Champions first episode
Feb. 11th, 2005 04:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eyelessgameBoring gaming recollection. It's understood that ground rules (and characters) may change after the first several adventures, as people get better at character design. Jason and/or Sherilyn might wish to chime in with more of the story, so we don't lose it in the mists of nutrasweet-induced bad memory.
In our first adventure, the characters all meet in a bar. Well, not exactly a bar: a sports bar in San Francisco, a short distance from Ash's shop where she deals in magical curios and books, which we expect will eventually be the place where everyone spends their 'contribution to group base' points. She's having buffalo wings with Seamus, an air mage who does a fair bit of legitimate shipping and occasional smuggling, who is selling her an artifact that came in from the Far East.
Also coincidentally in the bar is Idam, a refugee from Feng Shui. Also, prowling around outside in the alley, following the trail of a reported dimensional whatsit is Joshua, who's a werewolf who works professionally as a bounty hunter.
Police show up across the narrow street from the bar, checking out some sort of disturbance in the three-story apartment building there. Seamus' enhanced and radio hearing, and Ash's telepathy, start subtly scoping out the place, getting little conclusive until all electronics and complex mechanical devices suddenly stop working, in the bar and the street. (This includes vehicles, pacemakers, electronic vehicle door locks, and even guns.) Moments later, a demonic figure bursts from the third floor window, followed by a man who stands in the window and starts mystic-bolting, and the game is on.
The demon and sorcerer are dispatched, albeit with the demon making good use of a car as a club, Idam figuring out that killing attacks aren't really all that good at killing things with high PD, and Josh going berserk from taking body and almost killing a police officer. As the opponents fell unconscious, the 'sorcerer' was revealed as a middle-aged woman of quite different appearance from her young male looks while fighting, while the demon fizzles into nothing. A bit of dancing around with police later, everything turns back on, and Ash is able to retrocog what happened: it appears the 'real' villains didn't take part in the fight at all! A man (the Demonologist) and a woman (Gyre) had invaded the apartment -- the Demonologist captured the apartment owner and ritually sacrificed him in the living room to summon the demon, while Gyre opened a magically-locked footlocker and extracted a magic dingus, which she then activated (with some tools of her own) to cause everything faintly technological to fail, causing the Demonologist to caper with excitement.
The Demonologist then grabbed the occupant of the next apartment, clapped a collar around her neck, and she became younger, male, and possessed of the power to zap people with mystic bolts; he placed her in the window and directed her to do just that, after which Gyre did something space-bending, and the two villains exited the scene.
It appears the Demonologist had some ties to the Circle of the Scarlet Moon, but has generally been considered a fairly low-powered nutcase. Gyre is new to the scene (he called her by name in the retrocog), and her mask prevented any followup on her possible identity.
In our first adventure, the characters all meet in a bar. Well, not exactly a bar: a sports bar in San Francisco, a short distance from Ash's shop where she deals in magical curios and books, which we expect will eventually be the place where everyone spends their 'contribution to group base' points. She's having buffalo wings with Seamus, an air mage who does a fair bit of legitimate shipping and occasional smuggling, who is selling her an artifact that came in from the Far East.
Also coincidentally in the bar is Idam, a refugee from Feng Shui. Also, prowling around outside in the alley, following the trail of a reported dimensional whatsit is Joshua, who's a werewolf who works professionally as a bounty hunter.
Police show up across the narrow street from the bar, checking out some sort of disturbance in the three-story apartment building there. Seamus' enhanced and radio hearing, and Ash's telepathy, start subtly scoping out the place, getting little conclusive until all electronics and complex mechanical devices suddenly stop working, in the bar and the street. (This includes vehicles, pacemakers, electronic vehicle door locks, and even guns.) Moments later, a demonic figure bursts from the third floor window, followed by a man who stands in the window and starts mystic-bolting, and the game is on.
The demon and sorcerer are dispatched, albeit with the demon making good use of a car as a club, Idam figuring out that killing attacks aren't really all that good at killing things with high PD, and Josh going berserk from taking body and almost killing a police officer. As the opponents fell unconscious, the 'sorcerer' was revealed as a middle-aged woman of quite different appearance from her young male looks while fighting, while the demon fizzles into nothing. A bit of dancing around with police later, everything turns back on, and Ash is able to retrocog what happened: it appears the 'real' villains didn't take part in the fight at all! A man (the Demonologist) and a woman (Gyre) had invaded the apartment -- the Demonologist captured the apartment owner and ritually sacrificed him in the living room to summon the demon, while Gyre opened a magically-locked footlocker and extracted a magic dingus, which she then activated (with some tools of her own) to cause everything faintly technological to fail, causing the Demonologist to caper with excitement.
The Demonologist then grabbed the occupant of the next apartment, clapped a collar around her neck, and she became younger, male, and possessed of the power to zap people with mystic bolts; he placed her in the window and directed her to do just that, after which Gyre did something space-bending, and the two villains exited the scene.
It appears the Demonologist had some ties to the Circle of the Scarlet Moon, but has generally been considered a fairly low-powered nutcase. Gyre is new to the scene (he called her by name in the retrocog), and her mask prevented any followup on her possible identity.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2005-02-12 02:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-12 03:29 am (UTC)Nuts to bats!
Date: 2005-02-12 04:40 am (UTC)Re: Nuts to bats!
Date: 2005-02-12 04:58 am (UTC)It went down like this: I hear some police chatter, but nothing unusual. Ash & I continue our discussion and the lights go out. Ash wants to go outside so I lead her out so she don't bump into tables and such. This Idam guy leaps out the door too.
Before ya know it I'm making myself a target about 20ft over the street and 10ft from the building the pub is in. Idam is playing pattycake with a demon that leaps down from this 3rd story window (now a doorway) and Josh is trying to get people out of cars so they don't get squashed.
I try to remove the air from the demon's lungs and some witch comes to the window/doorway and bolts me into the building and I fall to the ground. Ouch. I get up and remove the air from her lungs. She falls over and I do it again while this wearwolf tears into the demon. Meanwhile the demon also smacked Ash up against the pub with a car; and Ash was invisible up until she passed out while pinned to the wall.
Anyhow, we deal with the demon too and then Ash figures out what happened while I attempt to explain that the nice lady really isn't the one who started all this.
It also turns out Idam was there to retrieve a magical dingus from the dead guy (who was sacrificed to summon the demon, damn them). And the Demonologist guy seems like a punk while this Gyre woman seems to have the real power. Don't want to go toe-to-toe with them, methinks.
no subject
Date: 2005-02-12 05:31 pm (UTC)And Ash was not passed out. She was just stunned for a while. Hmph!
Stunned vs STUNNED!
Date: 2005-02-12 07:47 pm (UTC)The passed out for minutes (and broken ribs, yes?) was with the OTHER demon and the OTHER chest with the OTHER whatsit in the chest. Although the visual of a COM 20 teenage girl dropping out of the sky onto the street followed by a werewolf leaping out the window and growling (PRE attack) at the police was pretty good. :)
The running around invisible thing makes for some interesting visuals when you get stunned...