The Opulence, I Has It Caper isn’t complete yet, but I wanted to share the creativity that came out of having the Leech’s alchemical supply fleshed out in the most recent quickstart.
Ghost Oil. Learn it. Love it.
The Dead Setters were after some faberge-type animal sculptures being transported into Duskwall on one of those Fury Road trains. Once the train was in the city and its own lightning barriers folded in, the Hound snuck onboard using forged inspection papers and a disguise and found that the artwork was being stored inside compartments on a large-scale hull fashioned in a similar, scaled-up style to the artwork itself. Imagine the museum opening gala with this hull prancing up like a giraffe and revealing the actual artwork, that sort of thing.
The Hound poured Ghost Oil on the sucker and with a flashback, the Leech set up a purloined lightning wall across the tracks. The train passed through but the ethereal hull with the prize inside was caught and shunted right out of the train, away from the guards and rail jacks and all the stuff inside.
Things got bad after that – the Unstable Whisper (go trauma!) forgot it was a human spirit, not an animal one, and was disappointed that his Whovian giraffe dance didn’t have the calming effect he’d hoped. The hull’s animating spirit was eaten by hungry ghosts, leaving the crew with a ghostly empty clockwork pseudo-giraffe full of artwork they can’t touch.
That’s okay, though, because they were in the middle of a knife fight with the Red Sashes when we had to call it a night.
Love it – reminds me of a similar anecdote I heard for Shadowrun with a mana barrier and a moving vehicle