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[ZEITGEIST] The Continuing Adventures of Korrigan & Co.
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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 5931210" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 34 - We begin Digging for Lies</strong></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: DarkOrchid">The unit's new marching orders: provide security for the Kaybeau Technology and Arms Exposition and try to stay out of the papers!</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: DarkOrchid">The first day passed uneventfully (apart from a case of petty larceny). The unit checked out the various pavillions and tents, liaising with their police contact, Sergeant Sara Lockhart.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: DarkOrchid">Back at HQ the arrival of RHC leader Viscount Nigel Price Hill was reported: He had come to root out suspected corruption in the organisation and conduct an audit of officers.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: DarkOrchid">On the second day of the expo, a strange incident occurred: weird, tentacled horrors were accidentally summoned into being by an amateur magician wielding a golden staff.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: DarkOrchid">Fortunately, the unit was on hand to deal with these hideous creatures, assisted by Malthusius, who was at the fair to meet with Morgan Cippiano. Two more bystanders - hero of the Dockers movement Rock Rackus, and Drakran dwarf Kvarti Gorbartiy - also chipped in. Uru jumped into a steam powered suit and gave it a much-needed test run.<br /> </span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: DarkOrchid">The creatures were insubtsantial, unreal and nightmarish - assaulting the minds of their victims. Both Rumdoom and Korrigan felt the dizzying aftereffects of their attacks, even after the monsters had been felled.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: DarkOrchid">Strangely, they did not vanish as summoned monsters should. Junior RHC officers arrived to remove the corpses and impound everything that was nearby or involved in the incident.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: DarkOrchid">An innocent bystander had been shot through the head by a golden bullet: Kvarty had seen the shot come from Rackus, and a golden bullet proved his guilt. The singer was arrested.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: DarkOrchid">Malthusius communed with the spirit of the sadly deceased culprit, Simon Langfield. While loudly bemoaning his own fate, he said he had bought the golden staff from a woman at the fair. She didn't have a proper stall, he said, but had been introduced through a contact named Isaac Randall.</span></li> </ul><p>The rundown doesn't reflect the amount of session time spent bringing the Fair to life. The group explored every tent and pavillion and really enjoyed interacting with the NPCs. Korrigan took issue with the inaccurate historical representation of some of the battles in the Military Tent and hung around redressing the balance for a while. Rumdoom drank alot of Nevard Sechim's Acid. Uru got so excited when he heard about the badger gun that he ran all the way to Gun Alley (and was distraught when everything got impounded).</p><p></p><p>I strung out their presence at the fair for a couple of days to get them nice and bored (and keen to get out of the fair).</p><p></p><p>Couple of minor hiccups from the players: Uru let 'Mama' off with a warning, so the group may have lost that lead. Then they allowed poor Simon to die of his injuries. When Malthusius raised him, I played him as distressed and melodramatic in death (a bit like Withnail might behave if he found himself unexpectedly killed). The information he gave the party was garbled and peppered with solipsistic rants, so that's two leads down.</p><p></p><p>One of the players ran Kvarty Gorbartiy and Rock Rackus (as full companion characters), which meant I got to insert the flavour text for Rock's gun as the read-out-loud description for his power. Glad to have found a means to ensure the party heard that choice bit of writing, as they are unlikely to obtain the gun. "Unrepentant jackass..." Nice.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: I forgot to note how long the PCs spent trying to gain access to the Pemberton Industries tent. 'Forbidden Fruit' and all that. I must make sure to have a Pemberton Industries stamp or kitemark on a crate later in the campaign (as they are now convinced the whole AP revolves around this mystery tent).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 5931210, member: 79141"] [b]Session 34 - We begin Digging for Lies[/b] [LIST] [*][COLOR=DarkOrchid]The unit's new marching orders: provide security for the Kaybeau Technology and Arms Exposition and try to stay out of the papers![/COLOR] [*][COLOR=DarkOrchid]The first day passed uneventfully (apart from a case of petty larceny). The unit checked out the various pavillions and tents, liaising with their police contact, Sergeant Sara Lockhart.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=DarkOrchid]Back at HQ the arrival of RHC leader Viscount Nigel Price Hill was reported: He had come to root out suspected corruption in the organisation and conduct an audit of officers.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=DarkOrchid]On the second day of the expo, a strange incident occurred: weird, tentacled horrors were accidentally summoned into being by an amateur magician wielding a golden staff.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=DarkOrchid]Fortunately, the unit was on hand to deal with these hideous creatures, assisted by Malthusius, who was at the fair to meet with Morgan Cippiano. Two more bystanders - hero of the Dockers movement Rock Rackus, and Drakran dwarf Kvarti Gorbartiy - also chipped in. Uru jumped into a steam powered suit and gave it a much-needed test run. [/COLOR] [*][COLOR=DarkOrchid]The creatures were insubtsantial, unreal and nightmarish - assaulting the minds of their victims. Both Rumdoom and Korrigan felt the dizzying aftereffects of their attacks, even after the monsters had been felled.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=DarkOrchid]Strangely, they did not vanish as summoned monsters should. Junior RHC officers arrived to remove the corpses and impound everything that was nearby or involved in the incident.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=DarkOrchid]An innocent bystander had been shot through the head by a golden bullet: Kvarty had seen the shot come from Rackus, and a golden bullet proved his guilt. The singer was arrested.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=DarkOrchid]Malthusius communed with the spirit of the sadly deceased culprit, Simon Langfield. While loudly bemoaning his own fate, he said he had bought the golden staff from a woman at the fair. She didn't have a proper stall, he said, but had been introduced through a contact named Isaac Randall.[/COLOR] [/LIST] The rundown doesn't reflect the amount of session time spent bringing the Fair to life. The group explored every tent and pavillion and really enjoyed interacting with the NPCs. Korrigan took issue with the inaccurate historical representation of some of the battles in the Military Tent and hung around redressing the balance for a while. Rumdoom drank alot of Nevard Sechim's Acid. Uru got so excited when he heard about the badger gun that he ran all the way to Gun Alley (and was distraught when everything got impounded). I strung out their presence at the fair for a couple of days to get them nice and bored (and keen to get out of the fair). Couple of minor hiccups from the players: Uru let 'Mama' off with a warning, so the group may have lost that lead. Then they allowed poor Simon to die of his injuries. When Malthusius raised him, I played him as distressed and melodramatic in death (a bit like Withnail might behave if he found himself unexpectedly killed). The information he gave the party was garbled and peppered with solipsistic rants, so that's two leads down. One of the players ran Kvarty Gorbartiy and Rock Rackus (as full companion characters), which meant I got to insert the flavour text for Rock's gun as the read-out-loud description for his power. Glad to have found a means to ensure the party heard that choice bit of writing, as they are unlikely to obtain the gun. "Unrepentant jackass..." Nice. EDIT: I forgot to note how long the PCs spent trying to gain access to the Pemberton Industries tent. 'Forbidden Fruit' and all that. I must make sure to have a Pemberton Industries stamp or kitemark on a crate later in the campaign (as they are now convinced the whole AP revolves around this mystery tent). [/QUOTE]
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