The Intercontinental Group of Awesome, a playgroup I’m in, has played three sessions of The Veil out of four scheduled. I’m pretty happy with the story we’re telling so far.
The main inspiration for the setting is a video game called VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action. The game is set in “Nirvanna”, another bar mentioned in the game.
The Experience Manager is Dax, an Architect, played by Paul Edson.
The main bartender Voxel, an Empath, played by Jan van Zon.
One of the bouncers is ill/Boy, an Apparatus, played by Alex Prinz.
The bar’s accountant is Pawn, a Dying, played by Julia Nienaber.
There’s a mix of small stakes drama at the bar itself with big corporation vs. “the people” conflicts impacting their daily lives. I’m loving the characters here most of all, but I’m also enjoying how the game works on emotional states.
This Sunday is the “big finale”, and I’m hoping we bring a number of the moving pieces to a satisfying conclusion. I have faith we will, this group is tops.
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Awesome!! I really need to play that video game sometime, it comes up more and more frequently and I’m only vaguely familiar with it.
That’s quite the crew I will try and check out the AP, I’ve no doubt it’s great!
To be fair to The Veil, Fraser Simons, this was my first time running the game. You’ll see a bunch of rookie mistakes and flubs as we figure out moves.
I picked up Veil at Gencon but have not dug into it. Your game sounds interesting, though.
Oh, no worries. Long as the fiction is good and people have fun, things like that don’t matter much at all.
Thanks, Steve Moore!