I took a page out of John’s Book for my most recent game of Blades (following John’s lead is always a good idea), and did a flash forward and started a ‘season 2’. It all worked out very nicely both because our last session the crew became Tier 1, and it was also 3 months ago before my daughter was born.
So in the time we skipped, the cult has discovered the secret to making synthesized leviathan blood (they worship leviathans and don’t want them to be hunted, also want to get rich, and one member has a person grudge against a noble family who is a key played in the blood trade). So the game has changed from wanting to secretly get the resources and supplies needed to create the blood, to trying to get a factory up and running while the city’s elite try to crush them for threatening the source of their wealth.
In addition the Cutter is wanted by the military for the murder of some officers in season 1, and the heat has been increased.
The Whisper has discovered a ritual to bring her demon lover back from the dead. (It involves sacrificing 100 people, 90 of which must be strangers, 9 must be friends, and 1 must be someone she loves who loves her in return).
The Lurk has been identified by a powerful noble family as the hidden thorn in their side from season 1, and started to retaliate. The first session was actually a rescue mission, preventing his lady-friend from being kidnapped and interrogated. It was awkward because the person hired to kidnap the Lurk’s lady(Mercy the cold killer, the Cutter’s contact) was Ulf Ironborn who is the Cutter’s lover. Hearts were broken.
The Leech has been kidnapped and is being held hostage by an unknown group, but it’s probably related to his investigation into his brother’s murder. The Leech’s player ended up playing a Hull with a mysterious hidden master that contain’s the Leech’s brother’s ghost. Unfortunately he doesn’t know who his master is, or who killed him, but he’s been given the mission to find his brother.
It was fun to snap my fingers and tie up a number of loose threads and then start a bunch of new ones. I got to ask the players what stories they were most interested in from season 1, and discard the rest, ensuring an action packed season 2.
Awesome!
Oh, and as always at the end of the session we voted and handed out bonus XP for the most self destructive decision of the night. This time it went to the Cutter who took the explosive harpoon out of the harpoon gun and decided to use it as a melee weapon because no one in the crew has any dice in hunt. Her 4 dice skirmish roll came up 1, 1, 2, 3 and her second resistance roll to avoid instance death that night was made.
Crazy Start to Season 2! How stressed out is the Cutter?!
Pretty stressed out! Not just because of the inter character drama, but during downtime after the session he had his spirit removed and placed in a new body to avoid being arrested by the military. He used to be an enormously ripped dude, but now he has the body of a small woman. Of course she still retains all of the Cutter’s strength and fighting prowess because magic.