So…..
We had a TPK, or at least a Total Party Trauma. The infiltration went bad from the get go: the engagement roll was a 1, the Motes lair came under simultaneous infiltration from the Spirit Wardens, then the flashbacks went horribly wrong – a desperate tinker to set explosive traps at the sanctuary rolled three threes – it had to be an backfired omen for the trauma to come.
Then during the infiltration there was failed desperate roll after failed desperate roll: the newly found cult ended up burned, scalded, and their spirits torn from their ravaged bodies. Their exceptional deathseeker hulls ended up scattered and dismembered, the crews’ adept’s ghosts sold to the Unseen’s nefarious pits for their illegal ‘possessed’ dog fights.
So as the Motes swing from the Gallows Pole under the clock, their corpses slowly wasting away as a vicious symbol of those who dare challenge the powers that be, their ghosts are entrapped within the Belltower Crematorium’s holding tanks – awaiting interrogation by the Spirit Master…
They are all trauma-ed, suffered deathly harm, at war with tier three factions and XPed up to the max!
They do have some friends though, The Path of Echoes is working on breaking them out, and the Dimmer Sisters may have a trick or two up their voluminous sleeves. This should be an interesting downtime😳
I have a similar situation (and still don’t know how to handle it, and session is tomorrow). The party infiltrated the house of a powerful Iruvian noble who wants to kill them for murdering is son: the idea was to kidnap is daughter to keep him at bay. Several bad rolls after, two of them suffered Trauma and were captured by the noble’s guard, while the rest barely escaped.
They are a Tier 0 crew, with no major allies.
Any suggestion? 😀
Is cruel of me to suddenly have Yakkity Sax stuck in my head?
The Gallows Pole! Yes. 🙂
Also, I love ‘TPKs’ in Blades. You don’t get the easy escape of death. “The worst possible thing happened… Now what do you do?”
John Harper​ yes! It’s also a good mechanic for merciless gms like me. In my situation, it forced me to think of an alternative to the simple “he captures them, kill them, and dispose of their bodies”; now it’s “her daughter is actually a demon bound to his family: she wants to use them to retrieve various artifacts (the first one in the hand of one of their contacts) “.