So there’s this building, witch coven holed up inside, doing witch-y ritual things.

So there’s this building, witch coven holed up inside, doing witch-y ritual things.

So there’s this building, witch coven holed up inside, doing witch-y ritual things. The Spectre’s Link is in there – his living daughter, who is trying to learn necromancy because she may have seen her dead father once in a fever dream and wants to contact him.

The Fae rolls up, with his Dish Best Served Now, seeking vengance for one of his redcap followers, Tom, who’s brother, Dom, says he saw fall in a witch’s hex trap so they could drain his blood.

Fae Lets It Out, calling to the spirits and elementals of the earth trapped in the stones of the building, urging them to be free! The building rumbles and creaks and begins to come down.

Now the Link is in danger, but the Spectre is there – he was just outside keeping an eye on his daughter. He moves in, to get her out. But now the coven is pissed, their eyes on the Fae, blocking the Spectre from moving in. And it’s his turn. He Lets It Out, summoning all the sadness and despair he felt at the moment of his death, all the pain and the regret, and pushing it into the room. And he rolls a 13 and decides to pay the corruption to make this permanent.

[We basically paused here on a cliffhanger for the night]

So this mega-depression emission, I need to figure out a move for this, I think. A passive “you can make people really sad” isn’t going to cut it. Any good ideas? I’m feeling an “unintended victims” consequence in there…

8 thoughts on “So there’s this building, witch coven holed up inside, doing witch-y ritual things.”

  1. “Welcome to sorrow”

    Suicide rates triplicates in the area. There is a burden in the heart of all that are near. The world is grey an arid, so all Spirit rolls are at -2, but… who cares?

  3. Pau Blackonion hmm a passive ability is cool, but that doesn’t seem to have an intended effect on NPCs.

    I also think he intended the ability to be controllable, so a roll is probably a good idea

  4. Time for a custom mooooove. Here’s one option off the top of my head:

    When you marshall your existential dread against a target, you can unleash with Spirit instead of Blood as if wielding a 2-harm ap area spectral weapon. On a miss, the attack surges beyond your control to affect nearby noncombatants or permanently infuses the area with ennui, your choice.

Comments are closed.