So we had a great third session of my (still unnamed) cult crew. It’s consistently been the most fun I’ve had playing any kind of game in recent memory. I’m going to forgo my usual wall of text and just hit on each player’s most awesomely self destructive moments.
The setup is that the PCs are after some barrels of leviathan blood that are currently sitting at the bottom of a canal in Charhollow. There is a weird swirling black portal down there, and nobody knows what it is or wants to get near it. It has two weird effects: causing the water in the canal to part like the Red Sea, and making everything down their pitch black and dimming any lights to the effectiveness of a match.
Wraith (Whisper) – She immediately left the group to go inspect the portal, which she could not see, but sense. A few ill-advised and failed attune actions later, the portal belches forth a swarm of beetles made of barbed wire. Given the choice between severe harm (beetle lodges itself in her throat) or becoming a host to a sliver of a forgotten god, The One Within Many, she chooses the later.
Boulder (Cutter) – A ghost is attempting to drag him into the wall of water, and the only thing currently keeping him out is the struggling enemy whisper whose neck he is holding. Boulder squeezes so hard he pops the whisper’s head off, and gets dragged underwater with no regrets.
Shiv (Lurk) – Seeing Boulder go underwater, he puts manacles around his ankle, hands the chain to his Leech buddy and dives in after the ghost he can neither fight nor see. He is, of course, immediately grappled by the ghost.
Tumbler (Leech) – He is holding a chain attached to his friend who is being grappled by a ghost underwater. He sees spark drug on his list of possible alchemicals and has the most brilliant idea I’ve ever heard. Ghosts are vulnerable to electroplasm, so why not send a shock through the chain (and Shiv) to attack the ghost? Devil’s bargain that the electricity destabilizes the wall of water? Yes please! He rolls a desperate 6, kills the ghost, and the wall came a tumblin’ down. IT. WAS. GLORIOUS.
This confirms it. Cult’s the way to go.
Don’t get me wrong, I love my cult, but this score wasn’t very cult-y of them, just a theft of some goods that happened to be in a weird place. Of the 4 members, only one really drinks the koolaid of the cult. Two of the other 3 think that cornering the Leviathan blood market is a good way to make some coin, and the last one is using the cult to research a way to bring her dead demon lover back to life.
I feel like leviathan blood is the default cult thing to get, so it seems like a pretty cult-y theft job.
P.S: I feel like Thieves have the easiest time doing scores appropriate to their gang. And it’s probably also easiest for other gangs to end up doing theft jobs. It’s never hard to imagine how a job where you steal stuff might be profitable, and you rarely need an employer.
P.P.S: The One Within Many sounds like a cool Bloodbourne boss.
Well they are a cult that worships leviathans, and they are trying to prevent people from hunting them, while also developing a substitute for leviathan blood that will conveniently make them all rich. They’re trying to get their hands on the blood so they can taint it and sell it. This blood will now cause barrier around the city to be destroyed, letting in horrors from the wastes, hopefully making people interested in another power source.
As far as the One Within Many goes, I just rolled on the random god table provided by John. All credit goes to him.
“bring her dead demon lover back to life” is probably the most self-destructive ambition I’ve ever heard. please keep us posted XD
Yeah, the whisper is a first time role player and she comes up with the coolest shit every session.
I’ll just say it again – PLEASE keep us posted ^__^
Um…a swarm of beetles made of barbed wire??? Consider that little gem stolen. The whole session sounds wonderful.
When I rolled the Cult Practices for the One Within Many I got some sort of pain orgy congregation. Barbed wire beetles seemed like the way to go with that.