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!)

Walking Down

Tonight in Walking Alone, our Puny Mortals! found another lead back to the demon leader's final plan, and then had to escape from some corrupt cops working for Elina's vampire syndicate. So now Doyle wants to wipe them all out.

"Hey, I'm only going to shoot to wound the cops. Put them in hospital while I kill the demons."

So that could get messy.

(squee)

I've seen Avengers: Age Of Ultron already! Hooray for inexplicable regional release dates!

Walking In Bloody Puddles

My 100th post!

And in Walking Alone, our Puny Mortals! attempt to exorcise a vampire with hilarious consequences. And by hilarious, I mean horrific.

Kendrick trapped one of Elina's goons and Dr. Connelly thought it would be worth trying. Fortunately the vampire was restrained at the time as he went directly into frenzy with no sign that he might ever come out again, so they were able to escape and lock him in the old warehouse until Doyle could come and throw Molotov cocktails at him.

Amelia the nice vampire who was kind of hoping this might be a cure for vampirism didn't exactly take this news very well. So that was unfortunate.

Kendrick added "get Connelly to kill Elina and/or kill Connelly" to his to-do list.

(Sure, the vampire could have just dropped into torpor but that wouldn't be much fun... and if the exorcism had really worked he'd probably have turned to dust, but that would be too useful...)

At least Amanda can see again. And she and Mike are totally a thing.

Which makes Sarah and Jim doubly awkward.

Star Wars; Session VI: Return Of The Funny Dice Complaints

Just about used to the original funny dice now, but a fight with one bounty hunter and four security droids still took two hours and left half of us unconscious. That seems... a bit much.

Also we now have Destiny points - random amounts of good luck that we and the GM get, generated by another kind of funny dice which serve no other purpose. That seems... a bit much.

I'm thinking this is not my Star Wars game.

Walking The Dead

Tonight in Walking Alone, vampires rudely interrupt a non-Vampire game. 

Amelia the high-Humanity vampire who wants to stop Kendrick vs. Kendrick the shifty vampire ally of convenience vs. Elina the vampire smuggler who wants them both dead.

Because the Puny Mortals! didn't have enough problems with the demonic cult trying to kill the whole city.

And Sarah sussed out that Jim sided with Amelia because he doesn't like Kendrick. To be fair, Kendrick is giving serious thought to turning Sarah into his vampire bride. Which might put a guy off a guy even if he wasn't into Sarah as well.

But they're working together for the moment. See how long that lasts...

Since it's shareable again...

"Is it raining ashes from the sky or is it dying angels?"
Estrangel, Communion (Angels Fall)

Might drop it into Walking Alone next week... ;)

Dark Days

The World Of Darkness MMO shut down a year ago. Still kind of hoping for further news. (And making weak jokes and throwing out the odd plot hook on Twitter.) In the meantime, yay Onyx Path for new books and support for analog RPGs!

Star Wars: Session V: Strikes Back At The Empire

It took five sessions, but our Star Wars game got to the point of shooting some Stormtroopers.

They're a bit tougher in this version. One of us actually got shot in return.

And that fight with six Stormtroopers took up pretty much the entire session. We're not getting a lot faster with the peering at little abstract symbols on dice.

Walking Past The Graveyard

More trouble with vampires for our Puny Mortals! in Walking Alone as Kendrick calls in their marker to try and eliminate some rivals - a slick Invictus organized crime group - and the not-so-evil vampire who approached Connelly to warn him about Kendrick tries to intervene, and he listens to her backed by Jim for possibly personal reasons.

So now the kinda-evil vampire who has been on their side might have finally betrayed them. Or might not. We'll see...

Play politics with vampires. That's always a good idea.

Sinking

Yeah, terrible aquatic things in enclosed spaces and the chance to blow everything up to save the day and die in the process.

People play one-shots a bit differently. My regular Puny Mortals! are pretty self-sacrificing, but it takes a one-shot adventure (or a final session) for everybody to agree to blow up the oil rig they're on to save the day.

Lore Of The Clans

Lore Of The Clans, now on Kickstarter for V20, is basically Clanbook Everybody.

Walking Hand In Hand

This week in Walking Alone, Jim finally kissed Sarah.

Also there were monsters and stuff.

Yeah, nothing like a little vampire-induced jealousy to finally get a boy to admit his feelings.

Anyway, powerful creepy psychic sorcerer guy was able to revive the comatose possession victims. They had no memory of their time under remote control, but you can't have everything. At least they could remember bits and pieces about the location of the demon's lair.

Not long now before horror and pain the exciting conclusion!