belphigor also offers access to his library
and laboratory, and limited access to his cult, in order to do it.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Naturally Gipontel can't therefore work on this
ritual until he has completed his studies, but what is a year and a half to an
immortal being?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Occasionally he invokes
Ahrimal who rambles madly, occasionally bursting into harsh barks of laughter
or sudden sobs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's a very depressing
process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least he can have socially
awkward conversations with Zipacna where the two talk at each other about their
own fixed interests while knowing the other won't judge them and is kind of
listening -- as is the Annunaki way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Gipontel also arranges toward the end of 1924 to
celebrate his first year free from university. He even gets permission to go back to New York for a month or two, which his father approves of since his business trip and visit to Ambrose Mogens certainly gave him many financial advantages in the New York sector that he's eager to ensure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
sister, Gwen, and her friend, Letty, also manage to get permission to go with
him so long as he chaperones them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their
mother also accompanies them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Finally Gipontel is told by his father, the Earl, that he must have a valet, even as the youngest son. Since his own father's valet is due to retire, Gipontel arranges to have him as his valet -- with a difference. He grants his valet his youth again in a demonic pact. It turns out his father's valet was quite a handsome man back in the day.Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-79404075464676315902016-06-14T09:42:00.000+09:302016-06-14T09:42:53.538+09:30Dark Before Dawn Session Summary: Destiny's ScytheThe session began innocently enough with everyone invited to attend Yzador's festivities. There were five Flowers of Demeter available (actually cup cakes) and some bottles of whiskey and wine (actually iced tea and cordial) that could only be truly enjoyed by those who ate one of the flowers. Since Yzador was only charging a trivial boon for them, it didn't take too long for all of the flowers to be sold.<br />
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Most of the upper echelons were in the back room for much of the session, barring the prince whose player couldn't attend and so the character was away on other business. Yzador spent much of the time as a charming host who had some strange quirks that were unusual for those who knew him. He also had the chance to introduce everyone to the Crone neonate, Contrary Mary, who had been rescued from the Undercity within the past week during the downtime phase between sessions.<br />
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Contrary Mary (a Non Player Character) got to impress everyone with her huge great sword that was too heavy for a regular person to even carry and which certainly drew the attention of the supremely strong elder, Michael Novichkov, who was one of the very few who could swing it.<br />
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Professor Jasmine Hadley declared that her childe, Talitha Salvatore, was now the Lesser Harpy and that people could register their boons with her. The current harpy, Amity Fine, was aware of this development and though she didn't attend the gathering her approval had been sought.<br />
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The gathering was plagued by strange spiritual activity which included a bizarre knee-high fog, doors that wouldn't open unless asked nicely, and strange illusions written on mirrors and other reflective surfaces. Finally Yzador quietly sang that "Alas he cannot stay" and then dove into the tall mirror that had been brought into the event for the purpose. (Well, the player made the motion and described his action in front of the tall mirror - glass hurts.)<br />
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This left the neonates on their own so in typical neonate fashion, they decide to break into the museum to get their hands on some cold iron meteorites as Siobhan O'Baoill was currently obsessed with gathering information and tools against the fae. Their attempts were interrupted as Jonathon Williams went and told on them and they were chased down by Seamus O'Baoill (well, he hurried up to them as they stumbled drunkenly down the street).<br />
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It turns out there were plans in the wings to finally take out the Delphin Island demon. Everyone was brought together, armed up, and headed over to Delphin Island.<br />
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Now since large group combats can be an exercise in prolonged agony and hours of waiting, I've developed a few tricks to speed things up. I had already pre-rolled Initiative for everyone and so I had them sit in a circle of chairs around a coffee table in Initiative order so that they had a visual reference for when they would be called upon. I placed a map with some miniatures (from the Inner Sea Pathfinder Pawn collection) on the coffee table. This was to ensure that everyone had some idea of where they were to cut down on the descriptions and re-descriptions, especially since I knew I would be terrible at remembering where 9 PCs, two dogs and 11 NPCs were standing.<br />
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I used a Stone Golem of Deskari from the Worldwound Bestiary Box to represent the demon from the pond which only came up after five rounds of fighting the vampire larvae (near mindless mob of recently made and weaker vampires). There were three players who didn't have combatant characters so I gave two of them five of the larvae apiece to control and the third got to run Contrary Mary. He even wore her mask. I kept control of the Big Demon as I'd been surprised by the sudden assault and didn't have a write up explaining all of the creature's powers to hand.<br />
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Some key moments in the combat included:<br />
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<li>Seamus' two zombie dogs dropping bag loads of salt into the dark ponds to kick things off.</li>
<li>The ten zombies standing up in the ponds (ponds represented by plates).</li>
<li>Everyone tensely holding their actions so that the two snipers could aim for five rounds.</li>
<li>Novichkov staking a larvae with a thrown stake.</li>
<li>The larvae mobs tearing the two zombie dogs apart.</li>
<li>FatherMother being slammed by a larvae mob to the ground - then Earth Melding away.</li>
<li>Yzador being slammed by a larvae mob to the ground - who ignored his Nightmare.</li>
<li>FatherMother joining the pile on the ground to help Yzador by smashing larvae into the dirt.</li>
<li>While Talitha picked them off the both of them using a rifle.</li>
<li>Contrary Mary being slammed by a larvae mob to the ground - who ripped her arm off.</li>
<li>The demon rising from the depths of the pond with a giant scythe.</li>
<li>Siobhan failing a save and thinking the demon is actually a possessed Monroe (human boss).</li>
<li>Siobhan begging everyone not to hurt him and then trying to stumble in the way.</li>
<li>Professor Jasmine Hadley being uncertain of her claims and so shoots the larvae.</li>
<li>Jonathon Williams using Celerity to tear across the field to the demon.</li>
<li>Jonathon Williams using Parkour to run up the demon to reach its head.</li>
<li>Jonathon Williams slamming a holy water balloon down its gob.</li>
<li>Jonathon Williams being knocked to the ground and then implanted with a parasite.</li>
<li>Jonathon Williams arising as a controlled vampire, pops the equivalent of Greater Darkness.</li>
<li>Contrary Mary frenzying and feeding on two larvae.</li>
<li>Yzador running out of blood and feeding on a downed larvae.</li>
<li>Yzador slaying that downed larvae to remove the blood bond.</li>
<li>Talitha Salvatore growing wings and flying above the field.</li>
<li>Talitha Salvatore getting ten successes plus four damage on a shot that kills the demon.</li>
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It was a pretty good combat and while it did take a couple hours, we got through almost twenty rounds and no one seemed bored. For a mass combat, that's pretty amazing. For a LARP combat, that's pretty spectacular.<br />
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NOTE: Neither the other players nor characters knew of this, but the Yzador they saw for the first part of this session was actually his Mirror Reflection Rodazy that was a sentient and malicious spirit ever since his post-mortem Embrace (see Shadow Mekhet in the Mekhet Clanbook for more information). Yzador had made a deal with his own reflection to allow him his own party so long as he assisted with spying on the other supernatural creatures in the city.Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-27829519984848315542016-06-13T12:15:00.000+09:302016-06-14T09:43:10.879+09:30Dark Before Dawn Session Summary: Rex Rutilus<div>
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The following is written diary style by one of the players involved in the game:</div>
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"So yesterday, which was a month ago but still kind of yesterday, I told Seamus, Amity and McAllistair about my deal with Blue Girl on our way to see ThreePenny Jack. I didn’t mean to, it just kind of happened because Seamus was on my back about something and I wanted to annoy him. So after being lectured for a while, and after heading through the tunnels, seeing Nickz (And hearing about some Serial Killer thing) we went to go see Three Penny so I could find out a little more about the Fae. </div>
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It was a good thing I told everyone because they pointed out all the flaws in the ‘contract’ and Three Penny made a deal with me so that I could get what I wanted out of the deal initially. Me - 1. Blue Girl – bitter nil. Unfortunately for my deal with ThreePenny I had to have another stone to let him into Rex’s realm which meant I had to ask McAllistair for his stone. I offered a Major boon – MAJOR. But noooo I had to be all touchy feely and he traded me. I’m still not sure who got the raw end of the deal…</div>
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After aaaall the yelling, we had to head over to Rex’s domain straight away in case the Blue Girl found out somehow, and Amity went home. Or she was supposed to but she came anyways – more on how that went later.</div>
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So we went through the door at Himeji Gardens and I woke up in some old timey kind of office after the cigarette I was apparently smoking fell on my shirt and I was being yelled at by ‘my boss’ about not filing some crappy paperwork or something, I dunno, for pretend it was strangely reminiscent of being at my actual work… Anyways we were all playing our roles or some crap. I was Jack something-or-rather, a detective that didn’t play by the rules, McAllistair was some drunken PI, Seamus was a nosy reporter and Amity was a singer at a club... Anyways, I had to investigate some stupid murder that happened but didn’t.</div>
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Fucking Changelings, I swear. </div>
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“You have to investigate a murder!”</div>
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“What are you questioning them for? No one got murdered, they’re still alive right over there, see? But I’ll tell you about someone else that got murdered”. </div>
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“Oh that person's not murdered silly – they’re right over there – but that first person you were investigating…”</div>
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Well in the beginning I thought I had to solve the murders to get out. But I didn’t have to solve the murders, the real crime was that they’re all fucking insane changelings and they just murder people because they don’t play their part.</div>
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The worst part of not playing your part is when Rex comes and scares the absolute fuckery out of me when I open a door, then just staring at the wall until the bastard disappears because if you look at him you’re dead. Not before the people around you die first. Rule of three or something.</div>
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So on my “investigation” I was paired up with newbie cop. Which was good because it was easy to shake her once I told McAllistair to distract her, then told her she needed to question him. I went back to the office try and find some of those onyx stones I needed. All in the safe – freaking win. It took forever to find the combination and I thought I almost got busted but luckily it was only Seamus so we shoved everything into his pockets (including Rex’s ledger, a bunch of random blue rocks and and a crane with Fae-d written on it). </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gangsters and cops playing card games.</td></tr>
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Every time I got back to the Red Room Amity gave me a piece of information as subtley as she could. The first time was about the Red Pills, thinking it was a cure to Rex’s blood disease affecting few of the Changlings, we all went to find out what that was all about. Turns out they weren’t a cure and it was just a party drug made in a changeling murder factory. Out of changelings. Eww why am I only remembering this now. I better not tell Tal – Seamus knows what he ate… It’s no different than the Flower of Demiter right? Grown out of dead bodies / made out of dead bodies. It’s a very fine line. </div>
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I’m going to have to flush this out of my system with a whole lot of alcohol.</div>
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Anyways, arrests were made, interrogations were poorly done. Amity told us that the Changelings were plotting to kill us all so we decided to stick in pairs from then on wards. Luckily we did because Seamus wigged at his “boss” and tried to bite him. I’m not even sure what was going on there…</div>
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Anyways we needed a certain amount of Onyx stones to summon ThreePenny (We thought it was to escape at the time) and the only person I knew who had what we needed happened to be one of the Changelings I tortured or interrogated, I dunno. He was happy to make the deal with me anyways. (That makes 3 deals in total - aww yeah). </div>
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We summoned ThreePenny, he wrote his name in the wall, some creepy shit happened and Rex came out. I’m not sure what happened to him because I didn’t want to look just in case he could still make us sick and die. </div>
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The Blue Girl came straight away, just like Jack said she would with Changeling Bennett by her side ready for the swap. So as soon as Fetch Bennett appeared behind me I quickly reached into his chest and ripped out his heart and pushed him into the Blue Girl so she couldn't stop me from giving it to Changeling Bennett.</div>
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Wow too many Bennett variants. Well, maybe only two but its confusing to write. But that's okay because they're only one Bennett now. </div>
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(GM Note: Fetch Bennett is the one Siobhan knew before who was stolen away from her and who kept flipping into Angel Faced Killer mode which was a serial killer who would crush people's heads using a baseball bat. Changeling Bennett is who he was originally and essentially a part of his soul had been stolen to make Fetch Bennett. Combining the two was Siobhan's best chance of saving either of them and allowed her to give Changeling Bennett her Bennett's memories. Siobhan's initial deal with the Blue Girl was for "Bennett" rather than the "Angel Faced Killer" so she was going to lose her fetch to the Blue Girl and end up with the Changeling instead. Her later deal with Threepenny Jack to bring in the fetch at the right moment allowed her to take both.)</div>
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So the Fetch collapsed to the ground and Recombination Bennett opened a portal out of there and we all followed. Including all the Changelings so no one got their memory back and they were all weird and Seamus was too high to do anything, I was freaking out because I killed Bennett - See: ripping his still beating heart out of his chest - Amity was comforting me and McAllistair is McAllistair so Bennett is now the leader of the Changelings and we all went home. The end."</div>
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PCs include:<br />
<ul>
<li>Siobhan O'Baoill (Hardened and Reckless Police Detective)</li>
<li>Thomas McAllister (Alcoholic Private Investigator)</li>
<li>Amity Fine (Jazz Singer)</li>
<li>Seamus O'Baoill (Plucky Reporter)</li>
</ul>
NPCs include:<br />
<ul>
<li>Drug Dealing Bartender (Ram horns, black veins)</li>
<li>Angry Police Chief Bull (little horns and forehead veins)</li>
<li>Innocent Cop undercover as Adorable Newsboy/girl (cat ears, whiskers and fake nails)</li>
<li>Corrupt Business Executive & Media Mogul (grey skin, frown lines, stoneskin) </li>
<li>Mobster Kingpin (Coldscale, snake, grey with black edged scales) </li>
<li>Mob Enforcer (black and red hair wig, fox ears and whiskers)</li>
<li>Rex Rutilus (Fae, hands dipped in red dye to the wrists) GM aaaaaand fill in for one role.</li>
</ul>
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Basically each of these "characters" was actually a role and when one of the character's died, someone else would be stolen to take that role. This is why a murder could have happened, yet not happen, as the old Jazz Singer is murdered ... but then there's a new changeling in that Jazz Singer's role. Does that mean they count as dead? Or not? Each role also has their own motivations and expectations toward each other which created quite the web of deceit.</div>
<div>
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Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-44368031513434402712016-06-10T12:48:00.000+09:302016-06-10T12:48:01.274+09:30Demonic Trails of Cthulhu: Prelude (Part Two)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My husband who plays Gipontel.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I took the first half of the "Drawn From The Water" adventure from <a href="https://sentinelhillpress.wordpress.com/downloads/">Issue 2 of the Arkham Gazette</a> and
tacked on the Colours Out of Space from H.P. Lovecraft's own works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus the mission involved the players
tracking down a missing artist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
were several modifications.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Walton's
address was moved to Arkham, as were all other Kingsport locations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Walton was the son of a cultist who belonged
to Ambrose Mogen's "Half-Moon Cult" (which worshipped Belphigor as
the Black Man rather than an Avatar of Nyarlathotep).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Instead of using a scrimshaw piece connecting him to
a Yugg, I had him commissioned by some scientists with Arkham University to try
and capture the colours coming off the meteorite fragment they had taken from a
certain farm which I placed not far from Annie Pernell's farm in Innsmouth
(which I called Rowley, so my more knowledgeable player wouldn't automatically
guess it, though he did in the end anyway).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I also included a private investigator as evidence
of the Half-Moon cult's first foray into finding him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately the private investigator had
attempted to interrogate Joe Sergeant of the Innsmouth bus and so when his blue
hire car was spotted heading into the heath, the hybrid police officers pulled
him over, arrested him and then took him to the jail to await ritual
sacrifice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regrettably the players never
spoke to Joe Sergeant, avoided the bus and missed all of that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So they follow the adventure pretty well, though
they don't get any of the written handouts because they all refer to scrimshaw
that doesn't exist in this story, and even manage to track down the private
investigator's blue hire car and find out that he was quite a paranoid fellow who
slept in the car (more spy than private eye, as Mogens used him often).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They even hire the very same model.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">They then head out to Falcon's Point, track down the
address of Walton, and head over to the little abandoned farm. They pause along
the way to try one of the marvellous blackberries which are so big and lush,
almost impossibly so, only to find they taste acrid like an ant landing on your
tongue (side effect of the Colour).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He warns them to stay away, and after a bit of
to-ing and fro-ing, Gipontel opens the door and takes a bullet to the shoulder
(3 health points).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He slams the door
shut after that and Nithriel has to try and patch him up without a first aid
kit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then Gipontel crawls underneath the
building (risen up on short stilts to keep it out of water) and uses his powers
to split the floor beneath the ranting madman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Walton refuses to leave, cannot even countenance it in fact.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Once the man falls the foot (misfiring), he tries to
drag him down and under, just about managing to do so while Walton fires
blindly into the dark (missing with every shot).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the man gets back up the hole with an
empty gun, and the three converse about the mural on the walls which depicts
his rendition of the farm and the Colour out of Space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has to keep painting, or so he believes,
or the Colour will come for him.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">They head directly toward that farm and see that the
flora really is more marvellous and full, and then that it gets greyer and more
brittle towards the buildings themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I made use of the various skill use suggestions from the Bestiary in the
Trail of Cthulhu book and Nithriel even gets to perform a little autopsy on a
dead dog by the side of the road.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">They arrive at the farm and head inside only to find
a man on the couch calling for his middle son to fetch him some water (when
Nithriel tries the kitchen tap, she finds the water is oddly grey and rasping
like dry paper).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much of what follows is
taken straight from H.P. Lovecraft's short story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wife became deranged and so they locked
her upstairs, where she crawled about on all fours and spoke in some ungodly
tongue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then the same happened to
their eldest son, also locked upstairs in a different room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The youngest son disappeared over by the
well, and where is the middle son?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
calls for him but he doesn't come.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">They head upstairs and find the eldest son as little
more than fragments of skin and desiccated flesh beneath the covers of his
bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They go to see the mother and find
her sitting on the bed, face crumbling inwards, but only as she raises her arm
do they see she is still, in fact, alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So they rush over to her, Gipontel thinking he maybe should put her out
of her misery with the poker he took from downstairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just then they fill something brush past
them, and realise (with an Awakening spend) that there was something in the
room with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something departing.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My friend who plays Nithriel.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Gipontel heads down after it while Nithriel
considers how to save the woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In her
true form she can provide a little health points, enough to keep her alive
enough to move, though the woman is still badly mutilated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gipontel merely grabs the man on the couch
and drags him outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The entity seems
to avoid the light, which gives Gipontel the false idea that perhaps it is
actually afraid of light, so when it starts upstairs he instructs Nithriel to
rip open the window.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which does nothing.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So Nithriel gathers up the woman as best she can and
hurries out the window, gliding down on her wings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the motion has undone all of her healing,
and the woman now verges on death, requiring the last of Nithriel's faith to
heal.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Gipontel takes the roof off the car and forms it
into a stretcher for the woman, then reconnects it to the top of the car,
hoping that she can survive the bumpy ride up the hill and back into town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily they took the right road and passed
Dr. Bloom's office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Bloom was quite
a strange sort of fellow, and his mix of alchemy and occult books, and mention
of his loss of license, certainly caught Gipontel's eye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had to return to him twice more to check
on the adults and each time Dr. Bloom forgot who they were (more he didn't
recognise them as he knew them once they pointed out the connection).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">They rent to the Bar and Grill for dinner (and it
was quite late in Real Life) and so I pointed out what they had for dinner both
in and out of game that was quite themed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They had a choice of baked beans, spaghetti and meatballs, devilled ham
or tuna, all canned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The look in their
eyes when I brought out all those cans after their very fancy lunchtime made it
all worth it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though as it was quite
late one of the players was just hungry and got the joke more after he'd eaten
it.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I played up everything smelling of fish, but I
didn't describe the Innsmouth Taint as I still wanted to hide the
location.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The well-read player figured
it out anyway but here's hoping when they finally return he'll have forgotten
his assumptions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So at the Bar and Grille, Moira Brooks, a hybrid who
works there, tries to chat up Gipontel despite his young sixteen years of
age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She convinces him that she'll show
him the smuggler's tunnels, using quite dirty metaphors for other things that
he didn't quite realise, but that she'd only show him alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He went away with her into a nearby empty
house and she tried to put his hand on her You Know What.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He snatched his hand away, scolded her, but
she was pretty unrepentant.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Gipontel marched off to find Nithriel and the two
headed back to Arkham for the night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nithriel stated they would be exploring the well tomorrow morning, and
when Gipontel tried to explain the reasons why they shouldn't, she told him
that she'd go with him or without him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The two younger kids were still missing after all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So they returned to the tainted farmhouse and
Gipontel spent a couple hours (Relentless, Forge Power) digging a hole down
beside the well in the hopes that there might be a cave system beside it, but
finding only groundwater.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So he breaks
through at the bottom and the grey raspy water rushes over his hands and brings
with it two small skulls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cue more stability
loss!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It gets even worse when he feels
the cool draught and sees the slight phosphorescence of the Colour out of
Space.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So he flashes his light on it but it really doesn't
seem to care, so he gets the hell out of there.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">They go back to Walton whom Gipontel sealed into his
farmhouse (think I forgot to mention that) and he's still unwilling to
leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He can't.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He just can't bring himself to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So they head to Eliot's Drug Store to get
some sedatives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While there they see
some rather lovely orchids out the front for sale that seem rather out of place
(bred by Lester Davies) and find out a bit about the florist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Gipontel is figuring that perhaps this Lester Davies
is draining the good health out of the farmlands for his own plants but when
they drive by his address (after bribing Eliot) they find the street is still
pretty weed-racked and figure it for a red herring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A shame because Lester Davies is a Cryptic
Rabisu (angel of the wilds) and a meeting with Gipontel might have slowly
teased that loose.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Before heading back to Walton, they stop by the
telephone booth to contact Ambrose Mogens at his estate but as he's no longer
at home (busy entertaining the Ashburnes), they end up having to invoke
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or rather, Nithriel does while
Gipontel stresses over what they have learned to date and how best to proceed.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Luckily Belphigor has had a few hundred years as
Ambrose Mogens and is a dab hand at both the Occult and History.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He recalls a few legends of strange natural
disasters, fey things of strange colours, seen in medieval Europe and that in
one instance they got rid of it by feeding it lots of pigs. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He also warns
Nithriel to keep an eye on Gipontel because who knows what these stresses could
do to a Silver Legionnaire fresh from the Abyss?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"He's seen some things…."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">To make it even better, Gipontel's player kept
roleplaying his character's thoughtful distress and so when Nithriel's player
slid him a sidelong and appraising look it was quite a beautiful moment.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">They head to Newburyport to purchase some pigs from
a local farmer who had been to the Sunday market (it's Sunday now) and have
them dropped off in the barn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They shut
the doors on the place as it grows dark and the well begins to glow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They head over and drug dear Walton's food
and then put him in the back of the car and then drive their hire car all the
way to New York.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A week later Nithriel goes back to check on it and
finds the whole area surrounding the farm is little more than a blasted heath
with two small holes in the ground where Gip's efforts and the well had
stood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And things go back to normal.<o:p></o:p></span>Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-13256824541937492492016-06-10T11:56:00.003+09:302016-06-10T11:56:35.699+09:30Dark Before Dawn Stones of Accursed Blessedness<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cNE5sNtBT4Y/V1okvA2SwWI/AAAAAAAACYo/ng8WFhRafzAqoJZV3zP62cv4q04vRVuJACLcB/s1600/Stones.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cNE5sNtBT4Y/V1okvA2SwWI/AAAAAAAACYo/ng8WFhRafzAqoJZV3zP62cv4q04vRVuJACLcB/s200/Stones.jpg" width="200" /></a>Stones of Accursed Blessedness are a prop item that are granted to players of characters who have attended a Nurse Cassandra session. If a character dies before using their stone, it will find some way to reach the hand's of the next character of that player -- though the marking will change to reflect the clan of the vampire involved. <br />
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In terms of the campaign LARP, from the start of the campaign these Stones of Accursed Blessedness can do one of three things before being utterly consumed and destroyed (though later on they could also be traded for 15xp when we started running low on game time left):<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>Immediately banish all incorporeal beings AND abjure a mall-sized area for an entire year.</li>
<li>Unlock a gateway to an alternative dimension to accomplish a certain plot (i.e. the Last Express) which provides something important to the player.</li>
<li>Provide an exceptional success on your next five successive dice rolls (may not be used on a roll that will result in the torpor, blood bonding or death of another player character - NPCs are not excluded). NOTE: No one ever used this version.</li>
</ul>
These stones *can* be traded and have the in-game value of a major boon* or its equivalent in immediate trade. Due to mystical contrivances, they can't be demanded by someone with a major boon on you, only offered by someone in exchange for a major boon. Otherwise the stones will not recognise the new owner and will reappear in your pocket at a later time. Attempts to mystically command you into using a stone when you don't want to will generally fail (unless you, as a player, are okay with it). Mundane coercion is fine. If you die before using it, the stone mystically discovered by another human or vampire (who also happens to be your new character).<br />
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<strong><u><em>*MAJOR BOONS:</em></u></strong> Boons are like blank cheques traded between vampires and those without boons owed / owing are considered to be incompetent and untrustworthy cheapskates. A Major Boon represents a massive effort to achieve that can take up to a year to complete. This could involve cultivating a massive allegiance with the local judicial authorities and then handing over the power to another vampire, clearing out a pack of werewolves who are interrupting another vampire's enterprises or developing a scale (vampiric power) that has little practical benefit to yourself, teaching another vampire that scale and then supporting that vampire's claim to have invented the scale themselves so that they can claim all the credit.Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-82159699301636298112016-06-08T10:34:00.000+09:302016-06-08T10:34:03.606+09:30Dark Before Dawn Session Summary: Feeding Grounds<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Prince was unable to attend this session<br />
but his influence over the city was certainly felt.</td></tr>
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Professor Jasmine Hadley stepped forward as seneschal today to help organise people's feeding grounds claims because Prince Harry Saeed (who had given up the order) was to busy to attend the gathering (aka player was sick).<br />
<br />
You see, vampires need to feed on humans and being predators they don't like bumping into each other while out on the hunt. There's also increased risks that they will over feed on the area, becoming more noticeable as the same human witnesses multiple strange events or risking death from blood loss as a mortal who had lost a little blood, loses a little more to another, and a little more to another, until they collapse.<br />
<br />
Some areas are also clearly better feeding spots than others due to having a higher traffic of nocturnal roamers, ideally people willing to walk down dark alleys or go home with strangers. Thus the CBD, North Adelaide, and Port Adelaide are better eating spots than the suburbs and are therefore called Racks.<br />
<br />
If vampires over feed from the area, they damage it and it can support fewer vampires and provide less of a blood bonus in future. If they groom the area, they can increase it's value and the number of vampires it can support. Thus it's in the prince's best interests to divide up the land for the vampires and to encourage a sense of pride and ownership in one's feeding grounds.<br />
<br />
Professor Jasmine Hadley had her speech and I (as Dr. Mirrim Hargey, prince's childe and general secretary) drew in people's feeding grounds claims onto various printed out maps. A few people grumbled, namely those who had larger feeding grounds in the last chronicle under other princes, but most people gained more than they had to lose so most were pretty happy with it.<br />
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The in-game venue was behind the Tuxedo Cat, an old nightclub on North Terrace that basically opens up into an old and defunct concrete catacomb a few storeys tall. Amity Fine was the hostess and though she had no music going, I put on some warehouse ambiance from <a data-mce-href="http://tabletopaudio.com/" href="http://tabletopaudio.com/"><u><span data-mce-style="color: #0000ff;" style="color: blue;">Tabletop Audio</span></u></a>. She declared it Elysium and had Michael Novichkov, who had recently had his status stripped by the prince during the last gathering, perform the duty of Master of Elysium.<br />
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Michael Novichkov soon got to play the part of Master of Elysium when Seamus O'Baoill frenzied on Gary Dodd. Why? Well, Seamus O'Baoill had interrupted Gary Dodd's attempts to haggle with Lewis Epcott over the price of a bottle of top shelf lacrima that Epcott drank last game (under manipulations by the sheriff). Seamus O'Baoill threatened Gary Dodd for asking such an exorbitant price of a fellow Ordo Dracul (as the starting requested boon was a major) and Gary Dodd told him to fuck off.<br />
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So Seamus O'Baoill frenzied on him and Novichkov had to pin him under the table for awhile until the frenzy stopped. Eventually Seamus exhausted his frenzy tearing apart the table.<br />
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This all happened outside where we had popped a few tables and mismatched chairs about on the little courtyard to represent a random inner section of the Tuxedo Cat's concrete clad back rooms. We play during the day but funnily enough it's not as immersion breaking as you'd think. In the new 2nd edition rules, vampires can see perfectly in anything other than pitch darkness and so it makes little sense to require a torch to read your sheets.<br />
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Dr. Jonathon Taylor was feeling quite poorly, at this point, having also had a pretty rough few weeks. You see, he was a duplicate of the arch-villain from the last campaign and had been copied a few months before a terrible ritual drove his first self evil. So he's not evil and has never been evil but many of the things that are plaguing the city are still his fault. So he gets drunk and smack talks Jonathon Williams who is currently suspected of dressing homeless people up in gimp suits shackled in his haven as his herd. And then draining them dry. Jonathon Williams just calls him a hypocrite and leaves it at that.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a data-mce-href="http://larpoutloud.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Territorial-Maps.jpg" href="http://larpoutloud.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Territorial-Maps.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Feeding Grounds" class="size-medium wp-image-525" data-mce-src="http://larpoutloud.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Territorial-Maps-300x225.jpg" height="225" src="http://larpoutloud.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Territorial-Maps-300x225.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A map of the vampire's feeding grounds.</td></tr>
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Amity Fine lectures a few people on damaging the Racks and tells them to stop over feeding. She doesn't really address the fact that there are a lot of fangs per location nor does she give them advice on boosting the Rack. Harpies, huh?</div>
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NOTE: A harpy is a social position whose job it is to reinforce appropriate social behaviour, humiliate those who disobey and to record the IOUs called 'boons' that are the life blood of the vampire economy.<br />
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Partway through the festivities, I headed off and changed from Dr. Mirrim Hargey's costume to Julia Dannenburg's costume. Few of the characters currently in Adelaide had met Julia Dannenburg but a number had heard of her due to her crazy text messages that she had sent over the <a data-mce-href="http://s3.zetaboards.com/The_Dark_Before_Dawn/index/" href="http://s3.zetaboards.com/The_Dark_Before_Dawn/index/"><u><span data-mce-style="color: #0000ff;" style="color: blue;">forums</span></u></a>. So that I could keep her appearance a surprise yet still ensure that the older players knew who she was, I made a dramatic appearance that was basically a loud: "Hello! Julia Dannenburg here!"<br />
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There was a bit of a fuss and she was quickly dragged into a private room by Seamus O'Baoill who interrogated her about where she had been and what she'd been up to. Then he allowed her to return to the main room where she poked a few people, spread her theory that the gloom walls currently dividing up the city were a form of quarantine to prevent the spread of infection. She also stated that Contrary Mary, another vampire NPC from the old chronicle, was currently trapped in the old Nosferatu catacombs beneath the city by an evil cult.<br />
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Then Julia Dannenburg went to chat with the seneschal, Professor Jasmine Hadley, about stuff and things. Amusingly enough, a few other characters came with them in Obfuscate (and spider form) and hid around the large room.<br />
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Normally there'd be a chance to spot people with basic Obfuscate as it just makes them forgettable, not invisible, but the venue involves large gaping rooms so it's not impossible to be within listening distance and remain in hiding. They got their spying on. There were a few gasps of surprise. And I got the joy of dropping a few bombs in a room load of players while playing a character who didn't know they were there.Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-69230791965296067692016-06-05T12:39:00.000+09:302016-06-05T12:39:05.578+09:30Demonic Trails of Cthulhu Prelude (Part One)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We worked a lot on the ambiance for this one.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Our first demonic Trails of Cthulhu session was a
hefty 12 hours where we all dressed up in period costume and ate fitting foods
as the day wore on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We began with their
pre-fall experiences and I read our choice sections of Gaviel's speech as
description (from the core rule-book), making sure to keep good eye contact
throughout so that it could be far more gripping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also dined on delicious raspberry pancakes
during this section for morning tea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some of the roleplaying highlights included:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Shifting the focus from two humans to a
very specific immortal yet reproducing race of humans meant that a lot of
Asharu (guardian angels) had to be re-directed from other animals to the human
race.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This meant that a messenger
sub-type of guardian angels, Haruta (NPC), ended up having to protect his own
tribe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Haruta's restless boredom and
urge for stimulation, the way he would almost allow his mortals to thirst to
see if there was a reaction, gave good contrast to Nithriel's (PC) forthright
devotion and desire to protect his tribe as well as her own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, in the days of paradise humans
mingled and passed between groups fearlessly and without much comprehension
that they even had swapped around.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Abaddon (NPC), herself, confronting
Nithriel when she withered and removed some thorny bushes so that mortals could
sleep in the shade, thus slowly destroying that species (as all the other
Asharu did the same for their tribes).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Protecting humans while allowing them to
largely wander where they may could prove quite difficult, such as when an Annunaki
(landscape crafting angel) called Gipontel (PC) had to tunnel a hole in the
side of an about to erupt volcano so that humans could cross it without
fear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trouble was that the lava was
directed into a valley where Abaddon had been storing plants and animals
considered too problematic by the other angels, thus ensuring their deaths and,
in some cases, extinction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since Abaddon
is to be an Arch Duke of the ultra-violent Ebon Legion, this should prove
interesting indeed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Finally understanding the Ebon Legion's creation
in a time before true hatred and violence when Haruta (NPC) saw little point in
continuing to protect mortal humans since they would die soon anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead he wanted to win the war against god
to remove mortality from humans and saw fixation on that goal as a better path.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words good intentions could still
lead to the Ebon Legion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Seeing early days Nithriel (who doesn't
change much through her fall) and Gipontel (who does) is quite
interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Early Gipontel has all the
social awkwardness of his kind and none of the political grace he will later
obtain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Humanity were hidden in a number of cave
networks around the world by the Annunaki (angels of the material world) while
the Namaru (angels of power and originally the word of God) created a defence
against radiation and heat when God smote the Earth (actually a solar
flare).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Asharu (angels of the wind
and life) then had to rush off to separate carbon from oxygen and recapture
oxygen lost to space to re-form the correct atmosphere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Within a week humans were back on the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">July
1923<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I had dressed as Gwen Ashburn (NPC).</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Then we moved to the human prelude where Master
Theodore Ashburne of Astley (PC) and his family are being entertained at the
Mogens Estate, New York, as part of a business venture with his father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ambrose Mogens is not in attendance (or so
they thought) but a number of his investors and other important figures are,
though the Earl of Astley finds the whole thing rather humiliating since
Ambrose (reclusive millionaire as he is) didn't come out of hiding to see him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ingrid Kensington (PC), daughter of Jonah and Julia
Kensington of Prospero Press, and student pathologist is also in attendance as
she had been invited along by her supervisor, Mr. Rupert Harper, as his Plus
One.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr. Rupert Harper misunderstood the
timing on the invitation and arrived for dinner rather than the gathering
afterward but the staff managed to flawlessly include them in the dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Miss Kensington spoke mainly to an alleged
medical engineer working of new plastic surgery techniques involving skin
grafting - a Mr. Maximillian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later she
determines that he is a conman, though he declares himself a financier in
disguise, because she notices how much he searches the room for angles and
opportunity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Little did she realise that Mr. Maximillian was none
other than Ambrose Mogens himself!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We celebrated this dinner with a well-laid table and
a variety of yummy sandwiches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
included such surprisingly tasty fillings as:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Two slices of lettuce with condensed
tomato soup in between.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sliced cucumber, salt, pepper and dill,
with cream cheese on one slice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Mashed banana with raspberry jam spread.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Raspberry jam and cream cheese.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sliced tomato, lettuce and cream cheese,
with pepper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And then two different types of little
tarts, bought from Woolworths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Later Master Theodore and his sister, Miss Gwen,
moved out of the busier main rooms during the main party and came across a
partially opened trophy room filled with all kinds of strange relics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Naturally Miss Gwen became enamoured with a
carved silver skull with a key between its teeth and a book of Latin above
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She asked Master Theodore to read it
out to her, since she could understand spoken Latin better than written
Latin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poor boy soon realised that once
he started reading, he couldn't stop, and with nothing more than a glance her
way before his eyes were ripped back toward the book, he unleashed hell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Miss Gwen was slain instantly, dropping dead at the
feet of that dread book, while Master Theodore was knocked across the room and
laid up by the door (quickly possessed by Gipontel).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feeling a strange calling sensation, Ingrid
Kensington hurried their way and upon discovering the dead girl, having never
previously met the owner of the corpses she dealt with, she was utterly
horrified.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in her moment of
weakness, Ingrid was slain as Nithriel slammed into ownership of her body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nithriel immediately set about resurrecting
Miss Gwen as the body was quite fresh, but the poor sixteen-year-old twin
remained unconscious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This allowed Nithriel and Gipontel to speak and
realise their true identities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gipontel
peeled back the marquetry flooring and hid both skull and book underneath,
shortly before Mr. Maximillian opened the door and took the three of them (Miss
Gwen, he carried) into a sitting room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There he opened some cognac (which one of my players brought along) to discuss
matters and introduced himself as Belphigor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Both players chose to spend a point of Legacy so we
had a flashback to their first encounters with Belphigor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Nithriel wished to heal those mortal
followers of God (their enemy) of the wicked disease that another of her kind,
an Asharu called Riyazagor, the Black Wind, had wrought upon them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of the other Iron Legion were willing to
risk his wrath and enter his land … except for Belphigor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once they arrived a few mortals tried to
signal God's angels, but instead Riyazagor arrived with his squad, and
threatened to slay them both for treasonously healing the enemy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Haruta, one of Riyazagor's subordinates,
stepped forward for he didn't want to be responsible for either of their deaths
(though he namely pointed out that it was a poor day to kill the Radiant
Champion, Belphigor).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So instead the two
duelled while the others watched and Belphigor put on a good show while
Nithriel smuggled the humans out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later
when she returns to help him, the others have gone and Belphigor is limping
weakly toward her, one damaged wing fluttering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Gipontel had been tricked through
political machinations into assisting Belphegor (twin soul of Belphigor and
Lady of Sighs) in the cruel citadel-fortress of Ninatan (Palace of Sighs) built
in the bowels of a volcano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We played
through his conversation with Belphegor as she eagerly mentions that her
brother has offered himself to her so long as she released her mortal test
subjects, but she simply took him in and kept the others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She now needs Gipontel to reinforce the
fortresses defences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though she betrayed
him, Belphigor remains for the full year and a day out of honour and doubtless
also out of hope that she might at least release the mortals with him at the
end of their time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She does not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he leaves, though, he leaves with three
converted fallen and then assaults the fortress using weak points that Gipontel
had cunningly hidden among its defences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It's during their conversations that Gipontel becomes more politically
astute, learning how to influence through words alone, and how to identify such
influence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The training isn't formal,
more subtle revelations seeded through Belphigor's words, as it seems the
Radiant Champion knew from the beginning what Gipontel would do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Nithriel asks if there is a job she could do for the
important and influential figure, this Radiant Champion, this Fell Knight of
her Faustian Faction, and he is pleased to accept. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Belphigor offers to distract Theodore's
parents and claim that he is convalescing and needs time alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He seems confidant that he can manage to do
that, so Gipontel assumes he has some sort of mind controlling power, as befits
a Devil of Radiance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Anyway, the mission is long enough to require its
own article so I'll type it up later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-6611477563731887702016-06-04T12:24:00.000+09:302016-06-04T12:24:05.257+09:30Demonic Cthulhu Character: Zipacna
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Fallen
Name:</span><strong><span style="color: #365f91;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><span class="Heading1Char"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Zipacna</span></span></span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Titles:
Sculpter of the Fleshy Form (Malefactor).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Sub-House:
Forge (Mummu).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Legion:
Crimson Legion (Honourable War).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Faction:
Faustian (Schemer)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Demonic Personality Traits:<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Zipacna Personality Traits:</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> A curious and utterly naïve
fallen angel who could become very excited by a new proposition without thought
to the potential long-term repercussions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She was also quite secretive on her various projects, a trait that
became her downfall.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Zipacna History: </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Initially she was designed to
help craft animal flesh out of base matter and thus knew a little of the
Devourer's craft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zipacna chose to
enlighten humanity for no other reason than because she could see the potential
there and because the highest of the angels said it was a good idea so it had
to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She likewise followed Lucifer
directly into the<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>Crimson Legion,
supposing he must be correct.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
learned her craft alongside many others under Nemere's tutelage and grew to
love enchanting relics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was
convinced to secretly assist Abaddon himself with plans to create a relic that
would allow demons to mate with mortals to create children, turning their
spiritual bodies into flesh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
invented the Stone of Fecundity and Limitation that would clothe one in mortal
bones and blood and anchored their immortal essence to mortal seed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several score of these stones were created
and from them were made the Nephilim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At
the time she was incredibly pleased, later she was mortified.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once she reached the Abyss, she saw that
perhaps the issue wasn't the Nephilim but those who were entrusted to raise
them.</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Host:
Emily Probst</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">She was
granted a host by Ambrose Mogens who devised a ritual to summon her out of the
pit with the assistance of his cult.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her
host is the biologist Emily Probst whose mind was thoroughly fractured after
being raised as a fifth generation cultist and thus being exposed to strange
truths from an early age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She now
performs startling research into human fertility and cloning, mainly ethically
shaky, and is invaluable in helping discover new chemical compounds that can
help drive the flesh warped creatures kept in the Mogens Institute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With mortal science and demonic magic, she
plans bring forth a new human race, combining the best features of mortal and
demon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nominally the Minister of Lions
as she is involved in the defence of the place.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Physical Form and Powers</span></u></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Annunaki Power (Enchant Device ):</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Zipacna has the rare ability to
imbue items with flesh warping energies, however, without a Rabisu of the right
lore she has no control over exactly what power is imbued or how it will
manifest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These devices, most often
bracers which are attuned to an individual or stones which are swallowed, will
produce a particular flesh warping power whose effects are unknown until it is
tried.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a potential 8 Stability
loss per use of these unchained devices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are no known methods of reversing these effects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zipacna doesn't know of this new limitation
yet and so is experimenting with multiple artefact combinations on Mogens'
patients.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">If she
works with the right Rabisu she can spend 1 point of Faith to imbue a limited
version of that Rabisu's power into the device (i.e. if the Rabisu can buff
themselves with a floating pool of extra general ability points as their
central power, she can instead put a +5 permanent boost to a single general
ability into the devices).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With an
additional point of faith she can ensure there is no flesh warp when such a
device is used.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fallen can only use a
number of these devices equal to their permanent Faith rating and must spend a
temporary faith each day to empower them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mortals may only use one such device.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Further devices *will* instil an Appearance Defect on top of any
Benefits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Roll
twice on both tables to get the result of a particular artefact:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">APPEARANCE
DEFECT<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Facial features warped in a
hideous and inhuman manner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Skin covered in blisters, rashes,
raised fleshy scales or simply peeling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Enlarged body with inhuman or
twisted limbs, strange gait.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Hair thickens and becomes
semi-mobile, like tentacles, growths on face and body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Tumours appear sporadically about
the body, benign but weeping pus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Symbiotic insects live and grow
within special sacs in host body, swarm over skin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">BENEFIT<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gain 5 points of Health (may
raise the cap beyond 10).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gain a venomous attack which
deals +1 damage over five rounds to the victim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Increase the target number to hit
them to 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gain <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gain 3 points in Athletics and
Fleeing, and a dog-like sense of smell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gain a 0 damage natural weapon
used with Scuffling, or simply enlarged fists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Annunaki Form Ability </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Iron Skin)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: </i>When using her revelatory form which costs a point of faith,
Zipacna gains 2 points of armour and can suppress encountered poisons for the
duration of her apocalyptic form.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mummu Form Ability #1 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Tremor Sense)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: </i>Zipacna can feel the approach and
movement of people and devices within thirty feet by simply making skin contact
with the ground or a wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Her Alertness
Modifier goes up to +2 in a low-vibration area, though this can be reduced to a
+1 if there is a lot of vibrations in the area.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mummu Form Ability #2 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Relentless)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: </i>Zipacna can physically work without need of rest, and is able to
cover superhuman distances without pause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As long as she stays in motion, she is unaffected by fatigue or
hunger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She can work relentlessly in a
workshop so long as she is in her revelatory form.</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ACTUAL
STATS</span></u></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Abilities: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Athletics 6, Health 10, Sanity 5, Scuffling 8, Stability 6, Weapons 6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Faith: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">3; spells - Enchant Cane, Enchant Knife, Enchant Whistle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Hit Threshold: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Alertness Modifier: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">+0 / +2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Stealth Modifier: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">+0<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Armor: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">2</span>Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-16642633898378218972016-06-03T12:22:00.000+09:302017-03-02T10:37:17.379+10:30Demonic Cthulhu Character: Haruta<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Fallen
Name: </span><strong><span style="color: #365f91;"><span style="font-family: "cambria";"><span class="Heading1Char"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Haruta</span></span></span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Titles:
Demon of the Scouring Wind (Scourge).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Sub-House:
Wind (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elil</i>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Legion:
Ebon (War At Any Cost).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Faction:
Ravener (Destruction).</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Demonic Powers<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Haruta History:</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Always eager
for stimulation and adventure, when he was moved from his duties as an Elil to
fill the role of a Dagan (guardian angel) for a tribe of unaware mortals he
tended to not take his responsibilities so seriously and would provide little
tests to entertain himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing
cruel but quite shocking to some of the Dagan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When they were made mortal, he vowed to do nothing but war against
Heaven until they could be re-gifted their immortality and passed his own tribe
over to Nithriel's protection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He ended
up in Riyazagor's squad after the First Murder showed him so many other roads
to excitement, and would scour the enemy while his boss, the Black Wind,
inflicted the mortals with dread diseases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since Haruta became rather disruptive and insubordinate when bored, he
was later sent to a squad of rejects under Shaitan within the Ebon Legion.</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Host:
</span></u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lettice (Letty) Hennington is the daughter of
a Lord who has been sent to the same boarding school as Gwen Ashburne, daughter
of the Earl of Astley and twin to Theodore Ashburne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Theodore accidentally unleashed the
demonic PCs from the silver skull, she simply fainted against her dancing
partner and then recovered her stance as a demon at the tender age of sixteen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Letty had been weakened by the glitter of the
dance party, knowing the suffocating boredom of her home and the cold
disciplinarians that were her parents who had quietly institutionalised her
brother for his socialism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She couldn't
stand the idea of going back to them and had actually considered suicide if she
couldn't snag an American husband who could keep her in glitz and glamour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Haruta chose to keep his situation quiet
because he knew who else had been packed into that skull and didn't want to be Gipontel's
servant again (as he had during the Victorian era, a time they can't remember).</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Physical Form
and Powers</span></u></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Elil Power </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">(Speed of Wind)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">:</i> Haruta can move at an incredible speed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(up to 100km/h) for a human beings and can
use that momentum to get thirty feet up a wall before having to grab onto
anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This additional speed also
means that Haruta<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>acts as though his
relevant skill is double what it actually is in terms of initiative - in other words, he almost always
acts whenever he damn well chooses to act.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When coupled with Fist of Air, or using two handguns, he can fire both
guns in the same round at a +1 Hit Threshold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Finally he can cover thrice as much ground when swimming or climbing per
turn.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><br />
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Asharu Form Ability </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">(Wings)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">:</i> A pair of eight-foot-long wings
extends from her shoulders that allow her to take off from a standing position
and glide up to three times her running speed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even without using these wings she is lifted a few inches above the
ground by a non-existent breeze which runs through her hair, allowing her to
pass through an area without leaving any prints.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Elil Form
Ability #1 </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">(Whirlwind)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: </i>Haruta is harder to hit and gains a +1 bonus to Target Number to hit due to the pressure of the wind enveloping her form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Enemies must also spend an additional point
of Scuffling to grapple her and that point doesn't otherwise count toward their
rolls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Elil Form
Ability #2 </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">(Fist
of Air)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: </i>Haruta can blast a person
with wind as though he were always carrying a heavy revolver, even when unarmed
and uses the Firearms skill to do it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">ACTUAL
STATS<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Abilities: </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Athletics 9,
Firearms 12, Fleeing 8, Health 12, Sanity 9, Scuffling 8, Stability 9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Faith: </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">3; spells - none
known.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Hit Threshold: </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Alertness Modifier: </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">+0<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Stealth Modifier: </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">+0 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Weapon: </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">+1 (blast of
wind)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Armor: </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">1 (in
apocalyptic form).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-7460418252112821292016-06-02T12:20:00.000+09:302016-06-02T12:20:09.536+09:30Demonic Cthulhu Character: Ezurial
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Fallen
Name: </span><strong><span style="color: #365f91;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><span class="Heading1Char"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ezurial</span></span></span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Titles:
Angel of Wild Diversity (Devourer).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Sub-House:
Wilds (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aruru</i>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Legion:
Crimson (Honourable War).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Faction:
Faustian (Schemer).</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Demonic Powers<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Ezurial
Personality Traits and History:</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> A wild-eyed and curious fallen angel
who tended to be overcome by her passion for the biodiversity of the world,
eagerly recounting and reciting the very many different plant and animal
species which she had seen across the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She sought to preserve the biodiversity of Eden even before the war and
actually fell due to a desire to instruct humanity on how to behave in a way
that wouldn't adversely affect it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
continued her obsession during the war and yet found herself strangely drawn to
some of the Silver Legion's works in changing plants, going so far as to
preserve dozens of samples during the Long March which caused her to be
publicly shamed by her liege lord, Grifiel, due to the nature of those
plants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She avoided him forever more and
ended up in the Faustian Faction as it was her second best fit.</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Host:
</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Kalpana
Bhatia was a student of plant and animal diversity who used to explore the
fringes of local jungles, using her parents wealth, in her desire to find
something that will mutate freely across generations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An interesting early success she has had
involves a species of dove found in Sri Lanka, which seems to have a lot more
information found within its chromosomes than might otherwise by expected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was possessed after being paralysed by a
rare species of orchid at a distance of six inches, and dying after several
days in the wilds glimpsed only by animals moving through the woods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her host suffers the effects of racism
whenever she attempts to branch out from under Mogens' wing so she typically
stays behind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nominally the Minister of
Eagles as she whispers information into the ears of her doves.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Physical Form
and Powers:</span></u></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Aruru Power
(Mutation):</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">
Ezurial can mutate plants with a touch and will them to have changed
characteristics which can include anything found in the plant kingdom, whether
thorns, poisons, sleep-inducting pollen, gas release, or minor movements like
Venus flytraps.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><br />
Alternate Rabisu Ability </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">(Natural Weaponry)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: </i>Her fingers are tipped with claws and thin painful hairs lie upon
her skin which - unless suppressed - are +1 lethal weapons which he can use to
attack people with Scuffling and which do an additional 1 point of damage per
Scuffling attack against him (for when they strike him they rip their hands on
his thorns).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While in this form she is
also immune to poisons encountered <u>while</u> in apocalyptic form and poisons
encountered beforehand are suppressed for the duration (including alcohol)
though damage caused by the poison remains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dangerous gases are likewise ignored so long as the required amount of
oxygen is still available.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Aruru Form
Ability #1 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">(Sleeping
Breath)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: </i>Ezurial can emit a poison
cloud of sleep-inducing vapours which prevent the use of any General Abilities
unless a point is spent, i.e. to use Fleeing you *must* spend a point of
Fleeing on the roll to do so and this initial spend doesn't add to the roll.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Aruru Form
Ability #2 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">(Chameleon
Skin)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: </i>Ezurial can blend in by taking
on the guise of plant matter that roughly matches human size but does not have
a human's shape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This includes patches
of mould if indoors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This provides Ezurial
with an extra 8 stealth points that may only be used in apocalyptic form and
which do not refresh until 24 hours have passed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If this trait belongs to an NPC this becomes
a +2 Stealth Modifier.</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ACTUAL
STATS<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Abilities: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Athletics 9,
Health 12, Sanity 6, Scuffling 6, Stability 7, Weapons 2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Faith: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">3; spells - none
known.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Hit Threshold: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Alertness Modifier: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">+0<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Stealth Modifier: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">+2 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Weapon: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">+1 (claws)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Armor: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">0 <br /><br />NOTE: Feel free to comment on the custom mechanics here involving powers and abilities. I'm not too worried about balance since there's only two PCs but I am interested to hear about your thoughts on what might be broken or weak-sauce even for NPCs.</span></div>
Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-80227670443030128722016-06-01T12:16:00.000+09:302017-03-02T12:02:16.435+10:30Demonic Cthulhu Character: Belphigor<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Fallen
Name: </span><strong><span style="color: #365f91;"><span style="font-family: "cambria";"><span class="Heading1Char"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Fell
Knight Belphigor</span></span></span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Titles:
The Radiant Champion, The Black Man (cult title).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">House:
Namaru (Devil)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Sub-House:
Radiance (Qingu)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Legion:
Iron (Champions of Humanity).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Faction:
Faustian (Schemer)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Fallen
Appearance: His skin, teeth, gums and the whites of his eyes are jet black while the irises and wings are pure gold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His body, even armour, feels silky smooth and
gently warm to the touch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He smells of a
warm spring day and evokes the sensation of hopes and dreams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Demonic
Personality Traits:<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></div>
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Personality Traits:</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">
Namaru are used to being obeyed by other angels and see them as the first among
many.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This expectation has led them
toward arrogance and a need for power and control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even at its best they often create a level of
distance between themselves and other Fallen so that the others don't see them
vulnerable.</span></div>
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Personality Trait:</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">
The Qingu were a development that occurred during the war against the Great
Entity where the Namaru had to learn to guide humanity to safety and to
war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All Namaru were initially created
to use their power over magic itself (Celestials) to guide the other angels in
their work to create according to the Great Entity's plans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means that the Qingu are used to special
treatment and though many tried to approach humanity with kindness their
closeness to perfection would often unsettle and frighten them.</span></div>
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Personality Traits:</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">
Pride lies in the heart of every Devil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The virtue that made them the greatest of God's angels is the sin that
led them to reject the Creator's wisdom in favour of their own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pride gives a Devil the conviction she needs
to fight for her goals and to inspire others follow her example.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taken too far, pride becomes an overwhelming
arrogance that puts her desires and personal goals above all things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This certainly sums up Belphigor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Devils were also creatures of honour,
responsibility and dignity but unfortunately Belphigor has moved beyond honour
toward personal empowerment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately
he hasn't moved beyond the passion and energy of his House, which is why he
gravitate toward a mortal who had felt passionate, destructive urges - Ambrose
Mogens - and who had felt terribly wronged by the world and the petty insects
within it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While a cruel and callous
Fallen, eager to empower himself, he is still an improvement on the original
Host.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Belphigor History<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">His
creation was different to most in that he had a twin sister (Belphegor) from
another House.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were created as a
duality because it was his role, primarily, to enhance and weaken her powers as
the Hurricane's First Kiss Upon The Shore according to the needs of Creation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a Devil, he'd presumed he would lead her
forever and was shocked when she gleefully ran off into the Silver Legion
without a backward glance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Iron
Legion seemed a more natural fit and so he joined that legion, unaware that his
sister had assumed that they were so alike their mutual decision was guaranteed
without conversation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus both felt
equally hurt and betrayed and they fell out of touch with each other. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">After
the First Murder, he fought his own fellows to save humanity who were currently
under the yoke of the Ebon Legion (though it wasn't lethal at this point) and
by the time he returned to check on his sister he saw that she had created
Ninatan (Palace of Sighs), a citadel of eugenics experiments upon the very humans
that Belphigor had sought to protect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">When
the Long March finally happened, Fell Knight Belphigor led an expedition to her
door to demand the release of the tortured mortal flock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lady Belphegor agreed on one condition - that
he surrender himself to her and allow her to experiment upon him for a year and
a day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rest of his squad of thirty
rejected her terms, but Belphigor accepted and walked alone into the gates of
the Silver Citadel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Belphegor broke
her word and refused to release her human prisoners, her forces beat back his
squad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">He
remained her obedient prisoner for that year and a day, stunned by the horrors
and atrocities working their way around them and forced to suffer things he had
never thought possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the year
and a day, she released him and he returned with troops to raze the Silver Citadel
to the ground, yet accepted her surrender with nobility and respect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">In
the Abyss, his experiences of powerlessness ate away at his core.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had never had the power to prevent the
actions of his twin nor sculpt his own destiny and so he turned to the Faustian
Movement for that promise of power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On a
terribly stormy day, he felt himself pulled through the cracks in reality and
found himself in the body of Ambrose Mogens, will-worker and sailor of
ill-repute aboard the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Half-Moon</i> ship
navigating what would be called the Hudson River.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A man who believed in his own great destiny,
pressed into service by debt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He escaped
the ship with a few other sailors whom he commanded and set up shop in what
would later become New York, pieced together occult knowledge, and summoned a
demon into himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">During
his centuries upon this land he has learned quite a few spells which he uses
carefully, lest he lost sight of his true desires.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has also obtained a few nifty relics
including bullets which sever a Fallen's connection to their hosts
(Storyteller's Companion) and Marchocias' chimes (Houses of the Fallen).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later, once Nuriel is released she will eventually
wish to steal it from him. He has also consumed the spirits of two fallen -- in one instance it was to remove an enemy so that he couldn't find a new host and in the other instance it was to hide his own secrets and the knowledge of his True Name. In both instances, he stole their core power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">He
drew out Zipacna and Ezurial through special rituals he has painstakingly
researched over the past century but for Nithriel he had to find a special
Aztec artefact -- a carved silver skull with a key trapped between its teeth. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">He thought it housed </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Nithriel alone but it turns out Nithriel was
bound into the key while Gipontel was bound into the skull itself.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">He left the skull in the hands of some rich
young lords, wanting access to their wealth and connections, as well as the
information required to activate it.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Physical Form
and Powers:<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Qingu Power (Exalt):</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Each round Belphigor may spend points of his own skills to bolster other people's rolls for non-magical checks (i.e. on General Skills). He may also spend points of his own stability to assist others as well to pass their own stability checks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><i>Halaku Power (Step Beyond The Veil):</i><b style="font-style: italic;"> </b>Belphigor can move across distances with great speed by stepping across into another sliver of reality (akin to that which can be glimpsed using certain machines in Lovecraftian tales) and then reappearing on this side. It happens so quickly he never really sees the other side unless he moves across long distances. Unfortunately, if he were to materialise in the same space with a solid object that isn't easily shunted out of the way (i.e. edge of a table), he would materialise with that piece of table inside of him, causing him damage. Technically he could linger across the veil but that isn't a wise idea either. He can't bring more than a cubic foot or two of equipment or creature across with him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><i>Asharu Power (Find the Faithful):</i> So long as he has their name (celestial name or human name) and has met them before he can trace where they are as though possessing an internal compass that will direct him to them. He can find anyone within the space of a hundred miles.</span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Namaru Form
Ability </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">(Wings)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: </i>A pair of eight-foot-long golden wings
extends from his shoulders which allow him to take off from a standing position
and glide up to three times her running speed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These wings have long pinions that are sharp as razors and quite
flexible (+1 damage), which allows the Devil to attack opponents in the middle
of a movement which will likely leave them out of reach of melee opponents.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Qingu Form
Ability #1 </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">(Affirm)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: </i>By making eye contact and spending a
point of faith, Belphigor can reaffirm a person's place in the overarching plan
and their faith in their Sources of Sanity which allows them to also regain 2
points of Sanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He may only do this
once a year per person. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Qingu Form
Ability #2 </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">(Liar's
Ear)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: </i>Belphigor can spend a point of
Faith to automatically tell when someone lies to him in the current
conversation.</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">ACTUAL
STATS</span></u></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Abilities: </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Athletics 6, Fleeing 12, Health 10, Sanity 3, Scuffling 9, Stability 8,
Weapons 9</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Faith: </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">6 (12); spells - Cloud Memory, Death Spell, Deflect Harm, Enthrall
Victim, Evil Eye, Flesh Ward, Mind Blast, Power Drain, Stop Heart, Summon /
Bind Byakhee, Summon / Bind Dimensional Shambler.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Hit Threshold: </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Alertness Modifier: </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">+0<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Stealth Modifier: </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">+0<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Weapon:</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">.32 revolver (-1), Sword Cane (-1); Wings (+1)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Armor: </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">0 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Languages:</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Dutch,
English, French, German.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-21341007186895995972016-06-01T10:32:00.000+09:302016-06-01T10:32:06.020+09:30Dark Before Dawn Session Summary: The Last Express<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Maid and Gary Dodd.</td></tr>
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It all begins through an online play-by-post scene with Gary Dodd trying to escape the Mirror Realm and being herded by the Angel Faced Killer into the National Railway Museum. Gary Dodd uses his sigil stone to open a Doorway so that he can escape and it crumbles between his fingers. As it does so, an onyx train chuffs silently to the platform and a skeletal hand reaches out and beckons him onboard. He enters...<br />
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A few days later, the LARP session begins with all of the players waiting outside the front door of my house in the dark. Gary Dodd's "Train Summoning" has caused several of the vampires to be brought to the train though Dodd doesn't yet know they will be coming.<br />
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So Gary Dodd (and his player) arrives before everyone else to my front door. The Conductor NPC goes forth to speak with him and he does so, striding enthusiastically and making demands in a very loud and officious voice while carrying a clipboard. He read out the thirteen rules quite loudly and then called for the Maid to provide him with Gary Dodd's tokens (used as currency).<br />
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The Maid came rushing down, waving a hand vigorously as she went to catch his attention (as she was mute). She carried one of those poker chip cases with her and then stood to one side in the corridor, drawing the tokens out one at a time with wonderful flourishes and dropping them into Dodd's outstretched hand before letting him move further in while she awaited the next "guest".<br />
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I stayed out-of-character, describing what he saw in terms of sleeping car compartment doors, and he ended the Bar Car first where he ordered a drink from the bartender. I had divided up the living area into a Lounge Car, Dining Car and Smoking Car using couches and we had a side room set up as a Library Car as it was lined with bookcases.<br />
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Our venue thankfully has one of those wide counters (all-in-one living / kitchen / dining area) which worked a treat for this with four chairs pressed up against it. While he chatted to the bartender, I dropped into character and came rushing down the corridor to berate the Conductor for taking so long in reading out the rules to each new passenger currently waiting at the doors.<br />
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Since we all had one Rival that we had to undermine (the Cast, that is), I was waved away by the Maid as I, the Doctor, was her Rival. My own Rival was the Oracle and I made a point to describe him as a Charlatan here and there to the various PCs. I did that so often that some people started to think that was his name and started calling him the Charlatan.</div>
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The Cast were fantastic. I told them to really go to town with their characterisations and gave them all quite brief summaries of who they were and their motivations so they built on it quite a bit. The officious Conductor took the first line directly beneath the header and really ran with it:<br />
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<strong>THE RULES</strong></div>
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All may be disobeyed. You have free will. Disobedience is ill-advised.</div>
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So he kept making up new rules to suit himself and the situation. Only three people in any one of the compartments at once - which was good because the compartments were separate rooms and it made it more interesting to keep them moving and force them to negotiate who could remain in any particular situation.<br />
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The Oracle ended up in the Dining Car, running his Secret for a Secret games in a quiet corner. I'd given him a large Halloween porcelain pumpkin full of optional questions he could ask to obtain secrets as well as a few sheets with PC names listed on top that held up to 7 secrets they could gather by giving him a few of their own. Funnily enough people generally respected the privacy of that car and it was mostly the Cast who occasionally tried to listen in.<br />
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I had a large Doctor's Bag with me that had a few ink blots and some of the Dr. Kaupfmann puzzles (Dead or Sleeping? and Pairings) from Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. I only really got to use one (Pairings) before the Maid convinced someone to throw the doctor's trunk (and my fetter) out the window into the bleak Underworld as part of our rivalry. She didn't know my fetter was inside (we weren't playing for that kind of high stakes ICly) but luckily I got chosen at the end so got to survive.<br />
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At least Gary Dodd gave me some interesting hints into his psychology from the Pairings angle, so that's something. Rather than putting them into pairs of two, he spread them out so they were all alone.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Maid at the Candle Puzzle.</td></tr>
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It took awhile but eventually the PCs learned that each one of them could obtain one of us for the price of a stone (Gary Dodd would get first pick as he'd already spent one) and that we could ease resurrect a newly dead human being, simply fettering ourselves to them so we could see the world. We weren't Geists, but something different. Something called a Rider (custom creation).<br />
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Without my Doctor's Bag I basically just went around trying to convince people to use up their Stones, explaining that there's no real catch to the resurrection of people into mortals, and also trying to get suitable characters to bed her. At one point, Prince Saeed used my NPC as a foot stool and I happily got on all fours for five minutes before the player felt so bad he insisted I get up and rejoin the others.<br />
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The Conductor soon came around to each of the Riders to convince us to lie (again, a Cast Member decision and a good one) but my NPC wasn't too sure of trying her hand at that. Instead she would deflect certain questions or encourage people to seek out the Conductor for the truth.<br />
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The Bartender lit people's marijuana joints on fire, set the table when the Dinner Bell rang and gave a listening ear to those who wished to drink. He did really well at spending most of his time behind the counter so I applaud him for his patience.<br />
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Finally there was the unnamed Skull NPC who was literally a floating skull. Naturally we had a Cast Member who was responsible for carrying the Skull around and talking for it. Funnily enough it became very easy indeed to ignore the person in favour of talking to the skull who gestured, and flirted, and tried to prostitute the Maid (who fainted dramatically at the very idea!).<br />
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The Skull got the name Skully and people advised him to seek out Mulder for a dynamic duo.<br />
Eventually they solved all of the puzzles, and it was time for them to select which Rider they wanted in exchange for a sigil stone. Since the vampires only had one sigil stone each, and they could use them for other purposes they weren't too sure about doing it at first. They could use their stones to open doors into inter-dimensional places, abjure an area from spirits and ghosts or to gain five exceptional successes on the next five vital actions. But they could only use them once....<br />
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As the clock ticked toward the end of the session, the characters started stepping forward to take a Rider. Gary Dodd took the Maid. Seamus took the Oracle. Yzador took the Psychologist. Talitha took the Bartender. Jonathon Williams took the Conductor. Since all five were taken, Gary got to keep Skully as well. Something he later regretted as Skully could be very annoying when it wanted to be.<br />
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Each of them then got to exit the train, clutching a large crystal (to be placed over the heart of a corpse), two onyx stones (to be placed over the eyes of the corpse), and a small fetter (to be placed in the right hand). And that's where we left it, with them leaving the train.Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-30281346998777432732016-05-31T12:08:00.002+09:302017-03-02T11:20:34.542+10:30Demonic Cthulhu Character: Nithriel (PC)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Fallen
Name: </span><strong><span style="color: #365f91;"><span style="font-family: "cambria";"><span class="Heading1Char"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Nithriel</span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Titles:
Dominion of the Azure Dome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">House:
Asaru (Scourge)</span></div>
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Awakening (Dagan)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Legion:
Iron (Champions of Humanity).</span></div>
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Faustian (Schemer)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">House Personality Traits:</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Asharu find it hard to see the
world in shades of grey and struggle to avoid black-and-white thinking in their
day-to-day lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This struggle is
especially strong when dealing with humanity for either all of humanity is
worthy of saving or they are utterly beyond salvation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Someone who tries to moderate their views
will often also face the passion of their conviction.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Sub House Personality Trait:</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> The Ellil were responsible for
breathing life into all living creatures and quickening their hearts within the
womb, while the Anshar spied on them from above to seek out and identify any
threats before they come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus the Ellil
were in many respects the members closest to humanity within a house that
forever watched them. </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Fallen
Relationships:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Her
liege lord was dear Gadriel who had established the Choir of Dagan, once the
Virtue of Sunlight's Kiss and now the Lord of Panacea Unbounded, this Asharu
led the fallen to undo the efforts of cruel scourges and whose work even raised
doubts in the hearts of loyalist angels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He worked very closely with his subordinate, Nexalgor, before his
disappearance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Gadriel was taken by
enemy forces, Nexalgor of the Dancing Breeze (now Nazathor) took control of the
squad and led it in his absence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Fell
Knight Belphigor personally defended her as she sought to salve the
plague-ridden mortals controlled by the angelic host in one particular village
and word of their deeds spread among humanity as people were brought from the
very brink of death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Riyazgor
of the Black Cloud was the angel who had successfully demoralised the enemy
with illnesses that attacked the human tribes, blasting the lands of the
angelic host with corruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While he
began the war with the same dream of hope and redemption, the actions of Caine
sent him whirling into Abaddon's army marching upon Sagun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was rapidly promoted up the ranks to
become an overlord for his unwavering dedication in leading parties of scorchers
in sorties to blight enemy territory and strike down the forces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was his plague Nithriel healed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Nithriel
and Tamariel of the Sweet Breath, scion of the Iron Legion, once caught him in
the act of poisoning a village's water supply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He escaped with his life, though barely, and held a grudge against her
from that point onward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He called for
sanctions against Scourges who focused on loving humanity rather than their
obligations to fallen comrades, and it's said he took direct action against
those fallen he considered treacherous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Especially as some would stand between the fallen and enemy tribes in
order to protect enemy humans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Haruta
handed over his tribe to her when he joined the Ebon Legion so that he could
focus on a Total War against God so that humanity's mortality could quickly be
reversed.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Physical Form
and Powers:</span></u></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">House Power: </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">She can return
the recently dead and reasonably intact bodies to life (those who have died within
seven hours) through touch and a minute of concentration as she fills them with
enough healing energy that they return to life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Such people awaken at -5 health (Hurt condition) and must mtake a 3-point
Stability roll. Certain symbols and rites can prevent such bodies from coming
back to sentient life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All reasonably
intact older bodies can be raised as non-sentient automata that will typically
obey her commands rather thoughtlessly and last for hours equal to Faith before
falling into a coma and dying within a day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Asharu Form
Ability </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">(Wings)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">:</i> A pair of eight-foot-long wings
extends from her shoulders that allow her to take off from a standing position
and glide up to three times her running speed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even without using these wings she is lifted a few inches above the
ground by a non-existent breeze which runs through her hair, allowing her to
pass through an area without leaving any prints.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Dagan Form
Ability #1 </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">(Kiss
of Life)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: </i>Spend 1 faith to heal 3 health
points with a kiss. This stacks with First Aid.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Dagan Form
Ability #2 </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">(Seizures)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: </i>Nithriel </span>can regenerate health points at double the usual rate so long as you remain in your revelatory form.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Human
Name: Ingrid Kensington</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Nationality:
American (New York)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Occupation:
Assistant Pathologist</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Age:
32<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">History</span></u></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">She
had always wanted to work in medicine, but her parents despaired of her chances
since women couldn't gain a medical degree at New York University at the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So she studied chemistry at the New York
University and finished her honours degree in 1913, just in time for World War
1 to break out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She worked in a factory
during the war making pharmaceuticals and got a solid taste of working
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">The
moment the doors were opened in 1917, however, she resigned her position and
took her entrance exam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She won't have
graduated yet by the time the campaign begins in August, 1922, but her
chemistry major is acceptable and that cuts down her coursework by three
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has accomplished two years of
medical school (1917-1919), and has begun her pathology residency
(1920-1924).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the introductory
adventure begins in the summer of 1922, she will only be halfway through her
residency when the game begins but will have completed it by the time Masks of
Nyarlathotep begins. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">She
was very lucky to get her residency at the New York Hospital as few
pathologists were willing to take her under their wing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily Mr. Rupert Harper wanted to be
involved in a state-wide first and so he eagerly accepted her written request
before he had even clapped eyes on her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Currently her position namely involves weighing and measuring organs,
and noting down the main pathologist's works, but she does have some freedom
and responsibility when conducting tests and making decisions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully she'll manage to gain a fellowship
in 1925 (though as early 1925 is when Masks of Nyarlathotep begins, she won't get
the chance to complete it).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">A
member of the New York Pathological Society with a couple hundred other
individuals which meets at the lecture-hall of the College of Physicians and
Surgeons though she is often expected to serve simple refreshments as a
condition of entry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Society meets every
Saturday afternoon at four o'clock, bringing all the specimens with them that
they could obtain, and are welcome to invite their friends who are interested
in the study of pathology to meet with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is very little organisation involved in this organisation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ingrid is the only female pathologist who
attends, though she isn't the only female attendee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Pathological_Society"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Pathological_Society</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Known Humans:<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Her
father, Jonah Kensington, is the owner, accountant and chief financial officer
of Prospero Press which is a small publishing company that focuses on printing
those books that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">deserve</i> to be
printed due to their interest for mankind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He is a friendly and charming individual who loves sitting down with
writers in the tea room to hear of their experiences first-hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There's even a small typewriter room with a
bookcase full of appropriate books for their writers to use that was his idea,
with a tiny kitchen coming off of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
had expected Ingrid would join the family business but supports her in her
unusual endeavour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Her
mother, Julia Kensington, is the chief editor of Prospero Press and she is a
driven and focused woman who is ever eager to learn new stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She used to be an avid reader, but she hasn't
the time anymore so she's always after the cliff-notes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She can never relax and is always trying to
get things done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She's eager for Ingrid
to enjoy her time as an assistant pathologist but accepts that one day she will
marry and there will always be a job for her at the publishing company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course until she has kids there's no
reason why Ingrid needs to mention her wedding to her employers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Her
sister, Cornelia Kensington, is a magician's assistant who is eager to learn
all of their magical tricks so that she may one day take to her stage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately all they want her for is an
easy distraction for the general public.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How can a pretty young woman be a good magician if the focus is on her
rather than her assistant?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How will she
find someone prettier?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The idea is
preposterous to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still she tries,
and she tries, though she has a very irritating suitor in Jack Roman who is an
apprentice magician to her boss (and who is quite a handsome distraction
himself).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She met Dell O'Dell once, who
does magic and vaudeville tricks as part of her father's circus, and has been
enamoured ever since.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has a crush on
Jackson Elias.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Mr.
Rupert Harper is her chief supervisor during her residency and though he
initially thought she wouldn't be capable of doing much more than making tea
and trying not to throw up while she wrote down her notes, it turned out she
was quite a resilient individual who didn't go green at all. After the first
few days of testing and teasing her, he's grown quite accustomed to having her
around and no longer points out her gender in any which way, finding her just
as ghoulishly curious about specimens as he is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Jackson
Elias is a traveling writer who publishes through Prospero Press and brings
them a substantial amount of income (hence why they'll wire him so much cash in
return).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He's already written several
books about cults around the world and is looking for his next big ticket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thoroughly egalitarian and not a bit racist,
he treats everyone as an individual (whose calibre he can judge quite well) and
has this knack of making you feel like he's truly listening to you regardless
of race, gender or even age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A rare
feature for a man of his era.</span></div>
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of Stability: <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-size: small;">Mr.
Rupert Harper (Pathologist)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-size: small;">Cornelia
Kensington (Sister)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Be Decided<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-size: small;">Sources
of Sanity: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Affiliation <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-75816800230567363972016-05-31T12:06:00.001+09:302016-05-31T12:06:16.309+09:30Demonic Cthulhu Character: Gipontel (PC)
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Fallen
Name: </span><strong><span style="color: #4f81bd;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><span class="Heading3Char"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Fell Knight
Gipontel </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Titles:
Seraph of the Shifting Horizon<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">House:
Annunaki (Malefactor)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Sub-House:
Forge (Mummu)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Legion:
Silver (Experimenters)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Faction:
Cryptic (Information gatherer)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Fallen
Appearance:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Demonic
Personality Traits:<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">House
Personality Traits:</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">
Annunaki find it difficult to comprehend human emotion, including their own,
having been built with a supreme focus on the physical matter of the universe
-- despite ironically being made of entirely spiritual stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This also set them apart from the other Houses
and left them with both a general feeling of isolation mixed with greater
loyalty and affinity toward their own House.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Sub House
Personality Trait:</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">
The Mummu were a development that occurred during the war against the Great
Entity where the Annunaki had to both create weapons for use by the fallen and
to teach and provide the various sentient races with tools that would improve
their lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All Mummu were initially
created to create Matter (Earth) or to create and control the distance between
said Matter (Paths).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their change in
overarching function only occurred among the most ingenious and curious of the
Annunaki who had to find new methods of achieving their goals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Gipontel
Personality Traits:</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">
An intelligent and resourceful fellow, who is driven by his curiosity to find
out more about the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike many
Cryptics, his desires for information intertwine with his plans as he seeks to
put what he has learned to a practical use.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Fallen
Relationships:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Ahrimal
is a lowly Fiend who foresaw that a catastrophe would befall humanity and
confided in Gipontel who directed him to inform the Thrones so that they could
give their better judgement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two
remained friends though Ahrimal turned his back on the factions and became an
Ashen Seer whose insights were often sought but rarely given.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">His
liege lord after the Fall was initially Telchinen (Devil, Glory In The Word of
God) who focused on the effects of language on the human mind and who would
spend hours in conversation with him. Later he was tricked into serving Lady
Belphegor, before leaving with Belphigor and later serving an unknown liege
lord before the end of the war.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Oracle
Javiel, Hand of Infinity, Fiend and one-time companion of Ahrimal, whose talent
for reading the strands of causality was so powerful she became a close
confidant to the Morningstar and was the target of an audacious assassination
attempt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eccentric and
unpredictable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Crimson Legionnaire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">A
student of Nemere before his destruction, where he learned Lore of the Forge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Zipacna,
Fusion of Matter and Flesh, Malefactor, who spent a short while as a vassal to
Gipontel before being sent into an independent research division.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Physical Form
and Powers:</span></u></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">House Power:</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Gipontel has
the ability to shape objects by running his hands across them though each
component must be made separately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
other words, he could craft a radio by sculpting the individual components but
couldn't simply run his hands over a collection of copper and Bakelite and make
the radio in an instant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Naturally this
has a lot of versatility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately
it takes time and requires materials.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Annunaki Form
Ability </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">(Iron
Skin)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: </i>Gipontel gains 2 points of
armour and 1 point of resistance to fire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Mummu Form
Ability #1 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">(Creator's
Mark)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: </i>Gipontel can use his Awareness
to know who created a touched object, when it was constructed and the manner of
its construction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Mummu Form
Ability #2 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">(Relentless)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: </i>Gipontel can physically work without
need of rest, and is able to cover superhuman distances without pause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As long as he stays in motion, he is
unaffected by fatigue or hunger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He can
work relentlessly in a workshop so long as he is in his revelatory form.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Human
Name: Theodore Ashburne of Blessington</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Nationality:
British</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Occupation:
Dilettante (second son of a lord).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Age:
16</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Human
Appearance: A brunette lad wearing glasses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">His
mother, Lady Joan Ashburne, is a strong and clever woman who is skilful at
manipulating political situations to her husband's advantage through the right
application of social pressure brought about through skilful invitations to the
right soirees and manipulating husbands through their wives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>feigns 'feminine' confusion whenever she is brought up on doing
something her husband doesn't want her to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She's against women's suffrage as she believes that it will only achieve
two votes for every man as no woman would go against her husband's will in such
an overt manner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Women should be subtle
schemers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to this, she often bands
together with her daughters for private conversations and leaves her sons to do
their manly activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often her sons
feel left out but she is a firm believer in the idea of women's business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">His
father, Lord George Ashburne, Earl of Astley, married his mother due to her keen political
skills and the two love each other quite a bit though they are often at odds
with their plans for their children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
is a firm traditionalist and definite conservative who is often at a loss with
the irritating changes that have occurred during the past decade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He finds his daughters quite perplexing, and
is perpetually disappointed in both of his sons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Born
in 1892, Elizabeth is the eldest daughter who used the Great War as a fantastic
excuse to become a nurse at the age of 22.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When her fiancé died in 1914, she decided to focus her efforts entirely
on the hospital and has quickly risen in the ranks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She refused to marry another man following
the Great War and is close friends with another spinster nurse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is a stoic and focused young woman who
quietly supports women's suffrage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Henrietta
is the middle child, born in 1898, who married a soldier at the tender age of
19.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her husband, Duncan Wells, is now a
reasonable and unremarkable political advisor who is a staunch supporter of
Neville Chamberlain (much to her father's unremitting disgust).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She's always been fond of racing cars and has
been looking into investing in a car and driver of her own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her husband is supportive and when Gipontel
returns from New York to finish his boarding school studies in Britain, he will
encourage her to learn more about the mechanics of racing cars so that she can
improve her investment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has a
five-year-old girl, Dora, and a 2-year-old boy, Paul, whom she loves dearly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Reginald
is the eldest son, born in 1904, who struggles to be the very picture of the
perfect lord as he knows he will inherit both land and title.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is, by turns, both smug and stoic and
though he tries to affect reasonableness he really doesn't know what it is and
ends up quite sanctimonious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was
never very close to the other children or his mother as his father claimed him
quite early on with tutors to set him apart from his sisters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really he is very insecure and needy, but
lacks the language to express it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He's
just finished boarding school and is starting to study the intricacies of being
a lord under his father.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Gwen
is his twin sister, born in 1906, who is a very energetic and enthusiastic
young lady who is eager to explore the world, meet new people and try new
things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She's very much a Bright Young
Thing, but fiendishly clever as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She's an excellent horse rider, skilled fox hunter and has a trained
hawk she calls 'Bubbly'.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her best friend
is Letty (Lettice), who is a very similar character, and who once had a serious
discussion with Theodore when they were fourteen years old regarding their
potential marriage prospects since they know each other so well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gwen is a bit of a brat, and loves judging
people on their clothes and etiquette, but are deep down lovely people who will
help people out and won't be snide or judgemental to someone's face as they
won't want to hurt their feelings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">His
manservant, Edmund Rittington, is an elderly fellow who used to serve as valet to
Lord George Ashburne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once Theodore is
of age he intends to ask to have him as a valet as a form of retirement for the
fellow, rather than someone able to keep up and get overly involved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once possessed, Gipontel will seek to pact
with him so that while he appears aged he will not act it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Pillars
of Stability: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(sister)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Be Decided<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Be Decided<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Be Decided<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Sources
of Sanity: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Affiliation <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">House
of Annunaki<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858586393857050613.post-46200908782134464942016-05-25T09:55:00.000+09:302016-05-25T09:55:14.399+09:30Dark Before Dawn Session Summary: Consequences<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My getting ready selfie.</td></tr>
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Gary Dodd is still missing when this session begins so the vampires re-convene the following night at the Boozecan. His ghoul, Dorothy Rosenburg, meets them at the door and allows Yzador to examine the egg found at the scene after her regnant's disappearance.<br />
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Prince Harry Saeed and the Primogen Seamus O'Baoill spend much of their time in a back room, occasionally inviting in Professor Jasmine Hadley, Michael Novichkov and Peter Walsh (NPC portrayed by Dodd's player while Gary is missing). Plenty of back room deals are had as Prince Harry Saeed works out a possible punishment for Novichkov's public (forum) orders that countered Saeed's own.<br />
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Eventually they decided that Novichkov would need to publicly kneel before the prince and take a single sip of his blood (forming a one step blood bond). Being blood bound to the prince was no small issue as it meant that Novichkov would feel some degree of adoration toward him. Initially the prince had wanted two steps, but the rest of the Ordo Dracul denied it as there were special rules in place to prevent that. Novichkov would have refused to kneel at least, but he was under the effects of Majesty and had his emotions shifted to "submissive" when it occurred. So kneel he did and lost some standing among the court for it.<br />
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Also at one point Siobhan O'Baoill was called in to discuss the situation with her "claimed" human, Bennett. Prince Saeed kindly offered to spare the man's life were he to be blood bound and kept in check by Siobhan O'Baoill. As a Masquerade breach, and a violent one who had attacked FatherMother, he'd normally be killed on sight as punishment for his actions.<br />
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After this conversation, several vampires went to the service station where Gary Dodd disappeared and started investigating the toilet. The service station attendant must have wondered greatly why five individuals were entering the disability access toilet together. His theories couldn't have been helped when Novichkov banged on the walls to see if there were a hidden passage.<br />
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Yzador repeated Bennett's name thrice in the mirror, thinking of the legends of Bloody Mary, but nothing happened. After a little more thinking he deduced that Bennett needed to be called out by a survivor of one of his attacks and so Siobhan O'Baoill stepped forward. She had been attacked by Bennett during a side adventure (played out over the forums as a play-by-post).<br />
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The first time Siobhan O'Baoill mentioned his name thrice, the lights went out! But it turned out to be Yzador with his hand on the switch. The second time she did it, there was an answering knock from the walls. The third time she repeated his name thrice, he appeared in the reflection behind her.<br />
Novichkov reached out and touched the mirror, causing the lights to shatter and the power went off in a several block radius. When nothing else happened, they returned to the Boozecan.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a data-mce-href="http://larpoutloud.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Elsa-and-Peter-Walsh.jpg" href="http://larpoutloud.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Elsa-and-Peter-Walsh.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Elsa and Peter Walsh" class="size-medium wp-image-505" data-mce-src="http://larpoutloud.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Elsa-and-Peter-Walsh-300x225.jpg" height="225" src="http://larpoutloud.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Elsa-and-Peter-Walsh-300x225.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elsa has nothing but smiles for Peter Walsh.</td></tr>
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Sheriff FatherMother then argued that Bennett should die for striking her and Siobhan O'Baoill kept arguing that he shouldn't. In the end they decided to summon a True Fae, "The Blue Girl" since Bennett was one of her fetches.<br />
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Once summoned, The Blue Girl explained that Gary Dodd had already left the Mirror Realm for another one through the use of his Clan Stone obtained in the very first session.<br />
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The Blue Girl also explained that she could lure the Angel Faced Killer out of the Mirror Realm but that the vampires would have to repay her with his heart -- should they kill him. Sheriff FatherMother agreed without the prince's permission (both he and the primogen were still in the back room) and the True Fae left moments before the prince and his advisors returned to the room.<br />
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Several minutes later, Bennett appeared out of the reflection in a mirror, bat in hand, looking anxious and distressed. At the moment he wasn't in Angel Faced Killer mode and he begged them to kill him before he killed again. He figured a room full of vampires should be able to take him down, though he couldn't promise not to fight back.<br />
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He described vague memories of seeing a female silhouette of green light lure Gary Dodd further into the Port Adelaide Train Museum on the mirror side, that's all he knew of Dodd's fate. Prince Saeed talked him down (backed up by Majesty) with Siobhan O'Baoill's supportive pleas and he agreed to be taken into custody. They couldn't disarm him, however, or else he would lose control and attack.<br />
During all of this, Peter Walsh whispered in the ear of a few of the vampires that Bennett would likely die if blood bound as vampiric vitae tended to unravel spells and the Angel Faced Killer fetch was nothing if not a living spell.<br />
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Then Bennett went into a side room with Prince Saeed, Siobhan O'Baoill and Seamus O'Baoill (with Thomas McAllister in Obfuscate in the corner). Realising they couldn't simply bond him into submission, they decided to sedate him and keep him in lock down until they figured out how to save them.<br />
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Finally Prince Saeed took the Ordo Dracul aside so that they could all go out to rescue Dodd from the Mirror Realm. Of course before they could get to him they found themselves drawn into an otherworldly train -- the same one where Gary Dodd was drawn when he spent his stone.Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00456068019298922261noreply@blogger.com0