Category: Masks: A New Generation RPG: Actual Play

Last night at Masks we had a special guest: My younger sister, an actual teen in our teen superhero RPG! She played Kid Cyclone, the Legacy, daughter of Professor Hurricane and Lady Hurricane.

Kid Cyclone had a first solo outing as a superhero—cutting a ribbon at the grand aquarium re-opening. The Salvatores had been tasked by her dad with watching out for her. All was fine—until Hurricane family nemesis Rogue Wave appeared, threatening KC’s cousin, Bubble Boy!

Panic (The Delinquent) began putting pieces in motion for a long con on her doppelgänger. Halfpenny (The Protégé) leapt into the fray and bonded with Kid Cyclone. Torque (The Outsider) developed and wielded a new power, turning into fire, so as to fight a Rogue Wave’s backup…

…a horned hunter of the Rime Court! Sonia (The Bull), confronting what the Forge had always meant for her to fight, discovered the iron knuckles built into her arms and embraced being a Soldier of the Forge. (Our first playbook change, from Bull to Soldier.)

Captain Bowmaster (The Beacon) made a choice just as major. After defying and defeating Rogue Wave, who said he didn’t belong in the superhero world, he encountered his mom, Assistant District Attorney Evelyn Loxley—and revealed his secret identity to her!

The team all agreed that Kid Cyclone had upheld her family’s heroic legacy, and her parents agreed! She leveraged their happiness to make a play for a getting a dog. But not just any dog: Thunderbolt, the Lightning Dog!

Last night’s Masks RPG was a wild ride. Panic (The Delinquent) reached out to her creepy doppelgänger to establish a new rapport. It kind of worked? The doppelgänger acquired the name Sapphire.

Sonia (The Bull) returned to Capstone City by riding inside of a giant Darkhavian golem-spider, launched from Castle Devastation like a rocket. She then investigated an abandoned theater and took a beating at the hands of vengeful Vaudvillains with a new paint-spattered look.

Torque (The Outsider) hearing Sonia’s distress call, invoked his Moment of Truth: a fleet of ships from his homeworld arrived to defeat the spider and its spiderlings, impressing the Crimebuster Legendaria and helping Torque finally acquire the Time Sloth for his people.

By the time Torque brought his fleet into the theater, the others had overawed the Vaudvillains and knocked out their leader, the speedy Spatterdash. Halfpenny (The Protégé) tripped the artsy villain up with a barrage of pennies from heaven, and then handed her over to F.A.T.E.

So how did Masks go last night? Well, the whole team present got arrested by F.A.T.E. (the Federal Agency for Tackling the Extranormal). Fortunately, Torque (The Outsider) knows a good lawyer, the well-travelled Peter Kristofferson.

The feral scrapper Porpentine ran amok in the F.A.T.E. base, and Halfpenny (The Protégé) led the team to take him down. He got through the fight with no conditions, but praise from his villainous side mentor Quartermaster left him angry and guilty.

Panic (The Delinquent) was the team’s emotional center this week, dealing with her own emotional wreckage from the last adventure, but also comforting Halfpenny and Torque. Plus, she sparred with her worried guardian, Uncle Cas. [Check out Claire’s emo Panic cosplay!]

Oh, and in the end, Halfpenny went to therapy with Lady Hurricane, a retired superhero and psychiatric specialist in trauma related to superheroics. He unlocked the power of empathy!