Barf Forth Apocalyptica
powered by the apocalypse => Monsterhearts => Topic started by: hobbesque on December 28, 2013, 12:39:03 PM
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My group is super excited because we're getting to pick up the second season of a beloved game. There was a blood oath with a morally bankrupt supernatural tied law firm at the end of the last session, so this is the move we rolled at the start of the first session:
When you spend your summer interning for Danforth and Chase, besides tedious cubicle slavery (making spreadsheets, filing rituals) and grunt work (fetching copy, digging graves), you did... other things. Roll +nothing (the banality of evil doesn't care how cool you are). On a 10+, pick 1. On a 7-9, pick 2. On a 6-, you pick one and the MC picks one.
*You cross a line you never thought you'd cross.
*You alienate a friend or break ties with the community.
*You make a powerful enemy.
If you find out you've gotten too deep, you can break your contract and avoid all of the above, but D&C gets 5 strings on you.
Two of us got a miss. D: We're figuring out the results right now...
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Results: the two D&C interns both failed; the third PC, a Fae, made a nearly identical move for politicking in the faerie realms, got a strong hit (what a dick). Evelyn, the Witch-turned-Selkie, made a powerful enemy (her choice) and crossed a line (MC's choice): Logan, the Infernal-turned-Chosen, crossed a line he never thought he'd cross [again] (his choice, mostly so that the MC couldn't chose it) and alienated a friend (MC's choice).
We seem to have decided that the person who chose the option got to define it, although we workshopped out what actually happened with everyone at the table contributing. Evelyn got tricked into using her powers to steal another Selkie's skin, enslaving him to the firm, and then was so pissed about it she hexed one the senior partners on her last day of work. Logan was sent on a mission nominally to recover an artifact, but actually to kill its innocent guardian, who he wasn't told would fight to the death to defend it. This was a breach of contract, so he could walk away, and did, angrily. In doing so he alienated his wealthy father, who was hoping to [re]gain social status [lost when Logan killed his Infernal master] through connections to the firm. He cut Logan off, dropping him from one-percenter to plebe.
Faolin, the Fae-still-Fae, decided that in his political jockeying he had crossed a line by personally assassinating a rival.
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This sounds like a terrific game.
I kind of want to know how the witch turned into a selkie.