So last night was freaking amazing! My kind of game for sure.

So last night was freaking amazing! My kind of game for sure.

One thing that worked admirably was the combination of flashback and Devil’s Bargain.

A couple in the group was most enamoured with the TV Show Penny Dreadful, so much so that the Hound named his character Lord Malcolm and the Whisper Miss Vanessa. There was a scene in the initial occult plan (they had gathered info to the effect that  Rory had been murdered by a creature, some sort of vampiric entity), where the missing detail was being chased…

The trio decended below the tatoo palour in the Canal district, scouring the Leviathan Blood drug den looking for traces of the vampire.

Sir Malcolm on point was pushing for a stalk roll in a desperate situation, as piles of blood-soaked bodies and keening cries closed in on the group. Vanessa helped with her Summon ability via flashback tarot card reading, to foretell the vampire in to the crypts beneath the tattoo palour. Skannon the Lurk has set a trap, blending in with his shadow essence and lurking to spring his ambush.

I was upfront with the characters and players that yes, the Master was here, and he wants something from them. I offered a Devil’s Bargain to Malcolm if we was willing (with Vanessa) to give us a flashback scene right here and now, to a dark secret they shared with the Vampiric creature.

Of course he took it, and prior to the stalk action, we had a wonderful debauched scene of longing and regret involving Sir Malcolms lost daughter and her best friend Vanessa. It was freaking genius.