Category: Monster of the Week Roadhouse: Actual play

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With these last two reports, the M-Com Monster of the Week campaign comes to an end, at least for now, and my little three-person group that did this game moves on to my brother’s Nowhere D&D campaign where we are apparently trapped in a demi-plane that embodies places things can get lost.

In any case, toward the end here my brother and friend started to realize that they had tons of Luck Points and the fact that if we were coming to this campaign again it would likely be with new characters, so these last two sessions have the players dominating quite thoroughly.

Likewise, Man with the Plan and Connect the Dots proved very powerful.

Incidentally, one use of Man with the Plan spawned what sounds like a wonderful spin-off of this campaign, namely the adventures of various people that are hired by Violet MacNeil in her travels across time to combat Hikozaemon’s plots.

Incidentally, it didn’t get mentioned in the report (I may edit it in though) but Violet was eventually chosen because it was assumed that her held-in-check chiang shih infection makes her harder to notice by the monsters that infest the normal routes between various time periods.

Last report for the Friday Night Lights short-run D&D campaign run by a fellow fan of Critical Role.

We end the fight with Mariah the Blue learning about the defensive wonders of the Blink spell, finally being educated by her wife as to what a wild mage is, and continuing to demonstrate that she’s not quite as smart as she thinks she is.

Pen-Ultimate Report:

http://thrythlind.blogspot.jp/2017/09/m-com-mission-report-operation-burning.html

Final Report:

http://thrythlind.blogspot.jp/2017/09/m-com-campaign-with-feelers-and-false.html

Originally shared by Thrythlind aka Luke Green

Okay, there’s still something like 11 to 15 random NPCs I have to hunt down photographs for and post to the Suspects and Witnesses pages, not to mention finding pics for the one or two new critters that have shown up in the game in the last three sessions. But at least I am now completely up to date on the M-Com play reports.

We’re coming round to the finish line here with only the Mexico City and Louisville rituals left to run before we can close out this season and the players’ home reality is safe from the multiverse-devourer (need a better name for it) for at least another thousand years, during which time they can start to look for ways to protect the rest of their multiverse or even destroy the creature when/if we come back to this setting.

Incidentally, after this, my brother has a plan to run a rather odd D&D campaign. We’ve run a few prologue sessions already, should be interesting.

Also, Man With the Plan, Connect the Dots, and the Flake move that detects lies are pretty powerful story movers.

Man With the Plan and Connect the Dots are the only reason I failed to blow up that Air BnB they decided to use.

http://thrythlind.blogspot.jp/2017/08/m-com-mission-report-operation-jealous.html

Originally shared by Thrythlind aka Luke Green

Three hours of progressively ramping insanity that HAS to be shared:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aw2LvD7JXo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aw2LvD7JXo

So. Just started processing the video. But Just ran a scenario where the players pick characters from established franchises who find themselves in an empty hotel lobby and have to figure out what’s going on.

The characters from this scenario:

Yuna – Final Fantasy X

Ashley J Williams – Evil Dead

Nancy Downs – The Craft

Spike – Buffy, the Vampire Slayer

Insane sort of describes things…..

Originally shared by Thrythlind aka Luke Green

The premise of the scenario was to draw characters from various urban-fantasy characters.

I never expected someone to choose a character from MY setting. Granted it’s because he was playing that character in another one-shot, but still.

Creator Happy Dance!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP34ZwMdgFo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP34ZwMdgFo

Originally shared by Thrythlind aka Luke Green

This is actually last week’s M-Com session and is a flashback to recruiting mystics for the events of this week’s session (the play report of which still needs to be written).

Carracci’s and Thomas’s player decided Carracci was busy here doing investigations into Suidobashi Heavy Industries and revealing the fact the company was a mind control induced delusion rather than really existing.

This was a small and quick investigation over all.

http://thrythlind.blogspot.jp/2017/07/m-com-mission-report-operation-astral.html?m=1