Ok. Part 2 of the Devil’s Gambit report.
The crew has decided not to aggressively pursue the Wraiths horning in on their business, though the Cutter has started a project to get the runner-boy in their pocket through some late-night Command visits on his drug runs.
They decide they want to go after the Local Graft claim. I didn’t research the claim in the book however, so we didn’t make the score about officials and bribes. So seeing that the benefit is extra coin for shows of force and socializing, they decide to put on a flashy boxing match to put their name out as expert entertainers. We decide it’s a Social plan, and the Connection detail is the participants of the headline fight.
Gathering Information:
– The Leech’s vice is betting on boxing, so he goes to his favorite venue to find a boxer that could take a fall in the match. He finds Beef Wilson and recruits him.
– The Cutter (an ex-miner) goes to Coalridge to see if he can find a fighter to “win” the match. He finds a Skovlander fight club of sorts and recruits Viktor Olmvik.
– We decide that it’s enough of a setup, and we’re eager to keep trying the plan-on-the-fly setting so we go right into the score.
The Engagement roll comes up Desperate. Beef and Viktor are in the ring, and Beef shows no signs of slowing down. They didn’t get the best venue- they’re in the middle of a demolished building lot, and the crowd is unruly and drunk.
There’s a lot of money riding on this for everyone involved… did Beef understand what he’s supposed to do tonight?
-Flashback to the Slide, in Beef’s “dressing room” (a collapsed stairwell). Beef’s a punchy guy, pretty dense and addled so it’s hard to know if knows he’s supposed to go down. He rolls well to Sway him, and he can tell he isn’t lying, but it’s still hard to tell.
– I used his success in the flashback to improve my fortune roll to see if Beef will actually take the fall. I roll, and it still doesn’t look good. They decide they need to go into action.
– The Slide gives the Hound some trance powder. She maneuvers through the teeming throng that follows the boxers around, using Hunt to navigate the animal spectacle happening around her and putting herself in the right spot to administer a puff of the powder to Beef’s face. She succeeds on the roll and the drug takes effect. Beef slows enough to let Viktor land a knockout punch.
– The obstacle for the score was to throw a successful event, and in our estimation they did it. They gained the Local Graft claim, and we ended the session.
Questions:
– The flashback with the Slide talking to Beef: I figured this was ok, since the flashback was addressing a situation that could go either way- they didn’t know what Beef was going to do, but it didn’t look good. He wanted to be sure the message got through so we went back to do it. Is that ok?
– Local Graft, in the book, says “A few city officials share bribe money with those who show that they’re players on the scene”. What could the score consisted of if we had the right idea, and how can I connect the crew to what the claim actually means, after we did the boxing match score?