Been running my own game of Masks for the past two weeks, decided to jump on board the community and share.

Been running my own game of Masks for the past two weeks, decided to jump on board the community and share. Not much playtesting notes right now, especially with the new version that just came out. But I’ll tell you about the heroes and what they’ve been up too!

Representing the poorer parts of Halcyon we have two heroes, first up the lovely Kinetica, adopted as a young girl she’s spent a lot of time growing up pretty normal. She had powers around  13 but she never used them. Until things started taking turns for the worst, her mom’s health is declining and they were forced to move to East Halcyon in the ghetto living off Social Security. Seeing all the crime forced Kinetica to put on the mask, but she’s walking a tight line between making the city safe and keeping her very old mother happy and healthy. 

Around the same area of Halcyon we have Mindsnap. He mostly lives on his own, he’s kind of an Artful Dodger getting by on the scraps of others. But he dreams of being a hero despite his rough lifestyle all the same, he carries a guilt in his heart over killing his grandfather with his own powers that haunts even his dreams. He hopes to rise above being just a common thug, but he has a lot of emotional hurdles to jump.

In the central city proper there is a manor that looks like no other building in the area. Greek architecture, tiled roofs, a mighty statue in the garden of the Golden Age beauty Harbinger. Pulled from her own world in World War II, Harbinger fought in the war and settled in the city. She’s long since retired despite still looking as young as she did back in the day, her daughter having taken up her mantle. The next in line to try and inhabit it is the young Vanguard who took the title from her older sister when her older sister was injured. She might be a mighty hero in her own right, but it’ll take more to rise above her lineages storied drama and secrets. 

Last but not least we have the terrifying visage of Infigar, sharp horns and eyes that blaze with a thousand year stare. Infigar was thrown into our dimension when his shit Delivar had some complications. His society is warlike, Warlords fighting for dominion on the land day in and day out. And Infigar was set to take the throne of a warlord had he not been stranded on Earth. He has skills in battle, but as we all know being a hero is more than just fists. Infigar is tasked with adapting to our society in order to survive and get back home. Hopefully he won’t have to give up his identity too much in order to accomplish that.

After defeating the Prime Ape and stopping him from stealing all the supplies from a Military Transport. Our heroes were picked up by the Meta-human Extraction and Defense Corporation, a privately funded paramilitary that handles superhuman affairs around the world. As it turned out, in our heroes haste to defeat the villain, they forgot to follow up on what exactly the Prime Ape was doing with that military motorcade.

Well as it turned out an experimental weapons system called only the X-9 was targeted and stolen by the Prime Ape and his Guerrilla fighters. So our heroes were given an ultimatum. Find and capture the Prime Ape before he implemented the weapons, or join him in his ultimate fate in the spike. They didn’t know where he was going with the weapons, so they had to hit the streets… Or rather… Hit the skies.

The only person that would know about goods that hot would have been the Clear-sky Corsair. A self styled Sky Pirate with a crew of bi-plane brigands. The battle was fierce and fast, the Corsair nearly knocking Delivar out of the air in their approach. However they were able to land on the airship, and with some teamwork force the Corsair to stand down and give the information up. 

It turns out that the order for the weapons was perpetrated by a much bigger force within the city. Countess Spider, who Vanguard revealed to be a major enemy of her mother the Harbinger back in the day, making her much more dangerous than any of the other villains the group had faced. She’s a known manipulator, with an army of loyal soldiers at her back, if she’s looking for an experimental weapon, then there must be more to the plan then simple implementation.

So how will our heroes handle The Lair of the Spider? Only time will tell