Giant, vicious rat men!

Giant, vicious rat men!

So we’re playing Blades for the first time as a group (third play session, first campaign), and we took things for an unusual turn. I rolled on the useful charts for rumors/events as a backdrop, and the results were widespread paranoia and that some of the canals had been inexplicably drained. I had some ideas.

The crew was bullied by Baszo Baz into sending a strong message to a Crow’s Foot drug runner who has been moving product for the Red Sashes (the crew was not thrilled–they are shadows, so this isn’t really their thing). The crew decided that sabotaging the dealer’s warehouse was shadowy enough for them, so they tracked it down and navigated their way to it through the tunnels they usually use to get around.

The canals around the warehouse were drained, which revealed a hidden entrance. Engagement roll result was controlled, so the crew was able to sneak in and observe what was going on–it was complete chaos. Something, or some things–were running amok in the warehouse, eviscerating the drug dealer’s people. As it turned out, these were some kind of huge, vicious rat-men.

Where did they come from? What is the deal with them? WTF?

Anyway, the crew was able to set the warehouse on fire in the midst of the carnage and also make off with some extra product and a satchel of useful papers. But the whole thing left them very unsettled.