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Message: <blockquote data-quote="THEMNGMNT" data-source="post: 8392877" data-attributes="member: 6809274">2nd session of Night's Black Agents. In the previous session, the agents were on a mission to capture the Butcher of Aleppo...but somehow he knew they were coming. They survived the trap he laid in his compound. But the Butcher and his men simultaneously struck their safehouse and captured their handler.When this session started, the agents had deactivated an explosive vest on a civilian. They hurled the vest at the technical trying to shoot down the chopper that had arrived for exfil. Boom! No more technical! However, the chopper was still taking fire from the other guards in the compound. So they made their way on foot to the fallback rendezvous point. I asked the agents to narrate a single detail on their nighttime run through the ruins of Aleppo. It added a lot. On the helicopter, the hacker tracked the handler's mobile phone and determined that she was on a convoy of vehicles. After a short discussion, the players decided it was too dangerous to assault the convoy. So they watched as the convoy entered the Citadel of Aleppo. The Citadel is a real landmark, a famous fortress that has stood for thousands of years. It's a good location for a climax to this introductory mission.At this point, CIA control radioed and scrubbed the mission. But the agents refused to abandon their handler to the Butcher. Defying orders, they fast roped off the helicopter to the streets around the Citadel.So there they were in the middle of a warzone, gone rogue from the CIA, hundreds of miles from friendlies, with no way home.What followed was a lengthy discussion around the NBA rules on Cover vs Disguise. It's a bit of a paradigm shift for this longtime group of D&D players to realize they can't magically appear to be someone else, or that the discovery of their true identities could lead to the deaths (or worse) of their loved ones. Eventually, we got it all sorted out, and the agents began their infiltration of the Citadel. Next session: The agents encounter their first vampire. There will be blood.</blockquote>

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