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[ZEITGEIST] The Continuing Adventures of Korrigan & Co.
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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 6084739" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 62a - Aurora over Orithea</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Session 62</strong></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The train passed through a hilltop fort on the border of Danor and the Malice lands. Large numbers of disembarking troops were greeted by a brass band playing upbeat celebratory music: The Malice Lands seemed to reflect the mood of the people within it, and it was important to keep spirits high.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Korrigan experienced a more dramatic side-effect, thanks to his arcane link to the earth, which (having been easily suppressed in the dead magic zone) suddenly returned with a vengeance. As they clambered down from the roof following the safari, his arm suddenly spasmed and returned to its stone form, yanking a rung off the ladder in the process. Matunaaga managed to catch him, and with the help of a concerned Damata Griento, helped him to his suite. The symptoms of the ailment were disorienting. Korrigan vomited up a small school of goldfish and then collapsed.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Meanwhile, Uru headed down the train in the direction of the luggage cars. While down there, he stumbled across the slumbering figure of the strange hobo, asleep with one eye open in a crate of religious artifacts. The hobo reached out and grabbed the young boy he saw before him. He said they were going to play a game of hide and seek, but Uru said he wasn't allowed to play with strangers, so the hobo introduced himself as Mister Mapple and told Uru to run and hide. "Don't tell anyone you found me, or I will come and find you. And the people I find don't enjoy the experience." Uru scuttled off to tell the rest of the unit, but it was decided that Mr Mapple was unlikely to be Obscurati.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Leon divided his team as they arrived into Orithea: once they had bundled Korrigan into his hotel room, Leon would follow Luc & Ottavia; Uru would follow Bree; Rumdoom would try to tail Olivert Boone; Matunaaga would shadow Cardiff Hengehill; and Sly decided to tail Leeroy Flowers - the man with blood on his shoes. (Malthusius sent word that he would meet them in Trekhom, having caught a fast clipper ship.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cardiff Hengehill headed for <em>Brilliance</em>, a plush tower-top restaurant with a phenomenal view of the arcane aurora that crackled over the Malice Lands.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Leeroy Flowers took a room in the cheap rail enclave hotel, bought some booze and went back to his room.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Olivert Boone picked up a girl in the posh hotel, dallied with her on the way to <em>the Effervescent Cup</em>, a popular nightspot. Some time later he snuck out for a canoodle, where Rumdoom lost him. Rumdoom picked him back up again as he headed for an inn outside the rail enclave where he spent the night with his lady friend (until Rumdoom lost interest in the early hours).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bree Kaldeckis also went to <em>the Effervescent Cup</em>. Uru watched as, just like the night before, she left the bar by a back door and headed past the alleyway where Boone was canoodling. She then made for the docks where she spoke to a team of stevedores with a horse and cart. After she had handed them some money, she sat on the dock wall watching the aurora.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">When Luc and Ottavia left the posh hotel, Luc was carrying a large square case. On the advice of a concierge they headed for the <em>Cup</em>, where they both looked out of place and uncomfortable. Then they headed for the Night Market.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Here Leon witnessed an encounter between Elanor, Isobel and Mister Mapple, who seemed to have taken an interest in the veiled maiden. When Elanor reached for her spell components, he grabbed her wrist, but fled when she screamed for help.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In the busy market, Leon almost lost his marks as they sped past him in a carriage, but his quick thinking and fast talking saved the day and he was soon in hot pursuit. But when the carriages reached the docks, Leon's path was suddenly blocked by the cart of stevedores Bree had paid off. Luc & Ottavia were gone.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Uru was still tailing Bree, however. She headed for a spur of land jutting into the bay, at the end of which was a squat building next to a lighthouse. Both were heavily guarded. But Uru, master of stealth and shadow - Duke of the Creeping, Crawling Fey - was not to be deterred. He easily slipped past the guards and watched through a window as Bree joined Luc, Ottavia, and an unknown fourth party (a well-to-do artisan by the looks of him) in demonstrating the contents of the case: an ornate lantern.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">At 10:12 precisely, all of the fires in Orithea suddenly turned to water, plunging the city into near darkness, save for the glow of a few magical lights. At the same time, the waters of the bay around the lighthouse suddenly burst into flames, which dissipated just as suddenly. Everyone put the phenomenon down to the effect of the Malice Lands.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">But Uru knew it was caused by an accident while Luc Jierre was showing off his lantern. The group was alarmed but soon calmed down. (Clearly the lantern was misbehaving thanks to the chaotic magical aurora.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The meeting ended just after 11pm, and Luc & Ottavia left by carriage. Bree left on foot and returned to the posh hotel (which is where Luc & Ottavia had gone too it turned out). Uru decided to make sure her activities were over for the night and scaled the walls of the building to peep in through her bedroom window. As he climbed up he was surprised to see another figure, clinging by only his fingers to the window-sill outside another bedroom: Mister Mapple - clearly intent on catching a glimpse of young Isobel. Unseen in the darkness, Uru whispered, "Are we still playing hide and seek?" Mister Mapple was so startled he lost his grip and plummeted fifty feet down to the ground.</li> </ul><p></p><p>Great first half of the session with the team's investigations bearing more fruit this week. I'm glad Uru was assigned to Bree, as he was able to witness the extent of the group's caution, and also get past the lighthouse guards to see what was happening at the meeting. Now they have to find a way to make sure they're on to the Ob! (I know Bree is supposed to confirm that by admitting to her rendezvous with Caius, but I like to make the players earn that kind of info first. I'm going to have Delft suggest that they check for Obscurati rings...)</p><p></p><p>We've started using <em>Plot Twist Cards</em> as benny rewards Mister Mapple. I wish I'd recorded their interaction - it was much funnier than my half-remembered account. (Uru was disguised as a little boy, and Mapple decided to intimidate him.) It was a lovely moment when Uru decided to climb the hotel wall and check on Bree as I realised he could bump into Mapple once again. When Uru whispered from the darkness, "Are we still playing hide and seek?" he earned another benny (and another plot twist card) - his keyword being <em>sinister</em>.</p><p></p><p>It was also nice that Leon, having sacrificed his wish to tail Elanor to the greater good of the mission, was able to witness the exchange between the fat enchantress and Mister Mapple, when he followed Luc & Ottavia into the Night Market.</p><p></p><p>Korrigan's player was absent, and his sickness in the Malice Lands was a flavourful way of dealing with that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 6084739, member: 79141"] [b]Session 62a - Aurora over Orithea[/b] [B]Session 62[/B] [LIST] [*]The train passed through a hilltop fort on the border of Danor and the Malice lands. Large numbers of disembarking troops were greeted by a brass band playing upbeat celebratory music: The Malice Lands seemed to reflect the mood of the people within it, and it was important to keep spirits high. [*]Korrigan experienced a more dramatic side-effect, thanks to his arcane link to the earth, which (having been easily suppressed in the dead magic zone) suddenly returned with a vengeance. As they clambered down from the roof following the safari, his arm suddenly spasmed and returned to its stone form, yanking a rung off the ladder in the process. Matunaaga managed to catch him, and with the help of a concerned Damata Griento, helped him to his suite. The symptoms of the ailment were disorienting. Korrigan vomited up a small school of goldfish and then collapsed. [*]Meanwhile, Uru headed down the train in the direction of the luggage cars. While down there, he stumbled across the slumbering figure of the strange hobo, asleep with one eye open in a crate of religious artifacts. The hobo reached out and grabbed the young boy he saw before him. He said they were going to play a game of hide and seek, but Uru said he wasn't allowed to play with strangers, so the hobo introduced himself as Mister Mapple and told Uru to run and hide. "Don't tell anyone you found me, or I will come and find you. And the people I find don't enjoy the experience." Uru scuttled off to tell the rest of the unit, but it was decided that Mr Mapple was unlikely to be Obscurati. [*]Leon divided his team as they arrived into Orithea: once they had bundled Korrigan into his hotel room, Leon would follow Luc & Ottavia; Uru would follow Bree; Rumdoom would try to tail Olivert Boone; Matunaaga would shadow Cardiff Hengehill; and Sly decided to tail Leeroy Flowers - the man with blood on his shoes. (Malthusius sent word that he would meet them in Trekhom, having caught a fast clipper ship.) [*]Cardiff Hengehill headed for [I]Brilliance[/I], a plush tower-top restaurant with a phenomenal view of the arcane aurora that crackled over the Malice Lands. [*]Leeroy Flowers took a room in the cheap rail enclave hotel, bought some booze and went back to his room. [*]Olivert Boone picked up a girl in the posh hotel, dallied with her on the way to [I]the Effervescent Cup[/I], a popular nightspot. Some time later he snuck out for a canoodle, where Rumdoom lost him. Rumdoom picked him back up again as he headed for an inn outside the rail enclave where he spent the night with his lady friend (until Rumdoom lost interest in the early hours). [*]Bree Kaldeckis also went to [I]the Effervescent Cup[/I]. Uru watched as, just like the night before, she left the bar by a back door and headed past the alleyway where Boone was canoodling. She then made for the docks where she spoke to a team of stevedores with a horse and cart. After she had handed them some money, she sat on the dock wall watching the aurora. [*]When Luc and Ottavia left the posh hotel, Luc was carrying a large square case. On the advice of a concierge they headed for the [I]Cup[/I], where they both looked out of place and uncomfortable. Then they headed for the Night Market. [*]Here Leon witnessed an encounter between Elanor, Isobel and Mister Mapple, who seemed to have taken an interest in the veiled maiden. When Elanor reached for her spell components, he grabbed her wrist, but fled when she screamed for help. [*]In the busy market, Leon almost lost his marks as they sped past him in a carriage, but his quick thinking and fast talking saved the day and he was soon in hot pursuit. But when the carriages reached the docks, Leon's path was suddenly blocked by the cart of stevedores Bree had paid off. Luc & Ottavia were gone. [*]Uru was still tailing Bree, however. She headed for a spur of land jutting into the bay, at the end of which was a squat building next to a lighthouse. Both were heavily guarded. But Uru, master of stealth and shadow - Duke of the Creeping, Crawling Fey - was not to be deterred. He easily slipped past the guards and watched through a window as Bree joined Luc, Ottavia, and an unknown fourth party (a well-to-do artisan by the looks of him) in demonstrating the contents of the case: an ornate lantern. [*]At 10:12 precisely, all of the fires in Orithea suddenly turned to water, plunging the city into near darkness, save for the glow of a few magical lights. At the same time, the waters of the bay around the lighthouse suddenly burst into flames, which dissipated just as suddenly. Everyone put the phenomenon down to the effect of the Malice Lands. [*]But Uru knew it was caused by an accident while Luc Jierre was showing off his lantern. The group was alarmed but soon calmed down. (Clearly the lantern was misbehaving thanks to the chaotic magical aurora.) [*]The meeting ended just after 11pm, and Luc & Ottavia left by carriage. Bree left on foot and returned to the posh hotel (which is where Luc & Ottavia had gone too it turned out). Uru decided to make sure her activities were over for the night and scaled the walls of the building to peep in through her bedroom window. As he climbed up he was surprised to see another figure, clinging by only his fingers to the window-sill outside another bedroom: Mister Mapple - clearly intent on catching a glimpse of young Isobel. Unseen in the darkness, Uru whispered, "Are we still playing hide and seek?" Mister Mapple was so startled he lost his grip and plummeted fifty feet down to the ground. [/LIST] Great first half of the session with the team's investigations bearing more fruit this week. I'm glad Uru was assigned to Bree, as he was able to witness the extent of the group's caution, and also get past the lighthouse guards to see what was happening at the meeting. Now they have to find a way to make sure they're on to the Ob! (I know Bree is supposed to confirm that by admitting to her rendezvous with Caius, but I like to make the players earn that kind of info first. I'm going to have Delft suggest that they check for Obscurati rings...) We've started using [I]Plot Twist Cards[/I] as benny rewards Mister Mapple. I wish I'd recorded their interaction - it was much funnier than my half-remembered account. (Uru was disguised as a little boy, and Mapple decided to intimidate him.) It was a lovely moment when Uru decided to climb the hotel wall and check on Bree as I realised he could bump into Mapple once again. When Uru whispered from the darkness, "Are we still playing hide and seek?" he earned another benny (and another plot twist card) - his keyword being [I]sinister[/I]. It was also nice that Leon, having sacrificed his wish to tail Elanor to the greater good of the mission, was able to witness the exchange between the fat enchantress and Mister Mapple, when he followed Luc & Ottavia into the Night Market. Korrigan's player was absent, and his sickness in the Malice Lands was a flavourful way of dealing with that. [/QUOTE]
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