So this evening we finally wrapped up our twenty episode, four season show of ‘Paradisium’. The finale episode was an whopping seven hours as the Big Boss defeating mucguffin had to be built, intricate plans crafted and touching base and saying goodbye to beloved NPCs.
The McGuffin was creating a sword scabbard based off the concept of the perfect scabbard to trap the conceptual spirit of edged weapons , Father of Knives, who was attempted to achieve godhood. They had to come up with what the original perfect scabbard looked like and how that concept would look like in their ‘modern’ era. They had to decide what materials they would use to build up and why (metaphysical meaning), how they would get the materials and the creation process. Allies were tapped, cattle ranchers were bargained with and luck was burned making up for bad creation rolls.
By the end of the episode, our Monstrous turned into a full demon (after secretly trading to his soul for an essential component of the mcguffin) and flew off. His soul is now in the possession of a fallen angel who is a sassy ‘come over for tea and orgies’ frenemy of the PCs. A future mini-series (1 or 2 episode one-off) is possible for the other PCs to win his soul back. The Expert(Watcher) rode off into the sunset having accepted President Teddy Roosevelt’s offer to join him in forming a US Army hunter task-force. And our Divine is left at a cross-roads, uncertain where to go, She can join her Watcher (the Expert) on the East Coast with the US Army, stay and help fight along side the new Slayer(Chosen NPC) in San Francisco, or to strike out on her own and win back her friend’s soul.
For one of the players is the first campaign they’d ever completed. For myself it was the first campaign that I had run that completed and the second completed campaign period. There are couple of multi-session one-offs on the drawing board as well as a possible follow up series (campaign) with people playing as beloved NPCs and/or new characters.
That sounds memorable, and just what everyone looks for in a good campaign. Congratulations!