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31x02: Interlude Thanks, Seonaid! This week we have a Very Special Treat: A guest post from Jenber, providing us the wonderful, dark (and mysterious!) tale that is Mena's backstory. I should note that this was, essentially, as played: Twiggy actually asked Mena about her personal history...

31x01 Rose bent down to pick up a piece of torn cloth from the ground. It skittered out of her reach, caught on the wind, and landed a few steps away among a small pile of glass shards and debris. She lurched after it for a few steps, before the wind caught it again, blowing it again out of...

30x03 Nyoko shivered at the unfamiliar voice in her head. It wasn’t Brother Ono—it wasn’t anyone she recognized—and the force of its terrible command threatened to shake all of her considerable willpower. Nyoko took a deep breath. There were still seven guards—two of them inhumanly fast...

30x02 Nyoko hadn’t expected the Mother Superior to submit easily. But the Mother Superior was still acting like she was in charge. And now they were surrounded by a dozen guards with katanas. Prime Inquisitor Yudai began to grow magically, as Nyoko had seen him do before, until he was...

Speaking as a player: yes, it was tremendously satisfying! I remember doing a little "end of the skill cascade" dance in the car on the way to gaming. In the interest of full disclosure, however, I should be clear that I do a little "on the way to gaming" dance in the car on the way to gaming...

30x01 Twiggy felt a gust of air as Unsuku pulled her head in and pushed the giant door closed, dulling, but barely quieting, the shouts of the crowd outside. She, Tavi, and Savina had brought Mother Satsuki back in the giant marble entryway of the Temple to retrieve Unsuku and—they had...

29x03 Tavi stared over the garden courtyard along the eastern wall of the Temple. It was filled with people, trampling the shrubs and throwing debris at the temple. A tall, intricately carved obelisk stood in the center, blotchy from rioters’ wet projectiles. Across the way—50 feet away, he...

29x02 Savina barely heard the guard who’d greeted them. She was too busy pulling glass out of the gash in Kormick’s side. “Alirria be blessed this didn’t go deeper,” she muttered. Savina knew that Kormick was in terrible pain, but he didn’t show it as he addressed the guard. “Young man...

Many thanks, Zelc and Jhereth Jax! Your comment about how the characters seem like real people reminds me of the end of the little Savage Worlds mini-campaign that JonRog1 just ran for us. It started as a wild free-for-all of violence and adventure, and ended up with...touching character...

29x01 Wind whipped Twiggy’s hair across her face. She kept running, and tried to sweep the hair away with the back of her hand. Hair caught in her mouth. She kept running and tried to spit it out. Ahead of her, Kormick had found a small group of Lord Ono’s trusted, loyal Inquisitors and was...

28x02 Thanks, StevenAC! Here we go... 28x02 “Do you hear that?” Rose asked. Savina craned her ears. There was a noise, like the cheering crowd of a festival. Savina concentrated. There was a smell, too, like cooking. “Today’s a harvest festival here, too, right? I think I can smell...

28x01 Wind whipped at the flags atop the imposingly symmetrical obsidian gates of the Temple of Kettenek as Nyoko, Mena, and Kormick stood before them, awaiting their meeting with Brother Ono Arato, the Kettenite representative to Cauldron’s synod. A guard led them through a bare...

Sorry it's taken me so long to jump on here! I love this question -- partly because it implies that it's *possible* to overthink things with this game. By which I mean, of course it's posdible, but if you're over thinking things it makes me feel just a little bit better about all the obsessive...

26x03 Happy pre-Thanksgiving! I'd like to express my heartfelt thanks to all of you for reading and commenting. In anticipation of the holiday and to say thanks, here's a longer-than-usual update... SUNDAY Twiggy stood alone, waiting outside the closed gates of the headquarters of the...

26x02 WEEK 10 | MONDAY “Your man is free,” Kormick told Daisuki. They were sitting at Daisuki’s regular table at the Inn of Generous Portions, eating stew and drinking a delicious, if thin, beer. “As far as the Eighths are concerned, the whole matter of the fixed matches on Ehkt’s Judgment...

26x01 The room was silent. There was a draft coming in from somewhere that hit the back of Nyoko’s neck and made the hair on her arms stand up. She felt Savina’s comforting hand on her shoulder. “We throw her in the lake,” Kormick suggested. “Or we call her bluff,” Tavi said. “Maybe she...

Oh, how right you are! It was quite wonderful. To give you a sense of how this session went down, there was an awful lot of time when some subset of the group had disappeared into another room of the house to conference, while the rest of us sat and chatted (sometimes in, sometimes out of...

Thanks for the question, Kuritaki. The answer to "when will we get to learn about it" is hard to predict! But to give you a sense of where we were when, we played the session you're reading now (Session 26) on July 2010. That seems crazy, since it feels like yesterday. But the calendar...

You have a good point, Falkus -- but in a way, it's the best outcome we could hope for, since it's really the only outcome that didn't risk further inflaming the Tide or giving the Tide further ammunition to inflame the population against the Affirmation. Plus, this was among the more...

24x03 Yamashiro Tamahashi was about to have the dinner of his life. He had been saving for months to dine at The Dining Room. All of the best fine dining establishments in Cauldron had chefs trained by the Adepts. At The Dining Room, the chefs were the people who trained those chefs. The...