Last week my group had its first session. We only had two hours to play so mostly we were establishing the last few debts and setting up some conflicts. The cast includes:
Jack-Tainted working for the demon Murmur
Joanna-Hunter with a beef against Red Vampires
Mel-Wolf just trying to keep his territory safe for the people that live there
Steven-Immortal trying to fix the city up by taking it over
Victor-White Court Vamp trying to establish a base of power to defeat his father, one of the biggest drug lords in Mexico
The session start move really helped to get the ball rolling since everyone had to come up with something in terms of conflict and tension. We ended up with:
Locals are being possessed by ghosts from the Indian burial grounds.
Father Delay has been nervous lately. Rumors of a Knight of the Cross coming floating around.
Little Folk (Fae) are being trapped by a local restaurant owner. No one knows why.
The Romaro cartel are causing a lot of trouble. The locals are arming themselves to do something about it. It appears that the cartel are trying to use demon possession to make their troops stronger. (That can’t possibly backfire.)
Once play started Mel found himself walking through his turf, which has been lovingly called the Wastes. It consists of mostly trailer parks and low income housing. Mel discovers Joanna’s mother emotionally losing it. Joanna’s father has wandered off muttering some crazy stuff. Mel agrees to go look for him. Along the way Mel runs into a few youths acting suspicious with their truck and what’s inside, but Mel doesn’t push it. Mel found Joanna’s father and it appears he is possessed. Didn’t get violent but kept talking about “Destroying the dragon.” Mel thinks he’s referring to Kur, the Baron of Phoenix.
Joanna and Steven are doing a weapons exchange at Steven’s legitimate shop when a loud thump is heard out in the ally. They go to investigate and discover blood all over the ally. They follow the blood trail all the way to the Scarlett Pearl, the biggest casino in Phoenix and it belongs to the leader of the Red Court, Cortez. It was fun watching the Hunter try to be safe and stealthy while the Immortal was to old to give any bothers to his safety. They go inside, despite their better judgement, and find a body mangled and half eaten. They also discover a woman who is covered in blood and weeping. She says the monster came in and ate that poor man, then started hunting her when those two showed up. Joanna went to go find the monster and Steven started escorting the woman outside. My favorite piece of dialogue I got to deliver was from this woman.
“There was so much blood, he just kept screaming. He kept looking at me. I saw as life left his eyes. So much blood. The screaming. Heh. It’s funny. The funny part was I got close to him the same way I just got close to you.”
That was when Steven looked over and realized the woman was a ghoul and started to tear into Steven. There were bad words said. Joanna and Steven ended up getting the upper hand and dispatching the ghoul.
Jack was approached by Murmur while playing Bingo, his favorite pass time. Murmur wants Jack to hunt down some rogue demon that is working for Kur. Jack needed information so he headed to the Red Courts turf to meet a contact. Jack ended up at the Scarlett Pearl to meed his contact and was approached by Lilith, a sorceress and sometimes lover of Jack. Lilith chewed him out about something he didn’t do and stormed out. While in a daze he was approached by Cortez’s assistant and asked to head to the main office for a word. Jack gets on the elevator and two very big men get on with him. They stop the elevator and try to beat Jack up. Jack quickly dispatches the goons and goes to escape. He’s being surrounded by more goons and as he makes his way to the front door Victor pulls up.
Turns out Lilith had found Victor at a bar and hired Victor to find out what Jack is up to. So Victor offers Jack a ride and the two head out of there.
We’re picking up the game tonight so I’ll update more hopefully early next week. Feel free to click the link to see all our notes, maps, and NPCs.
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