3rd session of the 9th Eye of the Leviathan Cult (“Hail, oh Mighty Leviathan!”) saw them discussing theological…

3rd session of the 9th Eye of the Leviathan Cult (“Hail, oh Mighty Leviathan!”) saw them discussing theological questions during downtime, like “What is our holy number? 9, 25 oder 225? And why do we care?” then lots of healing and indulging vices. We have two PCs with “Weird” vice, fun is garanteed: The whisper was drumming on cooking pots and singing along to it right in the middle of a public and crowded market place. Easy to overindulge that but he managed to stay on the decent side. No agree mob (this time). Ah, nothing like a good trance to help along with reducing that stress level.

The leech made himself comfortable in the sacred pool (part of the crew’s lair) experimenting with electrical gadgets/devices to meditate about a squid hull design to build an army from (that in combination with a long term project to help with that design). I think I already mentioned that one aim of the Cult is to have a cohort/army of squids to do their bidding: First they wanted to transform living humans into squids, then it was putting ghosts into squids, now it is building squid-hulls. The design made good progress with an additional downtime action of the leech working on it.

Last time they managed to get their hands on the Hellwhisper Ring, a cool stunt to impress Ojak, Master of the Rooftop Market in Silkshore. They went to his market and after studying him for the right approach they made their offer: Get rid of these silly Silver Flame Adepts collecting money in front of the market and accept our cool 9th Eye of the Leviathan Adepts (TM) doing the same (Offertory Claim). He was already impressed by the latest story circulating the occult groups about a new crew/cult swaying a demon (see last report). Now he was even more impressed to hear that they did it for him (supporting action + 6 result for Great result). He said yes, but he let it to the crew to get rid of the other Adepts.

Coming up was the next score with a mixed Occult/Deception Plan: Using smoke bombs in combination with Slumber Essence in combination with opening the Ghost Field for the occult flavor and chaos. This all including a big visible symbol of the Silver Fire cult (Flame + Morningstar) to attract the attention of the Spirit Wardens for a nice crack down on the enemy. The engagment roll went ok but not 6, so the fun started like this:

– The spider was still in progress to arrange the drugged adepts into a circle to suggest a ritual performed when two Spirit Wardens showed up. That was definitely a lot earlier than planned!

– The slide disguised as a pregnant women run to the Wardens with two things in mind: a) make clear that an evil cult is performing heretic rituals right here on a public place and b) no, you don’t want to go there right now and you don’t see this unsuspicious guy helping this evil cult members to sit in a circle. “WOW! Look at that symbol in the sky! It must be heretic evil, right? Help me! Ahhh, the labor sets in!!!”

– The leech started to shout from the cover of the smoke bombs to bump the level of weird heresy while making some coin on the side looting the offertory box of the adepts.

Needless to say that all of the splipped effortless into desperate situations:

– The spider got hit by one of the adepts freaking out because of the gas and the light show

– The greedy leech splipped on the wet stone while trying to get away with the coin

– The slide was shocked by the awareness that the fake baby tummy was slipping to the ground right next to the Spirit Warden (I love Devil’s Bargains)

– Only the whisper managed to stay “risky” sustaining the ghostly light show releasing ghosts into the physical world

– Another complications: To help the crew with avoiding the Slumber Esscence’s effect the leech created gas masks but had not enough time: The paint to give them an inconspicuous look was not dry resulting in a kind of war paint in the crew’s faces (maybe the triangle will be the new symbol of the cult?).

The slide managed to push the Spirit Wardens into the right direction (Sway of 6!) and with the crack down in full swing the crew tried to blend away (Group Action prowl based on the spider’s blueprints of the sewers). Hidding behind a big crate they managed to find the entry but it was blocked by debris (Sorry, no 6 this time, but no longer desperate but risky now). The second try was more succesful. This time the entry was clear … all but a group of Canal Dockers doing some work down there. Lucky crew, not only do they have +1 status with them, but also an architect contact of one PC was with them (Fortune Roll coming up 6! Yes, we had lot of sixes this night). They escaped with a debt of one favor to that contact and we will continue with the downtime in the next session.

My conclusion: It was awesome again and big fun! A lot of sway and consort, no pistol or blades drawn, a lot of weirdness and cool stories… and last but not least: The crew gained its Offertory and they beat the Silver Fire (-2 status with Forgotten Gods, now)! We had three Fortune Rolls which came up all 6 except the last one where 1 was the result in favor for the crew. The Leviathan god was with them that night!