Walking Away

Tonight on the final episode of Walking Alone... who will survive?

A big monster fighting season finale didn't really fit the style of the game (I have a Buffy rulebook for that) so our Puny Mortals! had to use their ingenuity to prevent the demon getting loose. They had to ambush the cult leaders and stop the ritual.

Based on what they'd learned they found a cult lair, where among other things they found patchy surveillance files on themselves. (This included a photo of a photo taken of Sarah in 1888, the original apparently in a museum upstate... so she could give Donnelly her best "told you so" look.)

This lead our happy few to an abandoned hospital out of town that the cult used as its base,

Doyle and Connelly kept the cult busy by ambushing one guard successfully and another less successfully, starting a running gun fight, in the dark of course. Including one animated corpse who set himself on fire for a temporary tactical advantage.

Meanwhile Sarah, Jim, Mike and Amanda sabotaged the ritual site, got the generally hysterical hostage/sacrifices out, freed the possessed victims and dragged them away unconscious...

The demon arose. They dropped the building on it.

Did they stop the cult completely? Maybe, maybe not. Hard to tell in a maze of dark rooms while being shot at.

It felt climactic. Everybody seemed pretty pleased with how it went.

Tanith Lee

Rest in peace and thank you to Tanith Lee, from whom I took my name.

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

I celebrated World Goth Day watching an Iranian-American black and white vampire romance. I feel I have done my part.

Walking Out In Style

Tonight on Walking Alone, our Puny Mortals! made their list, checked it twice... found out about the demon lord's ultimate plan... got slightly distracted by a vampire turf war... and Jim and Connelly killed Kendrick.

Sarah agreed that Kendrick was an evil bloodsucking monster who deserved to be destroyed, but questioned their timing right before having to stop the demon rising, and resented the implication she couldn't take care of herself.

Next week, the end. It's gonna be emotional.

Crimson Peak trailer 2

Extended squee.

Walking The Edge

Tonight on Walking Alone, our Puny Mortals! made plans, argued, and rescued some runaway kids from a demon cult cell.

Doyle: "Looks like they're getting desperate."
Jim: "Well, that's good news in a way..."

The surviving leader of the corrupt cops rather irritably helped make the evidence go away.

"You really need to disappear this body? He's been dead for a month, nobody's gonna suspect you killed him tonight just because he was walking around before you cut his head off."

Meanwhile, Kendrick tried to take over the vampire crime syndicate, which at least kept him occupied.

And Amanda got a vision that left her in a panic attack. When Sarah and Mike managed to talk her down, she described a black cloud hanging over the entire city as it burned - riots and murders, the dead rising...

Oh, and on top of everything else, Sarah and Mike's parents visited. Because I'm just mean like that. So they had to take them out to dinner while preparing to stop an apocalypse.

Mrs. Carter: "So, how is everything?"
Sarah: "It's, um... college is... not like I imagined."

Walking The Beatdown

Tonight on Walking Alone, the Puny Mortals! managed to kill Elina the vampire gangster instead of getting into a full-on war with corrupt cops. Because there's nothing like punching out the lead corrupt cop and then dragging him away from a gang of annoyed vampires to make him happy to forget the whole thing.

Doyle got to do the "cool guys don't look at explosions" moment and everything when he firebombed Elina's club.

(Kind of wish I'd brought the corrupt cops in sooner because they've proved to be a pretty interesting problem for Doyle in particular. Yay for stealing from someone else stealing from Person Of Interest!)

Sarah talked with Amelia the token high-Humanity vampire about her wish to be human again, because obviously we needed to complicate the simple moral issue of destroying vampires. She also talked to Amanda about how Jim is a gigantic idiot but means well, but that may not be enough.

And we're two sessions away from the end of the run, I think, so better work out what to do about the demon and its plan to free its true form and go Smaug on the city. Who lives, who dies, who gets their heart broken? Stay tuned!

A long time ago in a World Of Darkness far, far away...

DARK WARS

Episode IV: A New Generation

It is the War of Ages. Anarch coteries, striking from a secret base, have won their first victory against the evil Camarilla...

"Hardestadt Elder. Only you could be so bold. The Inner Circle will not sit still for this. When they hear you've attacked a diplomatic -"
"Don't act so surprised, Your Highness. You weren't on any mercy mission this time. Several emails were sent to this phone by Anarch spies. I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you."
"I don't know what you're talking about. I am a member of the Primogen on a diplomatic mission to California -"
"You are a part of the Anarch Free State and a traitor. Take her away!"

"The Succubus Club. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."

"Noddist religions and ancient Disciplines are no match for a good stake at your side, kid."

 (I'm done. Happy Star Wars Day!)